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Remembering Max Frankel The American Israelite is saddened to learn of the death on May 13, 2011 (9 Iyar, 5771) of Max Frankel. Although some will remember with fondness how Mr. Frankel led the auxiliary services for the High Holidays for Max and Gloria Frankel many years at Golf Manor Synagogue—and his extraordinary Jewish Culture and Arts program, which featured noted artists and performers several times each year—he is perhaps best remembered in local circles for his 25 years of dedicated service as the executive director of the Bureau of Jewish Education. At the time of his retirement 14 years ago, Mr. Frankel was the most senior in length of service of all directors of Bureaus and Central Agencies for Jewish Education in the United FRANKEL on page 21

The American Israelite website hits all time high in May

Robert S. Kraft Memorial Service to honor fallen soldiers

Plus this week’s Facebook winner

On Sunday, May 29, 2011, at 10:30 a.m, B’nai B’rith will hold the annual memorial service at the Robert S. Kraft Memorial Garden in the Covedale Cemetery. This memorial service is held in memory of the servicemen of the Jewish faith from the Greater Cincinnati area, who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving overseas in the U.S. Armed Forces. The program is presented by B’nai B’rith of Greater Cincinnati Alfred M. Cohen Unit #4.

Family members of the honored and former members of the Armed Forces, for the 68th year, will also participate in this program.

Keynote speakers, will be State Rep. Robert Mecklenborg of the Ohio 30th District, and representing the military this year is Captain Leonard, Operations Flight Commander of the Air Force ROTC Unit at the University of Cincinnati, who will speak on the life of soldiers in

The American Israelite website has so far received 2,632 unique hits for the month of May. As this number has outperformed the previous record of 2,148 in April, the viewing of the website is projected to hit an all time high by the end of May 2011. A unique visitor is counted only once no matter how many times they have visited a site. This method is measured by a computer’s IP address (Internet Protocol Standard), which acts like online fingerprints.

Each of these unique visitors span a wide audience from young professionals to families to teens, baby boomers, senior adults and more. Remember to stick with the oldest for what’s new.

Also, congratulations to Carolyn Criss Wetzler, this week’s “like” us on Facebook contest winner. Carolyn has won a $50 gift certificate to Embers Restaurant. Don’t forget to “like” us, for your chance to win!

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Netanyahu: 1967 lines ‘indefensible’ At AIPAC, effort to shift focus back to agenda: Iran, foreign aid, Capitol Hill relationships

By JTA Staff Jewish Telegraphic Agency

(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu responded to President Obama’s call for negotiations based on the 1967 lines by saying these lines are “indefensible” borders for Israel.

The Israeli prime minister urged Obama to reaffirm commitments made by President George W. Bush regarding Israel’s borders and the fate of Palestinian refugees.

“Israel appreciates President Obama’s commitment to peace,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.

“Israel believes that for peace to endure between Israelis and Palestinians, the viability of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of the viability of the one and only Jewish state.”

In his Thursday policy address at the

State Department, Obama had said that the borders of a “sovereign, nonmilitarized” Palestinian state “should be based on 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.”

Netanyahu’s office said in response that he “expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress.”

“Among other things, those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines, which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria beyond those lines,” the Prime Minister’s Office said. “Those commitments also ensure Israel’s well-being as a Jewish state by making clear that Palestinian refugees will settle in a future Palestinian state rather than in Israel.”

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By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — Let’s get past this U.S.-Israel relationship thing, so we can get on with important stuff, like the U.S.-Israel relationship.

That seemed to be the message this week at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

With 10,000 people and both the U.S. and Israeli leaders in attendance – plus 67 U.S. senators and 286 members of the U.S. House of Representatives at the gala dinner on Monday night – this AIPAC parley was the biggest and in many ways the most impressive ever.

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House majority leader, addressing the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, May 22, 2011

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‘Peace of the City’ recognizes Weiland Dick Weiland will be recognized for his tireless activism on behalf of Cincinnati’s nonprofit sector at the Peace of the City dinner 5 p.m., Sunday June 5 at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza. The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati and Jewish Family Service are taking the lead role in this event that will benefit over 35 local nonprofit organizations. United States Senator Rob Portman will be the guest speaker.

For a full list of the recipient organizations or for ticket information, please visit the Jewish Family Service website or contact JFS.

Beth Schwartz, Executive Director of JFS; Dick Weiland, and Shep Englander, CEO of Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

Support the JCC Adams Golf Classic The Mayerson JCC invites golfers to play 18 holes on a championship course at the 17th annual JCC Adams Golf Classic on Thursday, June 16 at Shaker Run Golf Club in Lebanon, Ohio.

The event honors Bob Brant for his significant leadership for both the JCC and the Jewish community. The deadline for registration is June 1, and details are available on the JCC’s website.

This popular annual event begins at noon with a casual lunch, followed by a golf scramble beginning at 1 p.m. (with a shotgun start) and a 6 p.m. dinner reception. This year, foursomes will play on all 27 different holes for an efficient tournament.

Shaker Run Golf Club was named one of America’s 100 greatest golf courses by Golf Digest Magazine, and is ranked as the number one

public course in Ohio by Golfweek Magazine. The course offers bentgrass fairways, tees and greens, and has water hazards that come into play on 14 holes. It also boasts a 135-acre lake, waterfalls, rolling hills, rustic bridges and captivating views.

The JCC Adams Golf Classic offers an afternoon of many contests and camaraderie for the entire community. There are several different tournament contests, including longest drive, closest to the pin, hole-in-one and more.

A dinner reception and raffle drawing begin at 6 p.m. Attendees have the option to participate in all the activities or solely the evening reception. This year’s top raffle prizes include a 40-inch flat screen HDTV, a 14-karat white gold pendant set, a signed Kevin Youkilis jersey, a $100 gift Card for embers, Bengals tickets and more.

Raffle tickets may be purchased at the JCC before the event, and winners need not be present.

Those who do not wish to golf can support the JCC Adams Golf Classic by purchasing raffle tickets, attending the dinner reception or sponsoring the event. Many sponsorship levels are available, and there is also a wide range of volunteer opportunities.

Another way to be involved without attending the event is to donate items to the JCC for Donations2Dollars.

Donated household items such as antiques, art, electronics, jewelry, leather and sporting goods are sold on eBay with the proceeds benefitting many vital programs offered by the JCC. To register by June 1 or to get more information on the JCC Adams Golf Classic, check out the ad in this week’s paper.

Mercaz Hebrew High School graduation On Sunday, April 10, Mercaz Hebrew High School held its graduation ceremony. With 21 students in the senior class representing Adath Israel Congregation, Congregation B’nai Tzedek, Northern Hills Congregation and Congregation Ohav Shalom, the evening began with a homemade dinner sponsored by Marla and Scott Reis and family for graduates, Mercaz students and their guests.

The graduation ceremony—with emcee Daniel Brook—began with a welcome and opening blessing from Rabbi George Barnard.

Lainey Paul and Jeff Wolkoff shared with the guests what their Mercaz experience had meant to them and what they had learned over the years. Jeff talked about his past conversations with Rabbi Wise, who encouraged him to do the right thing and stick with

Mercaz until he graduated, and how glad he was that he did. Lainey mentioned that when people asked her why her parents still made her go to Hebrew School that she responded she chose to go because for her it was a way to continue her relationships with the friends she had made at Yavneh (now Rockwern Academy). They both spoke to the current Mercaz students and told them that if they stick with Mercaz and graduate that they will feel a great sense of accomplishment.

Michelle Glazer, Hillary Goldsmith and Kirsten Reiser shared the senior project with the graduation guests. They held a kosher canned food drive to benefit Jewish Family Service’s Food Pantry. They collected food at all of the participating synagogues and then went the week before gradua-

tion to deliver the food and stock shelves. The senior’s part of the program ended with the viewing of the senior video that was put together by William Harrison.

Mercaz presented the Nate Kaplan Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in Jewish studies to William Harrison, son of Carol Hershenson, and to Rose Mervis, daughter of Ronn Mervis and Linda Kean. These two students truly took advantage of what Mercaz had to offer both academically and socially. The ceremony came to a close as Rabbi Irvin Wise offered a D’var Torah to the class and then Rabbi Eric Slaton presented the closing prayer.

The board of directors of Mercaz, the rabbis and educators wish our graduates all the best in their future endeavors. Mazel Tov to the Mercaz graduating class of 5771.

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Jewish community shows support for Guttman Family, Rockwern Academy Nearly 500 community leaders, parents, teachers, former students and supporters of Jewish Day School education gathered together on Monday, May 16, 2011 at Adath Israel Congregation to honor the Guttman family at Rockwern Academy’s (formerly Yavneh Day School) annual tribute dinner.

“We are honoring this extraordinary family for their ongoing passion and dedication to Jewish education in Cincinnati,” remarked Ben Schneider, board president. “Three generations of Guttmans have demonstrated exceptional philanthropic leadership and helped countless

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individuals and organizations.”

Ariella Guttman Cohen, granddaughter of Murray and Florence Guttman (of blessed memory) and daughter of Harold and Cindy Guttman, spoke eloquently about her family’s passion for Rockwern Academy and Jewish education.

She remarked that “Rockwern is comprised of students from so many different backgrounds.

Despite their differences, however, every student shares one important commonality; their Jewish identity and the pride they feel for who they are and what they stand for.”

Another of Murray Guttman’s grandchildren, Brandon

Guttman, son of Steve and Joan Guttman, went on to add, “If you have young children like I do and are considering Jewish education versus the secular, do not underestimate the value of giving your child a sense of strength, power and pride in who they are. It will last a lifetime.”

After graduating from Yavneh, Brandon became president of his junior and senior class at Cincinnati Country Day and later went on to earn a degree in economics from Harvard University. Both Ariella and Brandon have young GUTTMAN FAMILY on page 20

YPs meet ‘Police Women of Cincinnati’ Stop! Get your hands in the air...and put them together for the “Police Women of Cincinnati,” our city’s coolest crime-fighting celebrities recently featured on a cable reality show of the same name, who will be appearing live as part of an upcoming YPs at the JCC program for young professionals, 21-35, on Wednesday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the courtyard at the Mayerson JCC. This event includes a light dinner and is free with advance reservations.

However, space is limited and will fill up.

From high-speed car chases to drug busts and undercover prostitution sting operations, these brave and amazing women are making a difference every day as

they patrol some of the most dangerous streets in Cincinnati. All four police women will share their fascinating stories and discuss what it’s like to face the unknown.

“I am a huge fan of the ‘Police Women of Cincinnati!’ They represent our city in such a positive light and are amazing role models, especially for women,” said Laura Rose, a frequent YPs at the JCC participant.

For those YPs who would like to work out with the Police Women before the dinner and presentation, they can join Sergeant Tia Pearson for the J’s popular Knock Out group exercise class at 6:30 p.m.

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Audio Books at Wise Temple library Planning a road trip? Wise Temple’s Ralph and Julia Cohen Library has these terrific new audio books on CD. The Violin of Auschwitz, by Maria Angels Anglada (performed by David Colaccdi)

Imprisoned at Auschwitz, a crafter of fine violins is told that unless he can build a successful violin within a certain number of days, he will be turned over to a notorious torturer.

The Trials of Zion, by Alan Dershowitz (read by Dick Hill)

A young Jewish-American lawyer joins the defense team of

an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian. Soon the lawyer’s father, a famed criminal attorney, must win the Palestinian’s case or risk losing his daughter forever.

To do so, he must take into account the tormented history of the Holy Land from every possible angle.

The Tenth Song, by Naomi Ragen (read by Karen White)

A Boston Jewish family that seems to “have it all” falls apart during a financial scandal. Mother and daughter run off to Israel and unexpected self-discovery.

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Rockwern Academy’s early childhood parent/child class Rockwern Academy is offering an exciting new parent/child program for toddlers who turn 18 months by September 2011.

Mothers/caregivers/grandparents are invited to join their child two days a week in a unique “Mommie & Me” class designed to help each child feel successful while mastering cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills. The class will be facilitated by a professional preschool teacher. Parents/caregivers will provide extra help and support to their child.

This class is a perfect transition into preschool and a perfect way for moms and parents to join the Rockwern family.

Rockwern Academy’s parent/child program includes: • Music and physical education • Outdoor and indoor play areas for large motor development • Large, well-appointed classroom • Shabbat & Jewish holiday celebrations • Art projects

Father and child enjoying Rockwern’s program.

You and your children can enjoy the new “Mommie & Me” class at Rockwern Academy.

Typical Daily Routine • Free play time – exploration of the learning centers • Clean-up time – teaching sorting skills, cooperation and responsibility • Circle time – teaching developmentally appropriate concepts • Snack – developing healthy habits, teaching manners and social skills • Gross motor time – providing gross motor development activities

• Music and movement-teaching age appropriate movements and melodies Each child will get the one-onone attention he or she needs to thrive both socially and academically in a Jewish environment.

The program is academically focused, developmentally appropriate and designed to instill confidence in each child. Small classes enable the teachers to

truly know and understand each child, thus helping them reach their full potential. A love of Judaism and the foundation for learning about Jewish values and traditions begins at this earliest age.

The class runs from August 25, 2011 to June 7, 2012, and the class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

For more information about additional early childhood education programs, the cost for your child to attend or to enroll your child, contact Rockwern Academy.

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AJC Annual Meeting to focus on ‘Rising China’ What is AJC doing in China, a nation with very few Jews? James Busis, director of AJC’s Asia Pacific Institute, recently led an AJC mission to Japan, Korea, and China, where the group spoke with influential government and business officials on behalf of Israel. “Rising China” is his topic at the Annual Meeting of AJC

Cincinnati on Wednesday, June 1.

Annual meeting co-chairs Kathy Claybon and Bill Katz have planned a 6:30 p.m. reception and 7 p.m. buffet dinner at Losantiville Country Club, followed by the election of board members and the talk by Busis.

Nominating/Leadership committee chair Patti Heldman will

present the slate of new board members for a term ending in 2014: David Bratslavsky, Eric Dauer, Edward Frankel, Abram Gordon, Kurt Grossman, and Jerry Teller.

Renominated to the Board for a three-year term are John Cobey, Brad Glazer, Andrew Heldman, Ken Heldman, Andrea

Herzig, Sandra Kaltman, Rick Michelman, Alter Peerless, Sonny Saeks, Melissa Schwartz, Jan Shuller, and John Stein.

President John Stein and other officers have one year remaining in their terms on the executive committee.

Serving with Patti Heldman on the Leadership/Nominating Committee are Jeff Goldstein,

Brad Greenberg, Mark Heiman, Sandy Kaltman, Don Kaplan, Rick Michelman, John Stein, Julie Weisser, and Felicia Zakem.

AJC is a global Jewish advocacy organization, founded in 1906, which seeks a secure Jewish future in a more just world.

Cincinnati JAHM moments: Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise One of the most prominent Jewish leaders of the 19th century, Isaac Mayer Wise was instrumental in establishing the major ideas and institutions of Reform Judaism in America, including the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Hebrew Union College, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

Born in Steingrub, Bohemia

(now the Czech Republic) on March 29, 1819, Wise immigrated to America in 1846 to lead Congregation Beth El in Albany, N.Y. There, he introduced such significant reforms as sermons in the vernacular, choral singing, mixed seating and confirmation, all of which created significant controversy and eventually led to Wise’s

departure from New York.

Wise moved to Cincinnati in 1854 to become rabbi of B’nai Yeshurun, which he built into the largest and most prominent congregation of its time. A proponent of religious reform and community unity, Wise published a prayerbook entitled Minhag America in 1847 in an effort

to synthesize Judaism with American culture. During that same year, he founded The American Israelite newspaper and was its first editor. Wise presided over numerous attempts to create a union of American synagogues, most notably the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and in 1875

founded Hebrew Union College, the first Jewish seminary in the United States. Wise became its president and teacher. Wise was also an organizer and mover in the establishment of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, in 1889. Elected its president, he served until he died on March 26, 1900.

Climb Mount Sinai at Chabad Jewish Center June 8 commemorates the holiday of Shavuot, the day the Jews received the Ten Commandments (Torah) with the revelation on Mount Sinai. In celebration, Chabad Jewish Center will host an unsurpassed Shavuot party complete with a 25-foot rock wall.

Adults will enjoy a dairy social while children of all ages can reenact Moses’ ascent up Mount Sinai to receive the Torah. The reading of the Ten Commandments and an ice cream bar will cap the festivities.

Shavuot is a unique time for children to celebrate. Our Sages share with us a conversation that occurred between G-

d and the Jewish people as a prerequisite to receiving the Ten Commandments. In this conversation, G-d asked the Jewish people to name their guarantors. The Jewish people offered the heavens and the earth. G-d wanted better. The Jewish people offered the merit of the forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. G-d still was not satisfied, and asked again, who will be your guarantors? Finally the Jewish people presented all their future generations of children. With this, G-d was satisfied, and agreed to accept the children as guarantors for the Torah.

“Our children are the key to the survival of our people,” said Rabbi Berel Cohen director of

Youth and Family Programming at Chabad Jewish Center. “Shavuot is a wonderful opportunity to instill within children a pride in being Jewish, and a connection to the previous generations, as well as creating a sense of purpose and contribution to the world; to actualize the Divine potential for goodness imbued by the Creator within each and every one of us.”

The Shavuot Rock Wall and Ice Cream Party will be Wednesday, June 8, from 6 – 8 p.m., at the Chabad Jewish Center in Blue Ash. The party is free of charge, compliments of Chabad Jewish Center. Sponsorship opportunities for this and other events

are still available.

But first, don’t miss out on Chabad’s popular “Sleepless in Cincinnati” on June 7, the Tuesday night before the Shavuot party. Chabad Jewish Center will offer its annual Shavuot Torah-discovery seminar on the inner dimension of G-d’s Torah and the mystical Kabbalistic teachings of the holiday.

Study sessions will be conducted throughout the night by Rabbi Yisroel Mangel and Rabbi Yitzchok Lifshitz, as well as by special guest scholars who will be present for the traditional all-night study program. Sessions will expound on subjects such as “The Real

Big Bang - When Heaven Touched Earth” and “The Significant Role of Women and the Holiday of Shavuot.”

The tradition dates back to the night prior to G-d giving the Torah. Instead of spending time to prepare themselves spiritually for the greatest revelation to ever occur, the Jewish people went to sleep.

This was an affront to G-d.

Therefore, on the first night of Shavuot, Jews customarily stay awake all night studying Torah.

For more information please contact Chabad Jewish Center.

Seventh grade b’nai mitzvah program at Wise Temple As the school year comes to an end, and we reflect on the successes of the past year, we at Wise Temple are particularly proud of our 7th grade b’nai mitzvah program. Our 7th graders meet about once a month (in addition to Religious School on Sunday mornings) for engaging, interactive sessions rooted in experiential education. At the core of the program lies the idea that it is not enough to just merely teach values of responsibility, participation and integrity — we believe that children must discover them

for themselves. Our main goal in this program is to provide the context in which the students can begin to experience the meanings of these essential Jewish values and how they fit into their own lives.

It has been a great year for 7th grade, from the MiniMaccabia Day (color war) in September to traveling to HUC to participate in the Reach for the Stars videoc o n f e r e n c e i n M a y. I n December, students participated in the “My Neighbors” program, in which they learned about how to

respond appropriately to those who are different than themselves. The 7th graders took part in a wide range of activities, including a text study, art project, and a role play around the power of words, specifically the phrase “That’s so gay.” The session ended with a guest speaker from the Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless who shared his own story of homelessness, which helped to personalize this important issue for our students.

Each session is entitled “My ___” because we want the stu-

dents to take ownership of the particular topic. Another memorable session, “My G-d,” included a “G-d Mall” where students could shop at various stores for their personal theology. Our dedicated, knowledgeable staff assisted students in articulating their beliefs and questions about G-d, a subject that can be challenging for anyone (especially adolescents) to explore. The staff also helped to bring Jewish text alive in the “My Jewish Tradition” session, in which students tried to stump our expert panel by asking for

advice from our texts to help with modern day problems (for example, the Torah teaches us that a well is the perfect place to meet your soul mate!).

During the 7th grade year, the students discover what it means to be a part of the Jewish people, explore their developing Jewish identity and form a kehillah kedoshah (holy community) with their classmates. This program is just one component of Religious School at Wise Temple. To learn more, p l e a s e c o n t a c t t h e Wi s e Te m p l e Education Office.

Wexner Heritage Village has 60th anniversary with Roslyn Kind, June 2 COLUMBUS — Wexner Heritage Village invites the community to celebrate its 60th anniversary from 6 to 8 p.m., on June 2, 2011, on its campus on College Ave. The event honors the organization’s history of caring, trust and excellence in meeting the needs of seniors since 1951, as well as the people and the community who have made Wexner Heritage Village a reality.

“Given the community’s generous, heartfelt support over six decades, Wexner Heritage Village truly is ‘the Roslyn Kind, Barbra Streisand’s younger sister

village that you built,’ because without you — the community — Wexner Heritage Village would not be what it is today, a progressive health care organization caring for people in need,” said David Rosen, WHV President and CEO. Recording artist Roslyn Kind, will mark the occasion with a private reception and performance. The event will also include displays of photos and artifacts highlighting the organization’s growth and his-

tory, hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, and remarks from WHV leadership.

The anniversary celebration also kicks off WHV’s five-year Campaign to Revolutionize Care at Wexner Heritage Village, which will underwrite plans to expand programs and services.

There is a cost to attend the event, and there’s an additional cost to attend the private reception with Roslyn Kind. Reservations and payment can be made online or by calling the Wexner Heritage Village.

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Terror plot against synagogues underscores ‘lone wolf’ threat

By Daniel Treiman Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — A foiled plot to attack New York synagogues offered a distressing reminder to the Jewish community that Osama bin Laden’s death does not mean an end to the threat of terrorism — especially from so-called “lone wolves.”

New York police arrested Algerian-born Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, a naturalized American citizen from Morocco, on May 11 in Manhattan.

Police made the arrests, the result of a seven-month investigation, after Ferhani purchased guns, an inert hand grenade and ammunition from an undercover detective.

Ferhani discussed disguising himself as a religious Jew, including growing payes, or side curls, and leaving a bomb or grenade in a synagogue — shooting any Jews who got in his way, if necessary, according to police.

“He was motivated to a great extent by a pathological hatred of Jewish people,” New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said of Ferhani.

The men were said to be driven by anger over what they saw as mistreatment of Muslims around the world.

“I can say that particularly with

the language that was used and the intent of the two individuals here that this incident left me stunned by the level of hatred,” said Michael Miller, executive vice president and CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.

Federal authorities were not involved in the investigation or the prosecution, which is unusual for a terrorism case. The two men were charged in state court.

They are not believed to have ties to any terrorist groups. The New York Daily News cited unnamed sources who said the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York did not get involved in the case because the plot was more aspirational than operational.

Kelly, however, said the case was serious.

“He purchased guns and a hand grenade, he wanted to go operational,” Kelly said of Ferhani in the interview with New York’s WCBS News. “It was, I think, a wise decision to take this case down when we did.”

The police say they are not aware of whether the men had a specific sagogue in mind as a target, though they say that the two had hoped to target a major synagogue in Manhattan.

A lawyer for Ferhani told the Daily News that his client said he had not committed any crime.

Mamdouh, in an interview with the paper, pointed a finger at Ferhani. “I never spoke about guns and blowing things up, either,” Mamdouh said. “That was him. It was all his idea. I had nothing to do with any of it.”

This would not be the first plot by unaffiliated and untrained “lone wolves” targeting New York-area synagogues.

Last year, four former convicts from Newburgh, N.Y., were found guilty of a plot to bomb synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The case was the result of an FBI investigation.

Some, however, have questioned whether any plot would have materialized if not for the encouragement of a government informant who provided the fake bombs placed in cars that were then parked outside two Bronx synagogues.

Yehudit Barsky, director of the American Jewish Committee’s division on Middle East and international terrorism, said it is important to realize that while prospective terrorists aren’t always well prepared or trained, it does not mean they aren’t dangerous.

“A guy with a gun shooting inside a synagogue or a church, or any building, an active shooter, is still dangerous,” she said. “I think we need to get over our stereotype of what terrorists do.”

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Months later, Jewish groups, Israel help Japan

By Sue Fishkoff Jewish Telegraphic Agency SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — In northeastern Japan, the area hardest hit by the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, a team of Israeli post-trauma experts guided local teachers and officials through their lingering pain.

One kindergarten teacher broke down in tears as she related how another teacher saw the great wall of water approaching her school and tried in vain to save her young pupils. Eight of the children were washed away, along with their valiant teacher.

“People were not aware how much the disaster affected them,” said Shachar Zahavi, the founder and executive director of IsraAid, a Tel Aviv-based nonprofit that is running post-trauma courses in the town of Watari, as well as providing other much-needed material and emotional aid in the region.

More than two months after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resultant tsunami destroyed thousands of homes, entire towns and countless lives in Japan, Jewish groups from North America and Israel continue to offer a helping hand to the Asian island nation.

“It’s not like the scene in Haiti,” said Zahavi, referring to the many international agencies, including several from Israel, that poured into the quake-stricken Caribbean island in 2010. “Most of the other agencies have left Japan by now. A lot of people, in Japan and Israel, are amazed we’re still there.”

The Jewish Federations of North America has raised more than $1 million for Japan. More than $800,000 has come from individual federations; the rest has been raised through donations

to the parent organization. Most of the money is funneled through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and its local agencies on the ground.

The JDC, the Home Front Command and Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces, and IsraAid all rushed to the scene of the disaster, offering emergency aid as well as ongoing help.

According to its communications director, Michael Geller, the JDC has raised $2.1 million for Japan aid. Much of it went to emergency supplies sent to the stricken region by foreign agencies, including Chabad, UNICEF and the International Rescue Committee. It also helped fund the IDF field hospital set up in Minamisanriku, a town in the Miyagi Prefecture where half of the 17,000 residents died in the tsunami.

The JDC is working through its partner agencies in Japan. With the American School there, the JDC bought desks and chairs for three schools in the city of Ishinomaki, and in tandem with Tokyo English Life Line is providing psycho-social support services and training to mental health professionals who work with children and the elderly. Geller said that more than 100 people will be trained by mid-June.

When the IDF medical corps pulled out of Japan in early April after treating 234 patients in its field hospital, it left behind more than healed bodies.

At the request of local officials, the Israelis left much of the specialized medical gear they had brought, including X-ray, ophthalmologic, orthopedic and ENT equipment, as well as surgical coats, syringes, bandages and other material supplies.

The team also donated the six prefabricated buildings it had set up for its field clinic, which has become the area’s main medical center, said Col.Ofir CohenMarom, an ob-gyn from Assaf Harofeh Hospital and the deputy to the IDF's chief medical officer.

“We were the only foreign medical delegation in Japan,” Cohen-Marom told JTA, explaining that usually only Japanese physicians are permitted to treat the Japanese population.

At first the Israeli team was escorted by medical personnel from Japan’s Foreign Ministry, he said, presumably to make sure that they were providing proper

care. Within a few days, however, the locals and the Israelis were working together, consulting on the same patients.

“It was hard to leave this suffering population after 2 1/2 weeks,” Cohen-Marom said. “It makes me happy to see they’re using the supplies and medical center we left behind. We really did a great thing.”

Marom-Cohen estimated that it will take up to three years for the region to rebuild, including constructing a new hospital. During that time, he said, the locals will continue to use the Israeli clinic and equipment.

IsraAid still has three or four staffers working in Japan, said Zahavi. The organization rehabil-

itated two kindergartens and distributed toys and school supplies to children via six shelters in Watari, Yamamoto and Sendai, and completed a 10-day post-trauma course for some three dozen teachers in Watari.

It’s the post-trauma help that is most unique, Zahavi told JTA. Israel’s lengthy experience with war and terrorism, he explained, makes it particularly qualified to offer the fruits of that knowledge to others. In Japan, where emotions are not typically displayed publicly, the teachers seemed grateful for the help, and the JAPAN on page 19

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By Jason Miller Jewish Telegraphic Agency WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich.

(JTA) — Jews have a reputation for answering a question with a question. That might help explain Rabbi Joyce Newmark’s big news — she is now a “Jeopardy!” champion.

In the episode of the television game show that aired Monday, Newmark had no problem defeating two other contestants and finishing with $29,200.

The 63-year-old Conservative rabbi hosted a viewing party Monday night at the Teaneck synagogue Congregation Beth Sholom, where she is a member.

The episode, which was recorded Feb. 2 in Culver City, Calif., aired 20 years to the day of Newmark’s graduation from the Jewish Theological Seminary.

A member of the first class of Wexner Graduate Fellows, she has served congregations in Lancaster, Pa., and Leonia, N.J., but currently writes and lectures.

While her profession was not a main focus of her appearance, it

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Rabbi Joyce Newmark added a new title: ‘Jeopardy!’ champion.

did not go unnoticed.

“As soon as I sat down in the makeup chair — the worst part of the entire experience — the makeup lady immediately began telling me why she had decided to take her son out of Jewish day school,” Newmark recalled.

Once the cameras started rolling, Trebek introduced Newmark as a rabbi, but then went on to ask her about her experience at

Woodstock, where she stayed at a motel rather than camp out.

Before the episode aired, Newmark wasn’t able to divulge much about what happened on the show, though she did insist that being a rabbi did not give her a leg up on any of the questions.

Well, maybe one — about which figure in the Bible succeeded Moses as the leader of the Israelites.

Newmark certainly knew the cor-

rect response (“Who is Joshua?”), but wasn’t able to buzz in early enough.

She did, however, nail the Final Jeopardy question: “From the Latin for ‘Free,’ this 2-word term for a type of College refers to the old belief of what a free man should be taught.” ... “What is liberal arts?”

Newmark was set to return Tuesday night to defend her “Jeopardy!” title.

At her audition, she was asked to fill out a form informing the producers if there were specific dates when she would not be available to tape. She wrote “Jewish holidays.”

Upon receiving the congratulatory call from the show about her selection, Newmark expressed surprise, explaining that she had never expected to be picked.

“We actually were going to call you two months ago,” the show official told Newmark, “but it was during Chanukah, so we figured you couldn’t come.”

(Rabbi Jason Miller is the director of Kosher Michigan.)

Herb Kohl’s politics were Wisconsin, above all

By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — It was quintessential Herb Kohl: The Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin held up the entire U.S. budget — including billions in defense assistance to Israel — over dairy pricing reform.

The hold, lasting through a tense night of deal making in November 1999, might have damaged another senator with the proIsrael lobby, especially any member of the body’s unofficial Jewish caucus. But Kohl was immune.

A department and grocery store multimillionaire and the owner of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, he paid for his own campaigns, for one thing.

More important, Kohl was all about Wisconsin. And Wisconsin was all about Kohl, sending him to the Senate four times with increasingly large majorities.

“He’s an extremely popular man in Wisconsin,” said Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s envoy for combating antiSemitism, who has known Kohl since her own days in the state’s politics.

In his last election, in 2006, Kohl received 67 percent of the vote in a state that is otherwise “purple” — swinging between Democrats and Republicans.

Announcing his decision not to

Senator Herb Kohl, who announced he will not seek reelection, has enjoyed strong support from Wisconsin voters.

run for re-election in 2012 last Friday, he made clear that his age, 76, was a factor.

“I’ve always believed it is better to leave a job a little too early than a little too late,” Kohl said. “The interest and energy I had for this job will find a new home.”

The decision has worried Democrats, who already were facing a tough season in 2012, with the likelihood that they will lose their three-seat majority in the Senate. They were swept out of the U.S. House of Representatives last year.

Kohl’s departure could end an anomalous chapter in American

politics: From 1993 until last year — when Democrat Russ Feingold was defeated — Wisconsin was represented by two Jewish senators even though its Jewish population barely tops 20,000 in a state with 5.65 million people. (Neighboring Minnesota, with a similarly small Jewish population, also has had at least one Jewish U.S. senator continuously since 1979.)

Kohl, elected in 1988, was the state’s first Jewish senator.

Feingold has been touted as a possible candidate to replace him in 2012. So have Reps. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, and Paul Ryan, a Republican.

Rosenthal said the pre-eminence of Jews in Wisconsin politics was grounded in the same reasons that Jews have played prominent roles in national politics: an attraction to involvement in government and public life.

“Herb had been chairman of the state Democratic Party, he had worked hard on building the party, so it was natural that he wanted to actualize the Democratic principles he had worked on,” she said.

In Wisconsin, it never seemed to matter much that both senators were Jewish, she said.

“It was a bigger deal for the Jews here,” in Washington, she said.

Kohl was best known for constituency politics, making time for muffins and coffee with visitors between 9 and 10 each morning, recalled a former chief of communications, Brad Fitch.

“Trying to drag Herb for a hearing away from those breakfasts was impossible,” said Fitch, now the president of the Congressional Management Foundation, a nonprofit group striving for better government.

Kohl’s passion was children, said Fitch, although he was single and childless.

“There was always one constituency that everyone in the office knew was more important to Herb than anyone else, and that was children,” Fitch said.

“He would say, ‘They don’t contribute to campaigns, they don’t have a lobbyist.’”

Briefs Four Bay Area Jewish groups get UpStart help SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) – Four new Jewish groups have been accepted into the UpStart incubator program, which helps support new Jewish nonprofits.

Accepted into this year’s program of UpStart Bay Area are: A Wider Bridge, which brings together lesbian and gay communities in Israel and North America; Amir, a gardening program offered to schools and other youth institutions as a way of teaching about hunger and environmental activism; The Kitchen, an unaffiliated Shabbat-centered Jewish community for young adults in San Francisco; and Urban Adamah, a Jewish service learning program in Berkeley that combines urban agriculture, social action and Jewish learning.

“These UpStarters are a lens on the future of Jewish life,” said UpStart founder and CEO Toby Rubin. “Each is shaping Jewish expression in meaningful ways.”

UpStart gives the groups professional training in leadership, business development, program design, Jewish learning and evaluation, as well as giving them an opportunity to showcase their work. Modest financial support is also offered.

San Francisco to put circumcision ban on the ballot (JTA) — A measure seeking to ban male circumcision will appear on the November ballot in San Francisco.

More than 7,700 signatures from city residents on a petition in support of the measure were approved as valid by city officials on Wednesday.

The measure, applying only in the city of San Francisco, would make it a misdemeanor to circumcise a boy before he is 18 years old. The maximum penalty would be a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Circumcisions would be permitted only for medical reasons, with no religious exemptions.

Even if the measure passes in November, it likely would be challenged as a constitutional violation of freedom of religion.

“This is a tradition not only practiced by Jews, but by Muslims and members of secular society,” Rabbi Yosef Langer, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of San Francisco, said. “The Jewish people and spiritually conscious people all over the world will certainly — and have always — risen to the occasion so that justice, and the will of the Almighty, will prevail.”

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A new generation of Jewish delis embraces sustainability

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By Sue Fishkoff Jewish Telegraphic Agency BERKELEY, Calif. (JTA) — Can a Jewish deli be a Jewish deli without pastrami?

That’s the question Saul’s Restaurant and Deli in Berkeley is facing after refusing the delivery of a truckload of pastrami because it did not meet the deli’s sustainability standards.

“We found out it is no longer hormone- and antibiotic-free, so we put it back on the truck and took it off the menu,” explained Saul’s coowner Peter Levitt, who has been a leader in artisanal food sourcing for more than a decade. “We’re going to hear a lot of backlash from our customers these next few weeks.”

Levitt was speaking at the socalled “Jewish Deli Summit” that he and his business partner Karen Adelman convened May 19 at Berkeley’s Jewish Community Center.

The confab, a follow-up to a similar discussion held at the same venue 15 months ago, brought together four cutting-edge deli owners from across the United States to talk about how to bring the fatty, meat-heavy, super-sized Ashkenazi deli cuisine of their forebears into line with contemporary values of health, nutrition and ethics.

“Last year we held a referendum to get permission from our customers to marry the mission of the Jewish deli with the sustainable mission,” Adelman told JTA. “In the past year there’s been a real blossoming of people breaking out the concept, making it live and breathe, so we wanted to bring them together to celebrate.”

A sustainable Jewish deli? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

Not at all, these mavens insist, although they acknowledge that very few people are doing what they do.

“We’re struggling to define what it means to make a modern Jewish deli at a time when the deli is in decline and people are asking why it exists, and what does it mean to the way I think about my past,” said Noah Bernamoff of the Mile End Deli, which opened in Brooklyn in January 2010 and was quickly crowned New York’s best deli by New York magazine.

“This is the way I like to eat, with a consciousness about what I’m eating,” he told JTA. “I don’t proselytize — it’s not my style — but when something’s on the verge of being lost, like the deli, you look for all the tools that can help your cause.”

The Jewish deli is an icon that

Saul’s Restaurant and Deli. Peter Levitt, co-owner of Saul’s Restaurant and Deli in Berkeley, Calif., serving up some of the deli’s grass-fed, sustainably produced meat.

many folks, no doubt, would say shouldn’t be messed with. And sustainability is a slippery concept, more an approach to food than a formal standard, one that emphasizes seasonal menus, locally sourced ingredients, in-house production and ecologically sound growing practices.

It can mean other things, too, like smaller portions of meat; no more 3-mile-high stacks on your sandwiches. For these new Jewish restaurants, it’s a philosophical choice as much as it is financial.

“Americans have doubled their meat consumption in recent years,” Levitt told JTA. “To do that, meat had to be made cheaper, along with a huge reduction in the ethics of production. The kids today say we can’t eat like this. They say we want to eat sustainably — that’s how they practice their spirituality.”

At Saul’s, the sandwiches have 6 ounces of meat rather than 12. But it’s mighty fine meat, Levitt says.

“You’re lucky you’re not in New York,” quipped Bernamoff, who faces his own uphill struggle with a menu that offers just five or six breakfast items, and 10 choices for lunch. “We’re all battling people’s nostalgia.”

It’s the nostalgia that is misplaced, these chef-owners claim.

Jewish cookbook author Joan Nathan, who moderated the panel discussion, agreed.

“You think they had huge matzah balls in Europe?” she asked rhetorically. “The big meat sandwich has become an American tradition, like big matzah balls, but that’s not what the deli was originally. The past is always changing.”

American deli customers are used to huge menus and being able to order whatever they want at any time of year. That must change, these chef-owners insist, if the deli is to survive.

Bernamoff recalls a customer

who came in soon after Mile End opened on a day when the restaurant had run out of meat.

“He shook his fist and said, ‘I’m never coming back.’ He was back a week later, he ate the meat, and on his sixth visit, his wife made us a cheesecake,” Bernamoff said.

Seasonality is another old-fashioned notion that these new delis say is part of their mission to revive.

At Saul’s, the pickles are homemade and only available when local cucumbers are in season, from October to June.

“If you eat pickles in February, you know they come from Costa Rica and they’re pumped full of chemicals,” Levitt warned. “You shouldn’t be eating pickles in February, and I hope you’ll start seeing that in all the new delis.”

Maybe and maybe not. Not all the panelists have the same commitment to sustainability as the Berkeley folks, or even the same interpretation.

“The No. 1 part of sustainability is staying in business,” said Ken Gordon, owner of Kenny & Zukes in Portland, Ore., explaining why his restaurant is not kosher. “We can’t afford a kosher kitchen, and there aren’t enough people who really care. Portland is not exactly west Jerusalem.”

In fact, none of these new delis is kosher, and the owners make no apologies. The restaurants are an expression of the owners’ Jewish sensibilities, they say, and each person’s is different. So Gordon serves bacon, whereas Levitt and Adelman do not.

“No one should question my definition of my own Judaism,” said Bernamoff, whose menu at Mile End Deli lists “chazzer,” Yiddish for pig, among the ingredients of its breakfast sandwich. “If I call myself a Jewish deli, that’s my prerogative.”

Google ordered to stop recommending anti-Semitic sites BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A court in Buenos Aires has ordered Google to stop recommending anti-Semitic and racist websites to users.

The injunction issued May 17 comes following a complaint filed by several Jewish organizations. The decision came on the World Day of the Internet.

The court ordered Google to drop some 76 websites described in the complaint as “highly discriminatory,” including some that deny the Holocaust. Judge Carlos Molina Portela also ordered that advertisements be removed from those sites.

The request for the injunction was prepared by Observatorio Web, a joint initiative that the DAIA political umbrella organization of Argentina’s Jewish community, the Latin American Jewish Congress and the AMIA Jewish community center developed to combat discrimination on the web.

In December 2010, after Observatorio Web publicly denounced Google for its recommendation of the anti-Semitic and racist sites, the company wrote in its blog for Latin America: “Google is committed

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and works in every country in which it has presence, including Argentina, to prevent the proliferation of violent or racist content. This is not going to impede the appearing of groups or organizations who would wish for different policies or who have more restrictive criteria of freedom of speech.”

Alfredo Neuburger, a political adviser at the DAIA, told JTA: “The class action undertaken by the legal affairs department of DAIA against Google is unprecedented and the swift decision of the court has significant implications in the global struggle against anti-Semitism.”

Strauss-Kahn resigns from IMF PARIS (JTA) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as managing director of the International Monetary Fund following his arrest and imprisonment on charges of sexual assault.

In a statement dated Wednesday on the IMF website, the popular left-leaning political figure, who was expected to run for French president in 2012, said, “it is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of Managing Director of the IMF.” Strauss-Kahn, who is Jewish, was taken off of a Paris-bound flight at Kennedy International Airport on May 14, and arrested on charges of assaulting a maid in his New York City hotel room that day.

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Israelis protest Obama policies at embassy in Tel Aviv

By Dina Kraft Jewish Telegraphic Agency TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli protesters demonstrated against President Obama’s recent statements on Israel and the Palestinians in front of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv.

Donning symbolic nooses around their necks and holding banners reading “Israel Won’t Commit Suicide,” some 100 protesters from My Israel, an organization representing settlers and

hard-line groups, gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv Sunday to protest President Obama’s recent declarations on his vision for a future Palestinian state.

The protesters gathered at the same time Obama addressed AIPAC. “We support America, but we can say to you, Obama you are wrong,” Ayelet Shaked, one of the event’s organizers, told the crowd.

“In your speech you abandoned a friend. You betrayed the only

true democracy in the Middle East (and) America’s only friend and ally, Israel,” she said, referring to the president’s new Mideast policy speech delivered at the U.S. State Department on May 19 in which he outlined a future Palestinian state according to pre1967 lines combined with mutually-agreed upon land swaps.

In a statement, the My Israel group described Obama’s new policy as requiring “exaggerated concessions from Israel without requesting Palestinians give up the right of return.”

Until his arrest in New York on charges of sexual assault, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was seen as a leading contender for the French presidency.

Livni praises Obama, blasts Netanyahu Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni praised President Obama’s Middle East policy speech and warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was opening a rift with the United States by criticizing it.

“An American president that supports a two-state solution represents the Israeli interest and is not anti-Israeli,” Livni, the leader of Israel’s Kadima Party, said on Friday.

“President Obama’s call to start negotiations represents Israel’s interests.” She said that “a prime minister that harms the relationship with the U.S. over something unsubstantial is harming Israel’s security and deterrence.” According to The Jerusalem Post, Livni said that such a prime minister should resign.

“I am saying this loud and clear,” she said.

Her stance was criticized by Otniel Schneller, a Knesset member from her Kadima Party. “Obama’s speech has placed before Israeli society and its representatives the challenge of unity and national agreement,” Schneller said.

“The political disagreements and aspiration of the opposition parties should not overpower their responsibility for the future of the state.”

press charges against him for an incident she claims took place in 2002, according to her lawyer.

While some Strauss-Kahn supporters are asking whether the expected front-runner for the presidency was a victim of conspiracy, Strauss-Kahn himself speculated in a recent interview with the leftwing daily Liberation that he might face three particular difficulties if he were to run for president: “Money, women and the fact I am Jewish,” he said.

While some are concerned that the incident could unleash antiSemitic sentiment in France, Marc Knobel, a researcher at the French Jewish umbrella group CRIF, said he had not found any significant reference to Strauss-Kahn’s religion in connection with his arrest.

On the contrary, “everybody knew he was Jewish, and that didn’t prevent him from being the most popular candidate in France,” said Richard Prasquier, the president of CRIF. “And that says something about France.

Today we find it completely normal that a Jew can become president.”

Strike at Schechter Institute involves salary dispute JERUSAELM (JTA) — Employees of Jerusalem’s Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies are striking over a salary dispute.

The strike at the Conservative movement’s institution has been in place since the beginning of the month. The strike affects only the institute’s Israeli students. The overseas program, made up of students from the Jewish Theological Seminary, is exempt from the strike.

The strike began after salary negotiations broke down over requests for the reimbursement of several months of a 10 percent salary reduction instituted in July 2009 following financial difficulties. Those difficulties came due to the death of a major donor, American billionaire William Davidson.

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Arrest of top presidential contender shakes France’s Jews

By Devorah Lauter Jewish Telegraphic Agency PARIS (JTA) — Shock waves continue to ripple throughout France as Dominique StraussKahn, considered the likely Socialist Party candidate to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy in French presidential elections next year, remains in a New York City jail on charges of sexual assault.

Saturday’s arrest of StraussKahn appears to significantly change the political playing field in France, as some recent polls had shown that the 62-year-old head of the International Monetary Fund was the most popular among those considered to be possible presidential contenders.

It also represents a particularly harsh blow for many in France’s Jewish community.

Strauss-Kahn — popularly known by his initials, DSK — has been outspoken about his Jewish identity in a country where politicians typically are mum about their religion. He also has expressed feelings of attachment to Israel in the past, all the while maintaining a measured distance from actively participating in Jewish institutions, according to Jewish leaders.

“We lost a friend,” said Rabbi Michel Serfaty, president of the Jewish-Muslim Friendship of France. “It’s true that the Jewish community has a friend in Sarkozy,” as well as among other Socialist Party leaders, “but with DSK there was no doubt he was a member of the community, interested in Israel, that we have lost.”

Among the large Jewish community in Sarcelles, a suburb north of Paris where Strauss-Kahn was a former mayor, the emotion was palpable.

“It is very painful for us,” said Marc Djebali, vice president of

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the Sarcelles Jewish community.

“I know him well. I’ve even seen him seduce a woman, but it was always with gentleness. He is someone who is very warm, and we never felt any problems of violence from him.”

Strauss-Kahn has pleaded not guilty to felony counts including sexual assault and attempted rape.

He was denied bail Monday by a Manhattan court and is in New York’s Rikers Island prison complex awaiting a grand-jury hearing.

The charges were filed following accusations by a 32-year-old chambermaid at a Sofitel hotel in Manhattan. The chambermaid said that when she entered to clean Strauss-Kahn’s room Saturday afternoon, he came out of the bathroom naked, pushed her onto the bed, assaulted her and forced her to perform oral sex, according to Paul Browne, deputy New York City police commissioner.

In France, Strauss-Kahn reportedly has a reputation for “running after skirts,” and he may face an additional sexual assault investigation here, where journalist Tristane Banon is now expected to

semester, and would be happy to go back to work as soon as a collective bargaining agreement is put together to the agreement of both sides,” said Paul Mandel, a senior lecturer at the institute and a member of the workers committee.

The institute receives no government funding; 70 percent of its operating budget comes from donations.

The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies offers a master’s degree in Jewish Studies designed for Israeli teachers, and sponsors centers and research institutes of applied Jewish studies. It is also home to the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, TALI Education Fund and Midreshet Yerushalayim.

“About two years ago, the Schechter Institute experienced a significant drop in income due to the worldwide financial crisis and the sudden passing of its single largest donor,” the institute said in a statement issued at the beginning of the strike. “As a result, management was forced to temporarily cut salaries, acting in a manner similar to many Israeli nonprofit organizations. It should be noted that Schechter management took upon itself the majority of the budget cuts.”

The statement added: “The workers’ union has not responded at all to management’s desire to compromise, and has continued to maintain its extreme position on all issues.”

Mother, grandfather convicted of murdering girl, 4 JERUSALEM (JTA) — The mother and grandfather of a 4year-old girl murdered in Israel have been convicted of killing her.

Ronny Ron and Marie Renault were convicted Thursday in Petah Tikvah District Court of murdering Rose Pizem in 2008. The girl, who was born in Paris, was the daughter of Renault, a French Jew, and Benjamin Pizem, Ron’s son. Renault later began a relationship with and moved in with Ron in Israel.

Ron was convicted of firstdegree murder, and Renault was convicted of soliciting the murder. Prosecutors will ask for a life sentence for both of them.

The couple were convicted of killing Rose and placing her body in a red suitcase that was thrown into the Yarkon River.

The suitcase holding the body was found in the river in September 2008 following an extensive search for the girl, who had been missing for four months.

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Forever, a non-kill animal shelter.

As part of his mitzvah project all of the proceeds from his Vegas night reception will be donated to the shelter.

Nicholas is the grandson of Peggy and Nat Friedman (formerly of Cincinnati) and Lorraine Giordano, all of Port St. Lucie.

Nicholas is the great-grandson of the late Blanche and Stanley Rich of Cincinnati, Ohio, the late Sue and Sam Friedman of Jacksonville, Fla., the late Rose and Gerry Giordano of the Bronx, N.Y. and the late Marie and Charlie Bizzaro of City Island, N.Y.

BAR MITZVAH GRADUATION icholas Stephen Giordano, son of Leslie and Ralph Giordano and brother to Jessica Samantha of Port St. Lucie, Fla. will be called to the Torah on June 18, 2011 at Temple Beth El Israel in Port St. Lucie.

Nicholas is a seventh grade Honor Roll student at Southern Oaks Middle School and is an active member in the afterschool Gamers Club. Once a week he volunteers at Dogs and Cats

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Gabriella, a National Merit Scholar, will be attending Reed College in Portland, Ore., in the fall. The entire family is very proud of her accomplishments.

Gabriella is the granddaughter of Lothar and Anita Haas of

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AWARD aomi Ruben of Loveland received the Cele Singer Award for Creative Innovation in Teaching at Isaac M. Wise Temple’s Shabbbat HaMoreh service held May 13. A 3rd grade Sunday school teacher, Ruben received the award from the temple’s Board of Education for her lesson entitled “Modern Maccabees.” The class learned about Jewish soldiers currently serving in the U.S. military, and compared their service with the dedicated soldiers from the Chanukah story. The school’s 3rd grade classes made and sent Jewish-themed magnets as gifts to our nation’s defenders of freedom for Chanukah. This is the second time Ruben has received this award, previously earning it in 2005 for involving 7th and 8th grade students in raising community awareness about the tragedies happening to the people in the Darfur region of Sudan.

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THREE CUPS OF TEA: ROCKWERN ACADEMY VISITS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY On Monday, March 7 the Rockwern Academy students visited their pen pals at the International Academy. This was the culminating event for the Three Cups of Tea program between the two schools. The students met to exchange tea cups, sing, and tour the school and the mosque. They were joined by Christiane Leitinger, the director of Pennies for Peace, and Fozia Naseer, a former student in Pakistan.

Rockwern Academy 5th grade students and their pen pals.

Rockwern Academy 5th grade students and their pen pals.

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Pen pals Mujtaba Khalid and Quint Kaufman

Pen pals Jessica Gallop and Melat Mohamoud

Pen pals Hiba Baayan and Alex Scheier

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By Marilyn Gale Dining Editor I am a city lady, born and raised in windy Chicago, so I consider myself an urbanite.

With that in mind, my revisit to Blue Elephant was done in hopeful anticipation that this relatively new restaurant in town, more specifically in the Hyde Park area, was thriving.

City living is on the rise.

Baby boomers are returning, migrating from the suburbs, saving on gas, foregoing lawns and upkeep, using more time to socialize. Neighborhood strolls are still an old fashioned romantic exercise. The Blue Elephant is strategically placed for such an activity, serving lunch and dinner, eat in or carry out, seven days a week.

Hard working is the theme for the owners, Saowanit and Danny Wongtouwan. Their mantra, and the restaurant cuisine, is “Thai, Sushi, Pasta.”

Yes, one can mix and match— order a sushi appetizer, feast on a Thai entrée and splurge on divine tiramisu for dessert. We are no longer a country of just meat and potatoes. Hot dogs are now in the realm of baseball games along with a nostalgic song and mustard. Fried chicken is rightly viewed with suspicion as to its origins. We are demanding creative vegetarian food brimming with healthy spices and lowfat sauces. The contemporary diner is craving variety and attractive presentations.

The Blue Elephant offers all of the above, in a convenient city location, with reasonable prices. The interior of the restaurant is lovely, almost elegant, with pleasant lighting, shining varnished tables, leather chairs and modern art on the walls. For a moderately sized restaurant, the menu here is large, the choices tempting, and the food presentation artis-

Chef Danny Wongtouwan creates new entrees daily.

tic. The serving dishes are colorful and whimsical. Imagine dining in an exotic Asian garden. Eating here is a brief vacation from the often solid humdrum of the Midwest.

In my year of dining travels through the kitchens of Cincinnati, I have discovered culinary magicians—chefs from all ethnic backgrounds— who can pack a punch in their gastronomical creations. One that especially stood out was Danny Wongtouwan. He is a selftrained expert, a friendly faced man who can cook an Italian dessert as easily as twirling a stir-fry concoction. He is truly a natural born chef, no fancy culinary school for him.

If you can cook, you can eat, so say the cable television stations. Here, at the Blue Elephant, if you can cook, you can make foods that celebrate the finest in ethnic eating. That seems to be the motto at this dining establishment. Originally from Thailand, with a stop in the Bay

Area, and under the tutelage of an Italian head chef, Wongtouwan has been able to create a new repertoire in eating.

By catering to the American love of choice, Wongtouwan combines a healthy blend of protein and vegetables, light sauces, and potent herbs, so that a diner can enjoy a lovely lunch or dinner at his restaurant.

To impress my daughter and her fiancée, I treated them to lunch at the Blue Elephant during a dreary winter rainsoaked day. My daughter lives on the east coast and fancies herself having a sophisticated palate. A go-getter since birth, I suggested that she order for us and she did with gusto, asking for extra broccoli in the stir-fry, light dressing on the salad and three forks for the tiramisu. The service was impeccable, a gentle efficient style, in spite of what could be construed as dealing with a demanding diner.

I recently dined here and

Sweet rice and mango is a popular dessert.

enjoyed the in-house special, Thai-style basil chicken. Fresh basil, mixed with ground chicken, green beans and bell peppers swimming in a chili garlic sauce and served with brown rice was sufficiently spicy and flavorful. I chose the seaweed salad to start my meal and was pleased with the light sesame dressing that made this healthy item satisfying. My companion ordered a wok dish with tofu and marveled at the restaurant’s ability to transform plain, bland chunks of vegetarian protein into delectable morsels. Served quickly, the food was hot and tasty.

Water glasses were promptly refilled without our searching for a waitress.

Beer, wine and sake, hot or cold, are on the menu, as well as dinner specials. Don’t forget the pasta options. Farfalle (sounds like a Yiddish word) primavera is bowtie pasta with seasoned vegetables in a creamy tomato sauce. Blue

Elephant offers lunch boxes, served with a salad, Siam roll – crispy spring rolls stuffed with vermicelli, mixed vegetables and plum sauce—and fried rice, priced at $9.95. Choose from teriyaki or sushi or sashimi.

Next time, and there will be a next time, I might order the roasted duck or the mango chicken or the cashew nuts stir fried in the wok with choice of meat, seafood or tofu. Doesn’t it all sound delicious?

Warmer weather is on the horizon. There is a small outside patio for those who choose to dine in the fresh air. Carry out is always available. Open seven days a week, the Blue Elephant welcomes you to take your taste buds on an exotic vacation.

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Rabbi Rudin is the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser.

Dear Editor, In his “infinite wisdom” and arrogance, Barack Obama has decided what will be the outcome of the Israeli-Palestinian “negotiations”— a return to the 1967 borders; in other words, to use Mitt Romney’s words, Obama has “thrown Israel under the bus.” Despite the doctrine that there are no preconditions to peace talks, Mr. Obama has clearly limited Israel’s prerogatives. Since he so freely interferes with Israel’s security, we can only hope that he will be as strict with the Arab League in demanding full recognition of Israel and an enforceable unambiguous peace.

John Feibel Cincinnati, OH Dear Editor, What we are witnessing in the Mideast is a takeover of all the states surrounding Israel by factions allied with the Muslim Brotherhood. They can be expected to be extremely anti

Israel and anti USA, while very friendly to Iran. In light of all this, the incompetent abomination currently serving as our president wants a two state solution based on pre-1967 (indefensible) borders. Israel is expected to give this up (pressured is more like it) in exchange for nothing.

The Palestinians still will not recognize Israel. Also, we can expect a continued war of attrition against Israel. The current borders were established when Israel successfully defended itself from unprovoked attacks from its neighbors. Had the tide of battle gone the other way, we would not be having this discussion today. Israel would not exist, and the Jews who could not escape would have been massacred. There would be no calls for return to any previous border. In addition, this president is calling for our bankrupt country to give $2 billion in aid to Egypt and Tunisia. Now is the time for members of his own party to stand up to him and say NO!

Dear Editor, By what authority does America tell Israel to vacate “occupied territory?” Is America not in fact an occupier of these 48 contiguous states, by its definition of “occupied?”

After all, did we not fight the American Indians for this territory, and win? Should we return it?

After all, did we not “win” California, Texas and Arizona from the Mexicans? Should we return them?

Are we therefore holding Israel to a separate standard?

How come we don’t exert the same influence on China to get out of Tibet? Or Russia out of Chechnya? Or Pakistan out of Kashmir?

And need I go through an atlas to find more examples of “occupation” to make the point?

The difference is that THIS time, Israel will not allow itself to be bullied into submission.

Julius Kassar Kenwood, OH

Jerome C. Liner Montgomery, OH

TEST YOUR TORAH KNOWLEDGE This Week’s Portion:Bamidbar (Bamidbar 1:1—4:20) 1. In which desert does this week's Parsha take place? a.) Sinai b.) Paran c.) Zin 2. In the Haftorah (Hosea 2) what are the Children of Israel compared to? a.) Stars b.) Sand c.) Sheep for sacrifice 3. What will the day when the exiles are ingathered be called? a.) Day of Jezreel (planting)

b.) Holiday of redemption c.) Holiday for Hashem 4. Where will Hashem take the Children of Israel after they sin? a.) Water b.) Fire c.) Desert 5. Where will the valley of troubles lead to?

a.) Gehinnom b.) Jerusalem c.) Door of Hope (Petach Tikvah)

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(RNS) When the Vatican beatifies someone and places the person just one step away from sainthood, it usually attracts scant attention among Jews because it is correctly perceived as an internal church process.

But the recent beatification — and likely canonization — of the late Pope John Paul II is different.

The Jewish community remembers the Polish-born Karol Wojtyla as the best pope the Jews ever had.

The throngs of people who turned out for the May 1 beatification have all gone home, and now the search begins for a second miracle attributed to John Paul’s intercession. As he moves along the path to sainthood, Jews are among those cheering him on.

When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, there were an estimated 3.5 million Polish Jews, the inheritors of a rich religious, intellectual and cultural life. At the time, Jews represented 10 percent of Poland’s population, and about a quarter of young Karol’s classmates in his hometown of Wadowice.

By the end of World War II in 1945, the Nazis had murdered 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, half of them Polish Jews.

Because Poland was the Nazis’ chief killing field, Wojtyla required no university seminars or academic papers to instruct him about the radical evil of the Holocaust. Poland was “Ground Zero” for mass murder.

Wadowice is not far from the infamous Auschwitz death camp, and the future pope saw Jewish friends and neighbors arrested and transported to the gas chambers.

John Paul’s election in 1978 was initially met with skepticism by many Jews, who feared he might reflect the long record of anti-Semitism that had poisoned much of Jewish life in Poland.

How wrong they were.

The tragedy of the Holocaust and a warm personal relationship with Jews were both etched into the pope’s head and heart. During his 27-year pontificate, John Paul’s positive actions earned him an honored place in Jewish history.

In April 1986, John Paul visited Rome’s Grand Synagogue, the first papal visit to a Jewish house of worship in nearly 2,000 years.

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3. A Hosea 2:2 The exile is like a seed, that when planted disintegrates then grows. At the incoming of the exiles, people who were thought lost, will resurface and return. Malbim 4. C Hosea 2:16 Desert is comparable to exile.

5. C 2:17 Troubles often lead a person to examine his ways and repent. Rashi

John Paul II, the Jewish saint

In his address, the pope reminded the world’s 1 billion Catholics that Jews are “our elder brothers in faith,” and said the covenant God made with the Jews at Mt. Sinai is “irrevocable.”

In 1994, the Vatican and the State of Israel established full diplomatic relations. The official document spoke of “combating all forms of anti-Semitism and all kinds of racism and of religious intolerance.” The same year, John Paul hosted a Vatican concert to commemorate the Holocaust. I attended that historic event, and I will never forget the pope’s emotional call to never forget the Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust.

John Paul’s personal intervention helped resolve the toxic 10year crisis over a Carmelite convent located inside the Auschwitz building where the Germans stored the poison gas used to murder Jews.

In March 1998, the Vatican released “We Remember,” a reflection on the Holocaust. In that document, the pope, who years earlier had called anti-Semitism a sin against God, urged Catholics — and indeed, all Christians — “to examine themselves on the responsibility which they too have for the evils of our time.”

Two years later and in failing health, John Paul, the most traveled pope in history, visited Israel.

While in the Jewish state, he was a guest of the Israeli president and the Chief Rabbinate. John Paul spent time at Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, where he met with Polish Jewish survivors.

The most enduring image of the papal visit to Israel, and perhaps of John Paul’s entire papacy, came when the ailing pontiff slowly and painfully walked to Judaism’s holiest site: the Western Wall. In an unforgettable moment, John Paul placed a personal prayer into a crevice of the sacred wall seeking forgiveness for Christian hostility toward Jews and Judaism: “God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: we are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.”

And that, even though it won’t help make him a saint, is miracle enough for me.

1. A 1:1 The Children of Israel spent almost a year at Mount Sinai before they moved to the next stop. The census took place on the first day of the second month. They left on the 20th day of the second month. Chapter 10 2. B Hosea 2:1

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By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

SHABBAT SHALOM: PARSHAT BAMIDBAR • NUMBERS 1:1 – 4:20

Efrat, Israel — Is our tradition set in stone, or is it open to whatever alteration the scholars desire to make? How legitimate is the claim that “Where there is a rabbinic will, there is a halachic way?”

I believe two talmudic passages describing incidents in the life of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus help answer our questions: Tractate Bava Metzia (59b) records a conflict between Rabbi Eliezer (the “cemented cistern who never loses a drop,” according to Ethics of the Fathers) and the sages over whether or not a particular type of oven is subject to ritual impurity. Rabbi Eliezer brings three miracles to support his case, culminating in a “divine voice” which exclaims: “What do you want from My son Rabbi Eliezer? The Law is always in accordance with his view.”

Nevertheless, the sages stand their ground. They argued that when Moses said the Torah “is not in heaven” (Deuteronomy 30:12); he meant it had been given to the scholars on earth to interpret. The Oral Law is determined by majority rule; hence the sages can overrule not only Rabbi Eliezer but even G-d Himself!

The Talmud goes on to record Elijah the Prophet’s report of G-d’s reaction: “The Almighty laughed and said, ‘My children have defeated Me, My children have eternalized Me’” (the Hebrew nitzhuni can mean both things).

This controversy must have had great significance. It took place after the destruction of the Second Temple, when the sages were reconstituting Judaism from a religion centred on sacrifices to one based around the home and the synagogue.

Rabbi Eliezer believed halachic change could only take place if there was precedent within the tradition itself. So he never stated a law which he had not heard from his teacher (B.T. Succa 37).

The majority of the scholars disagreed. They believed that with the 13 principles of hermeneutic logic communicated

by G-d to Moses, they could plumb the depths of the Bible, explicating even the crowns on each letter, to interpret and apply the Law. Seeing that Rabbi Eliezer was not budging, these sages placed a

Nevertheless, the sages stand their ground. They argued that when Moses said the Torah “is not in heaven” (Deuteronomy 30:12); he meant it had been given to the scholars on earth to interpret. The Oral Law is determined by majority rule; hence the sages can overrule not only Rabbi Eliezer but even G-d Himself! ban (herem) on him and sent Rabbi Akiva, his disciple, to inform Eliezer.

Hearing of the ban, Rabbi Eliezer cried out to G-d, and Rabban Gamliel, the head of the delegitimizing Sanhedrin, died immediately as punishment.

This talmudic passage closes with the words: “After the destruction of the Temple, all gates to G-d are closed except the claim of unfair treatment.”

The second incident (B.T. Sanhedrin 68a) takes place when Rabbi Eliezer is critically ill.

Since he is still under ban, when Rabbi Akiva and his friends come to visit, they stand at a distance of four cubits. “Why have you come?” he asks.

“We have come to study Torah from you,” they reply.

“Why haven’t you come until now?” he asks.

“We had no time,” they lamely reply.

“You will not die natural deaths,” he says.

Rabbi Eliezer then places his arms upon his heart. In deep anguish, he declares; “Woe unto

you, my two arms, which are like two Torah scrolls which have been tied up.... Much Torah have I taught, but my students took from me less than can fit into an eye dropper…”

His erstwhile colleagues ask him about the halachic status of a particular shoe. He declares it “pure” and with that word his soul leaves his body. Rabbi Joshua rises to his feet and declares, “The ban has been lifted, the ban has been lifted.”

In his eulogy, Rabbi Akiva cries out: “My father! My father!

The chariot of Israel…” – the words of Elisha when Elijah was transported to heaven.

Somehow tradition and change must be orchestrated in such a fashion that Halacha never ossifies, but neither can it become totally malleable. This is the greatest challenge of our generation.

Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Chancellor Ohr Torah Stone Chief Rabbi — Efrat Israel

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Jewz in the Newz

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist INTERESTING REPLACEMENT Last week, CBS announced that Ashton Kutcher, 33, will replace Charlie Sheen, 45, as one of the two co-stars of the hit series, “Two and a Half Men.” There is a bizarre “sort of Jewish” connection to this cast change. As I’ve written before, Sheen was fired for his wacko behavior — this behavior included chiding series’ creator CHUCK LORRE, 58, with remarks that many took as antiSemitic. When confronted about this, Sheen falsely claimed that his mother is Jewish.

Kutcher, who was raised Catholic, doesn’t claim a Jewish mother — but he is, for lack of a better term, a “fellow traveler” of Judaism. For about seven years, he and his wife, actress Demi Moore, 48, have been devout followers of the Kabbalah Centre (a controversial group that teaches a very “New Agey” belief system somewhat based on Jewish religious mysticism).

In the past year, Kutcher and Moore have visited Israel twice.

Once in August, to attend the birthday party in Jerusalem of the head of the Kabbalah Centre — and again in October — when they renewed their wedding vows in a “kabbalah ceremony” in Tel Aviv. Last January, actress NATALIE PORTMAN, 29, who speaks fluent Hebrew, told “Us Weekly” that “Ashton has taught me more about Judaism than I think I have ever learned from anyone else…Ashton’s a very serious student of Kabbalah and Judaism. He knows a lot. When we had the funeral scene (in their movie ‘No Strings Attached’), that was a Jewish funeral. He was able to read all the Hebrew. It’s very impressive…he studies Torah every Saturday.”

No doubt, the replacement of the “phony Jew” Sheen by the Hebrew-reading, non-Jew Kutcher is a coincidence. But it is certainly one for the books.

JEWISH 411 ON STRAUSSKAHN DOMINQUE STRAUSSKAHN (“DSK”), 62, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, will be in the news for a long time to come due to the serious charges he is facing. I know that many are, or will become curious about his Jewish background. The following information comes from a scholarly, French language biography that came out this year.

DSK is the son of JACQUELINE FELLUS, a Tunisian Jew, and GILBERT STRAUSSKAHN, who was the son of an Alsatian French Jewish father and a French Catholic mother. (“Strauss” was Gilbert’s father’s name; Kahn was the name of his Jewish stepfather. He combined them in tribute to both). DSK simply went by “Strauss” early in life — but around 1975 he decided to do use both Jewish surnames because, he says: “It was a way to show my commitment to my [step] grandfather and also to affirm my Jewish identity that had been awakened by the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.” While DSK was raised mostly secular, he had a bris and a bar mitzvah. DSK’s first two wives were not Jewish. In 1991, he wed his current wife, ANNE SINCLAIR, a very famous TV news show host in France who is more religiously observant than DSK (fasts on Yom Kippur, etc.).

DSK, the biography says, “made her happy” by marrying Sinclair before an Orthodox rabbi.

Sinclair, 62, was born in New York to French Jewish parents who fled France in 1940. Her father changed his last name from Schwartz to Sinclair in America. Her mother was the daughter of PAUL ROSENBERG, a very prominent French art dealer and collector who also fled the Nazis and settled in New York.

GOODWIN AND DENNINGS I recently mentioned actresses GINNIFER GOODWIN, 32, and KAT DENNINGS, 24, in connection with films they costarred in (respectively, “Something Borrowed” and “Thor”). By coincidence, both actresses have starring roles on TV series that have just been placed on the fall schedule.

Dennings co-stars in the CBS comedy, “2 Broke Girls,” as a “street-wise” waitress at a Brooklyn greasy spoon, who teams up with another (formerly rich) waitress to save their tips and thus pursue their dream of opening their own eatery one day. Goodwin stars in the ABC fantasy-drama, “Once Upon a Time,” as a tough bail bondsman who is contacted by the 10-yearold son she gave up at birth for adoption. She moves to his quaint New England town.

There she discovers that she, and the other townsfolk, may have been born into an alternate “fairy tale” universe. (Suffice it to say that this show’s premise is very far fetched and complex).

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FROM THE PAGES 100 Years Ago Mrs. Irma C. Koch, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Chas Longini, left for New York City to visit her sister, Mrs. Sam Fruhauf.

Jacob Wolf, formerly of Piqua, O., died at the residence of his son-inlaw, Felix S. Levy, Norwood, O., Thursday morning. Funeral services were held Sunday, May 21.

Mr. Max Blumenfeld died Thursday evening at his residence in the Eckert Apartments and was buried at the United Jewish Cemetery Sunday afternoon. Dr.

Grossmann officiated.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Joseph entertained with a dinner Wednesday evening at their residence, 3557 Alaska Avenue, in honor of the twenty-ninth birthday anniversary of Mr. Joseph.

Mr. Clarence Adler, accompanied by his mother and sister, Helen, sailed for Europe on the 24th on steamer Graf Waldersee. Mr. Adler will spend most of his time in Berlin, where he will arrange his programs for the coming season

with the Heermann-Adler-Sturm Trio and his solo recitals.

The marriage of Miss Sylvia Bing to Mr. Samuel J. Wolf of Piqua, O., will be quietly solemnized at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Moses Bing. 818 Hutchins Avenue, on Monday, May 29.

Owing to the recent death of Mr. Jacob Wolf, father of the groom, only the immediate family will witness the ceremony, which will be performed by Rabbi Jacob Mielziner. — May 25, 1911

75 Years Ago Mr. Justin A. Rollman has offered a fountain to Cummins School in memory of one of his former teachers, the late Miss Cora Young, in recognition of her work among her pupils.

Miss Jennie Fine will be secretary at the Robert Krohn Livingston Memorial Camp near Cincinnati this summer, according to announcement by the president Mrs. Morton J. Heldmann.

Miss Fine is a member of the Avondale Public School faculty.

Pupils of the Kahn Schol of Orator and Dramatic Art will give a recital

for their friends at the Avondale Library Hall, June 5th, Friday 8 p.m.

The following will appear: Stanley Braunstein, Shirley Pine, Sylvia Zisman, Rhea Fae Ahrenberg, Greta Aranoff, Jerry Bogden, Stanley Cohen, Joyce and Cleon Mandle, Jane Mantle, Anita Pastor, Eileen Rosenblum, Vera Rohe, Larry Warm, Adrienne Zuckerman, Marion Watelsky, Marcia and Hadassah Frankel, Jack Blaise, Anita and Irving Getzug, Mimi Lee Liscow, Irma Ruth Kraus, Fayne Temehin, Elaine Wachman.

Miss Elizabeth Freiberg, a daughter of Mrs. J. Arthur Freiberg, and Mr. Randolph Trager, a son of Mr. and Mrs. I. Newton Trager, will be married Wednesday, June 17th, at the bride’s home, 747 Greenwood Avenue. Miss Emma Lemann, a cousin of the bride, and Miss Kathrine Trager, a sister of the groom will be bridesmaids. The groom’s father will be best man and his brothers, Messrs. Manuel Trager and Newton Trager, Jr., will be ushers.

Dr. David Philipson will perform the ceremony. — May 28, 1936

50 Years Ago Herbert R. Bloch, Jr. has been elected president of the Associated Jewish Agencies of Cincinnati, central planning group for eight local Jewish health and welfare services.

His election as well as that of other officers and trustees will be announced at the 65th anniversary dinner sponsored by AJA and affiliates at the Jewish Community Center tonight (Thursday, May 25,) at 6:45 p.m.

Also elected were A. Marcus Levy and Aaron M. Wiesen, vice presidents; Robert L. Westheimer, treasurer; Louis T. Block, assistant treasurer.

Jewish Hospital’s medical staff members attending the annual dinner Wednesday, May 23, at Losantiville Country Club, honored several colleagues.

Dr. J. Victor Greenebaum, a member of the medical staff since 1915 and pediatric services director 192148, was saluted for contributions to his profession.

His achievements include organization and direction of the first mass inoculation program in Cincinnati for prevention of diphtheria; and participation with Dr. Louis Lurie in starting the

Child Guidance House, of which he was first chairman.

Norvin J. Heldman, 3993 Rose Hill Avenue, long active in philanthropic and business institutions here, passed away Saturday, May 20, at Jewish Hospital. His age was 70.

Mr. Heldman is survived by: his wife, Mrs. Rosalie Heldman; a daughter, Mrs. Betty H. Cole; two sons, James H. and John H.; three brothers, Morton J., Warren J. and Clarence J. Heldman, all of Cincinnati; a sister, Mrs. Irma H. Hartfield of Memphis and eight grandchildren. — May 25, 1961

25 Years Ago Stephen Cohen will be installed as president of Jewish Family Service at the agency’s annual meeting and dinner on Thursday, June 5, at 6:30 p.m. at Adath Israel Synagogue, 3201 East Galbraith Road.

Other officers to be nominated are Jack C. Rubenstein, first vice president; Marc L. Greenberg, second vice president; M. Samuel Sudman, treasurer; Lisa W. Fox, assistant treasurer; and Marjorie S. Schneider, secretary.

New members nominated for a three-year term are Alice G. Allen,

Rabbi Robert Barr, Dr. Morton Harshman, Geri L. Mailender, Henry Schneider, and Arnold Wasserman.

Richard A. Berman of Larchmont, N.Y., is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress from Westchester’s (N.Y.) 20th district.

Mr. Berman recently resigned his post as executive vice president of New York University Medial Center to devote full time to his campaign.

He is the son of Mrs. I.A. Berman and the late I.A. (Dick) Berman of

Cincinnati. He is a graduate of Walnut Hills High School.

Mrs. Rose Bachrach of 111 Garfield Place passed away May 19 She was 103.

She is survived by: her son, Walton H. Bachrach; two grandchildren, Mrs. Margaret Ann Pockros of Tucson, Ariz. and Mrs. Martha B. Geiler of Cincinnati; four great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

Mrs. Bachrach was the wife of the late Fisher Bachrach. — May 29, 1986

10 Years Ago “Hebrew Union College is a jewel” that has put Cincinnati “on the map of the Jewish world beyond the expectation of any city its size,” said Rabbi Richard Steinberg as he nears completion of eight years in our city, six of them as assistant and associate rabbi at Isaac M. Wise Temple.

The congregants of the temple will express their collective appreciation to Steinberg at a service of appreciation, Friday, June 1, at 8:15 p.m. at Wise Temple.

Steinberg will depart in June for the

west and nearer to his San Francisco Bay area home when he assumes the position of spiritual leader of Temple Shir Hamaalot in Irvine, Calif.

He cited the “wonderful learning experience” he had being able to work with Rabbi Lewis Kamrass, senior rabbi at Wise. Steinberg called Kamrass one of the most influential rabbis in the American Reform Jewish movement.

Collaboration and partnership were the major themes of the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati’s fifth annu-

al community briefing. Held May 14 at Yavneh Day School, community leaders and grant recipients gathered to learn about the Jewish Foundation’s initiative and directions.

“We came into existence in the the beginning of 1996 after the Jewish Hospital became part of the Health Alliance of Cincinnati,” said Benjamin Gettler, chairman of the board. “Since that time, we have been privileged to approve the distribution of over $23 million to grantees.” — May 24, 2001

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COMMUNITY DIRECTORY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Access (513) 373-0300 • www.jypaccess.org Big Brothers/Big Sisters Assoc.

(513) 761-3200 • bigbrobigsis.org Beth Tevilah Mikveh Society (513) 821-6679 Camp Ashreinu (513) 702-1513 Camp at the J (513) 722-7226 • mayersonjcc.org Camp Livingston (513) 793-5554 • camplivingston.com Cedar Village (513) 754-3100 • cedarvillage.org Chevra Kadisha (513) 396-6426 Fusion Family (513) 703-3343 • www.fusionnati.org Halom House (513) 791-2912 • halomhouse.com Hillel Jewish Student Center (513) 221-6728 • hillelcincinnati.org Jewish Community Center (513) 761-7500 • mayersonjcc.org Jewish Community Relations Council (513) 985-1501 Jewish Family Service (513) 469-1188 • jfscinti.org Jewish Federation of Cincinnati (513) 985-1500 • shalomcincy.org Jewish Foundation (513) 792-2715 Jewish Information Network (513) 985-1514 Jewish Vocational Service (513) 985-0515 • jvscinti.org Kesher (513) 766-3348 Plum Street Temple Historic Preservation Fund (513) 793-2556 Shalom Family (513) 703-3343 • www.myshalomfamily.org The Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education (513) 487-3055 • holocaustandhumanity.org Vaad Hoier (513) 731-4671 Workum Fund (513) 899-1836 • workum.org YPs at the JCC (513) 761-7500 • mayersonjcc.org

CONGREGATIONS Adath Israel Congregation (513) 793-1800 • adath-israel.org Beit Chaverim (513) 984-3393 Beth Israel Congregation (513) 868-2049 • bethisraelcongregation.net Congregation Beth Adam (513) 985-0400 • bethadam.org Congregation B’nai Tikvah (513) 759-5356 • bnai-tikvah.org Congregation B’nai Tzedek (513) 984-3393 • bnaitzedek.us

Congregation Ohav Shalom (513) 489-3399 • ohavshalom.org Congregation Sha’arei Torah shaareitorahcincy.org Golf Manor Synagogue (513) 531-6654 • golfmanorsynagogue.org Isaac M. Wise Temple (513) 793-2556 • wisetemple.org Kehilas B’nai Israel (513) 761-0769 Northern Hills Synagogue (513) 931-6038 • nhs-cba.org Rockdale Temple (513) 891-9900 • rockdaletemple.org Temple Beth Shalom (513) 422-8313 • tbsohio.org Temple Sholom (513) 791-1330 • templesholom.net The Valley Temple (513) 761-3555 • valleytemple.com

EDUCATION Chai Tots Early Childhood Center (513) 234.0600 • chaitots.com Chabad Blue Ash (513) 793-5200 • chabadba.com Cincinnati Hebrew Day School (513) 351-7777 • chds.shul.net HUC-JIR (513) 221-1875 • huc.edu JCC Early Childhood School (513) 793-2122 • mayersonjcc.org Kehilla - School for Creative Jewish Education (513) 489-3399 • kehilla-cincy.com Mercaz High School (513) 792-5082 x104 • mercazhs.org Reform Jewish High School (513) 469-6406 • crjhs.org Regional Institute Torah & Secular Studies (513) 631-0083 Rockwern Academy (513) 984-3770 • rockwernacademy.org

ORGANIZATIONS American Jewish Committee (513) 621-4020 • ajc.org American Friends of Magen David Adom (513) 521-1197 • afmda.org B’nai B’rith (513) 984-1999 Hadassah (513) 821-6157 • cincinnati-hadassah.org Jewish Discovery Center (513) 234.0777 • jdiscovery.com Jewish National Fund (513) 794-1300 • jnf.org Jewish War Veterans (513) 204-5594 • jwv.org NA’AMAT (513) 984-3805 • naamat.org National Council of Jewish Women (513) 891-9583 • ncjw.org State of Israel Bonds (513) 793-4440 • israelbonds.com Women’s American ORT (513) 985-1512 • ortamerica.org.org

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SOLDIERS from page 1 today’s military. The Color Guard from his unit will present colors and will fly the American flag, which had flown over Afghanistan on March 26, 2002, during a combat mission by LTC Robert H. Epstein, USAF, a son of a local B’nai B’rith leader.

The War Memorial, established at this location and dedicated on October 14, 1945, to the memory of the valiant servicemen, involved the joint efforts of various leaders in the Jewish community, including Louis Weiland.

Uncle Lou Weiland, as everyone referred to him, served as the original chairman of the War Memorial committee, and as chairman of this event, every year from its inception, until he passed away in July 1982. The late Judge Robert S. Kraft and Jack Landman then took over as co-chairmen NETANYAHU from page 1 In a 2004 letter to Israel’s thenprime minister, Ariel Sharon, President Bush stated: “In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.”

Bush added that “it is realistic to expect that any final status agreement will only be achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes that reflect these realities.”

Bush’s letter also said that the solution to the Palestinian refugee “will need to be found through the establishment of a Palestinian JAPAN from page 7 organization is receiving much support from the local community and government officials.

“It’s the first time these people have gone through post-trauma sessions where they could share their individual experiences and talk about their feelings,” Zahavi said. “There was a lot of crying, a lot of emotion.

“But it’s not just about talking — we teach how to express feelings through touch, drawing and writing as well. That was new for them.”

until 1993. The program this year again is being co-chaired by Harvey Chyette and Elaine Owen of B’nai B’rith of Greater Cincinnati Unit #4.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend and participate in this service of remembrance, which is the only one of its kind in the entire community.

In the event of inclement weather, tents will be used. state, and the settling of Palestinian refugees there, rather than in Israel.”

The Prime Minister’s Office statement also reiterated the prime minister’s insistence that the Palestinians recognize Israel as “the nation state of the Jewish people” and that Israel retain a military presence along the Jordan River.

In his speech, Obama said he envisions a Palestinian state with a permanent border with Jordan.

Netanyahu’s statement also said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “seeks a Palestinian state in order to continue the conflict with Israel,” pointing to recent statements by the Palestinian leader and.citing his unity agreement with Hamas.

IsraAid will offer another course in June with a broader focus, he said.

As with the other Jewish aid to Japan, what’s noteworthy is the partnership between Israeli and North American Jewish communities, Zahavi points out. IsraAid’s emergency relief program in Japan is supported and funded by the Jewish federations of Toronto, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as well as the JFNA, the American Jewish Committee and B’nai B’rith International.

“This is something that the Jewish people is giving, not just Israel,” he said.

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Fall Fashion sneek peek

This Alfani dress worn by DaNelle Jenkins highlights colorblocking and 60s-inspired silhouettes, both strong fall 2011 trends.

Metallic fabrics and polka dots were some of the major trends on the fall 2011 runways, as seen in this Max and Cleo dress worn by DaNelle Jenkins.

runway collections. While Marc Jacobs mixed together colors and scale in his looks, Stella McCartney used polka dot sheer overlays and panels in her pieces.

Of course, no autumn season is complete without the coats! This fall, look for coats to be very long, in a variety of fabrics.

Rodarte had several floor-length coats with clean, elegant cuts, as did Haider Ackermann. Dsquared took this trend and put a western

spin on it, using leather and fur in their designs. Designers also used very bright, bold statement colors with their outerwear pieces.

Burberry Prorsum’s runway was very colorful with their crimson, orange and blue jackets, while Yves Saint Laurent’s feathertrimmed violet coat captured quite a bit of attention.

Judging from the fashion collections at the fall shows, other trends will include plaid, bold graphics,

and a continuation of the minimalism we’ve seen over the past season. In accessory trends, put away the skyscraper heels because flats will be making a comeback.

Headwear ranging from turbans to mod-influenced hats could be making its way to the stores for the fall season, especially in luxury materials such as fur and feathers.

Some of the fall runway trends were also seen in the menswear collections. The minimalist look was key. Calvin Klein’s pieces took this trend almost to an extreme, with very simple, clean and tailored double-breasted suits.

Philip Start, an emerging designer, highlighted this clean look but used fabrics such as flannel, donegal and tweed.

Monochromatic black was another crossover trend for menswear runways. Bottega Veneta and Corneliani were just two of the designers displaying head-to-toe black, from suiting to shirt to accessories.

Double-breasted suits are making a return this autumn. The difference this year is that the boxy look is out.

Instead, look for a sleeker cut, one that broadens the shoulders and gives more definition to the waist area. Dolce & Gabbana had several double-breasted jackets in their fall collection, which looked classic but also fresh.

ment and who offers economical recycling programs for any equipment. Quality recycling programs guarantee hard drives are wiped to Federal Government standards or the hard drives are completely melted down. All recycling programs claim to be green, but only a few, according to Budget Business Computers, take advantage of modern environmentally sound recycling practices.

In addition to buying pre owned and off lease equipment and buying from an IT dealer that offers a buy-back program, Budget

Business Computers recommends not storing old IT equipment for the reasons stated above. Did you know that there is a $50,000 fine per asset if that equipment is traced back to the company and ends up in a landfill? There is the possibility of confidential data being stolen from hard drives not being monitored. Seek a dealer willing to buy back your old equipment thus putting cash back into their business or safely recycle before your IT assets end up in the dumpster with your company name on it.

GUTTMAN FAMILY from page 4

BOOKS from page 4

children who either are attending or will attend Rockwern in the near future.

The evening ended with Cindy Guttman thanking the guests and Hershel Guttman reminiscing about his favorite experiences at Rockwern.

Through an outpouring of support from hundreds of supporters and donors, the dinner and silent auction raised more than $300,000. The Event Planning Committee was chaired by Julie Torem and included Chrissie Blatt, Shary Levitt, Adam Cohen, Cindy Loon and Galite Silverman.

Red Hook Road, by Ayelet Waldman (read by Kimberly Farr)

immigration to America, and his nearly 70-year marriage to his wife, Ruby. Author interview included.

Fashionably Late

By Stephanie Davis-Novak Fashion Editor The fall and winter runway shows have given a preview of the trends that lie ahead. While some styles do continue into the next season, look for fall to breathe some new life into clothing trends later this year.

One of the biggest trends that will be hitting the stores this autumn will be ‘60s style. However, this time around there will be more of a “mod” focus. Think Peter Pan collars, tunics and pants, sportswearinspired A-line dresses, and colorblocking. Bottega Veneta’s chic suits and Prada’s dropped-waist shift dresses and accessories are all nods to the ‘60s without looking like costumes.

Another major look this fall is shimmer. Last fall, sequins brought glamour and sparkle to clothing. This fall the shine is

actually from the fabric itself.

Some designers offered bold, tough-looking metallics, such as Antonio Berardi’s pewter sheath and Oscar de la Renta’s gold pantsuit. Other designers offered softer, more subtle shimmer, such as Calvin Klein’s fluid metallic dresses and suits.

One of next season’s more interesting trends is the dark and dramatic look. The silhouette is long and layered, with rich fabrics like velvet and luxurious trims such as leather and feathers.

Christian Dior’s black tapestry coat with velvet and navy feathers captures the essence of this look.

Lace will also be a popular fabric for this trend, but again, stick with darker colors and more sophisticated shapes. Jason Wu’s black lace blouse and Prabal Gurung’s striking skirts and dresses with black lace overlays are examples of this trend.

In sharp contrast to the dark, sophisticated brooding look, polka dots are going to be showing up quite a bit during the fall fashion season, moving us away from spring and summer’s stripes. But try to think beyond the sweet, feminine polka dot blouse.

Designers, especially Stella McCartney and Marc Jacobs, gave this classic print an edge in their

Budget Business Computers Using technical economic indicators, the recession of 2009 is over. However, most businesses are still feeling the lingering effects of the recession. Not all of those effects are negative.

Businesses are powered by people skilled in developing strategies to cope with any economic condition. One of the ways businesses are saving money is by buying IT equipment that truly gives them value for their money. They are purchasing pre-owned and off lease equipment.

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president, Michael Sutter, says most companies buy new equipment only to find they are not using anywhere near the capability built into new IT equipment.

Additionally, companies pay for software they also never use.

Therefore, the business is spending money for which it does not receive value. Budget Business Computers has a solution for stretching IT dollars.

Sutter compares buying off lease computer equipment to buying a car coming in off lease. “You know that depreciation has

already been taken, so you know you are paying for IT equipment and not overhead,” he noted.

Sutter also said businesses can save money by using recycle and buy-back programs. Businesses often throw away or allow IT equipment they are not using to pile up in storage. Businesses may forget that they are paying for storage space, insurance on those assets and are at risk because the IT equipment could fall into the wrong hands. However, businesses can purchase from an IT dealer that will buy-back the IT equip-

The story of two Maine families, of different social class and background, who share a tragic destiny.

The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love,

by Harry Bernstein (read by Mike Kellogg)

Ariella Guttman Cohen

Brandon Guttman

The 99-year-old author of two successful memoirs gives a chronicle of his life, from his childhood in WWI-era England,

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (read by the author)

In a sequel to Hirsi Ali’s memoir, Infidel, she tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made by European Islamists.

If you have any questions about Wise Temple’s library, contact Andrea Rapp at Wise.

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Bet on blintzes All About Food

By Zell Schulman Recipe Editor It has been over eight years since I’ve prepared Cheese Blintzes from scratch. They were one of my late husband Mel’s favorites, and were a monthly addition to my freezer. I always doubled the recipe and came out with six to eight dozen to put in my freezer to have on hand whenever an occasion called for blintzes.

Thus, this cook had quite an adventure after selling her Amberley home of 40 years and moving to an Eden Park condo.

A new gas range, (my old one was electric) a new non-stick blintz pan, (my other blintz pan was given away to my youngest son

FRANKEL from page 1 States. His administration of the BJE was marked by tireless effort and numerous innovations that made the now defunct Federation-funded agency an effective and respected partner of all area Jewish schools.

Many of the programs and services the BJE provided year-round were introduced, developed or expanded during Mr. Frankel’s tenure. Among the better-known of these were: the Jewish Teacher Center; the Jewish Media Center; the TIKVAH Juniors and Seniors programs for the developmentally disabled; the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School; the Jewish Heritage Seminars for public school teachers; Professional Enrichment and Growth Subsidies and Incentive Grant Programs for

POLICE WOMEN from page 4 “We are thrilled that the Police Women will be taking part in this event,” said Josh Rothstein, Jewish Outreach & Engagement coordinator. “Even if you’ve never seen the television show, you’re sure to get a lot out of meeting these women...I think our guests will be fascinated to see a completely different side to our city from the perspective of these women who face the reality of the streets every day.”

This program is free to JCC members, ages 21-35 only, with advanced reservations by May

and his family) and a new kitchen.

In the 50 years I was married, I must have prepared hundreds of blintzes. As I always did, I prepared the cheese filling the night before. It’s better when made a day before, and firms up to the perfect consistency when left in the refrigerator overnight.

Early the next morning, I made the crepe filling, melted the butter for the pan, and lined up the ingredients, On one side of the burner that held the blintz pan, I placed the melted butter with a new silicone brush to brush the blintz pan first, and a small pitcher filled with the crepe batter. On the other side of the range I set a large greased cookie sheet, a cutting board covered with a fresh, clean dishtowel and the bowl of filling with two teaspoons stuck down in it. The assembly line was ready and I thought I was too.

Surprise! I couldn’t find the right temperature. On my old electric range I always knew I turned the heat to #7. Crepes one, two, three and four all went down the disposal. There was crepe batter everywhere—on the burner, on the

stove, on the floor, on my apron and in my hair. The first crepe was too thick, the second didn’t cover the pan right and the third not only didn’t brown enough but stuck to the pan. Finally, success — after I found the right amount of butter to brush the pan with, the right temperature to cook the crepe and the timing to remove the crepe from the pan onto the covered board, add the right amount of filling and place the blintz in the pan, ready to go into the freezer. I came out with 3-1/2 dozen blintzes, and used the remaining filling to prepare a blintz soufflé for the evening dinner. I didn’t cry, but I laughed so hard.

Here I was, the “professional” cook and food writer looking like a real beginner.

After this adventure I realized when life brings changes, sometimes it takes time to start over. I could have cried, but after all these years, I’ve learned to make lemonade from lemons!

Marcella Segal, was not only an outstanding musician but an outstanding cook. Both her love of music and her love of food are the legacy she left us.

Ingredients Batter 1/4 pound butter, room temp.

1/2 cup sour cream 1/3 cup sugar 1/2 cup orange juice 6 large eggs 1 cup all purpose flour Filling 1 (8-ounce pkg.) cream cheese 1 large egg or 2 egg yolks 1 pint small curd cottage cheese 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla

disappears. Pour half the mixture into the prepared baking dish and the remaining mixture into a large pitcher.

3. Cut the cream cheese into 2 inch pieces. Add to the mixer or processor bowl with the cottage cheese, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla. Mix well on high or pulse several times. Drop tablespoons of the filling over the batter in baking dish. With a broad knife or spoon, spread the filling around evenly.

Pour the remaining batter over the filling. Refrigerate covered or bake several hours later.

4. Bake uncovered in preheated oven 50-60 minutes until golden in color. Serve with additional sour cream or your favorite preserves.

My late, Cincinnati friend,

Method l. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9 x 11 inch baking dish.

Place the butter and sugar in the bowl of your electric mixer or food processor. Beat or process 30 seconds, until smooth.

2. Add the eggs, sour cream, orange juice and flour. Mix well or pulse several times until the flour

Zell’s Tips: I use large curd cottage cheese and one large egg because I like this consistency better. Sometimes I will use Ricotta cheese instead of the cottage cheese and sometimes use both. Do not let the cheese filling mixture get too smooth. I like the consistency of the small chunks of cheese in the filling. It works well either way.

teachers in Cincinnati’s religious schools; Teen programs e.g. the March of the Living trip to Poland and Israel, the Panim el Panim Youth Mission to Washington, and the Teacher Assistant Program, training day school Junior high school students for service in Cincinnati’s congregational schools; the year-round Discount Jewish Book Store; and the much beloved Jewish Book Fair and Entertainment Series.

As a Yiddish speaking 12-yearold, Mr. Frankel immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1940, after experiencing two years of forced house arrest in Vienna, Austria during WWII. Only narrowly escaping with his parents on the last passenger ship out of the port of Trieste, Italy, Mr. Frankel’s four older siblings were sent ahead

of them to America, England and Holland to escape the escalating Nazi terror. Despite the fact that each survived the war—his older brother Hesh had harrowing stories of his near death experiences in several concentration camps—Mr. Frankel’s oldest brother, Efraim, sadly died only shortly after arriving in America.

After arriving in America, and graduating from the Yeshiva Israel Salanter—now SAR Academy in Riverdale, N.Y.—Mr. Frankel went on to attend Yeshiva University’s high school and college. A cum laude graduate of the Teachers Institute of Yeshiva University and of Yeshiva College of Liberal Arts, Mr. Frankel went on to serve in several prominent educational settings in Rochester, Erie, Boston, Philadelphia, and finally,

Cincinnati. All told, Mr. Frankel served 48 years as a master educator and educational administrator.

Described at his funeral as a gentle, kind-hearted, and affable man, who loved a good joke and always had a book in his hand and a song in his heart, Mr. Frankel was laid to rest by his loving family at the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, N.Y. (the same cemetery as his oldest brother Efraim).

Mr. Frankel is survived by his wife of 58 years, Gloria Frankel, of Cincinnati; their four sons, Edwin (Anna) Frankel, of Columbus, Ohio; Jeffrey Frankel, of Commack, N.Y.; Daniel (Jodi) Frankel, of Suwanee, Ga.; and David (Cindy) Frankel, of Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y.; his older brother, Hesh (Miriam) Frankel, of Givatayim, Israel; his oldest sibling

Molly Frankel Neuman, of Englewood, N.J.; and his 10 loving grandchildren, Joshua, Elisheva, Sara, Dustin, Kaitlyn, Sydney, Sarah, Shayna Laya, Shira and Miriam.

Messages of condolence can be sent to the Frankel family at davidtfrankel@gmail.com. An audio recording of the funeral and eulogies written by Mr. Frankel’s eldest and youngest sons can be found by selecting and visiting the Facebook page of David Frankel who lives in Queens, N.Y—http://www.facebook.com/profile.php? id=100001036503180.

Gifts of tzedakah that are contributed in Mr. Frankel’s memory should be sent to “NCSY Youth Scholarship Fund,” care of the Orthodox Union, 11 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10004.

31. For those who are not members of the JCC, free, no-stringsattached Day Passes are available through Rothstein, whose contact information is listed in the Community Directory of this paper under YPs at the JCC. YPs at the JCC is a partnership between Access for Jewish young professionals, an initiative of The Mayerson Foundation, and the Mayerson JCC. Since September 2010, hundreds have participated in these programs, helping to make the Mayerson JCC the “home address” for Jewish young professionals in Cincinnati.

L-R: Officer Colleen Deegan, Sergeant Tia Pearson, Officer Mandy Curfiss and Officer Rose Valentino.

Marcella Segal’s Blintz Soufflé Serves l0 to 12

Making an arrest.

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OBITUARIES

DEATH NOTICES GOLDBERG, Marvin, age 84, died on May 20, 2011; 16 Iyar 5771.

OBITUARIES ABBOTT, Marilyn Marilyn R. Abbott, of Daly City, California, passed away on May 9, 2011 at the age of 88. She was the beloved wife of the late Thomas Abbott.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio as the only child of the late Philip and Grace Chaliff, Marilyn is also preceded in death by her cousin, Irwin Meyer. She is survived by

her cousins in Cincinnati: Lilly Meyer; Barry (Pamela) Meyer; Glen (Margie) Meyer and Keith (Terri) Meyer. She is also survived by her extended California adopted family: Luke and Tracy Aguilera, Laura Marion, Adam Lucas Marion Almedilla, and Joseph Marion.

Donations may be made to Marilyn’s favorite organizations in San Francisco: Congregation B’Nai Emmunah, 3595 Taraval St., 94116; Saint Anthony’s Foundation, 150 Golden Gate Avenue, 94102; Saint Boniface Church, 150 Golden Gate Avenue, 94112; and Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2500 16th Street, 94103. Services in California have already been held..

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AIPAC from page 1 But it seemed haunted by the bickering last week between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This week, AIPAC leaders were much keener to focus on what they had hoped would be the headline-makers for this conference: Yanking the public’s attention back to Iran after months of distraction by the so-called Arab Spring, and bludgeoning the Palestinian Authority with the threat of isolation if it presses forward with its inclusion of Hamas and its quest for statehood recognition at the United Nations in September.

The other agenda item for the AIPAC crowd was trying to make sense of how to foster support for Israel in a U.S. electorate that is changing more rapidly and dramatically than it has in generations.

Lee Rosenberg, AIPAC’s president, described for the convention in dramatic terms the realities posed by a Congress that has had a one-third turnover in just two years.

“Capitol Hill is no longer a place of entrenched incumbency,” Rosenberg said. “Knowledge and institutional memory — gone!

Continuity — gone! Relationships — gone!”

Those elements, for decades the basis of AIPAC’s success in cultivating long-term relationships, have been jeopardized by the Tea Party insurgency. AIPAC insiders and conference speakers said the lobbying group has little to fear from the Republican Party’s conservative wing, which has embraced the party’s pro-Israel posture. Nonetheless, the massive turnover in Congress hinders efforts to form the lasting relationships on Capitol Hill that get AIPAC activists into the door and gives their priorities a hearing.

Those relationships are key to getting the lobby’s preferred bills “dropped” — Washington parlance for introduced — and as usual, many of these were rushed to the floor in the days before the conference. The bills appeared in the kits AIPAC attendees picked up at registration.

One bill, already under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and likely to appear soon in the Senate, would considerably tighten Iran sanctions that already were enhanced less than a year ago. The newest bill would expand sanctions against Iran’s financial institutions, target human rights abusers, facilitate assistance to democracy activists and, most critically, reduce to $5 million from $20 million the minimum amount in annual trade with Iran’s energy

sector that would invite sanctions.

AIPAC has been unhappy with the pace of the Obama administration’s imposition of the most recent sanctions, and has recruited top Democrats and Republicans in the House to advance new sanctions. On Monday night, Sen. John Boehner called for pressing the administration to enforce the sanctions the United States already has imposed on Iran.

The other legislative initiatives that the conference’s record 10,000 attendees were slated to raise during their annual lobbying day Tuesday — when thousands of activists drop in on Capitol Hill for face-to-face conversations with their senators and congressional representatives — are nonbinding resolutions in both houses that call on the Obama administration to review assistance to the Palestinian Authority in light of its pact with Hamas and U.S. initiative for statehood.

The lobbying group was also focused on maintaining current levels of aid for Israel, at $3 billion a year, and, more broadly, of sustaining foreign aid in general.

Republicans and Tea Party leaders have for the most part committed themselves to sustaining those levels of assistance, but want to slash foreign aid. AIPAC insiders oppose separating Israel aid from the regular foreign assistance package, saying it would undercut friendliness to Israel overseas and make Jews at home vulnerable to claims of special treatment.

In a video at the launch of the conference, Ester Kurz, the lobby’s legislative director, made clear that AIPAC’s agenda encompasses all foreign aid.

“Foreign aid is only 1 percent of our budget and virtually all of that is spent here at home,” she said.

Rosenberg, the lobby’s president, said sustaining support for Israel faced a threefold challenge: Populations were shifting South and West, Congress was turning over more rapidly than ever and political giving is not growing in the pro-Israel community.

“The number of pro-Israel Americans contributing to those campaigns has not increased,” he said. “It is not sustainable.”

AIPAC, Rosenberg said, is now training its activists to be political givers. It was not enough to fund the lobby; activists must fund candidates.

“Being involved in AIPAC and not making financial contributions to politics is like riding a bicycle without pedals,” he said. A succession of activists then crossed the stage, recounting their journeys from apathy to deep political involvement.

Howard Kohr, AIPAC’s executive director, told the conference that it’s critical to get across the AIPAC message, particularly on

Iran, because the attention the world gives to the Middle East has been sapped by the Arab Spring.

“In January and February, we had momentum when it came to Iran,” Kohr said. “Then the Arab demonstrations began, and the focus shifted. Nations everywhere began dealing with the very legitimate challenges and problems that the turmoil presented, and suddenly the world was not talking about Iran with the same sense of clarity and purpose.”

He went on, “And so, it falls to us: We must refocus our policymakers’ attention on what Iran is doing in this time of turmoil: its efforts to cultivate fifth columns in neighboring nations to advance Iranian ends, its use of terror-byproxy, its relentless march toward a nuclear weapon.”

Kohr made it clear he did not want that agenda clouded by the latest Obama-Netanyahu contretemps.

On May 19, in a Middle East policy speech at the State Dept., Obama had said that it was the U.S. position that IsraeliPalestinian peace would be negotiated on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, with land swaps.

Netanyahu immediately countered that those lines were “indefensible,” and on Sunday morning, addressing AIPAC, Obama made clear that by “definition” any Israeli-Palestinian border would be “different” than the 1967 lines. Netanyahu said he “appreciated” the distinction.

That was good enough for Kohr, who kept on praising Obama’s role in advancing AIPAC initiatives.

“It is so important that America and Israel work out whatever differences arise between them privately, and when tensions do arise, that the leaders work together to close those gaps,” he said Monday. “The president’s speech to us yesterday reflected just such an effort to close those gaps.”

That didn’t stop the politicking, nor did it assuage an AIPAC crowd still shellshocked from the bitterness of just days earlier.

Obama earned warm applause for his condemnations of Iran, call to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, denunciations of Hamas and vows of America’s commitment to Israel, but the applause for the president wasn’t as loud as the applause later in the day for Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House majority leader.

When Cantor, hours after Obama’s AIPAC speech, told the conference crowd that the root of the conflict was Arab hatred of Israel and Jews and “not the ‘67 lines,” he got a 40-second standing ovation. It might have been the biggest cheer of the conference.

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