Jewish Observer Newspaper issue of August 1, 2019

29 TAMMUZ 5779 • AUGUST 1, 2019 • VOLUME XXXX, NUMBER 15 • PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID, SYRACUSE, NY

Safe Haven 75th anniversary commemoration August 5

BY BETTE SIEGEL On Monday, August 5, a special event will commemorate the August 5, 1944, arrival of 982 Holocaust refugees at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter.

It will start with the ringing of the church bells in Oswego at 7:30 am.

The Jewish Federation of Central New York is participating in the day’s events, providing free bus transportation to and

from Oswego, and kosher box lunches for the attendees. The Joseph Elman Endowment Fund for Holocaust Studies administered by the Jewish Community Foundation of CNY will share the costs, along with Federation.

There will be free admission to the Safe Haven Museum and Fort Ontario from 10 am-4 pm. There will be a public 75th anniversary commemoration program at 2

pm, concluding with a memorial service.

The 75th anniversary refugee reunion dinner at 6 pm with guest speakers at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center is open to the public. Reservations are required. Buffet dinners will cost $50 and plated kosher dinners $40 per person. Dinner reservations and event sponsorship forms may be obtained by contacting Judy Rapaport at 315-591-1050 or jcrap53@gmail.com.

The Fort Ontario State Historic Site is located at the north end of East Fourth Street, Oswego. The Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum is located at 2 East Seventh St., Oswego.

For more information about the programming, transportation, lunch or anything else associated with the day’s events, contact Barbara Davis at bdavis@ jewishfederationcny.org.

U.S. Senate introduces bipartisan legislation to prioritize health care for Holocaust survivors

BY JNS STAFF (JNS) – U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin (DMD), Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced on July 18 legislation that would prioritize health care and nutrition services for Holocaust survivors, increasing the likelihood they could continue to live in their own homes rather than be forced into nursing homes or assisted-living facilities.

The Trauma-Informed Modernization of Eldercare for Holocaust Survivors Act, or the “TIME for Holocaust Survivors Act,” would incorporate several provisions into the Older Americans Act to ensure that Holocaust survivors have coordinated, trauma-informed care and services particularly tailored their needs.

“Holocaust survivors came to the United States seeking refuge from unimaginable horrors. They have lived their lives here and enriched our nation,” said Cardin.”With an average age of 85, we have an obligation to provide Holocaust survivors the community support and special services they need to live out their final days.”

“Those who sought shelter in our country after the unspeakable tragedy of the

care for seniors who have had traumatic experiences, the effects of which can resurface when they age.”

“We are proud to support this bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Cardin, Cramer and Rosen that will ensure that the 80,000 aging Holocaust survivors living in the United States today, all with unique traumas and health concerns, have access to Survivors at the Dachau concentration camp the care and services they need,” said cheered their liberation by U.S. soldiers. William Daroff, the Jewish Federa(Photo provided by of United States Holocaust tions of North America’s senior vice Memorial Museum, courtesy of National president for public policy. “As a key Archives and Records Administration, College priority for Jewish Federations and the hundreds of organizations from Park, MD) every state in the country that support this initiative, we urge every senator to Holocaust deserve better assistance, not co-sponsor the TIME for Holocaust Surviworse,” said Cramer. “This legislation is a productive step toward helping survivors vors Act, and work with Senate leadership to pass this bill soon.” receive the quality care they need.”

The JFNA and more than 300 nation“‘Never Again’ means never forgetting those who survived the horrors of the Holo- al, state and local organizations have caust. This bipartisan bill will make important expressed their support for the TIME for updates to the Older Americans Act to ensure Holocaust Survivors Act. About 80,000 survivors of the Holocaust that Holocaust survivors are not left behind,” said Rosen. “Integrating trauma-informed reside in the United States, with approxipractices into these programs will improve mately 25 percent living at or below poverty level. Heart conditions, bone and feet issues, and dental problems are common for this demographic, as are depression, anxiety and sleep disorders. Many are isolated from their communities and enduring the challenges of aging alone, often without family to care for them. Holocaust survivors continue to live with the unique mental and

Jewish Federation board statement: we demand civil discourse

THE BOARD OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ISSUED THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT. The Jewish Federation of Central New York board unequivocally condemns the most recent outbursts of racial rhetoric voiced by those at the highest levels of our government. While we may disagree with disparate points of view on various issues, what makes us truly great as a country, and as Americans, is our celebration and exercise of freedom of speech and civil discourse. For our leaders to defend or justify their racist talking points on the basis of someone’s

ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or ancestral background or tolerate racist and xenophobic chants at political rallies undermines the very foundation and core values that make our country great. As Jews, we are all too familiar with this sort of dangerous rhetoric and the heinous damage left in its wake. We look to our leaders to unite rather than incite and divide us. Political differences can never be a basis for abandoning our core values of respect and dignity of humankind. As Americans, we have the right and the duty to speak out against all forms of hatred and bigotry; to do otherwise is to be complicit.

physical scars of the trauma caused during World War II. Aging survivors have needs similar to those of other older Americans, but the sights, sounds and smells of institutionalized settings, such as confined spaces or restrictions on food, can induce panic, anxiety and re-traumatization as a result of their experiences.

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Congregational notes

Local congregations announce Temple Concord will host a A Sisterhood ice cream social, a their Tisha B’Av services, including celebratory weekend in honor of film showing, a kosher kitchen its 180th anniversary. joint services. class and more are announced.

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Tisha B’Av service schedule

CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOMCHEVRA SHAS Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas will hold its annual Tisha B’Av service at CBS-CS on Saturday, August 10, the beginning of the 9th of Av, at 9:10 pm. Participants will begin with a solemn evening service, including a Havdalah without wine or spices (which are added at the end of Tisha B’Av, the next day), and then sit on the floor or bima steps (if able) to read the book of Eichah, also known as Lamentations, by candlelight.

The custom at CBS-CS has been that each participant take a turn reading or chanting a verse in either English or Hebrew in Eichah. Also included will be some of Eichah read in English with Eichah trope, a distinctive trope system used for this day. The third chapter of Eichah is a triple acrostic and is chanted with a special

melody. Following the reading of Eichah, participants will sing the traditional kinah (lament) Eli Tzion.

On Sunday, August 11, at 9 am, CBS-CS and TempleAdath Yeshurun will hold a joint morning service for Tisha B’Av, which is done without the usual melodies and singing. Services will include a Torah reading, haftarah (also done in Eichah trope) and the book of Eichah again, which will be done in the same fashion as the night before, with everyone taking turns with one verse. Since CBS-CS Rabbi Andrew Pepperstone will be at Camp Ramah for Tisha B’Av, Hanita Blair and Joan Bordett will coordinate the Saturday evening service, and Temple Adath Yeshurun Rabbi Yehoshua Zehavi will help lead the Sunday morning service.

For more information, contact the CBS-CS office at 315-446-9570 or manager@cbscs. org, or the TAY office at 315-445-0002.

TEMPLE ADATH YESHURUN On Saturday, August 10, Temple Adath Yeshurun will hold Tisha B’Av services, beginning with a teaching at 8:40 pm, followed by services at 9 pm.

On Sunday, August 11, at 9 am, CBSCS and Temple Adath Yeshurun will hold a joint morning service for Tisha B’Av at CBS-CS. The service is done without the normal melodies or singing, but will include a Torah reading, haftarah (also done in Eichah trope) and the Book of Eichah, which will be done with everyone taking turns with one verse. Since CBSCS Rabbi Andrew Pepperstone will be at Camp Ramah for Tisha B’Av, Hanita Blair and Joan Bordett will coordinate the Saturday evening service, and Rabbi Yehoshua Zehavi will help lead the morning service. For more information, contact the CBS-CS office at 315-446-9570 or

manager@cbscs.org, or the TAY office at 315-445-0002.

SHA’AREI TORAH ORTHODOX CONGREGATION OF SYRACUSE Sha’arei Torah Orthodox Congregation of Syracuse will hold Tisha B’Av services, followed by Eichah, on Saturday, August 10, at 9:30 pm. The Sunday, August 11, services with kinot will begin at 8:30 am.

Rabbi Evan Shore will hold an afternoon of learning, “Five Classes,” on Sunday, August 11, starting at 3:15 pm.

For more information, contact the STOCS office at 315-446-6194 or info@ stocsyracuse.org.

TEMPLE CONCORD Temple Concord will hold Tisha B’Av services on Saturday, August 10, at 8 pm. For more information, contact the TC office at 315-475-9952 or office@ templeconcord.org.

JCC’s summer camps and swim lessons roll on Just because it’s August doesn’t mean that summer must start winding down.

There is still “plenty of fun” to be had at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse. Summer camp spots are still open for children looking for a late-summer adventure. The JCC’s Camp Joe and Lynne Romano has openings in some of its school-age specialty camps coming up, including ceramics, cheerleading, fishing, gymnastics, horseback

riding, rocketry and spy academy. The final three weeks of summer camp begin on Monday, August 5.

There are also swim lessons for those looking to learn to swim or sharpen their skills. Group, semi-private and private swim lessons at the JCC run through the end of August.

For more information and registration information, contact the JCC of Syracuse at 315-445-2360 or visit www.jccsyr.org.

JCC school-age campers showed off some of their pirate garb during “pirate day” on July 11. L-r: Mya Burgmeier, Zoe Van Beveren, Edith Rothman, Caleigh Hampel, Josh Davis and Derek Charsky.

Hebrew Interest-Free Loan

The Jewish Federation of Central New York has instituted the Hebrew Interest-Free Loan program to help Jewish people get past a temporary financial need.

To learn more about the program or to see if you qualify, visit the Federation’s website, www.jewishfederationcny.org.

At right: Many of the JCC’s preschool campers got into the pirate spirit on July 11, “pirate day.” L-r: Isabella Gingold and Abe Goldberg displayed their pirate hooks and other swashbuckling accessories.

Below: Certified swimming instructor Morgan Binsack gave a swim lesson to Elizabeth Marty last month at the JCC of Syracuse. All campers aged 18 months through sixth grade participate in daily swim lessons and free swim time in the JCC’s outdoor heated swimming pools.

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AROUND CENTRAL NEW YORK Temple Concord’s 180th anniversary On Friday, September 6, Temple Concord will welcome Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the International Union for Reform Judaism. The Friday Shabbat service will be held at 7 pm, followed by an oneg Shabbat. The URJ president’s visit will recognize and honor the 180 years of continuous service by Temple Concord and the Reform Movement of Judaism in the local community. The Shabbat service and free oneg are open to the community.

The celebratory weekend will continue on Saturday, September 7, at 7 pm, with a community family party.

Among the activities will be food stations, a photo booth and silent auction. Proceeds from the silent auction will support the Religious Education Fund. Admission for adults is $54 per adult; $36 for ages 12-18; $18 for ages 5-11; and under 5 free.

On Sunday, September 8, the TC Religious School

social action day will get underway, with students performing volunteer activities to accomplish goals for the community’s not-for-profit organizations. Organizers hope they will learn about the community organizations that help others in need. The day’s activities will culminate in a parking lot picnic for everyone.

For more information, contact the TC office at 315475-9952 or office@templeconcord.org.

Menorah Park receives donation for employee enhancements

BY JACKIE MIRON Hiring and retention of nursing home workers and other assisted living communities is a challenge faced in the majority of the country. Smaller organizations with budgetary constraints have a hard time keeping up with wage increases compared to larger organizations, and minimum wage laws have increased the pool of workers.

Modern Healthcare News, considered a leader in healthcare news, reported in January 2019 some retention strategies to be taken by organizations such as nursing homes, including offering the “most rewarding” work environment possible, with a focus on aligned visions, values and positive relationships. Nursing homes with the most updated equipment and supplies can improve

worker efficiency and care quality, and have a wide-reaching impact on positive attitudes for those providing vital services to the patients.

The Jewish Home of Central New York has received a donation of $41,800 from a local benefactor. The money will be used to purchase various medical equipment and patient aid items, with a goal of improving the work environment for the staff and making daily tasks a bit easier.

In addition to purchasing new items and upgrading current ones, options for creating staff programs for personal growth in the area of health and fitness will be explored. Additional funds are possible in the future to further enhance the effort to make improvements at Menorah Park.

The donors expressed respect and admiration for Menorah Park’s leadership and employees – especially its “dedication, kindness and excellent follow-through” on communication and other projects. The donors also noted the organization’s “high level of care and respect for others,” while maintaining a commitment to acquiring grants and funds for continuing needs.

They felt the organization was well run by a team of “competent, resourceful and professional people,” and the donors said they felt comfortable giving the donation without a specific purpose. “The high level of responsiveness ensures the funds will help continue the delivery of excellent service to patients, and have a lasting impact, while making some routine tasks more manageable,” said a Menorah Park representative.

THE LEADERS OF OUR JEWISH FUTURE

Seth Goldberg

BY BARBARA SHEKLIN DAVIS natural that, after graduating from Syracuse Growing up in Livingston, NJ, Seth in 2016, he would become involved in the Goldberg was a self-defined “sports nerd.”

Syracuse Jewish community. “I was looking He wanted to play professional sports, but for new people to meet and to get a little quickly realized that wasn’t going to happen. more involved in the larger community,” Because his parents both worked in television, Goldberg said, and so he joined the Federhe was always surrounded by TV and media, ation’s Young Leadership group. and by the time he was ready for college, he Goldberg finds the Syracuse Jewish had decided to become a sports broadcastcommunity “small, but strong and warm,” er. He was drawn to Syracuse University adding that “I’ve found that everyone is because “that’s where the best people have friendly and has welcomed me.” He thinks Seth Goldberg gone,” and there he was able to realize his that “there is probably room to grow, professional goals. people who aren’t involved in the Jewish During his sophomore, junior and senior years, community in any way,” recognizing that “that’s Goldberg was heard on WAER and Z89. He shared probably the case everywhere.” Goldberg also has his sports knowledge during the first season of “Sports a seat on the Federation Board of Directors as chair Jeopardy!” He currently works as a sports talk radio of Young Leadership. host and play-by-play announcer. He is the co-host of By actively involving himself in Young Leadership, “Orange Nation” noon-2 pm weekdays on ESPN Radio Goldberg has taken the first steps toward strengthening Syracuse, as well as “Yankees On Deck” and SU pre- and and growing the Jewish community of Central New York. post-game during football and basketball seasons. He is The local Federation’s Young Leadership program is a also the play-by-play voice for ESPN Syracuse’s high part of a national community of smart, philanthropic and school football and basketball coverage. well-networked 20-, 30- and 40-somethings who gather Goldberg was president of the Greater Jersey at social events, volunteer together to make their homeHudson River BBYO region during his senior year town a better place and even travel together to far-flung of high school. BBYO is a leading pluralistic Jewish places to help those in need. Others in the Central New teen movement aspiring to involve more Jewish teens York area who fit this demographic and who want to join in more meaningful Jewish experiences. He believes in this important forward-thinking effort are encouraged that his Jewish education, bar mitzvah and confirma- to contact the Federation’s CEO, Michael Balanoff, at tion had important effects on his life, so it was only mbalanoff@jewishfederationcny.org.

Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center senior dining menu JULY 5-9 Monday – dinner – brisket Tuesday – hot corned beef sandwich on rye with Russian dressing Wednesday – spinach cheese quiche Thursday – chicken fried rice Friday – herb-roasted chicken AUGUST 12-16 Monday – dinner – panko-encrusted honey mustard salmon Tuesday – beef stew over egg noodles Wednesday – baked ziti Thursday – imitation crab cakes with lemon dill sauce Friday – birthday celebration – roast turkey The Bobbi Epstein Lewis JCC Senior Adult Dining Program at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community

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Center offers Va’ad Ha’ir-supervised kosher lunches served Tuesday through Friday at noon. Dinners are served on Mondays at 5 pm throughout the summer through August 28, thanks in part, to the Dr. Morton and Mrs. Libby Maloff Summer Senior Dinner program.

Reservations for dinner are required by the Wednesday before each dinner. Lunch reservations are required by noon on the previous business day. There is a suggested contribution per meal. The menu is subject to change.

The program is funded by a grant from the Onondaga County Department of Aging and Youth and the New York State Office for the Aging, with additional funds provided by the JCC. To attend, one need not be Jewish or a member of the JCC. For further information or to make a reservation, contact Cindy Stein at 315-445-2360, ext. 104, or cstein@jccsyr.org.

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CONGREGATIONAL NOTES Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas CBS-CS SISTERHOOD – BREAK THE ICE WITH ICE CREAM On Tuesday,August 20, at 7 pm, the CBSCS Sisterhood will hold a “parlor” meeting/ ice cream social at a private home to meet the CBS-CS Sisterhood women and socialize. Reservations are requested and may be

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Sha’arei Torah Orthodox Congregation STOCS TO HOLD KOSHER KITCHEN CLASS Rabbi Evan Shore will present a class on “How to Set up a Kosher Kitchen” at Sha’arei Torah Orthodox Congregation of Syracuse on Monday, August 5, at 8 pm. In addition to his rabbinical duties at STOCS, the rabbi heads the Syracuse Va’ad Ha’ir and is an Orthodox Union kashrut supervisor at food-production facilities.

Organizers felt that this class was perfect for those who have decided that this is the year they will transform their kitchen to a kosher one. The class is also a good way for those unsure of whether they are ready to change to gather knowledge about what is

involved. Attendees will discover the many things in an existing kitchen that are “kasherable,” will learn the proper use of an oven for both meat and dairy, and have their questions answered.

When asked why people should keep kosher, one of the organizers said, “Why keep kosher? In almost every instance in which the food laws are described in the Torah, there is a call to holiness. The mindful observance of the kosher laws elevates the mundane act of eating to a spiritual act.”

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BY SONALI MCINTYRE Temple Adath Yeshurun will present a summer cinema series beginning with the documentary film “The Waldheim Waltz,” which will be screened on Wednesday, August 7, at 7 pm. “The Waldheim Waltz” is about truth and lies, or “alternative facts.” It tells the story of how a dishonest man can rise to power and shows the successful use of antisemitism and populist propaganda. It is about individual and collective consciousness, and traces the roots of the current situation in this historical context. It sets the Waldheim affair in a bigger international political context and, although released 30 years after the events described occurred, it is considered “terrifyingly timely.”

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Director Ruth Beckermann documents the process of uncovering former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past in the late 1980s as he is elected president of Austria. As the film shows, he is caught in a tangled web from concealing two years of his wartime experience. Beckermann was one of the activists trying to prevent Waldheim’s election in Vienna in 1986. She refers to her role as “half demonstrating and half documenting.” The film analyzes Beckermann’s personal archive of footage, as well as international TV material to depict this turning point in Austrian political culture and the beginning of National Socialism. “The Waldheim Waltz” shows the fast-moving succession of new allegations against Waldheim by the World See “TAY” on page 7

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Israel ranks among U.N.’s top 10 most innovative nations

BY ARIEL KAHANA (Israel Hayom via JNS) – For the first time, Israel has been ranked in the top 10 on the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index. Israel’s precise place in the 2019 top 10 list has yet to be disclosed. The final results were slated to be unveiled on July 24 at an event the WIPO hosted in New Delhi.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the news via Facebook, where he wrote: “For the first time, the U.N. is ranking us among the top 10 leading

nations on its Global Innovation Index. We’ve made Israel into a rising global power.”

Israel has been climbing the U.N. index for the past few years. In 2016, it was ranked 21st in innovation. In 2017, it jumped to 17th and in 2018, Israel made it to 11th place.

This year’s WIPO event was to focus on innovation in the health-care field. Israeli Ambassador to India Ron Malka and Esti Sheli, head of the Health Ministry’s Department of Digital Health, were to represent Israel.

The Global Innovation Index uses 80 indicators to rank

the state of innovation in 129 countries. The indicators examine, among other things, countries’ creative and supportive environment for innovation in terms of education, investment in infrastructure, investment in research, the level of business sophistication and the political climate.

The GII has become a tool used by decision-makers and business people in creating ties between the public and private sectors. The index was developed by the WIPO, Cornell University and INSEAD, considered one of the world’s leading business schools.

This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.

Magen David Adom assists in developing first-responder system in Santiago, Chile

BY JNS STAFF (JNS) – The Providencia municipality in the Chilean capital has started a pilot project to train municipal security personnel as first responders in medical emergencies, in cooperation with the Emergency Medical Services SAMU R.M. The partnership is part of a series of activities initiated by the Israeli embassy in Santiago, led by the ambassador and his deputy in an effort to support emergency medical services in the Chilean capital.

“Magen David Adom EMTs and paramedics are saving lives every day throughout the country,” said the organization’s director-general, Eli Bin. “It is gratifying to see how, with the experience accumulated by the MDA teams in Israel, we can contribute to saving lives around the world.”

First-responder training by Israel’s Magen David Adom, part of a pilot project to train municipal security personnel in emergencies in cooperation with the Emergency Medical Services SAMU R.M. in Santiago, Chile, in July. (Photo by MDA)

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D’VAR TORAH

To vow or not to vow?

BY JUDITH HUOBER Among many other laws, parasha Mattot-Masei establishes the sanctity of a person’s word: “If a man speaks a vow to God, he must carry out all that he promised.”

(Numbers 30:3). Indeed, this has been interpreted as meaning that “the mere utterance of thy lips is equivalent to a vow,” giving a simple statement of intention the force of a vow (Ned. 7a).

Given this stance, I was impressed to realize that the parasha also teaches that commitments, even to God, are not always binding. Vows are portrayed as having such gravity and risk that much of the parasha, and our subsequent tradition, includes ways to effect a back door. For example, we begin Yom Kippur by absolving ourselves of past and future vows. Here, in parasha Mattot, a girl or woman is absolved of her obligation by her father or husband. There is even a formula for instantly dis-avowing any vows apparently made by pronouncing the formula, b’li neder, “without an oath.” And there are other social mechanisms that the rabbis passed down: a sage or a Beit Din can absolve a man from a vow he made yesterday that, in hindsight of its implications, he would never make today.

Is this “way out” a good thing? That partially depends on what you think about vow and oath making. Is it a privilege, or a potentially dangerous and ill-considered act, to make a vow and be bound by commitment; something you want to be entitled to do, or something you need to be protected from? In general, the rabbis have come down on the side of discouraging vows. These promises tend to be made in moments of high emotion and have a way of rebounding unpredictably and sometimes catastrophically on the maker: the classic example is Jephthah, in Judges 11, who promised to sacrifice the first thing to exit his house if God made him victorious – tragically, it was his daughter who came out to greet him when he returned home from battle.

In this light, it is perceptive to discourage deliberate oath-taking, and compassionate to maintain the possibility of rescuing humans of their foolhardy tendency to leap before they look. The parasha is seen to comprise a portion of the fabric woven for this protective purpose.

Still, not all vows are rash ones, and there are positive sides to making vows: for one thing, they provide a way of shoring up resolve to attempt desired, but difficult, goals. I am grateful that I promised Bette Siegel (the JO editor) to produce this d’var Torah and incur the responsibility – and the well-appreciated growth opportunity

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and relational connection to my community. Imagine if I had “sort of” promised to provide it by hedging my promise with a “b’li neder” to Bette after her calendar was complete; and how my relationship with her, and with my Jewish community, would have suffered by a failure to follow through.

Although the offense of breaking an oath is to God, moreover, it is important that vows are not made in the vacuum-seal of an individual’s relationship to God. Making and keeping promises to others represents a social norm and is a function and prerogative of adulthood.

One lesson of Mattot, focused as it is on the verbal vow only and not the silent one made only “in the heart,” is to remember the impact of our vows on others. The uttering of a vow, the behaviorally expressed making of a commitment, can be the key ingredient in interpersonal trust and healthy interdependence. By obligating ourselves and then holding to our word, we show respect, engagement and honor to others and ourselves.

The damage done by breaking oaths is also relational.

When we don’t keep a promise to someone, we give the message that we don’t value him or her as much as something else. Others learn that they cannot count on us. Relationships marked by broken promises break down. Furthermore, when we think it is OK to let someone down, to say something we don’t mean, or to fail to follow through on something we said we would do, we lose faith in our own word – and its power for good.

But the fact of making and keeping promises can form and inform our self-image and our self-esteem.

In fact, developmentally and psychologically, a child’s learned ability to understand and carry out obligation over time and context – or to fail to do so – marks a transition to adulthood and forms a part of our personality and even our identity into old age. So do we become so concerned about the risk of incurring guilt by breaking vows that we allow ourselves to become flighty and unreliable, assuming few and abiding by no obligations? Do we want to be shallow individuals, the ones who, like eternal children, consider the promise as good as the deed, never growing from the heartfelt but improbable vows of the child not to misbehave again, but remaining mired as adults in formulaic niceties like, “I’ll call you”? Do we infantilize women by imaging them uncommitted until their male keepers second their commitment?

Mattot offers valuable pointers toward a healthy balance between the privilege and the risk of making vows.

Let us learn to respect God by assuming and holding to commitments made to our fellow humans, made in God’s image. Men and women both, let us aspire to be the trustworthy ones, known as having the strength of character to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to others and thus, in the spirit of B’tselem Elohim, to God. But let us also treat each other and ourselves with care and compassion, recognizing that we must create transparent and constructive ways to release each other from potentially destructive or unfulfillable vows. Rather than undermining the word of the Torah, we thus make it more humane and more responsive, and are supported in holding to its ways.

Judith Huober is director of Syracuse Jewish Family Service at Menorah Park and founding director of IMPARA: The Institute at Menorah Park for Applied Research on Aging. A former JO editor and executive editor of The Reporter Group, Huober has more than 30 years of experience in Jewish and secular for-profit and not-for-profit management and strategic development, communications, community organizing, education and technology/health care.

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VILNA/VILNIUS – TWO RABBIS AND A REBBETZIN On Thursday, August 15, at 7:45 pm, Andrew N. Koss will talk at STOCS on “Two Rabbis and a Rebbetzin.”

The talk will shed light on Jewish life in the city of Vilna (Vilnius) during World War I by focusing on the lives of Rabbi Hayim Ozer Grodzienski, Rabbi Isaac Rubinstein and Ester Rubinstein. The humanitarian crisis from the war, along with political and social changes, disrupted religious life. These changes led to a divergence between what people now know as modern Orthodoxy and ultra-Orthodoxy. Koss is an associate editor at Mosaic. He graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School, Yale University and Stanford University. He did a post-doctorate at Colgate University. This summer, he will be in Vilnius to do research and participate in an international conference.

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events, especially those with dignitaries.

The meeting was held in anticipation of two major conferences to be held in Chile at the end of the year: APEC (International Conference of Heads of Major Economies in Asia Pacific) and COP25 (U.N. climate conference).

“The cooperation with the ambulance service in Santiago is very important for the residents,” said Bin, “and we are grateful for the opportunity to help them save lives.”

First-responder training by Israel’s Magen David Adom, part of a pilot project to train municipal security personnel in emergencies in cooperation with the Emergency Medical Services SAMU R.M. in Santiago, Chile, in July. (Photo by MDA)

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Israeli national baseball team takes first step in qualifying for 2020 Olympics

BY JNS STAFF (JNS) – Israel’s national baseball team took its first step toward qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo over the July 7 weekend, winning the Confederation of European Baseball’s European Championships Pool in a perfect 6-0 sweep.

Team Israel, which overcame the Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Irish and Russian teams to take first place in its group, will now advance later in July to a three-game playoff series against the winner of the second Pool B group, Lithuania. The winner of that series will move up to Pool A, and the top five teams from that group will advance to Olympics qualifiers in Parma, Italy, at the end of September.

Though many of Israel’s players were recruited from outside the country, seven began their baseball careers in Israel and five are native-born Israelis.

“This team represents the best of Israel baseball, with players who have vast experience both on the professional stage as well as in colleges,” Peter Kurz, Israel Association of Baseball president and general manager of Team Israel, told The Jerusalem Post from the site of the win in Bulgaria. “With Team Israel’s great sixth-place finish in the 2018 World Baseball Classic tournament after beating some of the top teams in the world still fresh in their minds, their motivation is at an all-time high to represent Israel on this international stage and to go all the way to Tokyo in 2020.”

Former Israel Air Force pilot Danny Grossman, who

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Jewish Congress, the denial by the Austrian political class, the outbreak of anti-semitism and patriotism, and ultimately the election of Waldheim.

The 2018 Austrian documentary is narrated by the director, Beckermann. It is 94 minutes long and has English subtitles. In 2019, “The Waldheim Waltz” was Austria’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. It won the Glashütte Original Documentary Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018, the Jury Prize at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in 2019, and was named one of the best films of 2018 by film critics Richard Brody (of The New Yorker) and J. Hoberman.

This free program is open to the community and is subsidized by the Abraham and Anita Altman Adult Education Fund. For more information about this program and other TAY events, contact the synagogue at info@ adath.org, 315-445-0002, or www.adath.org.

To cool off on a hot summer day, children and staff at the TAY Camp Rothschild enjoyed a visit from the Skippy Ice Cream truck.

Nearly 200 Temple Adath Yeshurun members came to a pizza party to welcome Rabbi Yehoshua Zehavi, his wife, Ashira, and their children, Nadiv and Boaz. L-r: Sandra Roth, Shirley Small and Hannah Groskin were among the TAY members who attended.

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has taken part in fund-raising as well as assisting foreign-recruited players integrate into Israel, told the Post that New York Yankees President Randy Levine and Los Angeles Dodgers President Stan Kasten have donated suites for their use as they prepare for Olympic qualifiers, and have reached out to fellow MLB owners and executives to take part in Israel’s national baseball team in 2018. (Photo courtesy of Israel Baseball supporting Israel’s team. Association)

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Iran says it plans to restart activities at nuclear facility

Iran will start its activities at the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi told lawmakers on July 28. Heavy water can be used to create a nuclear bomb.

The announcement came as diplomats from Iran and other signees of the 2015 nuclear deal – Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and the European Union – met in Vienna on July 29 to save the agreement, which the United States withdrew from in May 2018, reimposing sanctions lifted under it, as well as enacting new financial penalties against the regime. “The atmosphere was constructive, and the discussions were good,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi told reporters following the meeting. He added that while all the issues haven’t been resolved, the remaining parties are “determined to save this deal.” Earlier in July, Iran exceeded the uranium enrichment limit under the deal.

The regime has also increased global tensions after seizing two U.K.-owned oil tankers in July in the Strait of Hormuz after shooting down a U.S. drone in June.

Report: Jews most targeted for hate crimes in Canada for third consecutive year

For the third consecutive year, Jews are the most targeted minority group when it comes to hate crimes in Canada, despite a 4 percent decrease from the year before. There were 360 recorded antisemitic incidents, according to Statistics Canada, which released its report on July 22. According to B’nai Brith Canada, 2,041 antisemitic incidents in Canada were reported in 2018. Canadian police responded to 1,798

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hate crimes in 2018, and 2,073 the previous year. “We are encouraged to see an overall decline in hate crimes, [but] this data confirms the persistence of Jew hatred, which is seeing an alarming global rise,” said Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs CEO Shimon Koffler Fogel.

Beth Din of America starts blog to explain rabbinical court process, decisions

The Beth Din of America, regarded as one of the leading Jewish religious courts in North America, has launched a first-time blog dedicated to explaining the rabbinical court process and related decisions. Jewishprudence will focus on providing information to attorneys and legal professionals regarding Jewish law and jurisprudence.

The blog will feature discussions of Beth Din procedure, along with “substantive issues” of Jewish law as it applies to the modern commercial marketplace. It will also publish some of the decisions rendered by the Beth Din of America (following anonymization and with the consent of the parties). The informational blog aims to meet two objectives. One is to make the process more transparent and accessible. The second goal is to create a sophisticated forum for discussions of Jewish law and business ethics as it applies to the contemporary commercial marketplace.

“Earlier this year, we embarked on a broader program to better explain the Beth Din process to as many audiences as we can and make Jews more comfortable bringing cases to us,” said Beth Din of America Director Rabbi Shlomo Weissmann, who is also an attorney. “While most of the work of the Beth Din of America takes place behind the scenes and confidentially, our goal is that Jewishprudence will shed light on the work of the Beth Din as another step in this process.” To read Jewishprudence, visit www. bethdin.org/jewishprudence.

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Erdogan: Turkey won’t keep silent regarding Israel’s “crimes”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on July 27 that he opposes anyone who supports Israel and its “state terror.” “We do not approve of silence on the state terror that Israel blatantly carries out in Palestine,” said Erdogan according to Iran’s Press TV. Speaking to senior provincial officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (or AKP) in Ankara, Erdogan said that “whoever is on the side of Israel, let everyone know that we are against them.” Erdogan, an Islamist politician who often criticizes Israel, suffered a major blow earlier this year when the opposition won control of Istanbul in a repeat mayoral election after Erdogan’s AKP forced a re-vote. Meanwhile, tensions between Turkey and NATO countries continued as Russia delivered the first shipment of its advanced S-400 missile-defense system to Turkey. The Turkish president said that Turkey would use the system next year. In the wake of Turkey’s acceptance of the S-400, the United States removed Turkey from the F-35 joint strike fighter program, saying that the Russian defense system could be used to glean intelligence about the advanced fighter aircraft. “The F-35 cannot coexist with a Russian intelligence collection platform that will be used to learn about its advanced capabilities,” the White House said in a statement earlier in July. “Turkey has been a longstanding and trusted partner and NATO Ally for over 65 years, but accepting the S-400 undermines the commitments all NATO Allies made to each other to move away from Russian systems,” the statement continued. Russia is seeking to boost ties with Ankara in order to take advantage of the tension with the United States.

Israeli energy minister meets top Egyptian officials in Cairo

(Israel Hayom via JNS) – Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz took part in a forum on natural gas in Cairo on July 25, during which he met with regional counterparts and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Steinitz told El-Sisi that the world needed to appreciate the Egyptian leader’s contribution to stability in country, which he said was vital to the region. Within the framework of the forum, Steinitz also met with Egyptian Energy Minister Tariq al-Mulla to discuss additional initiatives for cooperation once Israel begins to export gas to Egypt later this year. The two also discussed the possibility of laying down additional pipelines for the transfer of natural gas between the countries, cooperation on exporting gas to the Far East, as well as additional steps to promote the regional forum, a joint initiative of Steinitz and al-Mulla. While in Cairo, Steinitz also held bilateral meetings with Greece’s Energy Minister Costis Hatzidakis and Cyprus Energy Minister Georgios Lakkotrypis. Ahead of the forum, al-Mulla and Steinitz took part in a tripartite meeting with U.S. Energy Minister Rick Perry and also toured the Giza pyramids.

Arrow-3 missile-defense system successfully tested in Alaska

Israel and the United States have completed a series of successful tests of the new long-range Arrow-3 ballistic missile-defense system in Alaska, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at the start of the July 28 Cabinet meeting. The tests involved targets similar to the advanced ballistic missiles currently being developed

by Iran. The Arrow-3 successfully intercepted multiple targets above the atmosphere.

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USCJ Rabbi: Andrew Pepperstone Location: 18 Patsy Lane, Jamesville, NY 13078 Phone: 315-446-9570 Rabbi’s office: 315-446-5125 Office hours: Mon. 9 am-4:30 pm, Wed.-Fri. 9 am-4:30 pm Website: www.cbscs.org Shabbat services: Friday: 6 pm – Kabbalat Shabbat service Saturday: 9:30 am Syracuse Conservative daily services located at Temple Adath Yeshurun (450 Kimber Rd., Syracuse): Monday-Friday 7:30 am; Monday-Thursday and Sunday 5:30 pm Saturday evening times vary with sunset. Check TAY website or with TAY office.

Sunday: 9 am at CBS-CS. Members of the congregation are asked to attend on a rotating basis to ensure there is a minyan, or required quorum, for anyone saying Kaddish, the memorial prayer.

Sha’arei Torah Orthodox Congregation of Syracuse

Orthodox Union Rabbi: Evan Shore Address: 4313 East Genesee St., DeWitt, NY 13214 Phone: 315-446-6194 Office hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9 am-noon Website: www.stocsyracuse.org Shabbat services at 9 am. Morning services at 6:45 am, except for Sunday, when services start at 8 am and Rosh Chodesh, when services start at 6:30 am. All afternoon and evening services based on sunset times.

Temple Adath Yeshurun

USCJ Rabbi: Yehoshua Zehavi Rabbi Emeritus: Paul Drazen, z”l Cantor: Esa Jaffe Address: 450 Kimber Rd., Syracuse, NY 13224 Phone: 315-445-0002 Rabbi’s office: 315-445-0002, ext. 121 Office hours: 9 am-4 pm Website: www.adath.org Shabbat services: Friday: 5:30 pm – Kabbalat Shabbat service Saturday: 9:15 am Syracuse Conservative daily services located at Temple Adath Yeshurun (450 Kimber Rd., Syracuse): Monday-Friday, 7:30 am; Monday-Thursday and Sunday 5:30 pm Saturday evening times vary with sunset. Check TAY website or with TAY office.

Sunday: 9 am at Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas (18 Patsy Lane)

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URJ Rabbi: Daniel Fellman Cantor: Kari Siegel Eglash Address: 910 Madison St., Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: 315-475-9952 Rabbi’s office: 315-475-9952, ext. 310 Office hours: Mon.-Weds. 9 am-5 pm; Thursday closed; Fri 9 am3:30 pm Website: www.templeconcord.org Shabbat services: Friday: 6 pm Saturday: Text study at 9 am led by Jim Brulé. Torah study at 10 am led by Rabbi Daniel Fellman. Services at 11 am.

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