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YouTube sensation Six13 performs free concert at Adath Israel With a reported one million plus views on YouTube, the New York a cappella group Six13 comes to Cincinnati on Oct. 21 to perform in a free concert at Adath Israel Congregation at 1 p.m. One of the million who saw Six13 on YouTube was Andrea Levenson, the sponsor of the second Michael M. Levenson Music Program in memory of her husband. She brought the idea to Mitch Cohen, the music program vhair for Adath Israel. “Andi asked me if I had seen Six13 on YouTube.

She thought they were amazing, and I agree,” Cohen said. “They are one of the first contemporary Jewish a cappella groups to make an impact.

The seder table scene in their video P-A-S-S-O-V-E-R was great and reminded me of actual people I know. I was struck by the quality of their voices. I would say they have the most vocal talent of any a cappella group I have heard.”

The group’s name, “Six13” is a Jewish play on words. The six comes from the fact there are six members in their vocal group, and the rabbis say there are 613 commandments in the Torah.

Michael Boxer, one of the singers and the director of Six13, stated in an interview to The Jewish Week that Six13 was part of the early Jewish a cappella music scene at colleges. Six13 was formed by six students at Binghamton University in upstate New York in 2004. “I’m surprised it took as long as it did to get to the Jewish world.

As it grew in the colleges in general, Jewish college groups began to appear. There were plenty of professional groups out there by then, but until Beat’achon and our group tried to cross it over into the Jewish arena there really wasn't much going on,” Boxer said. Since then, college Jewish a cappella groups have grown in popularity. One of the homegrown college groups, the Ohio State University Meshuganotes, will also appear in the free concert as the opening act

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“We had brought in Michigan’s Jewish a cappella group a few years ago for a concert, so we thought it was only fair to bring in Ohio State’s group,” smiled Cohen. “I think it’s

extremely exciting we will be able to showcase the young, local talent of Ohio State as well as being able to showcase an established New York professional group like Six13.”

Six13 has recorded four award-

“I think it’s extremely exciting we will be able to showcase the young, local talent of Ohio State as well as being able to showcase an established New York professional group like Six13.”

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winning albums with songs played all over Jewish radio. The group has over 20,000 CDs in circulation, and are among the top Jewish music artists on iTunes.

The concert on Oct. 21 is free and open to the community and will be followed by a complimentary reception sponsored by the Sol and Lena Wise Fund. “We set the concert a little earlier at 1 p.m. to allow time for people to go to other community events happening later in the afternoon. We want as many people in the community to be able to experience this opportunity,” commented Cohen. Adath Israel requests RSVPs through their website or through their synagogue office. Childcare is available with reservation. Six13 will also be featured in a special Friday Night Live service on Oct. 19 starting at 5:30 p.m. as well as a concert for the religious school children Sunday morning on Oct. 21.

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Dr. Gary P. Zola opens Adath Israel Hazak season The opening event of Adath Israel Hazak 55-plus season will occur on Oct. 28, at the American Jewish Archives (AJA) on the campus of Hebrew Union College at 4 p.m. Dr. Gary P. Zola, executive director of the AJA and professor of the American Jewish Experience at HUC, will discuss the humorous Talmudic parody commonly called the Yankee Talmud by Gerson Rosenzweig. Dr. Zola’s topic: “An Immigrant’s Writings on Jewish Life in America” concerns the writings of Gerson Rosenzweig, former publisher of a Hebrew weekly, who became a prominent figure most famous for his parodies of the ped-

dler, the teacher and the rabbi.

Mr. Rosenzweig, who immigrated to America from Poland in 1888, points out to his immigrant readers on the lower East Side of New York City, the social realities in which they were living — situations both terrible and awesome.

Through humorous use of pseudoTalmudic texts, Mr. Rosenzweig explores the dilemma of whether to join a trade union, the drama of strikes, excesses of women and child labor, plus the crammed life of the immigrant in tenement houses.

“Dr. Zola is a favorite speaker of our members on topics gleaned from the extensive files of the

Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives,” said Hazak president Miriam Elfenbaum. He will lead an interactive study on a sample of Gerson Rosenzweig’s humorous writings. Dr. Zola refers to Mr. Rosenzweig as “the Sweet Satirist of American Israel.” This topic should be of universal interest and is open to the senior community.

A light supper will follow the lecture. Reservations are needed and must be received by Oct. 22.

There is a modest charge for the event. For additional information please call the Adath Israel Synagogue office.

Best-selling author Mitch Albom at the J, Oct. 21 Mitch Albom’s new book, The Time Keeper, has been added to his New York Times Best Seller legacy. Albom has had five previous books on the hardcover fiction and non-fiction lists, including two books, Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven that have spent more than 100 weeks on the lists. Be inspired at the Mayerson JCC on Sunday, Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. as Albom shares insights about his life, lessons learned and his new book. Each ticket includes a copy of The Time Keeper.

Albom is known not only for being a great writer, but also for being a great speaker. In a recent appearance at East Stroudburg University, their spokesperson said, “Mitch Albom was an incred-

ible speaker who had the audience on an emotional roller coaster from tears to laughter to silent contemplation. The standing ovation he received gave testimony to his impact on the audience.” The exclusive event at the J is one of only 10 in the United States. After speaking, there will be an opportunity to meet Albom and have a copy of The Time Keeper signed.

The Time Keeper is Albom’s newest work of fiction, a story told about the inventor of the world’s first clock who is punished for trying to measure God’s greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father

Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.

Told in Albom’s signature, evocative prose, this remarkably original and compelling tale is inspiring readers all over the country.

This event is presented by the Wolf Center for Arts & Ideas, the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati and The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. /U.S. Bank Foundation.

David Ellenson, addressing the topic “Reform Judaism – Where have we come from? Where are we now? Where are we going?”

Those attending the service will be enriched by Dr. Ellenson’s reflection on the Reform Movement, its heritage and trajectory from the past and into the future.

Having served for a decade as the president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Ellenson is one of the most influential and respected leaders of Jewish life. He is a prolific author of scores of books and articles and is a scholar of great

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:30–9:00 PM Please join us for a lively and compelling discussion about Cremation or Burial: A Jewish View Doron Kornbluth is a renowned speaker, the best-selling author of Raising Kids to Love being Jewish and Why Be Jewish? and appears frequently in Jewish Media around the world. He will speak about this sensitive subject, discuss both sides of the question, and share his conclusions after three years of intensive research into the philosophies and practicalities of end-of-life choices.

Doron has developed a very positive way of discussing this controversial issue .

His book Cremation or Burial: A Jewish View is now available. He is a wonderful educator and this book is full of thought-provoking insights on this topic .

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Four Reform congregations worship with HUC president On Friday evening, Oct. 19, the members of Isaac M. Wise Temple, Rockdale Temple, Temple Sholom and Valley Temple will all join together in Shabbat worship as the Cincinnati Reform community initiates a weekend of celebration and leadership. The weekend will commence with this unique worship experience at 6:15 p.m. at Wise Center. The rabbis of the four Reform congregations will join together in leading the service, in which members of the volunteer choirs of those congregations will join together to lead the combined group in music.

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Hadassah Coffee Talk presents ‘The Bintel Brief’ Organization of America, was born from the vision of one woman, Henrietta Szold, who saw a great need and wanted to help. She knew what a powerful force women can be and created Hadassah to heal the world through the education and empowerment of women. In 1912, Hadassah women laid down the foundation of the Hadassah Medical Organization and other vital projects in Israel and around the world.

Hadassah members still meet, make new friends, have fun, discuss and learn. Cincinnati Chapter is full of vibrant, intelligent women who look forward to continuing Henrietta Szold’s vision of making a difference for centuries to come.

There is no charge to attend Coffee Talk, but RSVPs are requested.

Northern Hills Hazak ‘goes to the dogs’ hearing dogs to people with disabilities. Dogs are trained through a unique program, using inmates in prisons, foster families, and other volunteers. They also operate a limited admission shelter for dogs. The program will focus on the activities of Circle Tail, the qualities which make a good service or hearing dog, and the training the dogs receive.

Miller is a life-long dog lover who became aware of Circle Tail at a Northern Hills Shabbat morning service over five years ago that included breakout sessions on people with disabilities, and has been a

volunteer there ever since. She also has served as a volunteer instructor at Queen City Dog Training Club for the past 15 years, teaching beginning obedience for dogs, and has developed a new beginning obedience class for adult rescue dogs.

Joining Miller in leading the program will be two dogs: a Circle Tail dog nearing the end of his training; and one of Miller’s own dogs to help demonstrate the difference between the characteristics of assistance vs. pet dogs.

“HaZaK” is an acronym, with the letters standing for the Hebrew

words “Hakhma” (wisdom), “Ziknah” (maturity), and “Kadima” (forward). The HaZaK programs are for adults 55 and older, and are open to the entire community. In addition to members of Northern Hills, many attendees have come from the Jewish Community Center, Cedar Village, Brookwood Retirement Community, and throughout Greater Cincinnati.

There is no charge for the program and lunch, but donations are greatly appreciated. For reservations or more information, please call Northern Hills Synagogue.

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U.S. civil rights office probing claims of antiSemitism at UC Berkeley (JTA) – The civil rights office of the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into allegations of antiSemitism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Two recent graduates of the university filed a complaint charging that campus officials allowed a hostile campus environment for Jewish students to continue unabated by not stopping antiIsrael protests on campus, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The complaint alleges that the campus officials have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says that recipients of federal funds are barred from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education extended Title VI to include the protection of Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campuses.

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The HaZaK group of Northern Hills Synagogue — Congregation B’nai Avraham will open its programming year with a look at the uniques contributions of service and hearing dogs in assisting people with disabilities. The program, “Circle Tail: Helping Dogs Help Others,” will feature Judy Miller, a member of Northern Hills, and two very special dogs. It will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the synagogue, beginning at noon. Lunch will be served.

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She also currently serves on the Hadassah Central States Region Board as Membership Chairman.

On July 9, 2009, she met with Vice President Joe Biden while he was in Cincinnati to speak about the Federal Stimulus Project, and he told her, “When the women of Hadassah speak, people listen!”

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Coffee Talk is a monthly, casual get-together, usually held in a Hadassah member’s home, to discuss topics of Jewish interest.

Meetings are held the second Monday of the month, alternating between evening and morning times. Upcoming Coffee Talk programs will feature Cincinnati Shaliach Yair Cohen, Judge Heather Stein Russell, Dr. Laura Wexler, and Rabbi Judy Chessin.

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Cincinnati Chapter of Hadassah resumes its Coffee Talk programs on Monday, Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Renee Sandler. Guest speaker Bobbi Handwerger will discuss “Voices of Our Past: The Bintel Brief.”

“The Bintel Brief” is an advice column similar to “Dear Abby,” created by Abraham Cahan in 1906 in the Jewish Daily Forward (Der Forvertz), a Yiddish daily newspaper in New York City. In Yiddish, Bintel means “bundle” and brief means “letters.” The Yiddish format of the Forward continued until 1970, but the name of the column remains the same, even in its online version. Handwerger, who served as co-president of Cincinnati Chapter from 2010 to 2012, will read letters and responses published in the early

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The Jews, stuffed cabbage and Simchat Torah

By Chavie Lieber Jewish Telegraph Agency NEW YORK – It’s almost encoded in your Jewish DNA: How you make your stuffed cabbage all depends on where your grandmother came from.

For many, the delicacy is served on the holiday of Simchat Torah much the same way that latkes are associated with Chanukah, hamentaschen tag along with Purim and Shavuot comes with a plethora of dairy dishes.

So how did the overcooked, gelatinous, rolled-up dish become associated with the last festival of the High Holidays season?

“Most of the traditional foods we eat on Jewish holidays start out with a seasonal reason as to why we eat them, and later a religious significance is tacked on,” says Gil Marks, a Jewish food historian and author of the “Encyclopedia of Jewish Food.” “Vegetables like cabbage were in season during the fall and very cheap, so stuffed cabbage became one of the most popular traditional foods eaten. Cabbage was the odor of the shtetl.”

Travel back some 500 years to the 16th century, when Jews first started living in shtetls. The Jews mostly kept to themselves, but the food they ate often was a kosher adaptation of what their non-Jewish neighbors were eating, Marks says.

Stuffed cabbage was a staple dish for peasants during the cold season in places such as Turkey and Persia, and it arrived to the Jews of Europe from the south and the east, according to Marks. Jews living in places like Russia and Poland learned the dish from the Tatars, a Turkish group that ruled the area in the 16th century, while Jews living in southern European countries such as Hungary and the Balkans learned it from their Turkish neighbors, who then were under the control of the Ottoman Empire.

Eastern European Jews adapted the dish with cabbage and kosher meat, naming it after a dove because the rolled up item resembled a bird in a nest. So in Russian it was called golub, in Ukraine holub and in Yiddish teibel – all words for dove.

Those living in the Ottoman Empire made the dish using local grape leaves. They gave the dish a more literal name in Turkish, like sarma, which means wrap, yaprak for leaf, or dolma for stuffed.

From here, Jewish communities added their variations. Many Hungarian Jews use a dash of marjoram, Syrians add cinnamon, Persians throw in some dill and mint, and Romanians toss in lots of garlic and paprika.

As meat was expensive, many Jews in the Middle East and Romania would add rice to reduce the share of meat needed, while

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Stuffed cabbage, a traditional food served during the fall season, comes from a distinguished Jewish background but has evolved into many variations.

Eastern European Jews would add bread, barley or kasha. Some Middle Eastern varieties use only rice for the stuffing.

“They didn’t always have money to buy meat, but when they did, they saved it for special occasions and served their best dish on Simchas Torah,” Marks said, using the Ashkenazic pronunciation for the holiday.

When Jews began to immigrate to America in the 19th and 20th century, the dish took on new variations, like cooking it in a tomato stew or a sweet-and-sour sauce.

“I’ve met so many people over the years that like to make their own little variation of the dish, adding a little sour cream or parmesan cheese,” Joan Nathan, a Jewish cuisine author and television producer, told JTA. “But honestly, why change a recipe that has been through so many generations and is perfect the way it is? We use the same recipe, year after year, and that’s what makes it so special.”

With the dish appearing at the end of Sukkot year after year – Simchat Torah comes the day after Sukkot ends, and some American Jews spend the holiday’s first day, called Shemini Atzeret, eating in the sukkah – Jews began ascribing new meanings to stuffed cabbage.

(Or, perhaps, those points of significance were hidden in the folds of the cabbage all along.)

“Some believe stuffing a food represents the time of harvesting, since Sukkot marks the fall harvest. More importantly, it was easily transferable in and out of the sukkah,” Marks said. “It also has an interesting visual. One stuffed cabbage on a plate noticeably resembles a rolled up Torah scroll – and two, side by side, also looks like a Torah, rolled up halfway.”

Tori Avey, a Jewish convert who writes the culinary blog Shiksa in the Kitchen, says readers from all over the world have sent recipes to her. Some were identical.

“For a sweet and sour flavor, readers wrote to add sour salt,

although some opt for lemon juice or apple cider vinegar,” Avey told JTA via email. “One reader with Russian ancestors uses lemon peels. Some readers said they use sauerkraut for the sauce, and others use convenience ingredients like cranberry juice, V-8, and even grape jelly.”

Whether you stew it, boil it, saute it or steam it, there’s no right or wrong when it comes to preparing stuffed cabbage. The important thing, Marks says, is to remember your roots.

“People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers,” he said. “It’s not just about food.

Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time, it’s food for the soul.”

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Maryland’s model for U.S.-Israel economic alliances

By Jeffrey Barken JointMedia News Service In May 1988, Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer visited Israel to sign the historic Maryland-Israel Exchange agreement. The document listed financial incentives authorizing and supporting significant future collaborations between Israeli and American companies, benefiting both economies.

Today, the Maryland/Israel Development Center (MIDC), the group responsible for organizing Schaefer’s initial visit, continues to enlarge on its original vision of U.S.-Israel collaboration.

More than 20 U.S. states have bilateral partnerships with Israel, according to the Jewish Virtual Library’s records – but while most of those organizations are designed to promote a positive cultural exchange, the MIDC offers serious financial assistance. As other states focus on diplomatic ties with Israel, Maryland’s program proactively finds partners for Israeli companies and provides a mechanism for both inspiring start-up investment and collecting venture capital resources to enable overseas collaboration.

“We’re not only good intentions,” MIDC Executive Director Barry Bogage tells JNS, “but also the money behind good intentions.”

Maryland’s initiative is unique in the sense that it proactively finds partners for Israeli companies, and provides a mechanism for both inspiring start-up investment and collecting venture capital resources

Maryland/Israel Development Center Executive Director Barry Bogage.

that will enable the overseas collaboration. Other U.S.-Israel trade organizations are not directly concerned with creating investment opportunities, but instead focus more on diplomacy.

In response to the Soviet Union’s collapse in the late 1980s and the resource-straining influx of Jewish refugees then fleeing to Israel, members of Maryland’s Jewish community sought a means to help Israel absorb immigrants.

“We recognized early on that the best aid we could provide was a mechanism for job creation,” MIDC Executive Director Barry Bogage tells JNS. Once the trade agreement had the governor’s support, the MIDC could recruit business partners for

Israeli companies seeking entry into the American market.

Additionally, the center served as both a diplomat and a consultant – identifying potential markets, hosting networking events, connecting researchers in both countries in collaboration on groundbreaking projects, and facilitating the registration of new company offices in Maryland. The program was a winwin opportunity, promising a legacy of growth that has been validated over the last 20 years.

One of the group’s first successes was a joint research program in aquaculture conducted at the Christopher Columbus Center for Marine Biology in Baltimore Harbor. The relationship initiated by the MIDC brought Israeli fish farming experts together with leading Maryland biotechnology developers, ultimately leading to the creation of a company, Advanced BioTechnology, in 2001, and production of a new health-enhancing feed for farmed fish.

Likewise, MIDC helped connect the Israeli biopharmaceutical company, BioCancell, with scientists at UMD medical center, enabling clinical trials of BioCancell’s targeted cancer therapies and providing access to American doctors and researchers who had experience enduring the rigors of FDA testing.

“It’s usually too expensive for a small company in a small country to set up the infrastructure to succeed,” Bogage says, explaining Israeli companies’ desire to access

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The radar for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Elta, the manufacturer of that radar, this year received a conditional $300,000 grant to open a new office in Maryland.

American markets and to consult directly with business professionals in the U.S. When asked what makes partnering with Israeli companies attractive to Americans, Bogage references the popular book StartUp Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, reiterating their point that “Israel is a culture of innovation.”

Since its inception, Israel has faced daunting crises, but the country remains a rare example of how creativity and risk-taking can be combined to help a small nation surmount large problems.

Americans marvel at Israeli speed and success at development, and find Israelis to be the perfect allies in creating new products.

“Unlike Israel, in the U.S. there is no reason to take risks,” Bogage laments, reflecting on the current state of the U.S. economy.

“If we could package Israel’s initiative up and ship it here, that would be great.”

The MIDC currently utilizes grant money from the Jewish community and the Maryland Department of Economic Development to invest in promising ventures. Additionally, in March 2011, the group established a venture capital fund, raising $4 million.

Those funds already have seeded 11 Israeli start-ups, early-stage companies with strong potential to ultimately set up offices in Maryland, collaborate with top American researchers, and create new jobs in both economies.

Looking beyond its successes in biotech and aquaculture, the MIDC is embracing Israel’s defense and security industry. In April 2012, Elta, the manufacturer of the radar component in Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, received a conditional $300,000 grant to open a new office in Maryland. The project is expected to create 100 new high-technology jobs over the next four years.

Similarly, the Israeli defense and security company Controp has maintained an office in Bethesda, Md. since 2005. “We introduced

Elta to the MIDC,” James Dotan, Controp’s U.S. director, tells JNS. “Mr. Bogage understood our desire to engage the American markets.

He emphasized the advantages of being located in Maryland, close to Washington DC and the government branches that buy defense and security technologies.”

For Dotan, opening Controp’s Maryland branch was essential.

“Now we can compete with other industries to develop better, cheaper products with more features,” he says. “Also, we are more accountable, providing around-the-clock customer support.”

Transplanted in the U.S., Controp and Elta are now customizing their state-of-the-art security systems to meet the specific needs of American contractors.

In recent years the MIDC has also encouraged American companies to take advantage of the large research and development grants provided by the Bi-national Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD).

Established in 1977, BIRD allocates funds to collaboration between Israeli and American companies, covering up to 50 percent of development and production costs on the condition that the grant is repaid if the end product is successful.

20/20 Gene Systems, an American company specializing in innovative diagnostics and personalized medicine, recently participated in BIRD, partnering with the Israeli company ImmunArray. At the time, both companies were competing to develop a new method for detecting lung cancer.

BIRD provided a $1 million incentive for them to collaborate.

Unfortunately, “in this case, the combined science did not pay out, but it was still a worthwhile pursuit,” Jonathon Cohen, president and CEO of 20/20 Gene Systems, tells JNS. “BIRD created a runway for discovery,” with both companies profiting from the exchange of information and the opportunity to innovate.

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Forgotten Jewish baseball players

By Robert Gluck JointMedia News Service For Major League Baseball (MLB) fans, October is a time to focus on the playoffs (starting Oct. 5 this year) and the World Series, events that thrust Jewish Hall-ofFame players such as Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg into the national spotlight.

To the average fan, the names Lipman Pike, Moe Berg, and Al Schacht may be forgotten – but the impact of those Jewish ballplayers is still felt in and around America’s pastime.

To Peter Horvitz, those names are indeed not forgotten. The author of The Big Book of Jewish Baseball, Horvitz relishes talking about them and keeping their memories alive in the minds of other fans. One of his personal favorites is the Brooklyn, NY-born Pike.

Known as the “Iron Batter,” Pike was one of the stars of 19th-century baseball in the United States, the first Jewish player, and the first player to be revealed as a professional – he was paid money to play.

Horvitz was also a consultant for Richard Michelson on Lipman Pike – America’s First Home Run King, an illustrated children’s book with drawings by Zachary Pullen.

“During the Civil War, many of the Brooklyn boys played baseball in the army camps and the game began to spread throughout the country,” Michelson writes. “But as baseball became America’s most popular pastime, and spectators began to be charged to watch a ‘match’ (game), ‘captains’ (managers), hoping to both give their team an advantage and draw more

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Lipman Pike, known in 19th century-baseball as the “Iron Batter.”

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Jewish baseball player Harry Danning. In 1934, a Florida hotel initially refused entry to Danning and fellow Jew Phil Weintraub during spring training, but eventually backed down.

‘cranks’ (fans), began to secretly pay some of the better players, even though it was against the rules.”

Michelson says there is no way of knowing which player was the first paid in this manner, but in 1866, when he was 21 years old, Pike accepted $22 a week to move from Brooklyn to Philadelphia to join the Athletics. His career ran from 1871-1887.

“Pike is not as well known as other Jews who played in the majors like Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg,” Horvitz told JNS. “But he should not be forgotten because he was the first Jewish manager and first Jewish umpire.

He was one of the fastest running players of his time and he once raced a horse and won. Lip was also the baseball champion of his league and the home run champion. He was much respected in his day.”

Another forgotten favorite of Horvitz, Moe Berg, had notable contributions off the field as well as on it. Berg served as a secret agent during World War II and is also remembered for a trip he took to Japan.

“In 1934 they organized a trip of major leaguers that went to Japan,” Horvitz said. “This was the most important trip ever sent to Japan and included Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Connie Mack was the organizer. The State Department called Mack and told him to bring Moe Berg along. They were happy to have him because he spoke Japanese as well as 20 other languages. Without question Berg was the most intelligent man that ever played baseball.”

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The risk of breast cancer for Jewish women

By Masha Rifkin JointMedia News Service It’s a subject that most women of a certain age are quite alert to.

By the age of 40, when most women begin to get screening mammograms, breast cancer enters the realm of possibility.

According to Dr. Nadine M. Tung, director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Ashkenazi Jewish women have an additional concern.

Just by way of being Jewish, is your risk of cancer increased? Dr. Tung said the answer is no. However, “if you’re a Jewish woman and you have a family history of breast cancer, your risk of cancer is higher” than a non-Jewish woman with a similar family history, she said.

Two genes, the BRCA1 and BRCA2, are responsible for the higher risk. While everyone has

these genes, certain abnormalities within them – which are more prevalent in Jews – have been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer.

“These are not Jewish genes, there’s just a higher chance of finding the abnormality in Jews,” said Dr. Tung. One out of 40 Ashkenazi Jews is born with this abnormality, which is at least 10 times higher than for people who are not Jewish.

Responsible for 5 percent of all breast cancer, and 10-12 percent of breast cancer in Jewish women, these abnormalities also explain a higher portion of cancer in the Jewish population. In addition to breast cancer, the abnormalities also predispose women to ovarian cancer, for which there is no good screening test, said Dr. Tung.

Why the prevalence in Jews?

“In pre-biblical times these abnormalities existed, and through intramarrying within the population they became increased,” Dr. Tung explained. She added that these

abnormalities survived through population reduction (e.g., progroms; the Holocaust) and were enriched because Jews reproduced within a shrinking population.

Steps can be taken for early detection. The genetic testing has been available since 1997, and according to Dr. Tung it is available to men as well. “Men are often testing more for the women in their lives, such as their daughters or sisters. However, there is a higher incidence of certain cancers, such as prostate cancer, in men who inherit these mutations. Results can have important implications for cancer screening in these men.”

Dr. Judy Garber, who is the CoDirector of Friends of Dana-Farber Genetics and Prevention Program, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that while genetic screening is available, it is widely seen as controversial.

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New study: Pro-Israel young adults more diverse, pluralistic than believed

By Neil Rubin Jewish Telegraph Agency WASHINGTON – Jewish student leaders may be strident in their Israel advocacy, but they are tolerant in defining pro-Israel activism and diverse in their political views.

Those are among the major findings of a new survey being billed as the first major study of North American young adult leaders involved in pro-Israel advocacy.

Of the 4,000 or so Israel advocates age 30 and younger who were surveyed, 87 percent said they welcomed “multiple perspectives” on the pro-Israel spectrum.

Ideologically speaking, 45 percent self-identified as either politically liberal or slightly liberal; 30 percent said they were conservative or slightly conservative; and 21 percent called themselves moderate. Four percent said they were extremely conservative and two percent said they were extremely liberal.

The respondents came from diverse religious backgrounds, too: 37 percent said they were Conservative Jews, 27 percent Orthodox, 18 percent Reform and 16 percent “other Jewish.”

The study, titled “Next Generation Advocacy: A Study of Young Israel Advocates,” was released this week by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. It was conducted by

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“There’s a sense that young advocates come from a particular political persuasion, that they’re shrill and that there’s polarization,” Lisa Eisen, the director of the Schusterman Foundation, told JTA. “They are very diverse, sophisticated and non-ideological, which is not something that most people would imagine.”

Divisive activists are part of the spectrum, Eisen acknowledged, but they “are way out on the margin.”

Those surveyed were leaders of such organizations as Alpha

Epsilon Pi fraternity, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Hillel, iCenter, the Israel on Campus Coalition, Moishe House, The David Project, Write On For Israel, Hasbara Fellowships, MASA Israel Journey, Stand With Us and the BBYO group for teenagers.

The study also pointed to a relatively high correlation between participation in Birthright Israel, the free 10-day trip to Israel for young adults, and Israel activism: Some 26 percent of the pro-Israel leaders surveyed were Birthright alumni.

Pro-Israel activist Samantha Vinokor, 22, said she discovered

early on that there is no single profile for pro-Israel activism.

“You don’t need to be religiously observant because you can connect in your own way, and you don’t need to be politically aware because you can connect culturally or through food or in other ways,” said Vinokor, who was active in pro-Israel groups at the University of Pittsburgh before enrolling in a master’s program at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York and landing a job as director of communications for the World Zionist Organization.

“The pro-Israel movement can give so many different people a home,” she said. “That’s something that I tried to bring onto campus and that I bring to my professional life as well.”

Eisen said the study debunks some myths about who pro-Israel activists are and what they believe, while also revealing some shortcomings in how pro-Israel activists are mobilized in American Jewish life.

While 85 percent of high school seniors and 66 percent of college seniors said they wanted to continue pro-Israel work after graduation, only 27 percent and 33 percent, respectively, reported being asked to do so by a Jewish organization.

“The motivation is there, the passion is there, the interest is there,” Eisen said. “We just haven’t fully tapped the potential.”

International Briefs Swedish flotilla ship heading for Gaza sails from Italy (JTA) – A Swedish ship carrying human rights activists attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza left from Italy.

The Estelle, carrying 17 activists from countries including Canada, Norway, Sweden, Israel and the United States, sailed from the port at Naples on Saturday. The vessel, part of the Freedom Flotilla movement that included the ill-fated Mavi Marmara, reportedly is carrying humanitarian goods.

It will take about two weeks to reach Gaza’s territorial waters, according to the French news agency AFP. The Freedom Flotilla’s first attempt to break the blockade ended in the deaths of nine Turkish activists after Israeli Navy commandos on May 31, 2010 boarded the Mavi Marmara, which claimed to be carrying humanitarian aid, after warning the ship not to sail into waters near the Gaza Strip in circumvention of Israel’s naval blockade of the coastal strip.

A spokeswoman for the movement, Ann Ighe, told AFP that the Estelle “is a peaceful ship.”

The Estelle began its journey in Sweden and toured Europe, including Finland, France and Spain, before arriving last week in the Gulf of Naples.

In Eastern Europe, homegrown giving and volunteerism is taking root

By Cnaan Liphshiz Jewish Telegraph Agency ODESSA, Ukraine – Wearing an elegant dress and a name tag, Dasha Fedoseeva flitted among the tables during a recent Jewish community dinner in Moscow just after Rosh Hashanah.

Fedoseeva wasn’t just a guest.

She was part of a team of young Jewish volunteers whose goal was to mingle and charm older guests into increasing their donations to local Jewish charities.

Organized by the Russian Jewish Congress, the gala dinner and auction raised $85,000. In 2011, the Congress allocated $385,000 to a Jewish orphanage in Moscow – all the money was raised locally in fundraising drives.

The raising of substantial funds locally is a sign of something that was almost unthinkable just a few years ago in former Soviet bloc countries. For years, the Jewish communities there subsisted on Western help for welfare and com-

munity building. But as these communities grow up, they are becoming increasingly self-reliant – something that’s evident both in the growing culture of local volunteerism and homegrown philanthropy.

“Over the past few years, we see more volunteering by young Jews and more donations, which are aspects of the same trend of giving,” said Matvey Chlenov, deputy director of the Russian Jewish Congress.

“In the 1990s there was a feeling we were struggling to survive in the post-communist upheaval,” he said.

“Now in Russia we have more time and money, and some people are looking for a way to do positive things for the community.”

Chlenov says this applies not only to Jews but to Russian society in general.

In Ukraine, a $70 million Jewish community center in Dnepropetrovsk due to be dedicated this month was funded entirely by local philanthropists. Elsewhere in Ukraine, JCCs are HOMEGROWN on page 22

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T Lucia Leone looking up at the tombs marked with Stars of David of Donato Manduzio and some of his followers in the Christian cemetery in San Nicandro Garganico, Italy.

In southern Italy, long-lost Jews returning to the fold

By Ruth Ellen Gruber Jewish Telegraph Agency SAN NICANDRO GARGANICO, Italy – In the Christian cemetery of this sleepy farming town on the spur of Italy’s boot, Lucia Leone looks up at a row of tombs marked incongruously by Stars of David.

“That’s my mother,” she said.

“And that’s my grandmother and great-grandmother. And that’s Donato Manduzio, who started everything.”

Manduzio, who died in 1948, was a self-taught local peasant, a disabled World War I veteran who in 1930 embraced Judaism on his own after having a visionary dream. A charismatic figure with a reputation as a faith healer, Manduzio attracted dozens of followers among his poverty-stricken neighbors.

The San Nicandro Jews observed their own brand of homemade Judaism for years, even during fascist rule and World War II. But eventually they were recognized by Italian Jewish authorities and, in a remarkable episode, they formally converted en masse in the 1940s.

“It would seem to be the only case of collective conversion to Judaism in modern times,” historian John Davis wrote in an acclaimed recent book about the case.

Manduzio died two months before Israel was born. But almost all the others in the group – about 70 people – made aliyah by 1949.

Leone, her family and a handful of other families are descendants of the four or five women who chose to stay behind. Some had never formally converted, some had nonJewish husbands who didn’t want to leave. Against all odds, they kept Judaism alive in their homes – and in their hearts – for more than half a century, lighting the candles, keeping kosher, and observing Shabbat and the holidays on their own.

Until a decade ago, they main-

tained a low profile.

“We weren’t afraid, but as much as possible we kept our identity to ourselves,” Leone, who is in her late 40s, told JTA. Today they form a fervent congregation of about 35 people that has won the embrace of Italy’s Orthodox Jewish mainstream community as part of a concerted new effort by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, aimed at reaching out to so-called Returning Jews in the south.

“We don’t feel so alone anymore,” Leone said. “Every month a rabbi or teacher comes to us, and we meet up at the holidays and other times with Jews from Calabria, Sicily [see related story], Naples and elsewhere in Apulia.

And of course there are a lot of websites and Facebook that help us keep in touch.”

Last year, seven San Nicandro Jews underwent formal, Orthodox conversions. Leone, her husband and their two grown children were among them.

“Finally!” Leone said. “Baruch Hashem! It took five years of study, but it was a beautiful experience.”

The San Nicandro Jews are a special case. But they are among dozens of other Italians in the southern part of the country who are embracing Jewish identity.

Spread out around several towns and cities, most are descendants of anusim – Jews forced to convert to Christianity or face expulsion 500 years ago. Many describe mysterious family traditions rooted in Jewish practice: covering mirrors after a death or burning a bit of dough when baking bread.

“These are people who maintained their Jewishness for dozens of generations,” said Rabbi Scialom Bahbout, chief rabbi for Naples and Southern Italy. “They had very strong roots at the beginning, and these left their mark.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in March 2011, with Netanyahu holding an Iranian instruction manual for the C-704 anti-ship missile.

By Mati Tuchfeld and Israel Hayom JointMedia News Service With the backdrop of the possibility of early elections in Israel, unprecedented tension has been reported in the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

Netanyahu on Oct. 3 accused Barak of “working to undermine” him and straying from official government policy, telling his close associates that he “no longer has trust in Barak.” The prime minister said that on the defense chief’s recent trip to the United States, Barak offered himself as a “moderate and responsible alternative” to Netanyahu and criticized Netanyahu’s “radical and unrealistic policies.” Barak was trying to drive a wedge between the prime minister and the American government, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.

Additionally, according to Israel Radio, Netanyahu harshly criticized

Israel Briefs Knesset’s Rivlin: Early elections likely by February (JTA) – Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin called on the Israeli parliament to disband itself and begin preparing for early elections.

“There can be no doubt that the decision to go to early election has been made and all the parties are preparing for elections,” Army Radio and other media quoted Rivlin as saying on Oct. 4. “It would be best” if the Knesset passed a resolution to disband itself “within days or even hours” of the opening of its winter session on Oct. 15 “instead of dragging the decision for weeks,” he said.

Barak during a closed-door conversation with Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Oct. 2. Netanyahu was meeting with Steinitz about the state budget. During the meeting, Steinitz warned Netanyahu about Barak, saying the defense minister would act against the prime minister if he decided it was politically advantageous for him. This statement prompted Netanyahu’s comments about Barak. “[Barak] traveled to the U.S. to stoke the dispute between us and Obama in order to come off as the savior and the moderate, the mediator between the sides,” Netanyahu was reported to have said.

However, a Barak associate said Oct. 3 that the defense minister “was dispatched to the United States at the behest of the government, and duly represented the coalition; Barak heaped praise on Netanyahu at every high level meeting with administration officials during the trip, just like he has done so over the past several years.”

Netanyahu confidants said A member of the ruling Likud Party, Rivlin predicted the early election probably would take place during the second half of February and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would win another term.

Elections may come because the governing coalition cannot agree on approving the 2013 budget. Shas, the Sephardic Orthodox party, is refusing to approve the proposed budget due to austerity measures that it says would hit poor populations hard.

“We are without a budget for 2013 and in the midst of a global crisis that is threatening to sweep Israel with it,” Rivlin said. “Under the current financial situation, this reality is unacceptable.”

Reports that Iverson will play for Maccabi Haifa are false NEW YORK (JTA) – Reports that retired NBA star Allen Iverson will play for Israel’s Maccabi Haifa

Barak has decided to separate himself from the prime minister due to electoral considerations. Barak is hoping that the Independence party, which he founded in 2011 after he left Labor, will earn enough votes in the next elections to surpass the threshold required to receive seats in the Knesset.

“For a time, Barak tried to play a double game, as he thought Netanyahu would reserve the position of defense minister for him,” the Netanyahu confidants said.

“But when he understood that this would not happen, he began to attack the prime minister.”

Finance Ministry officials said Steinitz has been cautioning Netanyahu about Barak for months. “[Barak] is the only person holding up the passing of the budget formulated by Netanyahu and Steinitz, because it requires a four billion shekel cut to the defense budget,” a Finance Ministry official said. “Without the support of the Independence party, it will be impossible to pass the budget in the Knesset.”

In response, Barak’s office said that Barak had not changed his views on political, economic and military matters, that until now the basis for close cooperation between him and Netanyahu was their agreement to disagree on a variety of issues, and that the only change was Netanyahu’s reaction. “It is no secret that in closed government discussion rooms, and occasionally in public, Ehud Barak has positions that are different from most other members of the government, including the prime minister, on issues such as the Palestinians, socio-economic affairs and the relationship with the U.S.,” Barak’s office said.

TENSION on page 19 basketball team in two upcoming exhibition games against NBA teams are false, a Maccabi representative told JTA. “The local Israeli press completely made this up,” said Andrew Wilson, director of marketing for Triangle Financial Services, which is chaired by Maccabi Haifa owner Jeffrey Rosen. “We’ve had no contact with Allen Iverson, so it’s a fabricated rumor.”

Rosen, who bought the team in 2007, was not available for comment.

Initial reports on the Israeli Sport5 website and later picked up by JTA said that Iverson, 37, will suit up for Haifa when it takes on the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves later this month in the United States.

Sport5 had added that Maccabi Haifa officials were considering signing the perennial NBA AllStar guard to a longer contract if the experiment succeeded.

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Israeli soldiers are seen after searching for the remains of a drone in the Negev southern Israel on Oct. 6, 2012. Israeli jets scrambled to intercept a drone that crossed into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea, bringing it down without incident in the south of the country.

Israel reportedly flies over Lebanon in possible response to airspace violation

By Israel Hayom JointMedia News Service Several Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon’s airspace Oct. 7, according to Lebanese media outlets, flying over the country’s southern region and setting off sonic booms in a possible response to an Oct. 6 violation of Israeli airspace by an unmanned drone which Israel has speculated was launched by Hezbollah.

Residents in the eastern area of south Lebanon told Lebanonbased The Daily Star that Israel Air Force jets flew over their areas at a low altitude, while Lebanese security sources said the warplanes covered the entire region.

The jets, which were reportedly accompanied by several helicopters, also reached the airspace over the coastal city of Sidon, the sources said.

On Oct. 6, an Israel Air Force F16i fighter jet shot down a foreign unmanned aerial vehicle over the Hebron Hills after it had hovered over Israeli territory for half an hour, raising questions about who sent it and for what purpose.

An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson refused to comment on the origin or mission of the drone, though foreign media outlets speculated that it was shot down due to its proximity to Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona.

The UAV was identified and monitored by the army before it had crossed into Israeli territory from the Mediterranean Sea and Gaza Strip, according to the IDF spokesperson. It is believed that the drone was not launched from Gaza.

IAF F-16i’s were scrambled to the drone’s location and followed it until the order to shoot it down was given. Based on the size of the explosion from the drone’s interception, the IDF believes that it did not carry explosives, and that its purpose was likely to gather intelligence.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu praised the IDF for its management of the incident. “We will continue to defend our borders at sea, land and air to protect the citizens of Israel,” he said.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak praised Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and IAF Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel for what he called the “swift and precise” tracking and shooting down of the UAV. “We take this attempt to violate Israel’s air space very seriously and are weighing our options for a response.”

IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai emphasized that “throughout its flight over Israel the drone was in constant eyesight of air and ground forces” and noted that the drone was shot down “for the sake of the northern Negev residents’ safety.”

Soldiers were deployed to the area to collect the debris from the destroyed aircraft.

The IDF, meanwhile, has been keeping a close eye on Israel’s neighbors’ UAV programs, at the vanguard of which stands Iran.

During the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the IAF intercepted a Hezbollah UAV that was developed by the Islamic republic. Hezbollah attempted several UAV infiltrations during the war; one drone crashed inside Lebanon due to a presumed technical problem, while the others were intercepted by the IAF. Hezbollah attempted to enter Israeli airspace with drones before the war, as well. In April 2005, a UAV was launched and flown between the cities of Acre and Nahariya in northern Israel, and then landed successfully in southern Lebanon. In November 2004, a Hezbollah drone infiltrated Israeli airspace, took photos of Israeli communities in the north, and made its way back to Lebanese air space before crashing into the Mediterranean. The drone managed to fly over Israeli territory for 15 minutes and was not detected by IDF radars.

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BIRTH BIRTH

at Rockdale Temple Chapel on July 19, 2012 Bruce Baker received the Miriam Dettlebach Award. This award is given in honor of the first executive director of Jewish Family Service as recognition of exceptional volunteer service to the agency. Steve Halper, representing Friends of Bigs & Littles, presented Ashley Andrews with a $1000 check as the recipient of the Betty R. Goldberg Community Service Award. This award was established in honor of the many years of service that Betty gave to the organization and recognizes a Little who helps others by performing good deeds and acts of kindness. Ashley, 17, is a Little in the Jewish Family Service Bigs & Littles program, and was nominated by her Big for the past ten years, Amy Coppel. Two staff members received Longevity Awards; Luda Gikhman for 15 years and Paula Tompkins for 10 years.

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ustin and Casey Binik-Thomas and their daughter Ziva of Deer Park are pleased to announce the birth of their second daughter and sister Zoe (Ettie Chaya bat Avraham v’Danielle) on May 31, 2012 ( 10 Sivan 5772). Zoe is the granddaughter of Phyllis Binik-Thomas and Michael Thomas of Montgomery and John Hamilton and the late Deborah Hamilton of Fairfield.

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Abraham Moss Society Reception A reception for the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati’s Abraham Moss Society was held on June 13 at the Peterloon Estate in Indian Hill. Over 75 people attended. The reception was generously sponsored by PNC Bank and hosted by Rosemary and Frank Bloom. Andres Spokoiny, President of the Jewish Funders Network, spoke about how donors can move from giving with only their checkbooks to giving with their hearts as well.

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Wertheim’s: German-American tradition comes alive

By Michael Sawan Assistant Editor Jewell places the brimming pilsner glass in the bar fridge, explaining that she doesn’t just hand out her last name.

“All the regulars know it, I’ve been here so long,” she says half jokingly, half apologetically.

After 22 years of business, I imagine such familiarity would be the case.

Wertheim’s is located on West 6th Street in Covington, along one of those older brick-lined boulevards that has a park going through the median. The structures along the street bear similar hallmarks, with lots of old bricks and gaslight street lamps.

Wertheim’s itself is no exception. Built out of what appears to have been an old house (or maybe hotel), the restaurant features spacious rooms, high ceilings, and doorways that could suit a giant. A German-American restaurant, Wertheim’s prides itself in suiting both cultural tastes. Sal Wertheim, the owner of the restaurant, put it very matter-of-factly: “We’re one of the best GermanAmerican restaurants in this part of the country. There are German recipes, but also American.” He went on to explain that he tries to strike a balance between the two, so that the menu has something to offer whichever mood his customers are in. “Most of our menu is made to order,” Sal continued.

“There are very few pre-cooked items.” This all adds up, with Sal finally commenting that his average clientele consists of “people who like to have some good beer and good food.”

Looking around the restaurant I was struck by how many posters there were. They were all from local food festivals of years past, both Northern Kentucky and Southern Ohio, and encompassing everything from The Taste of Blue Ash to the Great Inland Seafood Festival. There were even some festivals that I didn’t recognize, ones that are now defunct yet still retain a place on the Wertheim’s wall.

And, of course, there were the Oktoberfest posters (Mainstrasse AND Cincinnati). The place struck me as a sort of perpetual Oktoberfest, with beer steins decorating the old-world rooms that at one time must have housed real life German immigrants. Wertheim’s really is housed in a building with a heritage, and one feels that as they dine. I wonder now about the lives of those who were in such an old house, which make me curious about the reasons they came to this country to begin with.

It was only 2 p.m. or so and after a couple of second guesses I decided to go without beer. Let’s call it my biggest regret of my life and move on.

(Clockwise) The front patio of Wertheim’s, mostly packed up for the oncoming cool weather; The side of Wertheim’s, also demonstrating the Mainstrasse vibe; Jewell, a server at Wertheim’s, filling up a pilsner glass with one of Wertheim’s signature German beers; One of the dining rooms in Wertheim’s, where high windows and posters abound; Beer steins add to that Mainstrasse flavor that is Wertheim’s calling card; Hot Apple Strudel with a heavy dousing of powdered sugar; Gourmet Chicken Salad on rye, with Saratoga chips and a pickle spear.

For lunch I had the Gourmet Chicken Salad sandwich on rye, saratoga chips and a pickle spear.

The chicken salad was the sort with all kinds of stuff in it: grapes, celery, in general just a mish-mash of flavors and textures. In fact, I can’t quite pin down what all was in it. At times I thought I noticed raisins and apples, but I simply can not be certain. Whatever the case, it was good. The dominant taste of the sandwich was creamy-sweetness, with the mayonnaise and grapes combining in a summery way, despite the changing season outside. The sandwich also featured lettuce and tomato, which gave a full bodied texture and flavor.

Finally, the chicken was generously applied and well cooked, though if anything, slightly overcooked. In the grand scheme of things, though, that ended up being okay since the main attraction of the dish was that

creamy-sweetness.

Accompanying the sandwich were fresh cooked saratoga chips and a pickle spear. The pickle was perfectly serviceable, with a nice vinegar zest and a smooth crunch, though not necessarily needed in accompanying the chicken salad since it wasn’t a particularly fatty sandwich. But still appreciated!

The saratoga chips, however, were forward and backward 100 percent vital. I’m going to go ahead and say they are vital to general human existence, something like sunlight: you can go without it, but what sort of life would that be? They were extremely fresh, still warm from the frier, with a fantastic balance between crispiness around the rim and gooeychewiness inside the center. As with any good chip, you have to really watch yourself to keep from eating all of them at once, though

it would be a shame and a loss to force yourself to eat just one.

By the end of the meal I was thinking of going without dessert, but this time Jewell, the server, was there to convince me to not be silly.

“Sal loves all the desserts,” she explained, and who was I to argue with another man’s emotions? So I had some Apple Strudel. Like the saratoga chips, this must have been an in-house signature item of Wertheim’s, as it came out nice and hot and in great presentation.

Powdered sugar is no joke at Wertheim’s. To say it was “sprinkled” on would be a lie, this poor strudel had been dumped on, and to my gain. The pastry itself was, again, an imperceptible mish-mash of ingredients: This time I was certain there were raisins and apples, but I think there were also nuts.

The filling was just so gooey and hearty, packed full of sugar and

cinnamon, it was as though I had witnessed an ambiguous football play without my glasses on: who knows what was going on? But was it exciting? Oh yes. If it were appropriate I’d make some sort of apple strudel-saratoga chip feed bag and just walk with it, willing it to be the big fashion statement of Fall 2012 Cincinnati style.

The ambiance is uniquely Mainstrasse, old bricks and all. The food is good, a hearty mix of home cooked and quality. As Sal would say, if you’re in the mood for some good beer and good food, Wertheim’s is worth the visit. Their hours are Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 10 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.

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Dear Editor, The recent behavior by Barack Obama clearly outlines his plan for the Middle East if he is re-elected.

As he has said in the past, all “Occupied Land” must be returned

by Israel and his recent attempt to change the Democratic Platform so as to not recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital makes it obvious that he means to divide Jerusalem.

His unwillingness to even meet with Netanyahu and his pitifully reluctant approach to facing down Iran also is instructive. Basically Obama in his second term would use the threat of a Middle East nuclear war to, in conjunction with the Arab League, the Quartet and the UN, force a vulnerable Israel into a very unfavorable treaty with its neighbors. He will do this because he believes wrongly that Israel is one of the predominant causes of Arab anger and because he wants to be remembered as the architect of peace in the region so that he would be awarded another Nobel Peace Prize. This treaty will either lead to the destruction of Israel or a regional war, perhaps nuclear, or both.

As you cast your ballot, please remember Obama’s words and behavior; a vote for him will contribute to the weakening of Israel and possibly to its ultimate destruction. Israel’s survival is the true Jewish imperative. Our past lamentable history teaches us that we must take the threat of Israel’s extermination very seriously. We now have a choice; we may not in the future. There are none so blind that will not see.

Sincerely, John Feibel Cincinnati, OH Dear Editor, Retirement of the Amberley

Green Debt On Sept 24, 2012 I received a request from The American Israelite to comment on the pending disposition of the Amberley Green debt. While I directed the Israelite to Mssrs. Lahrmer and Hattenbach, Amberley Village Manager and Finance Committee Chair, respectively, I also shared some comments which were quoted in your frontpage article on Sept 27. I was frankly shocked and disappointed with the headline of your article, however. While your request and my reply made no mention of Mr. Kaplan, your headline read as if Amberley Village residents were celebrating his death! How crude, insensitive, and such poor taste. Mr. Kaplan in life personified a gentle, modest, and extremely generous individual.

Indeed, your obituary captured many of his stellar achievements and generosity in the Cincinnati community. He will surely be missed. To assume for even a moment, that any resident wished him poorly or an early passing, would be an insult and travesty to his memory. The American Israelite, which purports to represent the Jewish community, owes the Cincinnati Jewish and General communities a formal apology.

Sincerely, Ray Warren, Councilman, Amberley Village, Cincinnati, OH Dear Editor, The Kirsh Family The First World War was in full swing. The Germans occupied the Sventsky Heights and started bombing down the city of Daugavpils (former Dvinsk). The city was badly burnt and destroyed, and the inhabitants tried to move as far away from the Daugava river as possible. So,

the families of my parents found themselves in the court yard of a house in Kreslavsky street. There my parents got acquainted and made friends.

After the First World War, the Bolsheviks occupied the city, and my father joined the Red Latvian Riflemen, taking part in the civil war. He came back home around 1920, and he and my mother got married the following year. My father became first an apprentice and then started working as a tailor at Zalman Kirsh’s tailor shop.

The “Old Kirsh,” as he was called by his workers, was well over 50. He opened a tailor’s shop at the beginning of the century, it was located at the corner of Shilderovsky and Aleksandrovsky streets, in a one-storey wooden house with an attic.

The Daugavpils city began gradually to revive after the war: businesses, shops, schools were opening and flourishing. Kirsh’s shop made mostly smart clothes – dress coats, tuxedos, judicial cloaks, service jackets, but it was also possible to order a business suit or a coat. Business was booming, and the earnings were good.

But in the early ‘30s, the city, as well as the whole world, suffered a considerable decline due to the Great Depression. Kirsh’s tailor shop suffered more than other businesses, since nobody was interested in tuxedos anymore.

My father decided to try working for another tailor, but in approximately a week, Mrs. Kirsh visited our family and spoke with my mother, promising a good pay and asking my father to return to work for them, which he did in a two-weeks’ time.

After the revolution and the end of the financial crisis, a gradual economic growth began. At that time I started going to school, which was near Mr. Kirsh’s tailor shop, and I sometimes came to

visit my father on the way home.

Zalman Kirsh was an elderly man of average height, with a smooth-shaven head, very active and outgoing. He had been a wellknown, successful tailor for many years, but then he just supervised the business: manufacturing and supplies, taking orders and measurements, helping with cutting and fitting.

The Kirsh family, including his wife, daughters and the youngest son, lived in the same house where the shop was. The oldest son Natan studied in Riga at the university, the middle son worked in Riga as a salesman. The house had several entrances. The entrance from the Shilderovsky street led to the reception hall. It was a spacious, well-lit room with big windows and a huge table-counter where fabrics were displayed and cut. Nearby there was a cash desk and a rack with fabrics, fitting rooms with mirrors, coffee tables and chairs for the clients.

From the reception hall, separate doors led into the family quarters and to the shop. The shop was a big long room, with one window along the wall, and Singer sewingmachines sitting on two big tables.

Three tailors worked in the shop in the mid-’30s: my father, Herman, sewing jackets and coats, and Beek, sewing trousers and waistcoats. Another worker, Amdur, was employed when the business expanded, to help with the growing demand.

The tailors worked 12 hours a day except Friday, when everyone worked half a day. The payment was good. Mr. Kirsh was always respectful and caring to the workers, and the respect and affection was mutual. The Kirsh family usually invited their employees to all family celebrations. I remember how our family attended a bar-mitzvah of their son Ilija. A separate table for children was set in the nursery, I sat next to my schoolmates Wolf Tsinman and Simeon Dimant. After many years, meeting with Wolf, we recollected this party. My parents were also invited to the wedding of Mr. Kirsh’s middle son. And Amdur’s wedding was the first

great celebration that I attended with my parents.

The Kirsh family also owned a small one-storey brick house in nearby Valdemar street. Until the mid-’30s the house was rented out, but after Natan Kirsh graduated from the university, as an architect, his family moved into it, and Natan started to work in his native city. A gravestone monument to rabbi Rogacheveru designed by Natan commemorates his legacy as an architect.

The 1940 was marked by the coming of the “Soviets,” the situation in the city became very tense, and business plummeted.

At the beginning of 1941, my father quit his job at Mr. Kirsh’s shop and started working as a manager for the city branch of the sewing firm “XXX Latvia.” When later in 1941 the Second World War broke out and the front line came to Latvia, our family ran to the east. On our way, we met Ilija Kirsh several times, he was going with his friends, on bicycles, in the same direction.

At the beginning of the German occupation, the Kirsh family was in a ghetto. Then Zalman and the wife were transferred to a concentration camp in Riga, and later they were moved to a camp in Germany. Zalman survived until the end of the war, but died before he could return to his native city. His wife had died before him. In the autumn of 1945, Ilija Kirsh returned to Daugavpils and learned about the family’s destiny. He removed a pluck with the family name from their brick house for keepsake and returned to the city of Gorky where he lived with his family after the war.

In the ‘80s, during a business trip to the city of Serpukhov, I got acquainted with a friend of Ilija Kirsh. He told me that Ilija became the best tailor in their city, and that he had children and grandchildren.

By Gesel Maimin (Ashdod, Israel), 2008, Translation by Tatiana Lazaris (Los Angeles, CA), 2012.

Sincerely, Solomon Kirsh Cincinnati, OH,

Sometimes our kids make a point we didn’t think of first

By Michal Kohane Jewish Telegraph Agency SAN FRANCISCO – “You don’t mind me applying to West Point Military Academy, Mom, do you?”

“West Point?” I thought, surprised.

But it was fall. Graduation seemed like light years away.

“Go ahead,” I said, trying to sound casual. “Let me know if you need anything,” I added on automatic pilot, not having a clue what might be needed.

My son Ohr thanked me politely and told me he wanted to do this by himself.

Some 1,000 candidates are

accepted out of more than 15,000 applicants nationally, I told myself, perhaps as a consolation. I backed off and watched Ohr fill out long applications, write essays, get recommendations and train regularly. He watched me trying to deal with the idea.

Hesitating, I asked if he was sure about all this.

“Everyone should serve their country,” he said. “You did that, Mom, didn’t you?”

Growing up in Israel, like everybody else around me, I was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces when I was 18 and served in an elite intelligence unit. My mom

was a medic in the same army 30 years earlier during the War of Independence. Thirty years before that, her father was an officer in Europe during World War I. Others in our family have done the same, and yet … this was mandatory in countries far away. And none of them were my kid.

Ohr plodded along. He got the highly sought-after commendation letter from our congresswoman, Doris Matsui, and sometime later, the letter of appointment accepting him into West Point arrived.

The title read, “On behalf of the President of the United States …”

It started to feel more real:

College admittance notices don’t quite look like this. Neither did my own flimsy handwritten IDF draft notice, sent on a 3-by-5 card.

Our family overseas told us they knew all about West Point: “‘Top Gun,’ isn’t it? Anyway, if he is already thinking army, why not come to Israel?”

They reminded me there are great programs for lone soldiers, and I should know: The headquarters for Garin Tzabar, which supports lone soldiers during their aliyah process and IDF army service, is right next to my office at the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation’s Israel Center. And what if one day

Israel and the U.S. aren’t on the same side? Did I think about that?

Some of my friends told me to be proud. Others rolled their eyes in dismay. I shrugged, with a sort of half-smile. We had things to do, like book our tickets for R Day – that’s Army shorthand for Reception Day. And go to Travis Air Force Base to get some gear, like “low quarters” (Army for “shiny Shabbos shoes”) and heavy boots he should break in before basic training. He tried them on in the store – all this for the cute little toes I tickled when my baby nursed not that long ago.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2012

Efrat, Israel – Our nation, Israel, has just concluded a most intensive Festival period which encompasses a rollercoaster of religious emotions. We have moved from the intense soul searching of Rosh Hashanah to the heartfelt prayers for forgiveness of Yom Kippur. We have built and dwelt for seven days in a makeshift house reminiscent of the booths in the desert as well as of the “fallen sukkah of King David,” the Holy Temple. We have punctuated our prayer for rain with joyous and sometimes even raucous dancing around the Torah, whose reading we conclude just at Festival end. After a full month of festivities, we are now entering our first post festival Sabbath, on which we shall read of the creation of the world.

Although these segments seem disparate, I truly believe that there is a conceptual scheme which connects them all. I also believe that many observant Jews miss the theological thread which magnificently unites this particular holiday period because the religious establishment does not sufficiently stress the real message which Judaism is trying to teach.

Despite the hundreds of years between them, two great theologians – Rav Yosef Albo (13801444), in his Sefer Haikkarim – “Book of Essential Jewish Beliefs” and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) in his “Star of Redemption” – insist that the fundamental principles of Jewish faith are outlined in the three special blessings of the Rosh Hashana Musaf Amidah. Conventional wisdom sees the High Holy Days as frightening days of judgment, but Rosh Hashana actually teaches us that a major function of the Jewish people in this world is to establish the Kingship of our God of love, morality and peace throughout the world. Indeed, the Hassidim – and especially Chabad – refer to the night of Rosh Hashanah as the Night of the Coronation.

Yom Kippur is our Day of Forgiveness. In order for us to dedicate ourselves to the task of bringing the God of compassionate righteousness and justice to the world in the coming year, each of us must take to the task with renewed vigor. We can only muster the necessary energy if we have successfully emerged from our feelings of inadequacy result-

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We can only muster the necessary energy if we have successfully emerged from our feelings of inadequacy resulting from improper conduct towards humanity and to God. ing from improper conduct toward humanity and to God. Yom Kippur is not only a day of forgiveness for Jews. Our reading of the Book of Jonah with God’s command that the prophet bring the gentile Assyrians to repentance and the refrain which we iterate and reiterate during our fast, “for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7) demonstrate that God desires repentance and forgiveness for all of humanity.

The Musaf Amidah on Yom Kippur describes in exquisite detail every moment of the Temple service for forgiveness; indeed it transports us to the Holy Temple itself. Our sukkah represents the Holy Temple, or at least the model of the sanctuary in the desert after which it was crafted. The guests of the sukkah (ushpizin) are the great personalities of Biblical history, and the most fitting decorations for the sukkah are scenes from the Temple service (so magnificently reproduced by Machzor Hamikdash). It is not accidental that the depiction of the Temple service of the musaf amidah in the Yom Kippur service begins by invoking the creation of the world.

The Temple should somehow serve as a magnet for all nations and the conduit through which they will accept the Kingship of God and a lifestyle reflecting His morality and love.

Please note the following amazing parallels when the Bible describes the building of a sanctuary; it uses the following words: “Behold I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur from the tribe of Judah and I have filled him with the spirit of God: with Wisdom (Hakhmah), with Understanding (Tevunah) and with Knowledge (Daat)” (Exodus 31:2,3).

In the Book of Proverbs, which invokes God’s creation of the world, a parallel verse is found: “The Lord founded the earth with Wisdom (Hakhmah), fashioned the heavens with Understanding (Tevunah) and with Knowledge (Daat) pierced through the great deep and enabled the heavens to give forth dew” (Proverbs 3:19,20).

Apparently, the Bible is asking us to recreate the world with the

Holy Temple from whence our religious teachings must be disseminated throughout humanity.

From this perspective, we understand why our rejoicing over the Torah takes place at the conclusion of this holiday season rather than during the Festival of Shavuot. Pesach and Shavuot are national festivals on which we celebrate the founding of our nation from the crucible of Egyptian slavery and our unique status as the chosen people resulting from the revelation at Sinai.

The Tishrei Festivals are universal in import, focusing on our responsibility to be a Light unto the Nations. This is why on Simchat Torah, we take the Bible Scrolls out into the street, into the public thoroughfare and dance with them before the entire world.

From this perspective we can well understand why Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah moves seamlessly into the reading of Bereishit and of the creation of the world.

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

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b.) East of Assyria c.) By Aram 4. Where was the Euphrates River? a.) Traveled thru Assyria b.) Aram c.) No place is given 5. Where did Adam live after he was chased out of the Garden of Eden? a.) North of Eden b.) South of Eden c.) East of Eden d.) West of Eden ANSWERS 1. B 2:9 2. A 2:10 The river watered the garden and then split into four outside the garden. Based on Onkelos.

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By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist NEW FLICKS: HOSTAGES AND KARATE CHOP TEACHERS The following movies open wide on Friday, Oct. 12.

“Argo” is based on true events: in November 1979, Iranian militants seized the American embassy and held 52 embassy members hostage until January 1981. Six staff members, away from the Embassy during the seizure, managed to find refuge in the home of Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor. A CIA agent came up with a plan to pretend that a Hollywood film company wanted to make a film (called “Argo”) in Iran. The six Americans pretended to be part of the film’s location scouting crew and were able to board (January 1980) a regular flight out of Iran.

Ben Affleck, who also directed the film, plays the CIA agent, with ALAN ARKIN, 79, playing a fictional Hollywood producer who helps him. John Goodman plays a Hollywood make-up man who helped disguise the Americans.

Canadian media outlets issued scathing criticism of “Argo” when it played the Toronto Film Festival last month. They said that Taylor’s paramount role in the whole operation, and the real personal risk he took in harboring the Americans, had been severely downplayed.

Meanwhile, the role of the CIA agent had been “puffed” out of all recognition. Affleck, who didn’t write the script, met with Taylor just after the film festival and sort of apologized. A written “history” message that plays after the film ends has been recently altered to give more credit to the Canadians.

This all said; “Argo” has “good buzz” in terms of being an exciting, well-crafted movie.

“Here Comes the Boom” is a comedy starring Kevin James as a high school biology teacher who becomes a martial arts fighter to raise money to save his school’s music program and the job of his music teacher buddy (HENRY WINKLER, 66). This movie kind of sounds like “Mr. Holland’s Opus” meets “Kung Fu Panda.” I recall a 1978 episode of “Happy Days” in which Winkler (playing “Fonzie”) didn’t have to beat-up anyone (or be beat up) to raise funds for a good cause. All the charismatic Fonzie had to do was sit in a booth and wait for oodles of girls to pay for a kiss for charity. But those were simpler and less hard times.

NOBEL SIDELIGHT This week, and next, the Nobel Prizes will be announced.

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Recently, I came across the 2009 memoir of NICHOLAS MEYER, 67, and it includes a funny anecdote about Nobel Prize winner ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955). Meyer’s credits include writing the crackling good Sherlock Holmes-meets-SIGMUND FREUD novel, “The Seven Percent Solution,” and cowriting the screenplay for the successful 1976 film of the same name. He also co-wrote and directed “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (1982). Its success re-vitalized the “Star Trek” franchise.

Meyer’s father was a Manhattan psychoanalyst and a good amateur pianist. His mother was a concert pianist. The rarefied intellectual circles they moved in included Einstein. Yes, of course, Einstein was a much more complex man than the always genial, sometimes absent minded professor that popular culture often makes him out to be.

But in Meyer’s only meeting with Einstein, he lived up to the “cute professor” stereotype. Meyer’s family attended a Thanksgiving dinner in Princeton, where Einstein taught. Before dinner, Meyer’s father played piano, accompanied by Einstein on “squeaky” violin. The 8-year-old Meyer was seated next to Einstein at the dinner table. He leaned over and told the great man that he thought he had a hair on his turkey. Einstein replied: “Not so loud. Everyone else will want one.”

BRIEFLY NOTED Don’t trust unreliable internet sources that say that actress Anne Hathaway, 29, and actor/jewelry designer ADAM SHULMAN, 31, had a Jewish or interfaith wedding on Sept. 29. No reliable source has yet made clear what sort of wedding they had.

Hathaway, raised a Catholic, left the Church at 15. Here’s some reliable stuff on Shulman I dugout that is not found elsewhere: His jewelry line, James Bank Designs, is named after his maternal Jewish grandfather. His father, MARK, was head of several dept. stores including Henri Bendel’s and Filene’s Basement.

Starting on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 10PM is the scripted, 12episode MTV drama, “Underemployed.” It follows the lives of five friends coping with the problems our current economy poses for new college grads.

JARED KUSNITZ, 21, plays Lou, an aspiring environmentalist.

Kusnitz recently tweeted: “My mom just compared me to [singer] ADAM LEVINE. Her main comparison being that we’re both tall, skinny and Jewish.”

FROM THE PAGES 150 Y EARS A GO Miss Julia Daly, the great comedienne and vocalist, has been drawing large and fashionable houses nightly by her gifted talents. Her laughable impersonations of Our Female American Cousin have been taking the lead.

We have no doubt her engagement will last another week, as her vast popularity in this city demands it.

Encourage, grace, and talent and go at once. – October 17, 1862

125 Y EARS A GO A prominent lady has adopted a novel plan for raising a fund for the HUC, which seems practicable and ought to meet with the success it deserves. The plan is a simple geometric progression, and may be briefly described as follows: There will be in each city one lady appointed, called Committee A. A will give twenty-five cents, and will appoint four subscribers, which will call themselves B, each one of whom will give twenty-five cents to A. Each B will secure four subscribers, who will call themselves C, and who will give twenty-five cents to her B. Each C will secure four Ds, who will each give twenty-five cents and continue the progression as far as practicable.

All money received will be acknowledged in the columns of the American Israelite. Any information on this subject desired will be furnished by us. – October 7, 1887

100 Y EARS A GO From the standpoint of attendance, the Municipal Exhibit which is being held at the St. Nicholas Hotel is an assured success. During the fist six days 50,554 people visited the show.

There is good reason to believe that this record will be far surpassed during the next eight days on which the show will be open.

By far not the least pleasing feature of the attendance is the large proportion of women and children – those who do not vote. This certainly is a hopeful sign. This means that the people are ready and eager to learn more how government is operated and how public money is spent. No small argument for woman suffrage can be made from the large proportion of women who are attending the show.

The “twice-daily” lectures have been well attended and thousands of people have intimately

become acquainted with the problems which the city official meets.

Knowledge such as this can be acquired in no other way. The talks have been very practical.

Each department had told what and how things were being done in his office. With the knowledge gained in this way voters can hereafter vote more intelligently on all public questions. With this opportunity so easy to grasp it is not surprising that so many thousands have availed themselves of it.

These talks by officials will be given during the remaining days of the exhibit, and every one who has not paid at least one visit to the show should come and learn how the city government is operated. – October 10, 1912

75 Y EARS A GO The most impressive list of soloists to be offered in a single season is announced for the 43rd season of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, under leadership of Eugene Goosens, conductor.

The season will open Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, Oct. 22 and 23, with a program that will include Beethoven’s Second Symphony in D major; Sibelius’ Second Symphony in D major; Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival” Overture; and Two Chorales by Bach, arranged by Vittorio Gui. Sergi Rachmaninoff, foremost Russian composer and pianist, will be heard as soloist with the Cincinnati Orchestra at its second pair of concerts, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and 30.

Others on the list of soloists for the season include Richard Crooks, tenor; Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, famous piano duo; Rose Bampton, soprano; Walter Gieseking, pianist; Georges Enesco, famous Roumanian violinist, composer and conductor; Ruth Sleczynski, sensational child prodigy of the piano; Josef Hofmann, pianist; Felix Salmnd, ‘cellist; Charles Naegele, pianist; Lauritz Melchior, tenor; and Charles Courboin, organist.

Among the special events of the season will be one pair of concerts with the famous Cincinnati May Festival Chorus; and performances in association with the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. A series of five Young People’s Concerts also is included in the Orchestra’s schedule for the season. – October 7, 1937

50 Y EARS A GO “The Supreme Court Prayer Decision: Crisis or Comfort for You?” will be the subject of a

meeting sponsored by the American Jewish Committee Sunday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center.

Justin Friedman, chapter chairman, emphasized that this meeting will be open to all as an educational service to the community.

He announced appointment of Mrs. Herbert R. Bloch, Sr., and Mrs. Victor Youkilis, as chairmen of arrangements.

Harvey Biern and Richard Guggenheim planned the program.

A social hour and refreshments will follow.

Serving with them will be the Mesdames Melville Dunkelman, Archie Fine, Justin Friedman, John Heldman, Melvin Schulman, Joseph Segal, Charles Tobias, Jr., Richard Unger. – October 11, 1962

25 Y EARS A GO Bryna Kirzner, senior at City Wide Law, Government and Communications Academy, and Daniel Guigui, junior at Sycamore Senior High School are spending the first quarter of the 1987-88 school year attending the Alexander Muss High School in Israel. This program is sponsored by the Israel Programs Cabinet of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati in conjunction with the Ministry of Education in Israel. Bryna is the daughter of Helene and Harold Kirzner of Golf Manor, Daniel is the son of Reggie and Gabe Guigui of Blue Ash. – October 15, 1987

10 Y EARS A GO The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will host Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld at a Women’s Tea Monday, Oct. 14, at 3 p.m.

Klarsfeld’s lecture will be the first in a series leading up to Holocaust Awareness Week 2003: “Women and the Holocaust.” Klarsfeld will be in Cincinnati to participate in an academic symposium in honor of the inauguration of Rabbi David Ellenson.

Klarsfeld, born a GermanChristian, and her French-Jewish husband, Serge, are best known as Nazi hunters, seeking and bringing to justice those responsible for the Holocaust in France. They have tracked and brought to justice criminals such as Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo officer called “The Butcher of Lyons,” Kurt Lishka, and other Nazis in charge of deportation of Jews from occupied France. They identified and sought out Alois Brunner, who deported Serge’s father to Auschwitz, along with thousands of other French Jews. – October 10, 2002

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WORSHIP from page 3 distinction, admired and studied by teachers and students from every arena of Jewish life. He has also demonstrated great talent and devotion in leading the College-Institute and the Reform movement through a great period of change. This evening will provide an opportunity for the entire community to share in Rabbi Ellenson’s insights and reflections from his unique vantage point of Jewish leadership. All of the congregational rabbis and leadership feel privileged to come together and join in Shabbat TENSION from page 10 “During his trips to the U.S., Barak has defended the government’s positions and has tried to contribute, often successfully, to lowering tensions between the governments and strengthening security ties,” according to the defense minister’s office.

A defense ministry source on Oct. 3 emphasized the vital strategic significance of Israel’s security ties with the U.S., stating that Barak has worked to maintain and bolster those ties since he became defense minister five years ago, including the last three-and-a-half years in the Netanyahu government.

Accentuating his differences with Netanyahu, Barak last month KIDS from page 16 Images of my own military service came back to me as we sat there. Smells of sweaty uniform, shoes, oily machinery, food in the mess hall. Relief at seeing the sunrise after a long night duty.

Missing one vacation after another over a heated situation at the border. Coding phone calls, dealing with a harsh commander, losing a dear friend, hitchhiking home.

I must admit, throughout the process I had moments of “What’s gotten into him?” and “Where on earth did he get that idea from?”

But then came awards night at his high school. A colonel from West Point attended especially to congratulate Ohr as the crowd gave him a standing ovation. His classmates cheered, moms wiped away tears. One of the parents tapped my shoulder. “Great accomplishment,” he said, shaking my hand. “He tells me you’re his inspiration.”

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(513) 531-9600 evening worship and to enjoy this opportunity as one community.

During the weekend that commences with this joint Reform congregational Shabbat worship service, the Cincinnati Board of Overseers, under the leadership of Joan Pines of Chicago, will also be present at the service as they enjoy two days of meetings in Cincinnati, and as HUC hosts hundreds of people in its annual Associates Dinner on Saturday evening Oct. 20. In addition the HUC Board of Governors begins its meetings here in Cincinnati on Sunday and Monday, Oct. 21-22. called for a unilateral withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria if peace efforts with the Palestinians remained stalled.

Barak’s proposal, made in an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom, was widely seen as a bid to stake out new political ground before a possible election, which Netanyahu could opt to call in an attempt to build new alliances rather than battle with his current coalition partners over the 2013 state budget, which will include severe austerity measures. Barak has resisted Finance Ministry calls to rein in defense spending and impose steep defense cuts. Other parties in the coalition have also balked at cuts in spending that could affect core constituencies.

I swallowed hard, caught off guard: all these things we teach our kids when we have no idea we’re even getting through to them, while in return they stretch who we are beyond what we ever imagined when they set out on their own journey!

In early July, we headed to the academy in upstate New York.

While Ohr was called to start his “processing including receiving the first free haircut,” I walked around the grounds and remembered an earlier visit, when I dragged my mom to see this grand institution during our trip to the U.S. just before my own service.

I found the Jewish chapel, where the Torah in a glass display was open to Ohr’s bar mitzvah portion. I wiped salty fluids off my eyes and face. The weather started feeling just like a bad summer day in Tel Aviv. I realized, maybe this isn’t as far away as I initially thought.

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by Janet Steinberg PART 2 OF A SERIES The Grove Park Inn is an Asheville, N.C. resort tucked into the breathtaking landscape between the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountain range. It represents a return to the elegance of a bygone era; it is yesterday, today and tomorrow. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Inn has preserved the integrity and charm of its turn-of-the-century atmosphere.

This distinguished resort was the dream of Edwin Wiley Grove (1850-1927) who envisioned the building of a resort hotel in the graceful, unhurried surroundings of the Blue Ridge Mountain region. Grove said his inn was to be “Built not for the present alone, but for ages to come, and the admiration of generations yet unborn.”

The owner of a St. Louis pharmaceutical firm, Grove came to Asheville to establish a chemical company. He found the climate so beneficial to his health that he bought a large acreage of land on the western-facing slope of Sunset Mountain. It was here that Mr. Grove conceived the idea of building Grove Park Inn, a unique resort overlooking the mountains he had come to love.

Mr. Grove’s concept for the structure was influenced by The Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. With its undulating red clay tile roof, the main building is a unique example of Naturalist Architecture.

Edwin Wiley Grove’s rustic, yet luxurious, grand mountain masterpiece was built of boulders taken from Sunset Mountain and the surrounding area. The boulders were hauled to the site by Packard engine-powered “trains” and fit into place in their original state that shows the time-etched face given them by years of sun and rain.

A combination of high wages and dedicated workers brought about the completion of The Grove Park Inn in 11 months and 27 days. William Jennings Bryan

delivered the opening address on July 1, 1913.

Throughout its illustrious past, and into its distinguished present, Grove Park Inn has hosted numerous celebrities including: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Woodrow Wilson, John D. Rockefeller, Enrico Caruso, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Al Jolson, Don Cheadle, William Shatner, Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Graham, and Barack Obama. It was in the Great Hall Lobby that William Howard Taft resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court on February 3, 1930.

If you find that indulgence is a necessity, lose yourself in Grove Park Inn’s subterranean spa facilities. Pamper yourself with a massage or facial, and chill out in a hot tub, a hot steam room, or a hot sauna. I guarantee you will find yourself. Cool!

Among the many accolades received by this AAA FourDiamond Hotel, my favorite was the one awarded to the Inn’s Sunset Terrace, the 2011 Top 10 Award as the Best U.S. Restaurant to Watch a Sunset. Watching a breathtaking sunset over the mountains, I found myself singing Gus Kahn’s 1922 words “Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.”

The Great Hall, with its rustic stone walls, weathered slate floors, wooden columns, and copper lighting fixtures, is a warm and cozy haven in spite of its humongous size. Following cocktails on the Sunset Terrace, I lingered in a rocking chair in front of one of the room’s massive 14-foot fireplaces.

The inscription over the fireplace expressed my feelings precisely: “Take from this hearth its warmth…From this room its charm…From this Inn its amity…Return them not, but return.”

I shall return!

I moved on through the state to the Old Edwards Inn. According to Amanda Sullivan, marketing director of this world-class gem hidden in the mountains of North Carolina, there is one comment she hears over and over from first-time guests at Old Edwards Inn: “Wow, I had no idea!”

As a first-time guest at the Highland, N.C. hideaway, I too have but one comment to say to Amanda, and that is: “Wow, I had no idea!” Yes, when I booked my stay at the Old Edwards Inn, I had no idea what I was INN for.

From the time I entered the lobby of Old Edwards Inn I was totally enveloped by the warm ambiance of the huge stone fireplace and the wood and stone interior that surrounded me.

(Top-bottom) The 101 year old rustic and luxurious Grove Park Inn; Grove Park Inn’s swimming pool in their subterranean spa; Swimming pool at Old Edwards Inn; Meditation Room in Old Edwards’ Spa, voted the #1 Hotel Spa in North America, 2010.

Authenticity prevailed.

Six spacious, luxurious, spa suites within the Inn have a private elevator that take you directly to The Spa. Voted the #1 Hotel Spa in North America by Condé Nast Travelers’ readers in 2010, the spa received the first-ever perfect score in the 20-year history of the competition. Within the spa, you will feel the energy and healing power of the mountains.

The Lodge at Old Edwards and the Cottages at Old Edwards are in close proximity to the Inn. With its expansive views and wraparound rocking-chair porch, the Mountain Lodge offers a nature-inspired setting. The Cottages, with their verdant lawns, shady porches and warm interiors of fine wood and crafted stone, are the perfect mountain getaway for families. The cottages, outfitted in handsome English manor house décor, offer all the amenities available to The Lodge and The Inn guests.

No matter which accommodations you choose, Old Edwards Inn provides a sumptuous retreat with period antiques, European bedding and Frette linens. The bathrooms feature plush robes, rainfall showers and heated-tile floors with the finest amenities.

All of the Inn’s accommodations include Old Edwards’ traditions of champagne arrival, evening turndown, 24-hour business center, 24-hour Butler’s pantry with complimentary Dove Bars, fresh fruit, and non-alcoholic beverages, twice daily housekeeping, room service, concierge, valet parking and much more.

Madison’s, the Inn’s 5-star restaurant, offers some of the freshest and most innovative cuisine in the North Carolina Mountains. My dinner of Pecan Crusted Quail Schnitzel and Soft Poached Quail Eggs was a testament to why Madison’s Restaurant has won the Wine Spectator “Award of Excellence” every year since 2005 and the “Best Of” award since 2008.

The Spa Café features light, healthy fare. In the warm months, you can enjoy light fare at the Poolside Bar and Bistro, or at the Rooftop Terrace and Wine Garden at the main historic Inn. Old Edwards Inn, the meandering mountain resort that graces the scenic Southwestern Plateau of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, has consistently been voted a top travel destination for its world-class spa, for relaxation, and for romance. The rose petals we found scattered on our bed, for our special anniversary, can attest to the latter.

Life…elevated!

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Fall memories Zell’s Bites

by Zell Schulman I remember my dad driving Mel, me and our children to this one pumpkin farm in Kentucky.

The fields were covered with pumpkins. Some were bigger than one person could carry and others were so tiny the only thing you could use them for were cooking or decorations. It became a fall tradition. My children loved it and came home with their favorite “picks” to carve out and decorate for Halloween and Thanksgiving.

This week, driving over for a meeting at the University of Kentucky, I passed several small farms, whose front lawns were covered with pumpkins. It brought back so many memories.

Sometimes I forget what I had put away and when I place the item in the drawer wonderful memories of when I had purchased it and where I had worn it come back.

The past Saturday, on my way to attend Succoth services at Wise Temple, I passed by hundreds of trees whose leaves had turned shades of yellow, gold, red and orange. It’s nature’s way of telling me that fall has arrived.

What Succoth memories I have. Over the years my family has had a variety of succahs, some created by architecture students from the University of Cincinnati, some ordered from Jewish catalogues and some “do-it-yourselves.” Each one brought such joy to our family and friends.

My fondest Succoth memory is from when I was a teenager. I spent Succoth with my grandmother Bessie Jacob, of blessed memory.

We not only ate in her Succah, but her next door neighbor, who was very traditional, actually came and slept in the Succah. Each evening I helped her prepare the small cot with fresh linens which we covered with a beautifully handmade quilt.

In the morning, after he davened, he would fold up the quilt, the linens and the cot and bring them into my grandmother’s home.

The nights are beginning to get cooler and it’s time for me to rearrange the clothes in my closets from summer to fall and winter attire. The time has come to remove the sweaters in my cedar chest, replacing my summer tee shirts and lightweight cardigans I’d been wearing.

Each year it always surprises me when the seasons change along with my wardrobe. It’s like buying new clothes but not having to pay for them. Sometimes I forget what I had put away and when I place the item in the drawer wonderful memories of when I had purchased it and where I had worn it come back. Of course I always have my favorites and I always purchase one new item, be it a sweater, jacket , suit or dress, for Rosh Hashanah.

I remember my mother Henrietta, of blessed memory, started this tradition when I was a small child and I continue it each year with my grandchildren.

Pulling on the soft, pink, V-neck sweater I had just bought myself felt special. My mother would have loved it.

SOUTH OF THE BORDER PUMPKIN SEEDS Makes 2 cups Have fun with the inside of the pumpkin as well as the outside. It’s like making mud pies when you were a kid, only better, because you can eat these. The pumpkin’s seeds make the best snack and the whole family will enjoy a helping.

You can prepare this recipe several days ahead and reheat the seeds in a 325°F. oven for 5 to 10 minutes.

Ingredients 2 cups pumpkin seeds 2 tablespoon butter or sunflower oil 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Method 1. Wash the seeds well to remove any pumpkin. Lay on paper towels to dry.

2. In a small frying pan, melt the butter or oil over medium high heat. Add the seeds and sprinkle with the cayenne pepper, salt and black pepper. Cook about 7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden brown and crisp.

Audi Q5—sporty and sophisticated When an 2013 Audi Q5 drives by, its sporty and sophisticated profile can’t be missed. From its dramatic wheels and classy aluminum roof rails to the graceful slope of its roof, this is one SUV that stands apart from the crowd.

For 2013, the Q5 has been further beautified with a restyled grille, sleeker designs for the bumpers and lights, and the integration of signature Audi LED technology in the taillights and available daytime running lights.

The Audi Q5 presents its occupants with seats placed at the perfect height for easy entry and exit, with virtually no bending or stretching involved. This is great for the baby boomers. After settling in, occupants find themselves in a cabin filled with luxurious leather and an eye-catching mix of aluminum accents and allnatural walnut trim. The comfortably firm seats provide plenty of room for five, with rear passengers enjoying the superb comfort awarded by reclining seats, independent climate controls, and privacy glass.

Unlike many in its class, the Audi Q5 offers a choice between two engines, each blessed with the dual benefits of forced induction and FSI® direct fuel injection. The turbocharged 211 horsepower 2.0liter TFSI® engine can achieve 28 mpg on a highway cruise, while the supercharged V6 in the 3.0T model pumps out a robust 272 horsepower and 295 pounds-feet

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of torque. With either engine, Audi quattro® seamlessly spreads the power among all four wheels, all the time, enhancing traction under all conditions. Working in concert with the sophisticated multilink suspension and a new electromechanical power steering system, the Audi Q5 possesses an athletic on-road feel that’s all too rare in the sport-utility world.

When it comes to passenger protection on the Q5, Audi left no stone unturned. Its occupants receive protection from six standard airbags, including front airbags, side airbags, and two head-level curtain airbags covering both rows plus available body-

level thorax side airbags for outboard rear passengers. Electronic Stability Control helps secure the car’s intended path at all times, and in the event of a collision, intelligent sensors automatically unlock the doors, switch on interior and hazard lights, and cut off fuel flow to the engine.

The 2.0T Premium, 2.0T Premium plus, 3.0T Premium plus, 3.0T Prestige and the 2.0T Hybrid Prestige are the five models to choose from, each adding more luxury, ingenuity, and style to the next, at a reasonable price.

The MSRP $35,900 — $50,900 makes this vehicle more than affordable.

22 • OBITUARIES D EATH N OTICES SCHLONSKY, Dr. Joseph, age 72, died on September 30, 2012; 14 Tishrei, 5773.

HERMAN, Sylvia, age 92, died on October 2, 2012; 16 Tishrei, 5773.

SCHATZ, Bernard, age 81, died on October 4, 2012; 18 Tishrei, 5773.

FREMONT, Robert E., age 86, died on October 6, 2012; 20 Tishrei, 5773.

BERNSTEIN, Col. Israel, age 93, died on October 7, 2012; 21 Tishrei, 5773.

RISK from page 7 “People get tested because they think they have enough risk to be tested.” Dr. Garber said, “All Jewish women could be tested because the prevalence in the population is not that low, one out of 40, but others think that you should only be tested when you’re ready to learn that you have a mutation.”

Dr. Garber discussed a study done in Israel, where all subjects, whether they had a family history of breast or ovarian cancer or not, were tested. The study found that the genetic abnormality was just as common in both groups.

Still, the controversy over whether everyone should be tested or not persists, and much of it is based in history. Dr. Garber explained that when the prevalence of sickle cell anemia was discovered in the African American popRETURNING from page 9 Since 2010, Bahbout has been the UCEI’s religious reference point for the region.

“I’ve been trying to converge the people together from the various regions – Apulia, Calabria, Sicily – to create a movement,” he told JTA. Others are reaching out, too.

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ulation, and a hemoglobin test was recommended, “people in the African American community thought that this was genocide – that people were trying to wipe them out. I bet not everybody thinks differently today.”

Among the concerns Dr. Garber has heard are raised anxiety in the Jewish community, as well as concerns that those with the mutation would be identified as “damaged goods” for marriage.

So, what if you do get tested and an abnormality is discovered? Dr. Tung said that women make different choices. “By age 40, when women have completed child-bearing, those who have inherited a mutation in these genes should remove their ovaries. This will dramatically reduce their risk of ovarian cancer, for which there is no effective screening. Removing one’s ovaries also reduces the risk of breast cancer, if performed before menopause, through the lowering of estrogen levels. To reduce the risk of breast cancer some [women] intensify screening, others have preventative mastectomies.”

Dr. Tung reminds women of two main take-home messages.

The first is that there is a lot we still don’t know about breast cancer development. “We can only explain about half of inherited breast cancer cases from genes that have been discovered thus far,” she said. Many genes that predispose to the development of breast cancer have not yet been found. The second is that Jewish women are not more likely to develop breast cancer than non-Jewish women, but more of the breast cancer that develops in Jewish women is caused by genes inherited from one parent or the other.

Rabbi Barbara Aiello, whose own ancestors were anusim, has led Ner Tamid del Sud, an independent Jewish prayer and study center in Calabria. Aiello’s center operates outside the Orthodox Jewish establishment and is not recognized by the UCEI. But interest is so great, she said, that her group plans to open a new synagogue next summer when the building is completed.

PLAYERS from page 7 While he was in Japan on that trip, Berg skipped a day of baseball and went to bring flowers to the daughter of an American Embassy staff member who had just had a baby.

“Berg left the flowers downstairs in her room and went up to the roof with a camera and filmed the entire Tokyo area,” Horvitz said. “Those pictures were later used in the Doolittle Raid on April 18, 1942.”

The Doolittle Raid was the first air raid by the U.S. to strike the Japanese home islands during World War II, and was retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Berg played a total of 662 games from 1923-1939 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago White Sox and the Washington Senators.

According to Ralph Berger of the Society for American Baseball Research, Jewish fans should not be forgotten, either.

“I think there is another area that should be broached,” Berger told JNS. “That is the Jewish fan of

baseball. Being a fan was a way for them to enter the mainstream of America, as well as for the players.”

Berger said Greenberg and Koufax should be remembered not only for their prowess on the diamond, but also for their guts in response to anti-Semitism.

“Hank never backed down from anyone and he refused to play on the High Holidays,” Berger said. “Koufax had guts in his response to Carl Furillo’s antiSemitic remarks. We should remember all the Jews who played in the big leagues and overcame outright bigotry and proved they had the right to be there.”

There have been lighter sides to the Jewish experience in baseball.

One example is Al Schacht. Known as the “Clown Prince,” Schacht was the first professional mascot.

“Al Schacht and Max Patkin were the forerunners of the modern day mascots,” Horvitz said.

“They would entertain and clown around in between innings. This was after they retired. Schacht dressed as a hobo with a tall stove hat and a long dirty tuxedo coat.

This was in the mid-late 1920s.”

While researching his book, Horvitz had the privilege of interviewing Harry Danning.

Nicknamed “Harry The Horse” for Damon Runyon’s Broadway character, Danning played his entire career as a catcher for the New York Giants, and was ninth all-time in career hits behind Al Rosen.

In 1934, according to the Jewish Press, a Florida hotel refused entry to Danning and fellow Jew Phil Weintraub during spring training.

“Hibiscus” was a code word for Hebrew in Florida – as in “we don’t have hibiscus in our hotel.” Giants’ manager and All-Star first baseman Bill Terry threatened to take the entire world champion team to another hotel unless his Jewish players were given lodging. The hotel’s management backed down.

“There was obviously antiSemitism going on and there are a number of stories like the Danning one, but it was never to the extent of the racism shown to African Americans,” Horvitz said. “A lot of it was individual players facing off against another player.”

HOMEGROWN from page 8 encouraging activism and philanthropy among young Jews while accustoming older members to paying fees.

In Poland, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee recently received its first significant donation from a local philanthropist.

Promoters of Jewish life in Eastern Europe say that getting people to donate time and money is difficult in the former Soviet bloc, where bitter memories of “forced volunteering” remain, and there is deep-rooted skepticism in the idea of sacrificing for the common good.

“Former Soviet countries have little culture of giving or volunteering, and I know exactly why,” said Karina Sokolowska, director of the Poland office of the JDC. “Growing up in communist Poland, I remember attending ‘compulsoryvoluntary action’ every month. We would go somewhere and do what they told us. It profoundly affects your attitude to community work.”

Mariya Zarud, 22, of Odessa, encountered this barrier to community work at home.

Zarud, the regional coordinator for the JDC-funded Metzuda program for developing Jewish leadership, said she had to plead with her parents to convince them that her unpaid role in the Jewish community was a good thing.

“Initially it was pretty tough. I had to make them see I wasn’t wasting my time,” Zarud said of her teen years, when she first became involved with JDC programs. Like many people who grew up under communism, her parents were wary of organizational activism, she said.

While her parents’ generation looks askance at volunteering, young Jews recognize that it is up to them – not just international

Courtesy of Ilya Dolgopolsky

Dasha Fedoseeva, standing, was among the volunteers at the Rosh Hashanah auction and gala fundraiser at Moscow’s Radisson Royal Hotel on Sept. 19, 2012. The money went to benefit a Jewish orphanage.

Jewish aid groups – to build their communities, she says.

In Odessa, the Beit Grand Jewish Community Center, which was dedicated in 2010 thanks to American Jewish donations, collects fees for all cultural activities, according to Ira Zborovskaya of the local JDC office.

“Even if it’s only symbolic, everyone has to chip in and pay something for services,” Zborovskaya said.

In Soviet times, “charging fees for cultural activities was unthinkable – it was all free,” said Kira Verkhovskaya, director of Odessa’s other JCC, Migdal. Fees are also collected as a matter of policy there, but most of the budget comes from subsidies from Jews in the West.

“Some older people are not happy when they are asked to pay,” she said.

Both Migdal and Beit Grand have programs that encourage young Jews to contribute time and effort to the community.

Beit Grand also operates a luxury Jewish kindergarten for 40 children whose well-off parents pay a monthly fee of $500 – approximately double the average national monthly salary. The kindergarten is so popular that it has a long waiting list. The annual income of $240,000 from fees helps cover other programs, including charitable activities.

Nevertheless, the culture of giving is still far less widespread than it is in the West, experts say.

Russia has a Jewish population of 265,000, according to a 2010 official census, and the World Jewish Congress says it estimates the number is at least 330,000.

Despite the community’s size, local philanthropy comes mostly from a thin layer of “oligarchs or super-rich Jews,” Chlenov said.

“What we are missing is a trusted brand for small donations from middle-class donors, like what the Jewish federation system does in the U.S.,” he said.

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