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Cathy F. Heldman appointed AJC Cincinnati Regional Director This month, Cathy Heldman becomes the Director of the Cincinnati Regional Office of the American Jewish Committee.

She succeeds Barbara Glueck, who retired after twenty two years as Regional Director. A native Cincinnatian, Heldman has had a long career working in the Jewish community, most recently at the Mayerson JCC. Cathy held key positions at the J, starting there the year before the current facility opened.

Initially, as JCC Program Director, she supervised the programs and services for the Children & Family, Sports & Recreation, Aquatics, Day Camp, Special Events, Jewish Life & Learning and Cultural Arts departments. She created new and innovative programming for the 2008 opening. More recently, Heldman served as Director of Community Outreach.

Before working for the Mayerson JCC, Heldman served as Director of Development and Public Affairs for Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and before that, ran the Cincinnati office of State of Israel Bonds. Although she says she never dreamed she would wind up having a career serving the Jewish community, she has enjoyed each one of her jobs immensely. “I can’t imagine having had a more fulfilling career, and I’m looking forward to the next chapter.”

As AJC President Rick Michelman noted, “while Cathy Heldman Barbara Glueck’s retirement left some big shoes to fill, we feel fortu- lent reputation as an organization that nate to have found so able a successor looked out for the Jewish people in in Cathy. Barbara will be working Israel and around the world, and prowith Cathy to ensure a smooth transi- moted human rights and democratic tion and to maintain AJC Cincinnati as values. What I’ve learned about AJC one of the organization’s premier in the past few months has only reinforced my initial impression,” said regional offices.”

Heldman is excited about the Heldman.

Her introduction to AJC has been opportunity to serve as AJC Cincinnati Regional Director. “I rapid and intense. Within a week of always knew that AJC had an excel- accepting the Regional Director job,

Heldman traveled to Israel on a Project Interchange trip. Project Interchange is the highly regarded educational institute of AJC that brings opinion leaders and policy makers to Israel for a week of intensive travel and learning. Heldman was able to join a special trip for AJC’s regional directors from around the country. Many of the organization’s 22 U.S. regional offices were

represented, so Heldman met many of her professional colleagues.

Heldman’s Israel trip came right in the middle of Operation Protective Edge. Like many Jewish Americans who were in Israel in the past month, Heldman was glad to be able to show support through her presence. “Every single speaker we heard began by thanking us for coming to Israel during such a difficult time,” said Heldman.

Although the trip agenda had to be altered somewhat because of the situation in Gaza and in Israel, Heldman and the other participants still experienced Israeli society and marveled at how determined Israelis were to go on living their lives as normally as possible.

Now that she’s returned, Heldman is eager to begin her work as Regional Director.

“I’m anxious to work with AJC board members and supporters, as well as our community partners in interfaith work. I’m impressed that AJC Cincinnati has so many members who are passionate about AJC issues and are quick to volunteer to get involved. On the Israel trip, I learned about AJC’s international advocacy work, and I’m looking forward to participating in the local version of that by joining board members in visiting our elected officials to advocate on issues like Israel’s security, immigration reform and energy independence.”

“Barbara Glueck has grown this critically relevant organization in our community. I look forward to continuing her work and expanding the AJC constituency base in Cincinnati even further. I will be reaching out and inviting the participation of others into AJC who can help positively influence issues critical to the Jewish people.”

Cathy is married to Tim Heldman, and they have 5 adult children, Michael, Jennifer and Aliza Weinberger, and Aaron and Owen Heldman.

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“Mom & Me” program is back at Rockwern Academy”

Valley Temple hosts open house

Rockwern Academy’s Early Childhood Education Center is excited to announce the return of their very successful “Mom and Me” program.

This program is for toddlers and their caregivers - moms, dads, grandparents, nannies, etc., and is an opportunity for your child to interact with other children, knowing his or her caregiver is close by.

The program will be led by one of their two-year-old teaching teams. This year, because of the program’s popularity, they will be offering two separate sessions.

One session will be on Tuesdays, 9:30-11:00 a.m., and the other session will be on Thursdays, 9:3011:00 a.m.

The program will offer songs, finger-plays, story time, outside

Wyoming's Valley Temple, a vibrant Reform Jewish congregation, will host an open house on Friday, August 22 at 7:00 p.m.

"We hope that many who are looking for a Jewish place to worship will find a home at Valley," said Rabbi Sandford Kopnick, Rabbi since 2001.

Founded as a school, the congregation emerged as a warm and intimate place for a diverse Jewish population. The congregation is filled with multi-generations, and boasts an award-winning religious school. Earlier in the summer, Education Director Alison Weikel received national recognition for her creativity and inspirational

play, art projects, and a snack in one of Rockwern Academy’s preschool classrooms.

This program is open to all Jewish children and their care-

givers, twelve months and up.

Please contact Nancy Mendelson, ECEC Director, for more information, pricing, and/or an application.

leadership style through the Grinspoon Foundation.

The Temple has a creative and happy supplemental education program, complete with Hebrew instruction, family education, and a creative middle school program.

Rabbinic student interns help with middle school education and a diverse music program. A complete adult education program, a commitment to social action, and contemporary music at services are also highlights of the synagogue.

Anyone interested in hearing more about the congregation is encouraged to attend the open house on August 21 at the Temple.

JCC welcomes new youth fitness coordinator The Mayerson JCC is pleased to announce the addition of a Youth Fitness Coordinator to its Fitness Center staff. Julie Hagen is an expert in children’s yoga, sports training, healthy youth weight loss and pre and post rehabilitation from injury.

Her new position will greatly expand opportunities for kids and teens to get involved in JCC fitness programming and personal training.

Throughout her career, Julie has strived to empower and motivate each client with whom she has worked. She is a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer and a Radiant Child Yoga Certified Instructor. Julie also is Sports Metric Certified by Cincinnati Sports Medicine and has extensive experience working in

management and program development in hospital-based fitness centers.

“I am passionate about helping children develop healthy attitudes about fitness and nutrition. Learning and enjoying fitness at a young age nourishes the whole child and provides lifelong benefits,” explained Julie Hagen. In her new role as Youth Fitness Coordinator, she will create unique wellness opportunities for kids throughout the JCC facility.

Starting in the fall, Julie will provide yoga classes for toddlers and preschoolers in the Early Childhood School as a part of the curriculum.

She will lead sessions twice a week that focus on introductory yoga poses, relaxation techniques, storytelling and meditation.

These classes will encourage children to be enthusiastic about exercise and give them a new outlet to express their creativity and imagination. Since 2006, Julie has worked to promote youth fitness in engaging ways that make physical activity fun for children. “Julie’s seasoned, unique training style and her passion for helping people has made her a top performer in two strong training programs,” said Jamie Wolf, General Manager of the JCC Fitness Center. “She will bring a lot of ideas and energy to the J, and we are excited to have her join our great fitness team!”

To learn more about the JCC Fitness Center, please contact the J.

Wise Temple 2nd annual Blue Jeans Shabbat The joyous atmosphere of community and worship was apparent at Wise Temple’s Blue Jeans Shabbat services and dinners, held for the first time last July and August. That atmosphere is sure to be recreated at the 2nd Annual Blue Jeans Shabbat, which will be held on August 22.

Blue Jeans Shabbat is a great chance to celebrate Shabbat in a unique way and enjoy some summer fun with friends new and old.

As they did last year, the Wise Temple Brotherhood will put on a BBQ spread that features far more than your traditional burgers and dogs. Brotherhood volunteers grill, chop and prepare delicious food of both quality and quantity. The Wise Temple Sisterhood will sponsor outdoor activities, including a visit from

a Snowie ice ball truck, where both children and adults can enjoy making their own ice ball creations.

Blue Jeans Shabbat is a relaxed and joyous service and congregational dinner which gives people of all ages an opportunity to connect on a truly deep level with the rabbis and with one another. Temple members David and Susan Smith attended both Blue Jeans Shabbat events last year. David remarks, “Blue Jeans Shabbat is a wonderful opportunity to get to know more about our Wise community - our congregational members, our rabbis, and our temple staff.”

In addition to regular Shabbat services on August 22, Wise Temple will also have a special YoFI Blue Jeans Shabbat Service for kids age

0-5 and their families at the same time, 6:15 PM. This service, full of movement, engagement and fun, gives families an interactive way to pray, learn about God and celebrate being Jewish. The young families are invited to stay for the dinner and activities as well, which will start immediately after the YoFI service.

Whether you participated in Blue Jeans Shabbat last year or just wish you had, join Wise Temple for another opportunity on August 22.

Wear your jeans or other casual wear to services at 6:15 PM. Stay for the BBQ at 7:15 PM. Reservations required for the BBQ by calling the Temple office. No matter your age, join Wise Temple for an evening of worship, celebration and community.

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Rand Paul changes course on Israel funding

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Senetor Rand Paul (R-KY).

true security needs of Israel and I don’t think there’s any issue about him voting against any specific military aid to Israel,” said Texas businessman and Republican activist Fred Zeidman, who has met with Paul to discuss his stance on Israel, among other important campaign issues.

But critics such as Moody have pointed out that Paul’s proposal in his first year as senator in 2011 to balance the U.S. federal budget did call for a cut to foreign aid entirely. Though the proposal did not specifically “target” Israel, it did not also exclude the country from this cut to aid.

The other claim by Paul and

his staff that he had voted in favor of emergency funding of $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system does ignore the fact that senators often pass legislation without resorting to the time-consuming roll call vote. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) had asked if there are any objections to passing the bill, and Paul merely did not object.

Democrats have quickly seized on Paul’s recent flip-flop on the issue, particularly since he had defended his earlier position when being interviewed on national television.

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(JNS / Washington Jewish Week) – Although the 2016 presidential election is still a long way off, prospective candidates are already testing the waters for possible presidential bids – primarily candidates considering running in the currently wideopen Republican race. Thus when Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the most visible potential contenders in 2016, said that he had never proposed to cut foreign aid to Israel, many in the pro-Israel community took notice.

“I’ve never said oh my goodness! Let’s target aid to Israel…I said you know what, to get to an ultimate goal maybe we should start by eliminating aid to countries that hate us, countries that burn our flag. I’ve been very up front to acknowledge that Israel isn’t one of the countries. Israel is our friend. I have never had a bill that had Israel’s name in it to eliminate aid to Israel,” Paul told an audience at the Campbellsville Chamber of Commerce in Kentucky Monday, reported the local news channel WBKO. Paul also defended his previous record on funding to Israel to Yahoo News political reporter Chris Moody on Aug. 4.

“We’ve never had a legislative proposal to do that…Israel has always been a strong ally of ours and I appreciate that. I voted just this week to give money – more money – to the Iron Dome, so don’t mischaracterize my position on Israel,” he added.

Shortly after Paul’s comment to Moody, his office doubled down on the statement, saying: “Sen. Rand Paul has never proposed any legislation that targeted Israel’s aid and just last week voted to continue and increase funding to the State of Israel.

Sen. Paul is a strong supporter of the Jewish state of Israel.”

“I think he has, in his own words, a new appreciation of the

nation, as a fountain of peace and a fountain of democracy within the Middle East,” Paul told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in a Jan. 2011 interview. “But at the same time, I don’t think funding both sides of the arms race, particularly when we have to borrow the money from China to send it to someone else. We just can’t do it anymore. The debt is all-consuming and it threatens our wellbeing as a country.”

Paul made a similar argument to ABC’s Jonathan Karl, though qualifying his statement by noting that he was not singling out Israel. “I support Israel. I want to be known as a friend of Israel, but not with money you don’t have,” he said.

But Paul’s camp is continuing to stand by his new rhetoric by pointing out that Paul’s more recent budget proposals do include Israel funding. The newest statement from Paul’s office said that “in 2011, Sen. Paul proposed a budget resolution that did not include certain foreign assistance programs in an effort to balance the budget in five years” but that “subsequent budget proposals made by Sen. Paul have included up to $5 billion for foreign assistance to account for U.S.-Israel security interests.”

Recently the National Journal reported that Paul has also been courting prominent Jewish conservatives in an effort to distance himself from the rhetoric of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul (RTX), who had railed against U.S. involvement in the Middle East and against the Israeli lobby.

Israel “wasn’t an issue that he had focused on before,” Zeidman said. However, the younger Paul did visit Israel in January 2013.

“I [don’t] think now that he has spent a lot more time trying to understand that issue, we’ll have a problem with regard to Israel,” Zeidman said.

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How Obama and Netanyahu can make up ByRon Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are not the best of friends – that seems pretty clear by now.

But following reports during the Gaza conflict of cut-off phone calls, tough talk of “demands” and eavesdropping, it may be time for them to figure out a way back to steadier ground.

JTA asked an array of experts on the U.S.-Israel relationship what the two leaders must do to restore a relationship that both say is critical for their countries.

Deus ex machina: A crisis will bring us together Aaron David Miller, a Middle East negotiator under Democratic and Republican presidents, remembers the last such breach between U.S. and Israeli leaders – when George H.W. Bush was president and Yitzhak Shamir was prime minister – and it was worse, he says.

That is, until Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990.

“The only thing that will improve the relationship is the emergence of a joint project that affords both of the them the opportunity to get on the same page and succeeds and makes them look good,” said Miller, now a vice president at the Wilson Center. The first Persian Gulf War and the subsequent Madrid peace talks are “what saved the Bush-Shamir relationship.”

“You need a set circumstances that compels the United States and Israel to operate in a way that not just manages something but accomplishes something and makes them look good,” Miller said. “That’s the only thing that will do it – phone calls and warm statements won’t do it.”

Let’s talk big picture Tamara Cofman Wittes, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs in Obama’s first term and now is director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, says Netanyahu and Obama should talk not about the specific near-term issues they face but about what they want to get done and what kind of legacies they wish to leave.

“Both of these guys have a clear sense of what they were put there to do,” Wittes told JTA. “Both of them have a clear sense of what they want to leave behind. And I am confident that one of the things both of them want to leave behind is a strong and solid U.S.-Israel relationship. That broader, deeper conversation will help them get past practical differences.”

Honey, we’ve both changed since we were young and in love Haim Malka, the deputy director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says their bigpicture talk should focus on how America and Israel each are changing.

“Young people in America don’t have the same kind of perception of Israel as their parents and grandparents – in part because they grew up at a time when Israel has been a strong military power. They don’t see the same threat their parents did,” said Malka, who in 2011 wrote a book about the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship. “The U.S. and Israel need a serious conversation about the relationship, the tension points in the relationship and why it’s changing.”

Martin Indyk, who until June was the top U.S. Middle East peace negotiator and is now a Brookings Institution vice president, says the United States must recognize

Israel’s shifting alliances.

Israel, as opposed to past crises in the relationship with the United States, “is strong economically, strong militarily and has a range of relationships across the world with other powers beyond the United

States,” Indyk said Tuesday at a Brookings event on the Gaza war aftermath, citing India, China and Russia as examples of Israel’s burgeoning friendships. “They feel more independent of the United States than they have in the past that

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“They also feel they have relationships in the Arab world that they never had before,” Indyk added, noting that Egypt explicitly sided OBAMA on page 22

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In Boston, Riverway reaches young Jews outside the synagogue

By Anthony Weiss BOSTON (JTA) – One recent Tuesday evening, a group of about two dozen Jews in their 20s and 30s huddled around wooden tables poring over the text for the week’s Torah portion.

A rabbi prodded them with questions about the petition that Zelophehad’s daughters submitted to Moses to inherit their father’s estate. Why do they petition at this juncture? Why does Moses refer the question to God? Members of the group raised hands, offered theories, debated.

The learning session took place not in a synagogue study hall but at a bustling cafe in Harvard Square.

Welcome to Riverway Cafe, a program of Temple Israel of Boston to reach out to millennial Jews. The program is an outgrowth of the Riverway Project, which brings Jewish events to unconventional settings, like Shabbat services in bars.

At Dive Shabbat, a Friday night service held at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, packed crowds turn out for music, prayer and alcohol consumption, ritual and otherwise. Now 13 years old, Riverway recently held an “Open Bar Mitzvah” with bottles of specially brewed “beer mitzvah” beer.

“It was awesome,” said Rabbi Matthew Soffer, Riverway’s director. “There was a lot of surprise from people, like, ‘Oh, that’s Jewish? I thought it would be more awkward.’

But that’s what we’re trying to do, to normalize spiritual life.”

National Briefs Hillary Clinton: Blame Hamas for Gaza civilian deaths (JNS) – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Hamas ultimately bears the ‘responsibility’ for the civilian casualties in Gaza.

In a wide-ranging interview conducted by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Clinton harshly criticized Hamas for starting the conflict and placing civilians in harm’s way by ‘embedding rockets and command-and-control facilities and tunnel entrances in civilian areas.’

U.S. bombing ISIS in Yazidi region of Iraq (JNS) – U.S. warplanes began bombing terrorists from the jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) Friday on order by President Barack Obama, who said the U.S. must act to prevent ‘genocide.’

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Rabbi Matthew Soffer, director of the Riverway Project, leads a Torah discussion at a Riverway Cafe gathering in Cambridge, Mass., May 2014.

The Riverway Project is emblematic of Boston’s burgeoning Jewish landscape for young Jews, the most sought-after demographic these days among those concerned about the Jewish future. In Boston, Jews in their 20s and 30s have become a major focus of Jewish programming: The area has more than 70 organizations are aimed at such Jews, according to the Boston Jewish federation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

“Young adults are an extremely high priority for us because we think that young adults are the opportunity for the future,” said CJP President Barry Shrage. “If you’re not thinking about the next generation, you might as well shoot yourself.”

CJP offers start-up grants and

fellowships to Jewish entrepreneurs.

Hebrew College’s Eser program organizes small study groups in apartments. Gin & Jews combines Jews and drinking with monthly bar nights and the occasional Red Sox game. For hikers and campers there are two Boston Jewish outdoors clubs. In a program called The MEM, young adults explore Jewish identity through art workshops.

Shrage says that when he started his job in 1987, outreach to young adults was low on his list of priorities.

“We didn’t see much potential out there,” he recalled.

The Riverway Project was among the first of Boston’s unconventional programs to engage young Jews. Rabbi Jeremy Morrison of

ISIS terrorists have been brutally executing Christians and Yazidis in the areas they have taken over, including beheadings and crucifixions.

ISIS has ordered Yazidis, a Kurdish religious minority, to convert or die. Tens of thousands of Yazidis have fled from areas taken over by ISIS and have gathered on a mountain, where they have limited access to food and water. In addition to the air strikes, the U.S. is also dropping supplies to the refugees.

Obama admin. doesn’t understand ‘rules of the jungle’ (JNS) – Israeli MK Ayelet Shaked slammed the Obama administration’s Mideast policy during remarks to U.S. Evangelical Christian pastors at the Knesset on Thursday.

‘I want to thank you for your support for Israel,’ Shaked told the pastors, who were in Israel as part of a solidarity mission organized by Christians United For Israel (CUFI).

‘They don’t understand the rules of the jungle,’ Shaked said when describing recent cease-fire efforts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who included Hamas supporters Qatar and Turkey in talks.

Professor loses University of Illinois appointment over anti-Israel tweets (JNS) – A professor who was set to begin a position at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign had his job offer rescinded due to controversial tweets he posted about Israel.

Steven Salaita, a former associate professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, tweeted on Aug. 2, ‘When will the attack on Gaza end? What is left for Israel to prove? Who is left for Israel to kill? This is the logic of genocide.’

Jimmy Carter urges recognition of Hamas as legitimate ‘political actor’ (JNS) – The United States and the European Union should recognize that the Hamas terrorist organization ‘is not just a military but also a political force,’ former U.S. President Jimmy Carter wrote for Foreign Policy magazine last week.

Temple Israel, which is Reform, started it in 2001 out of a belief that he needed to break outside synagogue walls and meet Jews where they were, physically and temperamentally, to engage them.

This kind of approach has become axiomatic, particularly in the Reform movement. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, has made it a centerpiece of his outreach efforts to unaffiliated Jews.

Though Morrison initially contemplated building a satellite synagogue in South Boston to be closer to where younger Jews were moving, he ultimately decided that “relationships trump space.”

He said, “It used to be that rabbis were hired to create programs and invite people to them. “I went into people’s homes and said let’s talk about what you want to create.”

The approach worked. Riverway events began drawing dozens of regulars, many with no previous affiliation to Jewish institutions. A sizable number ended up joining Temple Israel as members.

With Riverway’s growing success, and in response to the growing number of people returning from Birthright Israel trips, CJP began to devote more of its resources to educational, entrepreneurial and identity-building programs for young Jews.

“It’s funny because when I think about Los Angeles, New York and Boston, I think of Boston as the least Jewish,” said Andrew Oberstein, Riverway Project’s newly hired

coordinator. But, he says, “I never found a 20s and 30s scene like we have in Boston.”

When Morrison resigned his post at Riverway in 2010 to become Temple Israel’s director of education, Soffer, who succeeded him, prepared for his new job by enrolling in an eight-day course on community organizing at the Saul Alinsky-founded Industrial Areas Foundation. Soffer believed that community organizing’s techniques of grassroots engagement were essential to keeping Riverway relevant to its target audience.

Soffer says he sees his role as a bridge between the institution of the synagogue and the young adults who are interested in Judaism but wary of institutional trappings.

“We’re continually trying to be a synagogue without walls,” Soffer said. “I’ll go anywhere and I’ll meet with anyone who’s curious. It entails a whole lot of creativity and a decent amount of risk. A bar is not my favorite place to pray, but we went there last year and we’re going there two times this year.”

With a CJP grant, Soffer initiated a set of ticketless, open High Holidays services at Temple Israel that brought in over 600 people last year.

Back in the Cambridge cafe, the study session wraps up and Soffer collects the study sheets. People linger, chat, munch on a final piece of muffin. Then in ones and twos, they amble downstairs and melt away in the crowd, drifting back out into the Boston summer night.

‘Hamas cannot be wished away, nor will it cooperate in its own demise. Only by recognizing its legitimacy as a political actorone that represents a substantial portion of the Palestinian peoplecan the West begin to provide the right incentives for Hamas to lay down its weapons,’ Carter stated in an opinion piece co-written with former Irish president Mary Robinson.

African-American males. Raksin was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center, where he died. offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Raksin’s assailants, according to the Miami Herald.

Funeral held in Miami for murdered Rabbi Raksin (JTA) – Hundreds attended the funeral in Miami for Rabbi Joseph Raksin, an Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn who was shot and killed on his way to Sabbath services in North Miami Beach.

Raksin, 60, had arrived on Thursday in Miami for a weeklong visit with his daughter and her family, the New York Post reported. Raksin is the father of six and a leader in the Crown Heights community, according to the Post.

Police said Raksin was shot several times following an altercation, though witnesses told NBC reporters that there was no altercation and the assailants were

Yankees president hosts future Israeli soldiers before their aliyah (JTA) – The president of the New York Yankees hosted some 40 young men and women who are making aliyah and plan to serve in the Israel Defense Forces.

Randy Levine and his wife, Mindy, hosted the future soldiers at Yankee Stadium on Sunday prior to the game against the Cleveland Indians.

Many of the young guests were scheduled to arrive in Israel on Tuesday as part of an aliyah charter flight. Of the 338 people arriving on the flight, 108 will be joining the IDF. The new soldiers will be taken care of, in part, by the Nefesh B’Nefesh Lone Soldiers Program.

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Ebbing support for Israel among key groups stirring alarm

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – If the results of a recent focus group and polls are any indication, the gap is growing between Congress and young Americans when it comes to support for Israel.

Polls conducted in late July by Gallup and the Pew Research Center found that support for Israel is weaker among younger Americans and Democrats than among Americans generally. Add to that the results of a recent focus group culled from 12 congressional staffers – a small but very influential cohort – and pro-Israel activists are worried about the long-term sustainability of broad U.S. support for Israel in Congress.

Last Friday, a select group of Jewish institutions was sent a confidential summary of the staffers discussing the recent Gaza conflict.

The tone of the summary, which was obtained by JTA, was one of alarm.

“Congress is supposed to be our fortress,” wrote authors Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi and Meagan Buren, the founder and a former top aide, respectively, at The Israel Project.

“While Israel faces Hamas tunnels, it appears that the negativity and lack of support among young people is tunneling its way into congressional offices, even while the congressmen and senators remain steadfast on the surface.”

Among the statements the dozen congressional staffers agreed on: “Israel attacked Gaza in a wild overreaction.” “It’s Groundhog Day every 18 months, perennial conflict, doesn’t seem like anyone wants peace anymore.” [The Israeli government is] “not peace loving.”

Several JTA interviews with staffers for pro-Israel lawmakers suggested that the Mizrahi report’s conclusion is on target.

“On the Hill and with some people with whom I have spoken who are robust Israel supporters, people are concerned if not angry,” one of the staffers, a Democrat, told JTA. All the staffers spoke to JTA on condition of anonymity to freely discuss the sensitive subject.

They cited a combination of factors alienating the once solid proIsrael base among Democrats, including the distance from Israel’s era of crises in the 1960s and 1970s, anger at how the Netanyahu government has handled its relationship with the Obama administration, weariness of a decade of U.S. involvement in wars and the plain orneriness of younger people.

The Mizrahi report was distributed on the final day of a week of pro-Israel initiatives on Capitol Hill.

Late that day, 20 minutes short of 10 p.m. Friday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives headed to the floor for a roll call on $225 million in extra funding for

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest across the street from a pro-Israel rally in Chicago, Ill., July 28, 2014.

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system.

It was the end of the session, time to head home for the August recess. Last trains had gone, flights were missed, aides were busy booking Saturday travel, but few Congress members would dare miss a critical pro-Israel tally. The appropriation passed 395-8 at 10:03 p.m.

Earlier in the day, down the hall in the Senate, Democrats and Republicans set aside partisan differences and stripped away wish-list amendments from their own versions of the Iron Dome appropriation to pass it as a stand-alone. At the end of the day, the $225 million was seen as too critical to subject to the polarization that besets just about every other congressional initiative.

In other pro-Israel actions last week, the Senate and House of Representatives unanimously passed non-binding resolutions condemning Hamas for firing its missiles from among civilians, and the Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning the U.N. Human Rights Council for launching an inquiry into Israel’s conduct in the war. The measure had bipartisan backing of the Senate leadership.

Meanwhile, the results of the Mizrahi focus group and recent polls suggested that support for Israel during the war was far weaker among younger Americans and Democrats.

In a Gallup poll conducted July 22-23, two weeks after the launch of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip, older Americans were much likelier to say Israel’s actions were justified: 55 percent of those over 65; 53 percent of those aged 50-64; 36 percent of those 3049; and just 25 percent of those 1829. Just 31 percent of Democrats said Israel’s actions were justified; 49 percent said they were not.

In a Pew poll conducted July 24-27, 29 percent of adults aged 1829 held Israel more responsible for the conflict and 21 percent blamed Hamas. Liberal Democrats were evenly divided, with 30 percent each

assigning blame to Israel and Hamas.

For now, one Democratic staffer told JTA, the influence on Capitol Hill of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, guarantees traditional levels of support for Israel in the foreseeable future.

“The way politics is played, you’re not going to see changes short and middle term,” the staffer said. “In the very long term, I fear you won’t have pro-Israel lawmakers as much as lawmakers who follow expedience.”

The key, veteran Democratic pollster Mark Mellman says, is educating younger Democrats.

“We’ve seen for quite a while that young people and Democrats are less supportive than others,” Mellman said. “That doesn’t mean they’re anti-Israel. It means they’re less pro-Israel, less knowledgeable.”

Mellman said Democrats were likelier than Republicans to recoil at the images generated by the recent Gaza fighting.

“The threshold among Democrats for the use of military force is much higher,” he said.

“That’s a function of general attitudes toward war, and what many Democrats think have been failed enterprises in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

AIPAC would not comment for this article but is aware of the vulnerability of the pro-Israel outlook among Democratic constituencies.

Earlier this year, the organization hired from within its ranks Marilyn Rosenthal, a former deputy political director for the lobby, as its national director for progressive engagement.

AIPAC’s pitch to students is more apt to include pro-Israel students from traditionally black colleges, Obama voters and feminists, said a former senior Senate aide who is familiar with the lobby’s strategies.

“They know they have a problem; they’re working on it,” the former staffer said. “Go to their events for students and you’re likelier to see a female rabbi who identifies as

progressive. You’ll see black pastors.”

A third Democratic staffer said pro-Israel groups had to quit their centrist comfort zone when it comes to both parties.

“It’s a huge mistake for the mainstream pro-Israel community to abandon outreach to progressive Democrats and, for that matter, libertarian Republicans,” the staffer said. “Those are the grassroots activists, and today’s grassroots activists are tomorrow’s candidates.”

The tensions between the Obama and Netanyahu governments have been counterproductive, a senior Democratic strategist added.

The congressional staffers interviewed by JTA talked about several ways to increase pro-Israel sentiment among their ranks, such as

recruiting young leaders for trips to Israel. They also said it’s vital not to assume ideological identification with Israel just because Israel and the United States have shared values.

One staffer noted the effectiveness of Israeli U.S. Ambassador Ron Dermer’s practice during the war of beginning meetings with congressional staffers by displaying a phone app that sounds each time an incoming rocket alarm is sounded in Israel – and leaving it on for the duration of the meeting, during which it would sound several times.

“These are staffers that grew up in an anti-war climate and are not seeing the same threats the Israeli people do every day,” the staffer said. “Hearing the red alert on his phone, that really speaks to staffers and members.”

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After fifth attack at home, a Dutch chief rabbi says he’d leave if not for job

By Cnaan Liphshiz AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands (JTA) – After the latest attack on his home, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs sat down on his couch, picked up the phone and made three calls.

A chief rabbi of the Netherlands, Jacobs first phoned police and a Jewish community leader to tell them that late on the night of July 17, just over a week after the onset of the latest round of hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, four bricks were hurled through a window of his home. It was the fifth time in recent years that Jacobs’ residence had been attacked.

Then Jacobs called his friend Roger van Oordt, director of the Netherlands-based Christians for Israel organization. Within an hour, van Oordt, his wife and two of their children were at the rabbi’s door, with its prominent mezuzah and Hebrew sign bearing the name of the Chabad Hasidic sect to which Jacobs belongs.

“They didn’t allow Bluma, my wife, and me to touch anything, they cleaned up all the mess,” Jacobs told JTA in an interview at his home 25 miles southeast of Amsterdam. “The attacks do not inspire much hope.

The response by Christians, Muslims and other friends do.”

To Jacobs, a 65-year-old rabbi who has worked intensively to build bridges between non-Jews and Holland’s Jewish community of

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Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs and his wife, Bluma, by the glass window of their home damaged in an attack on July 17, 2014.

40,000, the latest attack sharpens the dilemma facing Dutch Jews.

A perceived rise in anti-Semitic incidents this summer has led many Dutch Jews to consider leaving the country, according to Jacobs. Yet the country’s reputation as a liberal bastion has not entirely dimmed their hopes that the situation can be reversed.

After the latest attack, Jacobs shocked many Dutchmen when he told local media that if not for his obligations to the communities he serves, he would leave, in part because of the anti-Semitism problem. His statement grabbed headlines and generated a passionate response from other religious leaders.

“No one will tell us when to leave Holland,” Jacobs said. “I’m staying here because it’s my shlichut, or mission. But would we stay here if we were private people?

I don’t think so.”

Anti-Semitism is only part of the problem, Jacobs says. Along with intermittent threats and violence, much of it sparked by events in the Middle East, he cites the 2011 passage of a law that effectively banned kosher slaughter – a measure later reversed by the Dutch Senate.

“And then there’s assimilation in a liberal society where many people have anti-religious sentiments,” Jacobs said. “It all comes as part of a package.”

Immigration from the

Germany’s largest Muslim population.

The violence comes amid threats by a German jihadi to blow up an American nuclear weapons storage facility in Germany.

German authorities have long warned of the threat posed by Salafism, a radically anti-Western ideology that seeks to impose Islamic Shariah law in Germany and other parts of Europe.

new prime minister. However, alMaliki refused to abandon his post and has deployed militias on the streets of Baghdad.

The U.S., which had been instrumental in placing al-Maliki in the post after its 2003 invasion of Iraq, congratulated the new prime minister, Haidar al-abadi, on his appointment to the position.

However, al-Maliki’s Dawa Party has declared the new appointment æillegal and a breach of the constitution,æ reported Reuters.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan elected as president (JNS) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has recently said that Israel’s actions in Gaza have æsurpassed Hitler in barbarism,æ has been elected as the country’s president with just under 52 percent of the vote Sunday, according to a preliminary count of the ballots. The election makes Erdogan the first directly elected president in the history of the country. .

Iraqi prime minister amasses troops in protest to ousting (JNS) – Iraq’s president Fouad Masoum has ousted Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has been in power for eight years, by naming a

Egypt’s El-Sisi and Saudi King Abdullah meet in Jeddah (JNS) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at a royal palace in Jeddah on Sunday.

The two leaders of the Arab world’s most populous and wealthy states met to discuss both regional and international issues, including the conflict in Gaza and the situation in Iraq, Al-Arabiya reported.

Report: Hamas executed dozens of terror tunnel diggers (JNS) – Hamas has executed dozens of terror tunnel diggers during the past couple of weeks over fears that they could pass along information to Israel, according to

Netherlands to Israel has remained relatively stable over the past decade, with an average 63 new arrivals in the Jewish state each year.

Still, the growth in anti-Semitism has created significant unease for Jacobs and his family, who now have six police cameras installed outside their home.

In 2010, a stone was hurled at his front window, missing him by a few inches. Jacobs says he tries not to walk near schools in his middleclass neighborhood and elsewhere in Holland because he doesn’t want to be cursed at by children.

“It’s a very uneasy feeling when someone attacks your home like that,” said Bluma Jacobs, the rabbi’s British-born wife. “When I come to the door at night, I switch on the light of my cellphone so people think I may be filming.”

Six of the Jacobs’ eight children live outside the Netherlands.

Jacobs was born in raised there and is the country’s senior Chabad emissary. He also serves as president of the Rabbinical Council of Holland. In 2012 he became an officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, a civic honor similar to British knighthood, for his interfaith efforts, among other activities.

His comments about leaving the country prompted a passionate response from the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, the country’s second largest church. On July 28, the church’s secretary, Arjan Plaisier, published an open letter in which he

vowed to oppose anti-Semitism with other church leaders.

Plaisier concluded with a plea: “Chief Rabbi Jacobs, please stay in the Netherlands.”

His sentiments were echoed by several other religious leaders, including leaders of the national Catholic Church and several imams who know Jacobs from his outreach efforts to non-Jews. Last Hanukkah, Jacobs climbed into a crane to light a giant menorah built by Christians for Israel, an international network of Christian Zionists.

Also last year, Jacobs spoke to 150 youths from Arnhem, a city in eastern Holland where some Muslim youths expressed virulent anti-Semitism in interviews with a university researcher.

Many Dutchmen were shocked by the expressions, which included one youth saying he was “happy about what Hitler did to the Jews.”

Esther Voet, director of CIDI, the Dutch watchdog on anti-Semitism, says she is confident of Dutch Jewry’s ability to weather the storm.

Dutch authorities are taking the issue seriously, she says, as are other civic groups.

But Voet acknowledges that Jacobs encounters a different reality.

“I’m not recognizably Jewish and I live in the Jordaan,” she said, referring to her central Amsterdam neighborhood. “But Rabbi Jacobs, in his travels across the country and in his own neighborhood, faces a different set of problems.”

the Israel news site Mako, citing a source in Gaza familiar with the tunnel industry.

They would take the diggers, about a hundred men, in vans with blindfolds so that they wouldn’t know the location of the tunnels and at the end of the day would blindfold them again and return them to their homes,æ claims the Gaza source. æThey feared that maybe one of them was collaborating with Israel.

According to the Gaza source, each group of excavators worked in 8 to 12 hour shifts and was paid $150 to $300 a month.

Operation Protective Edge began on July 8th.

BBC urges caution on Gaza casualty figures (JNS) – A report from the BBC’s head of statistics urges caution on using Gaza casualty figures from Palestinian sources, saying that the æconclusions being drawn from them may be prematureæ due to the high ratio of combat-aged men being killed.

According to the BBC, most news organizations have been using casualty figures provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which most recently reported that 1,843 Palestinians, 66 Israelis and one Thai national had been killed since

South Korea interested in purchasing Iron Dome system (JNS) – South Korea is reportedly interested in purchasing Israel’s highly successful Iron Dome missile defense system to protect itself against rockets that could potentially be launched from North Korea.

Developed by Israeli defense company Rafael Systems, the Iron Dome system has scored a 90 percent success rate in shooting down Hamas’s short-range rockets that target Israeli civilian areas, according to Israeli officials.

Journalists reveal Hamas terror tactics after leaving Gaza (JNS) – Following Israel’s military withdrawal from Gaza, foreign journalists who have left the area are reporting on Hamas tactics they could not reveal while stationed there.

We saw the Hamas men. But had we dared point the cameras at them, they would have opened fire at us and killed us,æ a Spanish reporter said, according to Yedioth Ahronoth.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2014

Exodus to Egypt: 100 years since the Turkish expulsion of the Jews

By Rafael Medoff (JNS) – This year marks the 100th anniversary of the expulsion of thousands of Jews from Turkish-ruled Palestine to Egypt, in a dramatic reversal of the historic exodus from the Land of the Pharaohs to the Land of Israel.

But from that tragic episode in 1914 would emerge a Jewish fighting force that would help liberate the Holy Land from the Turks.

Turkey entered World War One in October 1914, joining Germany in its fight against Russia, England, and France.

In Turkey’s eyes, all Russian citizens, including the many Russian-born Jews living in Palestine, were now enemy nationals. Fueled by wartime hysteria and Muslim religious sentiment, the Turkish authorities in the Holy Land turned against the country’s foreignborn Jews. On Dec. 17, the Turkish governor of Jaffa, Beha A-Din, ordered the mass expulsion of the 6,000 Russian-born Jewish residents of that city.

Over the course of the next three months, thousands more Russian-born Jews were expelled from Palestine or fled just ahead of the deportations.

By the spring of 1915, more than 11,000 Russian Jewish exiles were living in Britishoccupied Egypt.

Yaakov and Frieda Brodetzky were among the deportees. “My parents were newlyweds when the expulsion was ordered,” Moshe Brodetzky, 88, of Los Angeles, told JNS.org. “They spent their ‘honeymoon’—and the next three years—in exile in Egypt.”

With generous support from the Egyptian Jewish community, the exiled family built a new life for itself in the Mafruza and Gabbari refugee camps near Alexandria. “My father earned a living by becoming a teacher in a Talmud Torah that the refugees established for their children,” Brodetzky noted.

Meanwhile, back in Turkish Palestine, the rest of the local Jewish community struggled to survive. Some, including two of Frieda’s brothers went into hiding to avoid being inducted into the Turkish army, where anti-Jewish discrimination was rife. Others, such as future Israel prime minister Moshe Shertok (Sharett), sought to ingratiate themselves with the authorities by volunteering to serve in

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U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, Sr. pictured in Turkish-ruled Palestine.

From 1915-1916, thousands of Jews in Palestine died of starvation or diseases aggravated by the lack of food, but Morgenthau played a critical role in rescuing Palestine Jewry from utter devastation. He persuaded President Woodrow Wilson to let U.S. ships bring food and medicine to the Palestine Jewish community, even though that technically meant providing supplies to Turkey, a country with which the U.S. was at war.

the armed forces.

Frieda’s father devised a unique way to elude the Turkish censors and communicate with his exiled daughter.

“He would write a message on the inside of a bandage, which would be wrapped around the arm of someone who was traveling from Jerusalem to Egypt,” Moshe Brodetzky explained. “My mother saved those bandages for the rest of her life. When she passed away more than a half-century later, we found some of them among her treasured possessions.”A number of Palestine’s Jews were forced into Turkish labor brigades, where they paved roads and worked in stone quarries without pay, barely subsisting on meager food rations. Zionist political parties were outlawed and newspapers were shut down.

When David Ben-Gurion— who would later become Israel’s first prime minister— protested these measures, he too was deported to Egypt.

With thousands of Palestine’s Jewish farmers trapped in Egypt, their crops back home withered on the vine. To make matters worse, wartime naval blockades prevented the importation of many foods. As a result, from 1915-1916, thousands of Jews in Palestine died of starvation

or diseases aggravated by the lack of food.

Henry Morgenthau, Sr., America’s ambassador to Turkey, played a critical role in rescuing Palestine Jewry from utter devastation. He persuaded President Woodrow Wilson to let U.S. ships bring food and medicine to the Palestine Jewish community, even though that technically meant providing supplies to a country with which the U.S. was at war.

By contrast, his son, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., was unsuccessful in his attempt, 25 years later, to convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to permit food shipments to Jews who were starving in the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Roosevelt administration said it could not permit shipping supplies to a country with which the U.S. was at war.

In a remarkable historical twist, the Jewish refugee camps in Egypt became the birthplace of a Jewish armed force that would help take back the Land of Israel from the Turks. Advocates of the creation of a modern-day Jewish army found large numbers of eager volunteers among the exiles.

These recruiting efforts

were spearheaded by Russian Zionist leader Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, war hero and Zionist pioneer Yosef Trumpeldor, and a fervent Christian Zionist, the famous British lion-hunter Col. John Henry Patterson. The latter personally signed up the first 500 volunteers in the Gabbari camp. “Even many years later, my father still vividly recalled, and told me about, the stirring speeches that Jabotinsky gave, to inspire the refugees to sign up,” Brodetzky recalled.

The British agreed to create a relatively small unit known as the Zion Mule Corps, then expanded it into the Jewish Legion, consisting of five full battalions. It was the first Jewish army in nearly 2,000 years. The legion played an important role in the battles that brought about the liberation of Palestine from the Turks in 1918.

Jabotinsky served as a lieutenant in the Jewish Legion.

Other legionnaires included David Ben-Gurion; future prime minister Levi Eshkol; Zionist leader Berl Katznelson; and future Jerusalem mayor Gershon Agron.

Jewish Legion members took part in the defense of Jerusalem against Arab rioters in 1920. After the British disbanded the legion, some of its veterans joined up with the Jewish underground militias that ultimately fought for the creation of Israel. The Brodetzky family, for its part, in the 1920s lived in Michigan City (Indiana), Chicago, and Brooklyn, where young Moshe became active in Hashomer Hadati, the youth wing of the Mizrachi movement (today known as the Religious Zionists of America). The family returned to British Palestine in 1934, and Moshe later served with the Irgun Zvai Leumi, headed by Menachem Begin, in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.

It was historical irony, twice over: the first generation of Jews exiled to Egypt had helped bring about the liberation of Palestine from the Turks, and the second generation played its own part in freeing the Land of Israel from the British three decades later.

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Amid strife of Gaza-Israel conflict, some tales to warm the hear

By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM(JTA) – Perhaps with the worries about rockets flying and death tolls mounting during the Gaza operation, many lost sight of the myriad heartwarming stories from the conflict. Here are some you may have missed in recent days.

Meet Lt. Eitan, hero Israelis held their collective breath last week after learning that an Israeli soldier was believed to have been taken captive through one of the tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel.

Lt. Hadar Goldin was later declared dead based on several factors. One consideration included the partial remains that had been snatched from the kidnappers by a soldier identified as 2nd Lt. Eitan.

At risk to his life and well aware it was against protocol, Eitan chased the kidnappers through the Gaza tunnel that his Givati Brigade company was in the process of destroying when confronted by the terrorists.

His actions prevented Israel from being caught in a new hostage situation, like the one with soldier Gilad Shalit, for whom the government traded more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

Eitan left Gaza when the 72-hour cease-fire began and visited Goldin’s home to pay a shiva call even before returning to see his parents, emigres from New York, in Jerusalem.

Israel Briefs Israel testing new tunnel detection system (JNS) – Senior Israeli officers are reporting that a sensor system is being developed that would be able to identify new tunnels being dug by Hamas into Israel from Gaza.

A senior officer told Yedioth Achronoth that the system, which could cost up to two billion NIS ($576 million), works via sensors that detect underground excavation and areas. The system was already successfully tested in Tel Aviv-area sewage tunnels. When fully operational, the system could be deployed all along the Israel-Gaza border.

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One person at the meeting

Israel looking for the family’s 9-

Guy Yehoshua - Solomon Cohen, second from right, and his daughter, Penina, at Cohen’s store in Sderot with Avichai Amusi, left, of Mercaz Hachesed and Yedidya Rosenberg of Leket Israel, Aug. 3, 2014.

described it to Ynet as “chilling and emotional” as Eitan returned to Hadar’s parents some of his personal effects, including his siddur, tefillin and cellphone. Eitan told the parents about the events leading up to their son’s death and that Goldin was a valued officer.

The parents thanked Eitan for the information and for putting his life in danger in the tunnel to retrieve their son.

Personal thanks from soldiers Israeli children sent thousands of letters to soldiers serving in and around Gaza to raise their spirits.

Late last month, an army jeep stopped in front of a home in central

year-old daughter. The concerned family asked what the solders wanted. They replied that they wanted to thank the girl personally for the letter she had sent.

The soldiers met the girl and left with as many baked goodies from the house as they could carry.

My soldier watches over me A 5-year-old boy named Gabi from Karmiel sent a letter accompanied by an action figure to a soldier serving in Gaza.

“I’m sending you my soldier,” said the letter, which was posted on Facebook. “He watches over me at night so I won’t be afraid, but you have it much harder, so I am sending

Hamas rocket fire during Operation Protective Edge.

The plan, formulated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other top ministers, will see the immediate transfer of $6.6 million in auxiliary funding to the Gaza vicinity communities, and an additional $3.9 million to the southern city of Sderot.

leaders to step up efforts to protect Iraqi Christians and others threatened by the jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).

“ISIS barbarity is now a top threat to security and stability in the Middle East,” AJC Executive Director David Harris said. “The Christian and Yazidi communities in Iraq are on the run, seeking refuge from ISIS forces who do not hesitate to use brutal violence against anyone who does not succumb to their extremist ideology.”

Israel accepts new ceasefire proposal, despite continued rocket attacks (JNS) – The Israeli government has accepted another 72-hour despite heavy rocket fire from Gaza on Sunday.

The Israeli government said in a statement that it accepted the Egyptian brokered ceasefire that will take effect at midnight local time. The head of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo, Azzam alAhmed, said that all the Palestinian factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, had accepted ceasefire, the New York Times reported.

Jewish group calls on world leaders to protect persecuted Iraqi Christians (JNS) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) urged world

In honor of Tu B’Av: Israeli Love in numbers (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS) – Many more Israeli couples are living together and having children without getting married, and the number of unmarried mothers is on the rise, according to an Israel Central Bureau of Statistics report released ahead of Tu B;av, the Jewish holiday of love, on Monday.

The report also showed that Israelis are apparently in no rush to get married. Among Israelis aged 25 to 29, 63 percent of men and 46 percent of women are single.

At the same time, the trend of living together and having children

it to you so that he will watch over you guys. If you get sad, you can also play with him. Thank you for protecting me and my family. When I’m older I’ll protect you.”The soldier is trying to locate Gabi to thank him personally.

Powering up The soldiers serving in Gaza could not call home from the combat zone, but even when they could leave the area and make a call, they often found their cellphone batteries were dead with no way to recharge them.

Tzohar, a religious Zionist rabbinical organization in Israel, purchased the stock of 4,000 cellphone stick chargers from the one Israeli company that provides them already fully charged and sent them to the front lines last Friday. It allowed the soldiers to call home before the Sabbath and alleviate the anxiety of their families.

“Being able to call home to wish a Shabbat Shalom to my mother will not only make her feel better, but renews my strength in this important mission,” Ophir, an officer in the Golani Brigade, said upon receiving a charger, according to Tzohar. “You have no idea how much this means to us.”

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American comedians Ari Teman and Danny Cohen brought their talents to Israel to cheer up civilians in bomb shelters and neighborhoods in southern Israel.

The comics called their week of stand up shows Rocket Shelter

Comedy.

They also performed free shows in Tel Aviv, Modiin and Jerusalem joined by Israeli comedians Benji Lovitt and Yossi Tarablus, though they requested donations for lone soldiers.

Supporting the South, feeding the needy Leket Israel-The National Food Bank purchased hundreds of thousands of shekels worth of food products from vendors in southern Israel hard hit by the conflict and delivered the goods to people living in communities surrounding Gaza.

While providing the needy with basic necessities, the organization was supporting businesses in the South that have been slammed financially by the barrage of rockets fired on their communities in recent weeks.

Leket Israel, also the country’s largest food-rescue organization, bought the goods from vendors in Sderot, Ofakim, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Nitzan and Netivot, some of the areas hit hardest by the conflict.

One was Solomon Cohen, the owner of Super Cohen, a mini-market in Sderot.

“Because my shop is located on the outskirts of Sderot, where mostly young families live, we have been suffering terribly since more than 70 percent of the community left at the beginning of the war for the center and the north of the country,” he said.

while unmarried is growing. The number of unmarried couples living together more than doubled over the last decade, from 29,200 in 2004 to 74,820 in 2014.

The number of babies born to unmarried Jewish women tripled over the last 14 years, from 2,600 in the year 2000 to 7,650 so far this year. The number of single mothers also grew from 8,400 in the year 2000 to more than 17,000 this year.

Still, Israel is considered conservative when it comes to the average age of marriage. For women, the average age rose from 21.8 in 1970 to 25.9 this year, and for men, from 25 to 28.

ing to eradicate the values that we all hold very dear,” Prosor told the U.N. General Assembly.

“The international community has lost its way,” he added. “This organization was founded to promote morality, truth, and justice.

Unfortunately, that is not its mission now.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heavily criticized Israel before the General Assembly on the same day.

Israeli U.N. envoy says international community ;has lost its way (JNS) – Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor said Aug. 6 that the international community “has lost its way” in its assessment of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict.

“It might be too much to ask you to stand on our side in this battle between civilization and barbarism, but at least have the decency to swallow your selective outrage while Israel wages war against the extremist groups seek-

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Ethics expert: IDF fulfilled all ethical requirements in Gaza (JNS) – The Israel Defense Forces carried out Operation Protective Edge in compliance with ethical requirements, according to Israel Prize laureate Professor Asa Kasher, who helped formulate the military;s Code of Ethics.

“We are fulfilling the ethical requirements,” he told Israel Hayom. “Every battalion commander has an officer in charge of locating civilians, and everything is overseen by too many lawyers, who help direct the operation on the ground. The number of casualties is irrelevant-it does not speak of omissions or any wrongdoing on the part of the IDF.”

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ISRAELITY SERIES Writer and satirist Sayed Kashua shared stories about being an Arab citizen of Israel during a public talk at the Mayerson JCC on April 6. He screened an episode of his comedy TV series Arab Labor and brought complex and sensitive cultural issues to the table in a simple and engaging way.

The event was part of “ISRAELITY: Redefining Reality in Israel,” a series of open dialogues in which social innovators give first-hand accounts of life in an unknown and unshown Israel—their personal ISRAELITYs. Continued on Page 12

B’nai Tzedek has a special new member

By Beth Kotzin Assistant Editor Doe, a deer, a female deer...or hey, it could be a male!

B’nai Tzedek (BTZ) discovered a special guest in their garden Wednesday afternoon - a fawn, curled up and cozy, enjoying the fresh air and making itself at home.

It didn’t seem interested in making up a minyan, but it was sure happy to take its place somewhere at the syngagogue.

BTZ has a protective area on the grounds for deer to hide, and it is believed that this little fawn was born there (Mazel Tov!), and from time to time the mother and baby are seen in this area.

BTZ is looking for a name for this little fawn. Want to take a stab at naming it yourself? Send us your choice to editor@americanisraelite.com.

Sarah Weiss, Shep Englander, Sayed Kashua, Yair Cohen, Rabbi Meredith Kahan

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AJC COMMUNITY INTERGROUP SEDER The American Jewish committee held its 21st annual Community Intergroup Seder meal at the Mayerson Jewish Community Center Tuesday, April 8, 2014.

Groups of various ages, religions, and racial backgrounds gathered to celebrate the Passover meal and share in the holiday's theme of freedom for all. Attendees read from the Haggadah and enjoyed traditional foods such as parsley, matzo and horseradish. Grape juice was served instead of wine. The Seder was officiated by Rabbi Matthew Kraus, director of the Hebrew program in the University of Cincinnati Department of Judaic Studies.

Erin and Gil Weizer, Seder leader Rabbi Matthew Kraus and Lauren Weizer prepare to read the Haggadah.

AJC VP Cheryl Schriber explains the meaning of Charoset to her guests

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AJC member Vicky Mary discusses immigration history in Cincinnati

AJC Seder Chair Ed Frankel welcomes over 200 attendees to the Seder

AJC Office Manager Naomi Ruben chants the blessing over the holiday lights

Rabbi Kraus explains the inclusion of a tomato to symbolize contemporary slavery

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Goat and lamb shank entrees hot sellers at Andy’s Mediterranean Grille

By Bob Wilhelmy If you sat down with Andy Hajjar, the Andy in Andy’s Mediterranean Grille, you’d pretty much want to eat everything on the menu.

Andy is one of those restaurateurs who talks about food in mouthwatering terms, and such is the case with the lamb shank entrée. The shank first is marinated in Andy’s special secret herb and spice mixture, and then cooked slowly at low temperature. “We cook it slow and when the cooking is done, the meat falls off the bone and it’s so tender and delicious—you can’t beat it; the taste and the tenderness of the meat,” he said.

The lamb shank is a recent addition to the menu, as is the lamb burger (David’s burger on the menu) and the goat filet. The goat is braised in wine, and prepared with sautéed mushrooms, all served over Lebanese rice. If you have never had goat, you are in for a pleasant surprise. Goat is delicious, and when it is slow-braised in wine, with onions and mushrooms, Mediterranean style, it can be simply wonderful. The meat is fork tender, and loaded with flavor. And the overall dish is one of those that make you understand what is meant by “comfort food.” At least, that is the effect that kind of meal has on me.

Both the goat and lamb shank entrées are similar dishes, according to Andy. “Both of these dishes, they are going like crazy. Frequently, we sell out of the goat, and we have plenty to start. People see it on the menu and they want to try it because it is a traditional dish—a popular dish,” he said. “The same with the lamb shank; it’s very delicious, so tender and moist and people love the flavors.”

Another relatively new entry on Andy’s menu is the Zahle steak, a 16-ounce rib-eye cut, marinated in one of Andy’s flavor-packed concoctions, and served with a Lebanese salad and Lebanese seasoned fries, similar to the French version, but coated and extra crispy and crunchy.

The steak is house-aged by Andy’s. “We age the meat for two weeks before we cut it, and the meat shrinks and the flavor of the beef concentrates. Then we have a tender piece of meat, very high quality meat, because we buy only the best, and when we take it off the grill it is so tender, you don’t even need a knife. It is delicious.

“We are very careful about the meat we buy. We buy the organic free-range Amish chickens that we put on the rotisserie (farrouj on the menu). We rub them with seasoning Lebanese style, and the meat is tender and juicy. It makes my mouth water just to think of the chicken.”

Andy was equally enthusiastic

The Zahle steak plate.

The exterior of Andy’s Mediterranean Grille.

The veggie mushroom sauté.

about the beef tenderloin that is used to make the shish kabobs. The meat is filet, and the cuts are char-boiled, and to gain the finished quality needed, the meat has to be very high quality, he said.

The new, updated menu has plenty to offer, including the old kabob favorites for which Andy’s has been known over the years.

The Lebanese character of the restaurant is nowhere more obvious than in the wine selection. All the wines on the list are from Ksara, a

small town in Lebanon close to where Andy was born and raised.

Lebanon’s hillside vineyards are some of the oldest in the world. The prophet Hosea, an Israelite who lived in the 700s B.C., is said to have urged his followers to return to Yahweh so that “they will blossom as the vine, and their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.”

Today, Lebanon produces some 600,000 cases of wine for domestic and export markets.

Andy’s Mediterranean Grill is

one place you can enjoy those exported Lebanese wines. “We are going to feature the wines of Lebanon exclusive, except for a few house wines we will offer by the glass, from Chile,” said Majed Hajjar, Andy’s brother, and a principal in the restaurant. Some of those wine grapes are grown in and around Andy’s family hometown of Zahle.

Along with the wines, Andy’s now features 16 craft beers on tap, along with bottled beers from the Mediterranean. Those are Almaza

(Lebanon), Efes and Efes Dark (Turkey), and Mythos (Greece).

The selection of craft beers included: Rhiengeist, Rivertown, Moerlein, Mt. Carmel Amber and others.

Jewish diners will find a lot of choices on Andy’s menu. See you there!

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The vanishing two-state solution

By Ben Cohen (JNS) – Speaking to a British television network this week, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron bemoaned that “facts on the ground” were on the verge of wrecking the prospects for a two-state solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

Cameron, it should be said, has consistently supported Israel’s right to defend itself from the stream of rocket attacks launched from Hamas-ruled Gaza. At the same time, he believes that there is no substitute for a robust, lasting political solution.

That is why his anxiety about the two-state solution is likely shared by other world leaders. What’s so frustrating, the international community reasons, is that everyone knows what a final settlement will look like, yet no one is willing to take the steps necessary to get us there.

Insofar as a negotiated two-state solution is essentially a pipe dream at the present time, I think Cameron is correct to be worried. One of the reasons it’s a pipe dream is because, especially on the Palestinian side, the consensus behind it isn’t nearly as strong as Cameron and others would like us to think. Hamas rejects it outright, of course, as its goal – as CBS’s Charlie Rose confirmed when he recently interviewed Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal – is the elimination of the Jewish state. The Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is formally committed to a two-state solution, but its continued backing of the “right of return” for the descendants of Palestinian refugees, as well as its pursuit of unilateral recognition in international bodies, has left Israelis skeptical.

As for the Israeli government, it’s no secret that any willingness there may have been to make territorial concessions to the PAhas been badly eroded by both the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank and the renewed missile attacks from Gaza – after, remember, Fatah and Hamas formed a unity government of sorts.

In this grim context, appeals for an immediate, unconditional cease-fire in Gaza – a stance shared by the Obama administration, the U.N., and the Europeans – seem rather fanciful.

Examined from the Israeli perspective, this demand is actually counter-productive. For if world leaders seriously think that the Israelis will return, when it comes to Gaza, to the status quo ante, then they either don’t understand or don’t care about Israel’s strategic calculus.

There are two big decisions facing Israel right now. The first one concerns the end goals of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. The second one concerns its future relations with the U.S. Both are closely related, but all indications suggest that Jerusalem regards the first as more pressing than the second.

A growing chorus of influential

voices in Israel, from right-wing Jewish Home party leader Minister Naftali Bennett to the respected historian Benny Morris, is arguing that Israel needs to finish the job in Gaza. What that means, ultimately, is the defeat of Hamas militarily and politically. The Israel Defense Forces is reported to have made good progress in destroying the network of attack tunnels constructed by Hamas beneath the ground in Gaza (at the same time, as much of the Hebrew press has recently noted, as the general realization dawned that successive Israeli governments had misread the strategic threat posed by these below-the-surface corridors).

Egypt, too, has joined the Israeli efforts to choke Hamas, destroying tunnels connecting the Sinai and Gaza.

In these circumstances, it is hardly sensible to allow Hamas the breathing space that a cease-fire would afford.

Instead of permitting Hamas to regroup and rebuild, the logic goes, strike the killer blow in the coming days.

This is not a conclusion that the Obama administration wants Israel to reach – and that, ironically, provides another reason for the Israelis to bring Hamas rule in Gaza to an end. Given that this administration has over two years left in office, Israel wants to avoid another Gazan firestorm, say six months from now, that would lead to yet more demands from Washington for an immediate cease-fire and more opprobrium against the IDF’s field operations.

With Hamas out of the picture, Israel is in a much better position to talk about peace and Palestinian statehood. Moreover, there will be an understandable desire among the battered Gazan population for a new authority to fill the vacuum left by Hamas, and that outcome can’t be secured without Israel’s consent.

I don’t believe that much diplomatic progress will be made while President Barack Obama remains in the White House. Trust between the Israeli and American governments has declined sharply, to the point where questions are being raised about Secretary of State John Kerry’s personal commitment to the alliance with Israel. All I’ll say for now is that there is reason to doubt Kerry’s commitment – he hasn’t taken Israeli concerns over Iran sanctions at all seriously, he has warned apocalyptically that Israel faces boycotts and isolation, and he was amiably cooking up a cease-fire proposal with the Turkish foreign minister just days after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that Israel was worse than Hitler.

Three to five years from now, the twin absences of the Hamas military threat and Obama’s bungling diplomacy may propel genuinely meaningful negotiations. In large part that will depend on who is in the White House.

For now, though, Israel’s first priority is its national security. That is how it should be.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Do you have something to say? E-mail your letter to editor@americanisraelite.com

Dear Editor, Community Shaliach Yair Cohen and his family have just finished their three years in Cincinnati.

Yair sent this farewell letter to the community: For Shani and me, coming to Cincinnati was arriving to the “unknown.” When we were told that we were chosen by Cincinnati community to serve in the shaliach position, the first thing we did was to open Google maps and look and see where this strange-sounding city was located.

Three years later I’m a Cincinnatian! The community welcomed us from Day 1. I even remember the egg salad and bagels that were waiting for us in the fridge to be sure we wouldn’t go hungry –of course, I did not know then that this was only the beginning of three years’ worth of eating the iconic Marx Hot Bagels.

It is not easy for me to reflect on these past three years and to then consider what our stay in Cincinnati has done for us. However, it is far easier to reflect on my experiences here.

I experienced the community’s rich religious Jewish diversity – the birthplace of the institutional Reform movement and the home of Plum Street Temple and other extraordinary Reform temples, alongside a committed Modern Orthodox community and a community Kollel. I experienced a strong historical Conservative community and a Humanistic congregation that is possibly the only one of its kind.

One community and so many ways and colors for one to express his or her religious feelings.

I experienced the community’s organized institutions – from the incredible social services provided for the more vulnerable populations that Jewish Family Service cares for,

to an active Jewish neighborhood housed at the Mayerson JCC. I also experienced the incredible American Jewish Archives, learning about the Jewish history of America and Cincinnati. I listened to Federation leaders and professionals determine innovative initiatives that would ensure a vibrant Jewish future while strategizing on ways to attract and retain more members of our Jewish community.

From strategic investments of the Jewish Foundation to the work of National Zionist organizations with local chapters of the Jewish National Fund, Hadassah, and Na’amat, I learned so much about our community’s commitment.

From advocacy and relationships with the JCRC, to the collaborative work of the AJC, I learned how much members of this community care for the people of Israel. From rabbinic studies at HUC, to Jewish studies at UC, I recognized how young people desire to learn about their Judaism. From Jewish day schools such as Rockwern and CHDS, to the Early Childhood School at the JCC, to congregational schools, to the Klau Library, to the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, I saw that this was a learning community. Being able to read The American Israelite each week, I was able to keep in touch with both Cincinnati’s Jewish community and the Jewish community at large. I experienced the community’s voluntary and giving spirit – lay leaders, volunteers, committees and subcommittees, chairs and cochairs. Think tanks and surveys, thinking and planning, dreaming and doing - investing time, energy, thought, passion and private dollars to ensure a rich Jewish life, and all out of a sole sense of responsibility and commitment.

I experienced the community’s

people – happy, calm, positive, and looking forward. Open to dialogue, to out of the box thinking, to rethinking, always being trusting, always listening and engaging. Welcoming, caring, and loving, this is what I observed.

I experienced the community’s commitment and love for Israel - the endless traveling to Israel of synagogues, agencies, the one of a kind Israel travel grant program of the Jewish Foundation. The number of individual and private trips families made to Israel and the remarkable number of individuals choosing to make aliyah.

I witnessed the pain and concern for Israel and Israelis when they are under attack and the constant Israel education wherever I went.

The numerous delegations of Israeli groups arriving to Cincinnati from our partnership city, Netanya, and who were then hosted by community families willing to open their doors to these strangers who quickly became lifelong friends. Programs, events and productions, films, memorial services and independence celebrations, lectures, and art aimed to experience contemporary Israel. Brave discussions and decisions about what is important for Israel and what is the community’s relationship with Israel.

My family and I have experienced a new way of life which we were not aware of - we experienced memories that have shaped us and opened our eyes. We experienced three years in Cincinnati that will stay with us forever - “a home away from home.”

We - Shani, Ma’ayan, Stav, and myself - simply want to say, from the bottom of our hearts: Todah Rabah!

Yair Cohen

Jewish anti-Zionism? Not in our name

By Ben Cohen (JNS) – I recently journeyed to Columbus Circle in Manhattan to savor the atmosphere at two rival demonstrations over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

On one side, by the entrance to Central Park, and adjacent to the hot dog stands and “I Love NYC” souvenir outlets, I found about 60 or so pro-Israel demonstrators. The sky was gray and leaden, the humidity threatened a thunderstorm, and the news coming out of Israel was pretty bleak, but their mood veered in the joyous direction. They danced and sang, they recited prayers for the IDF’s fallen soldiers, and they held signs that were – dare I say it –

almost kumbaya-like in their tone.

There was no anger and no hate, but rather a series of appeals to behave rationally and with humanity. “For Real Peace, Gaza Needs Good Education, Not Bombs,” read one message. “Israel Left Gaza For Peace,” declared another, almost imploringly.

As I read these and similar signs, I imagined the response these demonstrators would encounter outside the 59th St. subway station, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators were now gathering. The word “naive” would be the least of it, I reflected. As if on cue, a car whizzed around Columbus Circle, with one of the passengers brandishing a Palestinian flag out of the window.

Over the din of the traffic and the songs and chants of the pro-Israel demonstrators, I heard a voice from inside the car boom in our direction, “F**k YOU!” As the afternoon wore into the evening, I crossed the street to see what was happening on the Palestinian side. The turnout was smaller than I’d expected – 600 at most – but there was a tangible feeling of anger. Someone was yelling “Allahu Akhbar!” into a megaphone and plenty of banners with slogans like “End Aid to the RACIST State of Israel” and “Israel is an Apartheid State” were on display. For a few minutes, I spoke to a man holding a ANTI-ZIONISM on page 19

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nutrients and material benefits for the Israelite nation. And a nation-state requires a leader-ruler, who takes ministerial responsibility for the physical security and economic wellbeing of his citizenry. It makes sense that he live in a capital city, like Jerusalem which will also house other governmental agencies responsible for the smooth functioning of the commonwealth.

However, as chapter eight also makes clear, the land and the nation of Israel remain beholden to a Higher Leader, the ultimate Leader-Ruler of whoever may be elected or appointed to rule: He who is the Lord of all lords, the Universal King of all kings.

He has inspired and in-spirited Israel with His message of compassionate righteousness and moral justice. He has revealed to Israel His demand for human freedom and ethical morality.

He has commanded Israel to build for Him a House- on earth so that His teachings and values may dwell within humanity in this world.

This place of God’s dwelling is the primary Jerusalem, the expression of the true sanctity of Jerusalem.

The mortal ruler whose throne is in Jerusalem, even King Messiah, is merely the representative, the spokesperson, for the true and universal Ruler of all rulers (see Deut.

17:14-20). The Temple from whence God’s teachings of love, morality and peace will extend to all the families of the earth (Isaiah 2, Micah 4) is the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, in the City of God Jerusalem, in the City of Peace Jerusalem, in the City of Wholeness and Universalism Jerusalem, where “My house will be a House of Prayer for all peoples” when “all the nations will call upon the Name of God to serve Him in united resolve”. (Zeph.

3:9) In order to distinguish between these two Jerusalems, the Jerusalem Capital City of Israel and the Jerusalem City of God, the Jerusalem of the Knesset and the Jerusalem of the Third Temple, the Jerusalem of today and the Jerusalem of our Messianic vision, it is most proper to refer to the later Jerusalem as Zion (see for example Psalm 132:13, “God has chosen Zion, a desirable dwelling place for Him”, or Psalm 134:3, “May the Lord bless you from Zion”). And it is for this Jerusalem, which will be a light and a banner for all humanity, that we are praying in the third blessing of the

Grace after Meals, especially as we mention, “Zion, the Sanctuary of Your Glory”.

Post Script: On Tisha B’Av, when we recited the “Nahem” prayer in the Minhah Amidah and spoke of a city which has been laid waste, scorned and desolate… like a barren, childless woman, devoured by the (Roman) legions”, the words seem at best disingenuous and at worst ungrateful and blind to our present day miracle.

I have adopted for my prayer and suggested for Efrat, the emendation of Rav Haim David HaLevi, who substituted the past tense (hayta – was) whenever the text is in the present tense. However, in light of this commentary I adopted this year the emendation of Rav Nahum Rabinowitz, Rosh HaYeshiva of Birkat Moshe, Maaleh Adumim, who substitutes “the mountain” for the “the city” which is now laid waste. If the subject of the prayer is Har Habayit, the Temple Mount, Zion rather than Jerusalem, then unfortunately, the prayer remains exceedingly relevant.

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

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T EST Y OUR T ORAH KNOWLEDGE THIS WEEK’S PORTION: EIKEV 7:12-11:25 1. What type of rewards are promised for keeping Hashem's commandments? a.) Material wealth or success in this world b.) In the world to come c.) Spiritual rewards in this world 2. Which goal seemed insurmountable? a.) Observing the Sabbatical year b.) Defeating the Canaanite nations c.) Supporting all the Children of Israel in Canaan 3. Which item should be treated with disgust? a.) Idolatry

does not abandon the righteous. Ramban 5. B 9:7 the Children of Israel sinned even after seeing Hashem's punishments. Sforno

EFRAT, Israel – “Guard yourselves lest you forget the Lord your God… lest you eat and be satisfied… and your heart becomes haughty and you forget the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage” (Deut. 8:11-14).

This week’s Biblical portion of Ekev is a magnificent paean of praise to the glories of the land of Israel, a land especially set aside for the Hebrews which will provide them with plentiful vegetation, luscious fruits and wealth producing natural resources necessary for their ultimate success as a nation. And at the precise center of this lyrical description of a unique land for a unique people, comes the commandment for the mother of all blessings, the Grace recited after meals: “And you shall eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you”. (ibid.

8:10).

A careful study of this chapter, which contains exactly twenty verses, reveals three major Biblical concepts which parallel the three Biblical blessings of our Grace after Meals: firstly, that everyone lives not by bread alone but by what emanates from God, the Universal Sustainer (ibid. 8:2-3 with the first blessing thanking God “who feeds all”), secondly, that God has brought the Israelites specifically to this land which will sustain us (ibid. 8:7-10, with the second blessing thanking God “for the land and the sustenance”); and thirdly that God adjures us not to forget Him and His laws lest we be destroyed from off the land He has given us (ibid. 8:11-20, with the third blessing beseeching God for compassion towards His nation, Israel and Jerusalem, and thanking God “the builder of Jerusalem”).

Why are there two separate blessings, the second for the land and the third for Jerusalem? Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel just as Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States. Why not incorporate the restoration of Jerusalem with the restoration of the land of Israel, leaving two Biblical blessings for the Grace after Meals rather than three?

I believe that the Lord of Israel and the City of Jerusalem are two separate entities, two separate concepts, and two separate sanctities.

Israel is a specific geographical location whose function is to provide

And it is for this Jerusalem, which will be a light and a banner for all humanity, that we are praying in the third blessing of the Grace after Meals...

b.) Pork c.) Stolen money 4.What is the first event that Moshe asks the Children of Israel to remember? a.) Splitting of the Red Sea b.) The servitude in Egypt c.) The journey through the desert 5. What other event does Moshe remind the people to remember? a.) How Hashem created the world b.) How the Children of Israel tried Hashem's patience in the desert c.) To remember the greatness of Aaron

2. B 7:17-20 3. A 7:25-26 A person should not mock anything except for idolatry. R Bchai 4. C 8:2 To remind the people that Hashem

by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

SHABBAT SHALOM: PARSHAT EKE DEUTERONOMY 7:12-11:25

Written by Rabbi Dov Aaron Wise

ANSWERS 1. A 7:12-16 Material rewards are small compared to the rewards of the afterlife like the heel to the rest of the body. R Bchai

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By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist At the Movies “The Giver” is a “dystopian” action-adventure film based on a multi-award winning, young adult novel of the same name. In the future, mankind has apparently solved all its problems – but one young man, Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), discovers that this harmony comes at a terrible price. Playing Jonas’ friend and love interest, Fiona, is ODEYA RUSH, 17, who was born in Haifa. Her first name means “Thanks to God” in Hebrew. She moved to America when she was nine (her father took a job with an American security company). “The Giver” has a great supporting cast, including Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift, and Alexander Skarsgård.

Rush has acting ability, as well as being blessed with striking blue eyes and lips just a little smaller than Angelina Jolie‘s. Her first prominent role was in the 2012 Disney film, “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” a modest hit. Two years ago, Rush made “Mary, Mother of Christ,” a film which is now scheduled for a 2015 release.

Rush plays Mary from childhood until the film ends (Jesus is then four years old). Ben Kingsley and the late Peter O’Toole co-star. Much lighter is “Goosebumps”, a big-budget flick that will open in summer, 2015. It ‘s inspired by the bestselling series of children‘s novels by R.L. STINE, 70. Stine, played by JACK BLACK, 44, is a main character in the film.

Rush plays his daughter, Hannah. The plot twist is that the elder Stine keeps the Goosebumps monsters “locked up in his books” until a teen friend of Hannah lets them out.

Following “Goosebumps,” Rush is set to co-star in a contemporary comedy co-starring uberveteran Shirley Maclaine. Her character has a very Jewish name., “What If,” an IrishCanadian romantic comedy, shamelessly uses as its advertising tag line, “Can men and women really be friends?” I say “shamelessly” because this was a question repeatedly asked in the groundbreaking 1989 film, “When Harry Met Sally,” written by the late NORA EPHRON. “What If” stars DANIEL RADCLIFFE, 25, as Wallace, a nice guy. He meets Chantry, a very cute girl, played

by Zoe Kazan (a granddaughter of famous director Elia Kazan).

Wallace romantically likes

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Chantry, but hides his feelings when he learns, early-on, that she has a boyfriend. So, this film‘s question is: “Can Wallace stay in the ‘really good friend zone‘ forever or will he open his heart and either ‘get the girl‘ or lose his friend?” Smart critics are divided on “What If” – some saying it works pretty well, while others say that it is too sweet and formulaic. The screenplay is by ELAN MASTAI, 39, a Vancouver native who has finally gotten noticed with this film, which has racked up a lot of Canadian awards. His father, MOSHE, is big in real estate, while one of his sisters works for Vancouver Jewish Family Services. His maternal grandmother fled Austria in 1939 and went to England, a “Kindertransport” child. This film may be hard to find in a theater near you. Look for ondemand and DVD releases .

Teyve on Capitol Hill; Shatner in Space It’s rare when a prominent TV journalist casually gives us bits about his/her Jewish background. They prefer to ask questions, not answer them and tend to be buttoned-up about their private life. But I guess RICK KLEIN, 37, the political director of ABC News, was in an expansive mood when he recently spoke to “The Hill,” a political news website. Klein, a Long Island native who is a Princeton grad, and the father of two young sons, dropped these Jewish nuggets: “I will never forgive D.C. for its lack of diners and solid Jewish deli options” and “I was big into drama club in high school. I played Tevye in ‘ Fiddler on the Roof,‘ under the stage name Ricky Klein.”

“Star Trek” inspired generations of astronauts and space engineers. So, when WILLIAM “Capt. Kirk” SHATNER, tweets NASA and the European Space Agency, they respond quickly and politely. On Aug .2, he asked NASA how they were doing and they responded that the space station was doing well and wished Shatner a happy weekend. On Aug .6, he asked the Europeans how they were doing and they responded that their Rosetta space probe was just about to orbit a comet (which it began doing on Aug. 8). Shatner responded that he didn‘t know about Rosetta. The European Agency replied that “Rosetta has been on a 10-yr mission, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

FROM THE PAGES 150 Y EARS A GO The T.Y. Institute opened its classes with five teachers and 134 pupils which number will be largely augmented during the present month. Parents desirous to send children to this school will find good homes for them in private families. For information address the editor.

Another golden wedding, of Mr. and Mrs. Hecht, highly respectable old couple, tok place, the first inst., in the house of Mr. Strauss, their son-in-law. It was a fine affair.

The congregation Bene Israel of this city elected the following board of officers for the ensuing year: Phil Heidelbach Esq., President; Max Hellman Esq., Vice President; Max Glaser Esq., Treasurer; M. Hess Esq., W. B. G.; and Sol Bloom Esq., Secretary. Trustees are Jacob Seasongood, Max Nathan, A. Louis, Sol Kaufman, Sol Hoffheimer, and Abraham Wolf.

This is one of the most efficient boards the congregation could elect.– September 9, 1864

125 Y EARS A GO The remains of Mrs. E. Klein, wife of the well known optician, who died suddenly of appoplexy at the United States Hotel, Atlantic City, were brought home last Friday. The funeral took place in the afternoon from her late home on Glenwood Avenue, Avondale, and was attended by a large circle of relatives and friends, many coming from other cities to pay their last tribute of respect to the dead.

Interment was in the Walnut Hills Cemetery. The deceased was a woman who was loved by all who knew her and her husband and children have the heartfelt sympathy of the community in their bereavement.

Mr. Sol W. Levi, of the firm of Hirsch, Lowenstein & Levi, has been elected vice-president of the National Home for the Consumptives, to be opened under the auspices of D. G. L. No. 2 I.O. B’nai Brith, at Denver, on November 1, 1899.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Grossman and family have returned from Atlantic City and will be pleased to see their friends. – August 24, 1889

100 Y EARS A GO Miss Jessie Straus, one of the most talented violinists of the city, has selected August 31 as the date for her wedding to Rabbi Eli Mayer of the Broad Street Temple, Philadelphia. The honeymoon will include a trip to the Bermudas.

The number of Jewish people in Cincinnati is estimated at 25,000.

This figure is decided upon as the result of careful inquiry in various quarters. Judges, politicians, doctors, paper men and others have been consulted in addition to the heads of the various Jewish organizations and the estimate of each of them was at or within 25.000.

However, if anybody has worked out the problem the result will be received with deep gratitute at this office where requests for information on that point are of weekly occurance.

Miss Mannheimer’s “School of Expression” will give an entertainment for the inmates of the Home for the Jewish Aged and Infirm (a “sunshine hour”) the first Tuesday of every month at 2:30. All friends of the Home are cordially invited to attend as some excellent talent will take part at these affairs. – August 13, 1914

75 Y EARS A GO Mrs. Adele Fleck announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Louise, to Mr. Meyer Rosenfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Rosenfield, on Sunday, Aug. 20th.

A reception was held at the President Apartments Dining Room for relatives and friends.

Mrs. Esther Eppinger, 59, of 516 Hickman Avenue, passed away Friday, Aug. 18th. She was the widow of Lee Eppinger.

She is survived by a daughter, Evelyn, and a son, Melvin.

Services were held Sunday from Weil Funeral Home.

The Jewish Center wishes to take this opportunity to publicly thank Drs. Emanuel Brandes, John Falk, E.I. Fogel, Leo Friedman, J. Victor Greenebaum, Irwin R. Itkoff, Samuel Okrent, Louise Rauh, Frank Seinsheimer and Sydney Wolfgang.

These doctors volunteered their time and professioanl services in conducting the weekly examinations of the children of Camp Hanoar. The Jewish Center is sincerely grateful. – August 24, 1939

50 Y EARS A GO Miss Rosalie Susan Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson, was married to Mr. Dennis Gordon Saymen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Saymen, Sunday evening, Aug. 9.

The double ring candlelight ceremony was followed by a dinner and reception.

Rabbi Fishel Goldfeder of Adath Israel and Rabbi Samuel I. Weingart of Temple Emanu El, Houston, officiated.

The bride was given in marriage by her father. Mrs Weingart was matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Miss Jeri Saymen, sister of the bridegroom, Miss Kathy Zemsky,

cousin of the groom, and Miss Evelyn Brod.

Mr. Nick Soodek was best man.

Ushers included Mr. Hirsch Wise, cousin of the bridegroom, Mr. Richard Lisner, and Mr. Robert Shade.

The bride graduated from the University of Cincinnati in June and will enter the Cincinnati public school system this fall. Mr. Saymen, a UC graduate, will begin graduate work in microbiology in October.

Miss Darlene Lisner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lisner, is traveling with her mother to California, where they will meet the Beatles.

They departed Wednesday, Aug. 19 and will return Saturday, Aug. 22. Miss Lisner won a nationwide “Beatles Buddy Contest”.

She and her mother are visting Las Vegas, Disneyland, and Los Angeles, where they will meet the Beatles and be their guests at a luncheon with Pat Boone as host. – August 20, 1964

25 Y EARS A GO Taren and Abe Fischer announce the birth of a daughter, Jordyn Sommer, Aug. 4. Jordyn has a brother, Justin, and two sisters, Starr and Skye.

Grandparents are Jacob and Etta Fischer and Frank and Helen Ruben.

Steve and Melissa (Sternweiler) Markowitz announce the birth of a son, Zachary David, Aug. 8.

Maternal grandparents are Rudy and Josephine Sternweiler of Cincinnati. Paternal grandparents are Harvey and Claire Markowitz of Hackensack, N. J. Maternal great-grandparents are Hyman and Gertie Kirzner and the late Mr. and Mrs. Max Sternweiler and the late Mr. and Mrs. Max Barg. Pateranl great-grandparents are Celia Markowitz and the late Abraham Markowitz, and Kitty Auerbach and the late David Auerbach. – August 24, 1989

10 Y EARS A GO Anita (Weisberger) and Marc Tyler proudly announce the birth of their son, Ethan Scott Tyler, July 26, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Janet and Marvin Weisberger of Cincinnati. Maternal great-grandparents are Rose and the late Nathan Mayers of Cincinnati and the late Esther and Henry Benjamin of Louisville, KY. Paternal grandmother is Eileen Alterman of Jacksonville, FL and paternal greatgrandparents are Paul and Jean Fursteller and the late Rosalind Fursteller of Jacksonville, FL. – September 2, 2004

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ANTI-ZIONISM from page 16 sign reading, “Zionism threatens us all.” He was polite and cordial but predictable, his remarks to me peppered with catchphrases like “wealthy Jews” and claims such as “9/11 was chiefly an attack on U.S. support for Israel.”

I surveyed this crowd and saw Arab and south Asian Muslims, solemn-looking Quakers, and younger hipsters wearing what can only be described as terror chic-faces covered with keffiyehs and tshirts emblazoned with ultra-radical declarations. But most of all I saw my own people. The Jews.

These Jews, I hasten to add, were “good” Jews, unlike me and probably you. That was apparent from their Jewish Voice for Peace stickers and from their signs such as “No war on Palestinians, NOT IN OUR NAME.” In terms of age, they were much older than I’d expected, baby boomers still nostalgic for the days of hippiedom. Once they had Vietnam, I thought to myself.

Now they have “Palestine.”

Now, although I’ve been writing about Jewish antiZionism for years, there is always something disturbing about encountering it in the flesh. Palestine differs from Vietnam, in the sense that it’s an issue these folks feel a connection to by dint of rejecting the Jewish state as Jews. Indeed, they’ve built an identity around it – their Judaism is expressed in a manner in which they separate themselves from other Jews, like when they say, “NOT IN OUR NAME.” It’s also important to understand that these demonstrators are not affiliated with J Street or with American Friends of Peace Now or similar groups. Many of them would probably find Peter Beinart, the American Jewish columnist who has reinvented himself as (he thinks) the voice of the decent Jewish conscience, a little too vanilla. What they have embraced is the non-violent (they think) route to ridding the

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(513) 531-9600 world of its only Jewish state: boycotts, Passover seders dedicated to the Palestinian struggle, endless rhetorical condemnations of Zionism. It is, one might argue, a little like a cult.

And like many of the cults that come and eventually go, this one is apparently in a growth phase. At least that’s what Rebecca Vilkomerson, the head of Jewish Voice for Peace, told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in a recent interview. The same report noted that J Street members disillusioned with that organization’s craving of mainstream acceptance are finding a new political home further to the left.

Should this exodus continue, we may find that the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” Jewish left, which was all the rage five years ago, is eclipsed and rendered irrelevant.

More American Jews are understanding that every time Israel is compelled to defend its own citizens, the cries of “genocide!” will surely follow – and that is a cry they reject decisively.

Equally, a smaller but still visible number will continue to organize themselves as the Jewish section of the movement to abolish the Jewish state.

Any debate over how to regard these organizations shouldn’t encourage comparisons with J Street. For all my strong disagreements with J Street, I believe they are committed to a two-state solution. I cannot say the same about Jewish Voice for Peace and those of the same ilk. They are, quite simply, the enemy, and we must guard against them. They have embraced anti-Zionist eliminationism in the name of Judaism.

For that reason, while I still – just about – believe that peace between Israel and the Palestinians is possible, I cannot envisage making peace with the Jewish haters of Israel.

Why do I say that? Because betrayal by a brother always hurts more than the venom of a declared enemy. Whenever they shout “NOT IN OUR NAME,” we should remind them that their name is not our name.

Not anymore.

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A trip to New York Wandering Jew

by Janet Steinberg “Start spreading the news”, ole’ blue eyes crooned…

New York, New York is a city so great it says its name twice.

Nicknamed “The Big Apple” in

1971, the term was originally used in the 1920s and 1930s by jazz musicians as a way of saying, “There are many apples on the success tree, but when you pick New York City, you pick the Big Apple.” It came to mean “the big time”. It would take a lifetime to devour the entire Big Apple. Ask any New Yorker.

He’s still trying.

In the Big Apple, there are a number of neighborhoods that you must take a bite out of. The easiest, and quickest, way to do that is by taking a GrayLine Hop-on Hop-off bus tour. I am a fan of GrayLine Hop-on Hop-offs around the world, and let me offer you a tip. Sit on the right side of the bus for your first loop around the city. For a second time around, switch to the left side

Chinatown is a fascinating cultural experience.

Native Cincinnatian Andrew Lazarow is featured on NASDAQ sign at Times Square.

Summer Soups to see what you missed on the other side of the street. You will begin your tour by Times Square.

When you board the bus, I recommend you have the New York Pass and/or the New York CityPASS books in hand. Both will give you access to attractions at a price that is far less than paying the regular admission fees.

The Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA)…a must for devotees of modern art…is included in both books.

The following are a few places at which you might want to hop-on and hop-off the GrayLine bus Lower East Side: At the turn-ofthe-century, the Lower East Side was no more than a slum that housed impoverished Jews from the ghettos of Eastern Europe. Today, it is a popular gentrified neighborhood for people who flock there hoping to buy discounted items and devour garlic-perfumed kosher food that is high in cholesterol and relatively low in price.

Upper East Side: Once known as the Silk Stocking District, the Upper East Side is the area of Manhattan that lies between the East River and Central Park that begins at 59th Street across from Temple Emanu-el. Upper East Side real estate is among the highest priced in the world. And so are the prices in the shops.

Chinatown: Chinatown is the site of a rich history that not only tells the story of the ChineseAmerican experience, but also that of early Irish, Jewish and Italian immigrants. Today, The streets of Chinatown provide a fascinating cultural experience.

Little Italy: Walking beside narrow, cobblestoned streets …strolling beneath the fire escapes of turn-of-the-century tenements… one is transported back in time to the 19th and 20th century immigration of Italians to New York’s lower East Side. Little Italy is a fun food neighborhood of colorful streets and interesting people.

Greenwich Village and SoHo are kissing cousins related by the love of the arts. The Village, with its gracious old houses, friendly restaurants and funky shops, provides an historic setting for the arts. In SoHo, handsome cast iron buildings have been transformed into a cosmopolitan collection of smart galleries, engaging restaurants and boutiques.

Harlem is not only a famous neighborhood, but it is a state of mind. The best way to see this community is on a well-organized tour. Tour companies offer itineraries that capture the history and milestones of jazz, hip-hop, gospel, or the art of Harlem.

No trip to New York would be complete without strolling the Plaza at Rockefeller Center. The recum-

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by Zell Schulman The “Dog Days” of summer are upon us and it’s time to “think cool” and create light and easy meals. I am looking forward to shopping at the Farmer’s Markets.

Over the years, depending on where I was living, the variety of fresh produce I found at these markets has always been an exciting and wonderful adventure for me.

When I was very young, my father would have me accompany him to the Saturday Farmer’s Market in Covington, Kentucky, where I grew up and lived most of my life. Going to that market was like being able to walk into a beautiful rainbow filled with farmer’s stalls selling fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers. My dad knew many of the merchants by name. I loved visiting this special market family, each one waiting to fill my tummy with free “tastes.” I looked forward to this weekly adventure with my dad, and it will always be a special memory for me.

After high school, it was off to college, then work and a new life as a wife, mother, and grandmother, and living in Cincinnati, Ohio, I had to find new markets and create new memories, which I continue to do. Whether it is Findley Market, Lunken Airport, Golf Manor, Pleasant Ridge or a farmer’s stall that I pass driving on a highway to some destination, finding new places to purchase the bent golden Prometheus, who looks down on ice skaters in the winter and cafe-goers in the summer, now has Jeff Koons’ colossal 37-foot “Split Rocker” looking down on him. Similar to Koons’ “Puppy” at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the “Split Rocker” is covered in more than 50,000 flowers.

When it comes to bedding down in Manhattan, there are two main categories of hotels: basic or boutique, and plain or posh. I recently experienced one of each and both were great in their own way.

Boutique: The Quin, New York City’s newest luxury lifestyle, boutique hotel, provides the sophisticated traveler a refined urban sanctu-

freshest fruits and vegetables in the summer will continue to be a culinary adventure for me.

There is nothing like biting into a tomato just picked off the vine, or the taste of fresh honey from a bee hive and a slice of freshly baked bread, spread with home made apple butter or perseveres. All summer gifts from the farmers bounty.

I would like to share my favorite summer soup with you. If you have had an aversion to beets, you will love them after your first spoonful of this easy summer soup. Cool, smooth and delicious, you needn’t cook a thing, just enjoy.

BLENDER BEET BORSCHT Makes 8 servings This is perfect for lunch, or served in a punch bowl as a starter for a party.

Ingredients One 32-ounce jar of borscht with beets 1 cup sour cream plus extra for garnish l medium cucumber, peeled, seeded and cut into 2-inch pieces 2 green onions, thinly sliced Method 1. Pour half the liquid from the jar of borscht into a blender with 1/2 cup of the sour cream. Blend on low speed for 10 seconds.

2. Add the cucumber pieces and sliced green onion. Pulse 2 times, then blend on high speed for 5 seconds. Empty into a large glass container or pitcher. (The beets will stain a plastic container) 3. Pour the remaining liquid from the jar and the beets into the blender with the remaining sour cream. Blend on low speed for 10 seconds, then on high speed for 5 seconds. Empty into the large container. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve the borscht garnished with a dollop of sour cream.

ary. Situated on 57th Street, a short block away from Carnegie Hall, this elegant 17-story pre-War building has a history that is fully intertwined with an entire era of world-class music. The former Buckingham Hotel, once home to icons like Paderewski and Tebaldi, has been rechristened the Quin and re-imagined as a new luxury hotel where art, design and nature blend seamlessly to create a sanctuary from the city The Quin delivers nothing less than the essence of New York in an atmosphere of serene elegance.

The Quin-tessential boutique hotel!

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The Audi Q5 is a luxury crossover that’s fun to drive The Audi Q5 has been one of the best luxury crossovers since its introduction, and this year it expands its offerings with a turbodiesel TDI edition that's good for a 31-mpg highway EPA rating.

In the Q5, Audi now offers a total of five powertrains, all coupled to standard all-wheel drive.

With each one, Audi also equips the Q5 with a paddle-shifted, eight-speed automatic gearbox.

With any of them, the Q5 delivers responsive handling and acceleration, despite its tall roof and good ground clearance.

The Audi Q5 has pretty proportions and a cabin that's cleanly styled and trimmed to a high standard. The cohesive look fits snugly alongside Audi's car lineup, blending in easily with the Allroad wagon and even the A4 sedan, which all share its tall grille and slim LED-outlined headlamps. Its cockpit sets a high-water mark for simplicity and for fit and finish, particularly with the optional layered-oak trim, complete with a lush-looking non-touchscreen display. The front seats are comfortable and roomy and feature excellent outward visibility. Rear seats are spacious, and can recline and slide forward and backward. The 2014 Q5 also has a large cargo area for the class, and more standard features than some luxury compact SUVs. The standard MMI infotainment system is what controls climate and audio settings. The 2014 Audi Q5 comes standard with leather upholstery, tri-zone automatic climate control, Bluetooth phone connectivity, iPod integration, a 10-speaker stereo and Audi’s MMI infotainment system.

Options include adaptive cruise control, a rearview camera, parking sensors, a blind spot monitoring system, a panoramic moonroof and an upgraded MMI system with navigation.

Premium Plus and Prestige models load on the luxuries, and a Q5 3.0T can easily top $55,000. The Q5 also now offers as optional equipment Audi Connect 3G wireless Internet service, Google Earth mapping, adaptive cruise control with full braking at speeds of up to 19 mph, and a rear-seat entertainment system.

Last year's push for higher fuel economy continues for 2014, even as Audi plots a higher-performance model for the Q5 lineup. Anyone can be happy with any of the carry-over powerplants, especially the 2.0-liter turbo four--it's lighter and almost as quick as the Q5 3.0T, with its 272-horsepower supercharged 3.0-liter V-6. There is also a Q5

Audi Q5

Hybrid, which blends the power from a 54-hp electric motor and lithium-ion batteries for 245 hp net. The turbodiesel's acceleration is similar, its combined fuel economy higher, and its driving feel more natural. All-wheel drive is standard on all Q5 crossovers, as is an eight-speed, paddle-shifted automatic.

With all the non-hybrid drivetrains, the Q5 excels at in passing maneuvers, and out of corners, and it truly handles like a car, with the lean, responsive feel of a lower-riding wagon.

Overall, the Audi Q5 has pretty proportions and a cabin that's cleanly styled and trimmed to a high standard. The cohesive look fits snugly alongside Audi's car lineup, blending in easily with the Allroad wagon and even the A4 sedan, which all share its tall grille and slim LED-outlined headlamps. Its cockpit sets a high-water mark for simplicity and for fit and finish, particularly with the optional layered-oak trim.

Base models start at around $38,000.

22 • OBITUARIES D EATH N OTICES MILLS, Gloria Tavel, age 85, died August 4, 2014; 8 Av, 5774.

GUNN, Mona, age 95, died August 5, 2014; 9 Av, 5774.

LINDER, Freddie, age 93, died August 9, 2014; 13 Av, 5774.

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LINDER, Freddie Freddie Linder (nee Lipton) was born to Emma and Julius Lipton on September 15, 1920 in Munich, Germany. As a young girl, in the mid-1920s, she moved with her family to Chicago. Her father was a sausage maker, and her mother was a concert pianist at the Chicago Symphony. She went to primary school and high school in Chicago and attended a couple of years of college.

After Freddie’s mother passed away at a young age, Freddie moved, alone, to Dayton, Ohio.

She knew no one in Dayton. There she met her future husband, Joe Linder, who was working at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

They got married on May 23, 1943 and were married for 71 years until Joe’s passing earlier this year.

Freddie co-founded (with her husband, Joe) FibreGlass Evercoat Co. Inc. Evercoat is a leading manufacturer of autobody repair fillers and putties in the automotive refinish industry, patch and repair products for the recreational marine market and has been a leading innovator in the industry since its founding.The company was selected by Deloitte as one of the 100 most important firms in Cincinnati during the 1980s.

FibreGlass Evercoat received an award from Sears Roebuck numerous times for outstanding service and product quality. Her daughter Denni said “Mom and dad were a team. He was a born salesman and company president. She was the practical credit manager.”

She and Joe were founding members of Temple Sholom and remained members as long as they lived. Freddie sang in both the temple and the Cedar Village choirs.

Her passion was her family.

She loved being with them any chance she could get. Freddie

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would organize the food at the cottage every weekend so there was always plenty to eat, no matter how many came. Freddie enriched the family through her sense of fun! She was a Girl Scout leader while the girls were growing up.

Beginning in the 1980's, they became snowbirds, inviting the family to visit in Key West. They also took the grandchildren on trips to NY and Israel. Granny was an icon as a grandparent to her grandchildren and great grandchildren. When she had her family all together, Freddie would beam when she looked at the four generations gathered together.

Her daughter, Denni, tells a story that sums up how fearless her mother was. “Once, when we were up in the air in Dad's small plane, her door flew open and her purse fell out. She didn't panic.

She just wrestled that door closed and we kept going. As an adult, I think about how strong physically and emotionally she was to do that! She laughed about it in later years when her purse was found in a farmer's field years later!”

Freddie Linder passed away on Saturday August 9, 2014 at the age of 93. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 71 years, Joe as well as her parents, Emma and Julius Lipton, her sister, Gerty Rodbard, and her great grandson, Zachary Avner. She is survived by her children: Judith Beck Avner (Jay Avner), Denni (Carl) Glick, and Cherry Linder (Kathy Smith).

Her grandchildren include: Andrea Beck (Fred Gartenlaub), Jayson (Kimberly) Beck, Stephanie (Jeffrey) Rhein, Eric Avner (Adrienne Cowden), and Jonathan (Sarah) Avner. Also Lori (Larry) Burke, Brian (Carrie) Glick, and Steven (Karen) Glick. Great grandchildren include: Lily Plum Gartenlaub, Grace and Cecilia Rhein, Jacob and Rebekah Avner, Joshua and Benjamin Burke, and Colin and Carter Glick. She is also survived by nephews: Carl Burlin, Larry Rodbard, Rick (Cheryl) Rodbard, and Jim (Mary) Rodbard.

The funeral service was held at Weil Funeral Home Monday, August 11. Donations may be made to Hospice of Cincinnati in Mrs. Linder's memory.

NEW YORK from page 20 Posh: The New York Palace, the palatial hotel facing the worldrenowned St. Patrick’s Cathedral, is much more than just another luxury hotel. It is a bit of New York history.

The hotel’s public spaces are housed in the reconstructed Villard Houses, a cluster of brownstone townhouses constructed in 1882. The hotel’s Courtyard was the original Madison Avenue carriage entrance of the Villard Houses. Beyond the Courtyard, and the graceful arches of the cloister facade, is the entrance to the hotel’s 2-story marble lobby. This

OBAMA from page 5 with Israel during the recent Gaza war, and that Saudi Arabia and several other Sunni-led countries did so tacitly.

We need to talk about that thing Both leaders also need to address third rails – like the $3 billion in defense assistance Israel receives from the United States, Malka said.

“There has to be an honest discussion about the sustainability of U.S. military aid and about how that affects the relationship,” he said.

“Does Israel want to continue to be a dependent country, or does it want to graduate to a different kind of status?”

Maybe we shouldn’t talk at all The solution for the animosity that Netanyahu and Obama have for one another is to keep them apart and have a fixer mediate, said Robert Danin, who specialized in the Middle East in high-ranking positions in the George W. Bush administration and assisted Tony Blair in his capacity as Middle East peace mediator.

“President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu now have over

five years of accumulated baggage, so I don’t see how they are going to reconcile,” said Danin, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“What appears to be sorely lacking right now is a trusted and discreet private channel between the two leaders,” he told JTA. “You need a trusted emissary who operates below the radar who can go back and forth between the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office. This person can quietly solve problems, clarify misunderstandings and serve to manage the relationship.”

Maybe everyone should just shut up Stop the leaks is the advice of Jonathan Schanzer, a vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

“So much is flying back and forth that does not make either leader look competent and does not make the relationship look solid,” said Schanzer, who was a terrorism finance analyst under President George W. Bush.

“It makes very little sense to me that this administration has allowed for leaks given how tight their communications are,” he said. “From the

Israeli side, we know leaking is a contact sport. Netanyahu needs to do a better job of keeping his right flank in check.”

Natan Sachs, a fellow at the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy who focuses on Israel, said each side needs to better understand how leaks play out on the other.

“In Israel, when a junior minister criticizes the United States, it’s understood he’s speaking for himself. In America, it’s assumed that the government thinks that way,” he said. “Israelis have to be much more careful in the way they speak. The converse is that Americans need to take it more with a grain of salt.”

Deal with Iran already The Iranian nuclear program issue is deeply distorting the relationship, Schanzer said. Dealing with Iran’s suspected weapons program needs to come to a head.

“Whatever tensions existed during this latest round of violence with Hamas, tensions would not have been as high without the backdrop of Iran nuclear,” he said. “The fact that this has gone on for years without conclusion and the Israelis have been told and told to wait, it’s pushed both sides to a place where we do not want tensions to be.”

Cohen has lived in Sderot for 55 years, since making aliyah from Morocco, and said he could not recall a time as difficult as the past few weeks.

The kindness of strangers Israelis love their soldiers, especially during conflict. During Operation Protective Edge, Israelis went above and beyond in sending food, goodies and toiletries to the soldiers at the front – even socks and underwear! The public also sent thousands of pizzas and bottles of soda.

Communities, municipalities and volunteer committees delivered challahs or flowers or cakes to the thousands of families who had a father or son called up for the war effort.

In fact, so much stuff was sent that the Israel Defense Forces called on the public to stop, saying it “could interfere with operational alertness or the fighters’ health.” The

donations were directed to the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers or the Libi Fund.

Some $4.6 million was donated to the association throughout the operation, and $725,000 to other funds.

Wounded soldiers were swamped with love, including an overwhelming number of hospital visitors who were mostly unknown to them.

Soldiers in uniform throughout the country also reported being treated to cups of coffee, breakfasts and other treats, also by strangers.

Looking out for the women left behind Two soldiers who were killed last week in the Gaza operation were to be married in the coming weeks.

Their fiancees stood with the soldiers’ families at the funerals and shivas.

Several other slain soldiers left behind longtime girlfriends who were devastated by the deaths.

These women deserve recogni-

tion and support from the Defense Ministry, lawmaker Aliza Lavie of the Yesh Atid party said this week.

The Israel Defense Forces and the Defense Ministry show support and tend to the families of the fallen soldiers, and must do the same for the fiancees and girlfriends, Lavie asserted in a letter to Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, whose cousin, Hadar Goldin, was engaged to be married.

Lavie said officers should visit the women to tell them of their loved one’s death, just as they do for the immediate family, and employers should be required to provide time off to attend the shiva. Psychological assistance should be provided as needed, too.

Twenty-seven of the girlfriends of fallen soldiers in the Gaza operation are soldiers themselves, Lavie noted, and should have had an official escort from their company to the funeral.

regal hotel is surrounded by Madison Avenue’s fashionable boutiques, Fifth Avenue’s prestigious shops, and Park Avenue’s architectural gems.

Dining in New York offers food from almost every country in the world and in almost every price range in the world. From the bright red and yellow food carts of the Halal Guys offering chicken and rice dishes, to the Wayfarer Seafood Grill in the Quin Hotel where I devoured a divine Big Eye Tuna with avocado and soy lime dressing along with other goodies.At the summit of my dining spectrum was an exquisite dinner at The Carlyle Restaurant.

Nestled within the

Carlyle hotel, a pinnacle of luxury on New York’s Upper East Side, the gracious setting transported me to an intimate English manor House. My divine dinner transported me to heaven.

Dinner at the Carlyle must be preceded, or followed, by a drink at the hotel’s Bemelmans Bar. The bar is a New York classic named in honor of Ludwig Bemelmans, a successful artist and the creator of the classic Madeline children’s books. In exchange for a year and a half of accommodations at The Carlyle for himself and his family, Bemelmans transformed the hotel’s bar with

whimsical scenes of Central Park that included picnicking rabbits and ice skating elephants.

And, of course, one must not dine in such style without a great hairdo.

I’ll let you in on a little secret if you promise to keep it under your hat.

For a price far less than that in any salon in Midtown Manhattan, you can get a new hairdo at Drybar. Just wash, blow, and go! I loved it!

New York, New York…why do I love thee? Simply because you are the single most interesting, most vital, and most exciting city in the world.

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