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Muslim scholar of Shoah: ‘we don’t know enough about each other’

By Marshall Weiss The Observer Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, director of the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center of Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y., will present Wright State University’s lecture for International Holocaust Day, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. Afridi will talk about her book, The Shoah Through Muslim Eyes. Here is an edited interview with The Observer about her work.

ment, but first of all, we don’t know enough about each other and each other’s historical past. If I go to a synagogue, I tell my Jewish friends you have to understand the colonial past from Muslims. Every country that is Muslim today was colonized by the British, the French, Italians, the Germans, and the Dutch. For the Jewish audiences, What kind of students are I also talk about faith: in your classes? how Muslim tradiMy college is a Catholic institution. They focus Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, director of Manhattan College’s tion is very similar to on social justice. Most of Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center Judaism, where it came from, what the majorthe students are Catholic, ity of Muslims do, their everyjourney that I had as a young semi-lapsed Catholic, some are child growing up in Europe, my day life. They’re not thinking of Muslims, a few Jews. A lot of extremism, but they have family challenge being a Muslim, but the students are first generaalso challenging my community — all of us do. And they try to tion. Very sweet kids, but they survive. about deep antisemitic sentihaven’t really explored JudaI understand the history of ism or Islam or even sometimes ments. I also interviewed (Holocaust) survivors and that was Judaism. I understand the HoloCatholicism. And I think that’s caust: don’t relativize it. I underan important thing: really teach- interesting to me as a Muslim. stand the exiles the Jews have It was the first time they had ing to communities that have been through. I understand met a Muslim. And then I also no context or understanding of talk about issues of Zionism and that they never had a state. It’s Judaism or Islam. not enough to say Judaism and how it’s misunderstood, also Islam share the same concept Who is your intended audience how Muslims were implicated of God and let’s go home. But I in the Holocaust. I really talk for the book? think if you’re willing — even about the colonial past of the I’m hoping for Muslims and a little bit — to understand, I Muslims, how Muslims perJews, because I talk about the think it could be really beneficeived Jews and the problems cial for both the communities.

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The one thing that I’ve alWhat misconceptions do Jews in the Rathskeller Lounge, Room ways been taught as a Muslim is 008, Wright State Student Union. have about Muslims? What that you have to speak up when misconceptions do Muslims Free and open to the public. For you hear false rumors. You have have about Jews? information, call Zusman Prof. to speak up, even when it’s This is a very general stateDr. Mark Verman, 775-2461.

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in and do something with the memory of the Holocaust or survivors, and I’m not Jewish, I’m not a direct witness of any kind. But I witness testimony all the time. And I think it was really hard for the Jewish community to understand that. From the Muslim community, it was more like, why are you dealing with the Holocaust? What about the Nakba? (Meaning disaster, the Arab term for the result of Israel’s War of Independence, You took heat from some in the when 700,000 Arabs fled or were Jewish and Muslim communi- expelled from their homes.) ties when you came to Manhat- And the Nakba did happen, of tan College in 2011, didn’t you? course. But that’s not for me. I think that’s something maybe When I was first appointed, the Jewish community should I think there’s just so much focus on and think about. And mistrust between Jews and of course within our communiMuslims that the Jewish community probably felt fearful that ties we have extremists. That Continued on next page a Muslim was going to come against your own community.

So, for example, if I heard Muslims saying anything against Jews or Christians or Buddhists or Hindus, I would always make it my point to say, “Well, what are you talking about?

Go and learn about it.” As a person of faith and somebody who is coming from Abraham, like Jews and Christians, it’s my duty actually, as a faithful person, to speak up for the other.

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Continued from previous page plays on the fear of each community.

I am so lucky that in the last five years, all of the (Jewish) congregations here have been super supportive. They come out to the events. We have created initiatives with the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. It’s just been amazing with the Conservative, with the Reform, with Reconstructionist.

And in terms of the Muslims here in New York, I’ve always been invited and included in any initiative that’s been going on.

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Under your auspices, the Holocaust Center was expanded to include genocide?

Genocide and also the interfaith element. It was a title they came up with when they hired me. When I came along, I was Muslim and I was going to teach Islam and Holocaust. I think they wanted to expand it to include other initiatives, which I have been doing. Every genocide has its own uniqueness. However, I do argue that the Shoah (Holocaust) was unprecedented. And I show why it was unprecedented. What I am trying to do is say we are all human. And we’ve all had experiences of suffering and genocide. And as a matter of fact, if we have a glimmer of hope or we have a glimmer of courage, then we can actually share that courage and hope with someone else. Even if our suffering was seen as worse.

But you can’t really measure suffering. There’s no human element that can actually measure the suffering.

The students who come out of my classes come out saying, “Oh, my God, you changed my mind about Jews,” or “You’ve changed my mind about Muslims.”

How do you recommend we in local communities build bridges between Muslims and Jews?

Create encounter. Create intimacy. My own daughter is 9 and she went to a Jewish preschool when we moved here. She learned songs when she was really young, Chanukah and everything.

She’s a Muslim. And now she’s in a Catholic school here. And in her class, she recently said, “People have stereotypes about Muslims but we’re not ISIS.” And she’s 9. And she says things like, “Oh, I went to Shabbat services with my mother and her students and this is what they do on Shabbat.” She’s in a Catholic school and half of her class have never met a Muslim — they’re not very open to Muslims — but they’re creating an intimate relationship with her. And at that age it’s so essential. Once you have an emotional intimacy or connection with someone, it’s really hard to stereotype all of our people.

In the five years that you’ve been at Manhattan College, is there anything you’ve learned about Muslim/Jewish relations and interfaith relations that has surprised you?

I have learned more about the diversity of voices within Muslim America. I’ve also learned how Orthodox Jews can be sincerely open. That’s another stereotype we have to break. The biggest lesson for me has been this college, this Catholic college, Lasallian: their inclusivity, their support of my work and standing by me when they had this controversy. I can’t tell you how lucky I am. I feel like I’m sitting on a gem and nobody knows it. Of course there’s a lot of criticism of the Catholic Church and I teach antisemitism, so we have to revisit that, but the Catholic social movements in this country are really kind of revolutionary in a sense.

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Goldberg and Tobin debated in 12 cities across the United States over a two-week period.

Of that tour — which had been planned months before — Goldberg wrote that he and Tobin “wanted to show our audiences how Jews could debate Israel and its dilemmas with respect, even friendship.”

What neither expected was Trump’s victory, and “the intense wave of emotion that would sweep the country in its wake, nor the way it would divide the Jewish community,” Goldberg added.

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tion that someone who would

By Ron Kampeas, JTA represent the United States WASHINGTON — Nearly would describe people as ‘not six years ago, when President Barack Obama was set to elevate Jewish’ and ‘kapos’” — the Jews who collaborated with the Nazi one of his top emissaries to the death machine — “what does Jewish community to the Israel that say about respect for civil ambassadorship, Dan Shapiro discourse and what does it say asked for — and got — the endorsement of one of Obama’s about temperament in a particularly volatile region?” fiercest pro-Israel critics.

There are less Kasowitz Benson Torres “Dan has & Friedman LLP than a handful of always spoken to ambassadors who us, patiently and must navigate docarefully explainmestic constituening the adminiscies as assiduously tration’s position, as they do their and he does so host countries, and with aplomb, with are chosen with concern, and with both audiences intense appreciain mind. They tion of the other include the envoys side’s position,” to Israel, Ireland Morton Klein, the and, occasionally, Zionist OrganizaDavid Friedman Greece and Italy. tion of America American Jewpresident, said at the time. ish leaders have long expected Don’t expect J Street, or the Reform movement — or anyone a warm reception from their ambassador when their delegaon the liberal side of the proIsrael spectrum — to extend that tions pay a visit to Israel.

“It’s a very multifaceted posiembrace to David Friedman, tion, they do a lot of outreach the bankruptcy lawyer who is to Jewish communities in the one of President-elect Donald United States,” Ron Halber, the Trump’s top emissaries to the director of the Jewish CommuJewish community and whom he nominated to be ambassador nity relations Council of Greater Washington, said of ambassato Israel. dors to Israel. “It’s more than An “intense appreciation diplomatic, it’s symbolic. I’m of the other side’s position” concerned that symbol could be does not describe Friedman’s tarnished by someone who has denigration of J Street as “not staked out extreme ideologiJewish” and “worse than” Jewish collaborators with Nazis; his cal positions on internal Israeli calling Obama “blatantly antise- matters.”

Those positions include a mitic,” and his lament that more rejection of the two-state soluthan half of American Jews are tion and unchecked expansion not pro-Israel.

The nomination of Friedman of the settlements — the former has sent shock waves through a counter to the stated position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin chunk of the organized JewNetanyahu, the latter also a ish community because of the signal it sends to the 71 percent challenge to long-standing U.S. of American Jews who voted for and international policy.

Friedman did not return a Hillary Clinton: One of marginalization, not of outreach. While request for comment.

A range of liberal Jewish Friedman’s nomination was groups have already denounced hailed by a hawkish but influFriedman, citing his online ential minority as a sign that history thick with broadsides Israel will get the U.S. support it deserves, it possibly sidelines against liberals, many appearing on the pro-settlement a pro-Israel mainstream that believes moderation best builds Israeli news site, Israel National News, as well as his extensive a pro-Israel consensus.

“We’re all trying to figure out fundraising for the settlement how to navigate this administra- movement.

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THE WORLD and divorce, he said. the Senate from confirming Friedman.

“Our larger project has been to keep “Friedman should be beyond the pale people connected to Israel,” Jacobs said for senators considering who should represent the United States in Israel,” the of the URJ. “We may be seeing a series of policy shifts” under Trump “that make group said in a statement. it harder for non-Orthodox Jews to see The New Israel Fund has launched a Israel as a place they love.” fund-raising appeal based on what they Larger groups were treading carefully called Trump’s “dangerous” nomination around the nomination. The Ameriof Friedman. can Israel Public Affairs Committee, in Hawkish Jewish groups have welresponse to a JTA request for comment, comed the appointment, most prostuck to its long-standing position of not nouncedly Klein’s ZOA. It said Friedman has “the potential to be the greatest pronouncing on nominees. The AntiDefamation League was also not forthU.S. Ambassador to Israel ever.”

In an interview, Klein said he stood by coming.

The American Jewish Committee said his 2011 endorsement of Shapiro, who in a statement that it was noteworthy strove to reach out to right-wing Jews that nominating a Jew for the job no in the United States and hard-liners in longer raised hackles (that’s been the Israel as a staffer on Obama’s National case for close to three decades) and that Security Council and then as ambassait wanted to know more about what dor.

“I said I found Shapiro to be a person picking Friedman said about Trump’s Israel policies. of integrity,” Klein said. “That’s true of “We shall be eager to understand Dan and it’s true of David Friedman.”

Trump Administration policy regarding Friedman was reported to have said the special U.S.-Israel bilateral link, as earlier this month at an off-the-record well as the quest for a two-state Israelisegment of the annual Saban Forum Palestinian accord — which AJC contincolloquy of U.S. and Israeli influencers ues to believe is the only tenable soluthat were he to become ambassador, he tion to the conflict — and, of course, the would not take meetings with J Street. larger regional context in “He’s not there to represent which Israel lives,” the the views of most Jews,” Klein Friedman’s AJC said. said of Friedman, although he nomination Nathan Diament, the said he believed that Friedman’s was hailed Washington director of support for moving the embassy the Orthodox Union, said to Jerusalem and for settlement by a hawkish expansion was representative of but influential in reply to a JTA query that Friedman was reprethe Jewish community. sentative of the minority Klein said he would not use minority of Jews (and a majority in “kapos” to describe J Street, which opposes settlement expansion and his community) who voted for Trump.

“Trump’s selection of David Friedman advocates for an assertive U.S. posture to be his Administration’s ambassador to in bringing about a two-state solution, but he understood how Friedman might Israel is consistent with the policy view Trump expressed during the campaign have done so out of “anguish and misand consistent with the view of most of ery.” those American Jews who actually voted The Union for Reform Judaism stopped short of saying it would oppose for Trump for president,” he said.

Burton, whose Boston JCRC called on Friedman, but expressed concerns about Friedman to apologize for his past rehis statements and his rejection for the marks, said that it was key for Jews who two-state solution. object to Friedman not to be drawn into In an interview, URJ President Rick the polarizing invective that characterJacobs said that the Reform movement ized Friedman’s writings in the past. has relied on U.S. administrations to “We have to acknowledge that some represent to Israel, through their ambasmembers of our community are optisadors, the broad range of American mistic about the next administration,” Jewish opinion. An ambassador who he said, noting parts of Trump’s Israel represented only one segment of the message that should please most Jews, Jewish community would diminish atincluding his expressions of friendship tachment to Israel among Jews already to the country and his desire for peace. unsettled by Israeli prime Minister “We do ourselves a disservice collecBenjamin Netanyahu’s settlement politively if we are in the black or white zone cies, and by exclusion of non-Orthodox on everything.” groups from civil matters like marriage

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich signs state anti-BDS law

Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Dec. 19 signed into law a bill targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The legislation prohibits Ohio from contracting with companies that engage in boycotts of Israel, including firms located outside of the state, and requires companies to state in contracts that they are not boycotting or divesting.

Ohio is the 14th state to enact such a law. “But Ohio went a step further than anyone else,” Howie Beigelman, executive director of Ohio Jewish Communities — which represents the eight Jewish Federations and their constituent agencies — said in a statement. “They included an opportunity for positive investment by the state and county treasurers in certain foreign bonds — including Israel’s.” — JTA

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While Israel tarries on pluralism, the Diaspora may be running out of patience

By Andrew Sacks Like many of my friends, I grew up in the United States with a strong affinity for Israel.

As a child we saved money to buy trees, learned Israeli songs, studied Hebrew, visited Israel and marched in Israeli Independence Day parades. I recall well that my parents encouraged me to give part of my Bar Mitzvah gifts to Israel. Ultimately I made aliyah.

Tensions arise whenever the interests of two parties may not perfectly align. This seems to be occurring more frequently between the North American Jewish community, with its pluralistic nature, and an Israeli government that gives into haredi Orthodox demands over promises and commitments made to the Jewish communities in the Diaspora.

Just a year ago, Israel’s prime minister stated that the Israeli

government and the Jewish Agency will for the first time invest in the development of Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations in Israel.

He went on to say, “As prime minister of Israel I will ensure that all Jews — Reform, Conservative and Orthodox — feel at home in Israel.”

On Jan. 31, 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government approved an agreement to create an egalitarian prayer space along the Western Wall and establish a governing body to administer the venue. This was the result of three years of intense negotiations, with Netanyahu’s top adviser serving as the negotiator.

Thus far, no money has been forthcoming for non-Orthodox congregations and the Western Wall agreement has not been put in place. Excuses abound.

Mr. Netanyahu has called for

LETTER TO THE EDITOR The victory that wasn’t On election night I watched the results in total disbelief and shock. As state after state joined Trump’s column, my hopes and euphoria began to dim. My spirits sank as Hillary’s numbers were slowly being eclipsed by Trump’s. I had dreams of Hillary whose 30-plus years of public service had groomed and enabled her to finally break the glass ceiling and become our first female president. I envisioned her inspiring every American girl that nothing is impossible. Instead, our country chose a candidate whose arrogant, narcissistic nature and hateful rhetoric will echo for years to come. The winner, who thrives on insulting everyone, is cursed with the temperament of a toddler and a penchant for mean-spirited bullying. Was this actually part of God’s master plan?

All the pollsters had Hillary topping Trump for months. It was not Trump’s campaign to win; rather it was Hillary’s to lose. How did this happen? How could such miscommunication occur between the public pulse and the polls? I find it hard to swallow and digest; I’m even choking a little.

The lone consolation is Hillary won the popular vote by over two million votes. Moreover she won 70 percent of the Jewish vote compared to Trump getting 25 percent.

Our nation has spoken and made its choice, repugnant as it is. With Trump at the helm, how does our future look? Will Roe vs. Wade survive the conservative onslaught? Will we lose Obamacare and leave 28 million people unprotected? Will Steve Bannon and Breitbart’s connections translate into more hate crimes targeting Jews and Jewish places?

What does Trump’s promise to be neutral in the Middle East mean for Israel? Will Trump now ignore the dangers of global warming and put our nation in peril? Will we ever bridge the cultural divide created by such a bitter, contentious campaign?

My soul cries a little and it hurts to smile right now. But I will get over it and move on. Because I have to! The sun will rise tomorrow and we will greet another newborn day with hope for better things to come. Why? Because the human spirit is resilient. Goodbye today. Hello tomorrow.

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patience. But how long can one be patient when it becomes increasingly clear that the situation is only worsening?

Shas, a fervently Orthodox political party, has just introduced legislation that would scuttle the entire Western Wall agreement and create strictly haredi oversight to the area, including the site designated for egalitarian worship.

For the past three years five Ugandan Jews, known as Abayudaya, have been trying Orthodox Jews try to prevent a group of Conservative and Reform rabbis and to come to Israel to Women of the Wall members from bringing Torah scrolls into the Western Wall study at the Conserva- compound in Jerusalem, Nov. 2 tive yeshiva. All are But this should come as no foothold.” converts to Judaism through the surprise. The minister of the So while the prime minister Masorti/Conservative moveinterior, Rabbi Arye Deri, said calls on the leaders of the nonment. recently: Orthodox movements, both The Jewish Agency has “Last week someone said here in Israel and in the Diasaccepted the Abayudaya as a that the Reform are our brothpora, to be patient, the Venezu“recognized community.” But despite written assurances from ers, but we completely disagree elan Nine live in daily fear as the Prime Minister’s Office that with them. We reject their ways, they do their best to survive. etc. The truth is that they are The Ugandan Five wonder why visas would be issued, student not our brothers and we do not their beloved Israel turns her visas have yet to be forthcomwant such brothers. Those that back on them. ing. The one member of this stick a knife in I, too, wonder. In November, community who the back of the Knesset member Dudu Amsaapplied for ali- How long can Jewish people lem, chair of the Israeli parliayah has had his cannot be our ment's Internal Affairs Compaperwork sit in one be patient brothers. Those mittee, ended a hearing about the offices of the when it becomes who are the the Western Wall agreement Interior Miniscause for the by stating: “I just don't care try for over two increasingly clear years. that the situation assimilation of about any favors the Jews in the of Jews Diaspora do for us” in support A group of is only worsening? millions cannot be our of Israel. “The Jews of North nine Masorti/ brothers. No America should have no right Conservative how — no way! Such a person to influence our policy. If this Jews by choice from Venezuela is an adversary and an enemy. insults them, so be it. They are applied to immigrate to Israel One who mocks and prostitutes not doing us any favors.” in April. After receiving the So there you have it. A prime required documents, the Jewish our tradition, that is to say, all of the holy Torah of the Jewminister who fails to honor Agency approved their aliyah. his commitments. An interior The Interior Ministry, howev- ish people for which we have er, has demanded a series of re- sacrificed our lives from genera- minister who reviles the nondundant and unnecessary addi- tion to generation for thousands Orthodox — and he is far from the only such member of the tional documents; they have all of years, is not a brother. One Knesset. And the chair of an imbeen submitted. The situation in who is a traitor and betrays his portant government committee Venezuela is dangerous. Beyond parents, grandparents, and all of the generations that came that, in his ignorance, dismisses the civil strife and collapsed before, is not a brother. Not the Diaspora community with economy, food and medicines even a lost brother. He has ease. are in very short supply. But Maybe they are right. Maybe none of this seems to worry the thrown off the yoke and one must fight against him with all Israel can stand on her own Interior Ministry officials, who act as though they are above the means available, and never give without the backing of the Jews any sort of recognition nor any of the Diaspora. Maybe. But I, laws of our country. for one, doubt it.

So, what do you think?

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Rabbi Andrew Sacks directs the Rabbinical Assembly in Israel and the Bureau for Religious Affairs of the Masorti movement.

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Chief rabbis form standards panel to recognize foreign converts, promise to count Ivanka Trump as Jewish Elmaliah was among the Supreme

By Andrew Tobin, JTA JERUSALEM — Israel’s Chief Rabbin- Rabbinical Court judges who in July controversially rejected a conversion by ate has formed a panel to set standards Lookstein, the former leader at Kehilath for which Diaspora rabbis’ conversions Jeshurun in Manhattan’s Upper East it would accept as valid. The Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis issued a state- Side. Lookstein oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism before her marment Dec. 14 that they had formed the riage to Jared Kushner. five-member committee after a meeting Ralbag is Lau’s father-in-law, and of members of the Rabbinate Council Deri is the older brother of Aryeh Deri, and the Supreme Rabbinical Court. the head of the Shas political party.

Before the meeting, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Seth Farber, the director of Itim Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said a list of recog— an organization that helps Israelis nized rabbis would be created based on the standards that were determined. The navigate the state’s religious bureauMike Coppola/Getty Images cracy — expressed concern Rabbinate would automatiabout the committee memcally recognize conversions bers, including Elmaliah, — as well as marriages and and about Lau’s statement divorces — by the listed of principles. According to rabbis. Israel’s rabbinical Farber, Orthodox convercourts have in the past sions that were performed handled disputes over the by rabbis such as Lookstein legitimacy of conversions would not appear to be performed abroad. recognized automatically.

Orthodox rabbis in “The chief rabbis had North America, especially Ivanka Trump and her stated they were planning representing modern Orhusband, Jared Kushner to ease the plight of conthodoxy, have complained verts, but the direction they are taking that the haredi-controlled Chief Rabmay in fact worsen it,” Farber said in a binate was rejecting the conversions statement. He called on the Rabbinate to performed by modern Orthodox rabbis. enter into dialogue with Diaspora JewYosef also promised the Jewish conish communities with the aim of “buildversion of Ivanka Trump, the daughter ing trust,” not “disenfranchising” them. of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, The Chief Rabbinate has never recogwould be recognized under the new nized non-Orthodox rabbis or converstandards. But the new committee sions, and Lookstein is among several includes a rabbi who sat on the panel of leading modern Orthodox rabbis whose judges that recently rejected a convercredentials it has questioned in the past sion overseen by Haskel Lookstein of few years. In September, Haaretz reNew York, the rabbi who helped Ivanka vealed that the Rabbinate had rejected Trump convert.

The Chief Rabbinate is Israel’s highest four conversions approved by Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, the head of the Jewish authority, with control over perRabbinical Council of America’s rabbinisonal status issues such as conversion, cal court, the Beth Din of America. Lau, marriage and divorce. The Chief Rabin his principles, singled out the Beit Bin binate Council is its advisory body. The Supreme Rabbinical Court is the highest of America as a reliable organization.

Itim petitioned a Jerusalem court in rabbinical court, which resolves dis2015 to pressure the Rabbinate to be putes regarding personal status issues. more transparent about how it deterDuring the Dec. 14 meeting, Lau mines which Jewish conversions are issued his own statement saying the legitimate. In April, the Rabbinate discussion at the meeting was based on released a list of more than 100 rabbis principles he had submitted at a Sepfrom the U.S. and 19 other countries tember meeting of the Chief Rabbinate. whose authority over Jewish converAccording to those principles, rabbis sions it accepts, but attached a letter that must believe in Jewish law, be Orthothe list was “not exhaustive” and simply dox, serve in places with rabbinical included rabbis whose authority had courts that are recognized by local been accepted in the past. The letter also rabbis, be accepted by their community said there was no guarantee the rabbis and be members of existing rabbinical organizations. Alternatively, they can be would be trusted in the future.

The Dec. 14 statement also said Lau vetted by the chief rabbis in consultawould create a database of marriages tion with “the heads of the rabbis of the performed by recognized rabbis abroad, community.” so “when the married couple will arrive Committee members to develop the in Israel it will be possible to verify standards are High Rabbinical Court judges Rabbi Aaron Katz, Rabbi Shlomo immediately and to approve the marriage.” To have a Jewish marriage in Shapira, and Rabbi Yitzhak Elmaliah, Israel, immigrants must prove to the and Chief Rabbinical Council members Rabbi Yitzhak Ralbag and Rabbi Yehuda Rabbinate that they meet its standards of Jewishness.

Deri.

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Conservative group ousts rabbi for performing intermarriages

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By Ben Sales, JTA NEW YORK — Conservative Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom has been expelled from the Rabbinical Assembly, the movement’s association of rabbis, for performing interfaith weddings.

An ordained Conservative rabbi for 44 years, Rosenbloom was expelled in November by unanimous vote, with abstentions, after a hearing of the R.A.’s Executive Council. Since 1972, the Conservative movement has prohibited its rabbis from officiating at or even attending intermarriages.

Rosenbloom told JTA a council member suggested he might be able to retain his membership in exchange for a promise not to perform any more intermarriages. Rosenbloom declined the offer.

“I don’t have animus toward the R.A.,” Rosenbloom told JTA Dec. 16. “It’s a futile policy, a policy that will eventually be overturned because the trend of history is against it. I have no bitterness...I don’t feel shunned or like an outcast.”

Rosenbloom, 72, is the retired rabbi of Congregation Adath Jeshurun, a 158-yearold synagogue near Philadelphia. He officiated at his first

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Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom officiates at his stepdaughter’s wedding, in 2014

intermarriage, between his stepdaughter and her fiancé, shortly after retiring in the summer of 2014. Since then, he has performed four additional intermarriages and has plans to conduct two more.

The R.A. wouldn’t comment on Rosenbloom’s expulsion, but its executive vice president, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, said the movement is constantly discussing how to approach the growing number of marriages involving Jews and non-Jews.

Still, she said, the Conservative movement’s fealty to halachah, or Jewish law, mandates a ban on performing intermarriages.

Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis are allowed to

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perform intermarriages, while Orthodox rabbis, also citing Jewish law, do not.

“We are a halachic movement and Judaism envisions the marriage ceremony as taking place between two Jewish people,” she told JTA. “Through the lens and the vehicles offered by Jewish law and tradition, that’s the avenue that’s open to us in terms of a Jewish matrimonial ritual.”

By performing mixed marriages, Rosenbloom feels like he’s simply acknowledging reality. The Pew Research Center’s 2013 study of American Jews found that the intermarriage rate among non-Orthodox Jews since 2005 rose to 71 percent. And a recent study from Brandeis University found that interfaith couples married only by a rabbi are significantly more likely to raise their children Jewish than those married by no rabbi or clergy of different faiths.

“We’re isolating ourselves from our congregants at precisely the time they need us and want us most,” Rosenbloom said. “For many of these couples, once we say no to the wedding, it’s very hard for them to overcome that. The experience of rejection is far too great to even consider being part of the congregation.”

For Rosenbloom’s first intermarried couple, the synagogue has felt more welcoming because of their Jewish wedding, which included traditional elements like a chupah, or wedding canopy, and the breaking of a glass. Stefanie Fox, Rosenbloom’s stepdaughter, and her husband recently held a baby naming for their infant at Rosenbloom's home, and the family regularly attends services at Adath Jeshurun. She and her husband have discussed his converting, though he has no immediate plans to do so.

“It’s always been my feeling that rather than push away people of other religions, it makes sense to pull them into our Jewish community,” said Fox, 32. “My husband is a big part of my Jewish life now. I almost feel like we’ve increased our Jewish community in the world today.”

Expulsion from the R.A., a 1,700-member body that places rabbis in congregations and Continued on Page 16

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› ISRAELITY: Left vs. Right: The Battle for Israel’s Soul Tuesday, January 17 7PM @ Boonshoft CJCE

American Jewish thought leaders J.J. Goldberg, editorat-large of the Forward & past U.S. bureau chief of Jerusalem Report, & Jonathan Tobin, senior online editor of Commentary Magazine, debate these and other critical suppositions about the State of Israel.

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Dayton for the 2017 Presidents Dinner on Sunday, May 7 A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENTS DINNER COMMITTEE In an era of fake news repeated over social media, Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt’s story is more relevent and important than ever.

Dr. Lipstadt is the educator, historian and author who was sued for libel by British author, David Irving, who she called a Holocaust denier in her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.

In court, the case took three months to resolve in her favor. Following a hard-fought victory in April of 2000, Dr. Lipstadt wrote of her experience in her 2005 book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving. In 2016, this book was adapted into the film Denial. Dr. Lipstadt is played by Rachel Weisz in this highly acclaimed movie.

“We are beyond delighted to have Dr. Lipstadt with us for our centerpiece Federation event, the Presidents Dinner,” said event cochairs, Susie Katz and Bruce Feldman. “Given Dr. Lipstadt’s high profile

following the success of the movie Denial we feel so fortunate to have secured her for our community.

This will be our third year using the dinner/speaker format and people are still talking about the first two!”

More about the film Denial In her book Denying the Holocaust, Dr. Lipstadt called Irving “a dangerous spokesperson,” on the Holocaust.

Irving decided his reputation as an historian was defamed and chose the more favorable libel laws toward plaintiffs in the United Kingdom to file suit.

He lost the case decisively when the judge ruled Irving had “for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence.”

The judge also called Irving an “active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist, and that he associates with

right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism.”

The Daily Telegraph (London) explained the case as having "done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.”

Added The Times (London), "history has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory."

In July, 2001, the Court of Appeal resoundingly rejected Irving's attempt to appeal the judgment against him.

About Dr. Deborah Lipstadt Lipstadt’s numerous credentials include being the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Atlanta’s Emory University, a historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; appointed by President Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, serving two terms, a member of its Executive Committee of the

Council and chaired the Educational Committee, and Academic Committee of the Holocaust Museum.

She has also been called upon by members of the United States Congress to consult on political responses to Holocaust denial and from 1996 through 1999 served as a member of the United States State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad, advising Secretary of State Madeline Albright on matters of religious persecution.

Additionally, Dr. Lipstadt has appeared for comment on CNN, Sixty Minutes, Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR's Fresh Air, the BBC's Charlie Rose. She is a frequent contributor to a variety of newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and The New York Times and is widely quoted in all.

In addition to Emory University, Dr. Lipstadt has taught at UCLA and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her

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School Days Out

When school is OUT, the JCC is IN! Join us for activities, field trips and fun on Monday, January 16 (Martin Luther King Day) and Monday, February 20 (President’s Day). Daily rate is $38 (if you register by the prior Monday) or $46 for late registration.

Jewish Community Center of GREATER DAYTON › Book Club Friday, January 20 10:30AM–NOON @ Temple

Israel (130 Riverside Dr., 45405) The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.

› Dayton Junior Youth Group WSU Men’s Basketball Game Sunday, January 22 2–4:30PM Meet @ Boonshoft

CJCE Grades 6–8! Ride together to Wright State University to watch the men’s basketball team in action! $9 per person, plus money to purchase refreshments at the game.

› Nighttime is the Righttime for Books Wednesday, January 25 6:30-8PM

@ Boonshoft CJCE A "best-loved books" celebration for the whole family! Join Early Childhood's Winter Social as we collaborate with PJ Library for author-inspired activities. We'll have favorite tales, groove to rhymes and music, capture your family "characters" at our photo booth, discover more about PJ Library, and end your day the best way… with a good book!

Programming is geared towards ages 6 and under, siblings are welcome!

JCC Maccabi Games

If you are a teen between the ages of 12 and 16 and have a passion for sports, then you belong on the Dayton JCC Maccabi team! You and your parents are invited to join us for an informational meeting at 5:30PM on Tuesday, January 31, at the Boonshoft CJCE. The Dayton team will be attending the games in Albany/Schenectady, NY on August 6–11. It will be a week you will remember for a lifetime!

Dayton BBYO teens enjoyed a recent outing at Breakout Dayton. BBYO is an organization for all Jewish teens, regardless of affiliation.

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Dayton Junior Youth Group

The Dayton Junior Youth Group is open to area 6, 7, and 8 graders. We get together for one social event each month. Please join us on Sunday, January 22, at 1PM when we meet at the Boonshoft CJCE and ride together to Wright State University to watch the men’s basketball team in action! Cost is $9/person, plus money to purchase refreshments at the game.

For questions about any of these programs, please contact Meryl Hattenbach, JCC Program Manager, at 401-1550 or mhattenbach@jfgd.net.

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Do you need a ride to an event or service at your congregation?

At JFS, our Transportation Service only functions on weekdays during business hours. Sometimes we have people contact us looking for rides to evening or weekend events or services at their congregations. JFS is unable to provide transportation at these times. If you want to attend an evening On Sunday, December 11, JFS had a great time at its Annual Chanukah Brunch, a partnership between the Active Adults, Hadassah, Jewish War Veterans, and Lynda A. Cohen Yiddish Club.

Despite the chilly weather,

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It’s that time again! The JFS Board packed the Chanukah bags for our seniors and delivered them during the week of December 19. Thank you Beth Abraham Synagogue, Beth Jacob Congregation, Chabad of Greater Dayton, Temple Beth Or and Temple Israel for supporting this initiative and our seniors!

PHOTO CREDIT: TARA FEINER

On December 12, at the JCC Community Chanukah Celebration, the community helped us to prepare for our Chanukah Senior Outreach. We love the decorated gift bags and Chanukah cards and we know our seniors will enjoy them, too!

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SCHOLARSHIPS Applications are available for the following scholarships:

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A little bit of Yiddish to share with friends, courtesy of the JFS Yiddish Club, in memory of Lynda A. Cohen.

Bord \BORD\ Noun A beard, chin.

Expression with bord: › A man ken zayn alt un hobn a groye bord, ober dos meynt nisht az er iz a khokhem. A man may be old and have a gray beard, but that doesn't mean that he is wise. › Di tsig hot a bord un vert

RESIDENTIAL CAMP SCHOLARSHIP: Funds are available for local youths planning to participate in a Jewish residential camp program during the summer of 2017. This scholarship is made possible through the Joan and Peter Wells Family, Children and Youth Fund.

TRAVEL TO ISRAEL SCHOLARSHIP: Dayton area Jewish teens and young adults, ages 14-21, are invited to apply for the Wolfe Marcus Trust Youth Travel to Israel Scholarship. Applicants must demonstrate financial need and plan to travel to Israel during the summer of 2017.

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP: Since its creation in 2006, the Vicky & Robert Heuman Scholarship has been awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student who demonstrates both academic achievement and financial need. The scholarship is open to Jewish Dayton area residents.

If you have any questions, or would like to request an application, please contact Alisa Thomas at 610-1796 or athomas@jfgd.net. Completed applications and supporting documentation must be received by March 17.

Awards will be announced on April 7.

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PJ Library January Events: Thursday, January 12 @ 5:30PM Kids' Mega Challah Bake @ Boonshoft CJCE Featuring PJ Library’s The Shabbat Box, bring your kids 2 and up to make their very own Shabbat box. Parents and grandparents are invited to stay and decorate a challah cover and kiddush cup along with their children. Together make candlesticks and braid your own challah to take home (complete with Rochel Simon’s coveted recipe)! Dinner will be served. Cost: $10/child.

Wednesday, January 25 @ 6:30PM Nighttime is the Righttime @ Boonshoft CJCE A “best-loved books” celebration for the whole family! Join us for author-inspired activities from favorite tales, groove to rhymes and music, capture your family “characters” at our photo booth, discover more about PJ Library, and end your day the best way… with a good book! Programming geared toward 6 and under, pajama attire and siblings welcome.

RSVP for both events at jewishdayton.org or call Karen at 610-1555.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Classes

JCC Cooking Class at El Meson: Mon., Jan. 30, 6 p.m.

903 E. Dixie Dr., W. Carrollton. $54. R.S.V.P. by Jan. 20 to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Temple Beth Or Classes: Sat., Jan. 7, 10 a.m.: Mazel Tots w.

Rabbi Chessin. Sun., Jan. 8, 15, 22, 1 p.m.: Adult Hebrew w. Rabbi Chessin. Sun., Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, 1 p.m.: Beginning Hebrew for Adults w. Renee Peery. Thurs., Jan. 12, 1 p.m.: Socrates Café. Sat., Jan 14, 10 a.m.: Tanakh Study w. Rabbi Chessin, potluck lunch. Sat., Jan. 21, 10 a.m.: Torah/Talmud Study & Service w. Rabbi Ballaban, coffee & bagels. Sun., Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m.: Tanakh Study w. Rabbi Chessin. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 4353400.

CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. $10 per child includes dinner. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

JCC Early Childhood Winter Social: Nighttime is the Righttime for Books. With PJ Library. Ages 6 and under.

Wed., Jan 25, 6:30-8 p.m.

Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Teens

Dayton Junior Youth Group WSU Men’s Basketball Game: Sun., Jan. 22, 2-4:30 p.m.

Grades 6-8. Meet at Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. $9. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Temple Israel/Omega Baptist MLK Weekend Pulpit Exchange: Fri., Jan. 13, 6:15 p.m. at Temple Israel w. the Revs. Ward, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. Sun., Jan. 15, 10:15 a.m. at Omega Baptist w. Rabbi Bodney-Halasz, 1821 Emerson Ave., Dayton.

Beth Abraham/Corinthian Baptist MLK Interfaith Shabbat: Fri., Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m. At Beth Abraham, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

293-9520.

Young Adults

Dayton MLK Walk: Mon., Jan. 16, 8 a.m. Meet at Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton to join member of the Jewish community for the walk.

For more info., call Jodi Phares, 610-1555.

Temple Israel Classes: Wednesdays, noon: Talmud Study w. Rabbi Sobo. Bring lunch. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.: Torah Study. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050.

YAD Dinner & Ice Skating: Sat., Jan. 21, 7 p.m. Jimmy’s Ladder 11, 936 Brown St., Dayton. 8:30 p.m. at RiverScape, 237 E. Monument Ave., Dayton. Ages 21-35.

R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 6101555.

Discussions

Women

Left vs. Right - The Battle for Israel’s Soul: debate between Forward’s J.J. Goldberg and Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin.

Sponsored by JCRC. Tues., Jan. 17, 7 p.m. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. Free. For more info., call Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Beth Abraham Synagogue Men’s Club Brunch: Sun., Jan. 15, 10 a.m.: Marc Katz, Sports & The Civil Rights Movement. $5. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 293-9520.

Combined Brunch, Beth Abraham & Temple Israel: American Jewish Archives Dir. Rabbi Dr. Gary Zola, American Jewry & Their Fight for Religious Freedom. Sun., Jan. 22, 9:30 a.m. At Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. $7.

496-0050.

JCC Book Club: Fri., Jan. 20, 10:30 a.m.-noon The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.

Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

Temple Israel Ryterband Lectures: Sundays, 9:45 a.m. breakfast, 10:15 a.m. lecture. Jan. 8: Dr. F. Rachel Magdalene, Methodist Seminary, A Glimpse of Life During the Exile from Newly Discovered Texts. Jan. 29: Rabbi Bernard Barsky, Panel on Ex-Offender Re-Entry. $7.

130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 4960050.

Children

PJ Library & Chabad Kids’ Mega Challah Bake: Thurs., Jan. 12, 5:50 p.m. Boonshoft

Chabad Rosh Chodesh Society Classes: Simple Truths - Pivotal Jewish Insights for Centered Living. Seven-part series on Sundays, 9:45 a.m. beginning Jan. 8 & 29. $99 for all classes & book or $15 per class and $15 for book.

2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood.

R.S.V.P. to Devorah Mangel, 974-8648.

Seniors

JCC Yiddish Club: Sun., Jan. 29, 1:30-3 p.m. Starbucks, 2424 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood.

For info., call Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Wright State University International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture: w. Dr. Mehnaz Afridi. Wed., Jan. 25, 7 p.m. Student Union Room 008. Free. For info., call Dr. Mark Verman, 775-2461.

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LIFECYCLES

KVELLING CORNER

Sara Faith Nicholaisen Debbie (Norb) Klopsch and Craig Nicholaisen are pleased to announce the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Sara Faith Nicholaisen, on Jan. 28 at Temple Israel. Sara is the granddaughter of Edward (Rachel) Kirschman, Pearl Kirschman, and Judy and the late John Nicholaisen, all of Colorado. Sara is the younger sister of brothers, Jack (17) and Sam (15). Sara is a seventh-grade honors student at Oakwood Junior High School. Sara is active in OJHS Cheerleading, the theatrical programs at the JCC, and plays the cello in the OJHS orchestra. She enjoys her cat, Midnight, and is anxiously looking forward to an addition to the family — of the canine variety. Sara loves music, dancing and hanging out with friends. Her mitzvah project will involve making scarves/headcoverings for Dayton area cancer patients.

Wendy Rachlin and Roger Pankake are pleased to announce the birth of their first grandchild, Eliana Joy Rachlin, born to Kevin and Jennifer Rachlin of Arlington, Va. on Nov. 12.

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Beth Abraham Synagogue Sisterhood has announced its 2017 Women Of Valor honorees: Rena Beyer, Leslie Buerki, Debbie DiSalvo, Beverly Farnbacher, Esther Feldman, Linda Horenstein, and Susan Joffe. The Women of Valor luncheon will be held on May 3.

Rachel Haug Gilbert Bonnie Parish, executive director of Family Services, is now also executive director of Womanline, following a formal partnership arrangement that began Dec. 1. Womanline is now a program of Family Services, a collaboration that aims to reduce overhead and indirect costs for the agencies’

professional counseling and mental health services. Both work with victims of crime, trauma, and other mental health disorders. Womanline’s counseling for those with eating disorders will continue through Family Services, along with increased opportunities for outreach, education, and treatment.

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Intermarriage Continued from Page 10 sets their professional standards, is a relatively rare event.

The last expulsion, according to Schonfeld, occurred a year and a half ago, though she could not say why. Because Rosenbloom is retired, the expulsion will have little practical effect on him.

But Rosenbloom isn’t the only rabbi breaking from the movement over intermarriage.

Rabbi Adina Lewittes decided to leave the R.A. three years ago so she could perform interfaith weddings. Lewittes said she is hearing from an increasing number of Conservative rabbis who agree with her stance privately.

“I’m very intent in using my opportunity with the couple to convey to them we celebrate them but we also have expectations that they will continue to be engaged with Judaism and the Jewish people,” said Lewittes, rabbi of Sha’ar Communities, a network of small Jewish communities in New Jersey.

Many Conservative synagogues, while not performing intermarriages, do celebrate the couple ceremonially before and after the wedding, through prewedding rituals and by welcoming them as congregants afterward.

“How we work with families where not everyone in the family is Jewish is tremendously important to us,” Schonfeld said. “A tremendous amount of effort is invested by the Conservative movement and the Conservative rabbinate in making our synagogues really welcoming places for everyone.”

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RELIGION

CONGREGATIONS Beth Abraham Synagogue Conservative Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg Cantor/Dir. of Ed. & Programming Andrea Raizen Monday through Friday 6:50 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Fri., 5:30 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m.

Sundays at 8:30 a.m. 305 Sugar Camp Circle, Oakwood. 293-9520.

BethAbrahamDayton.org Beth Jacob Congregation Traditional Rabbi In Residence Adam Rosenthal Saturdays 9:30 a.m., Sundays 8 a.m., Sunday through Friday, 7 p.m.

7020 N. Main St., Dayton. 274-2149.

BethJacobCong.org Temple Anshe Emeth Reform Rabbinic Intern Sara Otero-Eiser 320 Caldwell St., Piqua.

Call Eileen Litchfield, 937-5470092, elitchfield@woh.rr.com.

Correspondence address: 3808 Beanblossom Rd., Greenville, OH 45331. ansheemeth.org Temple Beth Or Reform Rabbi Judy Chessin Educator/Rabbi Ari Ballaban Fridays 7 p.m.

Saturdays 10 a.m.

5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400. templebethor.com Temple Beth Sholom Reform Rabbi Haviva Horvitz See Web site for schedule.

610 Gladys Dr., Middletown.

513-422-8313. thetemplebethsholom.com Temple Israel Reform Senior Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo First Friday each month 6 p.m. followed by Share Shabbat meal.

All other Fridays, 6:30 p.m.

Saturdays 10:30 a.m.

130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

496-0050. tidayton.org Temple Sholom Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg Fridays 6 p.m.

2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield. 399-1231. templesholomoh.com

ADDITIONAL SERVICES Chabad of Greater Dayton Rabbi Nochum Mangel Associate Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Youth & Prog. Dir. Rabbi Levi Simon. Beginner educational service Saturdays 9 a.m. adults, 10 a.m children. Sundays 9 a.m.

2001 Far Hills Ave. 643-0770. www.chabaddayton.com Yellow Springs Havurah Independent Services 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10-noon. Antioch College Rockford Chapel. Contact Cheryl Levine, 937-767-9293.

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Honest comfort

By Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Chabad of Greater Dayton Among the great comforts of this coldest and darkest season of the year is snuggling up with a good book.

Not always does that mean we are turning to things we believe to be lofty. Comfort reading and dutiful reading mostly point us in different directions. But not always. Two Worlds Exist: Poems by Yehoshua November (Orison Books, 2016) is a wondrous exception.

There is much comfort in this small profound volume, but it is

Perspectives not cheap or easy comfort.

The words themselves are fresh and clean, plain-spoken language that does not tax the reader with pretension or needless obscurities.

It is rather that the poet brings his readers deep into the real mysteries of our own existences, the genuine struggles that real people experience every day, in privacy and dignity.

The real experience which the poet confesses is that of a profoundly religious man in a deeply traditional community.

Cliché would have it that such a person would have little in common with others who do not share his commitments. But his spiritual and artistic integrity shed all traces of cliché.

No membership card is needed to access his work, though it profoundly illuminates the shared Jewish experience so many of his readers bring. Teaching at Rutgers University and Touro College, November, like most of us, lives simultaneously in many worlds.

His poems light up our shared

is something unexpectedly fresh and quick in the poetry of Yehoshua November. His is a distinctly informal and conversational mode of writing. His lifelong endeavor to make a appeal is not to the authority coherent whole, to find the underlying truth that unites our of doctrine, whether religious or esthetic. His voice is that of spirit, our mind, our emotion a close friend inspired by the and our deeds into one good sudden intimacy of and meaningful life. the conversation to Poetry has been a hide nothing, lest the part of the worship right moment never of God as long as we come again and his know. It is not only hard-won visions the songs of Moses, remain unshared. He Miriam, Deborah and respects the intimacy; David that show this. even in confessional The very act of speakmode, he does not ing about — and to say more than you — God requires us to use language in a Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin are willing to attend to. way that goes beyond And many of these poems the prosaic, and uses the power of the music of words and ideas are confessional, in that most important sense that they acto connect us to the Divine.

There is good reason that our knowledge a larger reality. This is no abstract acknowledgement Torah and Haftorah portions of some hypothesis, but of a are not simply read in speaking tones. Their moving power, living reality already implicit in present in the words and ideas, our own authentic emotions and thoughts. This larger reality, by are powerfully augmented by its very existence, demands he the cadences and tonalities of — and we, too — account for the cantillation.

Through the ages, poetry has ourselves in order to know how to transcend our own habitual continually asserted its power. limitations.

In the English lanAnd so Noguage, the genius Poetry is ideally vember takes us of John Milton into his own life was forthrightly suited to say — remembrance and didactically things which of cruelty he inreligious. flicted as a child; a As the modern cannot be wondering that he world took shape, explained, yet has never imageven though the upon which all ined well enough openness to the of life’s meaning how his wife has didactic faded, seen their marthe attraction of may depend. riage while he the spiritual did spent so much not. Giants of modernity, such as Yeats, Pound time setting down his own experience; his own realization of and Eliot, found the themes of the inadequacies of his beliefs. religion inescapable, even if, in seeking authenticity, some were Here, he speaks of his inability to reach a student in a remedial to stumble into the dark realm English class he taught at the of antisemitism. state university: For all its precedent, there

I hate my life. I’m gonna fail this class a second time.

January • Tevet/Shevat

Torah Portions Shabbat Candle Lightings January 6, 5:10 p.m.

January 13, 5:17 p.m.

January 20, 5:25 p.m.

January 27, 5:33 p.m.

January 7 Vayigash (Gen. 44:18-47:27) January 14 Vayechi (Gen. 47:28-50:26) January 21 Shemot (Ex. 1:1-6:1) January 28 Vayera (Ex. 6:2-9:35)

He grabbed his phone and red sports drink. slammed the door.

Then deeper silence: quiet as water, field and sky the millisecond that followed man’s first failure.

(In the Middle of the In-Class Essay Exam) Mishandled, such poetry could be tawdry and repulsive, like the insincere recitation of faults by a drunk to a chance partygoer that neither will wish to remember the next day. No-

vember does not mishandle. In the simplicity of his language, he evokes the way you would wish to talk to a dearest friend in life, evoking the desire to grow in wisdom and insight that makes us most human. In his poetry, his religious commitment as a Chasidic Jew is clearly lived as central to his art and fully integrated within it.

He does not propose it as the answer to end all questions, but as the key to asking questions that mean most for him and his readers to ponder and live together: When I was younger, I believed the mystical teachings could erase sorrow. The mystical teachings do not erase sorrow.

They say: Here is your life.

What will you do with it?

(Two Worlds Exist) This is genuine humility, having something to say precisely for knowing the limits imposed by truth and art. In his mind, this is bound up with the mystery of life lived within the pains and the limits of our bodies and the world itself and precisely there being called to the infinite. In The Possibilities of Language, he speaks of celebrity intellectuals proclaiming the incompatibility of having children and of real art: A child is infinity my rabbi said when we met in the worn-down yeshiva coat room after my wife had given birth.

A child is infinity he repeated, without explaining.

Poetry is ideally suited to say things which cannot be explained, yet upon which all of life’s meaning may depend.

November’s poetry, like the Chasidic texts he studies, are a mode of meditation — an integrative meditation that does not end when the book’s cover is closed, but accompanies one back into a life newly familiar, newly wondrous: Sometimes, out of nowhere, the soul awakens in the middle of the life in the body. And the world cannot go back to its games in the same way.

(The Lower Realm) Familiarity without cliché, intimacy without imposition, art, religion and life bound together in a lasting, passionate embrace — this one is worth your read.

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JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION

For the sake of Heaven Back to basics series The arrival of Christmas trees, store sales, and holiday music regularly launch a flurry of articles about the December Dilemma: How should Christmas intersect with the lives of American Jews?

Author Jan Larkin writes, “My Christmas stocking at my in-laws in Vermont…is white wool, knit with blue Jewish stars.”

Candace R. Kwiatek On the other hand, Rabbi Menachem Creditor remembers being told not to enjoy Christmas lights, meaning he had to duck for cover every third house. He does wonder, however, if this is really a healthy or viable Jewish response.

His question is magnified by some fascinating statistics from the 2013 Pew Research Center survey. Ninety percent of American Jews do not identify as Orthodox or traditional.

Nearly six in 10 of today’s marriages (since 2000) involve a non-Jewish spouse, the majority from Christian traditions.

The Jewish retention rate of children from intermarriages is rising, encouragingly, from 25 percent of those born midcentury to 59 percent today, half of whom identify specifically as Jewish by religion.

Adding to the complexity, today’s Jewish family networks also include non-Jewish adopted children, members of blended families, and extended families of converts.

The Jewish reality of yesteryear — in-marriage fostered by societal expectations, parental approval, matchmaker pairings, arranged marriages, and neighborhood weddings — is no longer the prevailing trend in America.

On the other hand, that portrait may be a romantic oversimplification. Not all Jewish relationships have conformed to expectations in any time or place, a reality artfully depicted

by Tevye’s daughters in the musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Furthermore, over the centuries, Jews have often branded even fully Jewish unions as intermarriages: Polish/German, Ashkenazi/Sephardi, Israeli/ Ethiopian, American/Russian, formal convert/born Jew, traditional/non-practicing, Conservative/Reform, even politically conservative/liberal.

Not all rituals have conformed to traditional Jewish norms either, even within fully Jewish homes.

“Viennese and German Jews commonly decorated for Christmas,” notes history professor Steven Aschheim, including Zionism’s founding father Theodor Herzl, although his rabbi disapproved.

Even the renowned Kabalah scholar Gershom Scholem grew

disputes, but also in their abilup with a Christmas tree and ity to respect and work with Silent Night at home. each other.” Rabbi Michael While I’m not advocating Chernik concurs: “(W)e must for Christmas trees, lights, and learn to argue with each other carols in Jewish homes, I have respectfully, with compassion come to the conclusion that the and empathy for one another…

December Dilemma is really a putting aside our own ego and synecdoche, a figure of speech the need to win at all costs… encompassing a much bigger assimilating important truths of issue, both personal and comothers, even when their truths munal. shake us up a bit.”

How should we respond as In other words, as we read our families become increasingin Ethics of the Fathers, argue ly complex? How can today’s “for the sake of Heaven.” It’s a Jewish families respect divermitzvah. Take note. sity while fostering authentic, Respect: Treat one another meaningful Jewish experiences with the respect and growth? and dignity due What can our Not all rituals communities do have conformed every human, each of whom to support and to traditional was created in the welcome their image of God. Be diverse members Jewish norms, Always. who seriously even within fully kind.

Welcome: Folseek to create low Abraham’s Jewish lives and Jewish homes. example. He families that, opened his tent on all sides to while they may not look like welcome those who wanted to ours, are Jewish nonetheless? tell their stories, to share in his Perhaps most important, journey. Be friendly. Invite. how can we as individuals and Encourage: Celebrate others’ as holy communities act with accomplishments in their own integrity and honor — with complicated Jewish life jourmenschlichkeit — year-round neys. Their journeys are not while addressing these chalyours. Offer support. Motivate. lenges?

Don’t assume: Just what “Most of the time, we do not,” blogs Daniel Landis, even does that pine tree in the living room mean? Before you though our tradition offers assume, learn the facts. Before role models in “the schools of you judge, understand why. Be the liberal Hillel and the strict positive. Ask. constructionist Shammai…

Seek clarity, not agreement: (renowned for) their sharp

“Conflict is a curious gift because it sharpens us…” writes Glenn Stanton, director of family formation studies for Focus on the Family.

“Seek clarity, not agreement,” offers Dennis Prager.

Until you understand the issue, you can’t imagine the possibilities or know how to proceed.

Invite conversation. Actively listen. Hear.

Pursue authenticity: Seek genuine Jewish answers from multiple diverse sources. Appreciate alternatives. Consider.

Think consensus, not compromise: For the sake of Heaven, work together to develop agreements or decisions that, while maybe not perfect, are good enough, ones with which everyone can agree. No one should feel like a loser. We win. Together.

Our diversity is both a challenge and an opportunity to make our Jewish people stronger, more deeply rooted, and more prepared for the future through understanding, reflection, and innovation. Our diversity can also be a challenge and an opportunity to act as menschen (humanely): acknowledging each other’s Jewish journeys despite their complexities and contradictions and even conflicts, but always respecting each other as reflections of the Divine. Let us not just argue, but act for the sake of Heaven.

Literature to share Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Richard Simon and Tanya Simon. Alternating between full-page illustrations and comic-strip panels, Eight Blessings is part historical fiction, part Jewish tradition, and part universal virtues. A young boy escapes to America from Nazi Europe and encounters generosity, caring, helpfulness, and other kindnesses while trudging through New York City. While the basic story is simple enough for the elementary ages, the rich images and unexpected endnotes will fascinate adults as well. Highly recommended.

A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Woman’s Quest for Peace

by Noa Baum. Vividly captured in the language of a storyteller, Twice Promised is the intellectual and emotional memoir of an Israeli who explores and challenges the traditional Israeli and Palestinian narratives of Israel. Baum deftly guides the reader along her journey to a recognition that the truth is more about shades of gray than black and white. Thought provoking, and totally engaging. I couldn’t put it down.

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OBITUARIES Gerald R. (Jerry) Colp, age 90 of Dayton, passed away Nov. 23.

Mr. Colp was born in Dayton on Aug. 14, 1926 to Jacob and Rose Colp, who preceded him in death along with his twin sister, Gloria Klein, and older brother, Terry Colp, and his son Ronald Colp. He is survived by his son David Colp of Niskayuna, N.Y. Mr. Colp was a lifelong member of Temple Israel.

He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1944. For many years he worked for Paymaster Checkwriters before (and even after) getting his real estate license. This led to a career of about 50 years in commercial and industrial real estate, first working for others, and then with his own agency. He donated his body to the Anatomical Gift Program at Wright State University.

Irene Friedman, 87, of Rockville, Md., Naples, Fla., and Dayton, passed over surrounded by her family on Nov. 29. Mrs. Friedman was a lover of good books, good conversation, the stock market, and good friends. She is survived by her high school sweetheart

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Regina M. Krochmal, age 84 of Dayton, passed away Nov. 26. She was born and raised in Atlanta by the late Morris and Linda Maslia. Mrs. Krochmal moved to Dayton with her husband, Jerome J. Krochmal, in 1952. While raising three children, she worked as a longtime receptionist at Dayton Center

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during World War II, serving in Australia, the Philippines, and Okinawa. He then worked as an auditor for the Internal Revenue Service in Cleveland. He loved to travel, collect coins, build model trains, and read and discuss any topic of Jewish interest. Burial was at the Park Synagogue Cemetery in Cleveland.

Raymond Schneider, 95 of Springfield, was born in Bronx, N.Y. on Oct. 12, 1921, and he passed away peacefully with family on Dec. 3. He was the only child of Jennie Greenburg Schneider and Saul Schneider, though he grew up with many cousins in the Bronx. After high school graduation, he was accepted into New York University in New York City, studying engineering. Prior to graduation from NYU, Mr. Schneider had joined the ROTC and was called up to service with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. Mr. Schneider became a flight engineer instructor and was a graduate of the first group of soldiers in the U.S. Air Force, commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant.

Mr. Schneider remained active in the USAF reserves and was called back into service during Korea, again instructing soldiers to become flight engineers for the pilots. He owned the Ray Schneider Insurance Agency and was involved with insurance for more than 70 years. Ray and Marilyn were introduced through a dear friend, Calvin Goros. Cal and Marilyn were classmates and Cal and Ray met in a model airplane club. Marilyn and Ray were married May 15, 1943, a week earlier than planned because he was called up to serve in the U.S. Army. The Schneiders celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary on May 15. They have traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. They were snowbirds in Florida for 26 years, however their favorite place and where they call home has been Springfield, Ohio. Mr.

Schneider’s survivors include his wife, Marilyn; his children, Bruce (Sharon), Larry (Diana) and Joan; and his four grandchildren, Amy (Dennis) Brozak, LaShonda “Lacy” DeCarlo, Sarah (Jeffery) Brooks and Benjamin Schneider.

His six great-grandchildren called him and Marilyn “GG”.

Mr. Schneider was predeceased by his parents, Jennie and Saul Schneider and numerous friends and cousins who were dear to him.

Mr. Schneider had been a member of Temple Sholom since 1951 and served in many capacities on the board. He was also a member of the Springfield Country Club.

Throughout his life, he was active in many clubs and organizations, starting out with a model airplane club and a weight lifting club as a teenager. He and his best friend, Cal, spent many hours at the backgammon board! As an adult, he was a member of several bowling leagues, three tennis clubs, and he played handball at the YMCA. In the past decade, he played bridge with Don Jones, Bob Wagner, Al Goebel, and Don Culler. Interment was at Ferncliff Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Temple Shalom, 2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield, OH 45503.

Richard Solgan, 86, passed away on Dec. 4 in Ormond Beach, Fla. He was a furniture salesman in Dayton, where he was born. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Evelyn; sons, Robert of Southern California, David (Nancy) of Yorktown, Va., and Marc (Brickette) of Spring Hill, Fla.; and daughter, Elaine (Dave, Best Son-In-Law) Hoehn of Ormond Beach, Fla.; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Mr. Solgan was a gentle, loving and proud husband, father and grandfather. His greatest pleasure was being with the family.

Goodbye sweet love, you will be missed. Please make donations to Vitas Hospice at 2350 Mason Ave., Daytona Beach, FL.

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Reasons to watch Younger TV Land

By Linda Buchwald, JTA TV Land's Younger is a fun sitcom about Liza (Sutton Foster), a recently divorced 40-year-old mother who passes herself off as 26 after having a tough time landing a job in the publishing industry.

The show — created by Darren Star, of Sex and the City and Beverly Hills, 90210 fame — has already impressed us with its Jewish content.

In the first season, one of Liza’s young new friends, Lauren (Molly Bernard), decides to throw a “Hot Mitzvah” — a redo of the Bat Mitzvah when On Younger, Maggie (Debi Mazar, L), hosts a Shabbat dinner for her you're older, better looking love interest, Malkie (Sally Pressman), and her friends and more confident. (This is an amazing idea and we hope it Malkie and Maggie meet at which is outdated now. “Somecatches on.) a community garden; Malkie body (who works on the show) Now in its third season, invites Maggie to an event at had to know somebody or have Younger recently upped the her boutique to celebrate her been in a circle where they Jewish content with an obsernew spring line. When Maggie heard the word,” she said. vant Jewish lesbian, Malkie walks in and sees the mezu2. Malkie shows that Ortho(Sally Pressman), who’s the zah and Israeli wine, she says, dox woman can be stylish love interest of Liza’s best “I thought you were gay, not There is a misconception friend and roommate, Maggie, Orthodox.” that dressing modestly means who is not Jewish (though she To which Malkie replies, looking frumpy — but women is played by actress Debi Ma“Well, why can't I be both? I'm of all stripes can cover-up in zar, who has a Jewish father). what you might call an Orthowell-fitting, attractive clothing.

She just may be the first gay dyke.”

Malkie owns a boutique on Orthodox character to have Hearing that term on Brooklyn's uber-hip Bedford a major arc on a mainstream television was surprising, Avenue called Covered Girl television show. (perfect name) and tells Maggie So far, Malkie’s been in three said Kabakov, who is also the editor of the anthology Keep that she sells “stylish clothing episodes. (Spoiler alert: She Your Wives Away From for the modern woman, mostly was moving too fast for Them: Orthodox Women, Orthodox Jewish women.”

Maggie but they ended Unorthodox Desires. The The clothes — such as flowy on good terms, so we're term first originated tops and fun hats — appeal to hoping she'll show up in an informal social anyone. Maggie picks up a nice again.) After all, Jewgroup that formed in scarf when she walks in. ish gay characters are Jerusalem in 1992, she 3. She demonstrates that rarely shown on televisaid, and it later moved religion and sexuality are not sion, and neither are mutually exclusive Orthodox characters of Eshel Exec. Dir. to New York in 1995.

“We became re“I just think it's so cool how any kind — so to have Miryam Kabakov ally popular, but we you’ve managed to hold onto a character that is both were never recognized by any your faith and sexuality,” Magis a win for visibility in itself. community — not the Jewish gie tells Malkie at one point.

“It brings this underground community, not the Orthodox In a single statement, Maggroup to light,” said Miryam community — so for me, this is gie puts a spotlight on a small Kabakov, executive director really exciting,” she said. “Now community that has managed of Eshel — whose mission is everybody has exposure to this to do just that. to create community and acgroup of people that I’ve idenFor Kabakov, who grew up ceptance for LGBTQ Jews and tified with, and connected with in a modern Orthodox envitheir families — of Malkie's and found community with.” ronment, “I decided that I was appearance on the series.

Kabakov said that the first going to be fine,” she said of Whatever happens with time she heard the word Orher personal journey. “Nobody Malkie, Younger is worth thodyke used publicly was in could take my Orthodoxy from watching for its strong female comedian Judy Gold's routine. me.” characters and its potential for “Some women were very 4. The episodes expose more Jewish content. You can happy about it,” she recalled. viewers to other aspects of Jucatch up on Amazon or at TV “It was the first time they felt daism, including the mikvah Land's website or app. And they had made a bit more of When Malkie runs into her regardless of what happens to the mainstream.” ex-turned-BFF, Sarah, Sarah Malkie, her impact is felt. Here Kabakov noted that you'd asks her if she’s going to the are five reasons why Malkie's pretty much have to know an “spiritual spa.” Maggie, who appearance on Younger has Orthodyke to use the word. doesn’t realize Sarah is referbeen groundbreaking.

She adds that if they started ring to a mikvah (ritual bath), 1. She introduces the term the group today, they would gets jealous imagining Malkie “Orthodyke” to a pop-culture not have used the word dyke, audience Continued on next page

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Continued from previous page naked at a spa with her ex.

This being television, Maggie decides to follow them there and drags Liza along.

When Maggie goes in — with her numerous tattoos on full display — one woman yells, “There's a shiksa at the mikvah! Run!” The pandemonium that ensues is exaggerated for comedic effect — the women race to get out of the water and then drain it — but for the most part, it gives the audience more information about a ritual they might not know much about.

For example, when Liza sees a sign that reads “10 Commandments of Our Modern Mikvah” — which includes rules like no acrylic nails, no cell phones and you must immerse fully — there’s actually some Jewish law on display here.

5. Younger gets a lot right about being Orthodox and gay For a half-hour sitcom with limited time to devote to this subplot, it's impressive how many details the show gets right.

For one, it's not unusual for an Orthodox lesbian to date a woman who isn't Jewish, Kabakov said. “It's a personal preference, but I have met women who have no problem being with a non-Jew; for some it means not having to deal with the conflict (between the Orthodox community and being gay) for two people,” she explained.

At times, the show misses the mark. When Maggie hosts a Shabbat dinner for Malkie's friends, she buys kosher food (at a shop called The Kosher Butcher's Daughter) and makes dishes like sweet potato latkes and lox crostini. Maggie’s kitchen isn’t kosher, however, so Malkie and her friends probably wouldn't have been so nonchalant about eating off of her nice dishes — she should have at least used paper plates and plastic utensils.

But the accuracies are far more important than the errors — and what Younger does is give readers a taste of this community. Malkie points out there are lots of Orthodox lesbians in Brooklyn — surprise! — and Kabakov agrees.

“Having a community is key to identity formation and retention,” she said. “When people are completely alone in their identity that is seemingly conflictual, the chances of them identifying that way are not going to be as strong as if they have a group of friends that identifies that way and is proud of it and makes it work.”

Koshary

Egyptian, vegetarian, and delicious Koshary might be one of the best vegetarian dishes you’ll ever taste

By Ronnie Fein, JTA Koshary, an Egyptian specialty, is one of the best vegetarian dishes I have ever tasted.

It’s street food, sold everywhere you look, including carts and stalls in Cairo — along with everywhere else in Egypt. It’s carb-loaded and comforting, bountifully flavorful and rib-sticking.

My grandma would have said that koshary has the “tata and the mama” in it. Indeed, this dish contains a lot of stuff!

It includes pasta, rice, lentils, chickpeas and fried onions topped with a cumin-infused, gently spicy tomato sauce.

Koshary developed as an offshoot of other Middle

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Eastern and South Asian foods by people who migrated to Egypt during the late 19th century, when the British occupied parts of both areas. It’s similar to both mujadarah (Middle Eastern) and kitchari (an Indian specialty), which are both based on rice and lentils, but which don’t include tomato sauce.

There is also some speculation that koshary’s closest ancestor is an Iraqi Jewish dish called kichri, although that dish has no pasta and is often eaten topped with a fried egg or a dollop of yogurt.

Although you have to cook koshary’s several parts separately, you can do the work piece by piece and ahead of time, then put the different elements together at the last minute and reheat the dish in the oven. I’ve

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For serving, you can arrange the different elements in layers or side by side, as you wish, and serve the sauce on top or separately.

Koshary (Yields eight servings) Tomato Sauce 2 Tbsp. olive oil 1 large clove garlic, chopped 1 tsp. finely chopped fresh ginger 1 2-inch cinnamon stick 28 oz. can Italian-style tomatoes, including liquid, chopped 1/2 tsp. ground cumin 1/4 tsp. ground coriander 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper Koshary 6 oz. small pasta such as elbows, farfele 1/2 cup lentils 1/2 cup white rice 3 1/2 Tbsp. olive oil 2 large onions, sliced 1 cup canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained

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Spoon the lentils on top of or alongside of the macaroni. Add the rice to the serving dish.

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Spoon the caramelized onions onto the serving dish.

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