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Walnut Hills H.S. hosts exhibit on the Holocaust Students at Walnut Hills High School had the unique opportunity to host a temporary exhibit, “A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 19331942,” at their school Feb. 6 – 16. Through 27 museum quality panels, the exhibit tells the personal story of the five Jewish families who lived in the small village of Roth. The exhibit introduces the families, in an intimate and emotional way, as they lived in 1933 and details what happened to them during the Nazi era. The demise of this tiny Jewish community is chronicled in detail, using primary source materials such as photographs, documents and artifacts, as well as eyewitness testimonies. The exhibit illustrates how the relations between these families and their neighbors were systematically dismantled. Principal Jeffrey Brokamp shares that, “we were thrilled to host such an exceptional exhibition rooted in an important chapter of our collective history.” He added, “the exhibit challenged students to think critically about the choices they make when they are called upon to respond to prejudice or any other type of injustice.” Trained by the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education and the UC Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Culture, student docents facilitated tours of the exhibition for their peers as well as the public. One of the students reflected on the experience by sharing, “it was a wonderful learning experience, I thought I knew about the Holocaust, but now I realize I didn’t know much at all.” Additionally, descendants of

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Roth live in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area, including two Walnut High School students. These students, along with other descendants in Cincinnati, traveled to Roth this past summer to learn about their family history, and build new bonds with current residents. After this trip, Emma Raider-Roth said, “It is important for others to know about what happened in Roth, because it is one thing to learn the dates, the facts, and the numbers of the Holocaust, but it is an entirely different thing to learn the stories.” She added, “the story of my grandfather’s village is one that tells about an entire town that shut its windows on their friends who were being herded out of their homes in a mix of fire, hate and horror. This exhibit shows others what happened outside of those closed

shutters.” Otto Stern, 89, of Florence Ky., was born in Roth. He was the first Jewish resident to return to Roth at the end of World War II, this time as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces. His son Arnold, daughter-in-law Frances and granddaughter Katelin, also reside in Florence, and visited Roth five years ago. A group of current residents of Roth formed an “Arbeitskreis” (working group) 15 years ago to preserve in Roth the memory of those who perished, to rededicate the synagogue, and to educate the children of Roth and the surrounding area about the Holocaust, tolerance and dialogue. Members of the group created the original version of this exhibit. Bringing the exhibit offers our community an opportunity to

commemorate this history, and to learn about the important work of dialogue, co-existence and mutual understanding. After the exhibit’s local debut at Walnut Hills, it is now on display at Cincinnati’s Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education from Feb. 21 – March 16. In addition, Dr. Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch—the current leader of the Arbeitskreis— will be in Cincinnati in early March to offer two public lectures. Dr. Wenz-Haubfleisch, the associate archivist at the state archives in Marburg, will speak on Sunday March 11, at 2 p.m., on “Germans, American Jews, and the Holocaust: Commemoration, Education, and Reconciliation Today in the Village of Roth, Germany.” This event will be held at the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education. She will also speak at a brown-bag lunch on Tuesday, March 13, at 12 p.m., on “History and Commemoration: Perspectives on the History of the Village of Roth, Germany and Contemporary German-American Jewish Relations.” This event will be held at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Partners in bringing this exhibit to Cincinnati include The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, the University of Cincinnati, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Walnut Hills Alumni Foundation and the German Consulate, Chicago.

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The American Israelite adds Cincinnati Jewish Yellow Pages By Yehoshua Mizrachi Assistant Editor The American Israelite prides itself on serving the people of the Cincinnati Jewish community. We also pride ourselves on making our paper more accesible through all media platforms. With that pride fueling our ambition, we are proud to announce the transfer of The Cincinnati Jewish Yellow Pages (CJYP), the most comprehensive guide to Jewish businesses in the Greater Cincinnati area, to The American Israelite. The CJYP was founded by Buddy Goldsein, former owner of Blaine’s Fine Men’s Apparel. The CJYP was later taken over by the Jewish Federation and now has

found a new home with The American Israelite. The American Israelite has always prided itself with being an information medium to the local Jewish community. With the addition of the CJYP we now expand our helpfulness one step further. “You might not have known that there is a Jewish seamstress, shoe cobbler, or even Urologist right around the corner from where you live. We are just trying to help Jews in the community connect with other Jews as we have always done,” said the paper’s owner, Netanel (Ted) Deutsch. “This compendium of Jewish business is here to enrich the community and we hope it becomes a valuable resource for you as you

search for the services to fit your needs. You will find it in this week’s current issue of the paper, in the dead center. Section CJYP in Yellow! And this will run monthly.” The American Israelite has also taken steps to make itself easier to access. Do you sit there waiting for Thursday to roll around so you can read your paper? You won’t have to wait anymore. The American Israelite has embraced the social media networks. We are now on Facebook and Twitter. Go online to like and follow us, and you’ll be able to read the paper a day in advance. As the world changes, we evolve with it. But we will always keep the ideals, traditions and values that have set this paper apart and made it what it is today.

NHS, Ohav Shalom plan joint Purim celebration Continuing a tradition from prior years, Northern Hills Synagogue-Congregation B’nai Avraham and Congregation Ohav Shalom are planning joint programs to celebrate Purim. Purim commemorates the saving of the Jews of ancient Persia from destruction by the evil Haman. As recorded in the Book of Esther, the plot was foiled by the efforts of Esther, the queen and a secret Jew, and her cousin, Mordechai. For thousands of years, Jews have celebrated their deliverance from this evil plot with an especially joyous celebration. As Rabbi Gershom Barnard of Northern Hills noted, “I am very glad the two congregations are cooperating again in the observance of this Jewish holiday. The more, the merrier!”

The festivities begin on Sunday, March 4, with the Purim Carnival at Ohav Shalom, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Games, food and fun will delight children of all ages. The congregations will hold a joint Purim service at Northern Hills on Wednesday, March 7, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Members of both congregations will share in the reading of the Megillah, the Book of Esther. The service will feature Northern Hills’ award-winning Purim PowerPoint. Once again, music will be provided by the Ad Hoc Purim Klezmer Band, featuring Gayna Bassin, violin; Jeff Gushin, banjo, violin and mandolin; Doug Mossman, guitar; and Claire Lee, piano, with Howard Yasgur leading the vocals. Everyone is encouraged to come in

costume. There will be special activities for children. The congregations will conduct separate Purim services on Thursday, March 8. Northern Hills’ service will begin at 6:45 a.m. Ohav Shalom will conduct its service with Congregation Ohr Chadash, and will also begin at 6:45 a.m. Steve Segerman, Ohav Shalom’s president, observed that Ohav Shalom and Northern Hills have been able to work together on numerous projects, and not just the Purim celebration. “Any opportunity for one synagogue to work with another synagogue in bringing Jews together is a mitzvah. We are especially proud of Kehilla, our joint religious school. It’s been a pleasure to have the two synagogues working together.”

‘Purim Italiano’ at CJC Chabad Jewish Center (CJC) will hold their 16th annual Purim Around the World on March 8. This year’s event, titled “Purim Italiano,” will be celebrated with Italian décor and food. Illusionist Matthew Tyler will perform. Purim Around the World is a yearly event that attracts hundreds of Cincinnati area Jews as they come together to celebrate the holiday of Purim. Purim is a Jewish festival that falls on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Adar, which generally falls in March. The holiday commemorates the salvation of the Jews from complete annihilation at the hands of the evil Haman. Haman was the Prime Minister of the Persian Emperor Achashverosh, in the year 356 B.C.E. Haman had a plan to destroy the Jewish nation; he convinced

Achashverosh to agree. Unbeknownst to Achashverosh, his new queen, Esther, was a Jew. Esther had kept her nationality and religion a complete secret from Achashverosh. But on the advice of her uncle Mordechai, who was the Rabbi of the Jews, she risked her life to go to Achashverosh and beg for salvation for her people. Achashverosh agreed, and instead it was Haman and his family who were destroyed. Purim is celebrated by giving extra charity, sending food baskets to friends, listening to the story of Purim as it is told in the Megillah, and eating a festive meal. It is also customary to wear costumes on Purim, to commemorate the miracles of the Purim story and recognize that nothing is ever as it seems. G-d is always behind the scenes,

conducting the world, making many hidden miracles on a daily basis. “There is a popular custom to dress up in costume on Purim,” explains Rabbi Cohen, Youth and Family Program Director, “so we take the custom one step further and put the entire event into ‘costume’. This is where the idea of Purim Around the World came from. We transform the entire Purim celebration into another place or time, complete with décor and delicious food.” Purim Around the World is always a grand party. Each year is a theme from another location; past themes have included, “Purim in China,” “Wild West Purim,” “Purim in Africa,” and even “Purim in Outer Space.” This year, guests will travel to Italy with “Purim Italiano.” PURIM on page 19

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camaraderie. That first year, the older guys in the chapter immediately made him feel comfortable and kept in constant contact with him about upcoming events. One of the upperclassmen took him under his wing and became like a big brother to him, often driving him to meetings and then out to eat with the guys afterwards,” she adds. “Because of the many positive Jewish components that are woven into the programming at the conventions he has attended, he has become much more aware of his Judaism. Jewish continuity is very important for our family and I really believe that BBYO is helping to insure it in Joey and so many other teens around the world.” Matt Steinberg is Cincinnati BBYO’s City Director. “Being a part of BBYO is an unparalleled experience that can be life-changing. Ask any teen or staff member involved and they’ll tell you, if you’re not a part of BBYO, you are missing out!” he says. “Because the teens plan and implement all their own events and programs it insures that the activities will be appealing and meaningful to them. But running their chapters and regions themselves also offers them the chance to develop strong leadership and interpersonal skills, which will give them an edge in college and in the job market,” he adds. “But what’s even better is that as the largest pluralistic Jewish youth group in the world, these teens can build friendships in our city and region, as well as across the country and even

Matt Steinberg, the local chapters have been introduced to many of our community’s Jewish leaders who I hope really appreciate what BBYO is doing to build future Jewish leaders,” she continues. “BBYO connects Jewish teens with others who share similar religious and cultural views and values, but what sets it apart from other youth groups and after school activities is that even though it’s a strong international organization, it gives each individual a chance to be a leader and make a difference. I have seen both of my girls become confident leaders who have a strong sense of Jewish values and a commitment to Jewish ideas, which I know will last a lifetime!” “My daughter Jenna was extremely active in BBYO before going to college, and my son Zach has also become involved in BBYO. It affected each of them in tremendous ways,” explains Lisa Samuelson. “My daughter developed priceless leadership skills that have followed her to Indiana University where she is currently a sophomore. Through the position that Jenna held in her chapter, I saw her become this outgoing adult who could talk to anyone and make them feel welcome and important, even if it was their first meeting or program. Jenna inspired others to become leaders as well, and developed a sense of pride in who she was and what she was doing,” she explains. “BBYO helped to shape her world view, transforming her from teenager to a confident young woman! Then there’s my son Zach,

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who’s a high school sophomore,” she continues. “He balances the responsibilities of being on the varsity hockey team, and keeping up his grades, with being the president of his BBYO chapter. I think Zach can serve as an inspiration to other teens who don’t think they have the time or the need to get involved in something like BBYO. Some of Zach and Jenna’s best friends are people they met through BBYO, and I think they each realize the benefits of having strong friendships with other Jewish teens. BBYO draws attention to that one thread that unifies them all. I think they develop a deeper appreciation for Judaism after they experience these programs with one another.” And while the teens who are involved in BBYO can’t say enough great things about how the organization has made a difference in their lives, there are many more Jewish teens who are not interested in affiliating with a Jewish youth group. “Sadly, the challenge is that a lot of teens may think they’re too cool to be in a Jewish youth group because it’s not held in the same regard as being on a varsity sports team, or starring in the school play,” expresses Samuelson. “But for those looking to make connections and broaden their perspective on the world, it can add another layer to their lives. Just by pairing a simple Jewish component to the programming, teens like Zach, who had to constantly be reminded to go to Hebrew High School, not only want to do something Jewish, but look forward to doing it!” Cincinnati BBYO is now recruiting eighth graders and other Jewish teens in any grade who are interested in seeing what it has to offer. Chapter meetings take place every Monday night at the Mayerson JCC and there are many other social events, programs and service projects, as well as regional conventions throughout the year. In addition, BBYO offers trips to Israel and other countries around the world for Jewish teens and summer leadership institutes. For more information please contact Matt Steinberg at the Mayerson JCC. “There is no better time than now to get involved in BBYO,” explains KIO BBYO Regional Director, Josh Rothstein. “Thanks in large part to The Mayerson Foundation and City Directors like Cincinnati’s Matt Steinberg, our region has developed tremendously over the past four months and we are on a roll. Our chapters and our region are stronger than ever and we are ready to take things to the next level. We look forward to welcoming the next group of eighth graders into our BBYO family and to helping get their high school years and beyond off to a great start!”

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around the world. They can’t get that anywhere else but BBYO.” “I have two daughters who have both been very involved in BBYO,” says Heidi Bardach. “They have gained friends for life, an internalization of Jewish values, leadership skills and sense of responsibility to themselves, the environment and the community. I know that wherever they go to college, they will find BBYO friends there. Thanks to the efforts of our new City Director,

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from BBYO are far more valuable to me than the traditional education I receive from a classroom in my high school.” Like Grant, so many other teens have benefitted from starting high school as a member of BBYO. “My son, Joey, who is a sophomore this year, has been involved in BBYO since he was in eighth grade,” shares Diane Slovin. “He instantly found a welcoming, friendly environment filled with

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It’s that time of year again when many parents of eighth graders begin to get that sinking feeling that comes with the growing realization that high school is looming just over the horizon. They worry how their child will fit in socially, how they will fare academically and if they will be swayed by outside influences such as drugs and alcohol or engage in other risky behaviors that could impede their chances for a happy and successful future. “My husband and I were pretty nervous about our daughter starting high school,” explains a mother of a high school junior who prefers to remain anonymous. “We hoped the values that she was raised with were strong enough to keep her on a good path, we hoped she would find a likeminded group of friends and that she would make good choices for herself. But then we realized that ‘hope’ wasn’t enough, and that it might be wise to stack the deck by encouraging her to get involved in something that could lead her in a positive direction over the next four years of her life. That’s when we discovered BBYO! By joining BBYO as an eighth grader she was able to get to know some of the older members who helped make her transition to high school in the fall so much easier,” she continues. “Getting involved in this organization has given her the kind of confidence and skills that she couldn’t have learned in any classroom, and a wonderful sense of purpose and meaning that we know she will carry with her into adulthood,” she adds. “We are grateful that she found a home with BBYO. It has helped her grow in ways we couldn’t have even imagined. I think things could have turned out very differently for her without this positive influence in her life!” Grant Hansell, the KIO (Kentucky-Indiana-Ohio) Regional Vice President of Programming from Columbus, recently wrote an article entitled, “I’m in a High School Fraternity,” about his own high school journey which was published on the Huffington Posts’ Huff Post website. “When I joined BBYO, I did so because the older members in my local chapter took a genuine interest in me. There I was, a shy eighth-grade boy yet to step foot into the realm of a high school, and seniors were talking to me as if I mattered, because in BBYO I did. They saw a potential in me that I didn’t know I possessed myself and for that I will forever be grateful. What makes this organization special is the power it gives to the teens themselves, because it is a youthled organization. The teens plan the programs, the teens recruit the members, and the teens are responsible for the future survival of the movement. The lessons I learned

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NHS Sisterhood discusses living wills Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney will be the focus when the Sisterhood of Northern Hills SynagogueCongregation B’nai Avraham discusses “Nobody Knows What You Want if You Don’t Tell ‘Em: Making Plans Before the Crisis” on Sunday, March 11, at 11 a.m. The featured speaker will be Patricia Gaines, Community Outreach Coordinator for the Hospice of Cincinnati. The event

will take place at the Synagogue. Light refreshments will be served. Living Wills enable people to specify their wishes as to health care in the event of serious illness or incapacitation. Durable Powers of Attorney allow people to appoint someone to handle their personal affairs in such circumstances. These documents are designed to put you in the “driver’s seat” so that your doctor,

family and friends know your wishes. Gaines has served as the Hospice of Cincinnati’s Community Outreach Coordinator for the past five years. Formerly she served as Volunteer Manager of the Cincinnati Art Museum and Director of Development at United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cincinnati. This program is for all ages, and there is no charge.

The sky’s the limit with Hebrew reading at Adath Israel The Jarson Education Center at Adath Israel Congregation has just completed a huge project that the entire school has participated in! The Resource Center, led by longtime teacher, Toby Samet, sponsored this project. In the hallway of the school was a large Hot Air Balloon outline with the words above: “THE SKY’S THE LIMIT WITH HEBREW READING.” This illustrates the fact that all ways to participate in a religious service, stories and conversation depend on Hebrew reading skills. Students participated by purchasing Hebrew letters (made from ribbons donated from decorations from several B’nai Mitzvot early in the year) for 10 cents, or 3 for 25 cents. If they

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NHS features Yair Cohen, Community Shaliach As part of its year-long focus on Jews, Civil Rights and Freedom, Northern Hills Synagogue- Congregations Bnai Avraham will present, “The Israel Dilemma: Can Democracy and Judaism Co-Exist?” featuring Community Shaliach Yair Cohen. The program will take place on Sunday, March 11, at the synagogue beginning at 7 p.m. Using a multimedia presentation, Cohen will explore current issues impacting the relationships among Jews in Israel, some of which have received a great deal of publicity in recent months. For over 30 years, Cincinnati has been host to one of the most active Israeli emissary (shaliach) programs in the country. Because of our community’s reputation for commitment to the State of Israel and to each other, we have attracted talented ambassadors to our city, who have helped forge a strong link between Cincinnati’s Jewish community and Israel. Cohen, the new community shaliach, arrived in September and will

be here for at least two years. Cohen arrived in Cincinnati after being trained by the Jewish Agency for Israel and will be primarily responsible for strengthening the unique and multi-faceted significance of Israel in the local Cincinnati Jewish community by connecting the next generation of Jewish people to Israel’s people and homeland through education and advocacy. Cohen comes to Cincinnati from his most recent position as the Director of Programming at Gesher, a non-governmental organization focusing on developing a stronger Jewish identity for Israelis and exploring the multicultural society of Israel, with the goal of enhancing tolerance, identity,and Israeli Jewish democracy. He has a master’s degree in political science from Tel Aviv University and a bachelor’s degree in Jewish philosophy from Hebrew University. He comes to Cincinnati with his wife, Shani, and their 2-year-old daughter, Maayan.

wished to make their name, it was 25 cents no matter how many letters. Kindergarten, first and second grades all visited Toby as a group and brought their tzedakah money in to help fill up the balloon. In addition, Toby hid some special words, and now that the balloon is full, a contest for finding the most words will be held. We are excited that the balloon is now complete with Hebrew letters and words. The money that has been raised will be donated to the Jewish Braille Institute. JBI International is a non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the Jewish and general cultural needs of the visually impaired, blind, physically handicapped and reading disabled—of all ages and backgrounds—worldwide.

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Financial Security Fair at the JCC Identity theft, scams and privacy issues are on the rise, with thieves often targeting seniors. The Mayerson JCC is joining with Attorney General Mike DeWine and other government and non-profit organizations to address these

problems. Annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) is March 4-10. On Thursday, March 8, the JCC will host an event to share tips and information that help consumers protect their privacy, manage

money and debt, avoid identity theft, and avoid frauds and scams. From 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. on March 8, the JCC will host a Financial Fair and Panel Discussion to help consumers make informed financial decisions. Come learn about the lat-

est scams, how thieves are accessing personal information and how to protect yourself. This Financial Fair is free and the public is welcome. Go online to the Ohio Attorney General’s website to read more and check out a calendar of NCPW

events nationwide or just come to the event. The website’s blog features posts from consumer experts nationwide, and allows consumers to connect directly with them about a variety of consumer protection resources.

92nd Street Y returns with Mitchell and Gardner The 92nd Street Y returns on Tuesday, March 13 at 8 p.m. with George Mitchell talking with Howard Gardner, live, via satellite. Mitchell was a key player in resolving the Northern Ireland conflict, was chairman of an international fact-finding committee on violence in the Middle East and served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. As one of the most respected and influential leaders of our times, he will discuss the many lessons of his

extraordinary political and diplomatic career. Mitchell entered the U.S. Senate in 1980 and served as Senate majority leader from 1989 to 1995. In the business world, Mitchell has served as a director of the Walt Disney Company; Federal Express Corporation; Xerox Corporation; Unilever; Staples, Inc.; Starwood Hotels and Resorts; and the Boston Red Sox baseball team. After leaving the Senate, Mitchell joined a Washington, D.C., law firm and

later became the firm’s chairman. Mitchell serves as an honorary cochair for the World Justice Project. The World Justice Project works to lead a global, multidisciplinary effort to strengthen the Rule of Law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity. Howard Gardner, whose notable life and work have led to enormous influence in education, psychology, business and other sectors, asks: What can we learn from what you have achieved?

Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of more than 20 books, including “Multiple Intelligences,” “The Unschooled Mind,” “Intelligence Reframed” and his most recent book, “Truth, Beauty and Goodness Reframed.” In 2001, he received the Prince of Asturias Award in Social Sciences. The 92nd Street Y Live series

originates and is broadcast live via satellite from New York’s prestigious Jewish cultural center, the 92nd Street Y. The broadcasts are fed into the Wohl Chapel or Social Hall at Wise Center, equipped with a large screen and digital video technology. Also, the Cincinnati audience at Wise Temple is able to ask questions directly to the guest speakers. The event is open to the Greater Cincinnati public. Tickets are available at the door at 7:30 p.m. at Wise Center.

Local moms head to Israel Last summer, local moms Amy Frankel and Heidi Weisman joined 18 others for Cincinnati’s firstever “transform and grow” Israel trip. They joined women from across the U.S. for an amazing week in Israel as part of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP). The trip was so thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring that Amy and Heidi are going back again this June, this time as “madrichot” (team leaders). As was the case for last year’s trip, all of the incredible tours, 5star dining, popular hotels, and many small surprises will be sponsored by the JWRP. Local participants only have to cover travel expenses, and there are even some travel grants available through Cincinnati’s women’s learning center, Sarah’s Place. So far, 2,000 women have traveled to Israel on the JWRP TAG

Amy Frankel, Aviva Minster, and Heidi Weisman plan “moms” Israel mission.

trips. It is anticipated that this year alone, 1,000 more will be participating. Cincinnati women will be joining the June mission and will be teamed up with moms from Denver, Indianapolis, Montreal,

Toronto, and even a group from South Africa. Information and application forms are available through the SarahsPlaceCincy or JWRP websites.

Fall in love with Israel this summer Jewish Federation offers trip for young adults Hundreds of Jewish young professionals, ages 22–45, from all across North America, will travel to Israel this summer with the Jewish Federation of North America’s National Young Leadership program. From July 2–10, the young adults will participate in a trip that’s more than “skin deep,” engaging in hands-on volunteer projects, visiting Israeli agencies supported by the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati’s Community Campaign and meeting with soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Trip participants will also experience the beauty and history of Israel—climbing Masada, reflecting at the Western Wall, exploring

the Jewish Quarter, kayaking on the Jordan River, enjoying an Israeli wine tasting and more. Jewish Federation of Cincinnati Development Officer Felicia Zakem, who is coordinating the trip locally, says, “This trip is great for Jewish young adults who may not have had a chance to visit Israel before. It’s an ideal way to experience the country while also learning about how we support it on a local level, through the Community Campaign. Our hope is that participants will be motivated to further their newfound relationship with Israel by increasing their involvement in Cincinnati’s Jewish community.” Unique to Cincinnatians is a day trip to Netanya, which is Cincinnati’s sister city in Israel. Trip participants will team up with

Netanyans for a social action program, which they will work together to develop during pre-trip programming. Cincinnatians and Netanyans will collaborate via video conference and get to know each other before meeting in person in Israel. Cincinnati Community Shaliach (Emissary from Israel) Yair Cohen explains, “My role as shaliach is to connect Cincinnatians to Israel through education, advocacy and travel. I felt it was important to add a component to this trip that would leave participants with not just a deeper relationship with Israel but also a chance to meet individual Israelis, see the country through their eyes and develop lifelong friendships.” ISRAEL on page 19

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Shabbat conflict sends Beren Academy At AIPAC conference, expect Iran talk on stage basketball squad to the sidelines and behind closed doors By Ben Harris Jewish Telegraphic Agency

By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — There will be the speeches, and they will resound like an echo. And then there will be the talk. When President Obama speaks on March 4 to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the group the following day, expect many of the same catchphrases to carry over: A nuclear Iran is unacceptable. Israel and the United States stand together. The question is, how much of the comity will carry over into the private chat that Netanyahu and Obama share on March 5. They will be meeting the same day as Netanyahu’s speech to AIPAC’s annual forum, which is expected to attract a record-setting 11,000 to 13,000 activists to the cavernous Washington Convention Center. Depending upon who is talking and their political affiliation, the two leaders either are marching in lockstep in their Iran plans or they are on opposite sides of a significant gap. “I cannot think of any issue on which we are better coordinated than on the issue of Iran,” U.S.

ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told the annual meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Feb. 23 in Jerusalem. But days earlier, after meeting with Netanyahu, U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said there was “daylight” between the two nations when it came to confronting Iran. “There should be no daylight between America and Israel in our assessment of the threat,” said McCain, who was leading a delegation of GOP senators to the region. “Unfortunately there clearly is some.” McCain’s assessment followed a warning during a Feb. 19 CNN interview with Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said that an Israeli strike would be “destabilizing.” It also comes as the frequency of meetings between top Israeli and U.S. security officials have intensified; the White House made a point last week of announcing that talks this week between Tom Donilon, the national security adviser, and Netanyahu, focused on Iran. This week, Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, is visiting Washington to see his counterpart, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as well as Donilon.

Surging Santorum has Jewish GOPers shrugging, shvitzing and kvelling By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — If Rick Santorum secures the Republican nomination, expect to hear this mantra from his Jewish supporters: In times of crisis, social issues don’t matter. The former Pennsylvania senator, who is leading in national polls in the race for the GOP presidential nod, is fiercely anti-abortion and believes that states have the right to ban birth control — stances that are at odds with the views of most American Jews. Not a problem, says Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition. “Jobs and the economy and international affairs, these macro issues are front and center,” he said. “If the micro issues, abortion and contraceptives, become predominant, then you’ve got a problem. But this is a big picture, big issue, high-stakes election.” But the prospect of Santorum

winning the Republican nomination excites Jewish Democrats, as they believe he will be an easier opponent for President Obama in November. Among Jewish Republicans, the bulk of the party’s Jewish donors and advisers have signed with Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor’s relative moderation was seen as a natural fit for a GOP Jewish constituency that is hawkish on Israel and often fiscally conservative but averse to extremes on social issues. “We know he’s a great friend of Israel,” Fred Zeidman, a Houston lawyer who is one of Romney’s leading fundraisers, said of Santorum. “I do fear his social views will be anathema to a great deal of our Jewish community.” Romney Republicans like Zeidman have counted on Romney’s moderation to carry swing states where substantial Jewish populations could make a difference — for instance, in Florida, Pennsylvania and Nevada. SANTORUM on page 19

NEW YORK (JTA) — Chris Cole, the coach of the boys’ basketball team at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, says his squad is peaking coming off its 27point victory in the state tournament quarterfinals. Apparently the Stars, who with a record of 24-5 are having the best season in school history, won’t be able to show off their game in the rest of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools 2A tournament. The semifinals are being held on Friday night and the finals on Saturday afternoon, conflicting with the Jewish Sabbath, and Beren’s

appeal to change the starting times was rejected Monday by the association. Beren thus is forced to forfeit. Beren, an Orthodox Jewish day school with 67 students, had asked the association to adjust the start time of Friday’s game to earlier in the afternoon and, if necessary, begin the championship game on Saturday evening. The quarterfinals game against Our Lady of the Hills Catholic High School of Kerrville on Feb. 24 had been played earlier than scheduled to accommodate Beren, and the other three semifinalists in the 2A category — schools with enrollments of 55 to 120 students — reportedly were willing to follow suit. “Just as TAPPS doesn’t schedule

games on Sunday in deference to Christian teams, we expected that as a Jewish team, there would be grounds for a scheduling change,” Beren’s head of school, Rabbi Harry Sinoff, told JTA. But TAPPS would not acquiesce, prompting Beren to withdraw from the competition. On Monday, TAPPS changed the tournament bracket on its website, crediting the Kerrville team with the victory and advancing Our Lady of the Hills Catholic to the semifinals against Dallas Covenant on Friday. TAPPS director Edd Burleson, who declined to respond to inquiries from JTA, told The New York Times that changing the scheduling for Beren would create problems for other teams.

Massive Talmud translation nears end By Chana Tigay Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK, Jan. 18 (JTA) — You don’t have to know Hebrew or Aramaic any more to become a talmudic scholar. Indeed, say those behind the Schottenstein Artscroll English translation of the Talmud — whose 73rd and final volume will be published next month — some Jews have completed study of nearly the whole series of talmudic tractates without speaking a lick of either language.

“Many of them attribute the fact that they’ve been able to get through this to the Schottenstein text, to the fact that we’ve been able to remove the language barrier for them and elucidate the text in a way that is comprehensible and relevant,” said Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, chairman of the Mesorah Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit group that funded the project. The publication of the final volume of Tractate Yevamot marks the culmination of a 15-year, $20 million effort that has seen as many as

80 scholars at a time working on the more than 35,000 pages in the series, in locations from New York to Baltimore to Cleveland to Jerusalem to Bnei Brak. The project “introduces the Talmud to people who have never studied it,” said Rabbi Nosson Scherman, general editor of Mesorah, the series’ publisher. “It has never been done before in English with this depth and accuracy.” The Talmud comprises 36 tractates of rabbinic discussion and commentary on Jewish civil and religious law.

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As Syria crackdown intensifies, debate rages over U.S. options By Zach Silberman Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — As the Syrian government intensifies its assault on opposition strongholds, the debate is heating up in Washington over how to end the bloody crackdown and bring about regime change. The Obama administration has tried to ratchet up pressure on the Syrian regime through international diplomacy and strong economic sanctions. But U.S. efforts have run into roadblocks at the United Nations, where opposition by Russia and China quashed a Security Council resolution on Syria. Some in Washington argue that the administration needs to try new avenues if it is to rein in the Syrian regime. In Congress there have been calls for direct U.S. aid to the Syrian opposition. A few prominent senators are urging the arming of the regime’s foes. “What they’ve tried to do is topple the regime through diplomatic isolation and coercion, but the regime is still there,” said Daniel Byman, research director at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, referring to the Obama administration’s efforts. “It’s hard to change a regime — they fear giving up power, and of course they want to keep power for its own sake.” A Senate resolution introduced earlier this month by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and a biparti-

Alan Gross revelations could hamper campaign for his release By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Syrians demonstrating in the coastal city of Banias against the regime of hard-line leader Bashar Assad in the spring of 2011.

san group of six other senators demanded that Syrian President Bashar Assad step down and called for “substantial material and technical support” for Syrian opposition groups. “The international community can and should do more to support the people of Syria during this terrible hour in their history,” Casey said in a statement. On Feb. 16, however, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a different Syria resolution, sponsored by the committee’s chairman, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). That resolution did not call for material support for opposition groups. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.),

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) have all urged the arming of the opposition, though they have suggested that this could be done without the U.S. directly providing the arms. “I believe there are ways to get weapons to the opposition without direct United States involvement,” McCain said Sunday. “The Iranians and the Russians are providing Bashar Assad with weapons. People that are being massacred deserve to have the ability to defend themselves.” While the Obama administration has signaled a willingness to consider offering humanitarian aid to help the Syrian people, it has ruled out arming the opposition.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — For the Jews of Cuba, it was the ultimate Internet connection. The high-tech equipment that U.S. contractor Alan Gross brought with him to Cuba in 2009 to help connect local Jews to the Internet reportedly included a SIM card that makes it almost impossible to track satellite signals and is generally unavailable to civilians, even in the United States. That was one of the revelations in an Associated Press report earlier this month that has exacerbated concerns that Cuba will hang tough on its stated determination not to release Gross, a 62-year-old Maryland Jewish man who was in Cuba to do work for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Gross is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Cuba for crimes described as “acts against the integrity of the state.” Yet the AP report, apparently based on mission reports by Gross, helps reinforce the claim that Gross, his family, his employer and the State Department have made all along — that Gross’ mission was straightforward and not at all nefarious: He wanted to hook up Cuba’s Jews with their brethren worldwide. The AP article “doesn’t change what we’re doing,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chair-

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Alan and Judy Gross at the Western Wall in the spring of 2005.

man of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “We never argued the matters that were raised” regarding Gross’ activities, he said. According to the AP story, Gross understood the dangers he faced. That is evident both in his reports — he called his enterprise “risky business in no uncertain terms” in one memo — and his actions. He recruited Jewish tourists to help bring in the devices, and the most damaging evidence, according to AP, was the sophisticated SIM card he has in his possession. Yet the story also makes clear that Gross, who was arrested on Dec. 3, 2009, hardly fits the profile of a spy, which is how Cuban President Raul Castro described him. GROSS on page 20

Fifty years later, impact of Eichmann trial endures By Maxine Dovere JointMedia News Service NEW YORK — The 1961 trial of Nazi arch criminal Adolf Eichmann changed the philosophy and future thinking of the state of Israel. Opening a window of understanding about the unimaginable horrors of the Nazi killing machine, the testimony given by those Eichmann sought to murder proved to be a turning point in Israel’s attitude toward those who survived — and those who were murdered — of the Shoah. Speaking at a recent event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the trial, Israel’s Consul General in New York, Ido Aharoni, said Eichmann was “what evil looked like…Israel was forever different; the nation stopped to listen to the voice of the witnesses. It felt their agony.” Tammy Hausner Raveh, daughter of Gideon Hausner (the

State Prosecutor who “turned testimony into accusations and the demand for moral justice into practical justice”), and Itai Arad, grandson of Isser Harel (who, as head of the Mossad, led the operation that captured Eichmann in Buenos Aries, Argentina), each spoke of the remarkable contributions of their families. “For the first time in history, the Jews would judge their assassins. Jews were in control of their destiny,” said Arad. The Nazi mastermind Eichmann, spotted in Argentina in 1957, was living quietly as Ricardo Klement, a member of the German “ex pat” community. Information pinpointing his whereabouts was received from a half-Jewish Argentinian and conveyed through the German mission. Eichmann had remained completely unrepentant, telling a friend that he wished the Nazis “had finished the job.” TRIAL on page 20

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Israel’s Technion making its mark in the U.S.

In Japan, Israelis bring trauma expertise to tsunami victims

By Maxine Dovere JointMedia News Service in Features, Israel, U.S.

By Boaz Arad Jewish Telegraphic Agency

NEW YORK — Under Dr. Peretz Lavie’s watch, the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology has invested in more than just science. In an effort to increase the school’s number of Arab-Israeli students, Technion’s Landa Equal Opportunities Project provides services like health programs and academic preparation for Arab students in the Upper Galilee, dramatically decreasing their dropout rate. Arabs, who constitute 20 percent of Israel’s population, now also represent 20 percent of the student body on the Technion campus. “When I read the proclamations calling the Technion an ‘apartheid university,’ I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry,’” Lavie, the university’s president since October 2009, said in an interview with JointMedia News Service. Lavie was in New York to discuss the city’s ongoing partnership with Technion and Cornell University. New York announced the partnership last December, with the goal of creating an unmatched engineering campus on Roosevelt Island, which lies between Manhattan and Queens along the East River. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the campus is

expected to generate $23 billion in economic activity, enhance job creation in the city, and generate 600 companies expected to provide 30,000 jobs over the next three decades. “Thanks to this outstanding partnership and groundbreaking proposal from Cornell and the Technion,” he said last December. “New York City’s goal of becoming the global leader in technological innovation is now within sight.” Officially called “Cornell New York Tech, Home of the TechnionCornell Institute of Innovation,” the massive academic project is affectionately known simply as “the Island.” The institute will be looking for students with entrepreneurial spirit, ready to experiment and to drive the economy, according to Lavie. London, Amsterdam and several U.S. cities have already asked the Technion to act as a consultant for similar efforts. Lavie told JointMedia News Service that Technion’s strategic goal is “to be among the 10 leading technical universities in the world, joining such schools as MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford, and Georgia Tech in the United States, and the leading universities in Europe, Asia and India.” “I truly believe globalization is very important for high academic education to attract the best faculty and students and stay at the top of your field,” he said.

Israeli redneck Arieh O’Sullivan gets his Confederate stripes By Uriel Heilman Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK (JTA) — The first time I met Arieh O’Sullivan was in the predawn darkness of a winter morning in Jerusalem in 1997, when he came to pick me up in a jeep emblazoned with the Confederate flag on its spare tire. I was just starting out as a journalist and working as a cub reporter at The Jerusalem Post, and O’Sullivan, a veteran of The Associated Press, was the Post’s seasoned military correspondent. I thought O’Sullivan had one of the coolest jobs in the world, and it turned out that this diminutive Jew with an Irish name and a Southern accent was a pretty cool guy, too. O’Sullivan drove us through the darkness to a military base near Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, where we hitched a ride aboard a C130 Hercules aircraft bound for the Ovda air base in the Negev Desert. On the ground we were met by two minders from the military spokesman’s office and packed into a jeep for a bone-shattering, off-

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After a ceremony to join the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Arieh O’Sullivan displays the Confederate flag he took into battle with him when he and his Israeli paratrooper unit invaded Lebanon in the 1982 war, Feb. 22, 2012.

road tear through the desert to the site of an Israel Defense Forces combat exercise. CONFEDERATE on page 22

SENDAI, Japan (JTA) — Tears run down the face of Kohata Yuriko as she recalls the events of March 11 last year, when a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Japan in the early afternoon. Shopping for groceries in the small fishing town of Iwanuma, she heard the tsunami sirens. Realizing she had little time, Yuriko collected her son and 93year-old father and fled. As her foot hit the gas pedal, she could hear the horrible noise of the wave as it came crashing through the neighborhood. Later that day, Yuriko learned that a grandmother and her grandson, a good friend of her son’s, perished in the neighboring house as the tsunami smashed into it. Upon hearing the news, her son started to cry. “Thank you mom,” he said again and again. “Thank you for coming back for me.” Through an interpreter, Yuriko says she still cries all the time when she’s alone. “I’m so stressed and nervous that I can hardly breathe,” she says. But with the assistance of volunteers and post-trauma experts from the Israeli nongovernmental organization IsraAID, she is beginning to learn to cope with the tragedy.

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Ishinomaki movement therapy: Residents of a temporary housing site for tsunami survivors in the city of Ishinomaki participating in a movement therapy session run by post-trauma experts from the Israeli NGO IsraAID.

Yuriko is sitting on the floor of a caravan converted into a community center in one of the temporary housing sites built to accommodate the tens of thousands of tsunami survivors who lost their homes to the wave. Helped by the aid workers she dances, bangs on drums, laughs and smiles — and then, asked to choose from a pile of special cards used as psychotherapeutic tools, she begins to cry. It is the first time since the disaster that she has cried in front of someone, and Yuriko is apologetic. She has been unemployed for nearly a year, shares a cramped

temporary housing unit with her father, husband and son, and constantly feels like she is about to faint from anxiety. “It’s OK to cry,” says Judy Spanglet, an Orthodox Israeli social worker and family therapist who has worked with trauma victims all over the world. “It’s perfectly normal. Let it out. You have been so busy worrying for and taking care of other people that you have forgotten to think of yourself.” Yuriko lets out a big smile; suddenly she seems relieved. VICTIMS on page 22

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Film offers an inside look at Germany’s neo-Nazi music scene By Toby Axelrod Jewish Telegraphic Agency BERLIN (JTA) — A new documentary is shining light on Germany’s neo-Nazi music scene and the role it plays in cultivating a violent far-right subculture. The film “Blut muss Fliessen” (Blood Must Flow) looks at the neo-Nazi music scene in Germany, as well as in Austria, Italy and Hungary. The documentary, which takes its name from a song adopted by Nazi storm-troopers, features footage from neo-Nazi parties and concerts taken by an undercover

reporter. It is a timely topic: Last week, German authorities slapped hatecrimes charges on a neo-Nazi musician behind the 2010 CD “Adolf Hitler Lives.” Singer Daniel Giese of the band Gigi the Brown City Musicians and the record’s producer were charged in connection with hate-filled lyrics claiming that no Jews died in Auschwitz and celebrating a spate of killings — known in Germany as the “kebab murders” — targeting small businessmen of Turkish origin. The killings were the focus of a

national day of mourning on Feb. 23, with a Berlin ceremony featuring an address by Chancellor Angela Merkel and a nationwide moment of silence. The murder spree, which took place between 2000 and 2007, claimed the lives of eight Turks, a Greek man and a policewoman. In November, German authorities discovered that the murders were carried out by members of an extreme right-wing group called the National Socialist Underground. Many observers see a strong connection between neo-Nazi music and far-right violence in

general. In its latest annual report, the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution called the far-right music scene an essential tool to bring in new recruits. “The authorities really have to keep an eye on that scene,” said Peter Ohlendorf, the filmmaker behind the documentary, which had its world premiere here last week at the Berlin international Film Festival. “This kind of music is what we call an entry drug.” The film’s undercover video was provided by a German reporter who goes by the pseudonym

Thomas Kuban. Using a camera hidden in his shirt buttonhole, Kuban infiltrated neo-Nazi gatherings and gave his footage to news media. In a few cases, arrests were made as a result. Much of the footage shows sweaty skinheads branded with swastika tattoos lounging around amid swirling smoke with sloshing beers. Skinheads are seen raising their arms in the banned Hitler salute and chanting, “Sharpen the long knives on the sidewalk, slide the knife into the Jewish body. Blood must flow ... We s— on the freedom of this Jew republic.”

U.S. congresswomen see Israel, Palestinians in the eyes of J Street By Linda Gradstein Jewish Telegraphic Agency KALANDIYA, West Bank (JTA)

— The U.S. congresswomen get off the bus and stand in the chilly shadows of the Kalandiya crossing point between the West Bank and

Jerusalem. It’s late morning, well past the rush hour when thousands of Palestinians congregate here, and only a few dozen Palestinians stand in line. To cross, the Palestinians go through a series of metal turnstiles and wait with their documents until they are called, one by one, to approach the Israeli soldiers sitting behind bullet-proof barriers. One Palestinian man strikes up a conversation. “I have American citizenship but I am not allowed to travel through Ben Gurion Airport because I have a Palestinian ID card,” Hamad Hindi of Louisiana tells the congresswomen. “We are seen as guilty of something because we are Palestinian.” After crossing to the Palestinian side, the congresswomen — part of a trip to Israel and the West Bank organized by the J Street Education Fund — head to Ramallah. “This is a ticking bomb waiting to go off,” says Rep. Eddie

Bernice Johnson (D-Tex.) “There must be some other way to do this. After so many years there should be some resolution for this issue.” The congresswomen clearly are moved by their experience at the checkpoint, and that’s the point. J Street, the “pro-Israel, propeace” lobbying group that heralds itself as a left-wing alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is trying to present an alternative to the usual pro-Israel fare on congressional missions to Israel. The trip last week included six U.S. congresswomen and a group of women from the Women Donors Network, a coalition of women involved in progressive and social causes. A spokeswoman for J Street, Jessica Rosenblum, said the trip was part of the organization’s overall effort to promote a twostate solution. “Our hope is that this and future delegations will help to

open up and deepen the conversation in Congress about American policy in the Middle East,” Rosenblum told JTA. “In particular,” she said, the trips are meant to “encourage participating members to convey to their colleagues the urgency of the situation and the need for sustained and vigorous American engagement to reach a two-state solution.” Over six days, the delegation met Israelis and Palestinians, both leaders and “ordinary women.” Among the Palestinian business leaders the group met in Ramallah was Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American entrepreneur who says he has had difficulty acquiring an Israeli residency permit. “I really appreciate what J Street is doing — it’s a breath of fresh air that there is not one line of thought in the American Jewish community,” he told the delegation. “We are at a fork in the road. Either there will be a two-state solution or it will be too late.”

Will Israel’s Supreme Court tilt conservative after Beinisch leaves? By Mati Wagner Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — It ordered the West Bank security fence rerouted because it cut through private Palestinian property. It overturned state-backed discrimination against Arab Israelis on issues of land distribution and ruled against the Israel Defense Forces’ use of military methods deemed to cause “disproportionate” harm to Palestinian civilians. It overturned Israel’s ban against political parties said to be too “radical.” And just last week it ruled that the Tal Law, which grants exemptions to haredi Orthodox Israelis from Israel’s military draft so they can study in yeshiva, is unconstitutional. These are just some of the Israeli Supreme Court decisions

that have changed the way Israel does business during the tenure of justice Dorit Beinisch, Israel’s first female chief of the court. The Supreme Court’s interventionist approach — with its strong emphasis on protecting minority rights – was pioneered by Aharon Barak, who served as the court’s president (the Israeli equivalent to chief justice) between 1995 and 2006. But Beinisch, who is retiring from the court this week after serving since December 1995, upheld the tradition of judicial activism, keeping the court at the center of Israeli public debate and making it a lightning rod for Orthodox and right-wing critics. That could change as Beinisch, who turned 70 on Tuesday, steps down and is replaced by Asher Grunis, a conservative justice who has made a name for himself as a

supporter of judicial restraint. “There is a huge difference between Grunis’ approach and that of Barak and Beinisch,” said Barak Medina, dean of Hebrew University’s law department. “If the Supreme Court were to move in Grunis’ direction, it would be a 180-degree turnaround.” In recent months, critics of the court have stepped up their efforts to curtail the court’s power. Lawmakers from the Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu parties — supported by Justice Minister Ya’acov Ne’eman, a critic of judicial activism — have recommended a slew of reforms aimed at changing the way justices are appointed. Perhaps the most far-reaching proposal is to take away the court’s veto over justice appointments and give all the power over appointments to the Knesset.

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Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-373-0300 Fax: 513-621-2864 Email: info@jypaccess.org Website: www.jypaccess.org Avnit Mohel Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Fax: 513-410-0806 Email: AMIA613@aol.com Beth Goldstein Designs Contact: Ms. Beth Goldstein, Artist/Designer 2511 Essex Place Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513-226-4829 Email: beth@bethgoldstein.com Website: www.bethgoldstein.com Beth Israel Synagogue Contact: Ms. Amy Lewis, Office Manager 50 N. Sixth Street Hamilton, OH 45011 Phone: 513-868-2049 Fax: 513-868-2069 Email: bethisrael@fuse.net Website: www.bethisraelcongregation.net Camp Livingston Contact: Mr. Ben Davis, Executive Director 8401 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-793-5554 Fax: 513-793-5004 Email: info@camplivingston.com Website: www.camplivingston.com Cedar Village 5467 Cedar Village Drive Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-336-3162 Fax: 513-336-3174 Email: rfestenstein@cedarvillage.org Website: www.cedarvillage.org Chocolate Passion Contact: Mrs. Karyn Zimerman, Owner PO Box 42621 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-616-3992 Email:chocolatepassion@mac.com Website:www.chocpassion.com Cincinnati Community Kollel Contact: Rabbi Yitzchok Preis, Director of Outreach 2241 Losantiville Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-631-8505 Email: rabbipreis@shul.net Website: http://kollel.shul.net/ Creative Contracting

Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Road Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-6780 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com Daniel P. Randolph, Esq. Ritter & Randolph, LLC Contact: Daniel P. Randolph 105 E. Fourth Street, Suite 1200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-381-5700 Fax: 513-381-0014 Email: drandolph@ritter-randolph.com Website: www.ritterandrandolph.com Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. Contact: Dr. Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. 10506 Montgomery Road, Suite 302 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-791-4966 Fax: 513-791-4126 Email: dgild@aol.com Website: www.drdarylgildenblatt.com Deb LaFrance, Comey & Shepherd, Realtors Contact: Ms. Deb LaFrance, Realtor 7870 E Kemper Rd, Cincinnati OH Blue Ash, OH 45249 Phone: 513-652-9256 Fax: 513-297-4263 Email: deb@cincylistings.com Website: www.cincylistings.com Region: Amberley, Golf Manor, Roselawn, Blue Ash, Kenwood, Montgomery, Downtown, Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Oakley, Clifton, Mason, Loveland, Middletown, Wyoming, Finneytown, Reading Dr. Mia Biran, Psychologist Contact: Dr. Mia Biran, Psychologist 2101 Grandin Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45208 Phone: 513-523-7372 Email: biranmw@muohio.edu Region: Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Oakley, Clifton Fusion Family, The Mayerson Foundation Contact: Mrs. Julie D. Robenson, Program Manager 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-703-3343 Fax: 513-417-8083 Email: info@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org Fusion: The Perfect Blending of Backgrounds and Traditions, The Mayerson Foundation 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-373-0300

Fax: 513-621-2864 Email: lisa@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org GMB Multimedia Contact: Gayna Mandelbaum Bassin 7494 Trailwind Drive Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-793-7369 Email: gmbassin@hotmail.com Website: gmbmultimedia.com Hattenbach & Company CPA Inc. Contact: Mr. Edward Hattenbach, President 8595 Beechmont Avenue, Suite 104 Cincinnati, OH 45255 Phone: 513-474-5650 Fax: 513-474-5651 Email: hattencpa@aol.com Jones The Florist 8950 Rossash Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-961-6625 Website: www.jonestheflorist.com Keating Muething & Klekamp Contact: Alan S. Fershtman Partner One East Fourth Street, Suite 1400 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-579-6400 Fax: 513-579-6457 Email: info@kmklaw.com Website: www.kmklaw.com Lloyd House Contact: Dr. Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D. 3901 Clifton Ave Cincinnati, OH 45220 Phone: 513-221-1289 Email: ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com Region: Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Oakley, Clifton Marc A. Randolph, Esq. Ritter and Randolph, LLC Contact: Marc A. Randolph 105 E. Fourth Street, Suite 1200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-381-5700 Fax: 513-381-0014 Email: mrandolph@ritter-randolph.com Website: www.ritterandrandolph.com Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org Milmark Outdoor Lighting Contact: Mr. Mark Hoffman, President/Owner P.O. Box 54964

Cincinnati, OH 45254-0964 Phone: 513-474-7085 Email: milmarklighting@fuse.net Website: www.milmarklighting.com Mr. Jonathan Wolf, The Zero Company Contact: Mr. Jonathan Wolf, President 6225 Wiehe Road Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-531-ROOF Fax: 513-615-7235 Email: jwolf@zeroroofing.com Website: www.zeroroofing.com Mrs. Elinor Ziv, Leist Realtors Contact: Mrs. Elinor Ziv 2606 Fair Oaks Lane Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-351-0909 Email: eziv1@juno.com Website: www.leistrealtors.com Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, HORAN Contact: Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, VP 4990 East Galbraith Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-745-0707 Email: lesliem@horanassoc.com Website: www.horanassoc.com Ms. Rhonda Silbiger, The Merten Company Contact: Ms. Rhonda Silbiger, Account Executive 1515 Central Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45214 Phone: 513-721-5167 Ext.313 Fax: 513-241-2219 Email: rhonda.silbiger@mertenco.com Website: www.champion-industries.com New Traditions, a program of Fusion, The Mayerson Foundation Contact: Mrs. Nikki Sandor, Program Manager 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-641-9119 Email: newtraditions@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org No Bones About It Professional Pet Sitters Contact:Lori Zobel 4069 Ivy Grove Lane Cincinnati, OH 45040 Phone: 513-292-3808 Fax: 513-292-3808 Email: lori@nobonesaboutitpetsitters.com Ohel Simcha Beth Midrash Study Center Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: AMIA613@aol.com

4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-703-3343 Email: info@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.myshalomfamily.org Stan Better Architects Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Road Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-5000 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com Stan Better Construction Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-5000 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com Information: Design Builder, General Construction. UC Physicians Inc - Division of Digestive Diseases Contact: Dr. Richard P. Rood, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF - Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowl Disease Program University of Cincinnati, Medical Center, 222 Piedmont, 6th Floor Cincinnati, OH 45219 Phone: 513-475-7505 Fax: 513-475-7366 Email: richard.rood@uc.edu Website: www.intmed.uc.edu/divisions/digestive%5disease Uppercase Living Contact: Mrs. Mindy Nemoff 5400 Belleview ave Blue Ash, OH 45242 Phone: 513-745-0440 Email: mindy_cm@fuse.net Website: http://Mindyn.uppercaseliving.net Workum Summer Intern Program Contact: Mrs. Nancy Seltz, Executive Director P.O. Box 498131 Cincinnati, OH 45249 Phone: 513-683-6670 Email: intern@workum.org Website: www.workum.org Yaacov's Place Contact: Mr. Yaacov Rabenstein, Owner 2245 Losantiville Ave Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-703-5954 Fax: 513-631-0819 Email: esales@closeouttown.com

Young Adult Division Contact: Eric Greenberg Email: egreenberg@jfedcin.org Website: http://www.jewishcincinnati.org/page.aspx?ID= 18186

Queen City Transitions Contact: Ms. Betsy Goldfarb, Co-owner P.O. Box 499004 Cincinnati, OH 45249 Phone: 513-432-2020 Email: betsy@queencitytransitions.com Website: www.queencitytransitions.com

Dentists

Rabbi Avnit Kashrut Company (AMIA) Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: amia613@aol.com Ray Miller Studio Contact: Mr. Raymond A. Miller 7172 Pfeiffer Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-919-5476 Email: raymillr@fuse.net Website: www.raymillerstudio.com Rockwern Academy Contact: Mrs. Gail Sperling, Director of Admission 8401 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-984-3770 Fax: 513-984-3787 Email: gasperling@rockwernacademy.org Website: www.rockwernacademy.org Stan Better Restoration Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-5000 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com Sell, Pak & Ship 9797 Montgomery Rd Suite A Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-891-9800 Email: sales@sellpakship.com Website: sellpakship.com Shalom Baby, The Mayerson Foundation 4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-703-3343 Fax: 513-417-8083 Email: info@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.myshalomfamily.org Shalom Family, The Mayerson Foundation

Barry P. Gibberman D.M.D, Inc, Center for Esthetic Dentistry Contact: Barry Gibberman 9157 Montgomery Rd Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-793-2611 Email: barrygib@gmail.com Inforamtion: Comprehensive Care General Dentistry with a focus on Cosmetic dentistry We treat children to seniors. Veneers, Lumineers,bleaching, invisalign, sleep disorder treatment, Dentures. Special care for the anxious patient. Have healthy teeth and a beautiful smile from a dentist who listens and a staff that cares. Doctors Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. Contact: Dr. Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. 10506 Montgomery Road, Suite 302 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-791-4966 Fax: 513-791-4126 Email: dgild@aol.com Website: www.drdarylgildenblatt.com David B. Schwartz MD Obstectrics and Gynecology Contact: Dr. David B. Schwartz, M.D. Christ Hospital Medical Office Building, 2123 Auburn Avenue, Suite 320 Cincinnati, OH 45219 Phone: 513-241-4223 Email: dbdoc@aol.com Website: www.cincinnati-obgyn.com Dr. Charles J. Glueck, Jewish Hospital Cholesterol & Metabolism Center Contact: Dr. Charles J. Glueck, Medical Director, Jewish Hospital Cholesterol & Metabolism Cen 3200 Burnet Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45229 Phone: 513-585-7945 Fax: 513-585-7950 Email: glueckch@healthall.com Website: www.jewishhospitalcincinnati.com/cholesterol Mangat-Kuy-Holzapfel Plastic Surgery Contact: Dr. Daniel G. Kuy, Vice Preseident 133 Barnwood Drive Edgewood, KY 41017 Phone: 859-331-9600 Email: kuy@renewyourlooks.com

Website: www.renewyourlooks.com Montomery ENT Center Contact: Dr. Mark E. Grosinger, DO 9200 Montgomery Road, Suite 2B Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-891-8700 Fax: 513-891-9703 Email: info@montgomeryent.com Website: www.montgomeryent.com Roslyn Seligman, M.D. Contact: Dr. Roslyn Seligman, M.D. 260 Stetson Street, Ste. 3200 Cincinnati, OH Phone: 513-558-5903 Fax: 513-558-5055 Email: roslyn_s@yahoo.com UC Physicians Inc - Division of Digestive Diseases Contact: Dr. Richard P. Rood, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF - Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowl Disease Program University of Cincinnati, Medical Center, 222 Piedmont, 6th Floor Cincinnati, OH 45219 Phone: 513-475-7505 Fax: 513-475-7366 Email: richard.rood@uc.edu Website: www.intmed.uc.edu/divisions/digestive%5disease E Employment Service/Jobs Workum Summer Intern Program Contact: Mrs. Nancy Seltz, Executive Director P.O. Box 498131 Cincinnati, OH 45249 Phone: 513-683-6670 Email: intern@workum.org Website: www.workum.org Ergonomics Atlas Ergonomic Book & Copyholders by Dainoff Designs, Inc. Contact: Emmy Friedenberg, Administrator 338 Whitthorne Drive Cincinnat, OH 45215 Phone: 800-438-2852 Fax: 513-521-0273 Email: info@bookandcopyholders.com Website: www.bookandcopyholders.com

Email: info@darrengoodman.net Website: www.darrengoodman.net Jones The Florist 8950 Rossash Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-961-6625 Website: www.jonestheflorist.com Yaacov's Place Contact: Mr. Yaacov Rabenstein, Owner 2245 Losantiville Ave Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-703-5954 Fax: 513-631-0819 Email: esales@closeouttown.com Graphic Designs Mr. Alan Brown, Photonics Graphics, Inc. Contact: Mr. Alan Brown, President 2244 Park Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513-281-5000 Fax: 513-487-4553 Email: abrown@photonicsgraphics.com Website: www.photonicsgraphics.com Mr. Ande Weinstein, Tin Box Studio, Inc. Contact: Mr. Ande Weinstein, Client Services/Principal 2449 Michigan Avenue, Lower Level Cincinnati, OH 45208-2133 Phone: 513-321-2234 Email: ande@tinboxstudio.com Website: www.tinboxstudio.com H Health Insurance Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, HORAN Contact: Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, VP 4990 East Galbraith Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-745-0707 Email: lesliem@horanassoc.com Website: www.horanassoc.com Holistic Health

Lloyd House Contact: Dr. Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D. 3901 Clifton Ave Cincinnati, OH 45220 Phone: 513-221-1289 Email: ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com

Financial Planning

Home Furnishing

EMC Financial Services, Inc. Contact: Mr. Elliot Kravitz, President 7577 Central Park Blvd., Suite 209 Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-229-0086 Fax: 513-229-0109 Email: ekravitz@emcfinancialonline.com Website: www.emcfinancialonline.com

Exciting Windows! by Walls & More Contact: Mr. Murry A. Feldstein, Owner 8947 Creekwood Ln. Maineville, OH 45039 Phone: 513-583-0333 Fax: 513-672-2440 Email: murry@fuse.net

Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, HORAN Contact: Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, VP 4990 East Galbraith Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-745-0707 Email: lesliem@horanassoc.com Website: www.horanassoc.com Fitness/Excercise Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org Florists Jones The Florist 8950 Rossash Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-961-6625 Website: www.jonestheflorist.com G Gifts Atlas Ergonomic Book & Copyholders by Dainoff Designs, Inc. Contact: Emmy Friedenberg, Administrator 338 Whitthorne Drive Cincinnat, OH 45215 Phone: 800-438-2852 Fax: 513-521-0273 Email: info@bookandcopyholders.com Website: www.bookandcopyholders.com Beth Goldstein Designs Contact: Ms. Beth Goldstein, Artist/Designer 2511 Essex Place Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513-226-4829 Email: beth@bethgoldstein.com Website: www.bethgoldstein.com Chocolate Passion Contact: Mrs. Karyn Zimerman, Owner PO Box 42621 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-616-3992 Email:chocolatepassion@mac.com Website:www.chocpassion.com Darren Goodman Glass Contact: Mr. Darren Goodman, Owner 3712 US Rt 42 Waynesville, OH 45068 Phone: 513-934-0225 Fax: 513-934-0225

Innovative Power Systems, LLC Contact: Mr. Elliot Kravitz, President 7577 Central Park Blvd., Suite 213 Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-229-6212 Fax: 513-229-0109 Email: ekravitz@gotpowernow.com Website: www.gotpowernow.com Milmark Outdoor Lighting Contact: Mr. Mark Hoffman, President/Owner P.O. Box 54964 Cincinnati, OH 45254-0964 Phone: 513-474-7085 Email: milmarklighting@fuse.net Website: www.milmarklighting.com Uppercase Living Contact: Mrs. Mindy Nemoff 5400 Belleview ave Blue Ash, OH 45242 Phone: 513-745-0440 Email: mindy_cm@fuse.net Website: http://Mindyn.uppercaseliving.net Home Health Services Cedar Village 5467 Cedar Village Drive Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-336-3162 Fax: 513-336-3174 Email: rfestenstein@cedarvillage.org Website: www.cedarvillage.org Grand Assistance 6934 Miami Ave Ste 19 Cincinnati, 45243 Phone: 513-488-1198 Email: contact@grandassistance.com Website:GrandAssistance.com Home Remodeling Stan Better Construction Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-5000 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com I Insurance Integrated Planning Strategies LLC Contact: Gary M. Albert 2400 Larkfield Drive Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-731-1865 Fax: 513-731-1150

Email: galbert@ip711c.com Insurance Restoration Stan Better Construction Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-5000 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com Interim Management Services New Growth Advisors, Inc. Contact: Mr. Sumner Saeks, President 4675 Cornell Road, STE 195 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-489-7399 Fax: 513-489-7366 Email: ssaeks@newgrowthadvisors.com Website: www.newgrowthadvisors.com Investment EMC Financial Services, Inc. Contact: Mr. Elliot Kravitz, President 7577 Central Park Blvd., Suite 209 Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-229-0086 Fax: 513-229-0109 Email: ekravitz@emcfinancialonline.com Website: www.emcfinancialonline.com Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, HORAN Contact: Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, VP 4990 East Galbraith Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-745-0707 Email: lesliem@horanassoc.com Website: www.horanassoc.com J Jewish Education Beth Israel Synagogue Contact: Ms. Amy Lewis, Office Manager 50 N. Sixth Street Hamilton, OH 45011 Phone: 513-868-2049 Fax: 513-868-2069 Email: bethisrael@fuse.net Website: www.bethisraelcongregation.net Cincinnati Community Kollel Contact: Rabbi Yitzchok Preis, Director of Outreach 2241 Losantiville Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-631-8505 Email: rabbipreis@shul.net Website: http://kollel.shul.net/ Jewish Family Service 8487 Ridge Road Cincinnati, 45236 Phone: 513-469-1188 Fax: 513-766-3358 Email: rfs@jfscinti.org Website: www.jfscinti.org Ohel Simcha Beth Midrash Study Center Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: AMIA613@aol.com Rockwern Academy Contact: Mrs. Gail Sperling, Director of Admission 8401 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-984-3770 Fax: 513-984-3787 Email: gasperling@rockwernacademy.org Website: www.rockwernacademy.org Jewish Programing Access: Where It's At for Jewish Young Adults, The Mayerson Foundation Contact: Ms. Lisa Hacker, 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-373-0300 Fax: 513-621-2864 Email: info@jypaccess.org Website: www.jypaccess.org Beth Israel Synagogue Contact: Ms. Amy Lewis, Office Manager 50 N. Sixth Street Hamilton, OH 45011 Phone: 513-868-2049 Fax: 513-868-2069 Email: bethisrael@fuse.net Website: www.bethisraelcongregation.net Camp Livingston Contact: Mr. Ben Davis, Executive Director 8401 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-793-5554 Fax: 513-793-5004 Email: info@camplivingston.com Website: www.camplivingston.com Cincinnati Community Kollel Contact: Rabbi Yitzchok Preis, Director of Outreach 2241 Losantiville Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-631-8505 Email: rabbipreis@shul.net Website: http://kollel.shul.net/ Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D., Mohel Contact: Dr. Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D.

10506 Montgomery Road, Suite 302 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-791-4966 Fax: 513-791-4126 Email: dgild@aol.com Website: www.drdarylgildenblatt.com

Website: www.bethisraelcongregation.net

Fusion Family, The Mayerson Foundation 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-703-3343 Fax: 513-417-8083 Email: info@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org

Cedar Village 5467 Cedar Village Drive Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-336-3162 Fax: 513-336-3174 Email: rfestenstein@cedarvillage.org Website: www.cedarvillage.org

Chocolate Passion Contact: Mrs. Karyn Zimerman, Owner PO Box 42621 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-616-3992 Email:chocolatepassion@mac.com Website:www.chocpassion.com

Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org New Traditions, a program of Fusion, The Mayerson Foundation Contact: Mrs. Nikki Sandor, Program Manager 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-641-9119 Email: newtraditions@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org Ohel Simcha Beth Midrash Study Center Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: AMIA613@aol.com Project Spark, a Program of Shalom Family, The Mayerson Foundation Contact: Mrs. Nikki Sandor, Program Manager 4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-641-9119 Email: nikki@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.shalomfamily.org Shalom Baby, The Mayerson Foundation 4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-703-3343 Fax: 513-417-8083 Email: info@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.myshalomfamily.org Shalom Family, The Mayerson Foundation 4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-703-3343 Email: info@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.myshalomfamily.org Workum Summer Intern Program Contact: Mrs. Nancy Seltz, Executive Director P.O. Box 498131 Cincinnati, OH 45249 Phone: 513-683-6670 Email: intern@workum.org Website: www.workum.org Young Adult Division Contact: Eric Greenberg Email: egreenberg@jfedcin.org Website: http://www.jewishcincinnati.org/page.aspx?ID= 18186 Jewish Owned Business Atlas Ergonomic Book & Copyholders by Dainoff Designs, Inc. Contact: Emmy Friedenberg, Administrator 338 Whitthorne Drive Cincinnat, OH 45215 Phone: 800-438-2852 Fax: 513-521-0273 Email: info@bookandcopyholders.com Website: www.bookandcopyholders.com Avnit Mohel Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Fax: 513-410-0806 Email: AMIA613@aol.com Barry P. Gibberman D.M.D, Inc, Center for Esthetic Dentistry Contact: Barry Gibberman 9157 Montgomery Rd Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-793-2611 Email: barrygib@gmail.com Beth Goldstein Designs Contact: Ms. Beth Goldstein, Artist/Designer 2511 Essex Place Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513-226-4829 Email: beth@bethgoldstein.com Website: www.bethgoldstein.com Beth Israel Synagogue Contact: Ms. Amy Lewis, Office Manager 50 N. Sixth Street Hamilton, OH 45011 Phone: 513-868-2049 Fax: 513-868-2069 Email: bethisrael@fuse.net

Blaine's Fine Men's Apparel 9407 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-791-9970

CK Consulting Contact: Ms. Constance Kash 5651 Kugler Mill rd Unit C Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-608-1018 Fax: 513-6081018 Email: connie@constancekash.com Website: http://wwww.constancekash.com Creative Memories Contact: Mrs. Mindy Nemoff 5400 Belleview Ave Blue Ash, OH 45242 Phone: 513-745-0440 Email: Mindy_cm@fuse.net Website: www.mycmsite/mindynemoff Daniel P. Randolph, Esq. Ritter & Randolph, LLC Contact: Daniel P. Randolph 105 E. Fourth Street, Suite 1200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-381-5700 Fax: 513-381-0014 Email: drandolph@ritter-randolph.com Website: www.ritterandrandolph.com Darren Goodman Glass Contact: Mr. Darren Goodman, Owner 3712 US Rt 42 Waynesville, OH 45068 Phone: 513-934-0225 Fax: 513-934-0225 Email: info@darrengoodman.net Website:www.darrengoodman.net Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. Contact: Dr. Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. 10506 Montgomery Road, Suite 302 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-791-4966 Fax: 513-791-4126 Email: dgild@aol.com Website: www.drdarylgildenblatt.com Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. Contact: Dr. Daryl L. Gildenblatt, M.D. 10506 Montgomery Road, Suite 302 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-791-4966 Fax: 513-791-4126 Email: dgild@aol.com Website: www.drdarylgildenblatt.com David B. Schwartz MD Obstectrics and Gynecology Contact: Dr. David B. Schwartz, M.D. Christ Hospital Medical Office Building, 2123 Auburn Avenue, Suite 320 Cincinnati, OH 45219 Phone: 513-241-4223 Email: dbdoc@aol.com Website: www.cincinnati-obgyn.com Dr. Charles J. Glueck, Jewish Hospital Cholesterol & Metabolism Center Contact: Dr. Charles J. Glueck, Medical Director, Jewish Hospital Cholesterol & Metabolism Cen 3200 Burnet Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45229 Phone: 513-585-7945 Fax: 513-585-7950 Email: glueckch@healthall.com Website: www.jewishhospitalcincinnati.com/cholesterol Dr. Ira M. Younger M.D. 374 Northside Dr, Suite F Batesville, IN 47006 Phone: 1-888-557-2020 Dr. Joel A. Saeks, Saeks Chiropractic, LLC Contact: Dr. Joel A. Saeks 7577 Central Parke Blvd., Suite 103 Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-492-9714 Email: Drjsaeks@me.com Elliott Polaneicki, Attorney at Law Contact: Mr. Elliott Polaniecki, Esq 9000 Plainfield Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-793-5999 Fax: 513-793-4691 Email: e28@aol.com EMC Financial Services, Inc. Contact: Mr. Elliot Kravitz, President 7577 Central Park Blvd., Suite 209 Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-229-0086 Fax: 513-229-0109 Email: ekravitz@emcfinancialonline.com Website: www.emcfinancialonline.com Exciting Windows! by Walls & More Contact: Mr. Murry A. Feldstein, Owner

8947 Creekwood Ln. Maineville, OH 45039 Phone: 513-583-0333 Fax: 513-672-2440 Email: murry@fuse.net GMB Multimedia Contact: Gayna Mandelbaum Bassin 7494 Trailwind Drive Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-793-7369 Email: gmbassin@hotmail.com Website: gmbmultimedia.com Harvey Chyette Accounting Services Contact: Mr. Harvey Chyette, Owner 5447 Firethorn Ct Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-984-1326 Fax: 513-984-2166 Email: hchyette@gmail.com Hattenbach & Company CPA Inc. Contact: Mr. Edward Hattenbach, President 8595 Beechmont Avenue, Suite 104 Cincinnati, OH 45255 Phone: 513-474-5650 Fax: 513-474-5651 Email: hattencpa@aol.com I DECLUTTER Contact: Ms. Janice Ash, Owner 6 Escalon Street Cincinnati, OH 45216 Phone: 513-821-9493 Email: janice@i-declutter.com IDS Photographers 6300 Cheviot Rd Cincinnati, OH 45247 Phone: 513-393-9596 Email: info@idsphotographers.com Website: www.idsphotographers.com InfoTrust, LLC Contact: Michael Loban 12002 Maxim Way Cincinnati, OH 45249 Phone: 513-373-4216 Email: info@infotrustllc.com Website: www.infotrustllc.com Innovative Power Systems, LLC Contact: Mr. Elliot Kravitz, President 7577 Central Park Blvd., Suite 213 Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-229-6212 Fax: 513-229-0109 Email: ekravitz@gotpowernow.com Website: www.gotpowernow.com Integrated Planning Strategies LLC Contact: Gary M. Albert 2400 Larkfield Drive Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-731-1865 Fax: 513-731-1150 Email: galbert@ip711c.com Jones The Florist 8950 Rossash Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-961-6625 Website: www.jonestheflorist.com Lloyd House Contact: Dr. Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D. 3901 Clifton Ave Cincinnati, OH 45220 Phone: 513-221-1289 Email: ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com Mangat-Kuy-Holzapfel Plastic Surgery Contact: Dr. Daniel G. Kuy, Vice Preseident 133 Barnwood Drive Edgewood, KY 41017 Phone: 859-331-9600 Email: kuy@renewyourlooks.com Website: www.renewyourlooks.com Marc A. Randolph, Esq. Ritter and Randolph, LLC Contact: Marc A. Randolph 105 E. Fourth Street, Suite 1200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-381-5700 Fax: 513-381-0014 Email: mrandolph@ritter-randolph.com Website: www.ritterandrandolph.com Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org Milmark Outdoor Lighting Contact: Mr. Mark Hoffman, President/Owner P.O. Box 54964 Cincinnati, OH 45254-0964 Phone: 513-474-7085 Email: milmarklighting@fuse.net Website: www.milmarklighting.com Montomery ENT Center Contact: Dr. Mark E. Grosinger, DO 9200 Montgomery Road, Suite 2B Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-891-8700 Fax: 513-891-9703 Email: info@montgomeryent.com Website: www.montgomeryent.com Mr. Alan Brown, Photonics Graphics, Inc. Contact: Mr. Alan Brown, President 2244 Park Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513-281-5000 Fax: 513-487-4553

Email: abrown@photonicsgraphics.com Website: www.photonicsgraphics.com. Mr. Ande Weinstein, Tin Box Studio, Inc. Contact: Mr. Ande Weinstein, Client Services/Principal 2449 Michigan Avenue, Lower Level Cincinnati, OH 45208-2133 Phone: 513-321-2234 Email: ande@tinboxstudio.com Website: www.tinboxstudio.com Mr. Jonathan Wolf, The Zero Company Contact: Mr. Jonathan Wolf, President 6225 Wiehe Road Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-531-ROOF Fax: 513-615-7235 Email: jwolf@zeroroofing.com Website: www.zeroroofing.com Mr. Mark J. Mayer, Comey & Shepherd Realtors Contact: Mr. Mark J. Mayer, ABR, CSR, SRS 9857 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-792-4129 Fax: 513-298-1338 Email: mmayer@comey.com Mr. Rick Steinau, Ace Exterminating Contact: Mr. Rick Steinau, President 1920 Losantaville Ave Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-351-9100 Fax: 513-351-4630 Email: info@aceext.com Website: www.aceext.com Mrs. Elinor Ziv, Leist Realtors Contact: Mrs. Elinor Ziv 2606 Fair Oaks Lane Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-351-0909 Email: eziv1@juno.com Website: www.leistrealtors.com Mrs. Marcy B. Kanter, Doncaster Contact: Mrs. Marcy B. Kanter, Wardrobe Consultant 9299 East Kemper Road Loveland, OH 45140 Phone: 513-774-7373 Fax: 513-774-7667 Email: mblkanter@aol.com Website: www.doncaster.com Mrs. Michelle Cohen Forrest, Twenty-Fifth Hour Contact: Mrs. Michelle Cohen Forrest, Owner 812 Overton Street Newport, KY 41071 Phone: 859-581-9653 Email: lmcforrest@insightbb.com Ms. Lynn Rosenblum, Neuromuscular Therapy of Cincinnati Contact: Ms. Lynn Rosenblum, Massage Therapist 951 West North Bend, Suite A-1 Cincinnati, OH 45224 Phone: 513-542-6917 Email: lrosebloom@aol.com New Growth Advisors, Inc. Contact: Mr. Sumner Saeks, President 4675 Cornell Road, STE 195 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-489-7399 Fax: 513-489-7366 Email: ssaeks@newgrowthadvisors.com Website: www.newgrowthadvisors.com No Bones About It Professional Pet Sitters Contact:Lori Zobel 4069 Ivy Grove Lane Cincinnati, OH 45040 Phone: 513-292-3808 Fax: 513-292-3808 Email: lori@nobonesaboutitpetsitters.com Ohel Simcha Beth Midrash Study Center Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: AMIA613@aol.com

Roslyn Seligman, M.D. Contact: Dr. Roslyn Seligman, M.D. 260 Stetson Street, Ste. 3200 Cincinnati, OH Phone: 513-558-5903 Fax: 513-558-5055 Email: roslyn_s@yahoo.com Roth Roofing Contact: Mr. Roger Roth, President 10632 Cinderella Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-793-9896 Email: rroth2@cinci.rr.com Stan Better Construction Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-5000 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com Sell, Pak & Ship 9797 Montgomery Rd Suite A Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-891-9800 Email: sales@sellpakship.com Website: sellpakship.com Spector + Phillips Design Studio LLC Contact: Mr. Kevin Spector, Owner/Principal 6551 Ambar Ave Cincinnati, OH 45230 Phone: 513-560-8643 Email:kevin@spectorphillips.com Website:www.spectorphillips.com Stan Better Architects Contact: Mr. Stan Better, President 4941 Paddock Road Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-242-5000 Fax: 513-242-1337 Email: stanbetter@stanbetter.com Website: www.stanbetter.com Suzy's Solutions Contact: Ms. Suzy Zipkin, Owner 6721 Glen Acres Drive Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-515-7739 Email: suzy@suzyssolutions.com Website: www.suzyssolutions.com UC Physicians Inc - Division of Digestive Diseases Contact: Dr. Richard P. Rood, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF - Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowl Disease Program University of Cincinnati, Medical Center, 222 Piedmont, 6th Floor Cincinnati, OH 45219 Phone: 513-475-7505 Fax: 513-475-7366 Email: richard.rood@uc.edu Website: www.intmed.uc.edu/divisions/digestive%5disease Uppercase Living Contact: Mrs. Mindy Nemoff 5400 Belleview ave Blue Ash, OH 45242 Phone: 513-745-0440 Email: mindy_cm@fuse.net Website: http://Mindyn.uppercaseliving.net Veterinary Oncology & Referral Clinic Contact: Dr. Cheryl Harris, Veterinary Oncologist 931 State Route 28, Suite 201 Milford, OH 45150 Phone: 513-831-7400 Fax: 513-831-3795 Website: veterinaryoncology@fuse.net Yaacov's Place Contact: Mr. Yaacov Rabenstein, Owner 2245 Losantiville Ave Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-703-5954 Fax: 513-631-0819 Email: esales@closeouttown.com Judaica

Queen City Transitions Contact: Ms. Betsy Goldfarb, Co-owner P.O. Box 499004 Cincinnati, OH 45249 Phone: 513-432-2020 Email: betsy@queencitytransitions.com Website: www.queencitytransitions.com

Beth Goldstein Designs Contact: Ms. Beth Goldstein, Artist/Designer 2511 Essex Place Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513-226-4829 Email: beth@bethgoldstein.com Website: www.bethgoldstein.com

Rabbi Avnit Kashrut Company (AMIA) Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: amia613@aol.com

New Traditions, a program of Fusion, The Mayerson Foundation Contact: Mrs. Nikki Sandor, Program Manager 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-641-9119 Email: newtraditions@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org

Ray Miller Studio Contact: Mr. Raymond A. Miller 7172 Pfeiffer Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-919-5476 Email: raymillr@fuse.net Website: www.raymillerstudio.com Rockwern Academy Contact: Mrs. Gail Sperling, Director of Admission 8401 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-984-3770 Fax: 513-984-3787 Email: gasperling@rockwernacademy.org Website: www.rockwernacademy.org

Project Spark, a Program of Shalom Family, The Mayerson Foundation Contact: Mrs. Nikki Sandor, Program Manager 4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-641-9119 Email: nikki@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.shalomfamily.org Ray Miller Studio Contact: Mr. Raymond A. Miller 7172 Pfeiffer Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-919-5476 Email: raymillr@fuse.net Website: www.raymillerstudio.com

Yaacov's Place Contact: Mr. Yaacov Rabenstein, Owner 2245 Losantiville Ave Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-703-5954 Fax: 513-631-0819 Email: esales@closeouttown.com K Kashrut Rabbi Avnit Kashrut Company (AMIA) Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: amia613@aol.com Kosher Cedar Village 5467 Cedar Village Drive Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-336-3162 Fax: 513-336-3174 Email: rfestenstein@cedarvillage.org Website: www.cedarvillage.org Chocolate Passion Contact: Mrs. Karyn Zimerman, Owner PO Box 42621 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-616-3992 Email:chocolatepassion@mac.com Website:www.chocpassion.com Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org. Rabbi Avnit Kashrut Company (AMIA) Contact: Rabbi Avraham Avnit, Owner 1527 Robinwood Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-761-0769 Email: amia613@aol.com Rockwern Academy Contact: Mrs. Gail Sperling, Director of Admission 8401 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-984-3770 Fax: 513-984-3787 Email: gasperling@rockwernacademy.org Website: www.rockwernacademy.org Kosher Foods Chocolate Passion Contact: Mrs. Karyn Zimerman, Owner PO Box 42621 Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-616-3992 Email:chocolatepassion@mac.com Website:www.chocpassion.com Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org L Lawyers Daniel P. Randolph, Esq. Ritter & Randolph, LLC Contact: Daniel P. Randolph 105 E. Fourth Street, Suite 1200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-381-5700 Fax: 513-381-0014 Email: drandolph@ritter-randolph.com Website: www.ritterandrandolph.com Elliott Polaneicki, Attorney at Law Contact: Mr. Elliott Polaniecki, Esq. 9000 Plainfield Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-793-5999 Fax: 513-793-4691 Email: e28@aol.com Keating Muething & Klekamp Contact: Alan S. Fershtman Partner One East Fourth Street, Suite 1400 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-579-6400 Fax: 513-579-6457 Email: info@kmklaw.com Website: www.kmklaw.com Marc A. Randolph, Esq. Ritter and Randolph, LLC Contact: Marc A. Randolph 105 E. Fourth Street, Suite 1200 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-381-5700 Fax: 513-381-0014 Email: mrandolph@ritter-randolph.com Website: www.ritterandrandolph.com

4990 East Galbraith Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-745-0707 Email: lesliem@horanassoc.com Website: www.horanassoc.com Lighting Systems Milmark Outdoor Lighting Contact: Mr. Mark Hoffman, President/Owner P.O. Box 54964 Cincinnati, OH 45254-0964 Phone: 513-474-7085 Email: milmarklighting@fuse.net Website: www.milmarklighting.com M Marketing & Communication Services Mr. Alan Brown, Photonics Graphics, Inc. Contact: Mr. Alan Brown, President 2244 Park Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45206 Phone: 513-281-5000 Fax: 513-487-4553 Email: abrown@photonicsgraphics.com Website: www.photonicsgraphics.com Mr. Ande Weinstein, Tin Box Studio, Inc. Contact: Mr. Ande Weinstein, Client Services/Principal 2449 Michigan Avenue, Lower Level Cincinnati, OH 45208-2133 Phone: 513-321-2234 Email: ande@tinboxstudio.com Website: www.tinboxstudio.com

Mr. Rick Steinau, Ace Exterminating Contact: Mr. Rick Steinau, President 1920 Losantaville Ave Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-351-9100 Fax: 513-351-4630 Email: info@aceext.com Website: www.aceext.com Photography, Videography GMB Multimedia Contact: Gayna Mandelbaum Bassin 7494 Trailwind Drive Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-793-7369 Email: gmbassin@hotmail.com Website: gmbmultimedia.com IDS Photographers 6300 Cheviot Rd Cincinnati, OH 45247 Phone: 513-393-9596 Email: info@idsphotographers.com Website: www.idsphotographers.com Printing Services Mr. Thomas M. Deutsch, SpringDot Contact: Mr. Thomas M. Deutsch, Principle 2611 Colerain Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45214 Phone: 513-542-4000 Fax: 513-542-4741 Email: tdeutsch@springdot.com Website: www.springdot.com

Mr. Thomas M. Deutsch, SpringDot Contact: Mr. Thomas M. Deutsch, Principal 611 Colerain Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45214 Phone: 513-542-4000 Fax: 513-542-4741 Email: tdeutsch@springdot.com Website: www.springdot.com

Ms. Rhonda Silbiger, The Merten Company Contact: Ms. Rhonda Silbiger, Account Executive 1515 Central Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45214 Phone: 513-721-5167 Ext.313 Fax: 513-241-2219 Email: rhonda.silbiger@mertenco.com Website: www.champion-industries.com

Massage Therapists

Private Parties/Events

Ms. Lynn Rosenblum, Neuromuscular Therapy of Cincinnati Contact: Ms. Lynn Rosenblum, Massage Therapist 951 West North Bend, Suite A-1 Cincinnati, OH 45224 Phone: 513-542-6917 Email: lrosebloom@aol.com

Access: Where Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s At for Jewish Young Adults, The Mayerson Foundation 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-373-0300 Fax: 513-621-2864 Email: info@jypaccess.org Website: www.jypaccess.org

Meeting Space

Fusion Family, The Mayerson Foundation 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-703-3343 Fax: 513-417-8083 Email: info@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org

Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org O Office Products and Supplies Atlas Ergonomic Book & Copyholders by Dainoff Designs, Inc. Contact: Emmy Friedenberg, Administrato 338 Whitthorne Drive Cincinnat, OH 45215 Phone: 800-438-2852 Fax: 513-521-0273 Email: info@bookandcopyholders.com Website: www.bookandcopyholders.com Organizational Consultants CK Consulting Contact: Ms. Constance Kash 5651 Kugler Mill rd Unit C Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-608-1018 Fax: 513-6081018 Email: connie@constancekash.com Website: http://wwww.constancekash.com

Fusion: The Perfect Blending of Backgrounds and Traditions, The Mayerson Foundation 312 Walnut Street, Suite 3600 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Phone: 513-373-0300 Fax: 513-621-2864 Email: lisa@fusionnati.org Website: www.fusionnati.org Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org Mrs. Michelle Cohen Forrest, Twenty-Fifth Hour Contact: Mrs. Michelle Cohen Forrest, Owner 812 Overton Street Newport, KY 41071 Phone: 859-581-9653 Email: lmcforrest@insightbb.com

I DECLUTTER! Contact: Ms. Janice Ash, Owner 6 Escalon Street Cincinnati, OH 45216 Phone: 513-821-9493 Email: janice@i-declutter.com

Shalom Baby, The Mayerson Foundation 4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-703-3343 Fax: 513-417-8083 Email: info@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.myshalomfamily.org

Mrs. Michelle Cohen Forrest, Twenty-Fifth Hour Contact: Mrs. Michelle Cohen Forrest, Owner 812 Overton Street Newport, KY 41071 Phone: 859-581-9653 Email: lmcforrest@insightbb.com

Shalom Family, The Mayerson Foundation 4015 Executive Park Drive, Suite 360 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-703-3343 Email: info@myshalomfamily.org Website: www.myshalomfamily.org

New Growth Advisors, Inc. Contact: Mr. Sumner Saeks, President 4675 Cornell Road, STE 195 Cincinnati, OH 45241 Phone: 513-489-7399 Fax: 513-489-7366 Email: ssaeks@newgrowthadvisors.com Website: www.newgrowthadvisors.com Suzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Solutions Contact: Ms. Suzy Zipkin, Owner 6721 Glen Acres Drive Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-515-7739 Email: suzy@suzyssolutions.com Website: www.suzyssolutions.com

Psychologists Dr. Mia Biran, Psychologist Contact: Dr. Mia Biran, Psychologist 2101 Grandin Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45208 Phone: 513-523-7372 Email: biranmw@muohio.edu Region: Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Oakley, Clifton

Life Insurance

Lloyd House Contact: Dr. Ellen O. Bierhorst, Ph.D. 3901 Clifton Ave Cincinnati, OH 45220 Phone: 513-221-1289 Email: ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com Region: Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Oakley, Clifton

Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, HORAN Contact: Mrs. Leslie R. Miller, VP

Pest Control Services

Real Estate

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Deb LaFrance, Comey & Shepherd, Realtors Contact: Ms. Deb LaFrance, Realtor 7870 E Kemper Rd, Cincinnati OH Blue Ash, OH 45249 Phone: 513-652-9256 Fax: 513-297-4263 Email: deb@cincylistings.com Website: www.cincylistings.com Region: Amberley, Golf Manor, Roselawn, Blue Ash, Kenwood, Montgomery, Downtown, Hyde Park, Mount Lookout, Oakley, Clifton, Mason, Loveland, Middletown, Wyoming,

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Mr. Mark J. Mayer, Comey & Shepherd Realtor Contact: Mr. Mark J. Mayer, ABR, CSR, SRS 9857 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-792-4129 Fax: 513-298-1338 Email: mmayer@comey.com Mrs. Elinor Ziv, Leist Realtors Contact: Mrs. Elinor Ziv 2606 Fair Oaks Lane Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-351-0909 Email: eziv1@juno.com Website: www.leistrealtors.com Rehabilitation Services Cedar Village Cedar Village 5467 Cedar Village Drive Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-336-3162 Fax: 513-336-3174 Email: rfestenstein@cedarvillage.org Website: www.cedarvillage.org Retirement Communities Cedar Village Cedar Village 5467 Cedar Village Drive Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-336-3162 Fax: 513-336-3174 Email: rfestenstein@cedarvillage.org Website: www.cedarvillage.org Retirement Planning Integrated Planning Strategies LLC Contact: Gary M. Albert 2400 Larkfield Drive Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-731-1865 Fax: 513-731-1150 Email: galbert@ip711c.com Roofing Services Mr. Jonathan Wolf, The Zero Company Contact: Mr. Jonathan Wolf, President 6225 Wiehe Road Cincinnati, OH 45237 Phone: 513-531-ROOF Fax: 513-615-7235 Email: jwolf@zeroroofing.com Website: www.zeroroofing.com Roth Roofing Contact: Mr. Roger Roth, President 10632 Cinderella Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45242 Phone: 513-793-9896 Email: rroth2@cinci.rr.com S Schools Beth Israel Synagogue Contact: Ms. Amy Lewis, Office Manager 50 N. Sixth Street Hamilton, OH 45011 Phone: 513-868-2049 Fax: 513-868-2069 Email: bethisrael@fuse.net Website: www.bethisraelcongregation.net Mayerson JCC 8485 Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-761-7500 Fax: 513-761-0084 Email: info@mayersonjcc.org Website: www.JointheJ.org Rockwern Academy Contact: Mrs. Gail Sperling, Director of Admission 8401 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone: 513-984-3770 Fax: 513-984-3787 Email: gasperling@rockwernacademy.org Website: www.rockwernacademy.org Senior Services Cedar Village 5467 Cedar Village Drive Mason, OH 45040 Phone: 513-336-3162 Fax: 513-336-3174 Email: rfestenstein@cedarvillage.org Website: www.cedarvillage.org Jewish Family Service 8487 Ridge Road Cincinnati, 45236 Phone: 513-469-1188 Fax: 513-766-3358 Email: rfs@jfscinti.org

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Tradition, history and tasty classics at Marx Hot Bagels By Sondra Katkin Dining Editor Marx Hot Bagels has the best bagel in town. John Marx has had years to perfect his formula. When still a teen, he served an apprenticeship in a large baking plant. He took over the bagel shop when it was a failing business. A hard worker with a skilled craftsman’s knowledge, his business prospered and has earned him many accolades, including “Best Bagel in Ohio” from “Ohio Magazine” (January 2012) and “phenomenal bagels” from “Chicago Magazine” (June 2005). He makes it sound simple. “Flour, water, salt, yeast and malt is all it is,” Marx said. However, his attention to what makes a bagel a chewy chunk of heaven is what keeps people coming back. He casually mentions that high gluten flour is an essential part of the formula. Baked in a huge oven on the premises, these rounded, wholly wonderful bagels give off their fresh fragrances as soon as you enter. It would be hard to find fresher products. I have tasted my share over the years in Philadelphia and New York City. With their large populations of knowledgeable consumers, less than a great product wouldn’t be tolerated. My examples of bagels breaking bad — too sweet, that shouldn’t be, unless it’s fruity; too airy, that shouldn’t be, unless they want to fly. Marx says these “bagel impersonators” are soft dough, Americanized bagels. According to “Ohio Magazine,” John Marx has created a “New York City style haven in the suburbs of Cincinnati.” In addition to a large variety of bagels (about 40), his fresh egg salad and tuna salad have many fans. He has won “Best of Cincinnati” awards for his bagels and those salads which are prepared simply with very little mayonnaise. They have the crunch of fresh carrots and are favored for party trays. Marx’s wife Danielle (Danil) who prepares the beautiful party trays, told me that they also fill many orders for shivas. The Jewish community supports this business which is certified kosher by the Vaad of Cincinnati. Marx has another Jewish connection. He recently found out that his German grandfather, Michael Marx (1875 -

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1910), was a Jewish tailor in downtown Cincinnati. Which is saltier, Marx or the bagel? According to “Chicago Magazine,” he is very “salty” and Marx seems to agree. “Why be normal, why be sane, why be easy to explain?” he recited. Dining writer Ralph Rinzler attributed Marx’s marked success to his “sharp wit and personality.” However, when he was “roasted” by the Jewish Federation at Cincinnati Hebrew Day School in 1997, Joyce Wise said, “Underneath his brashness lies the heart of a pussycat.” It was also noted that he’s a guy who really cares for his family, his friends and his customers. While I was there, he greeted his guests with welcoming warmth. On a trip to Israel, he commented that he was deeply moved by Yad Vashem, and it meant a great deal to him when he was presented with a glass etching depicting the “Avenue of the Righteous” dedicated to righteous gentiles. Among his philanthropic endeavors, he donates free bagels to worthy organizations. Danielle, soft spoken and engaging, suggested I try the bagel and Nova lox plate. Long one of my favorites, there was no arm twisting necessary. She told me that they use the best grade of lox which is less salty than regular lox, and is a favorite for bar mitzvah parties. Served on a toasted sesame seed bagel, I was able simultaneously to enjoy the toothy roll (I never eschew the chewy), the crunch of the seeds, the velvety smooth texture of the lox and the tartness of the capers. All collaborated to produce the taste sensation that deli fans will travel miles out of their way to experience. Ah, tradition! It was also a visual pleasure to have the confluence of contrasting colors —the salmon colored salmon and dark green capers. Of course, diners may choose their favorite type of bagel. A new bagel with a healthy combination of whole wheat and pumpernickel with poppy, sesame, garlic and onion is now available. Marx said, “People don’t want just wheat flour. I’m always looking to improve; everything can be improved.” In addition to the tuna and egg salads, customers may cover their bagel or other fresh homemade breads

such as rye and challah with white fish or hummus and several other spreads. Sides include potato pancakes and knishes. On a previous visit, I sampled the chicken and matzoh ball soup and was amazed to discover that it was made without chicken. It was very tasty and I never would have guessed that the chicken never showed up for its hot bath. This time I had the baked Idaho potato soup and it was a perfect escape from the cold weather outside. Its rich thickness belied the fact that it was made with lowfat milk and no flour thickening. It had such a good earthy taste that I mistakenly thought it was made with mushrooms. Hearty and filling, it would be a perfect lunch choice accompanied by one of their popular salad selections. Other soups include vegetarian chili, cream of broccoli, tomato vegetable and cream of mushroom. For dessert, diners can choose from a pastry case of comely confections such as muffins, brownies, Danish and rugelach. Apple strudel is one of their specialties and was my choice on a previous visit. There is something classically caressing to the tongue in the combination of baked apples with cinnamon surrounded by flaky pastry. This time Marx chose a thick, heavily chocolate chip studded (parve) cookie and briefly warmed it. Wow! As the chocolate and its luscious cookie dough melted in my mouth, I experienced the addictive pleasure sought by chocoholics. Marx enjoys reminiscing and mentioned that in 1971, the Smithsonian Institute invited him to participate in its Festival of American Folklore in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate how to handroll bagels. Another experience he related was when Charles Kuralt of CBS spent the day filming an “On the Road” segment at the restaurant. A Cincinnati landmark since 1969, John Marx has much to take pride in. Operating hours are Monday - Friday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday - Sunday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Marx Hot Bagels 9701 Kenwood Road Blue Ash, OH 45242 513-891-1063 AMERICAN CUISINE WITH AN ITALIAN FLAIR OPEN LUNCH & DINNER EVERYDAY

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Dear Editor, As longstanding members of the Cincinnati Jewish Community Center, we were outraged at the board’s recent decision to fire Jeff Baden. Jeff Baden has been a lifelong asset to the Cincinnati Jewish community. He has demonstrated excellent management skills and leadership in his position as director of this vital organization, following years of executive turnover. The openness of his policies, diversity of programming and the continuous improvement of this organization is evident on a daily basis. We can’t believe that any search, no matter how extensive, could possibly result in a person who could equal Jeff in commitment, devotion or understanding of our community. We have spoken to many others and can find no one who disagrees with our assessment. It is our hope that the board will admit that they have made a poor decision in this matter and will reverse their ill advised choice. Our community needs to allow Jeff to continue to perform his magic. Sincerely Sandy and Rick Stern Cincinnati, OH Dear Editor, Andrew Loewy’s Letter to

the Editor (Edition February 16) asks cannot each of us decide for ourself what might constitute being ‘offensive’ in the disputes between the liberal and conservative political positions of American Jews about U.S. and Israeli public policy and action. In trying to state his question as rhetorical, he improperly answered it as being an unquestionable issue, as long as one agrees with his answer. Beyond that, his letter provides a wealth of research topics and sources of useful information that provide fascinating reading after Googling his mentions of several different organizations, articles and opinion media (more so than ‘news’ media). So, many thanks for those leads. However, his criticism of The American Israelite’s dissemination of the words on both sides of these historically irresolvable conflicts is founded on a false premise: “The American Israelite represents the mainstream.” There is NO “mainstream” in the Jewish community, in Cincinnati or any other U.S. city, in Jerusalem or any other Israeli city, or in any city in the world where there is a Jewish community aware of the Jewish adversaries on opposite sides of contemporary Jewish life, religious persuasion, law, security, politics and education. This is nothing new. The history of the Jewish

people in the Hebrew Bible makes it clear there has never been a mainstream. The Rabbis’ attempts at mainstreaming Jewish life by writing the Talmud is just one more evidence of the lack of a Jewish “mainstream” of ideas and philosophies. Moreover, in Mr. Loewy’s opening sentence, asking “is there no way to introduce any balance into the political reportage?” he finally, at the start, asked a rhetorical question. So, let me defile the definition of rhetorical question by providing a simple answer: “NO.” It is NOT possible in these times. One of the Internet’s simplest— and most realistic—behavioral questions is this: “How do you start an argument on the Internet?” Answer: “First, post an opinion. Second, wait.” So here’s an opinion question. What if the Canadians were behaving against the U.S. as the Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians behave against Israel and Jews internationally? My guess—my hope—is there would be a solid and easily defined “mainstream” of Americans—including Jews of all kinds—with an agreed political philosophy and policy that would blow the Canadians away. Sincerely, George Makrauer The Villages, FL

T EST Y OUR T ORAH KNOWLEDGE THIS WEEK’S PORTION: MEGILLAT ESTHER 1. When did Haman become prime minister? a) After the death of Vashti b) After Esther became queen c) After Mordechai exposed the plot to kill King Achashverosh (that's pronounced: Ah-chash-VEY-rosh)? 2. Which event spurred Haman to try to destroy the Jews? a) Persia losing war with the Greeks b) Mordechai refusing to bow down to him c) Esther’s invitation to her private party 3. What did the Jews do in the face of Haman’s plot? a) Fast and pray felt Jacob took the birthright from Esau. Rashi and Midrash 3. A. 4:3 4. B. 10:1 5. C. 10:3 Despite his great power, Mordechai did not satisfy all of the Jews, because he could not learn Torah the way he used to because of his duties as Prime Minister. Rashi

The recent mini-drama of Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag’s suspension as chief rabbi of his native Amsterdam for signing a document about homosexuality, and his subsequent reinstatement, might well serve as a spur for considering the traditional Jewish attitude on the matter. Whether homosexuality is fixed or changeable is an open question. There are well-informed people on either side of the issue. Whether the Jewish religious tradition is fixed or changeable, however, is not arguable —at least not for Torah-loyal Jews. The Torah explicitly prohibits homosexual contact (whether by the homosexually inclined or anyone else). There have been Herculean (and often Bullwinklian) efforts in recent years, even by some nominally “Orthodox” Jews, to cast the Torah’s explicit prohibition of male homosexual activity as meaning something other than what Jewish tradition has understood it to mean for several thousand years. But those millennia in the end are what matter to Jews concerned about what the Torah says to them rather than what they would like the Torah to say. The Torah does not command hatred of homosexuals or label people who engage in homosexual activity as inherently evil. People who transgress the Torah do not forfeit their humanity or, if Jewish, their membership in the Jewish people; nor are they unworthy of others’ care and compassion. And those inclined to sin but who do not succumb to it are praiseworthy. But there can be no denying that the Torah in no uncertain terms forbids homosexual acts; and, with equal clarity, sanctions only the union of a man and a woman in matrimony. Modern day society’s embrace of homosexual expression is neither the first nor the only clash between contemporary values and traditional Jewish religious ones. And the Jewish reaction to such Zeitgeists has always been to remember that we are the proud descendants of our forefather Abraham Ha’Ivri – the “other sider” – called that because “the entire world was on one side” of a conceptual river, and he “on the other.” The document signed by Rabbi Ralbag—along with scores of other rabbis and health professionals— counsels “love and compassion” toward those with homosexual inclinations, but also states clearly that the Torah forbids homosexual activity. It moreover asserts that homosexual inclinations can be “modified and healed,” which judgment was apparently what brought the lay board of the Amsterdam Jewish community to initially suspend Rabbi Ralbag. Mainstream medical professionals deem psychological counseling aimed at helping people modify their sexual orientations at best pointless (why change?) and at worst counterproductive. There have even been reports of abusive behavior in the

guise of such therapy. But other mental health care professionals insist that, conducted responsibly, such interventions are not only safe but (at least for the highly motivated) effective. And then there are the inconvenient scores of actual human beings who testify that the therapy has helped them realize their goal to live exclusively heterosexual lives. I have met one such individual, an intelligent, sensitive and evenkeeled man, and corresponded with therapists who have helped dozens of patients control homosexual inclinations – and as a result live happy, fulfilled, Torah-faithful lives. Procreation in its traditional form, moreover, is not only a mitzvah, a commandment, but a Jewish high ideal. Understandably, a Torahobservant Jew challenged by samesex attraction, even if he successfully is overcoming the urge to give vent to his desires, feels torn between what his interior emotional landscape is telling him and what his Torah is. And so it is only logical that he seek ways of alleviating that tension. If there is a possibility of therapy that will enable him to fully lead a Torahtrue lifestyle, then such therapy is precisely what he should pursue. Unfortunately, though, instead of receiving support and encouragement from the broader Jewish community, such Jews all too often face a barrage of cultural critics and media badgering them to give up on their goal of working to mitigate their homosexual orientation. Those critics and media begin with the premise that any human urge is inherently legitimate (it’s human, after all!), and that there is no reason for anyone to seek to change a sexual orientation. But the premise of someone dedicated to Torah is that G-d’s will matters most and has been communicated to mankind. A Torah-loyal Jew with homosexual inclinations could opt to live a celibate life.Were that the only option, he would be a truly righteous Jew to do so. But if there are avenues to explore that might lead to the fulfillment (both emotional fulfillment and fulfillment of the mitzvot) of marriage and normal procreation, doing the exploring is a worthy choice, if not a moral mandate. We traditionally observant Jews wish all Jews shared our understanding of the Jewish mission: to seek to observe the Torah’s mandate, as it has been preserved by the traditional Jewish transmitters over the ages. But if some, even most, of our fellow Jews cannot yet embrace the fullness of our mutual Jewish heritage, we hope that they can at least muster respect for other Jews’ choice to do so. And the good will to realize that those Jews’attitude toward all matters of human life, including homosexuality, derives not from prejudice or pathology but from the deeply Jewish conviction that the Torah bequeathed us all at Sinai is eternal and real.

b) Organize a militia c) Lobby the king to avert the decree 4. What was King Achashverosh doing at the end of the Megillah? a) Ordering Haman to be hung b) Levying taxes on his subjects c) Having another 180 day party 5. Where was Mordechai at the end of the Megillah? a) In Jerusalem b) Leader of the Jews c) Prime Minister for King Achashverosh ANSWERS 1. C. 2:21-3:1. This event was written in the king’s chronicles. Years later it was a turning point in the story (Chapter 6). The Talmud learns from here that Hashem plants the salvation before the crisis 2. B. 3:5-6. Mordechai refused to bow to Haman because Haman made himself into a god. However, Haman’s hatred was deeply rooted because he

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by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel — “Now you bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him from amongst the Children of Israel . . . to minister to Me. You shall make vestments of sanctity for Aaron your brother, for glory and splendor.” (Exodus 28:1,2). If the Sanctuary-Temple is the forerunner of the synagogue, then the Kohen-Priest is the forerunner of the contemporary rabbi. A rabbi can serve as a prophet, as a Kohenpriest, or, at best, as a combination of the two. What is the nature of the priestly and prophetic vocations and the differences between them? We begin our inquiry with an examination of the Ark. This was the first of the sacred objects fashioned for the Sanctuary, which housed the holy tablets upon which were engraved the Ten Commandments. But why is the ark gold plated rather than made of pure gold — as are the ark-cover, the cherubs and the menorah? Gold plate is less valuable than pure gold — and the ark-cover is merely a protection for the Ark and is therefore less significant than the ark itself! So why is the sacred Ark made from gold plated acacia wood? I would suggest that wood, which is derived from trees, symbolizes growth, development, fruits and future. Gold, by contrast is a precious metal deeply buried in the earth which neither ages nor tarnishes, neither decays nor destructs expressing eternal value. Our Holy Torah must comprise both of these elements: eternity and creative advancement, timelessness as well as timeliness. The Holy Ark must be formed by vegetative tree-wood encased by gold which does not decay. This dialectic combination of wood and gold is expressed in an equally striking manner by the two main leaders of the Israelites during the Biblical period, the prophet and the priest, Moses and Aaron. These two functionaries differed from each other in two ways. Firstly, the Kohen-priest derived his exalted office from his ancestors stretching all the way back to Aaron, elder bother of Moses. It was a matter of yihus, or ancestry. The prophet, on the other hand, could have been born into any family, his position was dictated exclusively by his personal charisma and spiritual passion. Secondly, the Kohen-priest wears special garb, four unique gar-

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Religion in general and Judaism in particular provide two crucial and complementary components for which humanity yearns: a sense of participation in eternity, which is so important in our fast-changing world of flux, as well as a sense of purpose in a cosmos which too often seems to be governed by happenstance.

ments for the regular Kohen-priest and eight unique garments for the Kohen Gadol High Priest. Without these clothes, their divine service was disqualified. The Naviprophet, by contrast, has no unique garb, his message and persona being the only significant aspect of his ministry. These differences speak volumes about the specific function performed by each of these prototypical leaders. Religion in general and Judaism in particular provide two crucial and complementary components for which humanity yearns: a sense of participation in eternity, which is so important in our fast-changing world of flux, as well as a sense of purpose in a cosmos which too often seems to be governed by happenstance. The Priest-Kohen is minister of the Sanctuary and keeper of the Traditions. He is responsible for the continuity, the structure, the permanence of our faith expressed by time-honored ceremonials performed generation after generation. This is true of our prayer services, celebrations and life-cycle events. For this reason, the Kohen-priest receives the teachings from his parents and bequeaths them to his children, expressing the eternal chain of Jewish being which existed before each of us was born and will continue after each of us will die. This structure of continuity is symbolized by the unique external garb of the Kohen-priest, which was, and one day will again be transmitted from generation to generation. But remembrance of past does not suffice unless it is relevant to the present. Continuity requires commitment, structure yearns for significance, permanence cries out for passion. We dare not repeat rituals merely because they were performed by our forebears. Our religious rite must not be allowed to degenerate into empty, habitual performance. The structured

psalms must sensitize our souls, the detailed laws must infuse us with freely-given love, and the emphasis on structure must allow for spiritual spontaneity. Fealty to the past cannot blind us to the challenges of the future. It was the charismatic prophet who extracted purpose and pathos from permanence and precedent. It was he who made G-d’s passion and fire infuse the laws and traditions with meaning for the moment. The Kohen-priest is the eternal gold of the Sacred Ark, and the prophet is the ever-growing tree—wood of the Sacred Ark. And the tree grows and develops organically, reaching upward and outward, but still deeply rooted in the ancient and eternal earth. This challenging of integrating the old and the new confronts us as we face the challenges of the rights of women to learn, to lead and to be freed from enslaving relationships in the 21st century. Likewise, we must deal with the “other.” In our generation, these are the converts and the would-be-converts who come from different cultures and varied ethnic backgrounds, especially the new-immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union. These men and women are now Israeli citizens, but many of them are not yet halachically Jewish even though they are living and sacrificing in our midst. We dare not forget the very roots our Jewish being, “And the Almighty created the human being in His image, in the image of G-d He created them, male and female created He them;” “You shall love the stranger for you were strangers in the land of Egypt!” In the immortal words of Rav Kook, “May the old be renewed, and may the new be sanctified.” Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Chancellor Ohr Torah Stone Chief Rabbi — Efrat Israel

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By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist HANGOVER FOR TEENS Last week, The Israelite featured an article about the film comedy “Project X” which opens on Friday, March 2. Here’s a “sort of” re-cap if you missed it. The movie is produced by TODD PHILLIPS, 41, the director of the huge hit “Hangover” films. The plot: three teens decide to throw and video document a big party. But as more and more people arrive, things get completely out of hand. Three young newcomers play the teens: OLIVER COOPER, 22, JONATHAN DANIEL BROWN, 22, and Thomas Mann (age about 22). Brown and Cooper were selected out of thousands who auditioned. “Project X” is their first feature film. Cooper grew-up in Toledo and has many local Cincinnati relatives who were noted in last week’s Israelite. Cooper did some comedy videos in Los Angeles (for “Funny or Die”) before “Project X.” He also did, “The Lois Levine Show,” a Youtube series where he played a 67-year-old Jewish woman hosting a talk show out of her living room. I know less about Brown (but he mentions he is Jewish on Facebook and Twitter). SHARE THIS INFO W/TWEENS On Feb. 4, the Nickelodeon Cable Channel premiered a new series, “How to Rock,” aimed at the teen audience. The show’s star character is Kacey Simon (played by Cymphonique Miller). She’s a once popular girl who goes through an awkward stage (braces, etc.) that causes the popular crowd to drop her. She decides to become the lead singer of a pop/hip-hop band. The band includes a guitarist named Zander, a cool, handsome guy (played by MAX SCHNEIDER, 19). The Manhattan-raised Schneider sings and writes songs and he has some Broadway experience. In 2010, he was plucked from obscurity to pose with Madonna in a big ad campaign for Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian fashion house. In a publicity video recently posted on Youtube, Schneider said he is Jewish and had a bar mitzvah. Cast member Halston Sage, 18, who plays a “mean girl” (“Grace”) in a rival band, also appears in the video and it seems like she is saying that she is Jewish, too. There are other bio clues out there that lead me to say that I am virtually certain Sage is Jewish.

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DICAPRIO CERTAINLY IS CONSISTENT From 2005 to mid-2011, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, 37, had an onand-off romantic relationship with top Israeli model and Sports Illustrated “cover girl” BAR REFAELI, 26. (It looks like they are completely over.) A few months ago, a friend mentioned that DiCaprio would probably go out and find another blonde, top Jewish model like Refaeli. I said, “Who would that be?” He said: ERIN HEATHERTON, 22. She’s been a top Victoria’s Secret model for the last two years. Heatherton was born Erin Bubley and grew up in Skokie, Ill., where she attended a Solomon Schechter Day School for her primary education. Sure enough, in late December, photos of the pair in each other’s company showed-up in tabloids. In late January, pics of their Mexican vacation together were all over the internet. Last week, however, there was a report that DiCaprio was a bad boy on an Australian trip and Erin/Leo may be a short-lived thing. Opponents of interfaith dating will be cheered to know that DiCaprio may have exhausted the available supply of top blonde Jewish models. However, if he’s willing to go “mega cougar town” — he’ll be happy to know that the often blonde LAUREN BACALL, 87, who began as a model, is single. SHOR AND STAR RETURN Starting at 10PM, on Sunday, March 4, is the ABC series, “GCB.” The title is from a novel called “Good Christian Bitches.” The show follows the lives of five middle-aged Dallas women who were former high school friends. The producer is DARREN STAR, 50, and “GCB” is very much in the mode of other shows he created (“Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Sex in the City”). MIRIAM SHOR, 40, plays one of the five women: Cricket Caruth-Reilly, a powerful real estate agent whose husband is gay. Shor has had starring roles in several short-lived series (“Inside Schwartz,” “Big Day” and “Swingtown”) and maybe “GCB” will be the hit that has eluded her. Shor, who identifies as Jewish, is the daughter of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. It’s interesting to note that she learned to speak fluent Yiddish at the Detroit Workingman’s Circle school. Her “GCB” co-stars include Mark Delkin (as Shor’s husband); Leslie Bibb, Marisol Nichols, Jennifer Aspen and Kristen Chenoweth. Annie Potts (“Designing Women”) will often appear as Bibb’s mother.

FROM THE PAGES 100 Y EARS A GO Miss Hazel Strauss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Strauss, 1506 Lincoln Avenue, Walnut Hills, was united in marriage to Mr. Harry Saloshin, of Paris, KY., on Sunday evening, February 25. Rabbi Jacob Mielziner performed the ceremony. Caroline Trounstine, daughter of the late Martin and Elizabeth Trounstine, died February 24, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Charles Strauss. Funeral services were at the crematory on Monday, Dr. Phillipson officiating. The Feast of Purim falling next Sunday Dr. Phillipson will take as the subject of his preliminary address before the Bible class “Queen Esther in Story and Drama.” This address will be followed by the Bible lecture on the Prophet Isaiah of Babylon. Tonight at 8:30 John Mitchell will give his popular lecture, “The Philosophy, Purposes and Ideals of the Trade Union Movement,” at Emery auditorium. It will be interesting to get Mr. Mitchell’s point of view on these subjects, as the recent labor troubles make the unions a live issue of the day. News has been received from the United States Consul at Johannesburg, South Africa, announcing the death of Israel Sive, age 42, formerly a member of the firm of Watelsky & Sive, iron and steel merchants here. The deceased, who lived at 3219 Gilbert Avenue, has been in poor health for years. He went to Denver hoping to find relief, but failing to do so went to South Africa. He leaves a widow and a son, both living here. — February 29, 1912

75 Y EARS A GO Mr. James L. Magrish, 5860 Wayside, Mt. Washington Civic Club without opposition Monday evening, March 1st. He headed both tickets. Mrs. Samuel Joseph is president of the Early American Glass Club which will hear the authority on glass, Mr. George S. McKearin, of New York City, Saturday, March 6th, at 2:30 p.m. at the Cincinnati Club. Mrs. Bert Rauh is librarian and Miss Mathilda Marks is recording secretary. Others active in the organization include Mesdames Charles Moch and Siegfried Geismar, program; Mrs. Stanley M. Straus, membership. Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Cohn, 732 Greenwood Avenue, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Barbara E. Cohn, to Mr. I. Jack Martin, a son of Mrs. I. M. Martin and of the late Colonel Ike Martin, also of Cincinnati. Miss Cohn is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and a member of Tau Pi Epsilon, honorary child care sorority. Mr. Martin is a U.C. graduate and member of Coif, hon-

orary legal, and Phi Epsilon Pi, social fraternity. He is an assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County. Phi Beta Delta has elected Messrs. Sigmund Valin, president; Morton Perlman, vice president; Sidney A. Batherson, treasurer; Alvin Weintrub, recording secretary; Elmer S. Newman, corresponding secretary; Oscar Stein, clerk; Julian Moskowitz, Marhsall; A. J. Barrett, house manager. Mr. William B. Ransohoff, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Ransohoff, won the 100-yard distance event in the Ohio district swimming meet at the YMCA Sunday, Feb. 28th. — March 4, 1937

50 Y EARS A GO Albert L. Brown, Jr., was elected president of the Big Brothers’ Association at the Jewish Community Center. He succeeds Mr. Louis T. Block. Mr. Brown has been a Big Brother and a member of the board for a number of years. He has been identified with communal organizations and has taken an active part in the Associated Jewish Agencies and United Appeal. Others elected are John J. Frank, Jr., vice president; Frank M. Katz, secretary; Lawrence S. Glaser, Jr., treasurer. David Randman, 284 Compton Road, passed away Sunday, Feb. 25. He was 41 years old. Mr. Randman was president of Clearvue Co. which he founded eight years ago. He also was associated with the Marvin Warner Co. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marilyn Randman; two sons, Michael and Barry; a brother, Abe J. Randman of Tampa; and his father Philip Randman of Miami Beach. Frank Apseloff, 7733 Stillwell Road, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 22. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Rind Apseloff; two daughters, Mrs. Jacob (Jean) Kabakoff, and Mrs. Leonard (Ruth) Miller; and two sons, Jerry, and Stanley of Dayton; seven sisters, Mrs. Rose Winer, of Hollywood, Mrs. Fanny Kahn, Mrs. Sarah Plotkin, Mrs. Sophie Sinder, Mrs. Evelyn Schaffer, Mrs. Elsie Suer, all of New York City, and Mrs. Sylvia Olin, of Spring Valley; a brother, Joseph; and nine grandchildren. — February 29, 1962

25 Y EARS A GO Dr. Victor E. Reichert, Rabbi Emeritus of Rockdale Temple has served the congregation for more than 60 years, beginning in September 1926. To celebrate this event and his 90th birthday, to be reached on Tuesday, March 17, a special service is planned for Saturday morning, March 28, with

a seated luncheon to follow. Variety is the spice of Etheljane Callner’s life. Couple that with her dynamic drive and verve and you’ve got a veritable whirlwind. She likes to partake of all life has to offer while maintaining a low profile. Not only does she volunteer her services to a wide variety of activities and organizations, but she has taken each of her nine grandchildren on trips to all corners of the world. She is the personal secretary and research assistant for Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, director of The American Jewish Archives every night from 7:30 p.m. until the wee hours of the morning. She has worked for Marcus for 38 years. Marcus, now 91, has been compiling a four volume project for the past 20 years that is finally getting ready to go to press. Jane R. Oettinger of Hyde Park passed away Feb 26. She was 76. She is survived by a daughter, Dr. June O. Starr of Setauket, L.I.; a son, John R. Oettinger of Atherton, Calif.; and four grandchildren. She was the wife of the late M. Herbert Oettinger and the daughter of the late Julian and Amelia Rauh. — March 5, 1987

10 Y EARS A GO Dr. Gary Kirsh, president of Yavneh Day School, announced the appointment of Mitchell A. Flatow as new Head of School Feb. 15. Flatow has served as interim Head since July 2001, following the resignation of Esther Feuerberg. “We have just completed a major capital expansion. Now we are directing our energies toward examining current curricula and staff development,” said Kirsh. “Mitch Flatow, as our new Head of School, has demonstrated his understanding of the challenges and his commitment to taking us to the next level of excellence.” The 2001 Downtown Achievement Award was presented Jan. 31 to Mrs. Phyllis Karp and her son, Mr. Jay Karp, for their work with Main Auction Galleries. Mr. Karp, who began auctioning in his teen years, is wellknown for the auctions he performs on behalf of local charities, including Summit Country Day School and the Cincinnati Zoo. Mrs. Karp has worked at the auction gallery for more than 60 years. Now Mr. Jonas Karp, son of Jay Karp, makes the fifth generation of family members working at Main Auction Galleries. Milton Wolf Wacksman, 95, a former vice president and salesman with the Crown Overall Company of New York, NY, and Memphis, TN, passed away, due to natural causes at the Cedar Village retirement home in Mason, OH., on Jan. 31. Mr. Wacksman was a longtime Cincinnati resident. — February 28, 2002

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production@ americanisraelite.com PURIM from page 3 Rabbi Cohen and his team spend a lot of time transforming the room into another locale, whether it’s an old western streetscape or a Chinese garden. “This year we are going to feature a grand gondola scene,” said Rabbi Cohen. “It will be a great spot to take pictures and have a lasting memory of the night.” Guests are encouraged to come in costume. The costumes generally form a motley group; some come dressed according to the theme, some in other costumes of choice. Of course, there is always the requisite number of little girls in princess costumes. All children who come in costume will be invited to partake in a fun costume contest. This year, the contest will be led by Matthew Tyler, who will also be performing ISRAEL from page 6 Other pre-trip offerings include briefings on current issues in Israel and insider tips from Cohen, as well as multiple opportunities for participants to socialize and connect before traveling together. Locals Ben and Ronna Schneider, young adult leaders in SANTORUM from page 7 In recent interviews, several top Jewish Democratic activists have launched conversations, unsolicited, with a reporter with “What about Rick Santorum?” followed by hearty, relieved laughter. “He will clearly be a nonstarter with the Jewish community,” said David Harris, president of the National Jewish Democratic Council. “I wish him the best of luck in the primaries.” Such blasts are bound to increase now that Santorum is leading in polls for the Feb. 28 Michigan primary. Winning in Michigan would likely cripple the campaign of Romney, who until now (although with some difficulty) had claimed front-runner status: It is the state in which Romney grew up and where his father had been a popular governor. Arizona also votes the same day; polls show Romney in the lead there. Liberal websites have compiled “greatest of” lists of

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(513) 531-9600 his exclusive magic show. Performing magic shows since the age of 10, Tyler is a popular and experienced illusionist. He has performed shows both large and small, for corporations and small home parties alike. He is an expert at involving the audience in his magic, and weaves humor throughout his performance. The menu is an important part of the evening. This year’s menu will feature Italian favorites including a variety of pastas, insalata (salad), and zuppe (soup). There will also be an area where kids can make their own pizzas! The entire Jewish community is invited to take part in the festivities. The party will be held Thursday, March 8, at CJC. The evening begins with the reading of the Megillah at 5:30 p.m., with dinner following at 6 p.m. the Cincinnati Jewish community, will co-chair the trip. Contact the Jewish Federation for pricing. Limited subsidies are also available from the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. The National Young Leadership Summer Trip to Israel is organized locally by the Young Adult Division (YAD) and Israel Center of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. Santorum’s hard-line stances on social issues. “During his 99-county tour of Iowa, Santorum frequently compared same-sex relationships to inanimate objects like trees, basketballs, beer, and paper towels,” Think Progress said Jan. 4 after Santorum’s first surprise showing — a virtual tie with Romney in the state’s caucuses. Lonny Kaplan, a New Jersey businessman who is leading Santorum’s fundraising in the Jewish community, says his candidate can overcome his Jewish problem by making his election about the economy and backing Israel as its tensions with Iran increase. “My sense is that those issues, while they’re important to him, are not what his campaign is about,” Kaplan said. “Obviously it’s a challenge. It doesn’t hurt him during primaries. In the general [election] they’ll raise it again and again, so he counters it by saying what his rationale is for running.”

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It ain’t over till it’s over: The Hamilton County Juvenile Court Election Legally Speaking

by Marianna Bettman The Nov. 10, 2010 Juvenile Court election has remained in jurisprudential limbo, with John Williams last ahead by 23 votes. (He has since become the Juvenile Court’s administrative judge, appointed to the seat due to the unexpected retirement of the incumbent, Judge Karla Grady.) Challenger Tracie Hunter filed a lawsuit in federal court asserting an equal protection violation over the Hamilton County Board of Elections decision to count some provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct but not others. Last July, Chief Judge Susan Dlott of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, held a trial to determine which, if any, provisional ballots cast in the wrong precincts, should be counted. On Feb. 8 she issued a 93 page opinion in the case, which is a fascinating and at times depressing compendiGROSS from page 8 “Alan Gross was working as a contractor for the U.S. government to promote democracy in Cuba,” said William Daroff, the Washington director for Jewish Federations of North America. “He was convicted by a court in a country that does not respect the rule of law. His now over two years in a Cuban prison is unjust and we demand the Cuban government release him and that the American government use all of its influence to bring him home.” The Jewish Federations and the local Jewish Community Relations Council in Washington have taken the lead in pushing publicly for Gross’ release, including petitions and vigils outside the offices of Cuban representatives. “It hasn’t had any impact at all, if anything it’s only strengthened peoples’ resolve,” Ronald Halber, the TRIAL from page 8 With the capture of Eichmann accomplished, the second phase of the chronicle began. Raveh was 14 years old when the trial began. She recalled that her father had questioned his ability to represent the six million without being one of them. Gideon Hausner did, indeed, become “the voice of the six million.” The recently appointed State Attorney decided to

um of election law and practice. The section on poll worker capabilities, taken from the trial testimony, is particularly depressing. One example of this was a poll worker who thought 798 was an odd number because seven is an odd number, and because the number contained more odd than even numbers. It matters because he is the one who is supposed to direct the voter to the correct precinct. Under Ohio law, ballots cast in the wrong precinct aren’t to be counted, regardless of the reason. But in the election for Juvenile Court in November 2010, the Hamilton County Board of Elections decided to count 27 provisional ballots cast in the wrong “precinct” at the Board of Elections itself, because the only possible explanation for this was poll worker error. The Board was able to determine this from information on the outer envelopes containing the provisional ballots. Judge Dlott has now ruled that the Board must also count other provisional ballots cast in the wrong precincts due to demonstrated poll worker error. “The point is that the Board concluded that there was sufficient evidence to overcome that presumption (that there was not poll worker error) with respect to wrong-precinct ballots cast at the Board office, but not with respect to wrong-precinct ballots cast at correct polling places. The Board came to these differing conclusions because it did not apply

a uniform standard in determining what evidence “demonstrated” pollworker error…Equal protection demanded that the Board consider right-location wrong precinct ballots on the same terms as ballots cast at the Board office.” Interestingly, in coming to this conclusion, Judge Dlott determined that the additional investigations into poll-worker error beyond the 27 ballots counted at the Board of Elections had been unnecessary, because these errors should have been evident to the Board at the time (November 2010) for the same reasons error was apparent on the 27 ballots miscast at the Board of Elections. This determination partially harmonizes Judge’s Dlott’s decision with the Supreme Court of Ohio’s decision in the related case, State ex rel. Painter v. Brunner, that exactly the same type of scrutiny had to be used on all the claimed poll-worker error ballots. But as Judge Dlott herself noted, she still fundamentally disagrees with the Ohio Supreme Court’s conclusion that the evidence available to the Board of Elections in November 2010 was insufficient to show poll worker error outside the 27 ballots miscast at the Board of Elections. While the exact number of these ballots still to be counted isn’t certain, it is estimated to be about 300. Because most of the uncounted provisional ballots are in more heavily democratic areas, this ruling undoubtedly favors Tracie Hunter.

There was a second part of Judge Dlott’s decision that was particularly intriguing, and that was the due process aspect of this challenge. This undecided issue is as interesting as the equal protection issue that was decided. When this case was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, (the first time, as it now turns out), the author of the decision, Judge Karen Moore, wrote this about the fact that Ohio election laws do not allow ballots cast in the wrong precinct to be counted, regardless of the reason, including being directed to the wrong precinct in the right polling place by a poll worker: “Ohio has created a system in which state actors (poll workers) are given the ultimate responsibility of directing voters to the right location to vote. Yet, the state law penalizes the voter when a poll worker directs the voter to the wrong precinct, and the penalty, disenfranchisement, is a harsh one indeed. To disenfranchise citizens whose only error was relying on poll-worker instructions appears to us to be fundamentally unfair. Particularly when there is evidence of poll-worker error, the categorical treatment of miscast ballots provided by Ohio law is troubling.” In her conclusion section, Judge Dlott reinforced Judge Moore’s comment. Judge Dlott wrote, “Ohio’s precinct-based voting system that delegates to poll workers the duty to ensure that voters are directed to the correct precinct but

which provides that provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct shall not be counted under any circumstance, even where the ballot is miscast due to poll-worker error, is fundamentally unfair and abrogates the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of due process of law. However, because Plaintiffs did not challenge the constitutionality of Ohio’s election statutes (a constitutional challenge requires notice to the Ohio Attorney general, which didn’t happen here) this Court is without jurisdiction to order a remedy. ” The Judge’s language seems to be inviting such a challenge. Meanwhile, back in the land of the totally political, the Hamilton County Board of Elections split 2-2 along party lines on whether to appeal Judge Dlott’s latest ruling to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Who breaks those ties? The Ohio Secretary of State — one of many reasons why that sometimes forgotten office is so important. On Feb. 21, Republican Jon Husted voted with the Republicans to appeal the decision. “I remain concerned that we have a federal court dabbling in how to count ballots in a local judge race. The court’s order is contrary to laws passed by the Ohio General Assembly and affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court,” Husted wrote, among other things.

director of the Washington JCRC said, of the AP story. The JCRC is set to launch on Wednesday a petition at the FreeAlanGrossNow website urging Pope Benedict XVI to make the case for Gross’ release when he visits Cuba next month. Gross is said to be ill, having lost 100 pounds of the 250 pounds he weighed before his arrest. His daughter and mother have suffered bouts with cancer during his incarceration. Those close to the case say privately that the AP’s revelations would not be news to the Cuban authorities. However, they are concerned that making them public will inhibit any Cuban willingness to release Gross. The AP story describes Gross’ mission as setting up hundreds of Cubans — particularly the island’s 1,500 Jews — with WiFi hotspots for unrestricted Internet access as

part of the democracy promotion by USAID, a State Department program. The story depicts Gross’ interactions as primarily with Cuba’s Jews. “He did nothing wrong other than to connect peaceful non-dissident Jewish communities to the Internet,” said Steven O’Connor, the spokesman for Development Alternatives Inc., the USAID contractor that hired Gross. Gross’ wife, Judy, addressed the AP story’s claims for the first time on Sunday in a breakfast with congregants at Congregation Chizuk Amuno in Baltimore. “To suggest that Alan had any ulterior motive other than to help Cuba’s small Jewish community improve its access to information through the Internet and Intranet is categorically false,” she said in prepared remarks shared exclusively with JTA. “Unfortunately, in

countries like Cuba, the free flow of information is forbidden, and therefore it should come as no surprise that Alan had to be careful and discreet while he was in Cuba. She added, “That members of the media and the blogosphere continue to debate and analyze Alan’s work — a discussion in which the participants openly speculate as to his motives and his actions, despite having never met the man or even spoken with him — while he rots in a Cuban prison without the opportunity to freely and openly respond, is deplorable.” Judy Gross described her husband’s mission as setting up unfettered Internet access to communicate with Jews outside Cuba and an Intranet so the communities — some in remote areas — could communicate with one another, “allowing them to share things like recipes, prayers and even sports scores.”

She described testimony at Gross’ trial by an elderly Cuban Jewish man who needed assistance in getting to the stand. “When the prosecutor asked him what Alan showed him on the Internet, he became emotional and said, ‘We saw the world!’ ” she recounted. “A bit taken aback by this response, the prosecutor asked the witness to explain further. He said that Alan used the Internet to show them places they had never seen before — pictures of the Western Wall in Jerusalem and the city of London. Clearly he did so through Google Earth, something we take so much for granted in our country.” Gross’ backers still hold out hope that the Cubans may consider his release, although the news from last year is not good; his lawyers have exhausted the Cuban appeals system, up to and including a plea to President Castro.

act as the trial’s chief prosecutor. That decision, said Raveh, “changed my family’s life…When Eichmann walked into our door, he never really stepped out.” For months before the Eichmann trial began, the Hausner home was the venue for pre-trial interviews. The trial, said Consul General Aharoni, gave voice to the accounts of the witness to the Shoah. It provided a unique opportunity to enter the darkness of the Holocaust

through the words and actions of its “Operations Manager” and emerge into the light of the future. As the date of the trial approached, Hausner wrote and rewrote his opening remarks, even through the night before the trial. “I don’t stand alone,” he declared. “I stand with six million who cannot rise to their feet and cry ‘I accuse.’ ” “It falls to me to be their spokesman,” he said.

Eichmann was executed by hanging on May 31, 1962. He is the only person to have suffered capital punishment in the history of the state of Israel. Michael Goldman-Gilad, investigative officer for the trial, called Eichmann “a nebbish” in 1996. “Yet, the minute he opened his mouth, I felt the gates of the crematorium opening before me,” Goldman-Gilad said at the time. Hausner, said Raveh, changed

as the trial progressed. “In those days, he didn’t smile, he didn’t tell jokes. He cried twice; the first with Rivka Yosselevska, who crawled out of a mass grave, still alive among the dead, and lived to tell of the horror. Tears came a second time, after Michael ‘Mickey’ Goldman scattered Eichmann’s ashes in the sea.” “Justice,” Hausner said at the time, “has been done, but so late and so little.”

Marianna Bettman is a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

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The snow was a ‘no-show’ 2012 LR2—Luxury that fits the budget this year in Jerusalem! Singer Says

by Phyllis Singer Two weeks ago, Jerusalem braced for what meteorologists predicted was going to be a major snowstorm in Jerusalem on Shabbat. The city hasn’t had a major snowfall since 2008, although there was a light dusting in 2010. Jerusalem residents were excited, and children planned on playing in the snow on Saturday morning. And even Mayor Barkat got into the mood. A picture in Friday’s Jerusalem Post showed him surveying Jerusalem’s emergency equipment (salt trucks and snow plows that usually sit idle) and tossing around a few handfuls of salt. Preceding the anticipated snowfall was very wintery weather in Jerusalem Thursday and Friday. High temperatures in the 40s Fahrenheit and lows in the 30s, accompanied by heavy winds and torrential downpours. Meteorologists predicted that temperatures would fall to 0 degrees Celsius overnight Friday (that’s 32 degrees Fahrenheit – cold enough to snow), and the heavy rain would turn to snow. The Upper Galilee, Tzfat, the Golan Heights and Mt. Hermon were blanketed—but not Jerusalem! Although winter is not quite over here, there is little chance of a winter storm in March, so Jerusalem residents will have to wait another year for a winter wonderland. Allen and I have seen two major snowstorms in Jerusalem: the first in 1992 before we lived here and the second in January 2000, several months after we made aliyah. The one in 2000 left approximately 12 inches of snow in the city – and that’s a lot – but we remember the one from 1992 much more vividly. Actually, when meteorologists compare statistics for wet winters in Israel, they cite the winter of 1992 as a comparison. And we know that winter well! We were here for approximately two weeks, and it snowed many times while we

were here. We actually walked home from the bus one night in a brutal windy sleet downpour! Feb. 4 (Rosh Chodesh Adar) was the wedding of our son and daughter-in-law, Hanan and Judy. Early in the morning of Feb. 4, there was a knock on the door of our apartment in the Lev Yerushalyim, where our family and Judy’s family were staying. I said to Allen, “That must be the nervous chatan (bridegroom).” Sure enough it was. Han came into our room, opened the drapes and out we looked onto thick wet deep snow. The wedding was taking place on Mt. Zion, a very hilly drive. By afternoon the snow had melted, but the forecast was for freezing temperatures and more snow. Although we all had rental cars, we decided to take cabs and not risk driving in snowy Jerusalem. The wedding went off with a few hitches – such as the floor was covered in water from melting snow, and the management had to improvise a stand off the floor for the band, but the happy couple survived the ordeal and just celebrated their 20th anniversary last week. (They celebrate the Hebrew date.) Most of us stayed for Sheva Brachot following the Tuesday wedding, and on Friday we traveled to Tzefat, where Judy’s brother and sister-in-law and two children lived. Most of the family was leaving on a midnight plane Saturday, but we were staying for a few more days. Han and Judy and Allen and I debated as to whether to return to Jerusalem Saturday night or Sunday morning. We opted to leave Tzefat Saturday night. It was a good decision. Sunday morning we had brunch with the newlyweds in their Jerusalem apartment. Judy told us that her sister-in-law had called and said it was snowing very hard in Tzefat. It didn’t stop snowing there until Wednesday! So whenever snow is predicted in Jerusalem, we recall the winter of 1992. We don’t think anything could compare! (We also remember a few snowstorms in Cincinnati – including the blizzard of 1977, the freak snow that fell during Sukkot in October in the late 1980s and a few others! Plus we visited family in Chicago in January 2000 with 19 inches of snow on the ground, and we were in New York for its record-breaking snowfall of 26.5 inches in January 2006. But those memories don’t compare to the winter of 1992 in Jerusalem!)

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lunch of Israeli schnitzel, potatoes and hummus that followed. That day remains one of my favorite as a reporter. O’Sullivan, 50, has moved on in his career. He is now the Mideast bureau chief for The Media Line, a nonprofit that supplies news outlets with stories about the Middle East. But a few things have stuck with him: his sharp eye, a commitment to journalism and that jeep with the Confederate flag. It also has a statue of General Robert E. Lee glued to the dashboard. “I’ve always been proud of the fact that I come from the South,” said O’Sullivan, who was born and raised in New Orleans and moved to Mississippi before making aliyah in 1981. “There’s some kind of kinship between Israel and the Confederacy: Both are mired in self-pity, victimology and obsession with history.” On Wednesday, O’Sullivan took his Southern credentials up a notch: He was sworn in as a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization “open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces.” O’Sullivan’s greatgreat-granddaddy, George Johnson,

served for a year as a lieutenant in the Alabama Rangers, a cavalry division of the Confederate Army. “It was a real unique ceremony,” O’Sullivan said Wednesday in a phone interview from Biloxi, Miss., where the induction took place. “It was like redneck meets Jew.” O’Sullivan says he was told he is the first Israeli to become a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The organization’s membership coordinator, Bryan Sharp, was unable to confirm that, but he noted that the organization has chapters in Brazil, Australia, England, Scotland and Germany. Some critics have accused the Sons of Confederate Veterans of tolerating white supremacists in its ranks, but Jim Woodrick, director of historic preservation at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, says it’s not a racist group. “There’s no question that individual members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have very political views, but it is not in any way a white supremacist organization,” he said. Sharp notes that the Sons has members who are black, Native American and Hispanic — not to mention Jewish. “People think the Sons of Confederate Veterans is just a bunch of Ku Klux Klan types and rednecks,” O’Sullivan told me in an interview a few weeks before his induction. “I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I’m going to show that it’s not an extremist organization but just one to remember veterans who served in the South.”

Almost as soon as O’Sullivan’s aunt discovered the family’s Confederate ancestor, O’Sullivan says, he decided to apply for membership. “Yankees were educated that the Civil War was about freeing the slaves, and I was taught that the war was about protecting your homeland,” O’Sullivan told JTA. “I can recognize that my ancestors took a stand, didn’t just sit by and let history pass them up. They believed in something. They had this vicious war on their own turf and they should be remembered for that.” In a way, O’Sullivan followed in Johnson’s footsteps. He, too, went to fight for something he believed in, immigrating to Israel on the eve of the Lebanon War. When O’Sullivan’s paratrooper unit swept into Beirut in 1982, O’Sullivan carried a Confederate flag in one of his pouches — he brought the flag with him to this week’s ceremony. And like Johnson, who was a farm boy from Alabama, O’Sullivan tends an olive field near his home in a moshav near Beit Shemesh, about 30 minutes from Jerusalem. “I realized at 20 years old that there were things more important than family, more important than home, more important than country,” O’Sullivan said. “I joined this Zionist endeavor, came to Israel, almost immediately was in the army and almost immediately was in the war. “I had a great-grandfather who did his shtick; he was in the cavalry,” O’Sullivan said. “I did my shtick. I came to Israel, I joined the army, I was an officer, I was a para-

trooper. I did it here.” O’Sullivan remains fiercely proud of his Southern heritage. He notes how Charleston, S.C., once was the most Jewish city in America, how 3,000 Jews served in the Confederate Army and how a Jew, Judah P. Benjamin, served as the Confederacy’s attorney general, secretary of war and secretary of state. That same devotion to heritage spurred O’Sullivan to take his son to Dublin, Ireland, last summer to see where his father’s grandfather came from. His father was the one who chose Judaism, converting from Catholicism as a young man. At Wednesday’s ceremony, O’Sullivan received a certificate from a man in a Confederate uniform and took an oath that included a pledge of allegiance to the United States and to support activities that “cultivate, perpetuate and sanctify the memory of the Confederacy.” For O’Sullivan, a big part of that is his 23-year-old jeep, which he calls General Lee. When Palestinians stole it in 2004, O’Sullivan worked his connections to locate the thieves and then drove deep into the West Bank to buy it back. The only damage was to his flag and dashboard statue, which he calls “the only Confederate shrine in the Holy Land.” These days, O’Sullivan says the only trouble he gets with his jeep are uninformed questions from Yankees living in Israel. “They say, ‘What do you got that flag for?’” O’Sullivan said. “I explain that it’s where I come from and I say it’s a flag of pride.”

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a half. The NGO was honored for its work recently by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in New York. “Israel, sadly, is pretty much a trauma lab,” says Meirav TalMargalit, an IsraAID volunteer and movement therapist who works with domestic abuse victims and residents of the rocketstricken Israeli town of Sderot. “We have extensive experience in this field, and the tools we use here have been proven effective worldwide,” he adds. “We make cultural adaptations, of course, but in the end we are all human and we share the same fears and the same dreams.” It is a tight operation, effectively run by two people: project manager Yotam Polizer, a 28-year-old social worker who spent the last few years volunteering in Nepal; and project coordinator Celia Dunkelman, an energetic Indonesian-Jewish musician who grew up in Japan and functions as both translator and coordinator. Polizer shuttles almost weekly between workshops in affected towns and meetings with Ministry of Health officials in Tokyo. “The main idea behind our activities is to supply the Japanese with the therapeutic tools and the know-how to help them deal with the trauma themselves,” Polizer says. “We locate local community

leaders and professionals from the health and education sectors, and work directly with them. They then use what they learn and pass it on to many more people than we can reach on our own.” One of these local leaders is Chiho Shimura, an independent event organizer from Tokyo who was so shaken by the disaster that she left her business to volunteer with survivors in her native Ishinomaki, a port city of 164,000. Ishinomaki was so badly devastated by the tsunami that nearly a fifth of its population now lives in temporary housing. Some survivors, tired of waiting for the temporary shelters to be constructed, returned prematurely to their partially destroyed houses, living in some cases with no heat or running water. Shimura has been running a support center for them, supplying warm clothes, mobile heaters and food. “I had a storm raging inside me for a very long time,” she says. “And then, in the first IsraAID workshop I participated in, it finally came out. I cried like I have never cried before, and it was so relieving. We’ve had Japanese social workers come here and talk to people, but they were not able to do what the Israelis have done. They immediately saw into our hearts. They definitely saw into mine.”

“Thank you for listening,” she says, sighing. “Until now I didn’t really have anyone I could speak to.” The Japanese government has worked to clean up the material damage from the tsunami and find housing for those it left homeless. The government has been less determined in providing survivors with needed psychological support. A number of volunteer groups, most of them Japanese, have worked to fill that hole, running community-based support programs focused mainly on fun activities for children and the elderly. A few, however, have dug in deeper. IsraAID, a humanitarian organization funded by a number of North American Jewish federations, is one of them. Arriving in Japan shortly after the disaster, IsraAID’s small team of volunteers has supplied medical relief items, provided training to handle post-traumatic stress disorder and organized art, music, movement and drama therapy sessions for residents of the many small towns devastated by the tsunami. The sessions, which utilize a mostly nonverbal approach to help people express their feelings, have been so successful that IsraAID is now planning to operate a training center for at least another year and

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