THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 4 ADAR, 5770 SHABBAT: FRI 6:01 – SAT 7:01 CINCINNATI, OHIO VOL. 156 • NO. 30 SINGLE ISSUE PRICE $2.00
SPECIAL SECTION Kids/Summer Camps Page 12
NATIONAL Will Israel’s response to Goldstone be enough? Page 7
Dr. Hodes visits Cincinnati this Monday Dr. Rick Hodes—who was appointed by the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in 1990 to provide medical care to Ethiopian Jews awaiting immigration to Israel—will be in Cincinnati on Monday, February 22 for a series of briefings with community leaders and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) physicians and administrators. In addition to his work with Ethiopian Jews, Hodes also pro-
vides general medical care in a nonsectarian JDC program at Ethiopia’s Mother Theresa Mission where he works with heart disease, spine disease and cancer patients. A 1982 graduate of the University of Rochester Medical School who trained at the Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Hodes will meet with CCHMC representatives Monday afternoon. In 2009, Hodes worked with an 18-member delegation from Cincinnati—led by Dr.
Marc Levitt—who traveled to Ethiopia on a medical mission to perform 24 colorectal surgeries. (Dr. Levitt is the Associate Director of the Colorectal Center for Children at CCHMC.) Ethiopia has 80 million people and only four pediatric surgeons. Over 45 percent of newborns die and over 50 percent of the population is under 20 years old. Dr. Hodes’ work in Israel through the JDC is accomplished with funds
raised through the annual campaigns of the Jewish Federations of North America in partnership with United Jewish Communities. On Monday morning, the Jewish Federation’s Young Leadership cabinet members will join Dr. Hodes for a breakfast briefing. At noon, several community leaders both from within and outside of the Jewish community will
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Party Planning Showcase at the J, March 7 The fifth annual Party Planning Show Case is a little over two weeks away. On Sunday, March 7, the show case will bring a variety of vendors who provide supplies and services for major parties together under one roof – the J – for five hours beginning at 11in the morning. For those planning a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, wedding, sweet 16 party, corporate event, graduation or any other major party, the event offers an efficient way to discover new party
The Party Planning Showcase provides party-throwers the ideas, products and services to create a memorable event.
concepts and new vendors. This year offers a lineup of vendors, still growing, that includes caterers, photographers, DJ’s, and caterers as well as of flowers and balloons. Now in its fifth year, the event has grown into what the organizers call an “extravaganza,” with raffle prizes and free food. And this year there will be a fashion show at 1 p.m. It is the one place, once a year, that all event planning can be dome in one location on one day. Admission and parking are free.
Protesters arrested at California university by Lisa Armony Guest Author
ISRAEL NIF fracas: Defending Israel or destroying democracy? Page 10
LOS ANGELES (L.A. Jewish Journal) — Israel’s ambassador to Washington was heckled throughout much of a speech on the University of California, Irvine campus, leading to the arrest of 12 protesters, including the president of the campus chapter of the Muslim Student Union. The ambassador, historian
Michael Oren, came to the Orange County campus Monday to address an overflow crowd of more than 600 students, faculty and community members at the UCI Student Center on the subject “U.S. - Israel Relations: A Historical Perspective.” He was interrupted 10 times by boisterous hecklers and dozens of jeering students before the antiIsrael protesters walked out en masse to stage a demonstration
outside. Security was tight on the campus, where the Muslim Student Union has been extremely active in staging anti-Israel protests, and where multiple clashes and unrest between anti- and pro-Israel demonstrators have occurred at public events. In 2007, anti-Israel protesters unfurled provocative banners and heckled conservative political analyst Daniel Pipes of the Middle
East Forum during a lecture titled “The Threat to Israel’s Existence.” With rumors circulating of students’ plans to disrupt Oren’s speech, university officials spoke to Muslim Student Union members before the event in an attempt to ensure civil discourse, according to Shalom Elcott, chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation Orange County.
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Bernard Lander, Touro founder, dies by Uriel Heilman Jewish Telegraphic Agency
DINING OUT Noce’s Pizzeria ‘slicing up’ the competition Page 14
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Bernard Lander, who died Monday from congestive heart failure at the age of 94, was not a man who cared much for appearances. The executive offices of the international academic institution he founded, Touro College, are housed in a nondescript building on 23rd Street in Manhattan, and the
paint job in the hallways looks like the color was chosen back in the Eisenhower era. But the building’s modest appearance, like its founder’s, is deceptive. It represents the headquarters of a vast educational empire whose domain stretches from China to the Middle East and all the way into the heart of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Lander, a soft-spoken gentleman who looked more like a synagogue
candyman than the relentless builder and scholar who presided over Touro for nearly its entire existence, over the course of four decades turned what was a private dream into an international academic institution. In building the college, his mission was as much about sustaining Jewish tradition as it was with providing education. Lander’s career as an overachiever began early. He started as
a rabbi in Baltimore at 22 after receiving his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University. While serving as a rabbi, Lander commuted to his native New York to pursue a doctorate in sociology at Columbia University. Upon finishing his studies, Lander was appointed by the governor of Maryland to conduct a study on youth crime in the Old Line
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