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The Jewish Federation’s message to the community about the KKK-affiliated Honorable Sacred Knights of Indiana’s planned May 25 rally at Dayton’s Courthouse Square: don’t be there.

“It is a dangerous situation,” Jewish Community Relations Council Director Rabbi Ari Ballaban said of the Klan rally and counter-rally scheduled for the same location and time, from 1 to 3 p.m. The JCRC is a department of the Jewish Federation.

Jewish Federation Organizers of the CEO Cathy counter-rally include Gardner the Dayton chapter of the New Black Panther Party; the Southern Poverty Law Center lists the New Black Panther Party as a hate group.

In addition, a Facebook page identified as Dayton Anti-Racist Action has announced plans for a “peaceful protest” on May 25 beginning at noon at Courthouse Square.

According to JTA, groups originally known as Anti-Racist Action have morphed into today’s antifa movement (an abbreviation for anti-facist action), and have a record of scuffling with white supremacists.

Antifa was the group that fought white supremacists in Charlottesville nearly two years ago.

Fox 45 has reported that when Dayton Anti-Racist Action held a rally at Dayton’s Courthouse Square on Aug. 13, 2017 — a day after the Charlottesville white supremacist rally — some AntiRacist Action members carried knives

and firearms at the Dayton event.

“God willing everyone will be safe, but I wouldn’t tell my loved ones to be there,” Ballaban said.

Instead, the Jewish Federation is a coalition partner with the Dayton Unit NAACP’s Community Celebration: An Afternoon of Love, Unity, Peace and Diversity, to be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on the same day at McIntosh Park, Edwin C. Moses Boulevard and West Riverview Avenue — across JCRC Director the Great Miami River Rabbi Ari from downtown.

Ballaban “If anybody wishes to participate, that would be the place I would go,” Jewish Federation CEO Cathy Gardner said. “Because it’s on Shabbat — by the way, Charlottesville was on Shabbat as well — we’re not telling members of our Jewish community this is something you must attend. What we’re saying is, if you are so inclined to want to participate in something, this is where we can have a very strong impact.”

Gardner and Ballaban said it’s also important to deny credence to the KKK group.

“They’ve already come out and said they want to see people, and I’m going to paraphrase, to be out there screaming and banging their drums,” Ballaban said. “The truth is, despite what we might do in the Jewish community, they are going to get that to some extent.

But we don’t have to make it worse by showing up.”

— Marshall Weiss

Jewish War Veterans to place flags at graves for Memorial Day Jewish War Veterans Post 587 seeks volunteers to help place American flags at the graves of Jewish veterans for Memorial Day weekend.

JWV will place flags at Beth Jacob Cemetery Friday, May 17 at 10 a.m., at the Temple Beth Or section of David’s Cemetery at 1 p.m.; and at Beth Abraham Cemetery and Temple Israel’s Riverview Cemetery Sunday, May 19 at 10 a.m.

JWV places a metal flag holder beside each Jewish veteran’s grave. The hold-

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To have a flag holder placed at the grave of a Jewish veteran in time for Memorial Day, call Post Commander Steve Markman at 886-9566.

Markman also asks for help to prevent the theft of metal flag holders.

“These items are funded by Montgomery County and the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton for the sole purpose of being placed on the graves of our veterans,” he said.

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At 90, Dr. Ruth is concerned about loneliness she sees Survivor, former Haganah soldier continues to help couples maintain healthy intimate relationships, even in a sterile online world never saw them again — they

By Cathryn J. Prince were killed in Auschwitz.

Times of Israel While in Switzerland, WesNEW YORK — As Dr. theimer worked as a maid for Ruth Westheimer holds the a Swiss Jewish girls school. door open to her Washington Having become a Zionist, WesHeights apartment, her cheer spills into the hallway. It’s plain theimer left for Israel when she was 17 and joined the paramilito see why she has served as a tary group Haganah. Though sort of sex therapist-in-chief to she trained as a scout and a the nation for more than four sniper, she never saw action. decades.

Nearly 91, Dr. Ruth, as she is Just a little more than a month after Israel declared indepenaffectionately known, is every dence, a bomb exploded outside bit the firecracker those of a certain generation — and a new the kibbutz where she lived, severely injuring her foot. generation — have come to She studied at the Sorbonne, know. taught kindergarten, and purWestheimer will present the sued a doctorate keynote speech ‘People are in education at at the Jewish Columbia UniFederation of losing the art versity.

Greater Dayton It was while Presidents Dinner of conversation working at on June 17. because they Planned ParentBorn Karola hood that her are always on Ruth Siegel in interest in human 1928, Westheimer their phone.’ sexuality was first was the only piqued. child of an OrthoShe became a postdoctoral dox Jewish couple. She spent a carefree childhood in Frankfurt, researcher for sex therapist Helen Singer Kaplan at New Germany, until the Nazis took York-Presbyterian Hospital, power. Her father was arrested in 1938, seven days after worked as an adjunct associate professor there for five years, Kristallnacht. One year later, and also taught at Lehman Colher grandmother and mother lege, Brooklyn College, Adelphi sent her alone to Switzerland University, Columbia Univeraboard a Kindertransport. She The Jewish Federation Presidents Dinner with Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Monday, June 17 (cocktails at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m.) at the Schuster Center. Parking in the Arts Garage and valet parking available at no charge. Tickets are $100 adults, $50 ages 35 and younger. Tickets go on sale May 8 and may be purchased at jewishdayton.org. R.S.V.P. by June 3. For more information, call Janese Sweeny at 401-1542.

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Her media career began in 1980 with the radio show Sexually Speaking, which aired for more than a decade. Using her humor and wit, she spoke frankly even in polite company about a range of topics once considered taboo.

Now the subject of a highprofile documentary that premiered at Sundance, Westheimer talks here about the state of sexuality in America today, and why she considers herself an “old fashioned square.”

In 2013, you received the Margaret Sanger Award for your Dr. Ruth Westheimer on the air with WNYC lifelong commitment to empowering women and men to talk openly and honesty about sex and sexual health. How would you describe the state of sexuality in America today?

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Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for DuJour Magazine this? No regular person available media to make is endowed like that. I’m a connection. That holds not saying they shouldn’t true for heterosexuals and watch sexually explicit Continued from previous page homosexuals, that holds material. They can learn ships take time and effort. true for anybody. something from it, but So I’m not so much conBut I’m old fashioned they shouldn’t take it as cerned anymore with teaching and a square. I’ll teach something that is absothe specifics of sexual knowlyou about good sex and lute in terms of research. edge — men know enough different positions, but I about premature ejaculation. don’t want you picking What do you think your I’ve talked enough about that. somebody up from the grandparents would My concern now is interperstreet. I want you to have have thought about your sonal relations. That’s why I did a relationship. profession? this book, From You to Two. At age 10 before I left What’s the biggest con‘I’ll teach you about good sex and different When you started in 1980 cern you hear about sex positions, but I don’t want you picking somebody Frankfurt I found a book, The Ideal Marriage. I was people didn’t speak of safe sex, as people age, and why up from the street,’ Dr. Ruth Westheimer says interested. I don’t think they weren’t speaking of AIDS is there a reluctance to my grandmother who once you are an empty nester or HIV. What progress do you show older people as you might have nothing to talk lived with us, or my parents, see on this front? sexual beings? would have envisioned that about. I tell couples with teenI was one of the first people I did a book called Sex Over agers to check into a hotel for a I’m going to be talking about to say you have to use a con50. Older people have to learn couple of hours, you don’t have sex from morning to night. In dom. I was one of the first ones not to engage in sex at night the beginning, my parents and to stay the whole night; you to participate in fundraisers for when they are tired but in the my grandparents would have can pay the hourly rate. Take AIDS. Now I’m very concerned morning when they are rested. said, “What is she talking about some bubble bath and some because young people don’t It’s easier for men to have an champagne and make sure you sex all the time?” But then they think they have to be worried erection in the morning and would have been very proud of have some good sex. You have about (AIDS/HIV) because it’s not true that women don’t there is medication available. like to have sex in the morning, to work at the relationship to be what I’ve done.

I’m also concerned about that they need to have the stars productive and interesting.

How can we transmit a healthy older people who engage in out there and darkness. People approach to sexuality to the sexual activity before they rehave to learn to adapt and con- How does the way sex is more religiously observant ally know their partner. We’re tinue to be sexually active until portrayed in the media and segments of the Jewish the widespread going to see a rise in sexually a very late stage community? availability of transmitted diseases and AIDS. in life.

‘I believe I can I believe that I can talk so pornography That’s why I keep talking about It’s true people openly about sex because I’m affect what how careful you have to be. are worried about talk so openly very Jewish and in the Jewish people consider That’s why I don’t believe in talking about old- about sex tradition, sex has never been “good sex” or one-night stands and I do not er people and sex. considered a sin but always an healthy sex? believe in hooking up.

They say “What? because I’m obligation. And it’s an obligaThere’s nothMy parents aren’t very Jewish...’ tion for the husband to satisfy ing wrong with How do you view dating engaging in sex his wife. reading Fifty apps since you’ve always anymore. My Traditional Jews can use Shades of Grey if they don’t take emphasized the importance of grandparents aren’t engaging it seriously. (Author’s note: Yes, something on Friday night relationships? in sex!” That myth has to be Dr. Ruth read it, and thought it when the Woman of Valor is beI’m all for any place, any shattered. ing said, the Eshet Chayil. There was silly.) But people have to way, any media that can help is a sentence there, where the remember everything they see people connect with somebody What do you tell couples who and not be lonely. But people have been together for decades on TV or in the movies is exag- husband says, “many women have done superbly, but you gerated. need to be clever about it. They who want to keep their relaPeople have to use their own surpass them all.” I don’t know should never, ever meet in a tionship strong? of any sexually more arousing judgment in knowing that in secluded place. Meet in a lobby I tell people with children sentence than when a husband of a hotel or a building, somestill in the house to go out once any of the sexually explicit says to his wife you are the very where public. a week and talk about anything movies, the genitalia that is best. shown — how should I say I think you should use any but the children. Otherwise,

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Netanyahu’s re-election reveals sharpening Israel divide between Republicans & Democrats

By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election April 9 as the prime minister of Israel brought to a boil the simmering divides among Republicans and Democrats over the longtime leader’s nation.

President Donald Trump, a Republican, celebrated the victory as a win for

peace. Democrats suggested it would be an impediment.

“The fact that Bibi won, I think we’ll see some pretty good action in terms of peace,” a clearly pleased Trump told reporters waiting April 10 to speak to him on the White House lawn before he flew to Texas. “Look, everyone said — and I never made it a promise — but every-

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Trump spoke with Netanyahu’s victory assured, but not yet affirmed, and no leading Democrat had yet pronounced on the election. But as Israelis went to the polls, some Democrats made clear where their preferences lay — and they did not believe Netanyahu opened a path to peace.

“As votes are counted in Israel today, Netanyahu should know that his fearmongering and alliance with the ultraright, racist Otzma Yehudit party has not gone unnoticed,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in a tweet on the morning of the election. “True friends of Israel will stand against efforts to unilaterally annex the West Bank.”

Netanyahu brokered a vote-sharing agreement with Jewish Power, or Otzma Yehudit, a far-right party that has its roots in the racist teachings of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane.

That Van Hollen posted such thoughts on Twitter is significant: He comes from a state with a substantial Jewish popula-

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Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, and his wife, Sara, greet Likud party supporters in Tel Aviv, April 10

tion, and during his run for the Senate in 2016 went to great lengths to distinguish his pro-Israel record from that of his primary rival, Donna Edwards.

Hours later, Van Hollen posted video of his interrogation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the same day during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

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THE WORLD of the West Bank even though it would and reposting a Netanyahu campaign ad clearly sabotage any prospect for a two- on Trump’s Instagram account. On April state solution,” he said.

10, Trump posted on Twitter a scene Netanyahu’s election-eve pledge to from Netanyahu’s victory rally, where a extend Israeli law to Jewish West Bank Netanyahu backer was hoisting a Trump settlements is at the core of explicit banner.

Democratic distaste for Netanyahu.

Democrats, already unsettled by the At least five Democratic presidential close Trump-Netanyahu relationship, candidates spoke out against Netanyahu were not happy with Trump’s intervenafter he made the pledge over the week- tion. end leading up to Israel’s election day, “Israeli voters have spoken and including two seen as close to pro-Israel we respect their decision,” the Jewish groups: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Democratic Council of America said in and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South a statement. “But we cannot ignore that Bend, Ind. Some of the President Trump put same candidates also his thumb on the scale Netanyahu’s spoke out against Nein an attempt to influtanyahu’s alliance with election-eve pledge ence the outcome of Jewish Power.

Israel’s election, and we to extend Israeli Leading Democratic reject his intervention presidential candidates law to Jewish West in the strongest possible already known as terms, just as we reject Bank settlements unfriendly to Netanforeign interference in is at the core of yahu or the centrist our own election.” pro-Israel community explicit Democratic Another decision were even blunter: Beto Trump and his team distaste for him.

O’Rourke, the former took in Netanyahu’s Texas congressman, favor ahead of the eleccalled Netanyahu a “racist,” and Sen. tion: It delayed releasing the peace plan Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wished out loud drafted by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared that Netanyahu would lose.

Kushner; his top Middle East negotiator, Trump actively boosted Netanyahu Jason Greenblatt; and his ambassador ahead of the election, inviting the prime to Israel, David Friedman. Any concesminister to the White House to watch as sions in the plan might have been used Trump signed a decree recognizing Isra- by parties to the right of Netanyahu’s el’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights Likud to portray the prime minister as

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soft on Israel’s West Bank claims.

Trump in his remarks April 10 was eager to press ahead with the plan. Netanyahu, savoring his election to a fifth term as prime minister, may have reason to be wary of its release both because of any concessions it would expect him to make, but also because of parts that would accommodate Netanyahu’s plans to annex settlements.

One of Netanyahu’s most emphatic vows has been to keep Jerusalem united.

Trump’s plan, reports have said, accommodates Palestinian claims to some suburbs of Jerusalem, although team

members have rejected those reports as speculative.

Less speculative is the prospect that the plan envisions Israel maintaining security control of the West Bank, an outcome that would at least mitigate, if not negate, full statehood for Palestinians.

Democrats, even the most pro-Israel among them, are not letting go of the two-state solution anytime soon. Expect more Democratic anger at the Israeli prime minister should he enthusiastically embrace a Trump peace plan that stops short of Palestinian statehood.

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WORLD-RENOWNED PSYCHOSEXUAL THERAPIST, AUTHOR, AND LECTURER Dr. Ruth Westheimer may best be known for having pioneered talking explicitly about sex on radio and television, but that is only a small part of her rich and diversified life. Born in Germany in 1928, Dr. Westheimer was sent to Switzerland at the age of ten to escape the Holocaust, which wiped out her entire immediate family. She is the author of 44 books, the latest of which are Stay or Go and Roller Coaster Grandma and the executive producer of five documentaries.

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Here are the issues Israelis had in mind when voting

By Josefin Dolstein, JTA Benjamin Netanyahu won the election. Benny Gantz, his rival, came close but lost.

But why did Israelis vote the way they did April 9?

What issues drove the prime minister’s victory?

We took a look at a recent survey that examined Israeli voter attitudes. Here are some of the highlights based on data published in March by the Israel Democracy Institute.

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Housing prices are high, but its stock market is booming.

Still, it might be worth taking it all with a grain of salt. Gideon Rahat, director of political reform at the Israel Democracy Institute, says that even though Israelis say they vote on issues, they mostly vote based on how religious they are. More religious voters tend to support parties in the right-wing bloc and secular ones support center-left parties.

“If you look at the demoThe issues graphics, it’s clear that people Israel can seem like a counA woman votes in Rosh Ha’ayin, Israel, vote according to their social try that is perpetually obApril 9 identity and maybe later on sessed with security, terrorism, they justify their choice by war and peace. ing in the next government (8 relating to issues or by relating But the survey showed that percent of Jews and 10 percent to the specific properties of the for both Israeli Jews and Arabs, of Arabs) leader of party,” Rahat said. bread-and-butter issues were • The party’s activity in the Israelis were conflicted this most on their minds in the votoutgoing Knesset (5 percent of election. ing booth.

Jews and 15 percent of Arabs) Half of Israelis said it was Approximately one quarOf course, this was the case a ter of both groups said their month before the elections, and harder for them to decide how to cast their vote this year than “party’s position on socioecoIsraelis are known to change in previous years due to the nomic issues” was their main their minds at the last minute sweeping changes in the politiconsideration in voting. (they also tend to be particucal landscape.

The second-most important larly untruthful during exit Among the most conflicted consideration wasn’t an issue at polling after voting). were those identifying with all, but rather the person who Additionally, another oftenthe right-wing Jewish Home stood at the head of the party. cited poll, conducted by Mitchparty. That pro-settlement That tracks with much of the ell Barak of Keevon Strategies campaign news in Israel, which before the April 9 vote, showed party saw some upheaval in recent months after Netanfocused on the Netanyahusecurity issues were the No. yahu brokered a deal to merge Gantz rivalry. Gantz, of the 1 topic for voters. As CNBC’s it with Jewish Power, Otzma newly formed Blue and White Jason Gewirtz wrote April 5: Yehudit, a far-right party led by party, tried to put Netanyahu’s “In every Israeli election since disciples of the late Rabbi Meir corruption scandals front and 1948, the top issue has been Kahane. center, and the Likud leader security.”

Kahane’s previous party, tried to paint Gantz as not up But Israel’s economy is also Kach, was banned from the to the task of governing in the stable and in its 16th year of most volatile region on the upward economic growth.

Continued on Page 27 planet.

Only then does war and peace appear — in third place.

Just 19 percent of Jews and 3 percent of Arabs prioritized their party’s “position on foreign and defense issues,” according to the survey.

Here’s the complete response to the survey’s question of “What is your main consideration in voting”: • Party’s position on socioeconomic issues (26 percent of Jews and 24 percent of Arabs) • Who stands at the head of the party (19.5 percent of Jews and 11 percent of Arabs) • Party’s position on foreign and defense issues (19 percent of Jews and 3 percent of Arabs) • Quality of party’s list of Knesset candidates (11 percent of Jews and 5 percent of Arabs) • The party’s chances of be-

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By Laura E. Adkins and Ben Sales, JTA Like lots of millennials who have catapulted to fame, May Golan got her start on the internet, blogging about life in her South Tel Aviv neighborhood.

From there she gained a platform as a social activist, with 25,000 followers on Facebook and 16,300 on Twitter.

On April 9, hours before she won a seat in Israel’s Knesset, she reached out to voters in one last Facebook video.

“The right wing government is in danger,” she warned viewers, wearing a T-shirt with the words “Netanyahu.

Right-wing. Strong. Successful.” emblazoned in blue and white block letters.

“There could be a leftist government here,” she said. “We have so many hopes and dreams. We have hoped for a secure future, to return governance and sovereignty from the legal activism that’s strangling us, and those leftist

nonprofits that end up making the most important decisions here.”

Golan, an incoming legislator for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, will be one of the youngest members of the Knesset at age 32.

She has spent years protesting against African asylum seekers in her Tel Aviv neighborhood.

In 2017, she said “A Palestinian state is a terror state.” She has appeared on Fox News’ Hannity and criticized Hillary Clinton.

In other words, Golan is staunchly right wing.

She’s also a lot like many Israeli Jews of her generation.

While American millennials have a reputation for liberal politics, young Israeli Jews have gone the opposite direction over time. For at least the past 10 years, these voters have identified as right wing at much higher levels than their parents.

According to the 2018 Israeli Democracy Index (an annual study by the

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Israeli Democracy Institute, a nonpartisan Israeli think tank), approximately 64 percent of Israeli Jews ages 18-34 identify as right wing, compared to 47 percent of those 35 and older.

An Israeli Democracy Institute survey conducted just one week before the April 9 election likewise found a direct correlation between age and support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: 65 percent of Israeli Jews ages 18-24, and 53 percent of those 25-34, favored Netanyahu winning re-election, while 17 percent and 33 percent, respectively, preferred his more centrist rival, Benny Gantz.

“There are young people who like Netanyahu’s ideology,” Eli Hazan, a Likud campaign spokesman, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “They see the diplomatic achievements of Netanyahu and believe in him.

Those are the facts and that’s the reality.”

In addition to Likud, Israel’s youngest Jewish voters — they are increasingly Orthodox due to high birth rates in the haredi Orthodox and religious communities — likely helped Israel’s two haredi parties pick up three additional Knesset seats (for a total of 16) in the April 9 election. Other right-wing parties likely benefited from the younger, more religious vote as well.

Younger voters in Israel have been disproportionately rightwing for a while.

“There are two main theories about age,” Tamar Hermann, co-editor of the annual Israeli Democracy Index and a professor of political science, told JTA. “One theory says when you are politically socialized,

between 18 to 34, then it stays with you throughout your entire life. The other theory says that your political views change with age in a specific direction; people become milder with age.

“I cannot tell you whether they are more to the right because young people tend to be more radical, and certainly the left right now doesn’t offer a radical left-wing worldview, or because they are just young and this will change.”

The trend might have to do with the events that shaped their formative years. An 18-year-old Israeli wasn’t alive during the heyday of the peace process in the 1990s, nor when the Israeli left last won an election, in 1999.

Young Israelis grew up during the second intifada, which saw hundreds of Israelis killed

in suicide bombings.

The aftermath of the 2005 disengagement from Gaza, which occurred when this group was between 4 to 20 years old, has led many young Jewish Israelis to resent any leader who is willing to cede any more land currently under Israeli control.

Since some of this group has served in the army, successive wars in Gaza have only hardened that perception.

“They were born after the Oslo process started, they were exposed to the bloodshed during the second intifada, they are coming right after military service,” Hermann told JTA. Hazan, the Likud spokesman, said that “people who grew up in the middle of the Al-Aqsa intifada don’t trust the Palestinians, don’t believe in Continued on Page 27

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OPINION

Refining medical decision-making at Galilee Medical Center mall, something that would be

By Ben Wainblat replicated at the entrance of the “Ah yes, your luggage is in Galilee Medical Center hospital Moscow.” as well.

This is how I started my The next day, I made my month-long visit to Israel as I acquaintance with the head of stood at the help desk at Ben the emergency department, Dr. Gurion Airport. I wouldn’t Raviv Bennidor, and Physician have made it through 3.5 years of medical school without some Assistant David Fisher.

I received a tour of the deresilience in my step. partment and noted several difI took this hiccup in stride, ferences from the usual setup contacted my host, Danit Bornfound in the United States. stein of Partnership2Gether, While this department had a and found the train to Nahamulti-bed trauma bay as would riya, the northwestern Israeli beach town paired with Dayton be found at most departments, the remainder of the departthrough Partnership2Gether. ment was divided based on My medical mission for the month: to learn and understand the patient’s chief complaint, the practice of emergency medi- whether it fell under a pediatric complaint, internal medicine, cine and the greater healthcare general surgery, orthopedic sursystem of Israel as seen from gery, gynecology, or obstetrics. the inside.

There was not My personal I was amazed one physician mission: to witwould manness the interby the seamless who age all these paaction of Jews tients, but rather and non-Jews in teamwork these specialties professional and provided by had a specialtynon-professional environments.

Jews, Muslims, representative physician or resiAs the granddent present to son of a reporter Christians, and manage each of with a 52-yearDruze at this these subsets of long career, I’ve hospital. patients as well learned to put as requesting furaside the bilateral ther subspecialty hyperbolization of a subject and consultation as needed. seek out the truth for myself.

Most of the hospital’s signs I planned to ask different were in Hebrew, Arabic, or Ruspeople of varied backgrounds sian. Perfect for me, considerpoint-blank questions on the ing I speak only English. culture and politics of Israel.

Even the electronic medical Upon arriving at Nahariya records were mainly in Hebrew, station, Danit escorted me to so I was stunted in my ability her car parked in the mall. from that aspect.

I was amazed by the “TSAHowever, as my weeks light” security present at the

Ben Wainblat in Magen David Adom gear

would roll by, I would notice that medicine was its own language too as nurses, PAs, and physicians discussed various conditions in Hebrew with the occasional medical lingo tossed in so I could follow along.

Were it not for Google Translate on my phone, I don’t know how far I would have gotten with patients otherwise, as many claimed to have “not good English.”

For myself, I began to think my name was “Lo Ivrit, English only (No Hebrew, English only),” as this was my initial introduction to patients and staff alike.

I began to find my purpose beyond shadowing as I started IVs and collected blood on pediatric and adult patients alike as well as helping remove clothing to expose the patient coming in for a trauma evaluation.

Additionally, I was able to

practice and refine my medical decision-making in terms of deciding what lab and imaging tests to order with a slightly different array of resources than those found in the U.S. Furthermore, I was astounded by the overall healthcare system present in Israel.

To the best of what I could understand, it appeared Israel had a model similar to that found in Germany termed the Bismarck Model, in which people belong to one of several different health insurance companies but are guaranteed healthcare regardless of the condition or one’s ability to pay.

When I explained to the staff how often people in the U.S. will use GoFundMe to supplement their medical care, they were intrigued and appalled that this could happen in a developed country.

And even beyond the healthcare system, I was amazed by the seamless teamwork provided by Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Druze at this hospital.

While a government hospital, it is run by an Arab manager and is multicultural in both patient and staff population.

I was fortunate to be invited to dinner and spend the night touring parts of northern and central Israel with each a Muslim, Druze, and Jewish friend I made while in Israel.

Each of their experiences was unique. The Druze man had served in the Israeli Defense Forces as part of the infantry, defending Israel in the north.

However my Muslim friend explained to me from his perspective that there is unfortunately a form of racism as found in the U.S. today that is present in Israel as well, but not nearly like the apartheid conditions often depicted in the media.

Over the four weeks, I toured Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and the Galilee Region; completed a multitude of shifts in the emergency department between internal medicine, general surgery, and pediatrics; completed two ride-alongs on the Magen David Adom (Red Star of David) ambulance; and observed several general and brain surgeries.

I could easily have spent another month in Israel had Miami Valley Hospital’s Medical ICU not been on my to-do list for the following month.

I am eternally grateful to the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, Partnership2Gether, and Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine for affording me the financial support and networking opportunities to make this experience a reality after I heard Galilee Medical Center’s former emergency department director, Dr. Arie Eisenman, speak at my medical school two years ago.

Ben Wainblat, a fourth-year medical student at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, graduates in May and will begin his residency in family medicine at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Should Jews turn Republican?

Trump claims Jews are leaving the Democratic Party because Democrats are antisemitic and antiIsrael. I’ve learned Republicans care about corporations, Democrats care about people. No wonder Democrats garnered nearly 80 percent of the Jewish vote in the 2018 midterms. Though Rep. Omar’s antisemitic comments were reprehensible, she doesn’t represent the House. Currently, Jewish Democrats in Congress include 26 representatives and nine senators while Jewish Republicans have two representatives and zero senators.

The Democratic Party is and will remain the home of American Jews because Democrats support policies aligned with Jewish values. As Jews, we always pursued democracy, enlightenment, and religious freedom as we battled for human rights, equality, and social justice. Democrats continue to uphold and safeguard the very freedoms we cherish.

Democrats are staunch allies of Israel. President

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Truman instantly recognized Israel’s independence in 1948. Democrats aligned with the Jews’ profound solidarity with Israel to keep it viable and strong.

President Obama gave Israel bunker-busting bombs, which his Republican predecessor refused to do.

The Jackson-Vanik Amendment, authored by Democrats Sen. Henry Jackson and Rep. Charles Vanik, pushed for complying with human rights and emigration issues in exchange for commerce and foreign trade with Russia. President Carter ushered in a new era when he mediated between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for a groundbreaking peace treaty.

President Clinton brought together Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat at Camp David.

The Republican Party is increasingly embraced

by Evangelicals and endorsed by white supremacist groups. Republicans are anti-women, anti-choice, anti-stem cell research, anti-gay rights, anti-science, anti-gun control, anti-separation of church and state,

anti-immigration, anti-climate change, and anti-progressive. For Jews, these issues hit close to the heart.

Republicans are big on promoting voter suppression, government shutdowns, and discrimination.

Can we ever forget President Trump’s defending the white supremacists at Charlottesville? Remember President Nixon’s criticizing the Jews for having too much power?

Republicans and President Trump facilitate our political affiliation choice. Many longtime Republicans, dissatisfied with the current administration, are switching to the big Democratic tent, and we welcome them.

— Cherie Rosenstein, Beachwood

So, what do you think?

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Highlights JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON & ITS AGENCIES

ABOVE: J-Serve 2019: Dayton

Jewish teens planned and led an Art Therapy Workshop for the entire community focusing on the mental health benefits of participating in a creative process.

PHOTO CREDIT: Peter Wine ABOVE RIGHT:

JFS celebrated Purim at One Lincoln Park and Singing Woods. We had a GREAT time noshing hamantashen and clementines, singing, and visiting with friends. PHOTO CREDIT: Amy Dolph RIGHT: Our fifth annual Women’s Seder was bigger than ever, and once again, we were completely sold out.

This year’s theme focused on food scarcity.

Food donations were collected for House of Bread. PHOTO CREDIT: Peter Wine

Making music together with the JCC's The Beat. PHOTO CREDIT: Jane Hochstein THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • MAY 2019

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May events JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON & ITS AGENCIES WED 1

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FRI 3

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SUNDAY 5 BBYO & JUNIOR YOUTH GROUP Mini Golf 1:30–3PM @ The Trails ((1601 E. David Rd. 45429) Join your friends for a round of mini golf. Open to all 6–12 graders. $8 per person.

WEDNESDAY 8 ACTIVE ADULTS Dine Around and Tour 11:45AM–3PM, Meet @ Seasons Bistro and Grille (28 S. Limestone St. Springfield 45502) Lunch followed by a tour of the Westcott House. Lunch is on your own; Tour is $15. Tour payment is your reservation.

WED & THUR 8 & 9 EARLY CHILDHOOD Flower Sale Pick Up 12:30–6PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Pick up your pre-ordered flowers.

THURSDAY 9 JCC Yom Ha'Atzmaut with Rick Recht 5:30–7:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Rock out with Jewish rockstar, Rick Recht! See ad on page 6 for more details. Partnering with: Beth Abraham Synagogue, Beth Jacob Congregation, Hadassah, Hillel Academy, PJ Library, Temple Beth Or, & Temple Israel TUESDAY 14 JCC The Beat: Making Music @ the J 6:30–8PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Do you like music? Come listen and/or play! This month's focus on Israeli music, facilitated by Hazzan Jenna Greenberg.

THURSDAY 23

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO RSVP (unless noted): 937-610-1555 www.jewishdayton.org

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SUNDAY MONDAY 26 27 MEMORIAL DAY

FRIDAY 24

MONDAY 13 JFS OSHIIP Welcome to Medicare 6–8PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Hosting the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program.

THURSDAY 16 YAD (AGES 21-35) Happy Hour and Art 6–8PM @ Dayton Art Institute (456 Belmonte Park N, 45405) An evening of wine & art to learn about the traveling Monet and Impressionism from DAI’s curator.

SU 19

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TUESDAY 21

CAMP SHALOM

GADOL

Family Night 5:30AM–7PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Campers and parents meet the counselors for a fun evening with a light dinner and games.

SATURDAY 25 An Afternoon of Love, Unity, Peace, & Inclusion For more information about the NAACP Event taking place on this day, please see page 2. If you have any questions about the NAACP event, please contact JCRC Director Rabbi Ari Ballaban at rballaban@jfgd.net.

TUESDAY 28 PARTNERSHIP2GETHER Discover Trip to Israel and Budapest Parlor Meeting 6-7:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Learn more about the upcoming P2G trip to Israel and Budapest.

Krav Maga

TUESDAY 7 JCC Fermenting Class 6–8PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Learn how to ferment vegetables with Tiffany Wise, owner of The Healing Kitchen: Food with a Purpose. $35 per person.

THURSDAY 9 PJ LIBRARY & HILLEL Yom Ha'ARTSmaut 4:30–5:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Design and create an Israeli Independence Day chalk mural with help from Dayton sidewalk chalk artist “Blue.”

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SA FRIDAY 17 JCC 18 Book Club 10:30AM–NOON @ Temple Israel (130 Riverside Dr., 45405) Please join us for our discussion on Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.

WEDNESDAY 22 JFS Keeping you on your Toes 12–1PM @ Temple Beth Or (5275 Marshall Rd,.45429) Join JFS and Dr. Erica Suprenant, DPM, from Associated Foot and Ankle Specialist, to learn about the importance of proper foot care and its impact of wellness, balance and posture. Lunch provided.

RSVPs due at least 1 week before event.

Events with no price listed are free.

FRIDAY 10

WEDNESDAY 15 EARLY CHILDHOOD End of Year Picnic 6–8PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Enrolled families are welcome to join us "Under the Sea" for our annual picnic. $6/adult, $3/child.

THURSDAY 16 BBYO Chapter Elections 6–8PM @ Sugar Shack (400 Sugar Camp Circle, 45409) Help Dayton BBYO choose the next chapter board of teen leaders for Fall term 2019! Elections are open only to Dayton BBYO members.

MONDAY 6

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 29 31 30 SEE YOU IN JUNE!

C•L•A•S•S•E•S @ the J

Tuesdays, 6:15–7:15PM Continuing through May 7 Instructor Ehud Borovoy teaches this form of self defense first developed by the Israeli Army.

Learn these techniques to help you feel safer and more confident. Ages 14 and older. $10/per session. Registration required at least 24 hours prior to class.

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Announcements JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON & ITS AGENCIES

JCC Are you caring for a loved one who early is not in the Greater Dayton area? childhood

We're Hiring!

JCC Early Childhood Care & Education is currently seeking multiple part-time Teacher Assistants, working in classrooms throughout the center (primarily Infant and Toddler).

20–25 hour a week positions are open, with flexible schedules. Work days are M–F (center hours are 7:30AM–6PM). Position includes paid holidays, both secular and Jewish holidays when the center is closed during the workweek.

JCC Early Childhood is a year round, low staff-child ratio center and pay is commensurate with education and experience.

Essential responsibilities include:

› Care and nurturing of children ranging from 6 weeks to 5 years › Providing developmentally appropriate interaction and supervision throughout the day › Practicing open communication with teaching team and families to ensure the best possible growth and development for each individual child Desired qualifications:

Please do not hesitate to contact JFS to identify and locate services and supports provided by Jewish agencies nationwide.

Don’t know what to donate in the Food Barrels? How about non-perishable, non-expired... meat and protein sources? › canned meats or fish › nuts and seeds › rice and beans dairy products? › evaporated milk › powdered milk › puddings & custards

Did YOU know?

1 in 5

Israeli families living in poverty despite Israel’s economic success.

Jewish Federations of North America (of which JFGD is a part) provides a safety net for the most vulnerable, and advocates for those in distress in Israel and around the world, as well as locally.

breads, cereals and pasta? › hot and cold breakfast cereals › baking mixes › pastas and canned sauces

› Warm, nurturing and responsive to children's needs › Dependable team-player › Previous group care experience a plus but not required › High school degree

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Legacies, Tributes, & Memorials FEDERATION

THE RESILIENCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND RIDAY IN MEMORY OF › Dan Weckstein 1 Tracy and Alan Wise Dena Briskin ENDOWMENT GENERAL FUND IN MEMORY OF › Robert Feist Danny Herriges CAROL J. PAVLOFSKY LEADERSHIP FUND IN MEMORY OF › Sarah Pavlofsky Barbara Gerla

HOLOCAUST PROGRAMMING FUND IN HONOR OF › Charlotte Golden’s new grandson Helene Gordon and Joe Fodal IN MEMORY OF › Fatania Schmerler Kathy and Mark Gordon JFS

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES IN MEMORY OF › David Opper Bobbie Kantor Brenda and Scott Meadow

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JOAN AND PETER WELLS AND REBECCA LINVILLE FAMILY, CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND IN MEMORY OF › Bart Weprin Joan and Peter Wells EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND IN HONOR OF › Alexis, Brianna and Caitlyn Becker’s B’Not Mitzvah Jane and Dr. Gary Hochstein IN MEMORY OF › Fatania Schmerler Jane and Dr. Gary Hochstein

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Contact us at 937-610-1555 for more information.

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Upcoming events JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON & ITS AGENCIES

T•U•E•S•D•A•Y C•L•A•S•S•E•S Boonshoft CJCE; advance RSVP required

Active Adults

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The Beat: Making Music @ the J

May 14, 6:30-8PM Do you like music? Come listen and/or play!

This month's focus is on Israeli music, facilitated by Hazzan Jenna Greenberg.

Krav Maga

Continuing through May 7, 6:15–7:15PM Instructor Ehud Borovoy teaches this form of self defense first developed by the Israeli Army. Ages 14 and older. $10/per session. RSVP by the day prior to each class.

lunch @ 11:45am

tour @ 1:30pm

Seasons Bistro and Grille 8 S Limestone St. Springfield, Ohio 45502

Westcott House 85 South Greenmount Ave. Springfield, Ohio 45505

Meet for lunch, then head over to the Westcott House for a 1–1.5 hour tour. Tour is $15 per person; lunch is on your

Fermenting Class

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May 7, 6–8PM Learn how to ferment vegetables with Tiffany Wise, certified holistic healing coach and owner of The Healing Kitchen: Food with a Purpose. $35 per person. RSVP by April 30. 10 person minimum.

RSVP by May 1 at jewishdayton.org or 937-610-1555. Your payment for the tour is your reservation.

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes:

Keeping You On Your Toes with Dr. Erica Suprenant, DPM Wednesday, May 22, NOON–1PM @ Temple Beth Or 5275 Marshall Road, 45429

Proper foot care and its impact on wellness, balance, and posture. Lunch included. No cost.

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On the centennial of Prohibition in Ohio, a look back at the celebrated leaders of Dayton’s liquor industry — and how Dayton’s Jews navigated Prohibition Cox Media Group

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By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Dayton.”

It’s not commonly remembered today that for After 30 years in business together, centuries, Jews were involved in all aspects of the Pollack decided to split from Rauh liquor business in Poland: production, exportaround 1893. This was the year when ing, wholesale and retail distribution, and even Sol Rauh & Sons, then at 107 E. Third running saloons. Polish nobility did their best to St., began to list itself as also in the keep Jews from achieving success individually distilling business. and collectively — unless the Jews could provide It’s possible that Rauh’s desire to them with help they could obtain from no other add distilling to the business led to the source. separation with Pollack, who would A census of Jews in 1764-65 recorded that apretire from his business in 1906 and proximately 80 percent of Jews living in Polish died two years later at 71. villages and about 14 percent of Jews living in Rauh & Sons kept distilling its own Polish towns and cities were involved in the prowhiskey until at least 1913. The Rauh duction and sale of beer and vodka, according to business was completely destroyed the YIVO Institute For Jewish Research. The Jews in the fire immediately after the Great were known for their moderation when it came Flood of 1913. Two months later, it to drinking, and also were able to import Polish advertised in the Dayton Daily News grain crops to markets through their connections that it had relocated and was “now with Jews in other countries. prepared to fill all orders promptly.”

Jews were also active in Hungary’s wine busiIt continued to list itself as “distillers ness beginning in the 1700s and in France follow- Partners Isaac Pollack (L), 1836-1908, and Sol Rauh, 1835-1915, Dayton’s first and wholesale liquor dealers.” ing Napoleon’s opening of the ghettos of Central wholesale liquor distributors, were noted for their Jewish and general philanthropy Rauh & Sons would rebuild and Europe. federal government in defending Cincinnati from a return to its location at 107 E. Third St. It’s no surprise that when Jews began arriving Confederate attack.

After Sol Rauh’s death in 1915 at 79, his son Ed took in America, some joined the liquor trade. And they The partners prospered rapidly. In 1876, they built over the business. Sol Rauh brought Ed into the busithrived. The Freiberg family of Cincinnati and the Beridentical mansions for their families on adjacent lots: ness after he bought out Isaac Pollack in about 1893. nheim family of Louisville became significant donors 319 and 321 W. Third St. in Dayton. According to lore, Ed Rauh was a sportsman, well known as an enthuto general and Jewish causes. in the shade of a nearby tree, Pollack and Rauh flipped siastic harness horseman. He owned several trotting So too in Dayton, Jews and the liquor trade — and a coin to determine who would occupy which house; horses. philanthropy — have shared a notable history. the Rauhs took 321, the Pollacks 319.

In 1919, Ed Rauh’s business in Williams’ Dayton City Our story begins during the Civil War, in 1862, with The Pollack House still stands today, though in a dif- Directory was listed at 107 E. Third St. as “wholesale Isaac Pollack and Solomon Rauh. ferent location; in 1979 it was moved to 208 W. Monunon-intoxicating beverages.”

Both in their 20s, Pollack and Rauh had arrived here ment Ave. and now houses the Dayton International An enthusiastically “dry” state, Ohio entered Proas part of the wave of Jewish immigrants from Central Peace Museum. hibition May 27, 1919, nearly eight months before the Europe: Pollack from Riedseltz, France and Rauh from Rauh and Pollack were among the Jews who lived 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — known as Essingen, Bavaria. downtown and worshiped at the predominantly Gerthe Volstead Act — went into effect Jan. 17, 1920.

With Rauh as his clerk, Pollack began selling wholeman Jewish B’nai Yeshurun, now Temple Israel. They The Volstead Act prohibited the “manufacture, sales sale wines, liquors, brandies, and cigars at 234 3rd St. were founding members of the Standard Club, the soor transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage in 1862. This was Dayton’s first wholesale liquor store. cial and literary club that was effectively an extension purposes” in the United States.

A year later, Rauh was listed as Pollack’s partner. of B’nai Yeshurun.

Whether or not Ed Rauh went into the soft drink

By September 1862, Pollack was considered a Civil Rauh married Jeanette Lebensburger, whose father, business as a front and remained in the whiskey busiWar hero. He had been appointed a corporal among Joseph, was the first leader of Dayton’s early Jewish ness as a bootlegger is unclear. Descendants of Rauh the Squirrel Hunters, the civilians who assisted the who were contacted for this story didn’t know Dayton Metro Library community. It was Joseph Lebensburger who in 1850 estabthe answer. lished what would become B’nai In any case, Rauh’s busiYeshurun. ness in the 1921 city directory A staunch supporter of the was listed at the same locaDemocratic party, Pollack was tion, but now as Rauh’s Tire & a major donor and champion of Auto Supply.

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital when it was established. He was also Prohibition’s a member of St. John’s Lodge sacramental of Masons and Dayton’s B’nai wine B’rith lodge. “His cheerful and loopholes — amiable disposition won him and scandals many friends,” the Dayton Daily To avoid violatNews wrote of him. ing the freedom of Rauh was also a director of religion clause of the Merchants’ National Bank the U.S. Constituand a longtime president of both tion’s First AmendB’nai Yeshurun and B’nai B’rith. ment, the federal The Dayton Daily News described him as “genial, whole-souled In 1893, Rauh and charitable...one of the leadIn 1876, Isaac Pollack and Sol Rauh built identical mansions on lots at 319 and 321 began distilling W. Third St. in Dayton. According to legend, under the shade of a tree, they tossed a ers of this community, and one his own brand coin to determine that Pollack would live at 319 (R) and Rauh would live at 321. of the acting spirits in moveof whiskey.

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government did allow exemptions to prohibition, since Leaders of the Reform Dayton Metro Library Catholics, some Protestants, and Jews use wine for and Conservative movereligious purposes. ments saw the potential Wine could still be produced and sold for use in refor abuse. In short order, ligious services, and households were allowed to make they urged their memup to 200 gallons of wine per year for “non-intoxicatbers not to use wine for ing” family consumption. rituals even though it It was fairly common in those days for Jews to make was legal. They encourtheir own wine at home, and an accepted practice aged their congregants to among Jews was to make wine from raisins when fresh use grape juice instead. grapes were unavailable.

The consensus of U.S. A few weeks before Prohibition began in Ohio, Orthodox rabbis at the Henry Focke’s Stores, located in Dayton’s Eastern time was that although European Jewish neighborhood along Wayne Avenue, grape juice was acceptadvertised in the Dayton Daily News a sale on Muscat able, kosher wine was raisins in bulk, “suitable for wine making.” preferable for religious In February 1920, the federal government set the use. limit on the sale of kosher wine at a maximum of 10 Orthodox rabbis, who gallons to each individual of the Jewish faith per year did not fall neatly into for religious use. national umbrella orgaThe way Jews were to legally obtain sacramental nizations as did Reform kosher wine for home use under the National Prohibiand Conservative rabbis, tion Act opened up a new set of problems. saw no reason to refrain Congregational rabbis were to determine the from the use of kosher quantity to be used by each wine, particularly Temple Israel individual member up to the since the U.S. govThe Sol Rauh & Sons Co. building at 107 E. Third St. was destroyed in the fire that followed legal maximum. The sale and ernment allowed its the Great Flood of 1913. The distillers and wholesale liquor dealers rebuilt at the same site delivery of wine was either to use for sacramental be made to the rabbi, or the purposes. rabbi would provide congreIf Jewish Daytonians didn’t produce their own Orthodox rabbis in America at the time — who had gants with the proper paperwine, congregants of Beth Abraham and Beth Jacob been reared in viciously antisemitic Eastern Europe work to make a “withdrawal” synagogues could procure it through their rabbis — tended to believe that those who hated Jews would from an authorized sacramenvia authorized kosher wine dealers in Cincinnati. continue to hate Jews no matter what Jews did or tal wine dealer.

Hirsch Manischewitz, a member of the family didn’t do.

The congregation was that owned the maztah-baking business in CincinIn her 1991 scholarly article for the American Jewish responsible for paying the nati, was listed in The American Israelite as selling Archives Journal entitled Orthodox Rabbis React To Prodealer for the wine based on kosher wines for Passover in April 1921 at 1410 hibition, Hannah Sprecher notes that “while rabbis in the rabbi’s determination of Central Ave. in Cincinnati (Manischewitz wine Europe had essentially ruled over their communities, the needs of his congregants. didn’t appear until 1947). in America, a rabbi ‘at best found employment with a However, rather than pay In step with the Reform And Rabbi Rudolph A. Funk of Hamedrash HaG- congregation that gave him little security and meager the rabbi or the congregation movement, Temple Israel’s adol Synagogue in Cincinnati legally distributed wages.’” directly for the wine, congre- Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg sacramental wine from his store at 1514 Central Ave. Sprecher sums up that unlike rabbis in the more railed against Prohibition’s gants were directed by the affluent Reform movement, “Orthodox rabbis in sacramental wine exemption in Cincinnati from 1923 to 1925. act to make a contribution to for Jews According to Marni Davis in her seminal 2012 America were suffering under crushing poverty, and the synagogue “for general book, Jews and Booze: Becoming American In The Age the wine trade was vital to their survival.” purposes and not as a payment for a certain quantity of Of Prohibition, “‘Rabbis’ (some of whom were not in One rabbi who publicly railed against Jews’ use of wine.” fact Jewish) claimed new and enormous congregations sacramental wine was Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg of Add to this that according to Jewish law, Kosher filled with members named Houlihan and Maguire.”

Dayton’s Reform congregation, B’nai Yeshurun. This wine must only be handled by Sabbath-observant Jews She adds that “Rabbis requested wine on behalf was also the congregation of the Rauh family.

— from crushing the grapes through bottling (unless of fictitious or long-dead congregants, or sold their As the editorial contributor to The Ohio Jewish the wine is boiled) — these policies, which the Bureau legitimately acquired wine permits to bootleggers. The Continued on next page The American Israelite of Internal Revenue put in place to safeguard against sacramental dispensation also made available a far bootlegging in the Jewish community, would have the wider variety of alcoholic beverages than is traditionopposite effect. ally present in Jewish practice.”

Unlike sacramental wine in Christian traditions, Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movewhich is used in church, wine in Jewish rituals is prements, more acculturated to American life, recognized dominantly used in the home: to sanctify the beginning that these scandals in the name of religion fanned the and mark the ending of Shabbat flames of hate against the Jews. Their concerns were each week, and for seajustified. Antisemites such as Henry Ford and the sonal Jewish festivals and newly revived KKK used these scandals of the early holidays.

1920s to further pillory the Jews as a threat to American morality.

Cox Media Group Davis emphasizes that Americans of all backgrounds were involved in illicit liquor commerce during Prohibition.

But the “prevalence of Jewish and Italian involvement” and the attention it received in the press didn’t help when the U.S. Congress overwhelming passed the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Quota Act of 1924, which slashed the annual number of émigrés from Weeks before Ohio entered Prohibition, Henry Focke’s Stores, located in Dayton’s Southern and Eastern EuEastern European Jewish neighborhood along Wayne Avenue, included in this May 8, rope allowed into the United Ad in Cincinnati’s American Israelite for Jewish 1919 Dayton Daily News ad a sale on bulk orders of Muscat raisins, ‘suitable for wine States by 87 percent. sacramental wines for Passover, April 21, 1921 making.’ Households were allowed to make up to 200 gallons of wine per year.

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Booze trade

In 1906, several Dayton breweries including Nick Thomas merged into the Dayton Breweries Company to fight the growing strength of the Prohibition Continued from previous page movement, which was already strong in Ohio.

Chronicle based in Columbus, MayerBut when Prohibition was on the imberg wrote in the March 2, 1922 issue, mediate horizon, the combined com“In many large cities pseudo-rabbis pany continued to lose business. One have been caught with large amounts by one, the seven breweries that made of wine in their possession. They have up Dayton Breweries Company closed been found to be ordinary boot-leggers. as the state went dry, until the First and When such cases are brought to the atBeckel site was the only one left. tention of the public they immediately In April 1933, with the bring the Jewish name Cox Media Group death of Prohibition in sight into disrepute. by the end of the year, the “While it seems now Miami Valley Brewing Comthat it will be impospany announced it had been sible to have this harmsold to a syndicate of busiful law repealed, at nessmen including Rauh least for some time, it in Dayton and brothers I. is to be hoped that all George Kohn and Morton Jews, be they Reformed, Kohn of Cleveland. With Orthodox, or ConservaRauh as manager, they intive Jews, will refrain vested $100,000 in the plant from the purchase of to expand and modernize wines for even religious bottled beer production. purposes. Nothing can But by November, Rauh work greater harm upon severed his connection with the Jewish name than the brewing firm; he died the feeling, which is five years later at 73. prevalent, that all Jewish Ed Rauh, son of Sol Rauh, navigated much of In 1934, the Kohns rabbis are boot-leggers Prohibition in the near beer brought Leonard S. Becker and that every Jew does business from Cleveland to run the his best to circumvent the Miami Valley Brewing Company. In national prohibition law.” short order, Becker also became an acThe lowest point in the sacramental tive member of Dayton’s Jewish comwine scandals of the 1920s hit in 1926, munity. when a federal grand jury investigated Becker was elected president of the 600 rabbis in New York City for greatly Zionist Organization of America Dayton exaggerating the number of people in District in 1942 and became president of their congregations.

In 1925, when sacramental wine with- the Jewish Community Council of Dayton (now the Jewish Federation) in 1949, drawals were at their peak, the federal a crucial time of emergency campaigns government reduced the amount of to bring DPs out of Europe and to help sacramental wine available to families the fledgling state of Israel. by half. It also took away the 200-gallon However, with I. George Kohn’s dehome winemaking permit, revoked all parture from the Miami Valley Brewing existing rabbinic wine permits, required Company in 1946 and Morton Kohn’s that all rabbis reapply, and continued death in 1950, the plant closed that year. to tighten restrictions and bookkeeping Becker would go on to oversee Ralph safeguards.

Kopelove’s scrap metal business in Dayton. Becker died at 82 in 1989.

Rauh switches to near beer How did Ed Rauh fare as the decade Marshall Weiss, editor and publisher of The progressed? In 1924, he was listed in Dayton Jewish Observer, is the author of the Williams’ Dayton City Directory as Jewish Community of Dayton and project manager of the Miami Valley Brewing director of Miami Valley Jewish Genealogy Company.

As rare as it was, he oversaw the legal & History, a new initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton. brewing of near beer at Dayton’s only remaining brewery plant.

Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton In August 1923, the Dayton Daily News had announced the project.

“Many new formulas have been obtained through which Rauh and his associates hope to make the new near beer so palatable that Daytonians will show a decided preference for it, Rauh says.”

They even gave out free samples.

Whether or not his venture was also a front for full-strength beer is lost to history.

According to Curt Dalton in Breweries of Dayton: A toast to brewers from the Gem City: 1810-1961, the Miami Valley Brewing Company was the successor to numerous breweries that operated at Leonard S. Becker oversaw the Miami First and Beckel Streets in Dayton begin- Valley Brewing Company from 1934 — ning in 1865. Among the owners were after Ed Rauh broke off from the company — until its closing in 1950 George Weedle and Nick Thomas.

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Honeymoon in Krakow We decided to spend part of our honeymoon in Krakow because I wanted to share with my new husband “a magical city” that I knew and loved well. I fell in love with Polish language and literature in graduate school, but over my many summers of studying in Krakow, I never thought much about being Jewish.

I didn’t hide my Jewishness, but as crazy as that sounds to me now, it didn’t feel relevant. I was too deeply buried in my studies, in existential worries, to consider the seemingly prosaic question of an external Jewish identity.

Black vintage Mercedes cars rolled by.

“What’s happening?” I asked a woman in Polish who had just taken a picture of her small daughter smiling in a Nazi’s lap.

“They are making a film!” she said happily. ”About the life of Pope Jan Pawel II.” Now we saw cameras on dollies and the film crew debating camera angles over coffee cups. But Sam and I held hands tighter, averting our eyes as we slunk past the brawny actors in SS costumes and turned onto a side street. I felt Sam’s earlier sentiment: the uncanny sensation of time traveling to a historical nightmare.

Although Krakow has a tiny Jewish Masha population, much of its tourist industry Kisel relies on Jewish history. The old Jewish neighborhood beautifully named Kazimierz has been restored to house trendy Although I struggled with loneliness Jewish restaurants and bars where hip and depression in my early 20s, at my Polish youths sip beer by candlelight. best, I felt nearly fearless when I travThe absence of actual Jews called from eled. The outside world wasn’t quite real every corner at a restaurant where our to me. I moved through it with the ease meal began with a basket of matzah. of a shadow, shape-shifting linguistically It was late June 2007. The matzah was and culturally from America to Poland placed next to a wooden statuette of a to Ukraine to Russia. doleful Orthodox Jew playing a violin.

I was submerged in my inner life; We drank beer with raspberry syrup there was much freedom and heartache at one of those candlelit bars, in the old in that well-deep darkness.

Singer factory, where sewing machines Meeting my husband, Sam, changed served as tables. At another bar, Jewall that. Under the Masha Kisel ish wedding clothes light of a loving gaze, hung from the ceiling, I suddenly had form the dress and the frock and substance. I was swaying grimly. In this visible, connected… bizarre tour of our ancesand exposed. As secular try’s afterlife, I wonagnostics, neither of us dered whether the magic sought a Jewish partner, I once felt here was tonebut we still found each deafness as misguided as other. Undeniably, that the Jewish-themed kitsch first magnetic converwe saw everywhere we A sewing machine as a table at a went. sation was sparked by bar in Krakow’s old Singer factory the connection felt by Poland as a country two Jews at a Christmas party. And as has a terrible track record of indifference our relationship grew more serious, my to Jewish suffering and erasure of Jewish awareness of being Jewish, of being part people from its history. of a Jewish couple, grew too.

But no country is uniform; a signifiWhen we landed in Krakow and rode cant contingent of Poles cares deeply through the night-lit streets to our rented about preserving Krakow’s Jewish past. apartment, I realized this trip felt differ- We saw this dedication at Krakow’s ent. yearly Jewish Cultural Festival, when “This reminds me of every Holocaust the city hosts concerts, films, and lecmovie I have ever seen,” Sam whispered tures and fills with Jewish American and so the cab driver didn’t hear. I chuckled, Israeli tourists. thinking he was kidding. How could It was a counterweight to the exploithis place of joyful escape inspire such tation we felt earlier. Many months of dread? work were devoted to organizing this I was aware of Auschwitz’s proximity heartfelt celebration. We watched a but declined to attend trips there orgaBrooklyn-based klezmer band play on nized by my summer language school. the roof of a pierogi restaurant as Poles, I didn’t want to go accompanied by the Americans, and Israelis danced madly immature Polish-American teenagers in concentric circles, their arms wrapped in my program, and I didn’t want to go around each other. Sam and I stared alone. Auschwitz remained on the edge at each other, absorbed in telepathic of my consciousness, disassociated from tenderness. We were happy. We were “a Krakow itself. people.” And one day we would be more Sam’s words proved prophetic. The than two. next morning, we walked out into the optimistic sunlight and saw SS officers in Dr. Masha Kisel is a lecturer in English at full uniform walking Florianska Street. the University of Dayton.

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The secret ingredient for the best schnitzel Pickle brined schnitzel

By Chaya Rappoport The Nosher If you love pickles, you might often be left with jars and jars of leftover pickle juice. Before you throw out that brine, there are actually so many ways to use it.

And while you can definitely make a good briny cocktail with that leftover liquid, my favorite way to use pickle juice is to brine chicken in it.

The acid in the juice helps tenderize and moisten the chicken (it’s especially great

for white meat), plus the pickle juice flavors and infuses the chicken with its characteristic brininess.

It isn’t overpowering in the least — here it lends a light vinegary undertone to the schnitzel that keeps you guessing and wanting more.

Make sure you brine the schnitzel the night before you plan to make it, or at least several hours in advance, so the chicken has time to soften and absorb the flavors of the brine. And don’t forget to serve

it with hot sauce, honey and, of course, more pickles.

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1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. pepper (or to taste) 2 large eggs 2 cups cornflake crumbs Canola oil, for frying Pickles, hot sauce and honey for serving 1. Make the brine: Combine the brine ingredients in a bowl and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Pour the brine into a large container, add the chicken breasts and cover with enough water to ensure the

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chicken is completely covered.

Refrigerate for up to 12 hours or overnight.

2. Remove the chicken from the brine and rinse under cool water to remove any brine particles clinging to it. Pat dry with paper towels.

3. Next, set up your breading station: Beat eggs in a shallow bowl. Place the flour in another shallow bowl and season with salt and pepper. Place the cornflake crumbs in a third bowl.

4. Line a plate with parchment. Working with one chicken breast at a time, dredge in flour, shaking off excess, then dip into egg mixture, turning to coat evenly; carefully coat with cornflake crumbs, pressing the crumbs to adhere them to the chicken. Transfer chicken to parchment lined plate.

5. Add 1/4-inch canola oil in a large skillet over mediumhigh heat. Add two chicken breasts to skillet and cook until golden brown on both sides, three to four minutes on each side.

Transfer chicken breasts to a paper towel-lined plate and season with additional sprinkle of salt while still hot.

Repeat with remaining chicken breasts.

6. Serve hot with pickles, hot sauce, and spicy honey if desired. Serves four to six.

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Of fate and destiny

By Rabbi Judy Chessin Temple Beth Or Time magazine quoted a prominent politician: “Last week...our nation...cast aside all but the last veil of pretense seeking to make the faith of one religious community a public national referendum in the U.S.” No, this wasn’t a tweet from Congressional Rep. Ilhan Omar, implying that congressional support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins.”

Rather, it was written in 1941 by isolationist presidential contender Charles Lindbergh

Perspectives accusing American Jews of pressuring the United States to enter World War II for “personal and foreign” interests.

Dual loyalty accusations against the Jewish people are an ancient and evergreen trope.

When a new pharaoh arose who “knew not Joseph,” he enslaved the Hebrew people whose great numbers threatened the throne.

In ancient Persia, Haman warned the king that Jewish allegiance to their own laws rendered Jews disloyal to the laws of the state.

Throughout the middle ages in Europe, our people were accused of disloyalty to church and crown and therefore should be expelled.

In 1894, Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely convicted of treason in a French military court highlighting public skepticism that a Jewish officer could be loyal to France.

Hitler unified the German people, partially by demonizing Jews as the enemy of the nation, paving the way for the Holocaust.

Arab governments drove out Jewish populations from their states with accusations that Jews were Zionist and Israeli spies.

And now AIPAC and the “Israel lobby” are accused of disproportionate foreign influence inside the Capitol and our

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nation.

Long ago, when We should American Jews not be surprised moved into the that the “dual suburbs, many cast loyalty” canard off their heritage to has reemerged on fit in, to be seen as America’s tense, “real” Americans. polarized political But as our long scene — this time history illustrates, in the guise of antithe dual loyalty acZionism. cusation reared its Surveys indicate head nonetheless. that 70 percent of And thus our asAmerican Jews resimilation merely port a strong emo- Rabbi Judy Chessin served to impovertional pull toward ish ourselves and the state of Israel. Some Jews our community. are drawn to the Jewish state’s Over 60 years ago Rabbi fulfillment of an ancient bibliJoseph Soloveitchik taught cal promise. After millennia of that the Jews are a part of two exile, the Jews have returned to covenants: brit goral — the covthe Promised Land. enant of fate — how the world Other Jews find their atlooks at us; and brit yiud — the tachment through its promcovenant of destiny — what we ised security. In the wake of do with that reality. the Holocaust and increasing If it is our fate (goral) that worldwide antisemitism, we we are society’s first target Jews have, for the first time in when it becomes oversaturated our history, a secure refuge: a with the poison of hatred, then homeland. it is our destiny (yiud) to transStill others of us are moved form this reality into something to support the Jewish state of meaning. merely for its historicalWe can’t choose our fate, religious-cultural bonds that but we can choose the destiny unite our people everywhere of living and exemplifying the into a single community — Klal very ethically and ethnically Yisrael. rich values of our heritage.

While American Jews are Are we to let the antisemites widely divided in our opindefine our Jewishness? In a ions about the politics of the world in which we cannot hide state of Israel, we from who we are as Jews, we nonetheless, are can be our best Jewish Ameriequally vulneracan selves by striving to fulfill ble to the accusathe eternal Jewish aspirational tion of being less quest for freedom, equality, American, simply safety, and dignity for every because of our human being both here and in commitments to Zion. the Jewish state.

Our ancestors survived We are oppression, exile, and near alarmed when genocide. Surely in this land of dog whistles such as “the relative freedom and safety, we Benjamins,” “buying influowe it to them to model how to ence,” and “foreign interests” be a people and a family, how find their way into respectable to care for our own both here and mainstream venues: our and abroad, how to be a selfuniversities, our media, and sufficient, philanthropic, and our Beltway. holy people.

“The dual loyalty question,” American Rabbi Stephen S. wrote author Anne Roiphe, “is Wise said in the 1940s: "I may one that antisemites use to isohave been an American for 64 late us politically in America. years, but I have been a Jew for We’re not supposed to discuss 4,000 years.” it. But the truth is that...we May we keep alive this are only Americans as long as ancient heritage in the spirit of America reins in its antisemour ancestors and bequeath a ites. We are Jews forever under safer and more pluralistic naall circumstances.” tion to our descendants.

May 3: 8:15 p.m.

May 10: 8:21 p.m.

May 17: 8:28 p.m.

May 24: 8:34 p.m.

May 31: 8:40 p.m.

Torah Portions May 4: Acharei (Lev. 16:1-18:30) May 11: Kedoshim (Lev. 19:1-20:27) May 18: Emor (Lev. 21:1-24:23) May 25: Behar (Lev. 25:1-26:2)

Yom Hashoah

Holocaust Remembrance Day May 2 • 27 Nisan Marked by memorials for those who perished in the Holocaust.

Yom Hazikaron

Israel Memorial Day May 8 • 3 Iyar Memorial Day for all who died serving Israel. Concludes with a siren blast as stars appear and Independence Day begins.

Are we to let the antisemites define our Jewishness?

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Yom Ha’atzmaut

Israel Independence Day May 9 • 4 Iyar Celebrated by Jews around the world. Israel celebrates with parades, singing, dancing and fireworks.

Lag B’Omer

33rd Day of Omer May 23 • 18 Iyar The 33rd day of the Omer breaks up the seven weeks of semi-mourning between Passover and Shavuot. It marks the end of a plague among Rabbi Akiva’s students and a victory of Bar-Kokhba’s soldiers over the Romans 2,000 years ago.

Celebrated with picnics and sports.

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A matter of workmanship The Bible: Wisdom Literature I recently checked out the unexpectedly successful movie Unplanned. Based on the true story of Abby Johnson, it portrays her eight-year rise from a Planned Parenthood volunteer to one of its youngest clinic directors. Having undergone two abortions herself, she starts out

Candace R. Kwiatek fiercely committed to helping women by offering options and resources and providing abortions when necessary.

When she unexpectedly assists in an abortion, however, she has a change of heart, believing her initial good intentions led to evil consequences.

You may not be in agreement with Abby’s conclusion — the movie shows multiple sides of the debate — but it’s hard to leave the theatre complacent.

Of interest to me was how the story revealed an interesting twist on the Jewish concept of yetzer hatov (the good inclination) and yetzer hara (the evil

inclination).

While it might seem axiomatic that the yetzer tov leads to good in the world and the yetzer ra results in evil, that’s frequently not the case.

The yetzer tov can often result in harm, destruction, and immorality, and the yetzer ra can lead to constructive and moral ends.

To complicate matters, even the idea of the yetzer is not as clear-cut as it first appears.

According to the Bible and the Talmud, God formed humans with free will and two balanced but opposing inclinations — one persuading us to be good, the other enticing us to do evil — indicated by the peculiar Hebrew spelling of the word, formed with two yuds instead of one. This is the most common understanding of the yetzer tov and yetzer ra.

A more intriguing notion describes the yetzer tov as the moral conscience, the inner voice that speaks when you’re headed toward wrongdoing or negative consequences.

It’s the foil for the yetzer ra, described by Judaism 101 author Tracey Rich as “the selfish nature, the desire to satisfy per-

sonal needs… and yetzer hara without regard woven throughfor the moral out the Bible. consequences of For example, in fulfilling those pursuit of justice desires.” for their sister’s In this view, rape, Dinah’s the yetzer ra brothers don’t isn’t the exheed their yetzer plicit craving tov. Rather, their to do evil, but unrestrained rather the urge yetzer ra spurs to satisfy a self them to refuse Detail of Joseph and Potiphar’s interest. The Tal- Wife, etching by Rembrandt, 1634 Shechem’s mud notes if it peaceful overweren’t for the yetzer ra, people tures for reparations, deceive wouldn’t build houses, marry, the town’s populace, and ultihave children, or conduct busimately kill all its men. ness.”

Repeatedly tempted by PoLeft unchecked, however, tiphar’s seductive wife, Joseph this same yetzer ra can lead to actually describes the tension building to the point of bankhe feels between his yetzer tov ruptcy, marrying a friend’s and yetzer ra. Eventually he fiancée, having children by flees rather than succumb. multiple fathers or exploiting King Ahab desires the vinemigrant workers. yard of Naboth, who refuses A third view reflects the dual to give up his legacy. With the nature of humans: “formed king’s complicity, Queen Jezefrom the dust of the earth (Gen. bel plots to secure the vineyard 2:7)” yet “a little lower than the through the murder of Naboth, angels (Psalm 8:6).” after which the king acquires it Using imagery of a ladder, for himself. Without a hint of philosopher Dr. Emmanuel yetzer hatov, yetzer hara runs Levinas explains that we conrampant in this narrative. tinually negotiate the tension Just two newsworthy items between our lower human or suffice to illustrate the yetzer earthly nature (yetzer ra) and influence in modern life. our higher divine aspiration The mid-March college (yetzer tov). admissions scandal involved “Torn between creature and wealthy parents “either cheatCreator,” our decisions move us ing on standardized tests lower or higher on the rungs. or bribing college coaches With these ideas in mind, and school officials to accept it’s easy to see yetzer hatov students as college athletes,” CNN news writer Holly Yan reported.

Through parent interviews, financial guru Sam Dogen discovered these parents wanted to guarantee their children the

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Unrestrained by their yetzer tov, however, they misused their wealth to corrupt the admissions system and buy their children’s acceptance, compounding the evil by displacing more worthy applicants.

While the yetzer concept seems simple, its effect isn’t always so straightforward.

Unchecked by the yetzer tov, the desire for ever greater financial success often results in the use of cheap child labor.

At the international policy level, there’s widespread support for banning it: evidence of our better angels at work.

However, economics and policy writer Corey Iacono notes there’s little empirical evidence to show bans are beneficial.

Economists observed the ban in India caused a decline in children’s wages, 16 business owners’ yetzer-ra-fueled response to the increased legal risk and anticipated fines and penalties.

As a result, desperately poor families, unable to meet their basic needs for survival, had to silence their yetzer tov and put even younger children to work to make up for the lost income, increasing child labor overall.

Like a potter, God fashioned (vayitzer) humans out of clay, imbuing them with free will and two balanced but opposing urges: yetzer hatov and yetzer hara.

These are the tools by which we are to fashion ourselves: what we and our world become depend on how each of us uses these tools. What will our workmanship say about us?

Literature to share Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen. From the award-winning author of The Devil’s Arithmetic, Mapping the Bones is another unforgettable, brilliantly crafted Holocaust novel, this one influenced by the barbarous experimentation of Dr. Josef Mengele. Integrating history, poetry, and even fairy-tale elements, the disintegration of Europe’s Jewish world unfolds in the painful drama of twins Chaim and Gittel. Part imaginary, part realistic, this young adult dystopian novel demands discussion about relationships, moral responsibility, and evil.

From the very first words, I couldn’t put it down.

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky. From a multiple-award winning author and historian, this fascinating non-fiction account of an inner city hospital is as engaging and surprising as a well-written novel. More than just a story about a hospital, Bellevue tells the history of America from immigration to innovation, describes some of the more engaging medical and political personalities who walked its halls, and celebrates its national medical precedents: first public hospital, first to use photography to identify bodies, first to successfully treat AIDS and Ebola, among others.

Above all, it is a work account that illuminates America’s goodness. Highly recommended.

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Interview with Hal Linden on The Samuel Project

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By Darren Paltrowitz, Jewish Journal LOS ANGELES — A legend in the world of entertainment, Hal Linden is a Tony winner, Emmy winner, and multiple Golden Globe nominee. While he made a big splash as the title character on the classic television show Barney Miller, Linden first found success as a stage actor. He has worked consistently over the past 60plus years. Beyond his career, Linden has been an advocate for the Jewish National Fund for JUNE 4–JUNE 27 many years.

Opening Night Film The Samuel Project His latest highprofile release is The Samuel Project, which opens Dayton’s JCC Film Fest June 4. It focuses on the universal Tickets on sale Tuesday, April 16 struggles for acceptance opportuonlineand at jewishdayton.org nity. Here, Linden talks about his past, present, and future as an actor.

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Is there a career accomplishment that you are most proud of?

The truth, longevity (laughs). The fact that I’m still alive and still doing it. The fact of the matter is you put in as much sweat, love, and effort into the losers as you do the winners, so they’re all favorites.

Probably the biggest reward is in actually doing it, not the applause after, but the physical and mental work you put in to accomplish it to begin with.

That’s what I’m most proud of.

When did this feel like a career to you and not just a series of one-off bookings and guest appearances?

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Well, there were no guest appearances when I started. Actually it got to be a career when I did the musical The Bells Are Ringing back in 1958 I believe.

That’s when I knew I was going to be an actor, and not go back to being a musician.

I specifically put my horns away.

I didn’t play the clarinet for 20 years because I didn’t want to get lulled back into the music business. I wanted to concentrate on being an actor.

The Samuel Project is your latest film.

When did you first find out that you were working on the project?

OK, first of all, The Samuel Project is not my latest film (laughs). I happen to have a later film that should be coming out soon, called Granddaddy Day Care that I shot this year. But The Samuel Project is one that I stuck a little more effort on — let me put it that way.

I was booked to appear in a play at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

When I was announced for the play, the producers of The Samuel Project, who are from San Diego, and were going to film in San Diego, contacted my people and said, “Since you’re going to be here, would you like to do this picture?”

They sent me a script, we started talking about the film, and I agreed to do it. We starting filming immediately after I completed the play, Picasso at The Lapin Agile, at the Old Globe. While I was in San Diego doing the play, I was working with the director and producer on what we were going to be doing for The Samuel Project, so I was already preparing for my part in the film.

How would you describe The Samuel Project to someone who has not yet seen the trailer?

You know it’s very interesting, because when you do a picture or a play, you always see it through your own eyes — the eyes of your character — and that’s the way I approached The Samuel Project until the director, Marc Fusco, and I sat down and started talkContinued on next page

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We realized The Samuel Project is really not about Samuel at all — it’s about Eli, his grandson, who is an art student.

First of all, the picture is about three generations in a family, with a very common dysfunction of not communicating. I find that not only in that family, but also in my own. Hal Linden (R) and Ryan Ochoa I remember I was sitting at a in The Samuel Project dinner table. My granddaughwould, indeed, be able to go to ter was on the left and she was art school. texting on her telephone, so I The Samuel Project is the telltook out my phone and I texted ing of the grandfather’s story her. I said, “The gentleman on in an art form, so you come your right is your grandfather, away with not only the grandplease say hello.” father’s story, but also the Unfortunately, generations brilliancy of the boy, the stickdon’t communicate that well. to-itiveness of the boy to get You know it’s natural — no the project done, even though generations communicate. nobody is really helping him, That’s the whole premise of and the fact that maybe art can new generations: you try to be more eloquent than words. distance yourself from the genIt’s an intimate story about erations before. three generations trying comSo you specifically listen to munication and are different music, wear different eventually brought clothes; cut your hair differtogether through ently just to make sure there art, through Eli’s is a difference between you project, The Samuel and your parents’ generation.

Project.

That’s the norm.

In , you The Samuel Project have three generations who aside, what is don’t really communicate. As coming up for you I say, it’s the story of a boy career-wise? named Eli who wants to be an Actually it’s hard to say. I artist, but unfortunately, his was about to do a play for the father tells him that he can only Reprise Theatre here in L.A. afford community college and I was to start rehearsals for can’t afford an art school. a staged concert version of And the boy, because he has a musical there, but I’m not an art project in school, uses too sure that’s going to hapthat project to try to further his pen now. I think there was a art study and the point that he funding problem. I don’t know

exactly what’s going to happen with that. Other than that, I’m available for anybody who has a part for an old person.

When not busy with work, how do you like to spend your free time?

My life is my work, honestly.

When I have any other free time, I’m a very bad golfer, but an avid golfer — I do a lot of that. I now have a four-year relationship with a lady that I am pursuing, so that’s kind of nice. That’s about it.

Is there something you wish more people knew about Hal Linden?

You know, I’m pretty much an open book by now to most people. My activities are public — like with the Jewish National Fund, who I’ve been with for over 20 years now. I’ve also never been quiet about political stances. I’m an open book and ready for new experiences.

Although, I must tell you this: I was once asked that question, a little differently though — an interviewer said to me, “Is there something you can do that nobody knows about?”

I said, “I’ll tell you what, there is something I can do that nobody knows about — I can tie a bowtie without a mirror.

Perfectly.”

And here’s the catch, it actually came to pass where I had to do it. I was doing a musical in Texas, and the scene was on an ocean liner, and we were getting ready to go to the Captain’s Dinner. I was putting on a full-dress tuxedo with tails

‘The reward is in the doing.’

and a bowtie. My “wife” was off stage getting dressed and we were carrying on a conversation. I was on stage starting in my shorts and garters, putting on my clothing, and then ending up full dress, and at the end of the scene we go off to the Captain’s Dinner. That’s the scene.

As we’re rehearsing it, I said to the director “I have to put on the bowtie, where’s the mirror? Is there a mirror?” The director says, “The mirror is on the downstage wall.” Well, that means there is no mirror there, and I would have to pantomime that there’s a mirror — by looking right out over the orchestra, into the “mirror” and making my bowtie.

And I said to him, “What are the odds that you have cast the only actor, probably, in Actors’ Equity, who can actually do that?” I actually had to make a bow tie looking into a pantomime mirror. There you go, I guess there are things that nobody knows about me.

Finally, Hal, any last words for the kids?

I’ll give the same advice I give when young actors approach me: “The reward is in the doing.” If you can find your rewards in whatever it is that you do, then you’re never bored, you’re never angry, you’re thrilled doing what you do, and you don’t look for outside rewards. This is what I usually tell actors. You can become a great actor totally unknown to anybody, but if you do it right, you’ll have a terrific career, because the reward is in the doing. That’s really my advice to anybody, in whatever area of life they are involved.

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Cold, calculated Winter Hunt

Michael Degen and Carolyn Genzkow in Winter Hunt

Winter Hunt is about three people in Germany — a girl, an old man and his daughter — speaking German with subtitles.

The movie begins with the girl testing her ability to shoot a pistol. She then drives to the home of the old man and his daughter.

In the first five minutes, not a single word is spoken.

Throughout the movie, the music is dark, giving the sense that something awful is going to happen, but you don’t know what.

Gradually, the story of each of the three people unfolds, and you come to understand what each believes and whether that belief is accurate. While the movie is set in 2014, the story is about what happened in October 1944.

The plot has a sense of reality about it, with each person doing what could have occurred. Each explanation of what happened in the fall of 1944 comes across as possible, with twists and turns all along the way.

The title of the movie is about a painting in the old man’s home. It depicts a single man, hunched over and walking alone. The question is whether the man is the hunter or the hunted — or both.

At the end of the movie, try to compare the last scene to the painting.

While the story unfolds slowly, the dialogue keeps you mesmerized. It is worth your time if you have an interest in the Holocaust.

— Allen H. Lipis Atlanta Jewish Times The JCC Film Fest presents Winter Hunt at 7:30 p.m.

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Kids are all right-wing Israeli religious Zionist than in previous generations, and religious Jewish Israelis tend to be more right wing. “(How religious you are) is the best predictor of whether someone is left, right or center,” Scheindlin said. And the age divide is growing, she added, “given that religious people have more children and higher population growth.”

Right-wing parties have also attracted young voters because they prefer the same platform: social media.

Netanyahu, who is famously averse to speaking with the Israeli press, is most comfortable tweeting and posting videos to Facebook.

Those happen to also be networks popular with young Israelis.

“Bibi hates interviews and he very much prefers to have a completely controlled narrative, which is why he’s made enthusiastic use of social media,” Scheindlin said.

“Every word is measured.

Two of his closest advisers are his social media advisers. So Facebook much of his personality is on social media.”

So did Jewish millennials deliver Netanyahu this election? It’s a bit too soon to tell.

But Scheindlin said that while exact figures aren’t out yet, it’s safe to assume that the right wing had youth on its side.

“I don’t think a Likud victory will be driven by young people because religiosity will scatter their votes” across a variety of rightwing parties, she said, “but they will definitely be helping Incoming Likud Member of Knesset May a right-wing bloc.”

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For younger religious Zionist voters in particular, the disengagement, which displaced some 8,000 Jewish settlers, “was considered an absolutely devastating moment that they’ve vowed never to return to,” Dahlia Scheindlin, an Israeli political analyst and a public opinion expert, told JTA. “The general narrative is, we gave up this land, they sent rockets in return,” Scheindlin said. “The national religious have considered it a national trauma ever since then.”

Scheindlin said that what younger voters haven’t experienced might matter even more.

“There’s been no peace process, no handshakes, no agreements,” she said. “Any negotiations have been zeroexpectation negotiations.”

But along with being children of the conflict, this cohort is shaped by their religiosity.

A larger percentage of young Israelis is haredi Orthodox and

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Jewish Home’s former leader, Naftali Bennett, also broke away from the party to form a new one months before the election.

However, Rahat said that though parties tend to shift in certain ways, which may prompt voters to feel conflicted about how to cast their ballots, the actual governing blocs remain similar in makeup at the end of the day.

“When I looked at results of the election, I was kind of shocked to see how it’s similar to previous election in terms of blocs,” he said.

The integrity of the election was on many voters’ minds — especially among the country’s Arabs.

Thirty-nine percent of Arab respondents asked in March had little or no trust that the results announced would be accurate.

That number represented an increase from February, when 32 percent of Arab respondents had little or no trust in the results.

The number was significantly lower among Jews, with 25 percent of respondents in March saying they felt doubtful about the election’s integrity.

The distrust in the vote showed in the Arab voter turnout, which was historically low — nearly half the traditional rate.

The difference is also striking in light of news April 9 that Likud had placed some 1,200 cameras in polling stations in Arab communities.

Netanyahu said that they had done so to “ensure a fair vote,” but Arab Party head Jamal Zahalka called the cameras “an illegal measure meant to scare away voters.”

OBITUARIES Louis I. Hoffman, age 82, formerly of Dayton, died April 11 in Columbus. Mr. Hoffman was a highly respected and very successful criminal defense trial lawyer for over 50 years in Dayton. He received the highest rating for ability and integrity from a national rating for 20 consecutive years, was a fellow of the Dayton Bar Association, an instructor of seminars for his fellow lawyers and an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton School of Law. He was preceded in death by his wife of 58 years, Lois, the love of his life. His sister, Sharon Hoffman Ringer, also predeceased him. Mr. Hoffman is survived by his daughters, Jenny Hoffman of Baltimore, Meredith Trabitz of Columbus, and Betsy Hoffman of New York; three grandsons, Sam, Evan and Zach Trabitz; as well as his nephew, Paul Ringer and his wife, Joann and their daughter, Sydney, and many loving cousins. Mr. Hoffman received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at The Ohio State University where he met his wife, Lois. He had great respect for the law and for each of his clients. Above all, however, was his never ending love for his wife and family. Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. Donations may be made to Planned Parenthood, The Ohio State University Moritz Law Public Service Law Center or Beth Abraham Synagogue in Mr. Hoffman’s memory.

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Marvin Herbert Levitt, age 86 of Dayton, passed away April 2, surrounded by his loving family. He was born to Sophie and Paul Levitt on Jan. 17, 1933 in Dayton. Mr. Levitt was a proud veteran who served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1961. He is survived by the love of his life, his wife of 64 years, Paula, his three children, Mitchel (Patty) of Columbus, Wayne (Ilise) of Lake Hopatcong, N.J., and Lee (Karen) of Pittsburgh; five grandchildren whom he adored, Paul and Nicholas Levitt, Alexandra Levitt, and Sophie and Noah Levitt.

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