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In a July letter to Beth Abraham congregants, President Scott Liberman informed members that their new rabbi, Aubrey L. Glazer — who was to arrive in Dayton by Aug. 1 — would instead begin his work on that date remotely from Montreal because of a U.S. Government backlog on visa approvals. “To obtain the R-1 visa, U.S. Customs and Immigration must verify that Beth Abra ham is an established religious organization, which means they will actually send a person to verify that we physi cally exist,” Liberman wrote in the congregation’s August newsletter update. “We have no way of knowing when that visit may occur as they do not provide any notice. This so-called ‘site visit’ must occur before we can finalize the visa approval.” In the meantime, Glazer is providing virtual sermons, classes, counseling, and attending meetings. Liber man noted that Beth Abraham filed the visa appli cation in mid-April. — Marshall Weiss recent trend stay at a higher level than the trend experienced a decrease in as which has actually declined by 5% over the past Inflation Rate Calculator" can use to evaluate your personal spending and how inflation affects you. You can access the tool here: https:// info.artifexfinancial.com/personal-inflation-rate. Or use this handy QR code: Artifex Financial Group is a fee-only financial planning firm that focuses on helping our clients navigate times like these. We’ve been helping people live successfully in retirement since 2007. their children, Joel, Adelaide, and Theo came out for the JCC at July 24 to celebrate Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer

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Beth Abraham, Beth Jacob, Temple Beth Or, and Temple Israel will join together for a community Selichot service beginning with desserts at 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17 at Beth Abraham Synagogue, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood, featuring the Dayton Jewish Chorale and local rabbis. Selichot are com munal prayers of forgiveness said on Jewish fast days and in the period leading up to the High Holidays. The service will also be livestreamed at streamspot.com/72a802ed.venue.

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The Jewish Community Relations Council's Community Conversations series will pres ent the virtual discussion, When Does Life Begin: Jewish Per spectives, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 1. Participants are Temple Israel’s Rabbi Karen BodneyHalasz, Beth Abraham’s Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer, Chabad’s Rabbi Nochum Mangel, and retired Magistrate Bonnie Beaman Rice. Facilitating the conversation will be Marcy L. Paul. Register at jewishdayton. org/events or 937-610-1555. Community Selichot service Sept. 17

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‘We didn't believe that people would march and start really killing. That was a huge shock.’—On Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine

"She's not my relative accord ing to American standards," Maryna says of her niece. "It was a difficult decision," Yulia tells The Observer at the Braginsky dining room table, set with two covered challahs a few hours before Shabbat, Aug. 12. Maryna translates for her from Russian, Yulia's primary language."Ofcourse I would like my own daughter to stay in my own country," Yulia says. "I un derstand that the child should not see and not be involved in what's going on right now. So I had to bring her."

Another time, the Russians bombed the electric station and Sumy had no electricity and no internet connections.

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Much of the time they hid in the"Whenbasement.dusk came, we weren't allowed to have any lights in the windows," Polina says. "We had blankets in the windows and tried to keep the light low. You sit in a basement in a dark, dark house and you hear the fighting planes just making very large sounds because they go in very, very low, probably looking for targets."Thebombing was so intense, Polina says, that sometimes she and her grandparents didn't have time to eat. "We were so afraid. It was dark, there was no ventilation because it was never meant to "I can't imagine. An 11-year-old kid? I have trouble letting my 19-yearold drive across the street," Maryna Braginsky says while her niece, Polina (she just celebrated her 12th birthday), tells us of her journey from Ukraine to Centerville (see story above). Maryna and her husband, Michael, worked with immigration lawyers to find a way to get Polina in their care. "It was super hard," Maryna says. "Nothing seemed to help. We told them (Polina's parents) that we are sure we can pull this off, and something fell through. It was shattering. We had hours to put something else together here and to find people who would bring her, and then with the legal stuff with the U.S. We didn't ask for an immigration visa for her, we didn't ask for refugee status, we don't ask for any government help. We don't need any of it. We just wanted the legal way for her to enter the country and that's it. She's part of the family, she stays here, and we take care of everything."

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Maryna Braginsky (L) with her niece Polina and sister-in-law Yulia at the Braginsky's home in Centerville. Polina, 12, is able to stay in the United States for two years.

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Maryna also translates for her niece Polina. "From the 24th to 25th of February, it was scary because there were so many Russian tanks in the city," Polina says. "We live very close to the border. They were just coming and coming on tanks and on military trucks."

On Yulia's one-hour walk to the grocery, she would see dead bodies in the streets. "I was walking to work," Yulia says, "and the military plane was going very low, so I didn't know if he was going to drop the bomb now, right here, and I'll be done for."

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The Observer Maryna Braginsky had never met her niece Polina in person before. The 12-year-old girl's resemblance to her is striking. And Polina had never met her first cousins — Maryna and husband Michael Braginsky's sixThechildren.Braginsky house in Cen terville is now Polina's home too, while Ukraine is under attack from Russia. After a journey of three months across five countries, Polina entered the United States through Uniting for Ukraine, the U.S. government program that allows Ukrainians seeking refuge to travel to the U.S. with the support of a sponsor. She is able to stay here for twoPolinayears.arrived in the U.S. with her mother, Yulia — also Philadelphia.—UnitingthroughforUkraineonJuly22inAday later, their connecting flight landed in Cincinnati.ButYulia departed the U.S. Aug. 20 to make the danger ous journey back to Ukraine. Her husband — Maryna's older brother — serves in the Urkrai nian army. She cares for her parents and in-laws in Sumy, where Yulia runs a grocery that supplies the city with food. To ensure Immigration and Naturalization wouldn't separate Polina from sponsors Maryna and Michael, Yulia gave the Braginskys power of attor ney for her daughter.

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"I couldn't even call Maryna's parents or my par ents," Yulia says. "And there was no water. I had to walk across the whole city to her parents to figure out are they OK and then walk again to my parents to ask, and then went to work." Polina stayed with her father's mother and stepfa ther.With an electric water pump at her insidewerunningthehouse,grandparents'Polinasays,househadnowater."Sowouldgoouttogathersnowbucketssowecould wash our hands or cook or drink."

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Polina says she talks or texts with her father every day. "Sometimes he doesn't have a good connection," she says. The last time Polina saw her father was for 15 minutes before she left Sumy for France. Yulia last saw her husband in a surprise visit July 9. "It was my birthday, and he came to give me flowers," Yulia says. "He and two of his comrades, they did something brave. And they rewarded him for that. He's in the artillery. He does all the calculations, and his guys shoot. He says (once they shoot), he has six to nine minutes to get out of thatWhenspot."asked how she thinks the war will go, Yulia doesn't hesitate: "Only the victory." She says she and her family felt safe in Ukraine before Russia's inva sion."People in Ukraine never thought that in the 21st century, somebody would do this war: where they don't talk but send people to be killed and to kill. We didn't believe that people would march and start really killing. That was a huge shock."

"The trip from Sumy across Ukraine was very scary because there were a lot of checkpoints," Yulia says. "And our driver was male. It was very dark. It was very cold. And at every check point, you see guys with weapons and they're ready to shoot. You don't even know if it's your guys." At one checkpoint, she heard a lot of shooting and saw mines on the sides of the road.

"You see mines there, you never know if there's one in the middle of the road," Yulia says. At another checkpoint, the guards didn't want to let the driver pass through."They were suspicious: if you are enlisted in territorial defense, why are you here? What are you doing across the country? He said, 'I'm taking two girls across the country. They need to get out of the country.' They asked for all of our documents. So you sit in a car, surrounded by armed people. They could say, 'Go back,' and that's it."After seeing Polina off, Yulia survived the journey in reverse. She returned to Sumy. Yulia made the journey across Ukraine again, four months later, to reunite with her daughter in Paris, where they flew to the United States in July. As of press time, Yulia is on her way back to Sumy once more. When mother and daughter arrived in Philadelphia, Yulia says, Immigra tion and Naturalization "just took our papers and they didn't explain anything. They just put us in a room to interview us later."

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Continued from Page Three Safe — and with family be a bomb shelter. We were basically there the whole night." Neighbors and their child hid with them during the first weeks of the war. For the first two months of the war, Polina's family was afraid it was too dangerous to try to evacuate her. At the end of April, they managed to get Polina to France. A police team took Polina and her mother across Ukraine and to the Polish border. At the border, Yulia put Polina in the care of friends of friends who took the girl through Poland; Polina stayed with them in Germany for a week. In France, she stayed with a distant rela tive of Maryna's husband.

Maryna Braginsky’s niece Polina in her grandmother’s basement during an airstrike on Sumy earlier this year

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"While we were going through the countries, espe cially through Poland — where the majority of refugees go first — we met a lot of people from Bucha, from Mariupol, and the cars were full of shrapnel be cause the Russians saw people evacuating, and they fired at thoseYuliacars."says the things they saw were horrible. "I cannot believe it happened. But, you know, people did it to people. A lot of those refugees, they say, 'We have nowhere to go back to because everything was just erased. There's nothing left.' And they don't know what to do. Mariupol doesn't exist. And that is very horrible."

Maryna says at least part of the story has come to a safe end. "It's not a happy end," she says. "Polina knows her dad is in danger. We're going to make her as comfortable as possible."

Maryna Braginsky’s older brother, Igor, Polina's father Maryna's mother and step father remain in their home in Sumy."We ask her if she would like, at least, to go to Poland, to safe ty for the time being," Maryna says. "And she said, no, because her two sons are there fighting. She's not going to go." Polina says people should know that the Russians killed children every day.

Polina started Magsig Middle School Aug. 17, where she is a seventh grader. She takes the bus with her cousin who is an eighth-grader there. She says she feels safe. Back to normal. But she wants to go back home. Polina and her mother anticipate the day they'll all be back together in Sumy. Polina adds that she, too, would like to serve in the Ukrai nian military when she grows up. She doubts her mom would let her do that, but adds that her father"Thewould.armythere, by that time, will be trained by NATO stan dards and will be weaponized with very nice, modern weap ons," Yulia says. For now, Yulia tells her daughter, "You're never going to get bored here in this house."

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Longtime labor relations consultant Mary Rita Weissman — a stalwart volunteer in the Jewish and general Dayton community — was elected president of the Jewish Federa tion of Greater Dayton at its annual meeting, Aug. 17. Here, she talks about her pathway to Jewish leadership and her plans for the Federation. How did you start getting involved in the organized Jewish community?

A conversation with new Jewish Federation President Mary Rita Weissman in this and that and the other thing. Our expertise in human resources is always an important volunteer contribution. I’ve done human resource stuff for prac tically every one of the synagogues whenever they’ve needed help. And eventually you became president of Beth Abra ham Synagogue. People all said to me when I agreed to be (synagogue) president that the happiest day of your life is when you stop being president. And that was not the case for me at all. I loved being president. I served two terms. Because I was chair of the JCC, I also served on the JCCA national board, and that was so much fun. You’ve also been a key leader with the Miami Valley School for several years. I’m still on the board. I’m emeritus, but I go to all the meetings because I love Miami Valley School. What led you to decide to take on the Federation presidency?

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I moved here in the late ‘70s. I was transferred from Atlanta, where I was the personnel manager for the box plant division of the Mead Corporation. I was there for six months, and Norm was hired to be the labor relations manager of the packaging plant. We shared a labor agreement. We got to know each other, became friends. I got transferred to Cincinnati but still had respon sibility for that plant and another plant as well. And then I got transferred to Dayton, at the corporate head quarters, as the labor relations person. Not six months later, after I got transferred up to Dayton, Norm got promoted to the VP of HR for the paperboard division. So we were friends. We had a lot of conversations. We decided that we would get married. At the time, nobody knew we were dating, because we were both in the same field in the same company in the late ‘70s. I had been involved pretty deeply in all organizational design aspects of Mead. And because of that, I was involved in a lot of new startups and also involved in labor relations. I always said one day I’m go ing to leave Mead and I’m going to start my own company and consult on organizational design because these academics that are doing this work don’t have a clue about the kind of people we have, and the kind of technologies, and so on. Norm had come up with the same conclusion about labor relations. So when we decided we were going to get married, he left Mead to start our company in February 1980. I applied for and was promoted to his job, believe it or not. And by the way, I made 20-percent less than he did.We got married in July 1980, and I had promised him that we would raise the kids Jewish. So I said, if I’m going to have a Jewish husband and Jewish kids, I better learn about Judaism. There was never any thought in my mind or Norm’s that I would become a Jew by choice. And the moment I started studying, I realized I had been Jewish my whole life. Now, I was the ultimate Catholic: Catholic grade school, Catholic high school, Catholic college, Catholic graduate school, and I grew up in Chicago. I had a minor in theology in college. I was intensely involved in the Catholic community and the parish, as much as one could be in the Catholic environment in those days.Ibecame a Jew by choice and Norm had not yet joined a synagogue, so he was doing that while I was studying this. He called the Jewish Federation and said, “I’m in town.” Federation Executive Director Pe ter Wells came and had a meal with him, and we were immediately hooked. And so, as the kids went to camp, I just got involved

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I had been asked multiple times and I always said no. Being president of a synagogue is very time-consuming. At the other times when I was asked to serve, I was on the board of United Rehabilitation Services, I was on the board of Miami Valley School, I was the chair of the board of the Disability Founda tion, and I was on the JCC board. It was just too much before. We’re cutting back on the busi ness and so it’s a good time now. What are the opportunities ahead for the Federation? Oh, I think Dayton Dreams Big. The challenge of losing all of these senior staff people and the opportunity to bring in all this new staff, and mining the wisdom and the ideas of new staff members. I would like to see us do more in young leadership. We have a real opportunity there. We have people in place, including me, who have been around a very long time in leadership positions. I would like to see the amazing JCC Early Child hood that we have capitalize even more on its excel lence. I would like us to get all the Jewish kids we can get.Given the sparseness of children we have in camp, Camp Shalom is fabulous. We want to continue to build on that. Maybe the most important thing is con tinuing what Federation CEO Cathy Gardner started, making the Federation the central address for all things Jewish, so everybody’s comfortable. And for the collaboration and cooperation among all the Jewish organizations out there outside the Federation to con tinue down the path it’s been on. It’s been fabulous. It’s the kids, young leadership, and the watering of all of the flowers of the Jewish entities in Dayton. This is the way to go. We’re in an amazingly good place right now, from the staff at the Federation to the collaboration among theWesynagogues.don’thave the big givers that we used to have. So financing all this is much more difficult. I’m not saying it was ever easy, but it is much more difficult. But again, our annual campaign is going up. We’re in a great place.

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“It’s such a safe space to bring a new work into the world,” Sholiton said of her Futurefest experiences in a previous interview with The Observer. “I called it a playwright’s fantasy camp.”

“The play is full of mo ments that people shared with me when I was a journalist,” Sholiton said. “My reporter’s notes really gave me so much. I saved all these inter views that I have done with survivors and their children. I had years of those interviews to look back on and see those moments that were so powerful and so revealing, and so simply stated. I learned from the interviews to suspend judgment. As one survivor said on a taped testimony that I saw, ‘If you licked my heart, it would poison you.’” Two Holocaust survi vors she interviewed had estranged children.

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Playwright will discuss The Interview after matinee When second-generation Holocaust survivor Helene Gordon saw Faye Sholiton’s play The Interview at Actor’s Theatre Fairborn in early 2020, she felt like she was reliving her childhood. The drama is about a Holocaust sur vivor and her daughter. “Never did he really speak a lot about his experiences of two years in the forests of Poland to me and my siblings,” Gordon said of her father. “We got bits and pieces. It was not until my two nephews in Cincinnati wanted my dad to share his story.” Gordon raved about the play to Helen Halcomb, also a child of survivors. Both are members and on the board of Beth Jacob Congrega tion.Through a Jewish Federation Innovation Grant, the synagogue will present two performances of the play, directed by Brian Sharp, on Sunday, Sept. 18. Sharp directed the FairbornPlaywrightproduction.Sholiton will attend both performances, which are free. She’ll lead a discussion of The Interview following the matinee. The Interview and Sholiton have strong ties to Dayton: 25 years ago, it won Dayton Playhouse’s Futurefest.Sincethen, The Inter view has had more than three dozen readings and staged productions across the United States. A prolific playwright and founding artistic director of Cleveland’s Interplay Jewish Theatre — Sholiton has credited The Interview’s success to the opportu nity Futurefest gave her to bring it to an early life and shape it in Dayton.

“I feel that with the open rise of an tisemitism and increase of hate crimes, the more we expose people and make them aware (of the Holocaust), the better we are in combating prejudice,” Halcomb added.

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FayePlaywrightSholiton Beth Jacob Congregation presents The Interview, a play by Faye Sholiton, di rected by Brian Sharp, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2:30 and 7 p.m., 7020 N. Main St., Har rison Twp. Admission is free, through an Innovation Grant of the Jewish Federa tion. R.S.V.P. to 937-274-2149. Sholiton will lead a discussion about the play following the 2:30 p.m. performance. 'When you can't really talk aboutcan'tsomething,aboutyoureallytalkanything.'

Over the years, she has returned to Futurefest as an adjudicator and to watch other playwrights in action. She said the impetus for The Inter view came from interviewing Holocaust survivors and their children for the Cleveland Jewish News, and her work for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, now the USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual His tory and Education.

“It certainly was not the rule; it was the excep tion,” Sholiton says. “I stumbled on what hap pens in any home where there’s something you can’t talk about. And that is the crux of it: that when you can’t really talk about something, you can’t really talk about anything.”“Thepremise of the play is what every child of a survivor goes through,” Halcomb said, “how to talk and ask the questions without being hurtful (when) bringing up hard memories, and to be respectful.”Gordonsaid The Interview “also tells us the survivor wants a better life for next generations. In knowing true sur vivors, that was their goal in the ‘second take’ on their lives."

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While here, the group met with teens from Temple Beth Or, volunteered at the Dayton Food Bank with a Muslim youth organization, and met women who are leaders in Dayton's Black community.

"I just enjoy being with the kids and helping them, giving them a different experience," says Ellen Holroyd, who has hosted Arab Israeli teens in the program four times. "The thing I'm really proud of is that the kids who have been over here, almost all of them are in Israeli universities or medical schools," Jacobs says. "They're doing really well. I think this seals their English and also, this lets them know the bigger world is open." The group's chaperone, Hu sein Yousef, 21, of Deir al-Assad — a veteran of the program and now a student at Technion — says the concept of the program is "live together, believe in peace, and change society."

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By Marshall Weiss The Observer "I don't know what baseball is, but I'm trying to figure it out," says Rawa'a Serhan, 18, a visitor to Day Air Ballpark from the Israeli Arab village of Majd al-Krum in the Galilee. Serhan just graduated from high school. She works in a plastic factory with her mother while saving money to attend a university. When Serhan was first in vited to participate on this trip more than two years ago, she couldn't say no. "People told me it's going to be the trip of your life. And I believe them. It's going so well," she says. "It's my first travel ever. There are a lot of trees. It's greenSerhan,everywhere."fiveother teens from Arab Israeli villages in the Gali lee, and their chaperone visited the Dayton area July 19-Aug. 1 as the culmination of a summer English language program for middle schoolers there, facili tated since 2007 by Daytonian Dr. Marti Moody Jacobs and Jamal Assadi, chair of the Eng lish department at the Sakhnin Teacher's College. "This is the eighth group," Jacobs says. "With this group, we'll have brought 58 different kids over here." This cohort is from the 2019 summer camp. Because of Covid, their planned April 2020 trip was postponed. "We said we'd bring them over when things opened up again. So we did." Some are now in high school; others have com pleted high school and are preparing to attend college. In Dayton, they stayed with six host families. "We can learn a lot from just visiting America," says Wageeh Khalil, who is entering his senior year of high school in Sakhnin. He notes their visit to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, "which told us a lot about slavery and slave history. It was something new that we hadn't learned in Israel."

The Freedom Center also made an impression on Osama Faur, 18, who graduated high school in the village of Rama.

"I realized how blessed I am that I was born here in this century, that today, we people at least have the ability to raise and send our voices — espe cially as minority voices — the minorities can ask and demand for the rights, freedom, and democracy."He'snotsure about his career path yet but is considering engineering."That'swhy it was such a good idea to visit the University of Dayton," Faur says. "I got to know what I should do to ap ply, the whole process for me to be an international student. I met some Arabs there."

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In a separate brief to the court pushing for a stop in enforcement of the abortion law, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecolo gists, the American Medical Association and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine said in no uncertain terms: “When abortion is legal, it is safe.” “(The medical groups) op pose Ohio’s six-week abortion ban because it jeopardizes the health and safety of pregnant people in Ohio and places extreme burdens and risks on providers of essential reproduc tive health care, without any valid medical justification,” the brief to the court stated. Medical research supports their arguments to the court, the groups wrote to the court, and “the overwhelming weight of medical evidence” proves abortion is a “very safe medical procedure.”Citingmedical journals, state data, and other data sources, the physicians groups said complication rates from abor tion average about 2 percent, with most

“Senate Bill 23 denies Ohio ans the freedom to practice their long-standing and sin cerely held religious beliefs,” according to a brief filed July 25 supported by nearly three dozen individual rabbis and reverends, along with Temple

dures.topassescurrentlyonthedismissYost,suchOhioaccordingvised,necessarilyidentifyicalprotectbillable,”avoidedlogicalpatient’snegativeincreasestopatientsingAMAtions,to“exceptionallytreatable.”consideredcomplications“minorandeasilyMajorcomplicationsarerare,”accordingtheirresearch.“Theriskofdeathfromanabortionisevenrarer:nationally,fewerthanonein100,000patientsdiefromanabortion-relatedcomplication,”thebriefstated,citingreportsfromtheCDC.TheharmtopatienthealthcomesmoreinbanningaboraccordingtoACOG,theandtheSMFM,bycreatconsequencesforpregnantandforcingcliniciansdelayneededmedicalcare.“Eachoftheseoutcomesthelikelihoodofconsequencesforthephysicalandpsychohealththatcouldbeifabortionwereavailthegroupsargue.Exceptionsincludedinthearealso“insufficient”topatienthealth,themedprofessionalsconcluded.“Thelegislature’sattempttoalistofseriousrisksisincomplete,ill-adandmedicallyunsound,”tothebrief.Agentsfromthestateofnamedinthelawsuit,asAttorneyGeneralDavehaveaskedthecourttothelawsuitandallowabortionlawtocontinue.Otherabortionbansmaybethehorizonifthelegislature,onsummerbreak,billsnowincommitteecompletelybantheproce

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In Judaism, for example, religious law requires abortion “where the pregnancy endan gers the life or health of the pregnant person,” according to the brief, and allows abortion in a “broad range of circum stances.”“Theremoval of agency from pregnant people flies in the face of Jewish law,” leaders told the court.While members of religious communities pushed on the right to abortion as an essen tial part of their faith, medical professionals continued their arguments that abortion is an “essential part of comprehen sive health care.”

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Beth Or in Washington Town ship, the National Council of Jewish Women/Cleveland, the Ohio Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ, and Faith Choice Ohio. Those who signed onto this amicus brief in the Dayton area include Temple Beth Or, Rabbi Ben Azriel of Temple Beth Or, and Rabbi Karen BodneyHalasz and Rabbi Tina Sobo, both of Temple Israel. The religious leaders said the law violated the Constitution because it “imposes one reli gious viewpoint on the people of Ohio and prevents Ohioans, including (the religious leaders and groups) from freely exer cising their religious beliefs.”

“This is not a hypothetical denial of religious freedoms,” they wrote. “Many religions recognize the right of a preg nant person to make the deeply personal decision of whether to continue a preg nancy in accordance with their faith at any stage of the pregnancy.”Thereligious ad vocates across Ohio said they felt compelled to file a brief against the law to “pre serve their congregants and communities’ rights to make deeply personal decisions” and use their own religious beliefs to make those choices.

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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made the an nouncement on Aug. 16 after Lapid spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The agreement fol lows a visit to Ankara in March by Israeli Presi dent Isaac Herzog, who met with Erdogan. It was Erdogan who initiated a suspension of ties after vio lence flared on the Israel-Gaza border following the Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in 2018.

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Ties were previously strained in 2010 after Israel’s deadly raid on a Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, which sought to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, but Israel and Turkey had reconciled in 2016.Israel is seeking to build on the 2020 Abraham Accords, which normalized relations with four Arab countries. Turkey wants to be part of Israeli-led plans to explore energy sources in the Mediterranean and is also seeking to repair ties with countries in the region unsettled by revolution and repression since the explosion of the Arab Spring in the early 2010s. Israeli President Isaac Herzog (L) with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey March 9 Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu Agency via

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after Israel announced that it would shutter human rights groups monitoring the country’s treatment of Pales tinians, Israel has yet to show sufficient cause for its plans, the U.S. State Department said Thursday.Thecomments came as Israeli troops raided seven of the groups’ offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah and welded their doors shut.

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Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees — deny Israel’s allegations that they have ties with the Popu lar Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group. Price said the information Israel has shared since an nouncing plans last year to shut down the groups has not persuaded U.S. agencies of the ties.Regarding “the material that has been provided to us to date from our Israeli partners, what I can say is that we have provided that information to our partners within the U.S. government. There are vari ous departments and agencies who have taken a look at this material,” Price said. “Through the course of our review of this information, we have not changed our position on or approach to these particular organizations.”PricesaidIsrael has said that more information is forthcom ing and that the Biden admin istration will assess it when it comes in. In July, nine European na tions said Israel’s claims that the groups had tied to terror ists were unpersuasive.

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“We have conveyed the mes sage that there must be a very high bar to take action against civil society organizations,” said State Department spokes man Ned Price. Israel has not conveyed information that substantiates its allegations that the groups have ties to and fund terrorist organizations, Price said. “We don’t have that information yet,” he said, adding that the United States had “voiced our concern” about the raids.

The current run, which began in May this year, features nearly 2,000 local resi dents playing all the roles (they don’t all make it on stage at the same time). Its covered auditorium holds 4,700 people and faces an open-air stage framed by soaringReportedly,mountains.most of the local men involved let their beards and hair grow out during the season.

The cast of the Oberammergau Passion play, which has been telling the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection since 1634, sings backstage in Oberammergau, Germany, July 12 By Toby Axelrod, JTA BERLIN — Nestled in the Bavarian Alps, the city of Oberammergau has one major claim to fame: every 10 years, it hosts the world-famous Passion play, which tells the Christian story of Jesus’ death and resurrection. It has been doing so since the 17th century, almost without fail, and it happens to be on now, after a two-year, pandemic-related delay. About half a million spectators are expected to flock to the town by the time this season is over, on Oct. 2. Over the centuries, the play — in which all roles are filled by local resi dents — has been a vessel for some of Germany’s most virulent, religious-based Jew-hatred, feeding into the antisemitic conspiracy theories of the Nazi years and beyond. But things have changed, observers say. No longer are Jews de picted as eternal murder ers of Jesus. The play now highlights the Jewishness of Jesus and his follow ers and clarifies that only the Roman Pontius Pilate — and not the Jews — could condemn Jesus to death. Such shifts came about largely through the commitment of Passion play director Christian Stückl, himself a native son, who has now helmed four rounds of the production. He has worked with Jewish organi zations including the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League, as well as with educational groups in Germany, to raise awareness about antisemitism and reshape the nar

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His greatest concern inplay'sbecominguponthedirector1990'wasto eliminate (its) anti-Judaism.' rative.InAugust, the AJC recognized Stückl’s commitment with its Isaiah Award for Exemplary Interreligious Leadership. Stückl has helped turn the Passion Play into “an educational tool for post-Shoah Christian and Ger man self-reflection,” said Rabbi Noam Marans, AJC’s Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, in an award ceremony held Aug. 10 in Oberam mergau. Stückl has been engaged in dialogue with AJC leaders since the late 1980s.Atthe award ceremony, he said his greatest concern upon becoming the play’s director in 1990 “was to eliminate (its)Theanti-Judaism.”Passionplay was initiated in 1634 as a reli gious offering against the return of the plague to the Alpine village. In keeping with contemporary Church teachings, the play de picted Jews as greedy and deicidal, proclaiming them guilty for all Accordingtime.tolocal leg end, the plague never re turned to Oberammergau, so to keep it that way, the town staged the play every 10 years.

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By David I. Klein, JTA In July, Jewish leaders in Sarajevo joined widespread condemnation of a proposed law that could further distance Jews and other minorities from positions of political power.

“For the government of Is rael to come out and say this is, in my view, crazy. It’s seen as Israel siding with people who want Bosnia gone, far-right genocide deniers,” Bajrovic said.Israel ultimately offered a clarification of its position, af ter Turkovic sent a diplomatic request for one.

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'We can safely say that this has hurt Israel's image among population.'Bosniakthe Bajrovic.Theplan has been most vo cally backed by Dragan Čović, the head of the Croatian Demo cratic Union (HDZ), a Croat political party in Bosnia. Milorad Dodik, the BosnianSerb member of the country’s tripartite presidency, and his SNSD party also stand to benefit from the new law. Both Čović and Israelimemo,Israel.supportersoutspokenhaveDodikalsobeenofInthesametheembassy also expressed gratitude for the country’s adoption of the IHRA defini tion of antisemitism in July — a move that was pushed by bothČović and Dodik — as well as the removal of street names honoring Nazi figures and lo cal World War II-era collabora tors in the city of Mostar.

Čović has also been accused of ordering the use of slave labor from a prison in a fac tory in Mostar that he ran in the 1990s. He has denied the claim, but ofofresentativesrepsurvivorsthecamp wrote to the Israeli ambassador in Albania, Noah Gal Gendler, to criticize him over his sup port of Čović’s proposal.

“The Israeli embassy in Ti rana, which is also responsible for Bosnia and Herzegovina, issued a document in which it expresses the support (for) the preservation of the rights of the Jewish community in the coun try. The document was sent following a local initiative to change the election law and the fear that the implications of the discussion around this change might harm those rights,” the Israeli embassy’s statement said.Itdid not elaborate on how the bill would preserve the

Leaked memo shows Israeli support for law that keeps Jews out of leadership in Bosnia

“It is hard to fathom how the official policy of the State of Israel could be to welcome the discrimination of Jews in not being able to hold office in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Bosnian Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic, according to Haaretz. “The proposed elector al legislation would cement the current discriminatory system towards minorities in Bosnia.”

“The State of Israel supports the recent steps taken by vari ous institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which benefit all its citizens and its Jewish com munity, and hopes that these steps are an expression of a welcoming trend,” the state mentHowever,reads. both Čović and Dodik have been criticized for their denial of atrocities that were perpetrated by mem bers of their respective ethnic groups during the Bosnian war, including the Srebrenica Genocide, which took place in an area under Dodik’s juris diction in the Bosnian-Serb enclave, Republicka Srpska.

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Now a leaked document from the Israeli embassy in Tirana, Albania, which also serves Bosnia and Herze govina, shows that the Israeli government backs the contro versial“Theplan.readiness and propos als of the Croatian side, which arrived during the negotiations on changes to the electoral law, are welcome,” read the Israeli memo, which began circulating Aug.While8. most ethnonationalist parties support the proposi tion, many prominent Bosnian politicians do not, and the leak created a political storm.

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As a result, Jews and other national minorities that fall outside of those three groups cannot run for offices ranging from the tripartite presidency to the upper chamber of Bosnia’s parliament — the House of Peoples — as well as countless other local roles.

Though only around 900 Jews live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the majority of whom reside in Sarajevo, it is estimated that at least 400,000 residents, including Bosnia’s 60,000 Roma citi zens, are barred from high level political roles under this system. As part of the Dayton Peace Accords agree ment that ended the 1990s war, Bosnia’s govern ment is also overseen by a High Representative, an unelected official traditionally selected from the European Union who wields broad power. The Office of the High Representative pro posed the new law in July, which would redis tribute the ethnic representatives amongst the country’s cantons, or districts. Previously, each canton elected a representa tive from each ethnicity; the new system would move ethnic representatives from cantons with less than 3 percent of a given ethnicity to another one with a majority, consolidating their power in those areas. In the mid-2000s, Jakob Finci, president of the Bosnian Jewish community, and Dervo Sejdic, a Roma leader in Bosnia, disputed Bosnia’s politi cal system in a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights. The court ruled in their favor, placing full political rights for minorities as a requirement for Bosnia’s candidacy as an EU member state — but no progress has been made to implement those rights in the years since the ruling. Nearly 30 years after the end of the Bosnian war, many citizens also feel that the age when local politics being divided on ethnic lines should be a thing of the past, and that moving towards a civic national identity as “BosnianHerzegovinians,” along with EU membership, should be the goal. The proposed bill would serve to further ce ment the current system, moving Bosnia farther from EU Despiteacceptance.thespat,Israel and Bosnia Herze govina have had relatively warm relations since the Muslim-majority nation was solidified as an independent state in 1995.

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In my Orthodox social circles, where larger fami lies are a badge of honor, few topics are considered more taboo than abortion. But I know of too many cases to deny that it happens: One friend had to ter minate the fetus of a twin that was posing a threat to the completion of her pregnancy, as well as her own life. Another, who had just given birth a few months earlier, experienced an unplanned pregnancy — this time with debilitating physical and psychological side effects that severely limited her ability to care for herself, let alone sustain her nursing infant. Yet another was diagnosed with a life-threatening ill ness, whose medical treatment was incompatible with a viable pregnancy.

As a boy growing up in Mannheim, Germany, there was a Jewish orphanage run by a Mr. and Mrs. Moritz Oppen heimer in a homelike setting. My dear mother, knowing the daily routine of the Jewish orphans, always reminded me to bring several of the boys to our home for dinner so they would get a good, home-cooked meal, especially on Shabbat. I remember one of the boys named Arnie Lip schitz. On Oct. 10, 1940, after my family had found tem porary sanctuary in another country, Arnie and 15 other orphans, along with their caretakers, were deported by the Nazis to Camp Gurs in France. Those who survived there until 1942 were again tragically transported to Auschwitz where they were murdered. So ends the first story. My conscience was recently awakened by the unpro voked war by Russia against Ukraine. I bitterly recall that some 80 years earlier, on Sept. 29 and 30 of 1941, almost 33,000 of the Ukrainian Jewish residents were shot by the Nazis after being taken to the ravines of Babyn Yar near Kiev with the assistance of the local nationalist militia, who treated the Jews with particular cruelty. When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, there lived approxi mately 35,000 Jews in Odessa, including 125 orphans cared for by Mishpacha Chabad. A few days later, at the decision of Rabbi Avraham Wolff, the president of the Jewish community of Odessa, 106 Jewish children under the age of 18 were evacuated on five buses. Yehuda Teichtal, the chairman of Berlin’s Chabad, made arrangements for sheltering the orphans and caretakers who had traveled the long and arduous 1,050 miles to Berlin, a 52-hour trip. The children needed special diplomatic visa arrange ments to go through the borders of Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Everything was done for them as long as it was anticipated, such as kosher meals, and to make the bus trip as bearable and comfort able as possible. Yarmulkes of all colors gave the schoolage boys a peculiar look at the various stops that were needed along the route. All received an incredibly friendly welcome from Berlin’s Jewish community, even with pres ents for the little ones. The 120 adult caretakers followed several days later, on additional buses. The evacuation of the orphans from Odessa was un dertaken because no one knew what Putin’s ideas were regarding the future of the Jewish orphans. There were rumors to bring the orphans back to Russia. In the mean time, the majority of Jewish adults left Odessa for more stable and safe countries. Chabad of Berlin undertook the necessary appeal for volunteers and funds to under write the cost estimated at $125,000 only for the trip of the children. To provide a new and meaningful Jewish life for the orphans required immediate fund raising by Chabad, which has reached the substantial amount of $500,000. My contribution is on the way. This is my story about two different Jewish orphanages, one with a tragic ending, the second on a happier track being continued.

As an Orthodox Jewish woman who teaches Jew ish law, I am well-versed in the multitude of Torah, Mishnah Talmud, and pertinent rabbinic sources on this subject. These texts recognize the halachic reality that when a pregnancy endangers the mother’s life, or would certainly damage her mental or physical health, an abortion is either required or permitted by the necessity of preserving the mother’s life and health. What’s more, when Jewish law determines that a pregnancy must be aborted to save the moth er’s life, the supporting religious texts make the case without casting aspersions or judgment, and certain ly not considering it to be a sin. Jewish law takes very seriously the sin of sham ing — to the point of comparing it to taking a life. To cite a few examples, the Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia 58b, states that “Anyone who shames another in public, it is as though he were spilling blood.” In the same tractate, page 59a, the text doubles down on this, arguing that it is better to throw oneself into a furnace, rather than embarrass another. Ethics of the Fathers 3:11, reinforces the point again: “One who causes his fellow’s face to blush in public… even though he has to his credit (knowledge of the) Torah and good deeds, he has not a share in the world to come.”Yetmale-led rabbinic organizations, and even well-meaning rabbis who have supported women who terminated pregnancies, shame women by suggesting their decision to terminate a pregnancy is “elective,” or contributes to a “social ethic that devalues life” — rather than a conscious choice by women to follow their religious convictions and maintain their human dignity. It’s time to make space for women who have ex perienced abortion care. We can do this by encourag ing our clergy to share their compassionate pasto ral experiences with community members (while maintaining confidentiality). When we do talk about abortion, we should place it in the context of ma ternal health care — a stark contrast to the common parlance referencing abortion as a devastating choice worthy of our pity or contempt. We should signal to women that, should they choose to speak openly about their experiences, they can feel safe doing so.

Daphne Lazar Price is executive director of Jofa, the Jew ish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She is also an adjunct professor of Jewish Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Robert B. Kahn lives in Kettering.

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In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling – which overturned Roe v. Wade and deprived women of the constitutional right to privacy that includes the right to terminate a pregnancy — this ancient wisdom is more urgent than ever. Orthodox institutions and organizations that are being led by women know this. Yet many of our male leaders are cynically and willfully ignoring women’s experiences, as well as what Judaism says, about the sin of shame.

Before Roe was overturned, I attended the Jew ish Rally for Abortion Justice in Washington, D.C. A woman at the podium announced she had personally experienced abortion. She invited others in the crowd who had made the same choice to stand up with her. The crowd erupted supportively. It was liberating for her, for everyone who stood, and for everyone who witnessed it. Orthodox women deserve no less.

I have long been a keeper of women’s stories, many of which relate to fertility and reproductive choices, experiences generally shrouded in secrecy.

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While women are only now starting to share their stories, too many still feel compelled to keep their experiences a secret. These women’s lives and qual ity of life were saved by Roe v. Wade, handed down by the court in 1973. Yet that ruling never cleared away the stain of shame that opponents of abortion persist in attaching to women who insist on their bodily autonomy and privacy rights. This is clearly still true in the Orthodox community. It is also still true in the Jewish community more broadly. It’s the reason National Council of Jewish Women created Rabbis for Repro — a group of Jewish clergy that works to normalize conversation about abortion in Reform and Conservative synagogues and others that aren’t affiliated with a broader movement. The stigma also lingers in broader society. Even those leading the national fight for abortion rights still struggle to tell these stories. This is largely a function of the dissemination of the nefarious trope of “abortion on demand,” according to which women use abortion as a form of last-minute birth control. All the data — and there is much of it, show ing that most women who have abortions do not fit this profile — debunk this myth. Yet it persists, and too many male Orthodox rab bis are propagating it. In “welcoming” the Dobbs de cision, for example, Agudath Israel wrote that it “has long been on the record as opposing Roe v. Wade’s legalization of ‘abortion on demand.’” Other maleled rabbinic groups made similar statements. Instead of serving their own community and centering their positions around women’s experiences, these men aligned themselves with the unmistakably antiShaming women who have abortions is not a Jewish ethic halachic (Jewish legal) approaches of their Evangelical and Catholic counterparts on the “religious right.” Now that Roe is gone, we can no longer fool ourselves that we have the luxury of silence. We in the Orthodox community have a special mission in this regard because the taboos in our culture are so powerful and damaging, because male rabbis who speak in our name perpetuate and even strengthen them, and because our teachings on shame empower us to speak, and to act.

While I am honored to be trusted with these per sonal accounts, I look forward to, and am working toward, a time when women will be able to speak more freely about their lives.

I have reason to hope that this day will come, because Judaism offers many powerful lessons about the corrosive and dehumanizing nature of shame.

By Robert B. Kahn Since my formative years, my conscience has been be coming stronger and stronger, and has perhaps guided me to make decisions with a combination of heart and mind that have enabled me not to become a victim of the Holo caust. After many diversions from my intended goals, my conscience has channeled my actions into a successful and rewarding life. I have discovered, almost like a law, that I must obey the voice of my conscience, which has plagued me for several days now about the similarities between recent events and to those of the past.

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Young Adults Chabad Young Professionals Shabbat Under the Stars: Fri., Sept. 16, 6:30 p.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. Register at chabaddayton.com.

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Beth Jacob Classes: Sundays, 2 p.m.: Conversions w. Rabbi Agar. Tuesdays, 7 p.m.: Weekly Parsha w. Rabbi Agar. Thurs days, 7 p.m.: Jewish Law w. Rabbi Agar. 7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. 937-274-2149.

THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • SEPTEMBER 2022 PAGE 19 The concept of “when life begins” is defined differently based on many factors, including culture, religion, ideology, and even politics. JCRC’s commitment to EDUCATE-ADVOCATE-ACT encourages us to first understand, from Jewish perspectives, what our teachings tell us about when life begins. Join JCRC’s Community Conversation as we learn together. SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 UPCOMING EVENTS Connect with us! Check out our events. For more information, see our calendar at jewishdayton.org Thursday, September 1, 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. — Community Conversation: When Does Life Begin: Jewish Perspectives Sunday, September 18, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. — JFS Drive-Thru Mitzvah Mission EDUCATE-ADVOCATE-ACTJCRCCommunityConversations RABBI BODNEY-HALASZKAREN NOCHUMRABBIMANGEL MARCY L. PAUL PhD BONNIE BEAMAN RICE When Does Life Begin: Jewish Perspectives Please join us for a virtual conversation. Thursday, September 1, 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. RSVP required to receive link: Jewishdayton.org or 937-610-1555 Speakers Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz, Temple Israel; Rabbi Aubrey Glazer, Beth Abraham Synagogue; Rabbi Nochum Mangel, Chabad of Greater Dayton; and Bonnie Beaman Rice, Retired Magistrate. Moderator Marcy L. Paul, PhD Event Committee Ellen Holroyd, Vicki Minor, Marcy L. Paul, PhD, Bonnie Beaman Rice AUBREYRABBIGLAZER September JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON & ITS AGENCIES

Thursday, December 1, 7:00 p.m. Jen Maxfield, “More After the Break; A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories”

Thursday, October 20, 7:00 p.m. Opening Night Rita Rudner, “My Life In Dog Years”

Chen earned his B.A. in business and his M.B.A. while in Israel, and an M.A. from Brandeis University, where he specialized in teaching languages and developing anything chocolate, playing chess and ping-pong, cooking, and spending time with friends on the lake. He has dedicated his career to Jewish communal work and is excited to represent and showcase Dayton to our broader community in the U.S. and in Israel.

Monday, October 24, 7:00 p.m. Wayne Hoffman, “The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder”

1. Life-long learning and critical self-reflection. Love your neighbor as yourself 2. Recognize and change power imbalances within our own organizations and our larger community. Justice, justice you shall pursue 3. Institutional accountability within our own organization and our larger community. Do not stand idly by The mission of the Dayton Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is to ensure the growth, resilience, and safety of the Jewish people in our community and nation, Israel, and throughout the world. The JCRC works in collaboration with the greater Dayton community to foster cultural humility and advocate for a just, democratic, and pluralistic mosaic society.

Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m. Andrew Lawler, “Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested

Sunday, December 4, 7:00 p.m. Tom Dugan, “Wiesenthal” Special EventSunday, March 5, 7:00 p.m. Dan Grunfeld, “By the Grace of the Game” Check Jewishdayton.org for information on locations and other important details, or contact Helen Jones at 937-610-5513 or hjones@jfgd.net.

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Thursday, October 27, 7:00 p.m. Brad Graber, “Boca By Moonlight” Sunday, October 30, 4:00 p.m. Sharona Hoffman, “Aging With a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow”

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Monday, November 7, 7:00 p.m. Ellen Frankel, “The Deadly Scrolls: Book One in the Jerusalem Mysteries”

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Wednesday, November 16, 6:00 p.m. Cathy Barrow, “Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish”

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Bring a flashlight to explore the six-acre corn maze, enjoy the children's play area, cruise around the racetrack on pedal go-carts, and roast marshmallows around the campfire with friends. Hayrides will be running from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Everyone will receive a pumpkin to take home! There will be a special activity to bring meaning to the Jewish High Holidays and to wish each other a Shanah Tovah U'metukah (a good, and sweet new year.) No cost to attend! Please RSVP at jewishdayton.org/ events by Wednesday, September 28 Questions? Contact Kate Elder at kelder@jfgd.net or Meryl Hattenbach at mhattenbach@jfgd.net.

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PAGE 22 THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • SEPTEMBER 2022 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES of GREATER DAYTON Back by popular demand, JFS is hosting another Drive-Thru Mitzvah Mission! Help us feed guests at St. Vincent de Paul’s shelters and provide wish-list items for Care House: new, medium-sized stuffed animals, board games, children’s picture books, journals, puzzles (50 pieces or less), and blankets. Prepare frozen, unbaked macaroni and cheese casseroles following the required recipe and directions below. JFS will take your donations and provide you with a sweet treat in return. If you have questions, please contact Jacquelyn Archie, JFS Administrative Assistant, at jarchie@jfgd.net or at 937-610-1555 1-1/2 lbs (24 oz) elbow 2macaronilbscheese, melted 1 can (10.5 oz) cream of celery soup 2-1/2 cups milk Cook macaroni and drain. Melt cheese separately and add to macaroni. Add milk and soup. Mix well. Pour into sprayed pan. Cover loosely and place in refrigerator until completely cooled. Then cover tightly with sturdy foil lid and freeze. Casserole should be frozen for 36 hours. RECIPE: Sunday, September 18, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. JCCJFS JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DAYTON ENDOWMENT FUND IN MEMORY OF › Shirlee Gilbert Masha Kisel and Sam Dorf UNITED JEWISH CAMPAIGN IN MEMORY OF › Steve Cohen Ellen and Alvin Stein JOAN AND PETER WELLS AND REBECCA LINVILLE FAMILY, CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND IN HONOR OF › Felix Garfunkel’s birthday › Joan Knoll’s birthday Joan and Peter Wells PJ LIBRARY IN RECOGNITION OF › Ruthe Meadow for receiving her award Marla and Stephen Harlan RESILIENCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN MEMORY OF › Dan Weckstein Dena Briskin JOE BETTMAN MEMORIAL TZADIK FUND IN HONOR OF › Melissa and Tim Sweeny’s 40th anniversary Joan and Peter Wells LINDA RUCHMAN MEMORIAL FUND IN MEMORY OF › Sheldon Whitman › Nathan H. Miller Judy and Marshall Ruchman JEWISH FAMILY DISCRETIONARYSERVICESFUND IN HONOR OF › Julie and Rich Kantor on the birth of twin granddaughters Beverly and Jeff Kantor IN MEMORY OF › Debra Saidel Robert Kahn Karen LouisaLinderScarpelli Dreety and Philip Dreety IN MEMORY OF › Rob Weinman Robert Kahn JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FUND IN RECOGNITION OF › Marilyn and Larry Klaben for receiving their award Susan and Joe Greenberg IN MEMORY OF › Debra Saidel Cheryl and Rick Carne FEDERATIONFOUNDATION Legacies, Tributes, & Memorials JEWISH CENTERCOMMUNITY of DAYTONGREATER JEWISHSERVICESFAMILY of GREATER DAYTON FEDERATIONJEWISH of GREATER DAYTON JEWISH FOUNDATION of GREATER DAYTON Life Legacy& Wishing you a sweet healthyand New Year. September JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON & ITS AGENCIES

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EMT Mindi Wynne, who just became a member of the National Conference of Shom rim Societies — an umbrella organization for chapters of Jews involved in law enforce ment, firefighting, or emergency medical services — is planning to establish a Shomrim chap ter in Ohio. “With everything happening in the world today, it never hurts to have some unity among each other,” she says. “There currently are no chapters in Ohio so it wouldn’t be limited to Dayton.” There are 20 Shomrim chapters across the United States. The Shomrim motto is, “So that Police, Fire, and Public Safety Officers of the Jewish Faith May Join Together for the Welfare of All.” To join in, email her at mindi_wynne@ Afteryahoo.com.53years in Dayton, Can tor Jerome Kopmar — cantor emeritus of Beth Abraham Synagogue —and his wife, Goldye, have moved to Te aneck, N.J. to be close to their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. “What we experienced in our 53 years in Dayton are without question the most important in our lives. They are treasured years that make up the fabric of who we are,” Cantor Kopmar wrote in Beth Abraham’s August news letter. Ian Gossett, son of Judy Rosen Gossett and the late Randy Gossett, is now a full-time lecturer at The Ohio State University. He teaches terror ism, criminal justice, research methods, and sociology. The Contemporary Dayton is presenting its Biennial Mem ber & Student Invitational in memory of founding member and artist Raymond L. Must and longtime member and edu cator Carol Nathanson. Both taught at Wright State for three decades and passed away in July. The exhibit runs through Sept. Dayton4. Art Institute Education Curator Casey Goldman-Davis tells us the DAI is recruiting new museum guide volunteers. Applications are due by Sept. 30. Apply at org/museumguides.daytonartinstitute.

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2. Reach out to loved ones Elul is a month to consider our con nections to our spiritual lives as well as to friends, family, and community. During the pandemic, so many social connections have been interrupted, and many, many people experienced isola tion on a level they had never experi enced before. If you have a friend you’ve lost touch with and have been meaning to check in on, this is a great time to send a text or email asking how they are and let ting them know you’ve been thinking of them.

4. Reassess your schedule One thing I’ve learned about myself over the pandemic is that I thrive with more downtime. As such, I am entering this year with the intention and aware ness that becoming “too busy” — even with good things — takes me away from feeling my most grounded and healthiest, and it also creates unneces sary pressure in my family. Use Elul to consider what you can take on this year, and what you can say no — or not yet — to.

5. Include your family Rosh Hashanah probably feels very far away. But you can bring your children into your Elul practice in fun, gentle ways. If you’re out enjoying nature, for example, take a moment to mention Rosh Hashanah, the world’s birthday, and invite them to share what they’re most grateful for in the natural world.Bring out your favorite Rosh Hasha nah books and start reading them. If your kids enjoy art, start making some homemade cards to send to family and friends.

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1. Make a special playlist Music is one of the most immediate ways that I access my deepest feel ings and spiritual connections. I make playlists for occasions like holidays and birthdays, and I listen to them while I’m doing chores like walking my dog, fold ing laundry or chopping vegetables for dinner — essentially, times when I can tap into the music’s energy and mes sage. I created a Spotify playlist for Elul with songs that stir my soul and help me think about the big questions.

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3. Embrace free writing Writing is one of the practices that I use to connect to what I call my inner wisdom — the voice that I don’t always hear when I’m busy with the demands of parenting and work. I take 10 min utes several times a week to do some free writing, during which I sit down with my journal or a blank Google Doc and just write about whatever comes to mind.Ialways feel much better and more connected after those sessions. The easiest way to do this is to schedule a few writing times into your calendar over the next few weeks. Then, open a blank document and use prompts like: “This year I hope to…” “One thing I’ve learned this year is…” or “My prayer for the world is…”

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The Jewish month of Elul is here. It’s a time leading up to Rosh Hashanah to tune in to our spiritual concerns, reflect on our dreams and challenges over the year that’s gone by, and consider areas for change and growth in the new year. I didn’t grow up with an awareness of a month of preparation leading up to the High Holy Days. But in discover ing Elul as an adult, I embrace this time for spiritual reflection, and I’ve noticed how it’s deepened my experience of the holidayTakingseason.alittle time and space for spiritual practice can give us renewed strength, energy, and self-compassion as we navigate this new year. Here are five ways we can make some time and space for Elul reflection this year.

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Beth Jacob Congregation RabbiTraditionalLeibel Agar Sundays & Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. 7020 N. Main St., Dayton. 937-274-2149. bethjacobcong.org

Temple Anshe Emeth 320ReformCaldwell St., Piqua. Sun., Sept. 25, 8 p.m. and Mon., Sept. 26, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Samantha Schauvaney. In person & via Zoom. Contact Steve Shu chat, 937-726-2116, ansheemeth@ gmail.com. ansheemeth.org

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Erev Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 25: 7:11 p.m. First Eve Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 26: 8:07 p.m. Shabbat, Sept. 30: 7:03 p.m.

The “Hey Allies” meme, which bears a badge indicating it originated with an Orthodox social justice organization, fails on all three criteria.

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Temple Sholom RabbiReformCary Kozberg Fridays, 6 p.m. 2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield. templesholomoh.com937-399-1231. Chabad of Greater Dayton Rabbi Nochum Mangel Associate Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Youth & Prog. Dir. Rabbi Levi Simon. Beginner educational service Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave. chabaddayton.com937-643-0770. Yellow Springs Havurah AntiochIndependentCollege Rockford Chapel. Contact Len Kramer, 937-5724840 or len2654@gmail.com.

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Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year Sept. 26-27/1-2 Tishri Celebration of the beginning of the Jewish calendar year. Begins the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of repentance and prayer that ends on Yom Kippur. Celebrated with fes tive meals, including apples dipped in honey.

First, it doesn’t need to be said. Few Jews in the United States observe the Jewish holi days in ways that clash with their work commitments. Few er than half of America’s Jews fast on Yom Kippur. Many of those who do fast also abstain from work that day and at least the first day of Rosh Hashanah. But it’s a much smaller minor ity that won’t work on the first two and last two days of Sukkot. Suggesting otherwise betrays our own diversity. Second, it doesn’t need to be said by those saying it. Actu ally, let me rephrase: Those saying it — shouldn’t. What gives traditionally observant How not to ask for time off for the holidays

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By Eli Gottlieb, JTA “Hey Allies: Please don’t schedule meetings or events on the Jewish holidays!” So says a meme that has circulated widely before the dates for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Simchat Torah. Seems like a pretty harmless and potentially helpful mes sage to post on social media in the run-up to the High Holi days,I’mright?notso sure. I, too, have often had to seek special consideration from employers and colleagues for my religious observance. Indeed, being able to live my life by the rhythms of the Hebrew calendar with out having to explain myself constantly or play catch-up on lost work days is one of many reasons I moved to Israel from the United Kingdom in my 20s. However, as a scholar of identity, a builder of pluralistic institutions, and an adviser to organizations on issues of di versity, I believe posting such messages can do more harm thanFormergood.Late Show host Craig Ferguson has a great rule about when and when not to speak. Ask yourself three questions, he suggests: “Does this need to be said? Does this need to be said by me? And does this need to be said by me now?”

By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz Temple Beth Sholom, Middletown Although it may be hard to believe, September is right in front of us! Do you know what that means? That means that the football season has just begun, and the baseball season is coming to an end soon. It also means that it is time to pre pare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The first connec tion between baseball and the High Holidays that comes to my mind is the stories of those Jewish ballplayers who chose to/or not to play on Yom Tov, both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For example, one of the most famous of these stories: in 1965, Sandy Koufax refused to pitch in the first game of the World Series because it would require him to play on Yom Kippur. Instead of Koufax, Don Drysdale pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he gave up seven runs in two and 2/3 innings.“Ibet right now you wish I was Jewish, too,” Drysdale said when the manager came to pull him from the game. There are many similar stories over the years; Shawn Green in 2001 and Hank Greenberg in 1934, who each chose not to play on the major Jewish holidays, while Harry Eisenstadt in 1935, and Eddie Feinberg in 1938, did play, with very poor results. This is just the tip of the list. As the years go on, there are frequently players who need to decide what is the right choice for themselves. Similarly, there Rabbi Haviva Horvitz are stories of rabbis and com munities who have applauded the players’ choices to go to the synagogue rather than the ballpark.Inaddition to this connec tion between the High Holidays and baseball, I would like to offer another correlation between the beginning of the year and that of the sports season. On opening day of the baseball season, each player, no matter the previous year’s re cord, starts with zeros: zero at bats, zero hits, zero runs, a batting av erage of zero. It is a fresh start and a clean slate. The same can be said with regard to Rosh Hashanah. We ask and pray for forgiveness and understanding, and then we look forward to the new year, full of potential andWhetherpossibilities.weare focusing on the year ahead in our personal lives, the school year that has just begun, community pro gramming, or anything else that is being planned for the next 12 months, we are full of anticipation, enthusiasm, and hope.What do you have planned for this coming year? Will you be taking time for yourself and focusing on self-improvement projects? Perhaps you are thinking of going back to school? Maybe you want to spend more time with family members and loved ones? Will you be fixing up your house, looking for a new job, or simply working to find a greater sense of fulfillment with the routines you have already established?MayIsuggest that you take some time to reach out within your community. Due to the Covid outbreak, it has become easy to stay at home. When was the last time you attended services at your synagogue? Or volunteered at a soup kitchen? At my congregation, Temple Beth Sholom in Middletown, for example, we are ex cited about our busy schedule of activities for the rest of the calendar year. I have no doubt that there are many wonder ful, stimulating, and inviting activities at a synagogue near you! It is time to return to the building, time to reconnect with the community, time to once again be a part of some thingWhethergreat! you choose to join with a congregation that is new to you, return to the familiar ity of a few years ago, or you find something else that suits your personal needs, now is the perfect time to begin. It is easy to wait for an appropriate beginning date, whatever that may be. So often we begin diets on a Monday or wait until the first of the month to start a However,project.there is no good reason to hesitate and stall. The slate is clean. The future is ahead of us. Make today your Opening Day. Set your goals, make your plans, and get things started. This way, when you look back next year at all that you have accomplished this year, you will be pleased with the choices you have made...or have a new clean slate to start again.

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Jews the right to speak in the name of America’s less-observant majority? Were a company or organization to black out the 11 dates listed in the meme, it might lead “allies” to wonder why so few of their Jewish colleagues are taking these days off. And that risks exposing any Jew who works as usual on any of the listed dates as somehow less Jewish, or less serious about their Jewishness, than those who observe the holidays.Inany case, those who do observe these holidays have many better ways to make the relevant accommodations in ways that don’t lump Jews together or pry them apart. They can arrange with bosses and colleagues to resched ule, make up lost hours, or use vacation time. In the unlikely event of such requests being denied, they can appeal to official guardians of employee rights, from HR departments to U.S. courts, which are highly accommodating of religious needs. I would also argue that having to raise these issues from time to time — and sometimes make difficult choices — is part of what it means to be an observant Jew, and in some ways is as core to our contemporary identity as the holidays themselves.Buttheproblem is not just who is doing the saying; it’s also whom they are addressing. In the parlance of our times, “allies” is a dog whistle to the woke who all too often see Jews as part of the problem rather than the solution — as a White, privileged class rather than an ethnic minority in need of protection or support. Worse, by appealing to non-Jews for special con sideration on grounds of diversity and inclusion while failing to respect internal Jewish diversity and implicitly excluding non-observant Jews, Third, it doesn’t need to be said now. Unique ly among the biblical festivals, Rosh Hashanah does not commemorate a momentous event in the life of the Jewish people, such as the Exodus or the Revelation at Sinai. Rather it commemo rates the world’s creation and God’s judgment of humanity in its entirety. In other words, whereas all other feasts and fasts on the Hebrew calendar are particularist, Rosh Hashanah is universalist. It is, therefore, a time to reflect on what we have in common, not what separates us; to focus on rights and duties we share with all of human ity rather than on securing special treatment for ourselves.Sohow’s this instead: After making your own arrangements for the upcoming holidays, ask yourself whether there’s anything you can do to make it easier for other Jewish colleagues to observe them in the ways they prefer. Conversa tions will likely be more effective than social me dia posts. But if you do choose to post, consider something like this: “Dear friends: Over the next few weeks, many Jews will be observing holidays in a variety of ways. Please be understanding and helpful when a Jewish colleague takes off on some or all of those days, and let us know how we can recipro cate when you observe special days of your own. As Rosh Hashanah teaches us, we’re all in this together.”

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In Jewish folklore, there is one major character associated with hope: Elijah the Prophet. It is said that Elijah was transported to heaven in a fiery chariot, but he never died. And while his heavenly task will be to herald the coming of the messianic era, Elijah sometimes returns to earth to help those in need, to teach us how we can help heal the world, and to remind us of hope. Driving Elijah. Cardiologist Blair Grubb had already expe rienced a challenging day, and he was on parenting pickup duty. As he hustled his young son into the car, an elderly man hunched over a andapproachedwalkeraskedfor a ride home from the werepiano“SurecallysonBlair’sthejustcenter,communityhavingmissedlastbus.youngenthusiastiresponded,wecan!”Althoughlessonsimminent, they were soon on the road, chatting non-stop. When it came out that Blair was upset at the loss of his grant funding, the elderly man inquired about his research, asking several insightful questions. Later that evening Blair’s son announced, “Maybe that was Elijah!”Several weeks later, the medical college received an anonymous grant of $10,000 for Blair’s research. Incredulous, Blair thought, “No. It couldn’t be.” And yet, no one at the community center remembered the old man, and he never appeared again. His son’s response? “See, Dad? We were driving Elijah!” Where is Elijah? One year shortly before Passover, Simon Fishkoff approached his rabbi with a question. “For 40 Seders, I’ve opened the door to Elijah, but I’ve never seen him. What exactly am looking for?” After a moment, the rabbi responded, “You know the Yakovich family who have just immigrated here from Rus sia? Their apartment is bare, and they can hardly care for themselves. Take everything they need for Seder to their apartment and celebrate each night of the holiday with them. I guarantee you will see Elijah walking in their door.” After the holiday, Simon returned to his rabbi. “I did everything you told me, and it was wonderful, but I never saw Elijah!”Therabbi smiled. “Elijah did come, but of course you couldn’t see him.” Holding up a mirror he said, “This was the face of Elijah.” In the words of Rabbi Sacks, hope calls us to “struggle against the world that is, in the name of the world that could be, should be, but is not yet.”

CandaceKwiatekR. A devoted husband and father of seven, Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz writes a weekly Torah commentary and runs a mar riage advice blog. Every day, he welcomes friends and strangers into his home for study, prayer, and conversation. His original song, Shine a Little Light, went viral on YouTube, also the site of his inspirational video, I’m Yitzi Hurwitz And I Know that I Matter. His accomplishments are especially noteworthy be cause Rabbi Yitzi is completely paralyzed except for his eyes. What keeps him going? In a word:AccordingHope. to psychologist Shane Lopez, hope is “the belief that the future will be better than the present, along with the belief that you have the power to make it so.” Hope is seeing possibilities and taking action, not just wish ful thinking or even optimism. “Optimistic people see the glass as half full, but hopeful people ask how they can fill the glass full,” quips hope science researcher John Parsi. Research into the nature of hope has led to some startling conclusions. Hope is measur able and learnable; it is not an

Studies also note its contribu tion to greater happiness, better physical and mental health, and overallWhilewellbeing.onlyrecently noticed by science, hope is in fact an ancient gift of the Jews. In all early civilizations, human des tiny was controlled by the stars, blind fate, or divine decree. In later eras, it was nature, economic interests, unconscious drives, or genetic codes. From the beginning, howev er, Judaism understood destiny as the result of humans’ free will choices and actions. In a word,Revealedhope. to Moses at the burning bush, God’s descrip tion of his own name, “Ehyeh asher ehyeh, I will be what I will be,” looks to the future, extends endless possibilities, offers hope.From Genesis through Chronicles, the biblical narra tive is an ongoing saga of sto ries left incomplete, of destinies not yet fulfilled, of possibility andAlthoughhope. brimming with unrelenting foes and unlikely odds, Jewish history is also a call to Exiledhope.inBabylonia, the Jews created the Talmud, one of the most significant religious texts in the Expelledworld.from Jerusalem, her Holy Temple ravaged and ru ined, the Jews founded centers for learning and gave birth to rabbinicExcludedJudaism.from propertyownership and trades, medi eval Jews focused on excelling as merchants, moneylenders, andMuchartisans.later, Jews resurrected the language of the prophets and of prayer, restored He brew as a living language and — once again sovereign in the Promised Land — chose for their anthemnational Hatik vah, The Hope inanSacks,RabbiJew,”filledembracedtraditions,liefs,discardonlytheThroughout,Jewsnotrefusedtotheirbevalues,andbutlivingwithhope.“TobeawroteJonathan“istobeagentofhopeaworldserially threatened by despair. Every ritual, every mitzvah, every syllable of the Jewish story, every element of Jewish law, is a protest against escapism, resignation or the blind acceptance of fate.”

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The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz. Joey intends to spend the summer at his grandparents’ Atlantic City Boardwalk hotel earning arcade prize tickets to trade in for a camera. But when the king of Steel Pier, mobster Artie Bishop, offers him a job, Joey is delighted. Someone is finally taking him seriously! But the job comes with a price. Steel Pier is a coming-of-age story about family, am bition, and character, and the kinds of decisions we make when these elements collide. I’m Yitzi Hurwitz, and I Know That I Matter by CTeener, trait. Lopez reports that hope is “the leading indicator of success in relationships, aca demics, career, and business.”

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By Rachel Ringler, The Nosher We asked five noted chefs and food writers what they will serve at home to mark the Jewish New Year, and (spoiler alert) they all plan to weave symbols of sweetness — hallmarks of the holiday — into their menus. Long live apples and honey!Butthe apples may be in the form of a confit, and the honey might be replaced by silan (date syrup). And in place of brisket and Manischewitz, consider grilled vegetables and an aperitif.

Adeena Sussman Israel-based food writer Adeena Suss man, author of Sababa, will serve a sticky, sheet pan chicken made with honey followed by her grandmother’s honey cake. To kick off the holiday meal, her Pomegroni — like a Negroni, but with fresh pomegranate juice substituted for Campari. Pomegranates are in season in Israel in September, and are often incorporated into the holiday meal.

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Itamar Srulovich London-based Itamar Srulovich — podcast host, cookbook author, and cofounder of the Honey & Co. mini-empire — holds an “orphans’ Rosh Hashanah” each year with his wife and partner, Sarit Packer, for friends who don’t have a New Year celebration of their“Oneown.thing we never miss out on is apples and honey,” said Srulovich. The couple samples at least a dozen types of honey and several varieties of apples. Srulovich offers a recipe for grilled pumpkin, apples, and chestnuts that he discovered during his travels in Turkey, cooked on an outdoor grill (or charred in the oven).

Pomegroni Yields two cocktails 6 oz. (¾ cup) pomegranate juice 2 oz. (¼ cup) sweet white vermouth or Lillet 2 oz. (¼ cup) dry gin Generous splash Angostura bitters Blood orange or other orange wheels 1. In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, vigorously shake the pomegranate juice, vermouth, gin, and bitters. Pour into two What

Honey Cake with Apple Confit by Michael Solomonov ice-filled rocks glasses, add more bitters to taste, and garnish with orange wheels. The recipe can be multiplied (minus the ice) and stored in a pitcher for up to one week and can be freshened with more bitters as needed.

Reproduced from Chasing Smoke: Cook ing Over Fire Around the Levant by Sarit Packer & Itamar Srulovich (2021, Pavilion) Serves four as a starter or six as a side 1 small pumpkin or 2 small onion

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Grilled Pumpkins, Apples & Chestnuts

Michael Solomonov Solomonov — chef, restau rateur and cookbook author, known for extolling and prepar ing Israeli food — will return to his roots this year with his mom’s Honey Cake with Apple Confit. It’s a classic honey cake, moistened with brewed coffee and lots of honey, topped with an elegant apple confit, sweet ened with honey, cloves, and vanilla. The confit has savory applications, too. It’s great, he said, served with chopped liver. Honey Cake with Apple Confit Yields one loaf For the cake: 2 ½ cups all–purpose flour 2 heaping tsp. baking soda

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For the fish patties: 1 lb. red snapper fillets, no skin or bones 1 lb. flounder fillets, no skin or bones ½ white onion quartered, about ½ lb. 2 carrots peeled and roughly chopped, about ¼ lb. 3 ½eggscup matzah meal 2 tsp. kosher or sea salt, or to taste ½ tsp. ground white pepper, or to taste

For the red sauce: 3 Tbsp. safflower or corn oil ½ cup white onion, chopped 1 28-oz. can crushed toma 3toescups fish broth or water 2 Tbsp. ketchup 1 tsp. kosher or sea salt, or to taste ¼ tsp. ground white pepper or to taste 1 cup manzanilla olives stuffed with pimientos 8 pepperoncini peppers in vinegar brine (chiles güeros en escabeche), or more to 2tasteTbsp. capers To prepare the fish patty mixture: Rinse the red snapper and flounder fillets under a thin stream of cool water. Slice into smaller pieces and place in the food processor. Pulse for five to 10 seconds until fish is finely chopped but hasn’t turned into a paste.Turn fish mixture into a large mixing bowl. Then place the onion, carrots, eggs, matzah meal, salt, and white pepper into same bowl of the food processor. Process until smooth and turn into the fish mixture. Combine thoroughly. To prepare the red sauce: Heat the oil in a large cooking pot over medium-high heat. Add the chopped onion, and let it cook five to six min utes, stirring, until soft and translucent. Pour the crushed tomatoes into the pot, stir, and let the mix season and thicken for about six minutes. Incor porate three cups water, two tablespoons ketchup, salt, and white pepper. Give it a good stir and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and bring sauce to a gentle simmer. Continue to simmer while you roll the gefilte fish patties. Place a small bowl with lukewarm water to the side of the simmering tomato broth. Start making the patties. I like to make them about 3 inches long, 2 inches wide, and 1 inch high, in oval shapes. Wet your hands as necessary, so the fish mixture will not stick to your hands. As you make them, gently slide each patty into the sim mering broth. Make sure it is simmering and raise the heat to medium if necessary to keep a steadyOncesimmer.youfinish making the patties, cover the pot and bring the heat to low. Cook them cov ered for 25 minutes. Take off the lid, incorporate the manzanilla olives, pepperoncini peppers and capers. Give it a gentle stir and simmer uncovered for 20 more minutes, so the gefilte fish will be thoroughly cooked and the broth will have seasoned and thickened nicely.

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Mexican-Style Gefilte Fish

Pati Jinich Pati Jinich, cookbook author and host of Pati’s Mexican Table, will try new foods from different parts of the world. If you, too, are looking for something different, Jinich suggests you try her Veracruz gefilte fish. With a piquant, Mexican twist, it cele brates different culinary worlds colliding, inspired by Pati’s grandmother who arrived in Mexico at the port of Veracruz from Poland. Serve it hot with slices of challah and pickles.

the tray and place the pumpkin and apple slices on a hot grill to char for about three to four min utes on each side, then return them to the oily tray. Slit the chestnuts carefully with a sharp knife so they don’t explode, and place in a mesh tray or colander over the fire to roast. Shake the tray/colander every 30 seconds or so, till the skins crisp and start to open –about 12 to 14 minutes. Break the radicchio into sepa rate leaves, place on a large plat ter, and top with the slices of grilled pumpkin and apple. Peel the chestnuts and break them up, scattering the pieces all over the salad, then dress generously andToserve.cook without a BBQ: Roast the oiled, seasoned pumpkin in a hot oven at 430 degrees for about 20 minutes, then transfer to a griddle pan over a mediumhigh heat to char for three to four minutes each side. Griddle the oiled and seasoned apples on both sides for the same length of time. Roast the chestnuts in the oven for about 10 minutes until the skins start to open, but don’t forget to score them first.

Mexican-Style Gefilte Fish Yields 20 patties

1 cup sugar ½ tsp. salt pinch ground cinnamon 3 large eggs, lightly beaten 1 ¼ cups brewed coffee

1. For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. With a rack in the middle. Line two 5-by-9-inch loaf pans with oiled parchment paper. Com bine the flour and baking soda in a bowl and whisk well.

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5. Pour the batter over the apples in the baking dish. If needed, use a spat ula or spoon to smooth the batter over the top so it evenly covers the apples.

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3. In a large bowl using a hand mixer, or in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attach ment, combine the eggs and sugar. Alternatively, you can beat the eggs and sugar by hand using a whisk. Beat until the eggs are pale, fluffy, and have doubled in size, about three to four minutes. Add the vanilla extract and beat for one more minute. 4. Sift in half the flour and salt to the egg mixture and fold the dry ingredi ents into the batter. Sift in the remaining flour and salt, and fold them in until they are just incorporated. Be careful to gently fold in the dry ingredients and not to overmix the batter.

Dorie Greenspan Dorie Greenspan, food writer and cookbook author, isn’t sure she will prepare a holi day meal. But if she were, she knows exactly how she’d end it: with Szarlotka, a Polish apple cake that straddles the divide between pie and crumble. The crust, she says, “is delicious.”

The filling of apples and raisins are the flavors of Rosh Hasha nah to her. Polish Apple Cake 3-4 (1.5 lb.) medium apples, like Granny Smith juice of ½ a lemon 3 large eggs 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. vanilla extract ¼ tsp. salt 1 cup all-purpose flour powdered sugar, as needed 1. Preheat the oven to 350 de grees. Grease and line a 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper; you can also use a 9-inch round or square baking pan for this2.recipe.Peeland core the apples. Cut the apples into 1-inch piec es, about ¼-inch thick. Toss the apples in lemon juice, and then add them to the baking dish.

4. Cover the skillet tightly with foil, bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, and transfer to the oven. Bake until the apples are just tender, about one hour. Cool to room tem perature, transfer to a lidded container, and refrigerate until cold. Serve with the honey cake.

2. In a bowl of a stand mixer, combine the sugar, salt, cinnamon, eggs, coffee, honey, and oil. Mix on low speed until blended. Add the flour mixture and continue mixing just until combined. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared loaf pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. De crease the oven temperature to 2753.degrees.Forthe apples: Toss the apple slices with the sugar, honey, cinnamon, vanilla bean, and cloves. Arrange in a single layer in a large ovenproof skil let or baking pan. Add enough water to just cover the apples. Press a sheet of parchment onto the surface of the water.

For the apple confit: 3 apples, peeled and sliced thinly crosswise 1 cup sugar 1 Tbsp. honey 2 cinnamon sticks 1 vanilla bean, split 3 cloves

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The Ken Burns operation now tells the American angle of the Holocaust: The U.S. and the Holocaust, to be aired on PBS in September in three two-hour episodes. Major aspects of the story have been told before, but never in a project with the reach of a Burns effort. As in previous projects, Burns relies on the work of historians rather than emphasizing new discoveries. To make the point, he involves historians deeply in his presentations. One of the major works he relies on this time — one that is of special interest — is more recent. The general view Burns pres ents is widely if not universally embraced among historians who have done book-length works on America in the Holo caust. But if there is a limit to what will be new to the wellinformed, there is much to be said for reaching Burns’ general audience. Anybody who knows about the Ho locaust must wonder about the question “Where were the Allies?” How could this long-term horror have happened despite the people we think of as the good guys, not to mention that the good guys had the power necessary to win the war? Where was that power? This is too big a question to be left to histori cal seminars. It goes to what Americans think about their own country. The new scholarship mentioned above is Rebecca Erbelding’s Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Ef forts to Save the Jews of Europe (2018). The author, associated with the U.S. Holo caust Memorial Museum in Washing ton, asks us to embrace four somewhat conflicting truths at the same time: 1. American and Western efforts to prevent or minimize the Holocaust were, in the big picture, pathetic. 2. There are some reasons that ameliorate the case against the Allied authorities. 3. This doesn’t mean nobody did anything. Thousands of lives were actually saved through Al lied (and neutral) efforts. But, 4., it was veryThedifficult.Rescue Board didn’t get going until 1943, by which time the six million figure had been two-thirds reached. In ’43, the death tolls were rising more slowly in part because so many people were already dead.Burns goes back earlier, of course. The first of his three episodes focuses much on the effort of Germans to escape Hitler in the 1930s. The Amer ican angle is ugly. After the decades following massive European immigration around the turn of the century, this country had turned against immigration in the 1920s, enact ing significant quotas. In the ‘30s, the politicians — with good reason — saw the public as still insistent on only small numbers allowed to get in. The people seeking exceptions to those quotas in the ‘30s were Jewish; that made flexibility all the harder to find. Antisemitism was rampant in powerful quarters, most especially the State Department, the center of the debate within the Franklin RooseveltLookingadministration.back,thespecial tragedy is that the numbers of potential immi grants from Germany were manageable for a country of the geographic size of the U.S., in cooperation with other countries. If immigration doesn’t stand out as a magic solution for a problem involving six million people, what about for a population one twelfth that size? Germany didn’t have many more than a half million Jews when Hitler came to power. By the beginning of the war — but long before American involvement

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— Germany had only about 300,000. But as those numbers suggest, Ger many was not the heart of the Holo caust, at least in numbers of victims. Hitler’s early policy was not to kill all the Jews in Germany. Gradually, however, the effort built to drive them out of Germany. When the war began, the Nazis adopted the same approach to Jews all over Europe. By that time, American policy on immigration was infected by the fear that the immigrants would include spies; so getting admitted to this country became all the harder. The Nazis were having difficulty getting Jews out of Europe. So, author Erbelding points out in the series, they de cided two years after the start of the war that the Jews should be Thiskilled.made 1942 a pivotal year. The Holocaust got into full swing quickly. But it wasn’t announced. People who knew about it or believed it was happening were having difficulty convincing others, including those in power. One survivor quoted in the series says that even as the horrors were happening, the victims couldn’t believe it themselves. It all seemed unimagi nable, otherworldly, impossible. So how could others be expected to believe? Burns charts who rejected the truth, who fought for it, and how it gradu ally spread. When Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles grasped that the unspeakable was true in late ‘42, he reported publicly that two million Jews had been killed. The actual number then was four million. Even when the existence of the Ho locaust was known, the U.S. response was limited. Roosevelt and his advisors believed all efforts must be bent toward winning the war as quickly as possible; that would benefit the most people. Major military rescue efforts – which would have been terribly difficult at any rate — could be a diversion. And always, always, there was the concern that major American efforts made on behalf of Jews would weaken American public support for the war. But that left a little room for maneu vering. In the story of the Erbelding book — a story worthy of a major mo tion picture — a group of people at the Treasury Department rose up against the antisemitism and caution at the State Department. The Treasury people worked for the only Jew in the cabinet, Henry Morgenthau Jr. He seems to have played the role of ultimate helper rather than creator of the effort. What the Rescue Board did is a com plicated story, partly because different people tried different things to help differ ent Jewish groups. The story is summarized tightly in the Burns piece. At the heart is that some in this coun try knew of people in Europe who were trying desperately to help Jews, but needed money to do so. One of the striking aspects of the story is that many crucial players were not government officials, but just people – and organizations –trying to do the right thing. The State Department was leery of sending them money, partly for fear the money would get into enemy hands.

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Famous Swedish rescuer Raoul Wal lenberg was associated with the Rescue Board. One estimate has his efforts sav ing 120,000 lives. The Burns documentary deals with other central questions involving Ameri cans, including why Auschwitz wasn’t bombed, an option seriously considered. One cannot watch this series these days without thinking about the people who want to restrain the teaching of American racial history because they fear the truth might make White people

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The Treasury people — remember the name John Pehle, at least, a Christian lawyer from Nebraska; he deserves it — ultimately wangled some money and did their best to get it to the people who could do the most with it. Nobody knows how many Jews were saved as the result of various efforts. Au thor Erbelding says “tens of thousands.”

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Burns documentary uncomfortable. The Burns project re minds us that discomfort lurks through out history. It turns out the people of the past were just as flawed as we are. Yet Burns doesn’t try to put the United States at the core of the Holocaust story. He doesn’t try to suggest that a preven tative rested in the hands of Washington. The horror was Nazi Germany and its friends. It was such a sweeping, unthink able horror that nobody else had any response at hand that would have done any more than help a little. More lives might have been saved, but probably not millions more. Ken Burns has come in for some criticism for past work. Some think a new attempt at telling the story of the Ameri can Civil War is in order. They say Burns’ very famous series focuses too little on the horrors of slavery and the importance of its role, and too much on the views of Shelby Foote, a historian suspected of some sympathy for the South. But the Burns operation is a national treasure. It fosters among millions of Americans a sense of history, a feel for the past and its impact on the present, a feel they otherwise wouldn’t have. Yes, similar information is available in books. But millions of Americans who have a certain curiosity and the intelli gence to confront difficult subjects don’t have the patience to read all that much. The medium matters; some media reach some people, and some media reach others. The “others” are not necessarily doomed to ignorance about big subjects. Not that watching the Holocaust series is easy. There is complexity, and it is the Holocaust, after all. I needed some breaks.Like others who tell Holocaust stories, the Burns people seemed determined to find case histories that are not relent lessly tragic, stories in which somebody survives and somebody tries to do a good deed and doesn’t get killed for it. It’s difficult to do that and still convey what must be conveyed about the sweeping nature of the Holo caust calamity. But the effort is natural and worthwhile. And it ties us to survivors, the people who have the stories to Intell.our time, race, ethnic ity, and religion are dividers in politics around the world more than they have been through much of our lives. Conflict between ideologies is taking a back seat to conflicts between what might be called tribes. So it’s a good time to focus on the Hitler era and the Nazi obsession with tribes, with the Nazi determination to understand and explain nearly every thing in terms of good tribes and bad tribes. Even in this country, tribalism was powerful. It always has been, and that needs to be understood, discomfort ing or not.

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“When someone claims they can’t see my Jewish soul, I can throw the papers in their face and tell them to get their soul checked,” he writes. Koshersoul also contains interviews with other prominent Black Jews, including Tema Smith and Rabbi Shais Rishon aka MaNishtana, as well as dozens of original or adapted recipes organized by Jewish holidays. There are recipes for “koshersoul collards,” yam kugel, black-eyed pea hummus, and brisket prepared with the berbere spice used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.

“It is in many ways a love letter to Jewish peoplehood,” Twitty said of the book. “But it’s also a reminder to (nonJewish) Black folks that we (Jews) are Black,Twittytoo.”has appeared on episodes of Padma Lakshmi’s Hulu series Taste the Nation and Michelle Obama’s Waffles & Mochi, a cooking show for kids. Earlier this year, he launched a MasterClass in which he teaches online lessons on researching one’s culinary roots. He also sells his own Cooking Gene collection of spices through Spice Tribe. He said he feels a strong responsibil ity to use his platform to celebrate what it means to be Black and Jewish and to speak out against ignorance and bigotry.

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“The challot on the front are done purposely to represent all parts of me,” Twitty said. “I wanted people to under stand that this is how all of us are. We’re all a braid. I’m kind of blatant about the idea that being American is by default being intersectional.”

“I want people to know that being Black and being Jewish is not an anom aly or a rare thing,” he writes in Kosher soul. “I want people to know how these two identities have such a rich history that the lessons we’ve learned across time and space complement each other and have so much to teach us about community, self-determination, diaspo ra, nomadism, and collective liberation.”

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first time in Maryland, his first trip to Israel on Birthright, and his experiences as a Hebrew school teacher. He also writes about the alienation he has felt in Jewish spaces. For example, he notes that he carries his conversion certificate — which he refers to as his “freedom pa pers” — to prove his Jewishness when ever it is called into question.

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“Gratefully, there’s many others of us out there who also shoulder this bur den,” he said.

Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew is the second part of a trilogy of autobiographi cal books by Twitty, who identifies as “Afro-ashke-phardi” and gay. The first installment, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary His tory in the Old South, won the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the James Beard Foundation.Thenewbook went on sale Aug. 9. Twitty will present a virtual keynote Sept. 10 for the Black Farming Con ference: Roots, Food & Storytelling, presented by the Yellow Springs-based Agraria Center for Regenerative Prac tice, Central State University, Antioch College, and the National Afro-Ameri can Museum & Cultural Center. “Koshersoul” — a term Twitty uses to mean “the nexus of the essence of Black ness and Jewishness” — is part memoir, part history of Black Jewish customs and foodways, and part cookbook. There are vignettes from his life, includ ing when he attended synagogue for the

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Golden has been acting in commercials since age 6 and has had small parts in Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and The Wizard of Lies, the HBO film starring Robert de Niro as the late Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff. But 13 is his first big role — and it’s especially mean ingful, he said, that it’s a Jewish one.Golden said the bar mitzvah scene was his favorite one to film. By the end of the movie, Evan is seen chanting his Haftarah in Hebrew in front of his new classmates. He then transitions into a d’var Torah — a talk about that week’s Torah portion — which, because it’s a musical, involves breaking out into a song, A Little More Home work: “If you stand here behind me and you call me a man and you’re counting on me to come through, you should know that I’ll give you the best that I can, but we all have a little more homework to do.” In some ways, Golden said the scene was a stand-in for the bar mitzvah he didn’t have in real life. “’I’m not going to have my bar mitzvah (in real life), but I got to have a bar mitzvah on screen,” he said, referring to the“Imovie.guess you could say I had the most expensive bar mitzvah ever,” he rabbi,Perlman,Messing,veteranGoldenadded.actsalongsideJewishactorsDebraJoshPeckandRheawhoplayhismother,andgrandmother,respectively.

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By Julia Gergely New York Jewish Week When Eli Golden started eighth grade at a Westchester, N.Y. public school last fall, he had the ultimate answer to the standard question: “What did you do over the summer?” While his friends and classmates recounted tales of sleepaway camp and summer school, “I was just filming a little movie, that’s all,” Golden, 14, said. And it’s true: Golden had spent last summer in On tario, Canada filming Netflix’s movie adaptation of 13: The Musical, which premiered on the platform Aug. 12. Golden stars as Evan Gold man, a 13-year-old prepping for his upcoming bar mitzvah and living his best life on the Upper West Side. When his parents get divorced, he is forced to move with his mother back into her childhood home — incon veniently located in the small town of Walkerton, Ind. “Representation in this movie for Jewish people is amazing,” Golden said. “When I was younger, I’d always watch Christmas movies. I never watched a Chanukah movie. I feel so lucky that I’m able to be the representation that when I was younger I didn’t have.” The film is adapted from the musical that opened on Broadway in 2008 and ran for 108 performances, and returned Off-Broadway in 2011. Jason Robert Brown wrote the music and lyrics and Dan Elish and Robert Horn wrote the book. In the show and film, young Evan Goldman grapples with his parents’ divorce, prepares for his impending bar mitzvah, and navigates the complicated social circles of a new school. A recurring theme in the film is the small-town community’s general ignorance about Jews and Judaism. “Come on, I’ll show you the hillside where everyone waits for the Resur rection,” says a new friend as she shows him around the neighborhood.Nooneseems to understand the importance of a bar mitzvah party — which Evan thinks is the most important moment of his middle school life. On the first day of school, Evan invites his classmates to his bar mitzvah. “It’s this Jewish thing where they make you talk backwards and everyone gets circumcised,” one uninformed student interjects before Evan has time to explain.

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Golden grew up Jewish in Westchester, where all his friends were Jewish as well. His experience on set, however, sometimes mirrored Evan’s in the“Onfilm.set, I really was (the only Jewish kid) for the most part, so it was fun to act it out,” he said. “I could sympathize with my (character) because I was in that situation, quite literally. At the same time, I think being able to stay with a clique, but being able to open up to new people is really important, which is a great part of the movie.”

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Ahead of this year’s perfor mances, Stückl inaugurated a pilgrimage to Israel for the principal actors. He has been trying to view the play through the eyes of Jewish viewers, and to that end has met with Jewish leaders and with students, noted Jo Frank, director of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk, a Berlin-based scholarship program for gifted Jewish stu dents.ELES stu dents first met with Stückl

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Passion play status: the idea that what they show is basically the truth.” In that context, to change things is “highly commend able. What he has done is reform and bend the rules as far as he could.” This year, Stückl also en gaged a Muslim actor, which “would have been unthinkable 10 years ago,” Frank added. “He really does deserve all the praise that he gets.” “For over 300 years we have told the story of Jesus in a spirit that has led to prejudice and hatred. For over 1,900 years the Church had told that the ceremony,atsus,”murderedJewsJeStücklsaidtheaward noting that an American rabbi who saw the play in 1901 — Jo sepf Krauskopf — came away despondent, doubting that Jews would ever be “cleared of the heinous accusations that have been heaped upon (them).”Itisdoubtful that such hate can be fully eradicated, but Christian Stückl “has demon strated the power of one indi vidual to make a tremendous difference,” Marans said. The Dayton Jewish Observer in Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, or your favorite podcast app and subscribe.

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Dr. Nathanson served on the boards of trustees of the Dayton Visual Arts Center, the Spring field (OH) Museum of Art, the Midwest Art History Society, and the Great Lakes American Studies Association. She had been a member of the Dayton Art Institute’s Exhibitions and Education Committee, chaired Dayton’s Public Arts Commis sion, the Springfield Museum’s Curatorial Affairs Committee, and was a longtime member of Dayton’s Landmarks Com mission. Carol also served as a panelist and site consultant for Ohio Arts Council, was an event evaluator for Ohio Humani ties Council, and a community arts grant panelist for Culture Works. She authored numerous publications and professional talks. Carol was an active mem ber of Beth Abraham Synagogue and Congregation Etz Chaim, Cincinnati.Carolwas preceded in death by her parents, Mary and Rubin Arnold of Riverhead, N.Y. and is survived by her loving husband of 52 years, Jim Na thanson of Dayton; brother and sister-in-law, Henry and Hollie Arnold; niece, Raquel Turknett; great-niece, Mara Arnold; greatnephew, Max Turknett, all of Jacksonville, Fla.; and many other relatives and friends. Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to The Tenth Life Cat Rescue, P.O. Box 178, Alpha, OH 45301 or the charity of your choice in Carol’s memory.

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Carol A. Nathanson, age 77, of Dayton, passed away July 21, 2022 at The Hospice of Dayton. Carol was a professor emeritus of art history at Wright State University in Dayton, retiring after 30 years of service. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1966 and her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Prior to joining the Wright State University faculty in the fall of 1979, she taught at Oberlin College and Case Western Re serve University in Cleveland.

Raymond L. Must, a prolific and highly respected artist in the Dayton arts community, died peacefully on July 22 at age 93. For more than three decades, Ray taught printmaking and drawing in the Department of Art and Art History at Wright State University, inspiring gen erations of young artists. Ray was a co-founder of the Dayton Printmakers Cooperative and a longtime board member of the Dayton Visual Arts Center (now The Contemporary Dayton), where he established the annual art auction. He was an inte gral and active member of the Miami Valley arts scene, leading printmaking workshops and teaching drawing after his re tirement, as professor emeritus at Wright State. Ray received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District. Ray was married to his beloved Eleanor — muse, supporter, and intellectual partner — for over 68 years. He was the adored father of Rachel (Joel), Miriam (Gary), and David (Meredith), and grandfather of Sam, Jae, Gabriella, and Griffin. Primarily a printmaker, Ray constantly ex perimented and developed dif ferent printmaking techniques. He also worked in many media, including film, watercolor, and, in his later life, painting large unstretched canvases, filled with gesture, color, and tex ture — always in service of his searching vision. Ray said, “It seems amazing to me the way meanings become compressed and embodied in a work of art.” He was never without a sketchbook, filling hundreds of them over his lifetime. He felt compelled to work on his art at every opportunity. “If I don’t draw every day, I feel like I have done something wrong.” Interment was at Riverview Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the ACLU or the Wright State University Foundation for the Ray and Eleanor Must Print making Fund in Raymond’s memory.

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