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Lichter Lecture Series to lay down the law “Pursuing Justice: Jewish Law in the 21st Century” is a lecture series hosted by the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Judaic Studies that will feature nationally recognized speakers as part of the 2013-2014 Jacob and Jennie L. Lichter Lecture Series in Judaic Studies. The series will begin on Wednesday, October 23rd, and is free and open to the public.

This year’s lecture series is focusing on how the Western World is still grappling with how religious law fits into specific areas of modern society.

When Baruch Spinoza revolutionized our understanding of the world by distinguishing between divine and human law, his insight essentially created the idea of the separation between church and state; this concept is what drives a need to know more about how religious law and the modern state intersect. Because Americans are more aware than ever of how Islamic law (sharia) is played out in Muslim countries, it becomes crucial to have more than just a rudimentary understanding of the issues.

“We are excited to have such a diverse group of speakers for this year’s lecture series,” shares Gila Safran Naveh, Judaic Studies Department Head. “Each speaker brings different perspective to the table, and we hope their knowledge will provide an exceptional, interdisci- David Flatto plinary learning experience for at 7:00pm at the Taft Center on the those interested in Jewish law.”

UC Campus.

There are three lectures in the On Monday, November 4th, series: Gary J. Jacobsohn, Malcolm On Wednesday, October 23rd, Macdonald Professor in David Flatto, Professor of Law at Constitutional and Comparitive Penn State University, will present Law at the University of Texas at “The Concept of a Seperation of Austin will present “Constitutions Powers: A Novel Doctrine in Early in Divided Societies: The Case of Jewish Jurisprudence and its Israel”. This lecture also begins at Analogs in Modern Western 7:00pm, and will be held at the UC Jurisprudence”. The lecture begins College of Law in Room 114.

On Sunday, November 17th, Shulamit S. Magnus, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College, will hold the final lecture on “Women of the Wall: Recent Legal Developments”.

This lecture will be held at the Mayerson Jewish Community Center at 7:00pm.

If a deeper understanding about the constant relationship between Jewish Law (halakha) and the law

of the secular state in both Israel and the United States is something that is of interest, this lecture series will deliver a powerful and meaningful discourse on these topics that is worth experiencing.

Refreshments are served after the lectures; all dietary laws are observed.

About the series: At the beginning of each academic year, the Department of Judaic Studies invites the entire community to attend the Jennie L. and Jacob Lichter Lecture Series, made possible by the Jacob and Jennie L. Lichter Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.

Additional support was granted by the Ohio Humanities Council, the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, the UC College of Law, the Mayerson Jewish Community Center and the Cincinnati Museum Center.

The Lichter Lecture Series, endowed in 1981, is the department's major event of the academic year. Each year the lectures focus on a different theme, and three leading scholars or intellectuals are invited to address it from different angles.

Judaic Studies is part of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences.

Since the 1980s, the annual Lichter Lecture Series in Judaic Studies has enabled the Department of Judaic Studies to bring to UC close to 100 of the best and the brightest in the various fields of Jewish thought and learning. These lecturers include: Yehuda Amichai, Yahuda Bauer, David Biale, Norman Golb, Paula Hyman, Amos Oz, Rabbi Dr. W. Gunther Plaut, Jonathan D. Sarna, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Sasson Somekh, Norman A. Stillman, James Tabor, Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, Jack Wertheimer, A.B. Yehoshua and Ronald W. Zweig.

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Jewish Federation hires international filmmaker for fundraising position The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati has recently hired Rachel Lyon as Director of Special Gifts, a newly created position funded by a grant from The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati.

The Jewish Federation serves as— among many other roles—the umbrella fundraiser for Cincinnati’s Jewish community. Historically, those funds have been raised almost entirely through an annual Community Campaign. Recently, though, to adjust to shifting trends, the organization has broadened its focus to encourage donors to go beyond their commitment to the Campaign with “special gifts” to specific projects they find compelling.

Reporting to Chief Development Office Danielle Minson, the Director of Special Gifts provides overall management and leadership of these efforts, as well as working with local agencies to enhance their current fundraising practices and developing new strategies for increasing donor support.

Throughout her career, Lyon, an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former university professor, has raised over $25 million from individuals and foundations— including a national grant from the

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Ford Foundation—for various films and projects.

Minson said, “Because of her background as a filmmaker, Rachel brings a different perspective on fundraising. She has spent her career getting to know donors and their passions and then connecting them with the causes—in this case her films on topics such as human rights, civil liberties and other critical global issues— they care about. That experience is exactly what we need to successfully raise dollars for our agencies.”

Lyon joined the Federation in

August and has already proven to be an asset by working with volunteer leaders to successfully launch the Yavneh Endowment Campaign for local Jewish day school Rockwern Academy.

“Education has always been a passion of mine, and I was thrilled to be able to use my talents to help bring in these donations that will sustain Rockwern’s future, and thereby our community’s future,” said Lyon. “The Federation’s focus on community and dedication to repairing the world drew me to this position. The professionals and volunteers here are so talented, and I know I’m in the right place.”

Most recently, Lyon was a professor and artist-in-residence at Northern Kentucky University. She has also taught at Southern Methodist University, Bentley University and Queens College. Lyon is an alumna of the 2012-2013 class of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s “Leadership Cincinnati” program. She has produced 65 documentaries, feature films, TV movies and limited series filmed on five continents. Her latest documentary, Hate Crimes in the Heartland, will premiere in Cincinnati at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in February 2014.

Lyon lives in Wilder, KY.

Jewish Federation hires “Create Your Jewish Legacy” professional The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati welcomes David Harris as Create Your Jewish Legacy Coordinator, a newly created position funded by a grant from The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati.

“Create Your Jewish Legacy” (CYJL) is a community-wide program with the goal of increasing endowment gift commitments to local Jewish agencies and congregations. It follows a proven national model and is being spearheaded locally by the Jewish Federation.

Gifts to an organization’s endowment—usually made through planned gifts or estate bequests (often called “legacy gifts”)—offer financial stability by supplying a steady source of funds that supplement annual fundraising efforts.

The CYJL program builds public awareness of the power of endowment giving and equips professional and volunteer solicitors with tools to discuss endowment giving with donors.

Danielle Minson, Jewish Federation Chief Development Officer, said, “When an organization has limited fundraising capacity, endowment giving is often put on the backburner because staff must focus on immediate needs.

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Harris brings a variety of valuable experience to the position, including a background in Jewish nonprofit organizations; leadership development; experiential and outdoor education; and research and writing. He has worked as a freelance genealogist; consulted for an international PR firm; created and implemented programming at Jewish overnight camps (having attended Young Judaea summer camps in his youth); and cofounded an outdoor adventure company.

Harris lived in Israel for eight years, during which he served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

“This position requires someone

with a unique set of skills, including project management, communication, teaching, donor relations— someone who can easily transition from keeping track of hundreds of details to having a sensitive conversation with a donor—and we’ve found that combination in David.” said Minson. She continued, “Although David is new to the area, he has jumped in with both feet and already become a part of our community. I am so glad he decided to make the move to Cincinnati!”

Harris is originally from Wichita, KS, and has lived throughout the U.S. and Israel, most recently in Brooklyn, NY. He moved to Cincinnati in late 2012.

“I decided to move to Cincinnati because it has a great mix of what I love about small towns and what I love about big cities: It has a diverse Jewish community, but one where everyone seems to know one another. It has a vibrant cultural and entertainment life, a skyline, a major university system and professional sports, but it also has amazing parks and green spaces. It’s the best of many worlds,” said Harris.

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Wise Temple’s WiseUP Mitzvah Day is Sunday, November 3. Wise Temple members have been going strong for more than 9 years, devoting not only a day to getting a taste of social action but also an entire year to new and continuing social action opportunities through WiseUP, Wise Temple’s social action program.

Hundreds of Wise Temple members will gather at both Wise Center and Plum Street Temple to find a social action project that inspires them. Wise Center cochairs Amy Magenheim and Bess Gordon have made arrangements for Wise Temple families to partner with agencies throughout Greater Cincinnati, cooking meals, making blankets, and assembling care packages for children newly diagnosed with cancer for one of the new agencies this year, Dragonfly Foundation. Some will travel to agencies to perform tasks such as organizing school supplies at Crayons to Computers and doing outdoor work at Halom House.

The Temple high school group will have a Karaoke party with residents of Cedar Village. Boys & Girls Club of Greater Cincinnati is another new organization partnering with Wise Temple this year and talented artist Cara Alpern and other Wise Temple members will create a mural on a wall at the facility specifically designed to reflect the mission of this organization.

Wise Temple adults will gather at Plum Street Temple on Mitzvah Day to share breakfast and an inspiring program comprised of several Wise Temple members who have created nonprofit organizations which speak

to their hearts. Panel speakers include Allison Gordon, cofounder of Ride Cincinnati, Ohio’s largest breast cancer cycling event, Charles Fox, founder of Grammy CC’s Foundation of Love, which provides blankets and caps to women going through chemotherapy, Sherri and Tedd Friedman, co-founders of Most Valuable Kids of Greater Cincinnati, a non-profit agency that turns unused sports and entertainment tickets into lifechanging opportunities for needy kids and Mady Gordon, creator of The Madeleine Gordon Gift of Life Foundation, which helps defray costs associated with in vitro fertilization procedures.

The panel discussion will conclude with Julie Kantor, the WiseUP Board Liaison, introducing new WiseUP programs that Wise Temple members will perform throughout the year.

Plum Street Temple Mitzvah Day co-chairs Valerie Friedman and Julie Buckner have compiled several social action projects that will fulfill the mission of tikkun olam as well as help make deeper connections among the mid-life congregants as they do this meaningful work together. These projects include visiting with veterans, cooking meals, socializing with underprivileged adults, and, new this year, joining with the residents of Joseph House, a residential treatment facility for homeless veterans suffering from substance abuse to paint the office rooms.

Registration for WiseUP Mitzvah Day can be done by calling the Temple office.

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for questions throughout the evening. No topics are off limits.

As a Brotherhood, they have gained so much from learning about the rabbis and their life stories, as well as gaining insight into how each rabbi sees his or her rabbinate, and their place at Wise Temple.

The series will continue in the Spring as well, when the other new rabbis at Wise Temple , Rabbis Rachel Maimin and Sydney Henning will become the next guests of honor.

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as well as fall clean-up projects for Rockdale families in transition. In addition, there will be numerous on-site projects that people can choose: the Brotherhood Blood Drive from 9:00-1:30; Crafts for Kids to make Chanukah and Shabbat cards for soldiers oversees and patients at area hospitals; Resource Cards for people in crisis; and the Mitzvah Knitting group will be working on hats and blankets.

This year the temple is also pleased to be able to offer the services of a local recycling firm to anyone who wants to clean out their garage, basement, and closets of those hard-to-recycle items such as TV’s, computers, cell phones, DVR’s, video recorders, and other obsolete electronic and metal items that cannot and should not go into local landfills. They will be on-site from 9:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in the JCC south parking lot. Some large computers and TVs do have a small charge, so you should call the temple in advance for pricing.

Mitzvah Palooza is for all ages.

Those interested in participating are encouraged to come and join in making a difference in the community.

On November 4 the Isaac M. Wise Temple Brotherhood will renew their very successful “Burgers and Beer with the Rabbis” event. After a short hiatus due to the absence of rabbis in the past year, the Brotherhood is very excited since Isaac M. Wise Temple hired three new rabbis over the summer. On November 4th, they will add Rabbi Karen Thomashow to the long list of rabbis they have hosted.

This event has been a wonderful opportunity for the men of Wise Temple to engage their rabbis in a very informal and casual setting. They gather at a restaurant, order burgers, enjoy a beer or two, and allow their guest to share with them their background and how they came to be at Wise Temple. Then the floor is open

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Rockdale Temple will once again spend the day focusing on mitzvah opportunities throughout the community on Sunday, November 3 as it celebrates its 6th Annual Mitzvah Palooza. The day will begin with T’filah at 9:30 for Kehal Kodesh, the temple’s religious school community, in which everyone is welcome to participate.

Mitzvah Palooza Committee members, Barbara Turner-Michaelson, Chris Malhotra, and Susan Sherman have prepared a full day of programs and activities that are appropriate for all age groups.

Social Action advocacy sessions will begin at 10:00 a.m. in the social hall with two programs sponsored by the Environmental Committee. The first session is on Energy Efficiency led by Perry Leitner and Karen Barras. The second session is about Community Agriculture Programs and will be a panel discussion by Kristin Gangwer, David Rosenberg, and Stuart Zanger.

After lunch, people will break into groups to participate in a variety of activities at organizations throughout Cincinnati including Cedar Village, Halom House, Jewish Family Service Food Pantry

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Cedar Village presents the fourth annual “Battle of the Bands” Cedar Village will present the fourth annual Battle of the Bands on Sunday, November 24 from 5:00p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the 20th Century Theater in Oakley. Barb Reed and Merrie Stillpass are cochairs of the event, and Gerald and Nancy Robinson and Roz Harkavy are the honorary co-chairs.

Three local bands, The Chuck Taylors, The Generics and The Mike Heile Band will perform during the evening providing lively music for listening and dancing.

The bands will begin playing at 5:30 p.m.

Proceeds from the Battle of the Bands benefit the Harkavy Fund, created in memory of Cedar Village’s first board chair, Frank Harkavy. The Harkavy Fund enriches the Cedar Village residents’ lives by providing music therapy; a bell choir; jewelry making, ceramics, and exercise classes; concerts and special programs to enrich the lives of the 300 residents who live in this retirement commu-

nity located in Mason. Tickets are available for both advance purchase or can be purchased at the door.

Valet parking will be provided.

“Battle of the Bands is not only a great way to support Cedar Village; it is an evening that is fun!

Great music, delicious food, wonderful conversations – what more could you ask for? ” said Carol Silver Elliott, Cedar Village CEO and president.

From left to rigth: Barb Reed and Merrie Stillpass

Patient caseload is growing at Cedar Village Rehab Center in Amberly Village To meet a growing demand, a pediatric physical therapist has been added to the staff of the Cedar Village Rehabilitation Center at the Mayerson JCC. Lesley Podberesky, who has more than a decade of experience as a pediatric physical therapist, will treat children of all ages with various conditions.

“We are delighted to further enhance our center at the Mayerson JCC,” said Carol Silver Elliott, Cedar Village’s President and CEO. “We know that rehabilitation is vital for individuals of all ages and our center now offers even more comprehensive physical therapy services, helping us to continue to meet the needs of our community.”

Since Cedar Village opened its rehab center at the JCC in February, it has seen strong growth in the number of patients it treats. The Amberley Village location offers comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation services for people with a wide range of medical conditions.

Cedar Village opened the JCC location to add a second option for people who need rehabilitation services. Its main location is at Cedar

Village’s campus in Mason, where it offers both outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation.

One of Podberesky’s areas of expertise is treating young children with disabilities and developmental delays. This includes children who are not meeting their developmental milestones for activities such as sitting, crawling and walking. She uses facilitated play and age-appropriate toys, as well as pediatric equipment, to help children develop vital skills. She also works with parents and other caregivers to help them foster their children’s development at home.

In addition, Podberesky anticipates she will see older children with coordination difficulties or those recovering from injuries or trauma from sports, accidents or surgery.

Podberesky will offer flexible scheduling. In addition to weekday hours, her appointments will include after-school hours and Sunday mornings. Patients will consistently be treated by her, which will enhance the patient-therapist relationship.

Podberesky’s experience includes working in outpatient clinics, hospitals, schools and daycares. She also worked as a lab assistant researching

Renew, refresh, and recharge at the upcoming Cincy Jewish Women’s Retreat “Name That Food”, a fun exercise designed to promote better nutrition-awareness, and “Raising Proud Jewish Kids” will be among the many topics addressed by local experts at the upcoming Cincy Jewish Women’s’ Retreat on Sunday November 3.

A session on coping in the “Sandwich Generation” will be presented by Deborah Eckert Rubinstein and Gail Ziegler, Senior Manager, JFS Center for Holocaust Survivors. Karen Levy, with Merrill Lynch will address “10 Financial "Must Knows": Important, yet easy to follow strategies toward a healthy financial future.” As a special bonus, she will provide personal fiscal-evaluations,

free of charge to participants at her session. Popular yoga instructor Brooke Guigui will lead a Relaxation Technique class.

Two newcomers to Cincinnati will be featured. Elyssa Goldschmiedt, a talented educator and wife of Rabbi Ezra Goldschmiedt, new rabbi of Shaarei Torah, will address “G-d Consciousness.” Penina Teitelbaum, principal of the new Atara Girls High School, will lead a session entitled, “Hanukkah: Grasp its history, assure our destiny”.

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motor development of children with learning disabilities. She has a masters degree in physical therapy and a bachelors degree in psychology, both from the University of Maryland.

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there's nothing better than to see the joy in their smiles, feel their happiness through hugs and high-fives, and hear their excitement through squeals and laughs,” she said. “It's such a wonderful experience every time I help a child

grow and develop.”

Podberesky joins Cedar Village physical therapist David Busam at the JCC rehabilitation center location.

Busam, Cedar Village’s assistant director of rehabilitation and outpatient manager, has more than 15 years of experience in physical therapy, including managing physical therapy practices. He is an orthopedic specialist certified by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialists and has a doctorate in physical therapy from the Northwestern University Medical School.

The physical therapy services at the Mayerson JCC location combine the rehabilitation expertise of Cedar Village and the extensive fitness facilities of the JCC. To treat its patients, Cedar Village uses the JCC’s facilities as well as its own equipment on the JCC’s ground floor.

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JCC presents: “Women of the Wall: Stunning Recent News” The Mayerson JCC is proud to kick off Ideas & Conversations for adults with a thought- provoking discussion by Professor Shulamit Magnus about “Women of the Wall,” a group of women seeking the right to pray and read Torah at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. This free (with RSVP) program at the Mayerson JCC will be on Sunday, November 17 at 7pm.

Shulamit Magnus is an associate professor of Jewish Studies and History at Oberlin College and a member of the “Women of the Wall.” She has been protesting

and praying at the Robinson’s Arch area, next to the Western Wall plaza, for the past year.

Magnus was there when Israeli courts recently reversed policy allowing the “Women of the Wall” to assemble and worship. In May of 2013, “Women of the Wall” prayed out loud for the first time ever, free to wear prayer shalls and tefillin, while being protected by the police. A group of over 5,000 people protested this event.

In this provocative discussion on Nov. 17, she will share her

thoughts and experiences, and tell stories about this momentous occasion. She will lead the group in a respectful and insightful discussion. All denominations are invited to attend and participate in this communal dialogue. This one time event is co-presented by the University Of Cincinnati Department Of Judaic Studies Lichter Lecture Series and Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.

This contemporary presentation is the beginning of the new Ideas & Conversations for adults

at the JCC that strives to partner with local organizations to bring the community expanded opportunities for engaging cultural and Jewish discussions.

“We were thrilled by the positive response to last year’s Dead Sea Scrolls class where we partnered with the Cincinnati Museum Center to both study and tour their exhibit. Building on that experience, we created more contemporary educational programming and expanded this concept to include new partners such as Taft Museum, Hebrew Union

College – Jewish Institute of Religion, and National Underground Railroad Freedom Center,” said Elizabeth Woosley, JCC Community Educator. “We are excited to be able to offer these new educational opportunities to the community” For more information about the “Women of the Wall: Stunning Recent News” discussion and the new Ideas & Conversations at the JCC, please refer to the Mayerson JCC contact information in the community directory of this issue.

Yellen’s rise to Fed chief gains mor e attention for gender than faith

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – Janet Yellen is soft-spoken, tough, methodological, flexible – and Jewish.

President Obama’s announcement last week that he had tapped Yellen, 67, to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve made news in part because she would be the first woman in the top spot.

That very little was made of her Jewishness likely derives mostly from the fact that she would be not the first or second but at least the fifth Jewish chair of the U.S. central bank and the third in a row following Bernanke and Alan Greenspan.

For the first Jewish Fed chairman, one has to go back to the 1930s, when the post was assumed by Eugene Meyer, better known perhaps as the patriarch of the family that ran the Washington Post for eight decades.

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President Obama congratulates Janet Yellen after nominating her to head the Federal Reserve, Oct. 9, 2013.

ence to a 2001 profile of husband George Akerlof, then a Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of California, Berkeley. The article noted that the couple attended the Reform Congregation Beth El in the northern California city.

Beyond that, Yellen’s Jewish

connections are not known. It’s not clear if she and her husband are attached to any Washingtonarea synagogue and local Jewish religious leaders are unaware of any affiliation. The lone Jewish organization to note her nomination, the World Jewish Congress, made more of her gender than her

faith.

Profiles quoting her classmates at Brown and Yale universities and at Fort Hamilton High School in her native Brooklyn, N.Y., depict her as a soft-spoken nerd.

Her parents were Jewish, but one classmate’s memory of her Brooklyn home evokes an upbringing focused on allAmerican traditions. Her mom, Anna Blumenthal, was a den mother to Cub Scouts, Rich Rubin told Reuters.

Yellen, who in the 1990s chaired President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, went on to become president of San Francisco’s Federal Reserve Bank from 2004 to 2010. Obama named her the vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve in 2010.

News reports about Yellen have focused on her similarities to Bernanke. According to a New York Times profile, Yellen intends to continue and expand his insistence on transparency in how the Fed arrives at its policies, and prizes precision in arriv-

ing at formulas to assess interest rates.

Yellen emphasizes unemployment over inflation, and has said she is willing to adjust inflation rates above 2 percent to spur employment.

But some colleagues have noted her past embrace of “hawkish” policies. Peter Hooper of Deutsche Bank wrote in the Economist on Oct. 11 that in the 1990s, as a member of the Fed’s Open Market Committee, Yellen pushed to raise interest rates amid low unemployment.

“Ms. Yellen’s policy orientation has proven to be flexible and appropriate to the prevailing economic conditions,” wrote Hooper, who was a staffer with Yellen on the Fed’s Division of International Finance. “I have known her to be a straight shooter, someone whose views are governed by an objective assessment of the data within a reasonable analytical framework.”

George W. Bush tells Conference of Presidents that Iran can’t be trusted, praises Israel

By Jacob Kamaras Contributing Columnist

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From left to right, Conference of Presidents Executive Vice Chairaman Malcolm Hoenlein, former U.S. President George W. Bush, Conference of Presidents Chaiman Robert G. Sugarman, and Conference of Presidents past chairman Melvin Salberg at the 50th anniversary tribute gala for the Conference of Presidents on Tuesday in New York.

(JNS) – Former U.S. President George W. Bush made a surprise appearance at the 50th anniversary tribute gala of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Tuesday in New York, saying Iran cannot be trusted when it says its nuclear program has peaceful intentions.

One attendee of the event, speaking anonymously because Bush’s comments were off the record, said Bush quoted from his May 2008 speech to the Israeli Knesset. In that speech – one that on Tuesday he called a highlight of his presidency – Bush said America stands with Israel “in firmly opposing Iran’s nuclear

weapons ambitions.”

“Permitting the world’s leading sponsor of terror to possess the world’s deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations,” Bush told the Knesset in 2008. “For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”

Tevi Troy, who served as White House Liaison to the Jewish community as well as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Bush’s administration, told JNS that Bush’s appearance at the Conference of Presidents event was “enormously important” because Bush does not appear in public very frequently and has intentionally taken a low profile since leaving office. In par-

ticular, Bush takes a low profile “on political issues of the day,” but broke that mold with Tuesday’s comments on Iran, Troy explained.

“The fact that he would go to that kind of event, and also talk about the danger of Iran, which many people said was unfinished business from his administration, for understandable reasons given the economic collapse and the overstretch in Afghanistan and Iraq… the fact that he would go and weigh in on that issue I think is extremely significant and worth noting,” he said.

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Plucky N.Y. teen National gets surprising lowdown on Briefs kosher chicken

By Julie Wiener NEW YORK (JTA) – For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman had an unusual Saturday ritual: He and his mother would ride around metropolitan New York and buy up vast quantities of raw chicken.

Millman and his mother, Ann Marks, didn’t cook the poultry.

Instead they put it on ice and shipped it overnight to a lab in Arizona, which tested it for antibiotic-resistant strains of the E. coli bacteria.

The study, which included 213 samples of raw chicken purchased at 15 locations in the New York area, found that kosher chicken has nearly twice the frequency of antibioticresistant strains as non-kosher. The results were first published in the journal F1000 Research in July.

The findings are perplexing.

Kosher laws contain no requirements about how chickens are raised, and the only difference between kosher and conventional poultry is in the slaughtering and defeathering.

Lance Price, a microbiologist with Translation Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix who helped design the study, suggested that kosher companies may be sourcing from producers or hatcheries that use more antibiotics.

But Joe Regenstein, a food scientist at Cornell University, and Timothy Lytton, the author of a recently published book on the kosher food industry, dispute that notion.

Writing recently in Food Safety News, Regenstein and Lytton say a likelier explanation lies in the kosher method of feather removal. Most poultry is placed in scalding water before plucking, but kosher poultry is dry plucked or soaked in very cold water due to restrictions prohibiting any form of cooking before the meat has been soaked and salted.

“Immersion in scalding water prior to plucking of non-kosher poultry production reduces microbial load, by either washing microbes away or by killing them, which might account for differences between kosher and other production methods,” Regenstein and Lytton wrote.

Millman, 17, who does not keep kosher, told JTA in an interview between classes at the prestigious Horace Mann School that he was “very surprised” by the findings.

The Manhattan resident first became interested in kosher issues a few years ago during a family trip to Israel.

“While we were there, we were eating a lot of kosher food, and I was interested in whether kosher is

Kerry, Netanyahu to meet in Rome WASHINGTON (JTA) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet in Rome with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss talks with the Palestinians and Iran.

Their meeting on Oct. 23 will “discuss ongoing final status negotiations with the Palestinians, along with Iran, Syria, and other issues of mutual concern,” the State Department said Oct. 17.

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High school senior Jack Millman is the lead author of a study that found kosher chicken twice as likely as non-kosher to contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

healthier,” he said.

Interested in exploring the question, Millman approached his uncle, Bruce Hungate, a biology professor at Northern Arizona University.

Hungate, the director of the university’s Center for Ecosystem, Science and Society, connected him to Price.

Together they designed an experiment to test 10 brands of chicken in each of four categories.

Millman did not perform the actual lab tests, but he collected the samples, visited the lab and took the lead in writing up the results. He also presented the findings at the American Society for Microbiology conference in Denver this year.

Millman and the professional scientists with whom he partnered acknowledge that the study, with its relatively small sample size, is not intended to offer the final word on the topic.

“This was big enough for a pilot study, and the finding was dramatic and consistent enough to indicate a problem,” Price told JTA. “Of course there’s a need to follow up with a larger study and larger sample.”

Price said that because the drugs used by companies to raise chickens are “considered a trade secret” in the United States, provided they use FDA-approved antibiotics, it is difficult for researchers to track. He noted that 29.9 million pounds of antibiotics are used each year in meat production, compared to 7.7 million used for human medical purposes.

Millman said he isn’t sure whether more research with raw chickens is in his future, though he remains concerned about the overuse of antibiotics in meat production and its implications for consumer health and the emergence of drugresistant bacteria.

Having varied interests, the high school senior has yet to decide whether he will major in the sciences in college.

Yosef Kolko sentenced to 13 years for sexual assault NEW YORK (JTA) – Yosef Kolko, a former Jewish educator from New Jersey, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

Kolko, who was sentenced Oct. 17 in Ocean County Superior Court in New Jersey, pleaded guilty in May to multiple sexual crimes. A former counselor at an Orthodox summer camp, Kolko admitted to performing oral sex and attempting anal intercourse with a 12-year old boy.

Report: U.S. considering freeing up seized Iranian assets WASHINGTON (JTA) – The Obama administration is considering freeing up Iranian assets if Tehran

takes specific steps to curb its nuclear program, a senior administration official said.

The official, who was not named, told The New York Times that if the United States frees up Iran’s frozen overseas assets in installments, the Obama administration would avoid the political and diplomatic risks of waiving some of the sanctions.

Gov’t shutdown over, Iran sanctions force back at full strength WASHINGTON (JTA) – The U.S. government returned to work, and officials who track Iran sanctions compliance were working at a full complement.

Hundreds of thousands of government employees who had been furloughed since Oct. 1 returned to work on Thursday after Republicans in the House of Representatives agreed to pass a funding bill advanced by the Democratic-led Senate the previous night.

A spokesman at the U.S. Treasury confirmed that the employees included officials of its Office of Foreign Assets Control, the office responsible for monitoring international compliance with U.S. sanctions targeting Iran for its suspected nuclear weapons program.

Cory Booker, close to N.J. and national Jewish communities, wins Senate seat WASHINGTON (JTA) – Cory Booker, the Newark mayor who headed two Jewish student societies while in university, was elected to

represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.

Booker, a Democrat, coasted to a win in a special election Wednesday to succeed the late Frank Lautenberg, defeating Republican Steve Lonegan with 55 percent to 44 percent of the vote, according to unofficial counts.

Booker, who becomes the only African-America senator, retains strong ties with the New Jersey and national Jewish communities, and also is close to pro-Israel groups.

He is not Jewish, but immersed himself in Jewish learning in his university days, heading Jewish student societies at Oxford and Yale universities.

Muslim group appoints Jew as Philadelphia director (JTA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations hired a Jewish filmmaker and interfaith activist as executive director of the group’s Philadelphia office.

Jacob Bender is the highest ranking non-Muslim in the Washingtonbased organization and the first to lead one of its chapters, Religion News Service reported Oct. 17.

“Many Muslims face daily suspicion, not unlike other immigrant groups throughout history,” said Bender. “When one group of Americans is attacked, it lessens the quality of democracy for all of us.

“As part of a community that has historically faced persecution in Europe and the United States as well, I hope that I would bring a certain amount of sensitivity,” he told RNS.

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Ljuba Davis Ensemble bringing life to gr owing Ladino music scene

By Talia Lavin NEW YORK (JTA) – Avraham Pengas, a veteran bouzouki player, says few Ashkenazic musicians can make Sephardic music come alive.

Ljuba Davis, he says, is “absolutely” one of them.

Davis (her first name is pronounced LYOO-bah) is the lead singer of the Ljuba Davis Ladino Ensemble, a group that performs Ladino and Sephardic music. The group features an oud (a lute of Middle East origin), the bouzouki (a Greek four-stringed instrument), classical Spanish guitar and lively percussion.

Its musicians are equally diverse.

Pengas, 60, was born in Athens, Greece. Nadav Lev, the guitarist, grew up on a kibbutz in Israel.

Percussionist Osama Farouk hails from Egypt. And oud player Rachid Halihal grew up in Morocco.

The ensemble’s diversity reflects the nature of the Ladino language, which originated in Spain before the Inquisition and was spoken throughout Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, North Africa and beyond.

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Ljuba Davis presides over an ensemble of diverse musicians performing music in Ladino.

Ladino has much in common with Yiddish, Europe’s other Jewish language. Both have a rich and varied culture of folktales, music and literature. Both were devastated by the Holocaust. And both have been classified as endangered by the Israeli government. In 1997, Israel established the National Authority of Ladino aimed at preserving JudeoSpanish culture.

Alongside the revived interest in Yiddish in recent years, a small crop of young musicians are working to revive Ladino musical culture and revamp it for a new audience. Sarah Aroeste’s recently released album “Gracia” is a combination of revamped Ladino classics and original music. The album was named one of the best of 2012 by the Forward.

“The Ladino music scene keeps growing. It’s been growing for awhile, and it keeps growing,” said Gloria Ascher, a professor of Ladino language and literature at Tufts University. “There are new performers, new composers. People are really very excited about it.”

Davis, 68, was born in Beckley, W.Va., to parents of Ukrainian descent. But her grandmother always reminded her that the family originally came from Spain.

She learned music from her father, a classically trained violinist, and found herself drawn to the Sephardic musical tradition. She later became a fixture on the West Coast music scene, where she melded Jewish music and protest songs in the Bay Area while working as a registered nurse and raising seven children on traditional Ladino lullabies such as “Dourme, Dourme.”

“There’s a life to the music melodically,” Davis said. “The lyrics evoke the feeling of the Mediterranean, the warmth, the sunshine, the romance.”

It wasn’t until she was 65 that Davis made a recording at the

prompting of her son David.

“He said, ‘Mom, before you lose your voice and your marbles, you’ve got to make this recording,’” Davis recalled. “He’d been hearing this music since childhood.”

Through the fundraising website Kickstarter, Davis raised $12,000 in 60 days to cover recording expenses.

Davis and her son scoured the New York music scene for accompanying musicians.

Pengas, a veteran of the Sephardic music scene, was introduced through a mutual friend. Halal was found playing the oud in a subway station.

A double CD was released in 2011 and led to performances throughout the Northeast, including a recent concert on Martha’s Vineyard where Davis lives. The group performed at the Gibraltar World Music Festival last year and will play in New York in December.

“One of the elements that I love is that it’s unusual for people to hear Ladino,” said Davis. “I love it all – the music, the liturgy, the language.

It’s in my pores.”

At United Synagogue centennial, tough talk about need for change

By Uriel Heilman BALTIMORE (JTA) – It will be years before it’s clear whether or not this week’s conference of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism was a success.

To be sure, the centennial gathering in Baltimore by nearly all accounts was a far more dynamic and well-attended biennial than those of recent years, drawing some 1,200 people.

But the Conservative movement is in serious decline – evidenced by the Pew Research Center’s survey of U.S. Jews recent findings, the shrinking number of synagogues that affiliate with the movement and the empty pews in Conservative synagogues across the country.

Under that shadow, the central preoccupation of the centennial wasn’t celebrating the past century of Conservative Judaism – the milestone was hardly marked at all during the three-day confab – but how to ensure that Conservative Judaism has a future.

“Our house is on fire. If you don’t read anything else in the Pew report, we have maybe 10 years left,” said Rabbi Ed Feinstein of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, Calif., at a session Monday morning that caused a major buzz at the conference.

“In the next 10 years I see the rapid collapse of synagogues and the national organization that supports them,” he said. “If we continue what we are doing, our house will burn down.”

There is broad recognition from the movement’s leaders on down that significant rejuvenation is needed if Conservative Judaism is to reverse its negative trajectory.

The conference, whose theme was “The conversation of the century,” was billed as an opportunity to talk about how.

“Since last week, all anyone wants to do is talk about the Pew study; I don’t,” Ron Wolfson, a professor of education at American Jewish University in Los Angeles, said in a speech at the gathering.

“It’s time to stop talking and start doing.”

The movement’s leaders offered few specifics, instead sticking to broad outlines.

Arnold Eisen, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, proposed a threefold strategy of being as welcoming as possible, taking Conservative Judaism beyond the bounds of the synagogue, and getting members to commit more money and time to the movement.

Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of United Synagogue, called for turning synagogues into communities, for which he used the Hebrew term “kehillot.”

Author and movement giant Rabbi Harold Kushner argued for emphasizing the discipline inherent in Jewish commitment, suggesting the movement adopt the bumper sticker mantra of “kadsheinu b’mitzvotecha” – sanctify us with your commandments.

The nitty-gritty of strategies for counteracting the movement’s ero-

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Children dancing at the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism's centennial celebration in Baltimore, which was better attended and seen as more dynamic than in recent years.

sion came in breakout sessions and in the hallways, where everything from whether the movement should perform intermarriages to how synagogues can reinvigorate services came up for discussion.

No decisions were made – except, perhaps, in closed-door sessions of the movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards – but there was plenty of debate. For that, even longtime critics of United Synagogue gave the organization credit for facilitating the discussions.

“I think they understand there has to be the grassroots development in order for Conservative Judaism to continue,” said Marsha Davis, president of Beth El Temple in Harrisburg, Pa. “Leadership has to happen bottom-up. You’re

involved and encouraged to be part of the decision.”

Plenty of ideas were bandied about. Rabbi Sid Schwarz of Rockville, Md., said synagogues should designate 5 percent of their budgets for mini-grants for young Jews to create innovative synagogue programs. Rabbi Rachel Ain of Sutton Place Synagogue in New York said it isn’t programs that matter but the relationships that synagogues forge with their congregants and among congregants.

Rabbi David Booth of Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, Calif., argued that the movement needs to be more welcoming to non-Jews and proposed giving non-Jewish spouses and friends a place in synagogue ritual by allowing them to open the ark during

services. Attorney Vicky Vossen, past president of the Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn, N.Y., said the movement’s rabbinical association needs to loosen its control of the hiring process so congregations can hire the rabbis they want.

Michael Schatz of Philadelphia, the incoming president of the movement’s Jewish Educators Assembly, said synagogues need to stop being territorial about educational programs and support Hebrew schools outside the synagogue if they have stronger programs. Rabbi Elie Spitz of Congregation B’nai Israel in Tustin, Calif., said synagogues must put ego aside and welcome independent minyans that want to create alternative services.

“Unless you’re making people uncomfortable, you’re not making real change,” said Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann in a session titled “Alternative Minyanim – Congregation Builder or Destroyer?” “If we keep doing something basically along the same trajectory, things will stay the same and eventually peter out and die.”

The conference wasn’t all doom and gloom. At the Sunday evening gala, musicians Neshama Carlebach and Josh Nelson led a rousing rendition of “Am Yisrael Chai” that had attendees dancing in the aisles and prompted Nelson, an alumnus of the United Synagogue’s youth movement, to deliver a positive pronouncement.

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Pilgrims to Uman celebrating at the grave of Rebbe Nachman, Sept. 7, 2013.

As Uman pilgrimage grows, the devout invent new customs

By Cnaan Liphshiz UMAN, Ukraine (JTA) – Eight days after he was born in Israel, Yossi Galant’s youngest son was already 2,000 miles from home, undergoing a circumcision near a rabbi’s grave amid a mass of Jewish men engaged in euphoric prayer.

Held last month on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the brit milah ceremony coincided with the peak of the annual fall pilgrimage to the grave of Reb Nachman, the founder of the Breslov hasidic movement.

“It was a very moving event that will help him later in life as he stands to be judged by God,” Galant told JTA. At least four newborns were circumcised near Nachman’s grave this year, part of what experts say is a rash of new customs developed by followers of the rabbi in connection to the site.

In addition to the yearly influx of worshipers who come to spend the High Holidays here, this central Ukrainian city has become a destination for Breslov honeymooners and troubled young men.

Women have started prayer groups at the grave and begun to perform the commandment of separating dough during challahmaking there.

But it is the practice of circumcising 8-day-old boys that has commanded the most attention and drawn intense criticism from medical professionals and rabbis.

They are concerned that it needlessly endangers the newborns and draws unhelpful scrutiny to a religious rite already under fire across Europe.

“This new gimmick goes against halachah [Jewish law] and is contemptuous of the mitzvah of milah [circumcision] as well as

the sanctity of human life,” said Rabbi Avi Zarki, a well-known radio talk show host and ritual circumciser from Tel Aviv.

The trend “is happening as people in Europe are already searching for reasons to fight circumcision,” he said.

Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, also had few positive things to say about the trend.

“I don’t understand why people would bring a baby to a rabbi’s grave for brit milah,” Bleich said.

“It’s just bizarre.”

Observers say the circumcisions began about two years ago and are a result of an overall growth in travelers to Uman, a city of about 85,000 that is flooded annually with some 25,000 pilgrims – mostly men from Israel and the United States.

Followers of Nachman, who died childless in 1810 at the age of 38, have traveled here for more than a century. But following the collapse of the Iron Curtain 23 years ago and subsequent improvements to local infrastructure, the pilgrimage has turned from a trickle of diehards into a flood of Jews from all denominations.

“Now that merely coming has become mainstream, devout believers are looking for new ways to express their commitment,” said Bar-Ilan University’s Zvi Mark, an expert on hasidic movements.

One of those ways is by bringing newborns to be circumcised.

Galant’s son was circumcised in the Kloiz Synagogue here while lying on a replica of Nachman’s chair. The following day, Galant’s cousin, Yisrael Meir Yegudayev, saw his boy circumcised near the gravesite.

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Iran nuclear program has seen hundredfold increase in centrifuges since 2006, Netanyahu says (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, commenting during his Sunday cabinet meeting on last week’s nuclear talks in Geneva, noted that the Iran nuclear program has seen more than a hundredfold increase in centrifuges since 2006.

“We must not forget that the Iranian regime has systematically misled the international community,” Netanyahu said.

Hamas prime minister calls for new Palestinian intifada (JNS) – Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, speaking Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the deal in which the Gaza-based Palestinian terror organization received more than 1,000 prisoners from Israel in exchange for captive Gilad Shalit, called for a new Palestinian intifada. Haniyeh also praised recent terror attacks on Israel in Judea and Samaria.

“We send our blessings from Gaza to our brothers in the West Bank who carried out the recent attacks against the occupier,” Haniyeh said.

Palestinian Authority misspends more than $3 billion in EU aid, report says (JNS) The Palestinian Authority misspent more than $3 billion in European Union financial aid between 2008 and 2012, the British newspaper The Sunday Times reported, citing an unpublished report by the European Court of Auditors.

“Significant shortcomings” existed in the PA’s management of EU aid, and the PA lacks measures to address corruption in that area, according to the report. A European Court of Auditors spokesman told the Times of Israel that the official report would be published around the end of this year.

Saudi Arabia refuses seat on UN Security Council in unprecedented move (JNS) – In an unprecedented move, Saudi Arabia has refused to accept its election to a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

As its reasons for the refusal, Saudi Arabia cited the Security Council’s failure to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, to end the Syrian civil war, and to stop nuclear proliferation in the region, Reuters reported.

Syrian civil war causes nearly one-third of country’s Christians to flee their homes (JNS) – According to a Syrian Christian leader, nearly one-third of Syria’s native Christians have fled their homes during the Syrian civil war.

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham said that more than 450,000 Christians out of an estimated 1.75 million have been displaced or left the country since the Syrian civil war began in early 2011, the BBC reported.

U.S. considers easing Iran sanctions (JNS) – Following nuclear talks in Geneva, the Obama Administration is considering easing Iran sanctions by offering the Islamic Republic access to billions of dollars in frozen assets overseas in exchange for compliance with American requests to scale back its nuclear program, the New York Times reported.

The Obama administration is asking the Senate to push back the vote on a new Iran sanctions bill until after Nov. 7, the date of the next nuclear talks, since in Geneva Iran said it was ready to reduce sensitive atomic activities.

In sign of revival of Jewish life in Poland, new JCC set to open in Warsaw (JNS) – In a sign of the growing revival of Polish Jewish life, a new Jewish Community Center will open in Warsaw on Oct. 27.

The new JCC, the second in the country after the JCC in Krakow, will serve as a hub for the growing array of Jewish cultural, educational, and community programs in Poland’s capital.

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World Bank report on Palestinian economy may contain more assumptions than realities

By Alex Traiman (JNS) – A new World Bank report that blames Israel for shortcomings within the Palestinian economy may be based more on assumptions for the future than on current realities.

The 70-page study, entitled “Area C and the Future of the Palestinian Economy,” was published Oct. 8. Conducted over a period of three years, it posits that Israeli restrictions on travel and access to resources in Israeli-controlled territories cost the Palestinian Authority an estimated $3.4 billion.

Yet a close look at the report

reveals that it makes numerous assumptions about Palestinian aspirations and behavior patterns, establishes a series of questionable multipliers, and downplays the significance of complex political factors and security realities, according to Steven Plaut, Professor of Economics at the University of Haifa.

“I think the World Bank doesn’t fully understand the Israeli economy or the Palestinian economy. What’s worse, they have a political agenda.

They produce findings to match their political agenda,” Plaut told JNS. “I think they are making it up as

it goes along,” he said.

According to the report, “The total potential value added for alleviating today’s restrictions on the access to and activity and production in Area C is likely to amount to $3.4bn or thirty-five per cent of Palestinian GDP in 2011.”

Area C represents areas that are under full Israeli military and municipal jurisdiction according to the internationally recognized Oslo Accords, signed in 1993 by Israel and the Palestinians.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) and Salam Fayyad (center), former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, look over a map during their visit to the West Bank’s Area C, outside Ramallah. A new World Bank report, entitled “Area C and the Future of the Palestinian Economy,” blames Israel for shortcomings within the Palestinian economy.

In Israel’s haredi community, breaking a culture of secrecy on domestic abuse

By Ben Sales BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (JTA) – It was only when her sons came at her with knives that she realized keeping quiet was not going to work.

For nine years, her rabbis had told her not to speak up about her husband’s verbal, physical and sexual attacks. They assured her that the abuse would pass, that if she obeyed his every wish – folding his napkin just so or letting him do as he liked in bed – the attacks would end and he would stop telling their grown sons she was a bad mother.

But when her sons began to threaten her, she knew it was time to leave.

Israel Briefs Series of earthquakes shakes northern Israel (JNS) – Two 3.6-magnitude earthquakes struck the northern Israeli city of Tiberias on Sunday, just four hours apart. The Geophysical Institute of Israel said that the epicenter of the earthquakes was on the northeast side of the Sea of Galilee. The tremors were felt most strongly in Tiberias, Hazor, Safed, and the village of Majar.

While no injuries or damage were reported as a result of the earthquakes, their proximity to two previous tremors that rattled the same area last week has sparked concern among residents of northern Israel. But Dr. Uri Frieslander, director of the Geophysical Institute of Israel, said the earthquakes do not “indicate anything about the future.”

Taking her youngest children, she turned to Yad Sarah, a highly regarded Israeli charity founded by former Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski. The organization mainly focuses on medical services, but it also runs a domestic abuse division geared toward Orthodox Jews. A professional there directed her to Bat Melech, a shelter for battered religious women.

“It was amazing,” said the woman, who asked to remain anonymous. “I was sure that I was not a normal person and they were nice to me.”

The wall of silence surrounding sensitive domestic issues in the haredi Orthodox community has long been seen as an impediment to suc-

cessfully addressing them. Yad Sarah and Bat Melech have sought to change the situation – and their efforts appear to be bearing fruit.

A decade ago, haredi community leaders rarely spoke openly about violence against women. Now leading rabbis are working with experts to fight abuse in the community.

“We’ve succeeded in that they talk about it publicly,” said Shlomit Lehman, a professor of social work who founded the Yad Sarah domestic abuse division. “There was always family violence, but they kept it secret. Our connection with the community and leadership is stronger. There’s discretion and professional care.”

Lehman started the division in

2000 with two therapists. Now there are 16 serving 150 patients a month, making Yad Sarah the second-most active domestic abuse center in Israel.

Bat Melech, founded in 1995, runs two shelters and is expanding its Beit Shemesh facility. The Crisis Center for Religious Women, which refers abuse victims to professional care, is organizing an international conference slated for December 2014 on preventing violence and abuse in the religious community.

Until recent years, experts say, haredi rabbis would deal with cases of domestic abuse privately; only rarely would they make referrals to professionals or recommend divorce. Victims often were stigma-

tized and their children had a harder time finding marriage partners.

“It’s easier to say that’s not in our community,” said Eitan Eisman, a Modern Orthodox rabbi who recommends Bat Melech’s services and advocates for its work. “That’s easier than looking at our sins. Some people deny reality, and some people think they can deal with the issues alone in the community. But more and more people are accepting this reality.”

Both Bat Melech and Yad Sarah have made rabbinic outreach a central part of their strategies. Yad Sarah launched a rabbinic committee with representatives of Israel’s

Ambassador Michael Oren joins prestigious Israel school (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS) – Dr. Michael Oren, who served as Israel's ambassador to the U.S. between 2009 and 2013, has accepted a faculty position at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya's Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, the college announced Monday.

The IDC Herzliya is a private Israeli institution modeled after the Ivy League universities of the U.S.

“If any other country offered to honor Helmy, we would have been happy with it,” Mervat Hassan, the wife of Helmy's great-nephew, told The Associated Press.

Israeli diplomats protest poster claiming ethnic cleansing of Bedouin (JTA) – Israeli diplomats protested the use of a poster accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing against the Bedouin that was featured at an event at the European Parliament.

"Stop Prawer-Begin Plan, no ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Bedouin" read the poster seen at a conference Oct. 17 in Brussels organized by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, the European Parliament's second largest bloc, on the Bedouin Arab minority in Israel.

The Israeli ambassador to the European Union, David Walzer, termed the poster "unacceptable" in a letter he sent to the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, who is a member of the Socialists and Democrats group.

fence in the northern Negev.

The man was believed to be attempting to infiltrate the Negev village of Meitar, according to the Israeli army, and was shot in the leg following warning shots during the Sunday morning incident.

The incident comes less than a week after a Palestinian man was shot and killed after breaking into an army base near Jerusalem on a tractor and destroying army vehicles.

Family of Yad Vashem's first Arab honoree rejects prize for saving Jews (JNS) – The family of Egyptian physician Dr. Mohamed Helmy, the first Arab to receive Yad Vashem's “Righteous Among the Nations” designation recognizing non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews, has rejected the honor.

In Germany, Helmy helped 21year-old Anna Boros (later Gutman), his family friend, avoid Nazi deportations. He also helped save Gutman's mother, stepfather, and grandmother. Yad Vashem was to honor him posthumously.

Karnit Flug to be first female Bank of Israel chief JERUSALEM (JTA) – Karnit Flug, the deputy governor of the Bank of Israel, was picked to move up to the top spot and if confirmed will be the first woman to be the central bank's governor.

Flug's appointment was announced Sunday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid. The deputy governor since July 2011, Flug has been serving as acting governor since Stanley Fischer stepped down on June 30. Fischer recommended Flug to be his replacement.

Flug received a doctorate in economics from Columbia University in 1985 and worked at the International Monetary Fund before joining the Bank of Israel in 1998.

Palestinian shot while attempting to infiltrate security fence JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian man who was cutting through the security

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Knesset panel advances bill requiring two-thirds majority to negotiate Jerusalem JERUSALEM (JTA) – A bill approved by a Knesset committee would require the approval of a two-thirds majority of Knesset lawmakers to negotiate the status of Jerusalem.

The Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved the bill by a 5-4 vote.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the measure, which will require 80 of the 120 Israeli lawmakers to approve any withdrawals from land within the city limits of Jerusalem.

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ROCKWERN ACADEMY SUKKAH CELEBRATION On September 15, Rockwern Academy held its annual Sukkot celebration with both educational and recreational activities. During the school day, children were able to enjoy the tastes of the holiday, such as pomegranate seeds and challah with honey as well as the moving sounds of the shofar, blown by Head

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by Bob Wilhelmy “The food here is more like homemade than at any other restaurant you can go to,” said a patron who overheard my interview with the chef at Wertheim’s German restaurant, located at the edge of Mainstrasse Village in Covington, Kentucky.

The man in question ambled out the door before I had a chance to ask his name, but there were heads bobbing and agreeable looks from those who were there after he’d left. That kind of endorsement says a lot in my book.

Wertheim’s GM and chef is an easy-going man who goes only by “Bubby,” saying that everybody knows him only as that, and he did not want to confuse the issue. He said he hears that kind of comment about food at Wertheim’s all the time.

“People love the food here, and we pretty much do most of the (food) in-house and don’t bring it in (pre-made),” Bubby stated.

For instance, Wertheim’s kitchen turns out its own red cabbage, which complements many of the dishes and all of the schnitzels. Generally, that specialty is purchased pre-made.

The chef knife-cuts the cabbage instead of shredding it the way it is done for the packaged variety. Preparation in that way assures a firmer, less mushy product on the plate. “It’s better when you do it that way, and the red cabbage is made in our kitchen which is a plus for the diner,” Bubby said.

The same approach is used in preparing potato pancakes.

“That’s a pretty simple recipe, with potatoes, flour, eggs and seasonings. We grill the pancakes to a certain point, and then freeze them,” he said.

When an order calls for a potato pancake, the frozen product is removed from the freezer and deep-fried in vegetable oil until golden brown, and served piping hot. And while on the subject of potatoes, the kitchen turns out homemade potato chips—not Saratoga chips, but genuine potato chips. Very good!

While Wertheim’s does not cure its own kraut, the kitchen does receive it packed in brine in 5-gallon buckets. The kraut is then rinsed of the brine, seasoned, sweetened with apples, and cooked to taste.

Schnitzel is a prominent item on Wertheim’s menu, where you’ll find six varieties.

Three are pork, so read the menu carefully. Two are veal: the champignon schnitzel,

Crystl Chandle, server, pulling a beer.

Corned beef sandwich with Wertheim’s homemade potato chips.

where thin veal is breaded, then sautéed, and topped with a cream mushroom sauce; and the zigeuner (or gypsy) schnitzel, with the same veal prep, but a topping of sweet peppers, mushrooms and onions in a hearty sauce.

Another schnitzel is the hühner variety, featuring a sautéed chicken breast that’s complemented by fresh green peppers in a rich tomato sauce. All three schnitzel options are served with the aforementioned red cabbage and potato pan-

cakes.

As an ethnic German, schnitzels have always been among my favorites at places such as Wertheim’s. The liver mit zwiebel (with onions) is another German dish that is about as low-brow as one can reach, but a real comfort food for some.

More in the German tradition is the sauerbraten, the “sour” beef dish that features tangy-sour beef gravy.

Wunderbar! when it is made in the Bavarian style. Wertheim’s passes the test, and is served

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with Bavarian dumplings and red cabbage.

One non-German item on the menu that Bubby wanted readers to know about is the bone-in steak. “It’s very good, and we have gotten lots of good feedback on that item.

Wertheim’s offers appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, full dinners, and a list of sides, along with desserts (you may want to try the Kentucky silk pie, featuring a chocolate mousse filling on a molasses crust). The restaurant is open

daily, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., featuring continuous service of all menu items. There is an Early Bird offer from 2 to 6 p.m., a full bar with beers on tap. You’ll find Warsteiner lager and dark, Stella Artois and other varieties on tap, as well as bottled selections.

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By Sara Paasche-Orlow BOSTON (JTA) – The elders of Israel are like the wings of a bird: Just as a bird cannot fly without wings, Israel cannot do anything without their elders (Vayikrah Rabba 11.8, Midrash on Leviticus 9:1).

Last I checked, there was no mitzvah among the 613 telling us to dye our hair to counter the effects of aging. If only people would give charity and observe Shabbat as assiduously as they follow the social commandment to hide their gray. The veneration that our tradition gives to a person with gray hair is undermined by a nip-and-tuck culture. People in large numbers persist in trying to mask the natural effects of aging, which creates a false hierarchy of youth and communicates that those who are older are less valued.

It’s time we got over it. The statistics are quite clear: We are living in a time when the oldest in our society are the fastestgrowing portion of the population. And yet it is also clear that people over 85 are frequently marginalized, lonely and alienated from the life of our people.

Significant change is needed.

Jewish life is inordinately focused on children, teenagers and young adults. They are presented as our future and our continuity. People observe children in a Jewish preschool or on a Birthright trip and believe that we will succeed in having them live out our values.

There is no sin in nachas, the emotional gratification we take from our children. But these populations should not be granted the exclusive focus of our collective energy and creativity.

Ensuring our future – the future of every person reading this article – means guarding life such that each of us can continue to live and join the elders of Israel, living good and meaningful lives up until the day of death.

There are some obvious challenges we must overcome to help seniors remain in the midst of our people. Among them are improved access to health care, accessible communal organizations, supportive housing and support for caregivers. People should not be struggling alone.

Jewish life should be easily accessible, and people should be able to choose to live in a community where they can receive supportive services, maintain friendships, have a rich spiritual life and easy access to health care and health maintenance.

As Robert Putnam described in “Bowling Alone,” civic

engagement, belonging and active participation in community results in better health outcomes and increases the potential for a longer happy life.

Similarly, the reward in the Torah for honoring your parents is that you shall merit a long life.

Here we find an essential life circle: We honor our parents, and our children honor us, and we succeed in extending life and life’s enjoyment.

How do we do this as a community? We should be designing and building affordable supportive housing integrated into our neighborhoods, with health services easily accessible and multigenerational communal life bubbling all around. We honor them by integrating them into our lives.

More than 50 years ago my grandfather, Dr. Milton I. Levine, wrote a letter to The New York Times outlining a foster care program for elders. His idea remains relevant today: Adopt an elder. Learn their story.

By including elders in the mental map of our neighborhoods, we help create a stronger klal Yisrael. But to truly see the elders in our midst, we also need to stop denying our own aging process. We are in this together.

In a women’s prayer book published in Germany in 1908, there is a two-page prayer for a daughter to recite when her mother is facing illness as well as a prayer to assist in getting along with an elderly stepmother.

Such rituals and prayers for the children of older people have largely vanished from the liturgy.

Jewish life can support this expansive stage of life much more fully by offering prayers, rituals, generationally integrated social opportunities and relevant educational programming as we accompany our parents and all the elders of our community from decade to decade, even as we ourselves age into our 60s and 70s.

As I looked out this Yom Kippur at the worshipers gathered at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston, I saw a hundred faces of aging.

Many were seated next to their 70-year-old children, an aide or a good friend. I indeed felt our prayers take flight, born on the wings of those worn and creased faces and the voices that carried theirs, joining in song and prayer.

Rabbi Sara Passche-Orlowe is the director of chaplaincy and religious services for Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston.

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Dear Editor, On October 10, 2013 the Israelite published the headline, ‘Two local Holocaust survivors honored’ and stated I “came to the United States and to Cincinnati from Europe after escaping the Holocaust and being displaced during World War II.” I would like to state that I did not escape and experienced the Holocaust from January 3, 1933 until January 1945 in Auschwitz concentration camp. I escaped from the death march and was liberated by the Soviet Army. I would suggest next time you publish something like this you check your facts first.

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Dear Editor, Many times in the past I have presented editorials that have inflamed many members of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish Community. To those of you finding yourselves in that segment of the population, I say, "with the proper therapy, you will get better and see the light" Today I come to you with the "dove of peace and a white flag".

No I am not surrendering, nor am I asking for forgiveness! I ask that you read page 6 of last weeks Israelite, "Pew Survey of U.S. Jews...." The conclusion of their survey courteously and tactfully makes the same point that many of my loudmouth friends and I have been saying for years.

They also spent significant sums

of money and time discovering the "DUHHH News of the Day" We are successfully and quietly erasing our existence! No machine guns, no gas chambers, no mass graves no death squads, just us! We have met the enemy and it is us! We will soon be joining Marty McFly as he simply vanishes from the picture. The Romans failed, the Spanish inquisition failed, Hitler failed, yet we marched on stronger than ever.

Today I open the Israelite and am relieved to see that someone has taken notice. I, for one will not be joining Marty McFly in a quiet race to vanish from the face of the earth.

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Why Yair Lapid is wrong on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Ben Cohen (JNS) – I’ll confess that when I first read about Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s disagreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, I felt a degree of sympathy. Not for the substance of the argument, but for the manner in which Lapid expressed it.

“My father didn’t come to Haifa from the Budapest ghetto in order to get recognition from Abu Mazen (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas),” Lapid said Oct. 7 at New York’s 92nd Street Y. “Darn right,” I grunted at my Mac. The core ethos of Zionism, as Lapid himself explained, is that we Jews are no longer the passive objects of other nations’ histories. We make our own his-

Correction In the article “Retiring HUCJIR President David Ellenson, Ph.D. to be honored” published on October 10, 2013, several names were omitted from the Dinner Committee. They were: Jennifer Dauer, Kay Geiger, Daniel J. Hoffheimer, Renee Kamrass, Mona B. Kerstine, Ellen Knue and Mark Knue. We apologize for their omission.

tory and we define ourselves, for we are, as the Israeli national anthem Hatikvah declares in its penultimate line, “a free people in our own land.”

But however much we might appreciate Lapid’s healthy dismissal of the opinions of those who deny the legitimacy of Jewish national aspirations, it is precisely because of those same aspirations that his argument is dangerously flawed.

When you study what others call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and what I prefer to call the Palestinian war against Israel’s legitimacy, it should be painfully apparent that it is the intangible aspects of this long dispute that have confounded a final agreement, and not the tangible ones.

What I mean is this: if this dispute were solely about sharing a territory, equitable distribution of water rights, common security arrangements, and so forth, we might well have arrived at a resolution by now.

When you look at other protracted conflicts – that have largely been resolved – such as the one in Northern Ireland between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists and mainly Protestant Unionists and the British government – success has stemmed from the basic fact that each party recognizes the other’s legitimacy. However revolting the terrorist actions of the Irish Republican Army, its leaders

never sought the dissolution of the United Kingdom. Equally, the loyalist fanatics who terrorized innocent Catholics in Belfast and Derry did not seek to destroy the Republic of Ireland.

For that reason, the Northern Ireland peace process was able to focus on tangible goals, like the disarmament of terrorist groups and a formula for power sharing, rather than getting bogged down in a competition about historical rights. That’s not to deny the obvious existence of historical wounds, merely to observe that they were overcome.

By contrast, what nags in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the rejection by the Palestinian side of the entire Zionist enterprise. Regardless of whether they are sitting at the table with Israeli negotiators, or gallivanting around the U.N. demanding unilateral recognition, the essential Palestinian message has, for more than a century, been that the Jews really have no right to be here in the first place.

The Palestinian campaign for the so-called “right of return” is the clearest example of what I’m describing. Abbas and the PA, as Yair Lapid really should know, repudiate Israel’s Jewish character because they refuse to give up on the idea that Israel’s Jewish society will eventually CONFLICT on page 21

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Sedra of the Week

SHABBAT SHALOM: PARSHAT CHAYE SARA GENESIS 23:1- 25:18

Eliezer demonstrates great skill in understanding what is required for the wife of Isaac. were channeled into creating learning institutions for Torah and strengthening the State of Israel.

He was a crucial figure in decisions by Congress to reduce Israel’s loan obligations and send the Patriot missile batteries to the State of Israel just before the Gulf War. He would relentlessly pursue new people and new ideas, especially striving to identify rabbis and educators who would create new avenues in kiruv (outreach) and bring assimilating Jews back into the fold.

Whenever I was with him, I knew in advance that there would be no time for breakfast, lunch or dinner; we rarely had a chance to drink water. His energy and his drive gave him no rest when it came to doing God’s work. He was probably the greatest builder of Torah institutions in the history of the world. Despite this, not one building, classroom or project bears his name. He was a servant of the Lord and a man of God who lived selflessly and modestly for the sake of his mission.

He was truly Eliezer.

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T EST Y OUR T ORAH KNOWLEDGE THIS WEEK’S PORTION: CHAYEI SARA (BRAISHITH 23:1—25:18) 1. Where did Sarah pass away? a.) Hebron b.) Beer Sheva c.) Gerar

4. Who did Avraham send to find a wife for Isaac? a.) Isaac b.) His servant c.) Yishmael

2. Who lived there? a.) Jebusites b.) Hitites c.) Emorites 3. Did the residents treat Avraham with respect? a.) Yes b.) No

5. What was the one question the messenger asked? a.) How much would he get paid for making a successful match b.) Where should he look c.) What to do if he could not find a proper match

2. B 23:3 3. A 23:6 They called Avraham a prince of G-d and promised to assist to fulfill his request.

4. B 24:2 5. C 24:6

EFRAT, Israel – “And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had: ‘Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh... You shall go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.’” (Genesis 24: 2-4).

The portion of Hayei Sara comprises two chapters of the Book of Genesis: Chapter 23 deals with the death and burial of the matriarch Sarah, and Chapter 24 deals with the selection of a suitable wife for her son, Isaac.

The connection between these two themes is clear: With the loss of his beloved life partner, a bereft Abraham understands the awesome responsibility that lies before him to find a suitable mate for his heir to the covenant, Isaac. For this formidable and momentous task he chooses “his trusted servant, the wise elder of his household, who controlled all that was his,” Eliezer (Genesis 24: 2).

Eliezer demonstrates great skill in understanding what is required for the wife of Isaac. He understands that she must be a member of the Abrahamic family (Rebekah is indeed the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother, Nahor), and must not dwell among the evil and accursed Canaanites. He further understands that the young woman must be willing to live with Isaac in Abraham’s domain rather than removing Isaac to the home of her family; Rebekah must come under the influence of Abraham. Most of all, he understands Isaac’s bride must have the character of Abrahamic hospitality, to the extent that she will not only draw water from the well for him, the messenger, but will also draw water for his camels. And of course he must arrange for the young woman to make the journey to Isaac and live her life in the Land of Israel and under the tent of Abraham.

Eliezer arranges a match that will determine the destiny of God’s covenantal nation with wisdom, tact and sensitivity.

The Bible states that Eliezer set out for his mission “with all the bounty [goodness] of his master in his hand” (Ibid 24: 10). Rashi takes this to mean that Abraham gave Eliezer a blank check; he would pay any price for the right

wife for Isaac. Rabbi Moshe Besdin gives the verse a very different thrust: All the bounty and goodness that had been expressed

by Abraham was now placed in the hands of his most trusted servant because the future of Abraham was dependent upon Isaac, his heir apparent, and the future of Isaac depended on his future wife.

Strangely, throughout this lengthy biblical tale, Eliezer’s name is not mentioned.

He is referred to as “eved” (the servant) 10 times and as “ish” (the personage) seven times, but never once by his name.

Wouldn’t such an important individual, entrusted with such a significant mission, deserve to have his name in lights for everyone to see and remember? I believe that is exactly the point of the biblical record. Eliezer the individual has been completely overwhelmed by the immensity of this task: He is the servant of Abraham, committed to performing an act that will determine the continuity of the Abrahamic vision. A midrash even suggests that Eliezer had a daughter of marriageable age, whom he had expected to wed to Isaac, allowing his grandchildren to inherit the Abrahamic dream and wealth. But Eliezer forgets any of his personal ambitions or goals; he is the consummate servant of Abraham, using all of his wisdom and ingenuity to carry out his master’s will (see Rashi on verse 24: 39 quoting Bereishit Rabbah 59: 9).

In this he is like Moses, who utilizes all of his spiritual and intellectual prowess in the service of his Master, the Lord, God of Universe.

Just as Moses was both an eved and an ish at the same time (See Deut. 33:1 and 34:5) – with his individual personality dedicated to God’s will – so Eliezer was an ish and an eved simultaneously.

Zev Wolfson immigrated to the United States as a refugee from a Siberian prison camp, having carried his dead father on his back until he found a place to bury him.

He took responsibility for his beloved mother and brother in the strange new world of America and he was one of the most brilliant people I ever met. He mastered both the stock market and real estate and navigated halls of influence and power. All of these gifts

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ANSWERS 1. A 23:2 Kiryat Arba and Hebron are the same place

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By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist Halloween-y Stuff If and when your kids, grandkids, or friends come home laden down with Halloween candy – you’ll no doubt find a few Tootsie rolls in their haul. The candy was named, in 1896, for CLARA “Tootsie” HIRSHFELD, the (then) young daughter of the inventor of the candy, LEO HIRSHFELD – and what Halloween party would be complete without some Cheez Doodles? They were invented by MORRIE YOHAI (1920-2010), the son of Turkish Jewish immigrants.

You might have a hard time finding the well-reviewed indie horror film, “We Are What We Are,” in a theater near you. But if you search on-line, you can find many sites that stream it into your home. “We Are” is a re-make of a hit 2010 Mexican horror flick.

The American version features the Parkers, a seemingly nice family who keep to themselves.

Patriarch Frank Parker rules his family with an iron hand, determined to keep his GRUESOME ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm hits, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris (JULIA GARNER, 19) and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. The ensuing floods force the police to begin to uncover clues about the “real Parkers.”

WYATT RUSSELL, 27, the son of GOLDIE HAWN, 67, plays a deputy sheriff.

Garner, a pretty actress with blonde ringlets and very pale skin, has made 10 films since making her debut in the 2011 indie hit, “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”

She’s so hot that she was the subject of a long NY Times profile last March. Her credits include a scene in the 2012 film “Not Fade Away” that Sopranos’ creator David Chase wrote for her; a starring role in the critically acclaimed indie “Electrick Children” (2012); and upcoming roles in bigger budget films, including one in which she plays the love interest of JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, 32.

Garner’s mother, therapist TAMI GINGOLD, was a popular comedian in Israel decades ago. Julia told the Times that it was ironic that she played a fundamentalist Utah Mormon in “Electrick”: “[I come] from New York. I’m Jewish too. It’s very funny.”

The new NBC series, “Dracula,” is set in 19th century England and features an almost all-Brit cast. Jonathan Rhys Meyers has the title role. Hunky Brit actor OLIVER JACKSON-

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COHEN, 26, is a series regular, playing Jonathan Hawker, who is described as “a tenacious and slightly gauche journalist desperate to climb the ranks of aristocracy – and stay there.” JacksonCohen is the son of Betty Jackson, a fairly famous Brit dress designer, and DAVID COHEN, a French-Israeli who is Betty’s business partner.

More Allen News Last week, WOODY ALLEN, 77, surprised many when he eloquently spoke in defense of Israel with an Israeli TV station. He said, in part: “I do feel there are many people that disguise their negative feelings toward Jews, disguise it as antiIsrael criticism, political criticism, when in fact what they really mean is that they don’t like Jews.” Regarding anti-Semitism in America, he said: “By the low standards of tolerance for Jews all over the world, America’s been a very tolerant country.” Allen also said he would like to visit Israel soon, a country he has never visited: “My wife [is] also very curious about Israel and wants to go there with the girls, so they can see and understand their father’s Jewish culture.”

(His whole interview can be found on the Times of Israel website.)

Elsewhere: MSNBC has confirmed that Woody’s son, RONAN FARROW, 26, has signed to host an afternoon political talk show. The show will probably start in mid-January, 2014.

Inside the Movie Biz HBO will premiere the documentary “Seduced and Abandoned,” on Monday, Oct. 28, at 9PM. Directed by JAMES TOBACK, 68, the documentary shows Toback and Alec Baldwin going to the Cannes film festival and meeting with “money men” and name actors as they try to get financing for a Toback-directed feature film about Iraq. (The feature may never have been “real” – but served as an excuse for the documentary interviews.)

The documentary features interviews with big-time Hollywood executives RON MEYER, 69, and MIKE MEDAVOY, 72. There are also interviews with top directors (including ROMAN POLANSKI, 80, and Martin Scorsese) – and talks with hot actors, including Jessica Chastain and Ryan Gosling.

Gosling, advance reviews say, is particularly frank and funny regarding the realities of film financing.

FROM THE PAGES 150 Y EARS A GO Settlers and merchants visiting the city, should not fail to call at S. Levi & Bos Star Distillery, No. 2221 and 223 Walnut St., between Fifth and Sixth. There they will find a large stock of pure Catawba wine, pure Bourbon and Rye whiskies, imported liquors of every quality and description, also, a large supply of cigars.

Messrs. S. Levi & Bros. are very extensively engaged in distilling alcohol and cologne spirits, all kinds of domestic wines, liquors, bitters, and cordials, and have made complete arrangements for supplying settlers, at the very shortest notice, with bottled wines and liquors. Settlers and merchants not visiting the city would do well to send their orders and we assure them, both of the lowest market prices of their stock and the integrity of the above named firm.–November 20, 1863

125 Y EARS A GO If you are suffering from Malaria ask your druggist for Shallenberger’s Antidote for Malaria. If he doesn’t have it, and tell you he has something just as good, don’t believe him, but send one dollar to Dr. A.T. Shallenberger, Rochester, PA, and get the Antidote by mail. A few doses will restore you to perfect health. The Medicine is in the form of pills, but is not a purgative. It not only destroys Malaria, but is an excellent tonic.

Mr. Louis Monheimer and Miss Julia Plaut were married at the Allemania, on Wednesday evening, October 10th, in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends, Dr. Davisdon officiating. The affair was a very brilliant one.

The Plum Street Temple was visited by sneak thieves last week, who succeeded in carrying off about thirty-five yards of the fine velvet drapery about the altar.

There seems to have been a want of proper precautions, but they will no doubt be taken hereafter. – October 19, 1888

100 Y EARS A GO An incident out of the common was the wedding this week in the Cincinnati Turkish – Jewish colony. The young couple wedded were Solomon Sabetal Caron and Sultana Gormenzana. A Jewish – Turkish rabbi, Moses Garger, celebrated the service and was assisted by Dr. G. Deutsch. The marriage was held in a humble home of two rooms, crowded to the wall with people. The ceremony

was performed under a velvet canopy gorgeously embroidered in Oriental fashion and suspended from the ceiling, while Oriental tapestry covered the walls. The colony of Jewish – Turks in Cincinnati has considerably increased recently because of the Balkan war.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mayer of the Virginia Flats, Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, announce the birth on October 15, 1913 of a daughter, Mariam Sara. – October 23, 1913

75 Y EARS A GO The dance event you have been waiting for is here at last!

The place, Jewish Center, date, Sunday, November 6th, hour 8:15 pm until ______? The athletic Council is joining hands with the German-Jewish Club in presenting this “dance–to–be– remembered” and everyone is invited to swing and sway a “Yam” and then into a Venetian Waltz.

For only 25 cents (35 cents to non-members of the Jewish Center), we promise you the time of your life...Floor Show...Door Prize...Free Refreshments. Let’s make this a rollicking affair.

Bill Weidner, Los Angeles, comes back Friday night to defend his light-heavy mat title against Cincinnati’s young sensation, Bill Kief, in the Quality Athletic Club’s feature in Music Hall Sports Arena. The show, sponsored by Pohlar’s Care, has three first – lass matches in support.

Weidner regained his laurels here last month, when he set back Frankie Talaber, who defeated him for the title early this ear at Columbus, Ohio. – October 27, 1938

50 Y EARS A GO William Berliner, president of Fellowship House, extends an invitation to all freedom marchers in the community to come to Fellowship House, 937 Lexington Avenue, after the march for sandwiches, coffee, and fellowship.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Stone announce the marriage of their daughter, Laura, to Dr. Richard Broh Salzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Salzer, Thursday evening, Oct. 17.

The marriage was performed

by Rabbi Murray Blackman in the presence of the immediate families.

Mrs. Robert Diefendorf was the bride’s only attendant. Dr. Selzer’s brother, Mr. Clarence M. Selzer Jr., of New York City, was

best man.

Following a brief honeymoon at the Greenbriar, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Dr. and Mrs. Salzer will reside at 1239 Westminster Drive. – October 24, 1963

25 Y EARS A GO Rabbi Gary P. Zola has been promoted to dean of admissions and student affairs at HUC – JIR. In announcing the promotion, Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, President of HUC said, “Rabbi Zola is a dedicated, imaginative and most competent young scholar who merits promotion within the College’s administrative ranks.

He has shown resourcefulness and the intelligence to deal with difficult challenges. We look forward to much further service and benefit from him and his work.”

“The Joyce Wise Show” on WCKY Radio will feature a special program on Kristallnacht Wednesday, November 9.

Dr. Abraham Peck, administrative director of the American Jewish Archives HUC–JIR; Werner Coppel, Ruth Tauber and Dr. Werner Weinberg, eyewitness to Kristallnacht, will share their reminiscences.

Rabbi Eric and Kim Slaton announce the birth of twin sons, Evan Yakov and Seth Aharon, October 1.

Grandparents are Allen and Lois Garmarnik of Cincinnati and Dr. Paul Slaton and Dr. Suzanne Brandon of Minneapolis. – November 3, 1988

10 Y EARS A GO Rabbi Jacqueline Ellenson, wife of Rabbi David Ellenson, president of HUC – JIR, was one of three new directors named to the board of the Hadassah Foundation, it was annonced by June Walker, Hadassah national president and Barbara Dobkin, Hadassah Foundation chair, October 10.

An award of $228,000 to the Trauma Unit of Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva recently was made by the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati.

“Many of the current terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians are originating from the Gaza Strip,” said Gloria S. Haffer, president of the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati. “Soroka Medical Center houses a Level 1 Trauma Center and serves the entire south of Israel, including Jewish settlements located near the Gaza strip, Eilat, smaller development towns in the Negev and army bases.

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BANK from page 10 is currently constrained by layers of restrictions-and allowing Palestinians to put these resources to work, would provide whole new areas of economic activity and set the economy on the path to sustainable growth,” said Mariam Sherman, who directed operations for the World Bank in the West Bank and Gaza.

The new World Bank findings strongly suggest that Israel is to blame for Palestinian economic failings. The report focuses most heavily on three areas: agriculture in land that Palestinians do not have access to, allocations of water resources, and exploitable resources and tourism surrounding the Dead Sea. The report postulates that the Palestinian economy would grow if Palestinians had access to invest in Dead Sea mineral works and tourism, areas that are currently controlled by Israel and could potentially remain in Israel’s possession as part of any bilateral permanent peace agreement.

“Part of the problem is the start-

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ing assumption that in the near future, the Palestinians will have their own state,” Plaut told JNS. “Economic reports that are meant to prepare the Palestinians for statehood, as opposed to current economic realities, are not helpful.”

The report also looks at agriculture in Israel’s Judea and Samaria communities as an indicator of loss and potential for the Palestinian economy. The report suggests that if Palestinians had access to the fertile ground of Israeli communitiesno different than the adjacent grounds of Palestinian controlled areas A and B-that the Palestinians would be able to develop similar agricultural production.

Yet in 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew residents from 21 Jewish communities in Gaza and turned over greenhouses that were producing millions of dollars in agricultural exports to local Palestinians.

Rather than utilizing the existing infrastructure for economic output, Palestinians destroyed the greenhouses.

Today, the former Jewish communities of Gaza are known more for their use as launching pads for

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rockets against Israeli cities than for Palestinian agricultural output.

Many in Israel believe that should Israel withdraw from territories it controls in Judea and Samaria, that those territories would suffer the same fate as the once vibrant communities in Gaza.

Rather than holding Palestinians accountable for nontransparent governance, misappropriation of foreign donations, and the consistent promotion of terror that has led Israel to taking severe security measures, the report blames Israel for the potential effect such measures might have on a Palestinian economy.

In response to the report, Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Yigal Palmor stated, “It postulates an abstract economy which is detached from all political and security aspects, unrelated to regional and global trends, and therefore totally unrealistic.”

“Pretending that all these key factors do not exist, or do not influence heavily the Palestinian economy, makes for a particularly partial rendering of the actual situation,” Palmor said.

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business@ americanisraelite.com or call 513-621-3145 UNITED from page 8 I can remember, there is a sense of electricity among this group of people,” he said.

Rabbi Raphael Ostrovsky, a retired pulpit rabbi who lives in Munster, Ind., said he found the afternoon prayer service inspiring.

“When you davened mincha, it was very moving. I felt like it was an active Orthodox synagogue,” Ostrovsky told JTA. “It was loud and full of life. The average Conservative synagogue doesn’t have that.”

In one-on-one discussions, many attendees credited the United Synagogue with changing its modus operandi following an uprising several years ago by a handful of renegade synagogues that withheld their dues in protest.

“A few years ago, it was send us your money and that’s it. That’s how our synagogue viewed the USCJ – they were simply collecting dues without providing a service,” Ralph Downard, president of Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Del., told JTA. “Now they’re actually giving conOne particular security measure that drew the attention of the report is checkpoints-barriers designed to curb the flow of terrorists and weapons from Palestinian communities into Israeli villages.

“It’s not the checkpoints, it’s the terrorism,” Plaut told JNS. “If somebody doesn’t like the economic damage caused by checkpoints, then the first thing that should be done is to stop the terrorism.”

In the same week as the World Bank report was released, a Palestinian from the town of alBireh broke through security apparatus into the neighboring Jewish community of Psagot and shot a 9year-old Israeli girl in the neck at point-blank range.

According to Plaut, Palestinians would be the first to benefit from a cessation of terror.

“If we talk strictly about economics, the policy that is best for Palestinians is free trade with Israel.

Any barriers to economic trade hurt both sides. In the absence of terrorism, Israel has no reason to withhold the trading of resources or commodities,” he said.

While the World Bank report

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(513) 531-9600 siderable services for the dues. We actually have benefits – there’s leadership development, strategic planning, a blog for synagogue presidents to exchange ideas. United Synagogue is actually engaging us.”

The conference hardly marked the beginning of the conversation about how to reinvent Conservative Judaism for the 21st century. For years, lay leaders and rabbis have bemoaned the movement’s decline.

Now, however, the conversation about how to address the decline is being embraced by organizational leaders. Whether and to what extent the conversation will lead to changes on the ground – and how open the movement’s national organizations will be to undergoing major reforms themselves, as many have suggested is necessary – remains to be seen.

“You’ve got to be willing to undergo self-examination and figure out how you need to change,” said one synagogue president from New Jersey who asked not to be identified by name.

“And self-examination is the single hardest thing for human beings to do.”

attempts to calculate the effects that Israeli security arrangements have on the Palestinian economy, it fails to consider the economic impact that expensive round-the-clock security measures have on the Israeli economy, Plaut believes.

“The costs are probably higher to Israelis, but Israel can afford it.

Israel is a well-developed, prosperous country, whereas the Palestinian economy is underdeveloped,” he said.

In Plaut’s estimation, the primary recipient of blame for Palestinian economic incompetence should be the Palestinian Authority itself.

“If you would take away the foreign aid, the standard of living for Palestinians would drop down to third-world levels, similar to what we currently see in Jordan.

Palestinians in the West Bank, and particularly in Gaza, are living under a cleptocracy, governed by Fatah and Hamas,” Plaut said.

“Economic prosperity for Palestinians is not necessarily an Israeli issue,” he added.

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Grossman named to executive committee of Cincinnatus Association Elliot Grossman, president of Ashire Communications, has been elected to the Executive Committee of The Cincinnatus Association, a group of 100 community leaders who provide civic leadership to enhance Greater Cincinnati’s quality of life.

Cincinnatus, founded in 1920, studies critical issues facing the region, engages community leaders and helps to shape public policy. The Association, which is non-

partisan, has focused on local government, public education, economic development and other vital concerns, much of it from behind the scenes.

Grossman served as Lakota Local School District’s interim director of communications and community relations. He also helped to create the Xavier Launch-a-Business Competition, better known as X-LAB, by heading a team that generated more

than 300 applications from aspiring entrepreneurs.

Grossman previously worked as a news reporter and editor in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York State, including The Cincinnati Enquirer. He also taught as an adjunct at Xavier University in Cincinnati and the State University of New York.

Grossman and his family are members of Rockdale Temple in Amberley Village.

Allen Miller Computer Consulting is a 3CX Advanced Certified Partner Allen Miller Computer Consulting (AMCC) announced today it has achieved the level of Advanced Certified Partner from 3CX. For AMCC, the partnership enables them to execute a key company strategy: To offer an innovative SIP and PSTN-based IP PBX that can deliver a robust level of functionality at a very affordable price for small and medium-sized businesses.

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cant influence of haredi rabbis.

“In the general population, public discourse is the way to deal with this,” Lehman said. “In the religious community it’s very different. The blessing comes from what’s hidden. It’s easier to deal with things in the haredi community when you talk about it quietly.”

Haredi couples are more reluctant than their secular peers to choose divorce. Lehman considers a battered women’s shelter a last resort.

Instead, Yad Sarah encourages abusive husbands to seek therapy in parallel with their wives. Lehman says that for every 100 women who seek treatment, approximately 40 men come as well.

“The hierarchy between husband and wife in the haredi world is a good excuse for the violence, but it doesn’t create the vio-

lence,” she said. Haredi communities “educate for respect in the family. The violence doesn’t start in the hierarchy or the biblical verse.”

Though growing numbers of women have sought treatment in recent years, Korman and Lehman say work remains to be done. Bat Melech at times has to turn women away – in part because of the high number of children that sometimes accompany them. The shelters have served 800 women and, Korman estimates, more than 3,000 children.

“People aren’t waiting,” Lehman said. “They come when they’re dating or in the first year of marriage, so there are more options. Their entire lives are ahead of them.”

major haredi organizations.

Those leaders in turn instructed communal rabbis to refer battered women to the two organizations.

Bat Melech founder Noach Korman says only a minority of haredi rabbis still ignore domestic violence and most support his organization’s mission.

Still, discretion remains a paramount concern for haredi rabbis, many of whom still refuse to advocate publicly for the two organizations. Leading haredi papers will not run ads for Bat Melech and Yad Sarah, though online haredi publications do cover them. Haredi schools also do not permit Yad Sarah to run seminars on domestic abuse for their students.

The culture of secrecy doesn’t bother Lehman, who sees an advantage in wielding the signifi-

All about food: Crazy about cranberries Zell’s Bites

by Zell Schulman The morning air is crisp and cool. Sweaters came out from my cedar chest and my heavy jackets were brought up from the trunks in my storage area. The leaves on the trees outside my windows in Eden Park are dressed in gold and red. The stalls at my farmer’s market offer colorful corn husks, gourds, pumpkins from mini’s to jack-o-lantern size and bags of bright red cranberries. Fall is here!

A star ingredient for Thanksgiving, I use fresh cranberries in so many things this time of year. I look forward to enjoying sweetened, dried cranberries in my morning rolled oats; add them to a sauce, make cranberry bread or add them in a salad, or a dessert. They’re waiting for you in the produce section in bags fresh or dried, in the freezer, and on the grocery shelves in the can, whole or jellied. No matter how, where or what you do with them, they're a "must have" for this time of the year.

CRANBERRY/CINNAMON BREAKFAST BREAD Ingredients 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 stick margarine 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 large egg 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 cup dark molasses, dissolved in 1 cup of boiling water 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup fresh cranberries, 1/2 cup dark raisins Method 1. Preheat the oven to 350° F. Spray or grease a 9 inch-square baking pan. Sift the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together. Add the cranberries and raisins. Toss to coat the berries and raisins, and set aside.

2. In large bowl of the electric mixer add the sugar and margarine. Beat 3 minues until creamy and well blended. Add the egg and beat 30 seconds more .

3. Turn mixer to low.

Alternate the flour mixture with

the molasses mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture, Blend well. The batter will be thin. Emptythe batter into the prepared pan and bake on a rack in the middle of the oven, 45 to 50 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in center, comes out clean and the top is slightly springy.

Cool on cake rack.

Zell’s Tips: You may want to freeze the bread and this point or cut it into squares and serve.

CRANBERRY COBBLER Serves 8 TO 10 Ingredients: Filling 2 cups fresh cranberries 1/2 cup quick tapioca 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 3 large, firm, tart apples 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup light brown sugar Crust 1 -1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon baking soda Pinch salt 1 cup cream, half-and-half or nondairy creamer 1/2 stick unsalted butter or margarine, cut up Method 1. Preheat oven to 350 °F. Spray or butter a 9 x 13" baking dish. Wash apples and the berries.

Peel and slice the apples. Gently mix together with the sugar, tapioca, cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom. Place in the bottom of the baking dish.

2. Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl or food processor. Blend well. Add butter and mix on low speed or pulse in the processor until butter is small pea-size. Add the cream and mix or process until just blended.

There may be a few small lumps in the mixture but these are okay.

3. Spoon the batter evenly over the top, spreading gently with a flat spatula, to cover. Bake 45 to 50 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow the cobbler to rest 15 minutes before serving.

The longer the cobbler sets, the thicker the filling becomes. Serve with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, or parve non dairy topping.

Zell’s Tips: This can be prepared early in the day and served for dinner. It may also be refrigerated and warmed in the microwave just before serving.

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Range Rover Evoque: Sporty Ride, Sophisticated Look The Evoque may be the smallest Range Rover in the line-up, but it sure has made the biggest impression.

When the Evoque first hit the pavement a few years ago, it was praised for its aggressive stance, devilishly raked windshield, and daring roofline. No other SUV could hold a candle to it. And now the 2014 Evoque is hitting the pavement with a series of important updates, which includes a world-first nine-speed automatic transmission. Best of all? There may be more gears but it won’t cost you more dollars: the Evoque is still reasonably priced from $41,995.

At that price, you can drive away in the five-door model in entry-level Pure trim. Want to upgrade to the Coupe? That will bump up the cost to $45,050, but you’ll be able to get it in the Pure Plus trim. A top-of-therange Evoque Coupe, complete with Dynamic Trim, will set you back about $58,195. All these prices are inclusive of the $895 destination charge.

The Pure trim level is the most streamlined, with a first and second row fixed glass sunroof, dual zone automatic a/c, voice activated navigation system driver and passenger heated front seats, rear fog/driving lights, 18” silver aluminum wheels, and remote keyless

entry. The Pure Plus trim has all of the previous items plus the addition of front fog lights and 19” silver aluminum wheels.

The Dynamic has it all, plus 20” silver aluminum wheels.

The updates to the info-tainment system are also a big change. The new touchscreen features improved scrolling on models with navigation, and a QWERTY-style keyboard for phonebook searching. The satellite radio has also been tweaked for added functionality Across the range, a single engine is the norm: a turbocharged and direct-injected 2.0-liter four-cylinder with 240 horsepower on tap. As previously stated, the new nine-speed automatic is fitted as standard across the range as well. When recently sampled, the wider spread of ratios (over the sixspeeder it replaces) was found to be smooth and intuitive, and this new transmission enhances both performance and efficiency.

Additionally, a new Active Driveline system with active differentials and torque vectoring debuts on the 2014 Range Rover Evoque, and is fitted as standard on all-wheel-drive models. The system decouples the rear axle in normal driving and automatically engages them within 300 milliseconds when added traction is required.

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that the rest of the world regards the Palestinians as blameless victims.

That is why Netanyahu’s unwavering stance on the need for Palestinian recognition of Israel’s Jewish character should be welcomed as a gesture of peace, not an excuse to perpetuate the status quo.

Peace is only possible if the Palestinians revise the historical narrative that currently leads them to denigrate Israel as the “Zionist entity.”

“Ah,” you say, “that’ll never happen.” And you may be right. But that’s a subject for another time.

be overwhelmed by the descendants of the Arab refugees of 1948 “returning” to a country that they have never set foot in.

As long as the Palestinians reject Israel’s Jewish character, they will insist on the “right of return.” That’s why we don’t have the luxury of saying, “damn what you think.”

Recognition of Israel as the historic homeland of the Jewish people should not be demoted to the status of an afterthought, something we’d like to achieve if we can, but won’t worry about if we can’t.

It is, rather, the key reason why this conflict has persisted for so long.

As the Oslo process of the 1990s demonstrated, you can only go so far by not tackling these fundamental ideological objections on the Palestinian side. Indeed, negotiating with Palestinian leaders as if these objections don’t exist simply encourages Abbas and others to raise them at delicate moments.

That way, they can portray the Israelis as intransigent occupiers, safe in the knowledge

Range Rover Evoque

Active Torque Biasing uses an electronically controlled differential to distribute torque between the rear wheels, optimizing traction and stability. In addition, a Torque Vectoring feature is able to redirect torque among all four wheels, which helps improve handling.

You can also enjoy a number of new driver-assist features, which include: Park Exit (to automatically exit parallel parking bays); Adaptive Cruise Control (with Queue Assist, Forward Alert and Intelligent Emergency Braking); and Closing Vehicle Sensing.

Overall, the Range Rover Evoque provides a sophisticated, attractive exterior combined with a luxurious interior - and one delightfully sporty ride.

MSRP begins at $41,145

22 • OBITUARIES D EATH N OTICES GOLDNER,Paul P., age 88, died on September 24, 2013; 21 Tishrei, 5774 RASHER, Offie, age 87, died on October 20, 2013, 16 Cheshvan, 5774 ZEFF, David M., age 72, died on October 14, 2013; 10 Cheshvan 5774.

O BITUARIES ZEFF, David M. David M. Zeff was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1941. He joined the family jewelry business where he achieved mild celebrity as one of the Mayor’s brothers.

Later in life he became an innkeeper and the guiding spirit behind the Carriage House at the Harbor bed and breakfast, treasurer of the South Haven Visitors Bureau to which he had been re-elected to a three year term in January. He is credited by the South Haven Visitors Bureau as helping retire their debt and putting in place financial controls that will keep the organization on a sound financial setting.

David loved sailing, model railRETREAT from page 5 actress Mayim Bialik.

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roading, the Cincinnati Bengals, telling jokes and making others laugh.

David was a published author.

His book for children “The Adventures of Peanuts, Popcorn, Chestnuts, and Tootles” was published in 2011. David said that it was inspired by the stories he told his children and grandchildren.

David, of South Haven, Michigan passed away on October 14, 2013 at the age of 72. He was the devoted longtime partner of Suzanne Schloss. Loving father of Stephen (Tina) Zeff, of Northbrook, IL, and Jennifer (Adam) Leshowitz of Brooklyn, NY. Adoring grandfather of Ava and Lily Zeff and Noah Leshowitz. Beloved brother of Alan (Margo) Zeff of Cincinnati, OH. He is also survived by his former spouse Elaine Zeff, many family and friends and his dog Khaki.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to The MDS Foundation at www.mds-foundation.org or 4573 South Broad St., Suite 150, Yardville, NJ 08620. A Memorial Service will be held at Isaac M. Wise Center, 8329 Ridge Road, Amberley Village, OH, on October 27 at 3:00 p.m. The family will receive visitors beginning at 2:15 p.m.

tant support to local lightingstrike victim, Ethan Kadish.

Women of all ages and backgrounds are encouraged to participate; women from as far as Indianapolis were included in the retreat’s first registrants.

Cincy Jewish Women’s Retreat is a project of Sarah’s Place, an affiliate of the Cincinnati Commuinity Kollel.

For more information, please contact Sarah’s Place or the Kollel.

PROFESSIONAL from page 3 “In fact,” he continued, “everyone has already made me feel so at home that I’ve arranged for my mother to join me here and move into Cedar Village. I am grateful to have this awardwinning facility so close and to know that she will enjoy an exceptional quality of life there.”

Harris is also managing the planning, development and launch of an initiative to honor donors who have made a legacy gift to any Jewish agency or congregation in the community and to archive their stories to be shared with generations to come.

The initiative will culminate in a permanent exhibit, located in the Mayerson JCC, consisting of a sculpture of metal and glass and

BUSH from page 6 tion for more than 50 national Jewish groups. According to an attendee, Bush said the Jewish umbrella’s voice is extremely well informed and helpful, and clearly respects the office of the U.S. president.

Israel is America’s best friend in the Middle East, and the defense of Israel is not only an American value, but is in America’s strategic interest, said Bush, who entered the room to a prolonged applause from an audience previously unaware that he would appear. “[Bush] has long had very positive feelings toward the state of Israel and been a strong supporter of the security of the state of Israel, and this was really highlighted in the period after 9/11, when the intifada was also going on in Israel,” Troy told JNS. “He recognized that Israel’s struggle and America’s struggle were the same, and that Israel’s enemies and America’s enemies can overlap as well.”

The former president said he

UMAN from page 9 Galant said. “There are good medical services these days in Uman.”

Not everyone agrees. Galina Borisovna, who heads Uman’s pediatric clinic – an apartmentsize space that looks like the set of a 1950s film – said it was foolish to circumcise a child in Uman, where the nearest modern hospital is 200 miles away.

“You would have to be crazy just to bring a week-old baby to this place with tens of thousands people around, let alone circumcise him in unsanitary conditions,” Borisovna said. “It exposes the child to all sort of diseases and I strongly advise against it.”

But Nicolay Vasilyevitch, a surgeon at Uman’s hospital, said the risks are exaggerated. During

an interactive touchscreen that will allow visitors to browse audio and video interviews with donors.

“My position at the Federation will allow me to learn about the local Jewish agencies and congregations and meet the rabbis, professionals, volunteers and especially donors who have invested so meaningfully in them.

I hope my efforts to increase endowment giving in the months ahead will have a lasting impact on this community I’ve already come to love.”

Harris started his career as a teenager at the Young Judaea youth movement’s senior leadership camp, Tel Yehudah, in Barryville, NY, where he was a head counselor and Director of Programming. Harris moved to

Israel after graduating high school in 1992 and completed his military service in the IDF as an artillery commander, sergeant first class. He then worked as a guide and counselor for Young Judaea Year Course and as Director of Education for an international partnership of youth movements that included the International Federation of Boy and Girl Scouts of Israel (Tzofim). After returning to the U.S. in 2000, Harris attended Columbia University and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in political science.

Harris lives in the Pleasant Ridge neighborhood of Cincinnati.

misses only three things from his time in Washington, DC: not having to stop at stop lights, getting to salute men and women in uniform, and retired U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman, a vice presidential candidate who was the most prominent Sabbath observer on Capitol Hill, was in the room to hear Bush’s compliment, as he had just presented an award to former Conference of Presidents chairman James S. Tisch.

Bush also said that it is not beneficial for the U.S. to have a past president “bloviating” while the current president is trying to run the country.

The Conference of Presidents event honored Malcolm Hoenlein, the umbrella organization’s executive vice chairman since 1986. Bush joked that Hoenlein, unlike U.S. presidents, has no term limits.

Alan Solow, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents, told JNS regarding Bush’s appearance, “I was delighted that he joined us at this event.”

The gala also included an opening video message from U.S. President Barack Obama.

Hoenlein said the fact that remarks from both Obama and Bush were featured demonstrates the Conference of Presidents’ objective of “unity, with diversity.” Unity is “the essence” of what the Jewish umbrella is trying to accomplish, while also building respect for diversity, he explained.

“We brought all kinds of people from different points of view [to the gala],” Hoenlein told JNS. “It was really an amazing demonstration both for the [Jewish] community’s political maturity and the importance of the community, and its sense of reach,” he added.

the week of Rosh Hashanah, the Breslov movement runs a roundthe-clock clinic that is capable of providing initial treatment for emergencies and handling minor injuries.

“Circumcision is a minor procedure and we have the tools to deal with any complications right here, not to mention that the hasidim have their own medical services, which are quite good,” Vasilyevitch said.

The circumcisions are just one of a number of new phenomena that have sprung up in Uman in recent years.

Chaim Hizin, an Israeli who is among a handful of Breslovers who live permanently in Uman, says the city has become a destination for honeymooning couples.

“Thanks to the permanent

hasidic presence at Uman, they have kosher food and a community, but they can still be alone together in a place which is full of spiritual significance to them,” Hizin said.

Women, though still a minority during pilgrimages, have begun recently to assert their own rituals, performing hafrashat challah – the act of separating a piece of dough during bread baking – on the grave.

“It has turned into a ceremony of feminist empowerment not only for Breslovers but across the haredi world,” Mark said. “In a way, Uman has become for some haredis what India is for secular Israelis – a place to escape real life with all its stressfulness for a while and rediscover spirituality through a host of rituals.”

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