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Jewish Federation of Cincinnati: Pioneering a way of the future As Mark Twain once put it, “If I knew the world was coming to an end, I would go to Cincinnati because everything happens ten years later.” Sound advice when looking out at the current state of the world – budget cuts that threaten the stability of life at home, economies in the midst of collapse, unprecedented social upheaval and discontent – but not entirely true. Just ask the Jewish Federations of North America and the keen interest given to Cincinnati for the past couple of years. At the forefront of figuring out how to navigate this economic climate are Barbara Miller, Director of Planning and Allocations at the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, and Danielle Minson, Director of Financial Resource Development, who have been slowly creating a new fundraising model that targets traditional fundraising, annual campaign allocations and donor development. Last month, Miller and Minson traveled to New Jersey to participate in the Jewish Federations of North America’s I-Lead Conference. The I-lead conference brings together Jewish professionals from around the country as part of a series for employees in the Federation system. The conference is a hotbed for sharing ideas and innovations on the national stage that local Jewish federations have been developing. Miller and Minson were invited to present to their Federation colleagues the fundraising model utilized here in Cincinnati over the past few years. What is so appealing about this new and improved model? The Cincinnati model seeks to integrate planning and development together. The purview of Planning & Allocations is to collect, evaluate and distribute the annual campaign dollars to the various Cincinnati agencies that receive Federation funding. The Federation’s allocation covers a range of programs from Jewish Family Service pro-
(L-R) Danielle Minson, Director of Financial Resource Development, and Barbara Miller, Director of Planning and Allocations at the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.
gramming, to camp scholarships for Cincinnati summer campers, all the way to helping fund senior bus services to the JCC and programs at the JCC. In addition, Planning & Allocations employs upwards of 70 volunteers who devote a significant amount of time in the spring and summer to meeting with one of three programming councils every few weeks to discuss programs, make site visits to various programs and evaluate each program before making an allocation. Volunteers have sat in on classes at the JCC and driven out to Camp Livingston in Indiana to make their evaluations and speak with program participants. It is this consistent involvement of lay volunteers that the Federation uses in its new model. As Miller attests, “Our volunteers go out into the community and they see what we do. It is one thing to hear about our programs, but when they see what happens at the JCC or at a Workum Seminar, you really get a sense of a program’s impact. Often enough, it makes people want to
donate more to a specific program because they have seen what it does.” The combination of participation in programs with donor interest is what the Cincinnati model is looking to elevate. According to Minson, “What makes our model so compelling is that we are discovering our core values in order to develop a product that would impact the community.” Barb Miller added, “We are seeking to combine our community’s vision, from Cincinnati 2020, with the gifts that our donors make. What we’re doing is working as a team to combine funding priorities of the community with our campaign priorities.” And it’s working. The successes of the last few years and the national prominence Cincinnati is receiving in the Federation system speaks to this model’s effectiveness and impact. So far, Cincinnati has been able to find donors for programs, invest in new initiatives such as PJ Library and the Ometz program, and give donors a chance to make, as Minson put it, “a legacy of lessons, continu-
ation of programs for the Jewish community, and being a role model for others.” Minson and Miller traveled to New Jersey to host their workshop for the third time on the Jewish Federation of North America’s invitation, because their colleagues in the system are so interested to learn about how planning and development have been melded together. Members of the New York City Federation system sat in awe as Cincinnati’s collaboration was being explained. “We are a perfect size city to work this way. We don’t have as many Jews as New York, so a lot of our process is centralized, but, we are big enough that the same people aren’t seen again and again and diversity in ideas and implementation are possible,” said Minson. The Federation’s model is appealing for the same reason grassroots community organizing is effective; people personally engage with the community and buy-in to what is being done. Cincinnati 2020 looks to capitalize on this by bringing in community members to work on projects they want for their city. The blend of planning and development could very well prove to be the way of the North American Jewish future. As people become more and more focused on the community before them, in the “think global, act local” mentality, the North American Jewish community could see a surge in how it gathers and distributes money. When asked how they felt that Jewish communities from around the country were spotlighting Cincinnati, Minson and Miller laughed. “We had about 100 people at this conference in New Jersey and JFNA who also wanted us to do a West Coast tour. But, we do have jobs we have to do, you know?” In the end, Mark Twain’s riff on Cincinnati really is outdated. As North American Jewish communities look here for inspiration in “how-to-do-it,” Cincinnatians should be proud that we are, finally, 10 years ahead of the rest.
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HUC holds tribute dinner, marks 100th-year anniversary The Cincinnati Associates of Hebrew Union College will host its 28th Annual Tribute Dinner on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. The event will pay tribute to Ralph S. (Mike) Michael, President and CEO of Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati. The event will also mark the formal celebration of the 100th anniversary of HUC-JIR’s Clifton campus. Dinner co-chairs are Andrew R. Berger and Karen M. Hoguet. Corporate Council Dinner co-chairs are James A. Miller and Joseph A. Pichler. “This centennial celebration event is a wonderful opportunity to honor Mike, one of this community’s most inspiring community leaders,” said Hoguet. “Mike exemplifies the unwavering commitment of Greater Cincinnati’s corporate community to HUC-JIR,” noted Dr. Jonathan Cohen, newly appointed Dean of the Cincinnati campus. “Their devotion has helped to propel this school from humble beginnings to international stature and acclaim. As the dedication of generations
Honoree Ralph S. Michael, President and CEO of Fifth Third Bank
past sustained the College-Institute, so will the community’s ongoing support help drive HUC-JIR’s bold plans for the future.” Michael is a board member of Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. (3CDC), Xavier University, Cincinnati Red Cross and the Cincinnati Bengals. He is the 2011 chair of the ArtsWave campaign and has also chaired the 1995 United
Way of Greater Cincinnati campaign, the 2008 capital campaign for the Dan Beard Council, Boy Scouts of America, and in 1994 he chaired the Friends of Scouting campaign. He is past vice chairman of the Cincinnati Business Committee. “As we enter our next century in Clifton, the Cincinnati campus’ peerless academic and cultural assets will be accessible as never before through expanded outreach programming, dynamic new academic partnerships and enhanced technological capabilities,” noted Rabbi Ken Ehrlich, dean of the Cincinnati campus. “Under the leadership of incoming Dean Dr. Jonathan Cohen, who will assume his new post on Sept. 1, the Cincinnati campus will deepen its historic contributions to the richness of cultural life and learning throughout the community.” The event—to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Cincinnati—will benefit the Rabbinical and Graduate Schools on the Cincinnati campus.
Cedar Village names Larry Neuman first chair of new Foundation Attorney Larry A. Neuman, a longtime leader in the Jewish community has been selected to chair the new Cedar Village Foundation, whose mission is to raise and invest funds for Cedar Village Retirement Community. Neuman is the Foundation’s first chair. He has served on the Cedar Village Board of Trustees for nine years, including five years as treasurer. “I’m committed to Cedar Village because it is a caring Jewish community that adds vital-
ity, joy and years to the lives of our seniors,” Neuman said. Neuman is so supportive of Cedar Village that he and his wife, Carol, decided years ago that they want to live at Cedar Village during the last years of their lives. His in-laws, Harry and Bertha Tobin, lived there and found it to be a “vibrant environment,” he said. “One of the main aspects of being Jewish is to extend kindness to others,” Neuman said. “Cedar Larry Neuman
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Memory expert Joshua Foer speaks at the JCC, Sept. 22 Can’t seem to remember things? Plan to attend a special presentation by Joshua Foer, best-selling author and memory expert as seen on The Colbert Report, on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mayerson JCC. At this free event, Foer will share memory-building skills and illustrate the hidden impact of memory on our lives. Joshua Foer is a New York Times journalist and author of “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.” His best-selling book discusses cutting edge research and venerable tricks of the mentalist’s trade. Foer competed and won the U.S. Memory Championship, held each spring in New York City,
in which people have trained their memories to remember names of strangers, lines of poetry and random digits. “Moonwalking with Einstein” was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Amazon. Foer’s writing has also appeared in National Geographic, Slate and Esquire magazines. Foer’s Sept. 22 presentation is the kick-off event for the new Wolf Center for Jewish Life and Learning at the Mayerson JCC. Generously funded by Nancy and David Wolf, the Wolf Center offers innovative cultural and educational events for the entire community. As the first guest speaker for the new Wolf Center, Foer will
discuss how Judaism perpetuates memory, activates neural networks and challenges understanding of human remembering. Foer’s presentation immediately follows the JCC Annual Meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22. The appearance of Joshua Foer is supported by a generous gift from Elaine and Bob Blatt, and is co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. It has also been made through the Greater Talent Network Inc., New York, NY. For more information about the Joshua Foer presentation or the JCC Annual Meeting, visit the J online or call.
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Hadassah holds opening meeting at Carrabba’s Italian Grill The Cincinnati Chapter of Hadassah will kick off its new season with its Opening Meeting and Luncheon on Monday, Sept. 12, at 11:45 a.m. at Carrabba’s Italian Grill. The guest speaker, Renee Resnik, will talk about Hadassah’s future. Opening Meeting chair is Renee Sandler, and co-presidents are Bobbi Handwerger and Sharon Casper. Lunch will include a choice of salmon or vegetarian lasagna entrees. Renee Resnik of Columbus, Ohio, is the Hadassah Central States Region On-Line Training Chair. She is also a member of the
National Board. In addition, Resnik is a past national vice president and past president of the Central States Region. She previously served as the first national chair of the Hadassah Leadership Academy and as the national chair of the Strategic Planning Department. She served as annual planning chair, on the National Strategic Planning Implementation Team, the Organizational Structures and Process Task Force, The Blue Ribbon Commission and most recently, chair of the Strategic Planning Headquarters Efficiency and Effectiveness
Action. She is a Hadassah Life Member and has traveled to Israel 13 times, beginning with her honeymoon in 1973. In 1984, Resnik participated in a Hadassah Young Leaders Mission for which she credits her long-standing involvement in the organization. This year only, in celebration of Hadassah’s upcoming 100th anniversary in 2012, all Life memberships, including Child and Associate memberships, are available for a discounted rate between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2011. A Centennial Life membership offers a tremendous value to both Annual
members and those interested in joining for the first time. It also makes a meaningful gift to children and grandchildren. Carrabba’s Italian Grill is located in Mason, Ohio. Please RSVP with your choice of entrées by Sept. 9. There is a cost to attend. Hadassah gift items will be available for purchase, and also raffle prizes include jewelry and gift certificates to popular restaurants. If you cannot attend, you may order raffle tickets in advance from Adele Gutterman. If you need a ride to the event, please call Jenny Broh or Rita Rothenberg.
ReelAbilities Film Festival opening night How do people treat those with disabilities on a daily basis, often times unconsciously? The film “Shooting Beauty” explores this unknown world by way of photography. The film will be shown at the opening night celebration of the ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival. Opening night is Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. at the Mayerson JCC. ReelAbilities premieres Sept. 10 – 22 at four locations across Greater Cincinnati. This international film festival features awardwinning films and engaging special presentations that celebrate
the lives, stories and art of people with disabilities. The opening night celebration will feature guest speaker, Richard Bernstein, in addition to the award-winning film “Shooting Beauty”. A chocolate dessert reception catered by local company, Chocolate Passion will follow. Guest speaker Bernstein has been blind from birth and has spent his adult life fighting for the rights of the disabled. His incredible story involves accomplishments in the business world and in his personal life, including running marathons around the world,
finishing the Ironman Competition and creating and hosting a television show. “Shooting Beauty” is about an aspiring fashion photographer who discovers the hidden world of beauty at a center for people with significant disabilities. She documents how these people with disabilities learn the art of photography, and get a second shot in life by becoming photographers. Nine different films will be shown throughout the festival. Most films will be shown at the JCC with additional film screenings at the Cincinnati Art
Museum, College of Mount St. Joseph and Xavier University. A Festival Pass is available and includes all films, even the opening night celebration. Those who purchase a festival pass receive a discount at popular restaurants across Cincinnati throughout the festival. Some of the restaurants include El Pueblo, The Palace at the Cincinnatian and Molly Malone’s. Schedules, movie trailers and tickets are available on the JCC website and by calling the J. Tickets should be purchased in advance due to limited space.
Putting the mitzvah in bar mitzvah for JFS Thirteen-year-old Ethan Kahn was excited every time he opened an envelope showing money was sent in honor of his Bar Mitzvah…especially because the money was not for him. Unlike most boys celebrating their Bar Mitzvah, he specifically requested that in lieu of a gift his guests donate to Jewish Family Service food pantry. Jewish Family Service food pantry is dear to Ethan. After he delivered food for the Dr. Samuel S. Rockwern Passover Delivery of Jewish Family Service project, Ethan wanted to get more involved with feeding families in need. Last year Jewish Family Service Food Pantry fed 208 people living in 36 different zip codes across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. It is the source for free fresh produce, kosher meat and packaged foods, and personal care items for individuals in the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community experiencing financial difficulties. “Often an illness, disability, job loss or any misfortune can change anybody’s life in such a profound way; Jewish Family Service is their safety net,” says Fran Gafvert, Jewish Family Service
Ethan Kahn fills a box with kosher food at Jewish Family Service food pantry to deliver to a family in need.
director of Vital Services. “With support from community individuals such as Ethan, JFS can give them hope for a better future.” Ethan now volunteers regularly by doing Jewish Family Service Food Pantry home deliveries with his mother Jessica. They deliver to clients who are unable to come to the food pantry because the clients have no transportation or money for gas, or they have physical disabilities that make it impossible for them to navigate
the stairs of the pantry located in the lower level of space donated by Golf Manor Synagogue. With each delivered box filled with kosher food and personal care items, Ethan has been able to see firsthand the benefits of his Bar Mitzvah fundraising. “We have visited families with mental illness,” noted Ethan’s mother. “We have also visited several elderly women, and he saw the link between poverty and age...that struck him.”
As he makes his deliveries, Ethan says he feels that each family or friend who donated to Jewish Family Service Food Pantry in honor of his Bar Mitzvah is sharing in the experience. He also believes that by having family and friends donate to the pantry, it took the focus off of him, saying, “It made my Bar Mitzvah a lot of people’s day. It wasn’t just my day, it was benefiting everyone.” When asked if requesting donations in lieu of gifts set an example for his classmates, Ethan humbly didn’t want to take credit for anyone else, but asserts, “Once you realize it, you know it’s the right thing to do.” Ethan did not stop at fundraising or personally delivering food. He also decorated his Bar Mitzvah party’s tables with Jewish Family Service’s Centerpiece for Tzedakah baskets, with the rental fees directly supporting the food pantry. A Centerpiece for Tzedakah is an attractive basket filled with kosher food packages and other sundries, custom-decorated to match the party colors. Ethan noted, “Everything we did helps increase awareness…and before you know it, it is a ripple.”
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JCRC joins 9/11 Observance Committee event The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati joins the coalition members of the 9/11 Observance Committee in remembering the terrorist attacks that took place on Sept. 11, 2001. The JCRC recognizes the importance and power of organizations focused on
justice for all. By creating a meaningful 10th anniversary commemorative event in Cincinnati, the JCRC and the other coalition members hope to contribute to a spirit of collaboration, joining together to honor the many lives lost and the heroic efforts of so many on that tragic day. The perpetrators of 9/11 have dam-
aged the security of everyone in the world who cherishes democracy and freedom, and the JCRC believes it is important for all organizations of conscience to speak in a unified voice regarding this critical issue. The intention is to take time to reflect and remember together, while inspiring hope for a future free from vio-
lent extremism—a future where people of all faiths and backgrounds can live freely worldwide. Please join us this Sunday, Sept. 11 at the Cincinnati Museum Center, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. for what promises to be an important and memorable event. Some of the other participating
members are American Jewish Archives, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, BRIDGES for a Just Community, Cincinnati Human Relations Commission (CHRC), Cincinnati Museum Center, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIROH), Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue at XU and many others.
Living Judaism at Congregation B’nai Tikvah B’nai Tikvah begins the school year on Sept. 18 with The Living Talit. Following the tradition in the old country of a father wrapping his son in a talit and carrying him through the town to his first day of studying Torah, today’s
mothers and fathers will surround all their children in one long talit, creating a living talit. Parents will bring their youngsters to tables set up with the Hebrew letter bet, the first letter of the Torah. There the children will be asked to outline
the letter bet with raisins and m&m’s. As the children hold hands with each other beginning their first day of friendship and study, they will eat the letter bet, symbolizing the sweetness of Torah.
With Rosh Hashanah less than two weeks away, B’nai Tikvah’s members will not only learn about the shofar and its significance, but through the generosity of Cincinnati’s Jewish Federation’s S.E.E.D. Grant, both young and
old will be able to make their own shofar with Rabbi Mangel, learn the meaning of its special notes, and become (baalei tikiah) shofar blowers themselves. JUDAISM on page 19
New books available at Wise Center Library The Wise Center Library is pleased to anounce the addition of new books available to the community in our library. Adults: All These Vows: Kol Nidre, edited by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman; 242.2 Ho A collection of several dozen articles by rabbis and scholars that inform about the history, authorship, meaning and commentaries on this
central prayer in our Yom Kippur liturgy. Includes notes and glossary. Children: Sadie’s Sukkah Breakfast, by Jamie Korngold; E 243.1 Ko Two siblings plan a special breakfast for their—stuffed animals—in their family’s sukkah during the harvest holiday of Sukkot. Sammy Spider’s First Simchat Torah, by Sylvia Rouss; E 243.12 Ro
Sammy Spider’s mother explains to him the holiday of Simchat Torah, when Jews eat candied apples and celebrate the importance of reading the Torah. Includes a recipe for candied apples. Tashlich at Turtle Rock, by Susan Schnur; E 242.1 Sc Annie leads her family on a Rosh Hashanah hike to observe tashlich, where each person will ask God’s forgiveness for the things they regret
doing the previous year. Engineer Ari and the Sukkah Express, by Deborah Bodin Cohen; E 243.1 Co When the friends he has made on the new railroad line give Engineer Ari things to help build and decorate a sukkah in his courtyard, he is sad that they cannot come and enjoy it with him. New DVDs for Children
The Sticky Shofar, a new Shalom Sesame Video Grover and Avigail discover that honey is sweet and sticky, and also learn a lesson in friendship and forgiveness to start the New Year right! Monsters in the Sukkah, a new Shalom Sesame Video Avigail and Brosh’s plans to welcome their guests come crashing down with their sukkah. Can they rebuild it in time for Sukkot?
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CHHE celebrates accomplishments at annual meeting On Thursday, Sept.15, The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education (CHHE) hosts its Annual Meeting in the Boymel Chapel at Rockwern Academy. The evening begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m.,
with the meeting to follow at 6 p.m. The program will celebrate CHHE’s many accomplishments during the 2010-2011 academic year. Through dynamic public programming, tours of permanent and
traveling exhibits, presentations by members of the Speakers’ Bureau and workshops for educators, CHHE touched the lives of over 25,000 individuals. In addition, the meeting will salute
Mark Weisser, outgoing president, and outgoing board members Alison Dipilla, Sam Knobler and Brian Szames. President-elect John Neyer and new board members will be installed. President-elect Neyer has
served on the Board of Trustees since the inception of the organization. Dietary laws observed. The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education is located on the campus of Rockwern Academy.
Family Shabbat celebration at Northern Hills Northern Hills Synagogue Congregation B’nai Avraham invites all families with pre-Bar and Bat Mitzvah age children to join in a Family Shabbat Celebration on Friday evening, Sept. 17. The event
will be held at the synagogue, beginning at 6:15 p.m. According to Tracy Weisberger, Northern Hills’ Director of Programming and Education, the program is
designed to encourage families with young children to celebrate Shabbat in a fun, interactive way. The evening will feature Shabbat blessings, songs, games and activities. A pizza dinner will be
served. There is no charge for attending. “Shabbat is a time for families and friends,” Weisberger noted. “At Northern Hills Synagogue, we strive to develop programs that
involve young families in a meaningful way. We want families to come and celebrate the beauty and togetherness of Shabbat.” For more information, please call the synagogue.
Ohr Chadash and Sha’arei Torah host joint BBQ Congregations Ohr Chadash and Sha’arei Torah will jointly host their first annual community BBQ on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 at French Park in Amberley Village from 4-7 p.m. In honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Amberley Village
police and fire departments will be in attendance. There will be a family softball game, face painting, snow cones, a kosher BBQ and more. Ohr Chadash and Sha’arei Torah are two new Orthodox synagogues that have recently been established
in the Cincinnati community. “This barbeque is a great opportunity for our two shuls to come together in a social setting. As our shul approaches our first anniversary, we are always looking for ways to partner with other shuls in the
community for both social and educational programming. Much like our partnership with Ohav Shalom, celebrating with Shaarei Torah is another natural fit,” said Debbie Balk, president of Ohr Chadash. Ohr Chadash is located in
Montgomery. Sha’arei Torah is located in Amberley Village. One of its members, Dr. Ronna Schneider, said, “My family and I are very excited about this BBQ. We are looking forward to having a lot of fun with good friends and good food!”
Rabbi Gluckin has authored several books including “Everything You Want Is Really Jewish” and “Discover This.” His articles and essays are featured in the book “Heaven on Earth,” on the awarding winning aish website and in the Jerusalem Post online edition. He has served in the Israeli Army, has a degree in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music and received his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Noah Weinberg at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. The combination of the eclectic, unconventional, and inspiring speaker, and the fascinating, pow-
erful Discovery material are expected to make this a truly remarkable opportunity. The Discovery Seminar will be held on Sunday, Sept. 25 from 9:45 – 11:45 a.m. Coffee and refreshments will be available and concurrent children’s programming is being offered to make this opportunity truly convenient. Advance registration is recommended and is also discounted. Those interested in children’s programming must register in advance. Information can be found on the Sarah’s Place Cincy and Ohr Chadash websites.
Disovery comes to Cincinnati “Why stick with Judaism?” This question is being asked overtly, indirectly, or at least subconsciously by the majority of today’s Jewish young adults. Sadly, large numbers of them are not discovering the answers in time to prevent their abandoning Judaism in total or significant part. The internationally acclaimed Discovery Seminar was designed to answer this fundamental question. Each year, close to 10,000 people experience the thrill of this powerful and exciting presentation. With its crisp, entertaining style and state-of-the-art educational techniques, Discovery packs
Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin at the gravesite of Jimi Henderix
the wisdom and relevance of Jewish values and ideas into a spectacular and moving demonstration of the case for Judaism. This is often described as “THE Seminar” for those grappling with this question, or for parents hoping to arm their children with the conviction to “stay Jewish.” Sarah’s Place and Congregation Ohr Chadash are teaming up to bring Discovery to Cincinnati on Sunday Sept. 25. Guest presenter for this seminar will be the dynamic, talented and hilarious jazz guitarist turned campus outreach guru, Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin.
Bachrach gives YPs his two cents on financial success You work for money, but does your money work for you? From college loans and credit card debt, to entertainment and everyday living expenses, when it comes to money management most young professionals are too busy just trying to keep their heads above water to plan for their financial futures. But now, it will be easier than ever to take control when Access presents a private dinner with Channel 19’s Financial News Correspondent, host of 55KRC’s popular Simply Money and Managing Partner of the Financial Group Network, Ltd., Nathan Bachrach, who will give guests some tips and tricks for how to begin saving and investing money for tomorrow, without dramatically changing their lifestyles today. The event is free to Jewish young professionals, ages 21-35 and will take place on Monday, Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the Aronoff Center’s
Green Room. Dinner and drinks will be served.
Learn about personal finance and what it takes to achieve long-term financial success with Nathan Bachrach.
“When it comes to staying out of debt, saving for the future, or starting a family, getting an early start is imperative for people in their 20s and 30s,” explains Bachrach. “Young people today are facing enormous financial
challenges. That’s why I’m happy to have this opportunity to share some new ways for them to take control so they can feel empowered and begin to realize their future financial goals and dreams.” This event is part of Access’ JCafe program, an initiative of The Mayerson Foundation that brings participants together around topics of particular interest to Jewish young adults, including the History of the Jewish Queen City, Kosher Sex, Business Ethics, Jewish Identity, Messages in Israeli Music and much more. In addition to rich discussion, JCafe events seek to engage participants in thinking and learning about something they didn’t know before, or enhancing their knowledge and perspective about something they already did. “Like me, most of the young professionals I know never took personal finance courses or gave
money management any real thought when we were in college. So, when we finally got out into the real world, we were pretty clueless about things like 401Ks, investing in the stock market, purchasing real estate and more,” says Access Event coordinator, Rachel Plowden. “That’s why we thought it would be a good idea to bring in a financial expert who could help us make sense of it all. And who better to do that than Nathan Bachrach, a prominent member of our Jewish community and a local celebrity who advises tens of thousands of people on a weekly basis? We feel very fortunate that he was willing to take time out of his busy schedule to participate in this event and anticipate that it will fill up very quickly!” RSVPs have already begun pouring in for this event which is expected to fill up. “This is a very important topic for people our age.
When you turn on the TV, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by news about the stock market, the economy, social security and so on. Having the tools to make smart financial decisions — and separate fact from fiction, truth from hype — is a skill that everyone should have,” says Andrew Davis, frequent Access attendee and a young professional who works in the financial industry. “This event will help simplify the jargon and reduce the intimidation around making smart saving and investment decisions.” The event is free and open to Jewish young professionals, 21-35 (non-Jewish significant others are always welcome). Space is limited and will fill up. Advance reservations are required by Sept. 16. No one will be admitted at the door. To RSVP, please consult the Community Directory listing in this issue for Access’ contact information.
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‘Kids In the Kitchen’ — holiday edition A new kids club, “Kids in the Kitchen,” is being launched at the Chabad Jewish Center in Blue Ash. Kids in the Kitchen is a unique culinary experience with a Jewish twist that offers cooking classes in a fun-filled environment that encourages discovery and creativity. Whether your child already loves to cook, or is still unsure in the kitchen, this club will foster a lifetime love for cooking, and help your child gain a newfound ease in navigating the kitchen. The club is appropriate for both novices and experienced young chefs. Each visit to Kids in the Kitchen is a new experience. Through enticing holiday themes, such as Dessert Delights prior to Rosh Hashanah, and Latkes and Donuts prior to Chanukah, participants will learn to make delicious traditional and non-traditional holiday foods. After class, the children will take home their wonderful edible creations along with their new recipes. Participants will gain kitchen skills that will enable them to replicate the recipes at home to share with their families and friends. The club will be led by Master Chef, Rabbi Berel Cohen, director of Youth and Family Programming at Chabad Jewish Center. “The idea for this class has been on the table for several years. I love to be in the kitchen, and have incorporated cooking and baking into many of our other youth programs, with resounding success, for example the Chabad Hebrew School Kids Make Shabbat, Chanukah Latke cook-off and the popular Model Matzah Bakery. We are excited to finally have a club that is dedicated to cooking,” says Rabbi Cohen. Guest chefs will be featured throughout the course. The chefs hail from around Cincinnati, and will be on hand to share their unique skills with the children, honed from their varied training and professional experiences. Kids in the Kitchen will be held monthly, on Sunday afternoons, throughout the duration of the school year. The first class is Sunday, September 18, 12:30 – 2 p.m. Children ages 7-12 are invited to register for individual classes or become a member, which includes tuition for all classes plus an exclusive Kids in the Kitchen personalized apron! For more information about Kids in the Kitchen, visit the website or call Chabad Jewish Center in Blue Ash.
Zach Reichman and Sammy Ishida make chicken soup at the Chabad Hebrew School Kids Make Shabbat; Gabriela Segal and Hank Loeb prepare a salad at the Chabad Hebrew School Kids Make Shabbat; Master Chef Rabbi Berel Cohen, youth and family program director for the Chabad Jewish Center; Asa Guigui with mom Brooke Guigui at the Model Matzah Bakery; Children baking Matzah at the Chabad Model Matzah Bakery held at the Meyerson JCC.
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Journey to freedom: Reflecting on the King memorial By Robert J. Marx Jewish Telegraphic Agency CHICAGO (JTA) — Time affirms what heroism discerns. The dedication of a statue in memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a belated yet significant tribute to a man who did so much to redefine the meaning of our democracy. Make no mistake about it, there was a civil rights movement in the middle years of the 20th century, but King was the face of the movement, the pulse of it — one might even say the heart of it. The memorial in Washington, D.C., about to be dedicated to his memory is made of solid stone, of granite. It will remain for the ages, solid and unmoving, a reminder of what dedication and courage are able to achieve. Yet contemplating the statue, something seems to be missing. King was not one to sit transfixed for the ages. He was always in motion, always on the move. His travels led him on a heroic if ultimately fatal arc
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Rabbi Robert J. Marx, with glasses, is pictured with the Rev. Martin Luther King in the 1960s.
— Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, Memphis. In Selma, Ala., and later in Chicago, I experienced no great moral revelation as I answered King’s invitation to join him, no
great sense that destiny was inviting me to play a supporting role. Quite the contrary; the feeling was rather mundane. What was being done had to be done. I had the privilege of spending
several days in Chicago with King, who was there to protest a housing market that remained segregated. King’s presence shattered the illusion that discrimination was a southern disease, not a northern one. We marched in the heart of the city, down Michigan Avenue. I was walking beside King when a small stone aimed at him hit me on the forehead. It was a glancing, harmless blow, but the scene was picked up by a television camera and broadcast all over the country. Friends in New York called: “Are you all right? Were you hurt?” “No damage, I am fine,” I answered. And then, in a moment, I started to tremble. “No, I am hurt — not by the stone but by the hatred, the bitterness, the rage,” I said. It is the anger behind that stone that remains with me even now, so many years later. How easy it is to deplore hatred — even the political hatreds that still drive us away from our own humanity. Yet how difficult it is to understand the
anguish of the poor and powerless. And how impossible it is to contemplate something that has begun to affect both blacks and whites — the steady evisceration of a struggling middle class. So there he will sit for the ages, the man who for all too brief a span would never let us relax or sit smugly silent. The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial will become a tourist attraction. Facing as it does the Lincoln Memorial, it will serve as a reminder that our country’s moral force remains alive and potent. King and Lincoln — neither led a simple life. Both were shot down by demented fanatics. Both tell us that the journey to freedom still requires wisdom, dedication and courage. Rabbi Robert J. Marx, the founder and a past president of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago and Alabama and fought for civil rights in Chicago and beyond.
10 years on, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about 9/11 persist By Dan Klein Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — Osama bin Laden is dead. A new skyscraper is rising at the site of the old World Trade Center. U.S. troops are withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan. Ten years later, the physical legacies of the 9/11 attacks are fading into history. Yet the conspiracy theories about who “really” was behind the attacks seem to be growing. Like a drug-resistant virus, these fantasies have persisted despite efforts to combat them by mutating over time, taking new forms and finding new modes of transmission. Jews and Israel often are their targets, and they evoke centuries-old myths about Jewish power, allegiances and manipulation of social institutions. The conspiracy theories began almost as soon as the towers fell. Four days after the attack, the Syrian newspaper Al-Thawra reported that 4,000 Jews failed to show up for work at the World Trade Center on 9/11 after being warned by Israeli intelligence, according to a 2007 U.S. State Department document debunking the myth. Another held that five Israeli students were secret Mossad agents who knew about the attacks and allowed them to happen. That myth eventually morphed into the conspiracy theory that the Israelis remotely directed the attacks. Other myths have followed, spreading around the world and taking root even in the United States. Of 36,000 conspiracy
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Top photo, Michael Foran; bottom left, U.S. Navy; bottom right, TheMachineStops; Top and bottom right, the World Trade Center after the attacks of 9-11; bottom left is the Pentagon after the terrorism.
videos recently found on the Internet, 16,000 implicated Jews or Israelis, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League titled “Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later.” “What we’ve seen in the last 10 years is the proliferation of a real propaganda industry surrounding Sept. 11th,” said the
director of the ADL’s civil rights division, Deborah Lauter. “Prominent among those theories are those making anti-Semitism front and center.” The theories have amounted to more than just pernicious talk. On June 10, 2009, one alleged 9/11 conspiracy theorist opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, killing a security guard. The perpetrator, James von Brunn, then 88, died before the case could come to trial. Experts say 9/11 myths that blame the Jews are spreading freely from neo-Nazis and other white supremacists into new areas whose acolytes are not necessarily anti-Semitic but are unknowingly adopting the tropes of classical anti-Semitic conspiracy theories: anti-government radicals, young anti-war activists, New Age ideologues, and propagandists and journalists in the Arab and Muslim worlds. “What’s changed is the proliferation of coded rhetoric to refer to Jews internationally and in the U.S,” said Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at Political Research Associates, a liberal think tank based in Somerville, Mass. “They’re unprepared to recognize it even when they see it.” Michael Barkun, a professor of political science at Syracuse University who has studied extremists and their ideologies, said, “They aren’t people who are terribly different from the population at large,” except that “they are more likely to be attracted to conspiracy theories.” Alan Sabrosky, a columnist for Veterans Today, an anti-Semitic website, is one of most widely cited sources for anti-Semitic 9/11 myths, according to the ADL. Sabrosky has declared his mission to “contain” Israel’s ambition by exposing Israel’s alleged role in 9/11 and maintains that Washington and New York are the centers of “Zionist power.” Citations of Sabrosky’s work
pop up not just on extreme-right websites but on pro-Palestinian websites such as Mondoweiss, Arab media sites and the Internet newsletter Dissent Voice, which describes itself as “a radical newsletter in the search for peace and social justice.” “This is a strange world where the right and the left mix, with anti-Semitism shot through,” said Scott Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report. “On the left it is shot through with anti-Zionism, on the right the fear of the international Jew.” A 2008 poll of 17 representative nations by the Center for International Security Studies at the University of Maryland found that only nine of the countries surveyed had majorities who believed al-Qaeda orchestrated the attacks. Most of those who believed otherwise did not implicate Israel, however. Instead, they said they did not know who was behind the attacks or blamed the United States. In Russia, Israelrelated conspiracy theories were at 2 percent of those polled. In Kenya, 3 percent believed in Israel-related myths. In Indonesia, the number was 5 percent. In the Middle East, however, the numbers were much different. In Egypt, 43 percent of respondents blamed Israel for 9/11. In Jordan, 31 percent blamed Israel. In the West Bank and Gaza, the numbers were slightly lower. In Turkey, however, only 3 percent believed Israel was behind the attacks. THEORIES on page 22
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With Perry surging and Romney slipping, GOP Jews grapple with a changed field By Adam Kredo Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON (JTA/ WASHINGTON JEWISH WEEK) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s surge to the front of the GOP presidential pack has Jewish Republicans reckoning with a field that suddenly looks much different than it did just a few weeks ago. According to the latest Gallup poll, 29 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents favor Perry, with 17 percent supporting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the previous frontrunner. Romney, seen as the businessfriendly favorite of establishment Republicans, has been popular with Jewish donors to the GOP. But while Perry’s harder-edged conservatism and religion-tinged rhetoric may make him a tougher sell to centrists, prominent Jewish GOPers say he’ll have little trouble courting Republican Jews who are hungry for a victory in 2012. “I think it’s safe to say that everyone, Jews included, was surprised” to see Perry eclipse Romney, said Tevi Troy, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former liaison to the Jewish community in George W. Bush’s White House. But, he added, “I have not seen evidence that Republican Jews are uncomfortable with Perry. Everyone will of course have their preferences in the primaries, but GOP Jews are in ABO mode — they will support ‘Anyone But Obama’ come November of 2012.” Republican Jews don’t have to be enamored with Perry in order to vote for him, says Noam Neusner, a former Bush speechwriter who succeeded Troy as the White House’s Jewish liaison. “If he’s the nominee, Republican Jews will support him,” Neusner said. “They may not be enthusiastic about him, but they’re not enthusiastic about Romney, either.” Mark Lezell, a lawyer, Republican fundraiser and Romney supporter from Rockville, Md., called the Perry surge “unexpected,” but he still believes that the “smart bet remains with Romney.” “In the Jewish community right now, the money is overwhelmingly with Romney,” Lezell said. “At this point I feel very good about Romney getting the nomination.” Republican candidates such as U.S. Reps. Ron Paul of Texas and Michele Bachmann of Minnesota are still doing reasonably well in the polls — the Gallup survey pegged their support at 13 percent
and 10 percent, respectively — and they have helped push the tenor of the campaign to the right, observers say. But the race appears to be narrowing with Perry’s entry. “This race is between Romney and Perry and the other candidates are filler for campaign reporters,” said one Jewish political strategist who requested anonymity. Both Perry and Romney are seen by Jewish Republicans as strongly pro-Israel, as is the rest of the Republican field, with the notable exception of Paul. “You’ve got a bunch of proIsrael people and then Ron Paul,” Troy said. “They’re all out elbowing each other to say, ‘I’m the proIsrael guy.’” Jennifer Rubin, a conservative Washington Post blogger, approvingly noted that Perry mentioned Israel in his campaign’s kickoff speech, criticizing President Obama’s policies toward the Jewish state.
based political strategist who served as the communications director for Arizona Sen. John McCain during the 2000 GOP presidential primaries. Perry, on the other hand, has adopted a range of conservative social stances, and puts his faith front and center. That type of rhetoric, Schnur said, “might make it more difficult for [Perry] to attract the Jewish voter — even someone who agrees with him on economic matters or issues relating to Israel and the Middle East.” Troy, however, suggested that Perry is getting a bad rap. “I think Perry-phobia exists in many places, and the Jewish community is one of those places,” Troy said. “A lot of people say to me, ‘I’m afraid of this Perry guy,’ but I don’t think there’s any basis for it.” Perry’s supporters point to his record as governor. Perry has more than a decade of executive governing experience — more than even
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Prominent Jewish Republicans say Texas Gov. Rick Perry, shown speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans in June 2011, will have little trouble courting GOP Jews who are hungry for a presidential victory in 2012.
Romney, for his part, has built a reputation as a candidate who eschews the type of religious appeals that make Jewish voters of all political stripes uncomfortable, several Jewish Republicans noted. He “doesn’t appear to frighten people in the Jewish community,” Troy noted, adding that Romney is “defined in the Jewish community, and in a positive way.” Romney’s focus on the economy, jobs and national security appeals to conservative Jews and potential swing voters, Jewish Republicans said. The strategy “makes him potentially a more comforting alternative to a swing voter than a candidate who spends more time talking about issues that might be more confrontational to certain voters,” said Dan Schnur, a California-
Romney, noted Steve Papermaster, a Jewish Perry devotee from Texas. “Up until today, until right now, he’s dealing with the current economy, not just the economy of four, six or eight years ago,” said Papermaster, who was appointed in 2001 by President Bush to the President’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology. “Romney has got experience as a governor, but it’s a bit dated to be honest.” Perry also appeals to broad segments of the Republican electorate, Schnur said. “Perry doesn’t duplicate either Romney or Bachmann’s support, he overlaps with them both,” Schnur said. “He’s the most Tea Party candidate the establishment can deal with and the most establishment candidate the Tea Party can handle.”
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The cast of “Hitler’s Belly.”
China’s obsession with Hitler By Isaac Stone Fish Tablet Magazine (Tablet) — A Chinese Hitler, dressed like a mall cop, mopes in an underground bunker in 1945 as his empire is collapsing around him. But it’s not all bad news. “My stomach hurts, and it’s bigger. I’m pregnant!” Hitler exclaims, stroking himself mindlessly. “Hitler’s Belly,” a hit play currently touring China, answers the eternal question of what the world’s most notorious dictator looks like when portrayed by an overweight Chinese man pretending to be pregnant. It mixes snippets from Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator,” old newsreel footage, slapstick with Chinese sensibilities, and an extended fart joke. As Hitler prepares to give birth, Chaplin — also a character in the play — wanders the bunker, impersonating Hitler to his underlings. Chaplin spars with Hitler, and then everyone raps. Genocide is not mentioned. Chaplin made his famous 1940 satire, in which he plays both a Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, the blabbering dictator of Tomania, in part because of the actor’s similarity to Hitler: They each sported a distinctive mustache, they were born four days apart in April 1889, and they shared a love for Richard Wagner’s music. In his autobiography, Chaplin’s son, Charles Chaplin, recalled his father saying: “He’s the madman, I’m the comic. But it could have been the other way around.” Meng Jinghui, the play’s shaggy-haired director, first saw “The Great Dictator” in 1984, he told me, and he thought it would be fascinating to watch Chaplin interact with Hitler. But he didn’t begin work on
his play until he saw a glint of Hitler in his favorite leading man, Liu Xiaoye. “I was wearing a hat and put on a little mustache,” said Liu, who plays Hitler, Chaplin, and Eva Braun, often switching between characters mid-sentence. Meng recalls: “He put black on his finger and put it up here, and said hey, don’t I look like Hitler? And I said, hey, you can be Hitler.” One of China’s best-known theater personalities, Meng has enjoyed a long string of successes adapting foreign concepts to Chinese audiences. He brought Rent to China as the story of a missing real-estate tycoon. “We don’t have bohemia, we don’t have so many drug users or gay people, and we don’t do threesomes,” he told NPR in 2009. “So, we use your structure, and we put our lives into it.” Unlike “The Great Dictator,” “Hitler’s Belly” declines to tackle questions of Judaism, focusing instead on issues relevant to a Chinese audience: corruption in the Ministry of Railways, lies from the government, and the difficulty of affording a house. Many artists prefer to satirize the present in China by criticizing the past. “The most difficult part of the acting for me was moving between history and politics,” said Liu. To announce the birth of his son, Hitler holds a press conference. He tells the Chinese journalists in attendance that the pregnancy is a “miracle,” a loaded term because it mocks the government’s response to a recent deadly train crash — after a bullet train derailed last July, killing scores, a Railway Ministry spokesman called the rescue of one child survivor “a miracle,” invoking the ire of many. This draws a healthy laugh from the audience.
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By Marcy Oster Jewish Telegraphic Agency Guard charged with sexually assaulting Jewish school’s students SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — A Jewish man was charged with allegedly sexually assaulting children at a Jewish school in Australia where he worked as a security guard. David Cyprys, a locksmith who runs a company called Shomer Security, faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court Tuesday on 16 counts of indecent assault and 13 counts of gross indecency for alleged sexual assault of students at Yeshivah College from 1984 to 1991. Cyprys, 43, who was contracted by the Orthodox boys’ school to work as a security guard, was given strict bail conditions: He must surrender his passport, stay at least 300 feet or more from a school and not contact any child under 16 — including his children and stepchildren — unless supervised by authorities. The magistrate also slapped a nearly $53,000 surety on his bail. There were five alleged victims each in Victoria and New South Wales, and investigators are traveling to America to interview two more, the court heard. The alleged victims were aged 7 to 17 at the time of the incidents. Manny Waks, one of the alleged victims who was a student at Yeshivah College 20 years ago, said in a statement that “I and the other victims remain determined to ensure justice prevails and that the perpetrator and his facilitators are held to full account. As victims we look forward to achieving closure and justice. After more than 20 years, this now seems attainable.” It is believed that the reopening of a police investigation in June into former Jewish studies teacher David Kramer, who fled Australia to America in the early 1990s after allegations he had sexually abused boys, prompted alleged victims to report Cyprys to authorities. Cyprys, who is Orthodox, was asked recently to stand aside from the boards of Elwood Talmud Torah Congregation and the Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria pending the investigation. The case was adjourned to Dec. 2.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Here are some recent stories out of Israel that you may have missed: Read all about it: Teen’s a hero Arina Shestopolov Censor, 17, became a hero — and earned a full college scholarship — by reading. Censor and her father, Tslil, saved two victims of an Aug. 20 rocket attack on Beersheba from the information she had gleaned reading a book that her father had given her five years ago about emergency situations. The heroism won her a full scholarship to Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She and her father, upon hearing the cries of BGU student Lior George, had rushed from their building to help George, a medical engineering student, and Nati Hachakur, a Beersheba resident, after both had been injured by one of two Grad missiles from Gaza that had hit the southern Israeli city. Tslil determined that Hachakur had no pulse and worked to help George. But Arina saw Hachakur open his eyes and immediately worked to form a tourniquet out of a stick that she had found and some cloth. The tourniquet held on her third try and prevented Hachakur from bleeding to death, according to a statement from the university. “The last time I had looked at the book I was 12, but the diagrams just floated into my mind,” she told university President Rivka Carmi after being offered the full scholarship. “When Nati was brought in to the ER, we took a picture of Arina’s makeshift tourniquet. I want to use it to teach this generation how to improvise materials from what’s at hand,” said Dr. Michael Sherf, director-general of Soroka University Medical Center. “Without their help, Nati would not have made it.” Bibi’s media blitz, one year later Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might not feel the love during the day-to-day running of the government, but his new media channels are hot a year after their launch. The Prime Minister’s Office Facebook page has received 17,400 “likes” since it was started one year ago. More than 7 million web users have viewed the Facebook status updates in Hebrew, English and Arabic, receiving about 47,000 likes and comments from the United States,
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Low note: Margalit Tzanani, the popular Israeli singer known as Margol, takes questions at the Petach Tikvah District Court, August 2011. Tzanani is suspected of blackmail, extortion, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Israel, Egypt, Canada, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and Germany. Netanyahu’s YouTube channel registered about 290,000 views, the most popular clip being “Prime Minister Netanyahu’s greeting for the month of Ramadan,” which received more than 80,000 views. Some 60 percent were from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. The channel is most popular with U.S. viewers, at 23.4 percent; next is Egypt at 17.8 percent. Israeli viewers comprise 15 percent of viewers, followed by Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Morocco, Germany, Jordan and France. The prime minister’s Twitter channel has more than 10,000 followers. Netanyahu sent 773 tweets during the last year in Hebrew, English and Arabic. Some were re-tweeted by approximately 800 followers to millions of additional followers around the world, many of which were quoted on media sites, blogs and other sites. A criminal is Born? Margalit (Margol) Tzanani, a judge on “A Star is Born,” has been accused of throwing her vote on the popular Israeli television show. During an investigation of Margol, as the well-known singer is known throughout Israel, in an alleged extortion plot of her manager involving a local crime syndicate family, it was revealed that she had allegedly changed her vote on the show. Apparently the crime ring sent Margot a text message during a live broadcast to vote for its favored contestant. The show’s producers said Margol’s actions did not harm the final outcome. Margol remains under house arrest after being charged last
month with extortion and conspiracy to commit a crime for allegedly hiring figures from the syndicate family to threaten her manager over profits she believed that she was owed. Margol allegedly brought a contestant that was voted off “A Star Is Born” to her manager in exchange for a share of the profits made in representing the young singer. In another alleged venture with the crime ring, Margol was to recruit the show’s finalists to a new PR firm run by the ring, and to advise them how to get out of their contracts with the production company of “A Star Is Born.” Police intervention foiled the prospective venture. Tiny Torah scrolls to take the plunge Israeli submarines will be taking tiny Torah scrolls with them to the bottom of the sea. Several religious soldiers have joined the Israeli Navy in recent months. Just as every permanent Israel Defense Forces base has a Torah scroll to be read on Shabbat, Mondays and Thursdays, the military realized that it was time to place them on their subs. The IDF turned to a family that has donated scrolls to bases in the past and asked it to donate Torah scrolls for Navy subs, Ynet reported. But with the limited space on a submarine, the Torah scrolls had to be small. The first submarine Torah scroll is scheduled to be completed in the coming days, according to Ynet, and will be one-fourth the size of a standard one — small enough to fit in a shoe box. The scroll will be transferred from submarine to submarine based on demand, according to Ynet. A rabbi with a high security clearance will be required to bring the Torah to the sub, Ynet reported.
Turkey suspends defense, trade ties with Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) — Turkey has suspended all defense industry ties with Israel and has halted all trade as well, pending a decision on permanently suspending trade, the country’s prime minister announced. “Trade ties, military ties, regarding defense industry ties, we are completely suspending them. This process will be followed by different measures,” Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, according to news agencies. Erdogan also said that Turkish Navy ships will have a heightened presence in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Israeli diplomats who have not yet left Turkey have until Wednesday to do so, the prime minister said. Israel’s ambassador to Turkey had finished his term and had planned to return to Israel. No replacement had yet been named. Erdogan also said that he may visit Gaza through Egypt after a visit to Cairo later this month, according to Reuters. Many of the sanctions already had been announced by Turkey’s foreign minister on Sept. 2, the same day as the United Nations released the Palmer report, an investigation into Israel’s May 2010 boarding of the Gaza-bound ship Mavi Marmara in which nine Turkish nationals were killed. The report found that Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza is legal but that Israeli commandoes used excessive force in confronting the passengers. Israel has refused to apologize for the raid, but has expressed “regret” for the deaths. Egypt sealing terror tunnels JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egypt is working to seal smuggling tunnels to Gaza and is building a security fence around the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. With intelligence sources warning of an imminent attack on Israel by Gaza terrorists entering Israel through Egypt, Egypt’s military began sealing the tunnels with rocks and sand over the weekend, the French news agency AFP reported. Hundreds of tunnels between Egypt and Gaza are used to smuggle weapons and terrorists, as well as cars and consumer goods, according to reports.
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20 Brix—Elegant, American dining Our eyes long for the brick, stone and wood of yesteryear, a respite from the glass, steel and metal garishness of today’s contemporary styles. Come with me to 20 Brix, an elegant restaurant and wine store, nestled in a picturesque corner of historic downtown Milford, where there is an abundance of 19th century buildings, where tree lined Main Street is home to old fashioned, windowed store fronts, where there is everything from custom made designer clothes, to an art gallery and myriad antique stores all fronted by huge planters overflowing with flowers. After the closing of its only upscale restaurant, Milford was hungry for another to take its place. We (I live nearby) have been given our just desserts. 20 Brix’ unique and beautifully designed food is based on local sources. I observed proof of this when a farmer came with a large basket of organic heirloom tomatoes and sold them to chef Paul Barraco. The chef is living his dream of creating a menu based on what is seasonal and tickles his creative imagination. He said that owner Hunter Thomas has faith in him and lets him “do the things I want.” A graduate of the Midwest Culinary Institute, he has always loved cooking. “I would rather work seventy hours doing what I love than thirty and not liking it.” His passion and commitment are evident. Barraco’s description of the roasted Scottish salmon reminded me of why I almost always order this entree. He said, “You cut through the crispy eggplant to the tender perfectly cooked salmon, (glazed by) a sweet/tart jam with a bit of heat, just enough to know you’re alive.” This is no ordinary jam, but one of amazing complexity with fresh squeezed orange juice, orange zest, tomatoes, onion and ground fennel seed slow cooked until everything melts and all the natural sugars emerge. Fresh micro greens above the jam and smoky roasted eggplant puree below with sautéed zucchini, yellow squash and cippoline onions (tiny and sweet) achieve a confluence of flavors to delight the pickiest of diners. Topping it all is a dollop of tzatziki, a Greek type yogurt only thicker with more tartness, mixed with grated cucumber, onion, fresh dill and lemon. Barraco explains, “We try for as much of a balance of flavors North/South Indians Indo Chinese
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(Clockwise) Picture perfect patio for outdoor dining; Chef/“Artiste” Paul Barraco purchases organic, heirloom tomatoes from Evan Burke in front of wine section; Elegant and sleek dining area; Arugula salad, simply delicious; Savory roasted carrot soup; Salmon “a la magnifique.”
and textures as possible. Each dish should have a little salty, a little sour, some sweet, a pleasant bitterness or earthiness (as found in eggplant or mushrooms).” It’s fair to say that this fare is put together with enough details to separate it from most other salmon presentations. It also sounds like it should come with the caveat, “Don’t try this at home.” Roasted carrot soup was another taste sensation that challenged all my flavor finders leaving me in a creamy, dreamy state. The carrots are roasted until they are very sweet then combined with a Thai chili sauce, fresh squeezed orange juice, cumin, onion, ginger, chicken stock, a little cream and fresh coriander seed; unlike the usual dry product, this tastes like cilantro and lemon and translates well in the combined flavors, according to Barraco. Not for the faint of heart or those who fear spiciness but for me, velvet heaven. This soup is in the category of starters and salads which includes a selection of appetizers such as the very popular “conversation platter” of artisanal cheeses, crostine, cured meat and accompaniments. I sampled the arugula salad with shaved radish, Parmesan and lemon pepper vinaigrette, very simple, elegant,
fresh and crisp, a perfect beginning. Also “simple and elegant, not over the top,” is the way owner Hunter Thomas described the restaurant’s interior, “with the wine shelving center stage and decor that flows together.” The look is cool and contemporary with soft green walls punctuated with lovely artwork, a spacious bar and comfortable booths adjacent. The dining section on the other side has tables and chairs parallel to a wall of windows facing the lovely outdoor dining area which features myriad baskets of flowers, small flowering pear trees and grape vines wandering carelessly through the wrought iron fencing. Thomas went to culinary school in South Carolina and after working in other restaurants wanted his own. He opened 20 Brix in 2007 to rave reviews. He believes in this community, and while I was there I saw one example. When he was approached for a local raffle donation, he willingly acquiesced. Surprisingly, in addition to many gourmet selections, there are some very popular “down home” types of foods such as hamburgers, but not your usual burger. Barraco said, “We start with a house made bun and prime beef, add ground meat from
braised short ribs that have cooked for six hours until they are meltingly tender and (it) keeps the burger juicy even when ordered medium. It blurs the boundary between burger and pot roast. The comforting brisket smell adds to the appearance and taste and many people say it’s the best burger in the city.” They also serve their own hand cut fries. In addition, an extremely popular item, waffles and chicken is a regular offering. A selection of crispy pizzas and mac and cheese are also available. The chef told me that he likes to push the envelop a bit and offer the unexpected such as grilled venison loin and the unique style high end burger. I think Thomas appreciates that he has an artist in the kitchen with consummate culinary capacity. The menu includes vegetarian choices and an excellent steak dinner served with fries and salad that my friends have enjoyed very much. For dessert they offer an array of delectable treats with house made Crème brûlée topping the list. Other selections vary seasonally. I tasted a lemon berry mascarpone cake which was a cross between a cake and shortbread, much more texture and flavor than a standard
yellow cake, with the berries within and without as a sauce and the layers separated by a light whipped mascarpone (Italian cream cheese). It was so good. Thomas said “Diners can order ninety percent of the wine on their store list to accompany their dinners. To facilitate their choice our favorites are marked by hearts.” Two-ounce tastes are available for the unsure or in my case, the easily inebriated. Servers are very competent in counseling course appropriate “quaffs.” 20 Brix—referring to a measure of the sugar content of grapes—takes reservations and has a parking lot in back. Note to “Blue Ashers,” “Kenwoodwins” and “Montgomeronians,” the restaurant is about five minutes more than a trip to the “Ertel” by 71 or the scenic route through Shawnee Run in Indian Hill. The hours are Monday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. for dining and the bar; for the wine store, Monday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Sunday. 20 Brix 101 Main Street Milford, OH 45150 513-831-Brix (2749)
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Shortly before 9/11, a U.N. conference was held in Durban, South Africa. It was supposed to deal with the anti-racism struggle, a noble cause. Instead, it got hijacked. The hijackers turned the gathering into an openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatefest. Things turned so ugly that the U.S. quickly withdrew. Believe it or not, in a few weeks, countries will gather at the U.N. to mark the 10th anniversary of that infamous Durban conference. Iranian president Ahmadinejad will be a featured speaker. He’s the same one who’s been calling for Israel’s destruction – and trampling all over his own country’s human rights. Seven nations have so far said they’re opting out of this 10th anniversary gathering. They’ve put principle way ahead of politics. They deserve recognition. The countries are the U.S., Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Holland, Israel and Italy. We hope others will follow their laudable example. David A. Harris Executive Director American Jewish Committee Dear Editor, The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a national and personal tragedy. It was one of the darkest days in the history of
America. Many of us knew people who died that day at the World Trade Center. But it was also a day of resolve. For those of us who have been combating hate for decades, we realized that because of the enormous tragedy, Americans could now understand viscerally what they understood only in the abstract until then — that hate affects us all. So, if the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor was, in the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the “date that shall live in infamy,” 9/11 was the “day that hate became everyone’s problem.” How have we as a society done since then in addressing the consequences of hate? The results are somewhat a mixed bag. America has struggled to find the right balance between protecting our nation from terrorist attacks and protecting civil liberties. We at the Anti-Defamation League recognized that to keep our nation safe at the expense of basic civil rights was to lose our collective soul; and we also knew that if we didn’t take steps to prevent even worse terrorist assaults in the future, we would risk jeopardizing civil liberties to an even greater extent because people would insist on security no matter the cost. In resolving debates over police and executive powers —including the handling of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, curbing material support for terrorists, and the increased use of new surveillance warrants, the nation’s institutions and the American people have
demonstrated great resilience. ADL has played a leadership role in promoting police-community partnerships and in expanding our training for law enforcement officials to ensure that security and civil liberties are both priorities. There are other useful barometers of how well we learned the lessons of 9/11. First, there’s the challenge of combating Muslim extremists who threaten America here and abroad while, at the same time, avoiding the stereotyping of Muslim Americans. In the aftermath of the attacks, many high-level civic leaders and public officials responded to the increase in profiling, discrimination, and hate violence directed against Muslims, Sikhs, and Arabs by speaking out and strengthening connections with affected communities. Though the number of reported bias crimes directed at Muslim Americans remains unacceptably high, they have diminished since 2001. Yet, over the last two years we have documented an elevated antiMuslim atmosphere as seen in campaigns against the building or expansion of mosques in a number of cities and in the anti-Sharia law initiatives in some states. Ugly antiMuslim stereotypes appear throughout these efforts. As a recent Gallup poll indicated, Muslims believe they are doing fairly well in America so the problem should not be overstated. Nevertheless, it is troubling to see the rise in anti-Muslim bigotry. LETTERS on page 19
T EST Y OUR T ORAH KNOWLEDGE THIS WEEK’S PORTION: KI TISA (SHMOT 21:10—25:19) 1. What does a person do with a woman captured in war? a.) Return her to her homeland b.) Can retain her for 30 days c.) Sell her as a slave
to plow together? a.) Sheep and goat b.) Cow and donkey c.) Dog and mule 4. Is there a prohibition of muzzling an ox? a.) Yes b.) No
2. Which two fabrics can not be mixed together? a.) Wool and linen b.) Leather and wool c.) Leather and linen 3. Which two animals are prohibited 3. B 22:10 Any two different species of animals can not plow together. Rashi 4. A 25:4 One can not muzzle any animal while it is working with food.
5. A 22:16 A Father can marry off a daughter until she is 12 and a half. This was practiced in times of great financial difficulty(Medieval France) to insure that a daughter got married.
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5. Is it permitted for a father to marry off a daughter before she is Bat Mitzvah? a.) Yes b.) No hibits using her as a slave or for any service. Rashi 2. A 22:11 There a certain laws known as Chukim, which man cannot comprehend, so we do them because they are Hashem's will.
When you stop to think about it, the fact that so much of the world’s attention — not to mention jealousy, anger and irrationality — has for years been so keenly focused on such a small piece of real estate as Yerushalayim is astounding. Actually, in a certain way it’s enthralling too, demonstrating as it so powerfully does how special the geographic epicenter of the Jewish People — the dynamo of holiness that sanctifies the rest of Eretz Yisrael — is, today no less than ever. Over history, many empires claimed sovereignty over the quintessentially Jewish city, site of the batei mikdash, the central Jewish Holy Temples; and many marauders overran it. Now, to add to all the indignities visited upon the Holy City over the millennia, Jerusalem is being summoned to appear before the United States Supreme Court. Well, okay, not exactly. What the High Court will be considering is the passport of a Jerusalemborn boy. Menachem Zivotofsky’s parents, American citizens, requested of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv that “Israel” be listed as the country in which their son entered the world. Then-President George W. Bush had mere weeks earlier signed a bill directing the U.S. State Department to do just that upon parents’ request. But Mr. Bush made clear at the signing that the law “impermissibly interferes with the president’s constitutional authority to conduct the nation’s foreign affairs.” That proviso, in which Mr. Bush essentially rejected the authority of the law he signed, was reminiscent of the executive orders issued by every sitting president since 1998 that, despite the 1995 “Jerusalem Embassy Act” mandating the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the move would not actually happen. The justification for the orders is the need to “protect the national security interests of the United States.” The guardedness, in other words, is seen as necessary to preserve the government’s claim of objectivity with regard to any future IsraeliPalestinian peace agreement. And so the State Department maintains that U.S. passports of individuals born in Jerusalem list only the city’s name, without anything appended.
In 2003, the Zivotofskys sued the State Department on behalf of their son, and that litigation—dismissed, and then resurrected on appeal—is what the Supreme Court will begin to consider next month. An alphabet soup of Jewish groups have jumped into the fray with “friend of the court” briefs, almost all in support of the Zivotofskys. An exception was the American Jewish Committee, whose representative contended that while it does consider “West Jerusalem” to be part of Israel, it believes that “all issues in the Israel-Palestinian conflict have to be settled at the negotiation table.” In the meantime, the Obama administration came in for some criticism on the issue. The New York Sun’s website reported recently that photographs posted on the White House website that had carried captions referencing “Jerusalem, Israel” had been altered to read simply “Jerusalem.” The changes were presumably an effort to avoid the captions being invoked in the upcoming Supreme Court case — although photo captions obviously have something less than legal import. In response to an inquiry, a White House official said the “U.S. policy for more than 40 years has been that the status of Jerusalem should be decided in final-status negotiations between the parties. As in prior administrations, the White House photo captions should reflect that policy.” Indeed, the White House site’s captions during the Bush years also omitted “Israel” in at least some Jerusalem-datelined photos. Former Bush administration official Elliot Abrams told the Washington Post that the White House during those years “did not have a hard-and-fast rule” for statements and press releases about identifying Jerusalem as being in Israel. In the end, the Supreme Court will decide what it will. And Israel will negotiate what it will. And believing Jews everywhere will continue to know what we have always known: That, whatever any court or any country might contend, Yerushalayim, the city Jews have faced in prayer thrice daily for thousands of years, is the heart and home of Klal Yisrael. In fact, maybe that phrase is what passports should put after Jerusalem’s name.
Written by Rabbi Dov Aaron Wise
ANSWERS 1. A,B 21:10-14 If a woman is captured in battle, there is an option of marriage. If he decides not to marry, she if free to live where she wants. Verse 14 pro-
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SHABBAT SHALOM: PARSHAT KI TETZE DEUTERONOMY 21:10-25:19
by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel — “You shall make ritual fringes on the four corners [literally wings, kanaf in Hebrew] of the garment with which you cover yourself. When a man marries a woman and he cohabits with her…” (Deuteronomy 22:12, 13) These two commandments — for a male to append ritual fringes on each four cornered garment he puts on and for a male to betroth a woman — follow each other in our Biblical text. Is there a connection? I would like to explain the juxtaposition by analyzing an interesting Sephardi custom which has become part of many Ashkenazi wedding ceremonies, especially in Israel. The traditional Jewish wedding is composed of two distinct ceremonies: the betrothal (engagement, or kiddushin), whose major characteristic is the groom’s declaring, “Behold, you are consecrated unto me with this ring, in accordance with the laws of Moses and of Israel,” and giving a ring to his bride in front of two witnesses while from that moment on, the couple cannot enter any other romantic relationship. In Mishnaic times, and perhaps even beyond, the bride and groom did not live together after the betrothal. The respective families would get to know each other, the groom would arrange a home for his bride and the bride would gather her trousseau. Generally, after one year had passed, the second ceremony – the marriage itself (nissuin) took place. The groom would then take the bride into their new home, supply a feast for family and friends, the seven nuptial blessings would be recited, and then — in the privacy of their new dwelling — the marriage would be consummated. Later, in Amoraic times (200 – 750 CE), the sages felt it was impractical to keep a couple apart for an entire year, so the two ceremonies were merged. In order to retain the separate nature of each, the reading of the ketuba (in which the husband obligates himself to love and respect his wife,
Generally, after one year had passed, the second ceremony – the marriage itself (nissuin) took place. The groom would then take the bride into their new home, supply a feast for family and friends, the seven nuptial blessings would be recited, and then — in the privacy of their new dwelling — the marriage would be consummated. and provide her with a life insurance and alimony policy) is read aloud between the giving of the ring and the act of marriage, in which the seven blessings are recited under the nuptial canopy. The nuptial canopy symbolizes the new home they are about to enter. The Sephardi custom is for the bride to give her betrothed a new tallit with ritual fringes appended to its four corners; the groom wraps himself in the tallit for the first time at the conclusion of the reading of the marriage contract, just before the recitation of the seven blessings under the nuptial canopy. Just prior to his donning the tallit, the groom makes a special blessing (sheheheyanu), thanking God for granting him the privilege of celebrating this event. The blessing marks both the acquisition of the new tallit and the advent of the new marriage. The groom wraps the tallit around himself and his wife; both stand together under the tallit and under the nuptial canopy, where they listen to the seven nuptial blessings which conclude the ceremonies. Two questions beg to be asked. First of all, one object cannot be used for two mitzvot — and here the prayer shawl is being used both for a blessing over a new garment as well as for a blessing over a new marriage. Secondly, how can one compare the acquisition of a new garment to the acquisition of a new life partner? The source of the custom of the tallit is derived from the Scroll of Ruth. When this sincere Moabite convert has a nocturnal meeting with Boaz in the silo — and in effect informs him that she is ready to marry him — she makes herself
known to him as “Ruth, your servant, over whom you have spread your wings [or more literally “corner of protection”], because you are [my] redeemer” (Ruth 3:9). Hence, by means of the Hebrew word kanaf, the ritual fringes are symbolic both of the 613 commandments — the “wings” which enable every Jew to soar to supernal spheres — as well as of the protective covering provided by the Almighty. That’s why Boaz used the same word in praising Ruth for forsaking her homeland and family in order to come “under the protective wings [corners] of the Lord G-d of Israel” (Ruth 2:12) The second part of the marriage ceremony — the nuptial canopy — symbolizes the new home. But what is truly the new home of a young couple? In Jewish tradition, it is the 613 commandments, the “wings of protection” which G-d provides, the tallit with its ritual fringes, which must become the spiritual walls of the home and family which the bride and groom are now building together. Our only true home is the house of G-d, and this is the home provided by the tallit and its “wings,” the four corners of the nuptial canopy. The blessing over the tallit is the blessing over the marriage relationship; one must define the other. And therefore, the biblical connection between the commandment of ritual fringes and the commandment to marry finds a most worthy expression. Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Chancellor Ohr Torah Stone Chief Rabbi — Efrat Israel
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By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist NEW TV SEASON/ JEWISH STARS The following is a list of new broadcast network TV shows that premiere through Sept. 22 and have a Jewish cast member(s) in an important role. KAT DENNINGS, 25, costars in the CBS comedy “2 Broke Girls.” She plays one of a pair of waitresses working at Brooklyn greasy spoon who hopes, one day, to open her own eatery (Starts Monday, Sept. 19, at 9:30 p.m., “special time” right after “Two and a Half Men.” Thereafter, Mondays at 8:30 p.m.); Starting the same night, on NBC, at 10 p.m., is “The Playboy Club.” Set in 1963, it’s a largely fictional take on the first Playboy Club in Chicago. DAVID KRUMHOLTZ, 33, co-stars as “Billy Rosen,” the club’s manager. Krumholtz has many film credits and was one of the costars of the long-running CBS show, “Numb3ers.” Starting on Tuesday, Sept. 13, is “Ringer,” a drama starring SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR, 34 (CW network, 9 p.m.). Gellar plays a woman who, after witnessing a murder, goes on the run and assumes the life of her rich identical twin sister — only to learn that her sister’s life is very complicated and very dangerous. (When Gellar was starring in the big TV hit, “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer,” many asked me if both her parents are Jewish. The answer is “yes,” but the actress very rarely talks about being Jewish.) Starting on Tuesday, Sept. 20 is “New Girl,” a sit-com starring Zoey Deschanel as a nice girl who moves in with three single guys after a romantic break-up. One of them, “Schmidt,” a “Casanova,” is played by MAX GREENFIELD, 30 (Fox, 9 p.m.). Starting on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. is the NBC comedy, “Up All Night.” Christina Applegate stars as a successful businesswoman, with Will Arnett as her stay-at-home husband/baby caregiver. MAYA RUDOLPH, 39, co-stars as Applegate’s boss and best friend. Starting on NBC right after “Up All Night” is “Free Agents,” a workplace comedy. HANK AZARIA, 47, plays Alex, a newly-divorced public relations executive. He has a one-night stand with his gorgeous co-worker (Kathryn Hahn), but she really just wants to be friends. His coworkers, including “Dan”
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(played by stand-up comic MO MANDEL, 30) try to get Alex to date again. Mandel grew up in Boonville, Calif. (population 1,000), a pretty little town in the redwoods, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. Once a logging town, now it’s an odd mixture of “sort-of” rednecks, aged hippies, wine growers and boutique beer brewers. Mandel, who was a bar mitzvah and went to Israel via Birthright, told the San Francisco Jewish paper in 2007 that his was one of only four Jewish families in Boonville: “We had a shrink, a real estate broker and a doctor. It was like they just imported Jews to improve the town.” That description amused me, as did this line Mandel tells on-stage: “I’m Jewish in kind of a weird way. Check it out – [my] face and hair are just excessively Jewy; then I got, like, the muscular jock’s body. Kind of in between a Jew and a guy who drives by in a truck and yells, ‘Jew.’A little bit dreidel, a little bit methamphetamine.” Starting on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m., is the talent competition show, “The X-Factor,” in which the judges scour the country for vocal talent (solo and groups), with a $5 million prize package for the winner. The show re-unites, as judges, PAULA ABDUL, 49, and Simon Cowell (who found out a few years ago that his late father was Jewish). As I’ve written before, Abdul’s father is a Syrian-born Jew. Her mother is Canadian-born Ashkenazi Jew. Finally, the new season of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” begins on Monday, Sept. 19, at 8 p.m. The celebrity dancers include actress and talk show host RICKI LAKE, 42. Also dancing is actor David Arquette, whose late mother was Jewish. Long story short: while Arquette is proud of his Jewish background; I’d have to call or label him a non-denominational Christian. I say this based on his fairly recent interview statements about religion. The co-host of “Dancing,” model BROOKE BURKE, 39, finally (!) married actor DAVID CHARVET (“Baywatch”), also 39, on Aug. 11, 2011. Burke, whose mother is Jewish, had been engaged to Charvet for five years and they have two young children together (the children, at last report, were attending a Jewish preschool). Charvet’s original last name is “Guez,” and his father, Tunisian/French Jewish businessman PAUL GUEZ, is most famous for founding the Guess Jeans Company.
FROM THE PAGES 100 Y EARS A GO Miss Charlotte Westheimer and Miss Dorothy Lowman return this week from their trip abroad. Miss Duffie Freiberg, who was one of the party will return next week with her parents and Martha Beckman remains in Paris where she will be joined by her parents. Congregation Anshe Poland will dedicate its new synagogue at 715 Clinton Street on Sunday afternoon, September 10, 2 o’clock. Rabbi Philipson, Grossman and Mielziner and Prof. Gotthard Deutsch will take part in the exercises. The public is invited to attend. Oscar A. Trounstine, secretary of the Ohio Humane Society, in Cincinnati, who is known throughout the country for his work in this organization, will be one of the speakers at the thirty-fifth annual convention of the American Humane Association, which will be held in San Francisco, October 2, 3, and 4. The Hebrew Union College will be formally opened next Monday afternoon. Twenty-two applications for admission from new students have been received, which exceeds the largest number so applying previously. Even with this increase, however, the supply of American rabbis will prove inadequate for many years to come. The public is invited to the opening of the college. The daily Cincinnati “Volksblatt” celebrated its Diamond Jubilee with a monster issue of 150 pages last Sunday. For seventy-five years the “Volksblatt” has been the leading German daily paper in Cincinnati and is not only the pioneer of the west but has held its position in the front ranks of journalism. The Israelite extends hearty cngratulations to the “Volksblatt” and wishes it many more years of prosperity. — September 7, 1911
75 Y EARS A GO Mr. Harry Richman, who flew with Mr. Richard Merill Sept. 2nd3rd from New York City to Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales, and then on to their original goal of London, is a former Cincinnatian. He is a brother of Mr. Perry Reichman, 3405 Burnet Avenue, and a nephew of Mrs. Abe Golder, 524 Carplin Place. Mr. Harry Richman is a familiar figure in New York’s theatrical world. Mr. David J. Joseph will lead a Cincinnati delegation to Detroit this week to attend the Mid-year Conference of the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel. Mrs. Irwin Krohn and daughters, Mrs. James Magrish and Miss Mary Krohn, are at home after a summer at Forest Lodge, Mich. Mrs. Magrish’s two small daughters were members of this party, Mr. Magrish joining them for part of the time during the summer. Miss Helen D. Stix, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Walter H. Stix, 2359 Park Avenue, and Dr. Alfred M.
Glazer, 2840 Burnet Avenue, were married Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 8th, at Fairmouth Heights, Cape Cod, Mass., where the bride’s family has been summering. The bride is a graduate of Wellesley and is in research work in the College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. Dr. Glazer is a graduate of the University of Michigan and formerly lived in Detroit. He is instructor in medicine at the U.C. College of Medicine. Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Rosa Hable Flegenheimer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Flegenheimer, of Richmond, Va., to Mr. David M. Schwartz, of Mrs. Gabriel Schwartz, of this city. Miss Flegenheimer is a graduate of Goucher and later attended Columbia. — September 10, 1936
50 Y EARS A GO Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bettman (Elaine Kruke) 2808 Athens Avenue, Dayton, announce the birth of a son on Sunday, Aug. 27 in Jewish Hospital. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bettman and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kruke. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Levy (Susan Callner), 1887 Sunnybrook Drive, announce the arrival of a son, Bradley Jonathan. The grandparents are Mrs. Etheljane Callner and the late Barney Callner, of Cincinnati, and Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Levy, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and formerly of Cincinnati. The maternal greatgrandparent is Mrs. Helen P. Hirsch and the paternal great-grandparent is Mr. Emanuel Friedman of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Levy and their son will be in their new home at 8400 Jonfred Court, Brentwood, next week. Joseph M. Oppenheimer , 3955 Dickson Avenue, passed away Thursday, Aug. 31, at Jewish Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Flora May Forst Oppenheimer, and a son, Leo F. Oppenheimer. Dr. William Wertheim, 3903 Winding Way, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 29. He was 61 years old. He had been hospitalized since January. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Retta Erdman Wertheim; two daughters, Mrs. Susan Lahm of Cincinnati and Mrs. Bernice Lane of Denver, and four grandchildren. — September 7, 1961
25 Y EARS A GO Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr., a noted legal thinker who served on the Federal District Court in Massachusetts for 45 years and formerly headed Harvard University’s Board of Overseers, passed away Sept. 3. He was 80. Judge Wyzanski was chosen by
President Roosevelt to become a Federal Judge in Massachusetts in 1941. He served as chief judge of the Federal Court there from 196571, when he became a senior judge, sitting on San Francisco as well as Boston and on Federal appeals courts in Chicago, New York, Richmond and Washington. Hank Greenberg, the first Jewish baseball player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, passed away Sept. 4. He was 79. Greenberg will be best remembered by Cincinnatians for the time in 1940 when he played for the Detroit Tigers in the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. “Stan Goodman has accepted the chairmanship of the $5,000$9,999 Division of the 1987 Jewish Welfare Fund Campaign,” announced David Lazarus, General Campaign chairman. “Stanley Goodman does a capable job in everything he attempts and I am sure that the community is fortunate to have someone of his caliber in this position for the 1987 Campaign,” commented Mr. Lazarus. — September 11, 1986
10 Y EARS A GO An Amberley health care professional will hold his first local photography exhibit Sept. 13-Oct. 28 at The Heritage Village Museum in Sharon Woods. Hank Schneider, a licensed health care administrator, combined two of his hobbies for the exhibit: photography and world travel. “It’s all about being at the right place at the right time,” Schneider said, “and having the camera helps.” Images, which will open Thursday, Sept. 13 from 6 to 9 p.m., features photographs from all over the world, from Venetian rooftops and natural wonders to portraits. While this is Schneider’s first local exhibit, he has shown his photos of Ottawa Indians to acclaim at the Petoskey Michigan Historical Museum, and another photo took honorable mention at a 1999 international competition. Jerome “Jerry” Price, 73, passed away August 29, 2001. He was born in Cincinnati, the son of the late Samuel and Rose (Klein) Price. Mr. Price is survived by his wife, Frieda Tavel Price, whom he married July 4, 1948. He is survived by his children, Ron Price of Cincinnati and Linda Stern of Columbus. Surviving grandchildren are Ryan Price of Cincinnati and Jamie Stern, Jessica Stern and Zachary Stern, all of Columbus. He is also survived by a brother, Stanley Price. He was a brother of the late Shirley Faust and a brother-in-law of Nancy Price and Phillip Faust. Also surviving him is an extended family, including many nieces and nephews. Mr. Price served as councilman and later vice-mayor of Golf Manor. — September 6, 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 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 Cincinnati Community Mikveh 513-351-0609 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) 514-1200 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 Ohr Chadash (513) 252-7267 • ohrchadashcincinnati.com 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
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NEUMAN from page 3 Village gives board members, staff, community volunteers and residents the opportunity everyday to enrich the lives of others through kindness.” Neuman, was instrumental in creating the Foundation and obtained its tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit from the IRS. He has practiced law with Strauss & Troy in Downtown Cincinnati for 41 years, heading its investment and employee benefits committee. In the early 1980s, he spent three years as president of Yavneh Day School, now called Rockwern Academy, and enrollment increased by 25 percent. He is treasurer of the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati. He also
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 Kulanu (Reform Jewish High School) 513-262-8849 • kulanucincy.org Regional Institute Torah & Secular Studies (513) 631-0083 Rockwern Academy (513) 984-3770 • rockwernacademy.org
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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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Every year there is a children’s service the morning of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Whether it is carrying around the bags of potatoes representing the things done wrong from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, reshooting nerf arrows into a target to see that God gives another chance to fix what is wrong, mak-
ADL is doing its part bringing together the Interfaith Coalition on Mosques, a diverse national coalition of community leaders of many faiths to support the filing of amicus briefs in communities where opposition to the building of a mosque is a transparent cover for discrimination or prejudice. And we have been speaking out against anti-Sharia legislation to let the American public know the sponsors are promoting a dangerous fantasy that Sharia law is a threat to U.S. constitutional law. At the same time, a disturbing new element in the terror threat picture has emerged — the role a growing number of American citizens and residents motivated by radical interpretations of Islam have played in criminal plots to attack Americans in the U.S. and abroad. The past three years in particular have been marked by an increase in the number of plots and conspiracies by homegrown
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(513) 531-9600 serves on the board of the Center for Respite Care, an agency devoted to taking care of the homeless when they are released from hospitals with multiple medical needs. He has served on the board of Adath Israel Synagogue and as president of its Men’s Club. And he is a board member of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. He received his law degree from the University of Kentucky and an undergraduate degree from Tulane University. While serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, he rose to the rank of captain. He was commander of the 402D Transportation Company, responsible for transporting huge amounts of ammunition. His unit received a meritorious commendation ribbon and he received a bronze star. ing pin wheels then blowing on them to understand that it isn’t necessary to see God to know that God is there, or partners drawing outlines of each other then adding what different parts of the body can do to make it a better year, B’nai Tikvahites learn by doing. This year will be no exception as new shofar blowers will sound their own shofars in the High Holy Day services beginning the new year. Muslim extremists as well as in the number of Americans attempting to travel abroad to train and fight with terrorist groups. The latter raises serious concerns about extremists using their American passports to return to the U.S. in order to carry out attacks on U.S. soil. A key element in containing these threats is the ability of U.S. officials and law enforcement to work with American Muslims. That is just one more reason why stereotypes of Muslims must be avoided. At the same time it is vital for more and more Muslim leaders to speak out unequivocally against Islamic extremism and terrorism. As part of creating trust, it is also important for U.S. officials to recognize and address other forms of domestic extremism coming from white supremacists, anti-government extremists, and environmental and animal rights extremists. In the last few years of this post 9/11 era there has been a resurgence of violence emanating LETTERS on page 21
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Carpe Diem: ‘Seas’ the Day PART 2 OF A SERIES “In Buenos Aires. I shall have a flat with Europe for its balcony...” — Cesar Fernandez Moreno, poet. Hola! Welcome to Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital city, the city that has been dubbed “The Paris of South America.” Literally translated, this city of “good airs” is eclectic and elegant, seductive and sophisticated, formal and informal, brilliant and shabby, lively and laid back. This captivating port city of some 15 million people is much more than gauchos (cowboys), portenos (fun-loving locals) and slinky black-garbed tango dancers. It is a heterogeneous taste of Europe on an American continent. Prior to boarding Silversea’s Silver Whisper for a 16-day sojourn from Buenos Aires to Santiago, some passengers chose Silversea’s pre-cruise trip to the incredible Iguazu Falls. The widest stretch of interlinking waterfalls in the world, Iguazu’s waterfall system consists of 275 falls along 1.7 miles of the Iguazu River. Upon gazing upon Iguazu for the first time, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had only two words to say: “Poor Niagara!” Having been to Iguazu on a previous trip to South America, I opted for Silversea’s pre-cruise package at the legendary Alvear Palace, consistently voted one of the world’s best hotels. A true palace and undisputed symbol of the Belle Epoque era, the Alvear Palace Hotel formally opened its doors in 1932. The hotel’s magnificent architecture with Louis XIV and XVI décor put the Alvear Palace in a class of its own. Guests are pampered with the likes of personal butler service on every floor, Hermes de Paris toiletries, flower arrangements and fresh fruits. Old World European elegance meets 21st century technology at the Alvear. The hotel’s La Bourgogne, the only Relais Gourmand restaurant in Latin America is where the elite meet to eat in Buenos Aires. The most demanding palate will be delighted with the chef’s refined blend of French and International
(Clockwise) Sinagoga (Synagogue) de la Congregación Israelita Argentina in Buenos Aires; Tango dancers for hire in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires; A riotous splash of color covers the homes in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires; Breakfast buffet at Alvear Palace.
cuisine. The flame-shooting birthday cake given to celebrating guests is a showstopper. The Lobby Bar, an elegant space decorated with French-style original boisserie, is a cultural classic The Alvear Palace Hotel enjoys the most enviable location in the city. This jewel in the crown of Buenos Aires (aka B.A.) reigns supreme in the posh Recoleta neighborhood. One of the city’s most fashionable residential areas, Recoleta has been called “Buenos Aires’ 16th Arrondissement.” Here, amid French architecture, outdoor cafes and elegant boutiques reminiscent of that Paris district, visitors flock to a cemetery that is one of B.A.’s top attractions. Cementerio del Norte, or Recoleta Cemetery, is the exclusive burial ground where all portenos would like to be interred. Within the iron gates of this city of the dead are tombs and mausoleums by famous artists and sculptors. Seventy graves have been declared national monuments with the cemetery’s most visited tomb being that of Eva Duarte Peron. The Duarte family tomb, the final resting place of the wife of the late President Juan Peron, is difficult to find. Follow a tour group or look for the black marble mausoleum with a plaque of her profile and a profusion of fresh flowers. Evita (Don’t cry for me, Argentina) Peron died of cancer in 1952 at age 33. La Boca, once the home of Italian immigrants and fishermen is now an artists’ community with
corrugated tin and wood houses in a riotous splash of color. Resembling something that Van Gogh might have done during one of his manic phases, La Boca is the city’s most picturesque place. Pizza is a popular item in Boca’s outdoor cafes. Where’s the beef? Everywhere...in the land of the gaucho! Forget the cholesterol count in Argentina where bife (pronounced beef-eh) is the national food. Parillas, restaurants specializing in beef, serve inexpensive steaks the size of family roasts. However, these non-tenderized cuts of beef often seem tough to Americans, just as our tenderized steaks taste mushy to Argentines. For a delightful, pretty-as-a-picture dinner, selected from an eclectic seasonal menu, try Chez Nous tucked inside the Algodon Mansion. Opened in the ritzy Recoleta neighborhood in September 2010, the Algodon Mansion quickly became a luxury boutique hotel. If you can’t control your craving for a Big Mac, head for the Abasto Mall where you will find the only kosher McDonald’s in the world outside of Israel. The kosher McDonalds doesn’t lack for customers with approximately 250,000 Jews living in Buenos Aires. Argentina has the largest Jewish population in Latin America. Congregacion Israelita de la Republica Argentina, built in 1892, is the oldest Synagogue in Buenos Aires. Also known as Templo Libertad (named after its street location), this impressive turn-of-
the-century Byzantine-style temple houses the Museo Judeo de Buenos Aires that has an interesting collection of Jewish memorabilia. Templo Libertad is located a block from Teatro Colon, one of the world’s greatest opera houses. Opened in 1908, this recently renovated grand opera house has served as a stage for such performing artists as Caruso, Callas, Pavlova, Toscanini, Domingo and Pavarotti. The neighborhood (barrio) of Buenos Aires known as Once (pronounced own-say), was named after the Plaza Once de Setiembre. It was the first Jewish neighborhood established in B.A. Though Once’s businesses have shifted from Jewish to Korean ownership, this barrio is the Argentine version of New York’s Lower East Side. Since May 25, 1810, when Plaza de Mayo (the city’s principal square) saw its first massive political gathering, May Square has been the spot where most of South America’s history originated. It was on this same site that The Mothers of May Square met on Thursday afternoon to mourn the loss of some 10,000 children and young adults who disappeared during the bloody military regime in the 1970s. Casa Rosada, the pink government house, stands on the eastern end of the square. Here, too, is the Cabildo (the colonial town hallturned-museum), the main office of the Bank of Argentina and the Cathedral. The Avenida de Mayo, intersected by Avenida 9 de Julio (9th of
July Avenue), is one of the widest streets in the world and the site of El Obelisco. The towering granite obelisk, the most photographed symbol of Buenos Aires, is also the tour bus driver’s most joked about landmark. “El Obelisco,” they quip, “is Argentina’s monument to the suppository.” San Telmo, a historic neighborhood that gave birth to the tango, is a few blocks south of Plaza de Mayo. Narrow cobblestone streets, lined with colonial houses, seem to have tango etched in each handset stone. During the day, antique lovers hound the many shops in the area. At night, San Telmo evolves into a blazing, brightly lit string of tango bars. However, if you’re looking for the most sophisticated tango show in B.A., head to the Hotel Faena in Puerto Madero. France’s super “starchitect” Phillipe Starck turned this century-old red brick grain silo into an artfully stylish hotel. Decadent design in red and white weave throughout this over-the-top hostelry. Rojo Tango, the dinner show presented in the hotel’s El Cabaret, will seduce you from the moment you take your gold seat in the velvety red room. It is the city’s most expensive tango show, but also the most passionate and the best. Go see for yourself. Argentimes are good times! Janet Steinberg is an award-winning Travel Writer, International Travel Consultant, and winner of 38 national Travel Writing Awards.
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The incredible edible egg Zell’s Bites
by Zell Schulman As a food writer for more than 30 years, the most exciting and interesting part of this job has been the research. I’ve learned about the significance, the history, the symbolism and the traditions of the foods we prepare for Jewish lifecycle events from birth to death. A simple, yet major and most important addition to our cooking, entertaining and culinary world is the egg. Where would we be without the egg? It takes its place at the top of the ingredient list. While at the funeral and Shiva home of my dearest and longtime young friend, Cynthia Marmer, of blessed memory, I happened to have a discussion with one of the other guests—who wasn’t of the Jewish faith—all about why hardboiled eggs were served on the buffet. She was so interested to learn about this very significant, culinary ingredient, that I decided it was the perfect subject to share with my readers. The hard boiled egg, because of its smoothness and shape, like the round challah we have at our Rosh Hashanah meals, not only holds a prominent place on the LETTERS from page 19 from white supremacists and particularly the “sovereign citizen” movement, which does not acknowledge the legitimacy or authority of the government. Paying serious attention to these movements is the right and smart thing to do. And it will also help allay fears of Muslim Americans that they are being uniquely singled out as the source of anti-American terror in today’s world. Sadly, the decade since 9/11 has been one where anti-Semitism has once again emerged as a central theme of those who most threaten America and Americans. It is very discouraging to see this surge of anti-Semitism. Most of it has been around the world in the form of conspiracy theories about the Jews — blaming Jews
table for Shiva meals but also on the Passover Seder plate. It has no beginning or end, and it is significant with “life.” The egg hasn’t a mouth; therefore, no trivial or frivolous conversation can be heard at serious celebrations where it holds a place of honor. Some say it is significant with resurrection, but this significance may be discussed, like many things we find in the Talmud or bible, having more than one answer. Needless to say, it’s great on its own for a quick snack or found in a variety of salads, especially egg salad. The following recipe is a favorite among my friends and family. It may be cut in half if you don’t need such a large amount. Enjoy! ZELL’S EGG SALAD Makes approximately 4 cups Ingredients 8 large eggs, hard-boiled, peeled and chilled 1/2 -cup fresh chopped chives 1 teaspoon mild curry (optional) 1/4 cup fresh summer savory (optional) 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper 1 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup sour cream 1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard Salt to taste. Processor Method 1. Cut the eggs into quarters and place in the bowl of the food processor. Pulse two or three times. Add the chives, curry, savory and ground pepper. Pulse several times. 2. Add the mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard and salt. Pulse two or three times. Process five seconds. Empty into a medium bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. for 9/11 and the financial crisis, denying the Holocaust, and attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions. The extreme right in America has picked up on the conspiracy theories but the main support for these charges as well as attacks on Jews have been in Europe and the Middle East. Muslim extremists, led by such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, and Osama Bin Laden, were the most high profile purveyors of these accusations against Jews. But it has also translated into Muslim extremist attacks or attempted attacks on American Jews. The 9/11 terrorists saw New York, the center of world finances, as the quintessential Jewish target. And since then there have been several plots and conspiracies targeting synagogues in New York. LETTERS on page 22
What was once a quirky German auto-manufacturer known for its All-Wheel drive and rally car racing success has become a mainstay of the luxury import market. Audi continues to churn out quality, forward thinking luxury cars that are at home competing with the best BMW and Mercedes have to offer. The 2012 Audi A5 is no different. Billed as one of Audi’s best realized luxury-sport coupes, the A5 managed to make it from the drawing board to the production line relatively unscathed. The result of such impeccable design and engineering leaves us with a model that has few changes from its predecessor. Just as the BMW 3-series has received only minor tweaking over the past 20 years, such as front fascia updates, so too does the Audi 5-series. Such is the mark of a well built machine. The most noticeable changes are the reshaped grille and new headlights with updated internals. Also new are the fog lights, air intakes and taillights. The infotainment system is upgraded and now features fewer keys but more functions, and the steering wheel, column stalks, wood or aluminum trim, and obligatory chrome décor are all new to the A5/S5 line. The sporty S5 coupe also comes with a new engine. Gone is the old naturally-aspirated V-8. In its place is a turbocharged V-6 that puts out around 335-hp and 325 lbft. of torque. The standard 2.0 liter A5 engine produces 211-hp and
258 lb-ft. of torque. Despite the reduction in hpoutput, the A5/S5 retain the same performance numbers as the 2011 models. Where this car shines is undoubtedly in the style and class department. Crafted by renowned designer Walter de’Silva, the A5 is
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already timeless. The sculpted contours of the body reveal precise lines that define its visual hallmarks: two feature lines in the shape of a “V” uniting the A5 from the end of the hood to the bumper. Combined with dynamic curves, the body allows for the interplay of light and shadow, giving the A5 a pronounced dynamism. The Audi A5 Coupe offers a considerable number of ways to enjoy the Audi sound system or
available Premium Bang & Olufsen Sound System. Among them is commercial-free SiriusXM Satellite Radio, the built-in DVD/CD player, SD card slots, the MMI 40-GB hard drive, Bluetooth streaming as well as Audi Music Interface which allows you to connect and control your iPod. As expected the driving experience in the A5 is nearly flawless thanks to Audi’s patented quattro All-Wheel-Drive system. The updated drive-train is complete with a variable torque differential, which allows different levels of power to go to the wheels that are most in need. This reduces wheelspin and greatly improves handling on uneven surfaces. With the onboard Drive-select system, the driver is able to choose up to 27 combinations of drive settings, enabling the driver to create his or her perfect drive setting for every occasion. The myriad safety features such as six standard airbags and Electronic Stability Control ensure a safe ride no matter what. Audi has also implemented a number of ingenious features to help maximize braking effectiveness. In wet conditions, the brake disc wiping system gently pulses the brakes to help dissipate water buildup. Keeping the discs as dry as possible helps promote the most effective braking. All this impeccable design and engineering is available starting at $37,100 for the A5, and $53,900 for the S5.
22 • OBITUARIES D EATH N OTICES BESKIN, Herta S., age 83, died on August 19, 2011; 20 Av, 5771. DENNIS, Gerald L., age 66, died on September 3, 2011; 4 Elul, 5771. BARTEL, Bernice, age 98, died on September 6, 2011; 7 Elul, 5771.
O BITUARIES BESKIN, Herta Smith Herta Smith Beskin, born on September 3, 1927, in Reckendorf, Germany, passed away on Friday,
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August 19, 2011. Her family escaped Hitler’s regime and fled to Cleveland, Ohio with her parents, Isidor and Jenny Smith. Herta earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Ohio University, where she met her future husband, Elliott Beskin. She taught in Cleveland at Ganon Gil Nursery School and Religious School at the former Temple on the Heights, and at Hebrew School in Cincinnati. Later in Louisville, she taught at the Jewish Day School and Adath Jeshurun Preschool. In Cincinnati she was an active member at Adath Israel
Congregation and the Jewish Community Center. Herta will always be remembered for her devotion to family and friends, immensely kind heart, adherence to Jewish beliefs and traditions, and sense of humor. A day did not go by when she did not dote over her family or speak of her beloved husband, Elliott. Herta was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; her brothers, Milton and Walter Smith; and her uncle, Gus Goldsmith. Survivors include her children, Carol Beskin Klein of Louisville, Ky., Lynn Rozelman of Greensboro, N.C., and Lisa Harrelson of Tampa, Fla.; her grandchildren, Jordan and Brandon Klein, Nicole Tolbert and Douglas Rozelman, and Erika and Ethan George; her great-grandchildren Olivia and Brayden Tolbert; and Helene Banks, her best friend of 38 years. Family members would like to thank the staff and residents of Brownsboro Park for providing Herta with a most comfortable and fulfilling life over the past eight years. The funeral was held on Sunday, August 21, 2001 at Herman Meyer & Son, followed by burial at Adath Jeshurun cemetery in Louisville. Memorial contributions may be made to the Adath Jeshurun Preschool Fund, 2401 Woodbourne Avenue, Louisville, Ky., 40205, (502) 458-5359, or to the donors’ choice. GRAD, Sylvia (Shoshie) Sylvia (Shoshie) Grad, age 90, passed away on August 21, 2011—the 21st day of Av, 5771. Born May 2, 1921, in Cincinnati, Ohio, she was the third of four children born to the late Abraham and Zelda Cirkin. Mrs. Grad was THEORIES from page 8 Conservative columnist Daniel Pipes, who has written two books on conspiracy theories, says such theories about Jews are a fringe element in the LETTERS from page 21 Several other plots, while not directly targeting Jewish institutions, have been motivated in part by hatred of Jews and Israel. For
preceded in death by her beloved husband of 67 years, Martin (Marty) Grad, and her siblings, Harry Cirkin, Sarah Levy and Reva Ganson. In 1936, Shoshie won a scholarship from the Jewish community of Cincinnati to study at the Gymnasia Herzliyah in Tel Aviv— then Palestine. While there she served in the Haganah as a member of the signal corps. She returned to Cincinnati in 1939 when German u-boat activity in the Mediterranean began to make travel dangerous. That scholarship was repaid a thousand fold as Shoshie’s life was driven by a sacred mission to insure the survival of the Jewish people by spreading the love of Torah and Zion to all whose lives she touched. Marty and Shoshie Grad were married in 1942 and raised their family of four children in Cincinnati. She and her sister Reva created a close knit extended Jewish family in Cincinnati, alternating holiday celebrations so that their children would always be together. Whenever possible, these celebrations were joined by her sister Sarah and her children. Mrs. Grad was a consummate teacher and received numerous awards and recognition for teaching excellence. For over 30 years she was the first grade Hebrew teacher at Yavneh Day School and is lovingly remembered by her many students. She also taught in the religious schools of B’nai Tzedek, Adath Israel and Temple Sholom. Her teaching extended to help with bar and bat mitzvah preparations. Mrs. Grad held her students to high standards while instilling in them not just knowledge, but a love and appreciation of Judaism. Mr. and Mrs. Grad were founding members of Congregation
B’nai Tzedek. They were there for Shabbat, Talmud classes, Torah classes, and volunteered time and resources to every project. While she never spoke from the bima, she was often the go-to person for the finer points of Jewish Law. From her Torah-centered perspective, Mrs. Grad saw the world as a deeply beautiful place, a holy gift. She loved nature, going on weekly nature walks with Mr. Grad. She made her own contributions to the world’s beauty by creating intricate and joyful drawings for her students. Mrs. Grad’s talents spanned from graphic arts to the art of cooking. Through her baked goods, family dinners, art lessons, teaching, Zionist meetings and community involvement, she touched many lives. “Whoever teaches his child teaches not his child alone, but also his child’s child, and so on to the end of generations” Hebrew Proverb. Surviving relatives include her children: Dr. David & Patte Grad of Tamarac, Fla.; Dr. Bennet & Joyce Grad; Judy & Ted Gum of Princeton Junction, N.J.; and Ruth Cohen, her grandchildren, Jennifer and Matthew Serricchio, Elon Grad, Stephanie Grad and Ronit Cohen. Services for Mrs. Grad were held at Weil Funeral Home on August 23, 2011, with Rabbi Judith Spicehandler officiating. Interment followed at United Jewish Cemetery. Memorial contributions would be appreciated to Congregation B’nai Tzedek, 6280 Kugler Mill Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236, (513)984-3393; Na’amat, Zelda Cirkin Fund, 4901 Belleview Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242, (513) 761-7007; or to Cedar Village, 5467 Cedar Village Drive, Mason, Ohio 45040, (513) 336-3183.
West but are par for the course in the Middle East, where he said “they are spread by the mainstream media, leading intellectuals and politicians.” Pipes considers 9/11 conspiracy theories a relatively benign false belief akin to
theories about the Kennedy assassination — widespread, but not leading to damaging consequences. The impact of the many 9/11 conspiracy theories is still not entirely clear.
example, the man responsible for shooting two uniformed American soldiers, killing one of them, at a military recruiting center in Arkansas admitted to throwing a firebomb at the house
of an Orthodox rabbi in Nashville, Tenn., and confessed to firing shots at the home of a Little Rock rabbi in the days before his attack on the recruiting center. Looking back at this period on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, we can take satisfaction in the fact that America’s democratic principles have broadly withstood these harsh challenges. The fight against hate remains critical as we seek to preserve the values and ideals we most cherish in America.
The unveiling of the monument for
Richard Alan Steinberg will be held Sunday, September 18 at 12:00 p.m. at Love Bros. Cemetery, 1619 Rosemont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45205. Son of the late Edith and Bill Steinber g. Family and friends are welcome.
Abe Foxman Director Anti-Defamation League
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