Jewish Foundation of Calling all Cinti Cincinnati prepares Jewish bikers for expanded role
Gettler JCRC Breakfast Briefing Series
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati is embarking on a major new strategic planning process to expand the Foundation’s philanthropic capacity and strategically invest its resources. The Foundation has hired Rosov Consulting, LLC, a national firm with broad experience in philanthropic and non-profit consulting, to assist in the research, planning and infrastructure expansion, as well as aid in the development of longterm funding priorities.
With the increasing importance of U.S. national security, in particular involving the Middle East and the U.S.-Israel relationship, and with an eye toward engaging and educating community leadership on those subjects, Dee and Ben Gettler have generously committed funding to ensure the continuation of a breakfast briefing series organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) for the past 20 years. The series, which
All Cincinnati-area and northern Kentucky Jewish motorcycle and scooter riders are invited to an organizational meeting on Sunday, Oct. 24, to discuss forming a local chapter of the Jewish Motorcyclist Alliance. Interested men and women will meet over breakfast at 9:30 a.m. at Marx Hot Bagels in Blue Ash, and then depart for two rides in the beautiful Ohio countryside north and east of the city. One group, led by Barry Wolfson, will include scooters and motorcycles up to 250cc on a two-hour ride. Riders on larger bikes will follow Sheldon Davis on a five-hour loop. All participants will have a map, in case they need to head back before the route is completed. “There are 18 JMA chapters worldwide, including Israel, Canada and Australia,” according to Davis. “There’s an active Jewish motorcycling community in Cincinnati, and as individualistic as bikers tend to be, it’s also fun to get together for group rides, outings, meals and even long-distance touring.”
Gary Heiman
FOUNDATION on page 22
BIKERS on page 22
Dee and Ben Gettler
GETTLER on page 19
Loyalty oath law, causing stir in Poll: Jewish support for Israel, met by U.S. Jewish silence Obama falling By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — A day after Israel’s Cabinet announced that it would consider making a loyalty oath mandatory for non-Jewish immigrants, the question put to The Israel Project’s president and founder was simple enough. “How did your organization react?” Natasha Mozgovoya, the Washington correspondent for Israel’s daily Haaretz, asked Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi at a news conference last week announcing an expansion of The Israel Project’s activities. “We didn’t put out a press release” was all Mizrahi would say. The story, making headlines in Israel and around the world, redounded into emptiness in the mainstream American
Jewish establishment even after the Cabinet approved the oath in a vote Sunday. The silence reflected a reluctance to criticize Israel at a delicate period in its negotiations with the Palestinians, and as Israel gears up for what could become intensified confrontation with Iran. The loyalty oath, which must be approved by the full Knesset to become law, would require non-Jewish immigrants to swear allegiance to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.” It was a longtime condition of participation in the governing coalition by Yisrael Beitenu, the party that helped crown Benjamin Netanyahu prime minister in early 2009 by joining his Likud Party in the government. A measure that has drawn sharp criticism
By JTA Staff Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish approval of President Obama is dropping, a new national survey has found. Some 51 percent of American Jews approve of the job Obama is doing, compared to the 44 percent who disapprove, according to a just-completed American Jewish Committee survey. The numbers represent a drop from the 57 percent approval
LAW on page 20
POLL on page 21
Courtesy of American Jewish Committee
Question No. 5 in the American Jewish Committee polls indicated falling support for Obama’s handling of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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