Jewish Observer issue of October 16, 2014

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Free showing of “Stories from the Syracuse Jewish Community”

The Judaic Heritage Center of Central New York will present a free screening of the new film, “Stories from the Syracuse Jewish Community” on Sunday, November 2, at 2 pm, in the Anne and Hy Miller Family Auditorium at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse.

The free showing will be open to the public and will include light refreshments.

Produced by former Syracusan Jay Lurie, the movie has received positive reviews from an audience at a preview showing. Due to the efforts of another former Syracusan, Robin Meltzer, the Library of Congress accepted copies of the DVD. The film was funded by a Community Fund Grant from the Jewish Federation of Central New York.

The movie features a cross section of approximately three dozen members of the Syracuse Jewish community. They provided recollections of an area of Syracuse often referred to as “The Ward.” Much of the information includes the original institutions, businesses and people of this area of the city. It is a follow-up to the B.G. Rudolph book, “From a Minyan to

a Community,” which was written in the 1960s and published in 1970.

“Stories from the Syracuse Jewish Community” DVDs will be on sale at the event. The DVD includes illustrations from the Rudolph book, as well as from the recently published book, “A Place That Lives Only in Memory,” by William Marcus.

IFCJ project to bring olim from FSU, countries in crisis

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has established a project to bring more new immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union and other countries in crisis.

The project will be led by former director general of Aliyah and Absorption at the Jewish Agency, Eli Cohen, the Fellowship announced on October 6. Cohen has been named the Fellowship’s vice president for immigration and absorption.

“The Fellowship has made a strategic

decision to enhance its work both in assisting aliyah to Israel and in the absorption of new immigrants through cooperation with the government and organizations active in the field,” the organization said in a statement.

Throughout the past year, the organization has assisted Jews from Ukraine, including combat zones in eastern Ukraine, to make aliyah in conjunction with the Jewish Agency; paid for flights for thousands of new immigrants; and funded half

of the project to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, it said.

In previous years, the Fellowship has contributed more than $150 million for immigration and absorption in Israel through partner organizations such as The Jewish Agency. Fellowship founder and President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein previously served as the chair of the Aliyah Committee and a member of the executive board of the Jewish Agency.

“I have dedicated most of my profession-

al life to bringing Jews to Israel, strengthening Jewish identity and the connection between Israel and Jewish communities,” Cohen said in the statement. “There is significant potential for aliyah to Israel at the moment and many Jews understand that Israel is their national home and the place where they can maintain their heritage and fulfill their sense of Jewish identity.”

Cohen said he would “work in cooperation with all the organizations that are operating in this field.”

Haifa’s Rambam hospital treats, protects, innovates in the face of danger

By Alina Dain Sharon JNS.org Not unexpectedly, southern Israel suffered more than other areas of the Jewish state during this summer’s conflict with Hamas. Yet up in northern Israel, 30 doctors from the Haifa-based Rambam Health Care Campus were drafted into the Israel Defense Forces.

“Israel is a small country, so everything affects you whether you are in the conflict or not,” Prof. Rafael (Rafi) Beyar, a cardiologist and director general of RHCC, told JNS.org.

Now, in the aftermath of the 50-day summer war, RHCC is proving that medicine has “no borders,” in Beyar’s words. Doctors at the hospital recently conducted a successful kidney transplant on a 14-year-old boy from Gaza.

The largest hospital in northern Israel, RHCC serves more than two million residents of the area and functions as the primary medical facility for the Northern Command of the IDF. In addition to treating Gazan patients and training Palestinian physicians, the hospital is receiving wounded Syrian refugees.

Many of RHCC’s Gazan patients are children facing cancer and kidney diseases. “These kids don’t have any other solutions,” Beyar said.

While suffering from kidney failure,

the Gaza boy also had a blood condition that obstructed some of his blood vessels.

Doctors needed to first check for useable blood vessels and only then could they transplant his sister’s kidney into his body.

When it became clear that the boy’s functioning blood vessels could not sustain the new kidney, doctors implanted a synthetic connector that saved his life.

On the Syrian front, RHCC has received nearly 100 wounded refugees over the past few months. IDF soldiers provide emergency treatment for injured refugees at the Israel-Syria border in the Golan Heights and then bring them to the hospital.

Most of the Syrian patients have sustained injuries from shock, bombs and other blasts. When they are treated and recover, most return to Syria, but sometimes they don’t want to go back, said Beyar.

Like the patients from Syria, most of the Gazan patients are thankful for the treatment they receive from RHCC. Although Beyar doesn’t know what happens to the patients once they return to Gaza, he said, “Someone who is treated and whose life is saved knows how to appreciate that.” Bayern added that he believes Israeli medical treatment of Gazans “has a long-term impact” on how Palestinian civilians view Israel.

RHCC’s staff and management were

tested heavily during the 2006 Lebanon War, when hundreds of rockets rained down on the hospital. Following that war, a planned parking lot was built as a dual-

purpose facility capable of converting into a fortified 2,000-bed underground hospital for times of conflict.

See “Rambam” on page 7

The fortified underground hospital at the Rambam Health Care Campus. (Photo courtesy of Rambam Health Care Campus)

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Cantors to perform

Congregational notes

Ebola relief efforts

Local cantors and musicians will Talks include the Israel-Hamas The American Jewish Committee perform Daniel Asia’s “Breath in a war and copyright on the Dead Sea is partnering with IsraAID to aid Scrolls; film screenings; more.

Ram’s Horn” on November 3.

Ebola victims in West Africa.

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letters to the editor SU football: what actually happened – the Kol Nidre game To the Syracuse Jewish community: There have been some rumors and misinformation around the Syracuse community regarding the Syracuse University Orange football game that kicked off at the same time as Kol Nidre services this past week. While I was not present, I have been told by members of the community that it was the topic of at least one Rosh Hashanah sermon. I wanted to take this opportunity to provide you, the Syracuse Jewish community, with the full story.

For as long as Syracuse University’s Hendricks Chapel has hosted High Holy Day services organized by Hillel at Syracuse University, there have been scheduling conflicts with athletics and academics.

While it is true that Syracuse used to give a day off for the High Holy Days that prevented some issues, there were still double

bookings in the past. If it wasn’t athletic events, it was something else. For instance, two years ago, on the second morning of Rosh Hashanah, on a weekday, the marching band was scheduled to play for NBC’s “Today Show” on the steps of Hendricks Chapel during services. Oops!

Last year, Syracuse had an afternoon football game that was slated to start at the very conclusion of morning services forYom Kippur. Technically, only pre-game festivities overlapped with our services. Weeks before the event, at an emergency meeting, Athletics made many concessions for the benefit of our worship. Most importantly, they agreed to meet with me and our Hillel campus rabbi, Rabbi Dan Fellman, after the game, to debrief and make plans to prevent further scheduling conflicts.

A few months later, at a follow-up

Thank you, Rabbi Rapoport To the Editor: Tradition offers numerous explanations for the shofar sounds that we hear on Rosh Hashanah. We are told that the shofar was sounded at the creation of the world. When we hear the shofar, it reminds us that we are connected to all humanity.

The sound of the shofar was heard when the Torah was given to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai and the Jewish people were united by their covenantal relationship with God. When we hear the shofar, we are reminded that we are connected to every Jew alive today and to every Jew who has lived since the event at Sinai. Recalling the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai reminds us of the values of the Torah that have sustained Jews through the ages.

Some see the shofar notes as prayer forming a bridge, connecting us to God in the heavens above. God is always there if we reach out to Him. The sounds of the shofar also remind us that we always have the possibility of changing ourselves for the better.

The rabbis teach us as well that the

shofar will be sounded at the end of history when the ultimate redemption comes to the world. Thus, the shofar notes connect us to the hope that, whatever difficulties we are now experiencing, the future will bring healing and redemption.

Patients in the hospital often feel disconnected from the world, from the Jewish people, from God, from the strength within themselves and from hope. Hearing the sound of the shofar helps repair these broken connections. Patients at Crouse and Upstate University hospitals are grateful that Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Central New York, arranged for a rabbinical student, Mendel Fishman, and for a medical resident at Upstate, Dr. David Lubin, to blow the shofar for them on Rosh Hashanah. I was delighted to facilitate these visits.

Yasher koach!

Rabbi Irvin S. Beigel Rabbi Irvin S. Beigel is the Jewish chaplain at Crouse Hospital and associate chaplain at Upstate University Hospital.

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Sisterhood Symposium date corrected The date for the symposium, “Squeezed and Squashed: Challenges of Honoring

Our Aging Parents,” with Sharon A. Brangman, M.D., and Rabbi Andrew Pepperstone will be held on Wednesday, October 29, at 6:30 pm, at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse, not as indicated in the October 2 issue of the Jewish Observer.

The JO regrets the error and any confusion it caused. For more information, or to make a reservation, contact the Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas office at 446-9570 or office@CBSCS.org.

meeting, representatives from Hillel, Athletics, Student Affairs and Hendricks Chapel talked about the importance of communication, the spiritual community and about understanding the landscape of the university’s brand-new relationship with the Atlantic Coast Conference. The meeting resulted in Athletics agreeing not to schedule non-conference home games on Jewish holidays – an agreement that had never existed previously, as far as I am aware. Athletics also promised to submit a memo to the ACC, formally requesting that Jewish holidays be considered when scheduling ACC in-conference games, a matter which is handled by ACC officials.

Months later, we were all – Athletics and Hillel both – shocked to find the Louisville game scheduled on Kol Nidre. The ACC had disregarded the memo that Athletics had presented. Inquiries were made about moving the game, but contracts with ESPN and other entities made this impossible.

Louisville, I was told by multiple parties, was uninterested in entertaining a switch to another date, as well.

Knowing that rescheduling the game was

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not possible, we reconvened our group and discussed our options. I submitted a list of needs, as Hillel refused to move from Hendricks Chapel.All parties involved supported Hillel staying on campus.Athletics complied with every accommodation requested to the highest degree of compliance: Pre-game festivities were moved away from Hendricks.

The band was moved away from Hendricks.

There was no amplified sound for the live radio broadcast/DJ. Walking routes were adjusted to divert foot traffic away from Hendricks.

Signs were posted asking for respectful consideration of services.

Checkpoints were created to only allow worshipers into specific areas near Hendricks.

The quad was closed for all activities.

Extra security was hired and stationed strategically around the area.

An e-mail, which was co-written by Hillel and Athletics, was sent to fans in advance of the game to make them aware of logistical See “Football” on page 3

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AROUND CENTRAL NEW YORK SAMED, SU and Le Moyne partner to screen film

The French film “Le fils de l’autre,” which was shown in the U.S. with the title “The Other Son,” will be shown at two free screenings in October. The screening on Tuesday, October 28, at 6:45 pm, in 032 Eggers Hall in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, will be sponsored by the Maxwell School’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, and co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at SU, the Jewish Federation of Central New York and the Middle Eastern Studies Program at SU. The other screening will be on Wednesday, October 29, at 6:45 pm, in 100 Science Center Addition at LeMoyne College.

The film, co-written and directed by Lorraine Levy, focus on two young men, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who were accidentally switched at birth in an Israeli hospital.

The film explores the impact on relationships within and

outside of their Israeli and Arab families, as the men are faced with knowing their parents are not their biological parents; their religion is not what it would have been; and their position within the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been reversed.

Event co-sponsors for both screenings include Moynihan at Maxwell, InterFaith Works, Syracuse Area Middle East Dialogue Group, LIME (an SU student Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue Group) and PARCC. After the October 28 screening, there will be an optional 30-minute discussion led by LIME. Miriam Elman is organizing the event at Syracuse University. An associate professor in the Department of Political Science, Elman is one of the faculty research directors of international and intra-state conflicts at PARCC. “The idea to screen this film for the Syracuse community originated among

the members of SAMED,” said Elman. “One of the core principles of SAMED is that sustained people-to-people contacts can empower moderates, break down barriers, generate profound changes in views of the ‘other’and foster the mutual understanding and empathy that are the sine qua non for realizing a just and lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace. This film explores those possibilities.”

The film won the Best Director and Tokyo Grand Prix Awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2012.

For the SU screening on October 28, parking is available for an hourly fee at the public parking garage on the corner of Waverly and South Crouse avenues. Those with disability tags should contact Deborah Toole at 4432367 or datoole@syr.edu. For information on parking at LeMoyne College on October 29, contact Eileen Ayers at 445-4573 or ayersem@lemoyne.edu.

Daniel Asia’s “Breath in a Ram’s Horn”

By Andrew Petro Daniel Asia’s musical composition, “Breath in a Ram’s Horn,” will be presented at Temple Concord on Monday, November 3, at 7 pm, as part of its Goldenberg Cultural Series, in collaboration with the Judaic Studies Program at Syracuse University. Local cantors and musicians will perform a mixture of contemporary classical music and Jewish thought.

The audience-interactive program will offer Asia’s award-winning music as well as wisdom from Jewish tradition. Cantors Kari Siegel-Eglash, Robert Lieberman and Paula Pepperstone, as well as Baalat Tefilah Esa Jaffe, will take the stage to perform the piece. The program will teach about a life “well-lived through music, spirituality, art and Torah.”

In addition, Syracuse University music professor Ken Meyer will perform another of Asia’s compositions on guitar.

Other sponsors for “Breath in a Ram’s Horn” are the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse,

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changes and to ask them to be respectful of services.

I personally witnessed Public Safety respectfully enforcing these accommodations.

Working at Hillel for more than seven years, I can say, without hesitation, that Hillel has never had a quieter, more respectful and safer place to worship.

Athletics, specifically, was not guilty of scheduling a game on Yom Kippur. No one in that department wanted this to happen. They were equally disappointed about the conflict and did everything they could to accommodate Hillel and the Jewish community. Sadly, the memo Athletics submitted to the ACC was never given the consideration that Athletics believed it should. Too many factors now operate outside of Syracuse’s sphere of influence. Syracuse does not have the political capital with the ACC that it had with the Big East – a conference that also had a pre-existing understanding of the Jewish demographics of the Northeast.

Athletics, believing in its own gravitas, made a promise that it could not keep. On Yom Kippur, and specifically during the Kol Nidre prayer, ironically, we are forgiven and absolved for this very sin. I have personally chosen to forgive Athletics.

Many in the community seemed upset that the game could draw from their congregations’ attendance. Hillel did not see a decline in attendance this year at Kol Nidre services when compared to other years that Yom Kippur has fallen on a weekend. While this may not be the case

Jewish Federation of Central New York, Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas, Temple Adath Yeshurun and Temple Concord. Now in its 13th year, the Regina F. Goldenberg Cultural Series is made possible by donations to the Regina F. Goldenberg Cultural Fund at Temple Concord.

The program is considered appropriate for listeners of all ages. Admission will be free and open to the public, but donations are welcome. For more information, contact Temple Concord at 475-9952 or office@ templeconcord.org.

Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center senior dining menu October 20-24 Monday – honey mustard chicken Tuesday – beef brisket Wednesday – salmon Thursday – spaghetti and meatballs Friday – roast beef au jus October 27-31 Monday – barbecue beef sandwich Tuesday – chicken a la king over noodles Continued from page 2 for the congregations of the area, our students choose to participate at Hillel despite the many distractions and temptations on campus every week.

While this situation turned out as best as we could possibly have hoped, I will do everything in my power to prevent it from happening again in three years, the next time that the holiday lands on a weekend. I will continue to work with Athletics and will personally petition the ACC for their cooperation. I will encourage Athletics and the university to make a deeper commitment to Hillel and the Jewish community by standing firm with the ACC. In the meantime, however, I extend my thanks to Athletics and the security team for their accommodations and hard work to ensure that the football game would not interfere with worship at Kol Nidre this year.

If you have any other questions or concerns about the incident, please feel free to contact me at brsmall@ suhillel.org.

Thank you and l’shanah tovah, Brian Small Brian Small is the executive director of Hillel at Syracuse University.

Wednesday – manicotti Thursday – Italian roasted chicken Friday – lemon-baked fish The Bobbi Epstein Lewis JCC Senior Adult Dining Program, catered by Tiffany’s Catering Company at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center, offers Va’ad Ha’ir-supervised kosher lunches served Monday-Friday at noon. Reservations are required by noon on the previous business day and 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 and United Way of Central New York. To attend, one need not be Jewish or a member of the JCC. For more information or to make a reservation, contact Leesa Paul at 445-2360, ext. 104, or lpaul@jccsyr.org.

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congregational notes Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas Miriam Elman to discuss “After the Israel-Hamas War”

By Wendy Kates Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas will present Miriam Elman on Sunday, October 19, at 7 pm. She will present the program “After the Israel – Hamas War: Is a Peace Based on ‘Two States for Two People’ Still Possible?” She will give a brief lecture, after which participants will break into groups and discuss possible scenarios for peace that might follow the IsraelHamas war.

Elman is an associate professor of

political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She is a noted expert, author and sought-after speaker on the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Elman said, “This is obviously an important time to be discussing the prospects for peace along the lines of a two-state formula. There are many who argue it is no longer a possible formula for peace, while others are not ready to give it up and think it can still happen. In the aftermath of the IsraelHamas war, this will be a centrally debated issue in Israel and within the

American Jewish community.”

For more information, contact the CBS-CS office at 446-9570 or office@ cbscs.org.

Men’s Club The Men’s Club of Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas has scheduled a brunch on Sunday, October 19, at 10:30 am, following the dismantling of the congregation’s sukkah, one of the club’s annual responsibilities.

Men’s Club members will take down and store the sukkah before starting its “hobby schmooze.” The meeting will offer an opportunity for participants to

get to know one another around their hobbies and interests. Each person has been asked to bring something that represents one of his hobbies and speak with another Men’s Club member who shares that hobby, or learn about a new one.

Among the hobbies shared will be fly fishing and fly tying, coin collecting, motorbikes, radio control models, baseball cards and more. Bagels and lox will be served.

For more information, contact Tony Kenneson-Adams, CBS-CS Men’s Club president, at aka@twcny.rr.com.

Temple Adath Yeshurun Adult Jewish Learning with Rabbi Charles Sherman Rabbi Charles Sherman will offer an adult Jewish learning course, “The Genius of the Jewish Joke,” on Sundays, October 12, November 2, November 23 and December 7, from 10:30 am-11:30 am, at Temple Adath Yeshurun, in the Muriel and Avron Spector Library.

From to Albert Einstein and Jewish mothers-in-law, Jewish characters and communities have been the subject of many jokes and riddles. Sherman will question what jokes about Jews reveal about Jewish identity and self-worth, and what is distinctive about Jewish humor, such as its “unique spirit”; its association with Jewish character, culture and identity; and its relationship to Jewish survival.

The series will be free and open to the community. For more information, visit www.adath.org or call 445-0002.

Annual Anbar Family Lecture Temple Adath Yeshurun will host the annualAnbar Family Lecture on Sunday, October 26, at 7 pm. Thomas Hurka, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, and

Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman, distinguished professor of philosophical studies since 2002, will speak about “The Best Things in Life.” Hurka researches and teaches moral and political philosophy, especially normative Professor Thomas ethical theory.

Hurka The presentation will ask about the aspects of people’s lives that are good “in and of themselves, or if by themselves, they make life worth living.”

Contrary to philosophers who have argued that there is just one “ultimate good,” often pleasure or knowledge, Hurka’s presentation explores the idea that there are many good aspects of people’s lives, including pleasure, knowledge, achievement, virtue and love. Hurka will also discuss what each good involves and what makes it valuable. He recently released a trade book, “The Best Things in Life,” which

discusses the many things that can make life desirable.

The annual Anbar Family Lecture Series is intended to expose the Jewish and non-Jewish communities of Syracuse, including the academic community of Syracuse University, to the “unique features” of the more than 3,000-year-old tradition of Jewish ethics.

The lecture will be free and open to the public and will be followed by a dessert reception. For more information, contact the TAY office at 445-0002 or visit www. adath.org.

David Nimmer to speak at Temple Adath Yeshurun

By Sonali Eaton David Nimmer, an expert on copyright law, will speak on Thursday, October 30, at 7:30 pm, on “Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Origins and Originality,” in relation to his article published in the Houston Law Review.

Nimmer was part of the legal team defending Hershel Shanks in the case Qimron vs. Shanks, which was heard before the Israeli Supreme Court, and in which

the application of copyright law was applied to a translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Nimmer, a commentator on copyright, brought to bear his scholarly knowledge and insider status to reveal the answers to questions about David Nimmer how “Rabbi Computer” helped a Christian scholar living in Jerusalem crack the code; how a constrained case unfolded on two continents involving laws from all around the world; and what is protectable about a 2,000-yearold scroll. Regarding the case, Nimmer said, “Qimron’s suit constitutes an attempt to use copyright law not to promote the progress of science, but as an engine of suppression.” In a controversial opinion, the court ruled against Shanks.

Nimmer is of counsel to Irell and Manella LLP in Los Angeles, where he See “TAY” on page 5

Temple Concord Cinemagogue series to feature “No Place on Earth”

By Andrew Petro Temple Concord will screen the film, “No Place on Earth,” which has been called a “harrowing story of survival,” on Tuesday, October 21, at 7 pm, as part of its Cinemagogue Series. A Holocaust documentary, it was directed by Janet Tobias and produced by Rafael (Rafi) Marmor, son of Beverly Spirt and Bruce Marmor, of Fayetteville.

The movie is about Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in Ukraine, who led her family underground to hide from the Nazis. The family was forced to live in almost total darkness in caves for nearly a year and a half.

The Cinemagogue film series offers a variety of films with Jewish themes, Israeli filmmakers and Jewish-American stars.

The program will be appropriate for all ages. Admission will be free and open to the public. Donations will be welcome. For more information, contact the TC office at 475-9952 or office@ templeconcord.org.

“America’s Got Talent” that started at Temple Concord

By Andrew Petro Syracuse native Jonah Smith recently appeared on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” Smith’s upbringing at Temple Concord is said to have had “a great influence” on his musical career.

Smith is the 39-year-old son of Malcolm and Sandy Smith, who have been Tmple Concord members for decades.

Sandy is currently on the board. Jonah said it was his presence at Temple Concord, with his synagogue family around him, that shaped the person he is today.

He spent much of his youth at the synagogue learning Jewish history, culture and religion. He also attended the temple’s religious school and became a bar mitzvah there. He said, “My earliest experiences with live music and public singing were during Sunday school when Rabbi Lawrence Schlesinger would play Jewish songs on the acoustic guitar.” It was his religious school instructor, Youchi Holstein, who heard him sing and encouraged him further.

Jonah’s first album was recorded in 2000 and featured a mix of soul, jazz and country. By 2003, he decided to replace much of the jazz with rock. He was eventually signed to Relix Records, a nationally recognized label, and in 2006 his debut album, “Jonah Smith,” was released.

Smith’s voice, described as “soulful,” brought him to “America’s Got Talent.”

He said, “Overall, it was a great experience for me and I gained a lot of new fans in the process.” His only complaint was that he was discouraged from singing his original music. In the end, he said he gained a lot from the experience and learned a great deal about what goes into

the production of every episode, saying, “The show is not just about talent; it is also about demographics, ratings, sponsorship, celebrity and spectacle.”

Now that “America’s Got Talent” is over, he will continue to play his own songs and he hopes to thrive in the pop music world.

TC religious school enrollment increases

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Former Temple Concord member Jonah Smith, son of Malcolm and Sandy Smith, of Jamesville, recently appeared on “America’s Got Talent.” His band members include (l-r) Ben Rubin on bass, Gintas Janusonis on drums, Jonah on keyboards and vocals, and Jacob Deaton on guitar. He has also released an album.

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Temple Concord provides a learning experience that focuses on Judaism through music, art and traditional Hebrew studies, “building the foundation for a strong connection to the synagogue and Jewish heritage.”

TC Rabbi Daniel Fellman said, “We are actively engaged in building strong Jewish identities while also helping our children gain the tools necessary to live full Jewish lives. Increased enrollment is a wonderful challenge, and we are thrilled to welcome so many new students.”

The curriculum offers the opportunity for each grade to lead a Shabbat service during the year and an annual sixth grade retreat in December. The classes are taught

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SRO Director Shirley Reidenbaugh is a professional actress and director, and came up with the idea to start SRO several years ago while living in Greensboro, NC. SRO is co-sponsored by the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center and Salt City Playhouse.

For more information about auditioning to be the SRO pianist or to join the group, contact Reidenbaugh at 392-6374.

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Cantor/Educator Kari Siegel Eglash, the school’s new director, said, “We are so proud to be providing our young people the tools to go forward in their lives with a strong Jewish foundation. Our dedicated and creative faculty love to teach and therefore learning is both engaging and fun!”

The school meets on Sundays from 9:30 am-noon for kindergarten-seventh grade. It features a mid-week Hebrew School for third-seventh grade on Wednesdays from 4:30-6 pm. A copy of the school handbook is available at http://templeconcord.org. For more information, contact Eglash at cantoreglash@ templeconcord.org.

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The program is sponsored by the TAY adult education chavurah. A dessert reception will follow. The program will be free and open to the community. For more information, contact the synagogue by e-mail at info@adath.org, visit www. adath.org, or call 445-0002.

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Rosh Hashanah dinner for seniors celebrated at the JCC

By William Wallak The Monday senior kosher dinners at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse concluded for the summer on September 22 with a Rosh Hashanah dinner celebration. Shaarei Torah Orthodox Congregation of Syracuse Rabbi Evan Shore began the dinner and welcomed the new year by blowing a shofar, and gave a brief overview of the holiday and its traditions. Sixty people attended the dinner, which was followed

by music from the Little Jazz Trio, accompanied by vocalist Scott Dennis.

“Our Rosh Hashanah dinner went very well and Rabbi Shore did a wonderful job with welcoming guests again this year,” said Leesa Paul, JCC director of senior programming. “It was a great way to wind down another successful summer of Monday dinners for many seniors in the community who have come to enjoy each others’ company and camaraderie, as well as decrease their isolation and have

Shaarei Torah Orthodox Congregation of Syracuse Rabbi Evan Shore addressed diners while holding up a slice of challah at the September 22 Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse Rosh Hashanah dinner. To the right of Rabbi Shore was Leesa Paul, director of senior programming. Seated, facing camera (l-r): Alice Honig and Lois Weiner.

a nutritious meal that they may not have had otherwise.”

Six Syracuse University student volunteers helped serve the Rosh Hashanah dinner and Monday evening meals throughout the summer. The SU volunteers will continue helping throughout fall by serving during the senior lunch program on Fridays.

Until the JCC’s senior dinners return in spring, the JCC’s senior lunch program will continue weekdays at noon. The lunch program, which is open to seniors age 60 and older, is funded in part by a grant from the Onondaga County Department of Aging and Youth and the New York State Office for Aging. For more information or to make a reservation for the JCC’s senior lunch program, contact Paul at 445-2040, ext. 104, or lpaul@jccsyr.org.

Al Heyman and Lee Chalek attended the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse’s Rosh Hashanah senior dinner.

Sixty people attended the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse’s Rosh Hashanah senior dinner on September 22.

LeBron circus, ex-coach’s NBA debut make Maccabi Tel Aviv a sideshow vs. Cavs

By Hillel Kuttler TELAVIV (JTA) – The carnival’s coming to Cleveland, and the Maccabi Tel Aviv

LeBron James, shown at the Cleveland Cavaliers’ media day in suburban Cleveland on September 26, made his return to his hometown team with a preseason game against Maccabi Tel Aviv on October 5. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)

basketball team has a front-row seat.

In fact, the 2014 Euroleague and Israel Super Basketball League champions participated. On October 5, Tel Aviv presented the inaugural challenge for NBA superstar LeBron James as he returned to his hometown Cavaliers as a free agent after spending four seasons with the Miami Heat. And the Israeli club faced the coach who led them to both titles – David Blatt was hired in June to guide the rebuilt Cavs.

Guy Goodes, the Tel Aviv assistant who ascended to head coach when Blatt moved to the National Basketball Association, knows what to expect when he brings his guys to face the King before a packed house and hordes of media.

“It’s a show, a circus,” Goodes said at Nokia Arena on the team’s annual media day prior to a four-game, 17-day trip to Brazil and the United States.

Such an atmosphere “is not what a coach wants” in preparing his team for a season, Goodes acknowledged, adding that “it’s not

Gaza battles were flown the optimal preparation.” in for both games. In But Goodes wasn’t Brooklyn, the Nets wore grousing. Maccabi’s two uniforms with their names exhibition games against spelled in Hebrew.

NBA clubs – Tel Aviv The game marked a also played the Nets in New York homecoming Brooklyn on October 7 for Maccabi forward after meeting the Cavs Sylven Landesberg, a – and Blatt’s hiring [will] native of nearby Queens. bring “honor to Israel,” On a recent visit there, he said.

Landesberg said he was Blatt, who led Tel Aviv mobbed by Israelis at for four seasons, told JTA a shopping mall who from Cleveland, “The fact noticed him wearing a that my first game as an NBA head coach, ironi- After coaching Maccabi TelAviv team shirt. Landesberg’s cally, is against the team to a European Championship, relatives saw him play in that I was so much a part of David Blatt was hired in June Brooklyn. The parents of is almost overwhelming.” to guide the rebuilt Cleveland Jake Cohen, a Tel Aviv The new Cleveland Cavaliers. (Photo by Moshe forward from suburban Philadelphia, attended coach should have plenty Shai/FLASH90) both games. to feel good about with the Cohen got a taste of the NBA while revamped Cavs, who have failed to make the playoffs since James made the exodus playing in Las Vegas for the Phoenix Suns’ Summer League team before returning to Miami in 2010.

Not only did they bring back the four- to Israel to join the national team. One time Most Valuable Player, but also reeled practice in nearby Rishon LeZion was in all-star forward Kevin Love from Min- halted by three air-raid sirens, he said. His nesota in a trade. And they re-signed their mother prevailed upon him to call her each young point guard Kyrie Irving, the NBA day of the war – Cohen said he complied with the request. “I don’t like making All-Star Game’s MVP last season.

Blatt recognizes that James’return to the my mom nervous,” he said. Both parents Cavaliers “is much more important” than saw Cohen play in Tel Aviv last season. his own NBA debut. “I would be happy to Neither had ever been to Israel.

Cohen said that Blatt’s jumping from be his warm-up act in this game because I Israel straight to the NBA is “not a fluke.” think he deserves that,” Blatt joked.

Former NBA guard Jeremy Pargo, a one- Still, Cohen said, “We want to beat him.”

Landesberg said of his ex-coach, “I know time Cavalier now playing for Tel Aviv, was looking forward to his much less heralded he’s not going to take it easy on us – not one return to Cleveland. “Any time you can play bit. I want to test myself against the best.”

While not NBA caliber, Tel Aviv and an NBA game or against an NBA team, it’s several other Israeli clubs are indicative always exciting,” he said.

The games in Cleveland and Brooklyn of the improved quality of play in the also bring a serious dimension, as fund- Jewish state. Since 2009, Omri Casspi and raisers for organizations benefitting Israeli Gal Mekel became the first two Israelis soldiers and children from Israel’s South to reach the NBA. Now Blatt, a Boston affected by the rocket attacks from Gaza native who immigrated to Israel in 1981, that prompted Operation Protective Edge and who lives near here with his wife and children, also is a pioneer. this summer.

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JCC boosts emergency preparedness with lockdown training

By William Wallak The Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center of Syracuse took additional measures to ensure the safety and security of all building occupants by conducting a lockdown drill on September 30. The training involved everyone in the building at the time – employees, members, tenants, visitors and children – and was assisted by the DeWitt police and fire departments.

The drill offered participants practice in staying out of harm’s way in the event of a threat while inside the JCC. In a lockdown situation, such as danger from violence or gunfire, staff members are able to take immediate action to keep themselves and others nearby safe by

limiting a perpetrator’s ability to enter occupied areas and do harm.

DeWitt Police Investigator Randy Andrews said, “A lockdown is appropriate for situations inside of any building where there is an imminent threat of violence or harm. We immediately think of an active shooter as a reason to go into a lockdown, but a lockdown should be called in any situation where an incident is occurring that could threaten the safety and wellbeing of others.”

According to Andrews, it is “critical” to identify and communicate a lockdown situation to others as quickly as possible.

Once a lockdown is initiated, people only have a few seconds to decide whether to

“run, hide or fight.” The JCC’s lockdown training focuses on the “hide” action. In this scenario, employees quickly move themselves and anyone nearby to a hiding place away from the threat.

Jo David, the JCC’s Early Childhood Program director and the center’s comprehensive emergency management plan coordinator, said, “Everyone did a great job during the lockdown drill and the training overall has been received very well by staff. Having the support and guidance from local authorities allowed us to create this important training program to help keep everyone here at the Center safe.”

Along with Andrews, David worked with Randy Griffin of the DeWitt Fire

Department to develop the lockdown training and implement the JCC’s comprehensive emergency management plan.

Earlier in September, all of the JCC’s staff and tenants underwent an initial lockdown training session and drill.

JCC Executive Director Marci Erlebacher said, “I’m really impressed by the level of participation in the training among our staff. We have always been committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for everyone here at the JCC, and the lockdown training is a great compliment to all of our ongoing security efforts.”

For more information about the JCC of Syracuse, call 445-2360 or visit www. jccsyr.org.

Jewish group joins IsraAID’s Ebola relief effort in West Africa

(JNS.org) – The American Jewish Committee has announced that it is partnering with IsraAID, a leading Israeli humanitarian relief organization, to provide assistance to Ebola victims in West Africa.

“The Ebola epidemic in Africa is devastating,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. “Medical experts from our Israeli partner, IsraAID, are on the ground

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Initially funded with a donation from Israeli philanthropist Sammy Ofer, and afterward funded by the Israeli government, the underground hospital opened in June and is currently the world’s largest structure of its kind. The parking garage “has the full capacity to convert to a hospital,” Beyar said.

“That means it has all the facilities that a hospital needs, in terms of air conditioning, lights, oxygen, all the medical gadgets...

All the infrastructure is already in the walls. That means all the oxygen pipes and connections to the emergency machines...

So you can roll down the patients, the respirators, the monitors… [and] just install them immediately,” he said.

To protect against chemical warfare, the parking garage can be sealed from the outside by special doors, and filters then clean the air in the area.

Several IDF soldiers have been killed by errant mortar fire from the Syrian civil war, and with its fortified underground hospital, RHCC is prepared in case the war spills further into Israel. “We are ready for any such event,” Beyar said.

After a drill conducted by RHCC, Beyar estimates that a full evacuation of the hospital to the underground area could take up to 72 hours. But with some preparation, “it only takes one hour” to move about four departments of 30 patients each underground, he said.

Concern over the looming threat of the Syrian conflict has not stopped RHCC from

bringing urgent, vital humanitarian relief to Ebola victims through health education and awareness training, as well as psychosocial support training.”

IsraAID sent a team to Sierra Leone in late September to help fight the spread of Ebola. The humanitarian organization is providing psycho-social support training to local social workers and health care officials, teaching tactics to help

Continued from page 1 pursuing medical innovations beyond the fortified underground structure. The hospital often collaborates with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, which is also located in Haifa, and with private companies. Beyar himself is known for inventing a robotic catheterization system that enables physicians to conduct remote surgery.

“You can sit next to the robot and operate the catheterization system, which will actually open up blockages in the [heart’s] arteries and implant stents,” Beyar said.

The other advantage of the system is that this keeps doctors away from radiation. “[A doctor] doesn’t need to stand by the X-ray machine and sits in the console,” explained Beyar. The catheterization system has been approved by America’s Food and Drug Administration and “is penetrating U.S. market,” he added.

Another recent development tested and utilized at RHCC is a focused ultrasound for the brain. Using technology developed by a company called InSightec, doctors “can actually treat your brain with a focused ultrasound beam and treat Parkinson’s [disease],” according to Beyar, who said that to date more than 10 patients have undergone this ultrasound at Rambam “with amazing results. The patients come out of this procedure, which takes two-three hours, and they stop trembling,” he said. “There are no more tremors in their hands... [The treatment] holds and [the shaking] doesn’t come back.”

prevent trauma, manage stress and deal with the emotional side effects of the health crisis.

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European prize pulls candidacy of Egyptian who called for murder of Israelis

(JNS.org) – The European United Left/Nordic Green Left coalition stripped Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah’s nomination for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, established by the European Parliament in 1988 in honor of former Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, after learning of his violent anti-Israel rants on Twitter.

“It emerges that one of the bloggers we proposed, Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was a victim of repression in

Egypt and jailed several times, called for the murder ‘of a critical number of Israelis’ in a tweet in 2012. We did not avail of this information when we put forward his candidacy,” GUE/NGL Group President Gabi Zimmer said in a statement.

Fattah, who was released from jail in Egypt in September, was one of the leading activists of the 2011 protests that led to the downfall of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He has been known for his anti-Israel

incitement, previously tweeting, “Dear Zionists, please don’t ever talk to me. I’m a violent person who advocated the killing of all Zionists including civilians.”

“We cannot and will not tolerate such behavior,” Zimmer said. “This call goes against all our principles as well as the criteria for nomination for the Sakharov Prize. Our group has always favored debate and political confrontation between peoples, including the Israeli people.”

ISIS-inspired lone wolves seen as posing “significant” threat to Jews

By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – Jewish institutions, which have faced attacks in recent years by lone wolves – extremists who draw their inspiration from the likeminded, but act on their own – now must be wary of returnees from the Iraq-Syria arena who are trained and indoctrinated by the jihadist group ISIS, top security consultants told JTA. ISIS has “not only stated intentions to form a caliphate, but named U.S. and Jewish people as targets specifically,” said John Cohen, who until earlier this year was an undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. “There’s a significant threat to Jewish communities.”

The threat became evident with revelations that Mehdi Nemmouche, the suspect in the May 24 shooting attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels that killed four people, had allegedly been active with ISIS in Syria.

It’s not yet clear if Nemmouche was acting on orders and, if so, whether the orders came from ISIS. Cohen, now a professor at Rutgers University’s Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security, said that when Nemmouche was arrested during a customs inspection of a bus in France, firearms were found wrapped in an ISIS flag. Also, a journalist held captive by ISIS has identified Nemmouche as one of his captors.

Paul Goldenberg, director of the Secure Community Network, which works with national and local Jewish community groups on security issues, said the Brussels attack raised red flags for Jews throughout the world.

“Their first mark outside of the theater” of combat “was a Jewish institution, and it wasn’t even an Israeli institution,” Goldenberg said. “They didn’t attack an embassy, a consulate or NATO headquarters. These are people who are not only inspired but are well trained, potentially equipped and potentially coming back to the Americas.

Those are the ones who have us concerned.”

SCN is an arm of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Federations of North America.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has estimated that more than 100 Americans have fought or are fighting with ISIS, which is also known as Islamic State or ISIL. Cohen and Goldenberg said that many American Jewish institutions have been trained and equipped for lone wolf attacks and are positioned to fend off strikes organized from abroad.

Most recently, in the April shooting attack on a Jewish Community Center in suburban Kansas City, lockdown procedures are believed to have kept the assailant out of the building, limiting fatalities to two people outside.

“In many respects the Jewish community, because of the work that we’ve done over the years, the Jewish community is well prepared to deal with that threat,” said Cohen, who consulted often with the Jewish community during his time at Homeland Security. He noted improvements in equipment, in many cases paid for by a Homeland Security funding program, and increased awareness of suspicious activity and cooperation with local law enforcement.

The Secure Community Network and the institute where Cohen now lectures are planning a conference at Rutgers for Jewish communities here and overseas.

Goldenberg said SCN also was establishing a campus security task force with Hillel.

Cohen said that in the wake of the Brussels attack, Homeland Security enhanced its already close relationship with the U.S. Jewish community. “We worked to share our information with members of the Jewish community and to provide guidance to members of the community so that they are better prepared,” he said.

President Barack Obama in a recent speech outlining his strategies to destroy ISIS said there was a possible – but not imminent – threat to the homeland.

“If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States,” Obama said. “While we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland, ISIL leaders have

A policewoman and police car were seen at the entrance of the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, KS, following the fatal shootings there on April 13.

(Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) threatened America and our allies.

“Our intelligence community believes that thousands of foreigners, including Europeans and some Americans, have joined them in Syria and Iraq. Trained and battle hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks.”

Skeptics have said the threat is overstated. Daniel Benjamin, the top State Department official in Obama’s first term, exploded with sarcasm in comment to The

New York Times on the day that Obama delivered his speech. Benjamin, now the director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, accused top U.S. officials of “describing the threat in lurid terms that are not justified.

“It’s hard to imagine a better indication of the ability of elected officials and TV talking heads to spin the public into a panic with claims that the nation is honeycombed with sleeper cells, that operatives are streaming across the border into Texas or that the group will soon be spraying Ebola virus on mass transit systems – all on the basis of no corroborated information,” he told the newspaper.

Cohen agreed that there was no immediate intelligence presaging an attack, but suggested it was beside the point. “We know we have an organization that has exhibited a certain level of brutality, a certain level of sophistication in regard to activities and an interest in recruiting Americans,” he said. “We know they have acquired significant amounts of funding, that they have directly stated that the U.S. is one of the enemies they seek to combat and that they have employed rather sophisticated techniques to recruit Westerners.”

Westerners, Cohen said, are useful to ISIS most of all as potential sleepers. “They don’t need Westerners to establish a caliphate,” he said.

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg letters available online

A new website on convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg provides access to a collection of more than 500 letters between the couple while they were imprisoned. The website was launched the week of Oct. 8 by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Center at Boston University.

Maintaining their innocence until the end, the Rosenbergs were executed on conspiracy charges for passing along secret information to the Soviet Union. The controversial Cold War-era trial of the Jewish couple, and their execution in 1953, sparked worldwide protests and continues to capture the attention of students and scholars of law, history and politics as well as artists, musicians, filmmakers and the general public. The extensive collection of letters, acquired from the Rosenbergs’ sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol, includes more than three dozen letters between the Rosenbergs and their lawyer, Emanuel Bloch, that have never been available to researchers or the public, as well as more contemporary publications from the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case. Additional material includes pamphlets, newspaper clippings, sheet music of songs about the Rosenbergs and the Rosenbergs’ wills. The letters between the couple are high resolution digitized images. In the last letter Ethel wrote to her children, on June 19, 1953, she says she is innocent and goes to her death unafraid because she knows she is doing it for a greater cause. “Eventually, too, you must come to believe that life is worth the living,” Ethel wrote.

Lancet editor in editorial regrets, but does not retract, Gaza letter

The editor of The Lancet wrote in the British medical journal that he regrets the polarization caused by the publication of an open letter accusing Israel of a “massacre” in Gaza, but did not retract it. “At a moment of unbearable human destruction in Gaza, the unintended outcome of the Manduca et al letter was an extreme polarization of already divided positions,” Dr. Richard Horton wrote in an editorial in the latest issue of The Lancet following a visit to Israel and Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa. “This schism helped no-one and I certainly regret that result. I have seen for myself that what was written in the Manduca et al letter does not describe the full reality.” Horton said that the journal has proposed new guidelines to deal with “submissions that lie at the difficult intersection of medicine and politics.”

Under the guidelines, “editors should always pause, reflect, and consult before publishing any manuscript that might unnecessarily polarize, or foster or worsen political division.”

He also announced that the journal would publish a series on Israel’s health and medical research system. NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute that monitors nongovernmental organizations, in a statement called Horton’s editorial “another step toward ending the exploitation of this journal for demonizing Israel,” but said it did not go far enough since it failed to retract or apologize for the publication of the open letter. The group called on Horton to issue a formal retraction and apology and to remove the letter from The Lancet’s website. The open letter to the people of Gaza was published during this summer’s conflict in the coastal strip between Israel and Hamas. Several dozen physicians from the West signed the letter, which also accused Israel of “cruel” and “vicious war crimes.” Physicians, researchers and Israeli officials decried the letter. NGO Monitor unearthed evidence tying two of the letters’ authors to support for David Duke, who circulated a video supporting the white supremacist. Following the publication of the letter, Horton was invited to visit Israel to see Jewish-Arab medical cooperation first-hand. “At Rambam I saw an inspiring model of partnership between Jews and Arabs in a part of Israel where 40 percent of the population is Arab,” he wrote in Lancet. “I saw Rambam offering an open hand, gladly grasped by families from Gaza, the West Bank and Syria, who were living with life-threatening health-care needs. I saw Rambam as one example of a vision for a peaceful and productive future between peoples, which I learned exists throughout Israel’s hospitals.”

Facebook purchases WhatsApp

Facebook completed its purchase of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for nearly $22 billion in cash and stock. The transaction was completed on Oct. 6, with Facebook paying about $2 billion more than when the deal was announced in February due to a rise in its share price. Facebook named WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, to its board. Koum, 38, and his mother left Kiev for the United States when he was 16 to escape the “troubling political and antisemitic environment,” according to Forbes. “I’ve also known Jan for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who also is Jewish, wrote on his Facebook page when the deal was first announced. WhatsApp, a free mobile messaging service similar to texting, has more than 450 million users, with an additional million joining every day, according to reports.

Users pay a $1 yearly fee to use the WhatsApp app; the first year is free. Facebook said when the purchase was announced that WhatsApp will continue to operate independently after the purchase. The merger was approved by U.S. antitrust authorities in April and by the European Union on Oct. 3.

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Sweden partially backtracks on Palestinian statehood recognition (JNS.org) – Days after new Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s controversial declaration that his country would recognize a Palestinian state, Swedish Ambassador to Israel Carl Magnus Nesser said in a statement that there had been a misunderstanding and that such recognition would only follow extensive peace talks, rather than unilateral Palestinian actions.

In his inaugural address on October 3, Lofven had

said Sweden was set to recognize “Palestine” as a state, becoming the first European Union member to do so. He said that “the conflict between Israel and Palestine can only be solved with a two-state solution, negotiated in accordance with international law.” Lofven later clarified that he was referring to future, rather than immediate, recognition of a Palestinian state.

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Slovakia, Czech Republic and Romania have already recognized Palestinian statehood, they did so before becoming EU members.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Lofven “rushed to make declarations” regarding Palestinian statehood, likely before he took the time to “understand that the side that has been the obstacle for the past 20 years to reaching an agreement has been the Palestinians.”

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To see a full calendar of community events, visit the Federation's community calendar online at www.jewishfederationcny.org. Please notify jstander@jewishfederationcny.org of any calendar changes.

Friday, October 17 Simchat Torah Sunday, October 19 Temple Concord blood drive from 9 am-2 pm Monday, October 20 NCJW Hannah Solomon luncheon at noon at Justin’s Grill Syracuse Hebrew Day School Board of Directors meeting at 7:30 pm Tuesday, October 21 Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center Executive Committee meeting at 6 pm, followed by Board of Directors meeting at 7 pm TC Cinemagogue - “No Place on Earth” at 7 pm Wednesday, October 22 Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas Board of Trustees meeting at 7:15 pm Thursday, October 23 Temple Adath Yeshurun board meeting at 7 pm Sunday, October 26 Teen Funders meeting from 3:30-5 pm at The JCC TAY annual Anbar lecture at 7 pm Monday, October 27 Federation major gifts event at 6 pm TC Executive Committee meeting at 7 pm Tuesday, October 28 Screening of “The Other Son” at SU Maxwell School Eggers Hall room 032 at 6:45 pm Wednesday, October 29 Deadline for the November 13 issue of the Jewish Observer Sisterhood Symposium at the Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center at 6:30 pm Screening of “The Other Son” at LeMoyne College Coyne Science Center Addition room 100 at 6:45 pm Thursday, October 30 TAY presents lecture on Dead Sea Scrolls at 7 pm Sunday, November 2 STOCS rummage sale 9 am to 5 pm SAJE (Syracuse Area Jewish Educators) faculty day from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm Judaic Heritage Center presents film “Stories from the Syracuse Jewish Community” at Sam Pomeranz Jewish Community Center at 2 pm Monday, November 3 Breath in a Ram’s Horn concert at Temple Concord at 7 pm STOCS rummage sale 9 am to 2 pm

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Reflections on the light that guides us

By Yoni Anbar Editor’s note: This piece is based on the speech Yoni Anbar prepared for his bar mitzvah in September 2013.

The portion Bereshit (“In the Beginning”) introduces us to how the universe was created and how mankind started out on the route that has led us to where we are today. However, we could not have done this without God’s help. God guided us and gave us the wisdom to know the right and the wrong ways to go.

I believe that in the beginning, when God created light, it not only separated night from day, but the light also served as our guide. By following the light, we are able to stay on the path to God’s intended destiny for us.

Darkness also points us toward our destiny by helping to guide us back to the light. For example, if you were in a room that was pitch black, you would search for a light. And, if in the center of the room a single light flicked on, naturally you’d go toward it because it would give you the ability to see.

Some people create their own light and think that it leads them to a good destiny. But this is not God’s light and it misguides them. For instance, some kids use drugs because their friends dare them to do so, and they want to accept the challenge in order to prove themselves.

They think that by winning the challenge they will gain power. This is a false light they choose to follow, and they may end up with a miserable life.

People and society seem to be destroying what God created in the beginning because they think they know better. For example, people are destroying irreplaceable habitats in order to build cities and fight wars. In so doing, they are leaving God’s light and going to a dark place where God is not found.

According to the Prophet Isaiah, who wrote the haftarah that accompanies the portion of Bereshit, the Jews are the light that is supposed to lead other nations to follow God. Indeed, we have led by having strong moral beliefs and having other religions branch out from us. In modern times, we have led in the fields of science, politics and entertainment.

At the same time, perhaps we have not done a good job of leading, because many people and even countries seem to be against us. I think this is because Jews have had many successes, which makes other people jealous.

For example, right now, I think Israel is being condemned by many nations for its battles in Gaza because its success has led it to become powerful.

Maybe God is making people turn against us in order that we suffer, and this will help us turn back to Him. God wants us to follow Him because He loves us, and wants to guide us. Our suffering is just like the darkness that helps turn us back toward the light.

Another important part of Bereshit is the story of the

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Report: French Jewish girl joined ISIS

A Jewish girl was among the some 100 girls and young women who have left France in recent weeks to join ISIS in Syria, according to a French security official. The French security official, who spoke anonymously to the Daily Mail, did not provide any other details on the Jewish girl, such as her age and how she made her way to Syria. The girls’ decision to join ISIS and their actual departure came after months of recruitment, mostly online, targeting adolescents, the British newspaper reported. They are serving as wives, babysitters and housekeepers for jihadists. Between 20 and 50 young girls have also come to Syria to join ISIS from Britain, according to the newspaper.

Rome’s mayor: Priebke tribute “vulgar”

The mayor of Rome condemned a public commemoration in the city for the late Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke.

Ignazio Marino called the Oct. 11 event downtown a “vulgar provocation” that “wounds the entire civic community and represents a real slap in the face to the city of Rome, which played a fundamental role in the Italian Resistance.”

Renzo Gattegna, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, thanked the mayor and called on all civic authorities to be vigilant against any similar episodes. At the commemoration, which was organized by Priebke’s lawyer to mark the first anniversary of Priebke’s death at the age of 100, an improvised Mass was celebrated at a makeshift altar made of flowers and placards set up against a lamppost on the Sant’Angelo Bridge. Posters reading “Ciao Captain” – Priebke was a Nazi SS captain – were plastered on some walls in Rome. Priebke died on Oct. 11, 2013, while serving a life sentence under house arrest for his role in the 1944 massacre of 335 Romans, about 75 of them Jews, in the Ardeatine Caves south of Rome.

Tree of Knowledge and of Good and Evil. God told Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. After Adam told Eve about the Tree, the snake convinced her to eat from it. Then, Eve convinced Adam to eat from it, and this is when mankind gained knowledge. After that, God kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden. I think that the knowledge was put into the Tree so that we would know where and how to find God and His light after He kicked us out of the Garden.

From Bereshit we can learn that God’s light helps guide us. Darkness tells us we need to seek the light, and knowledge is our compass toward the light. I believe God wants us to follow Him and His path because He loves us and wants to help us.

Yoni Anbar is an eighth grade student at JamesvilleDeWitt Middle School.

obituaries Lois Abrahams

Lois Abrahams, 83, died on September 30 at home in Pompano Beach, FL. Born in Syracuse, she was a 1948 graduate of Central High School and attended Syracuse University. She worked at the Onondaga County Board of Elections and demonstrated toys during the holiday season at Shoppers’ Fair in DeWitt. She was commissioner for the Town of DeWitt Parks and Recreation Department.

She loved swimming, taking cruises and dancing with her lifelong spouse and dance partner, Jack. She was a member of Temple Adath Yeshurun, its Sisterhood, LaFayette Country Club and Cavalry Club.

She was pre-deceased by her husband, Jack, and her parents, Maurice H. and Rose K. Schwartzberg.

She is survived by her son, Warren, of Marietta, GA; one grandson, Marc, of Louisville, KY; and her twin sister, Doris Jackler, of Boca Raton, FL. Burial was in N. Lauderdale, FL. Sisskind Funeral Service had local arrangements.

Contributions in her memory may be made to Temple Adath Yeshurun, 450 Kimber Rd., Syracuse, NY 13224. 

Michael Anbar

Michael Anbar, 87, died on October 2 at home in Fountain Hills, AZ, after a long illness. He was a former Fayetteville, NY, resident.

Born in the Free City of Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, he took part in Israel’s war for independence in Jerusalem and then in the fledgling Israeli air force. He earned a master’s degree and doctorate in physical chemistry from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He began as a junior research chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and advanced to associate professor.

He consulted with the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, where he played a role in developing Israel’s nuclear program, as well as the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

After serving in a number of positions at the Stanford Research Institute and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, he came to the University at Buffalo in 1977 as a professor and chair of the Department of Biophysical Sciences.

He served as department chair until 1990 and was a professor for 25 years, retiring in 2002. He was professor emeritus of physiology and biophysics at the University at Buffalo. While in Buffalo, he was active in Temple Beth El and later Temple Sinai.

In the 1980s, he served as executive director of the Health Care Instruments and Device Institute at UB, and then as associate dean for applied research in the School of Medicine. He also taught in UB’s Department of Dental Materials and Department of Ophthalmology and Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s Department of Biophysics.

His interests included biblical studies, Jewish history, world affairs, classical music and opera. He collected art, mostly wood sculptures, from around the world.

He published a book of essays, “Israel and Its Future: Analysis and Suggestions,” in 2004.

He endowed the Anbar Foundation that supports annual lectures in biophysics at the University at Buffalo and in Jewish ethics at Syracuse University and Temple Adath Yeshurun.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Ada Anbar; his sons, Ran D. Anbar, of Fayetteville, NY, and Ariel D. Anbar, of Tempe, AZ; and six grandchildren.

Burial was in Mount Sinai Cemetery in Phoenix, AZ. Arrangements were by Mount Sinai in Scottsdale, AZ. Contributions may be made to the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University, http://jewishstudies. clas.asu.edu/support. 

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Sandy Gordon, 72, died on October 1 at Crouse Hospital.

Born in 1942 in Syracuse, she graduated from Nottingham High School and Penn State University. She was a career counselor for regional learning service in Syracuse. She enjoyed golf and tennis, and was a fiercely competitive bridge player.

She was predeceased by her former husbands, Arnold Gordon in 1995 and Sandy Abrahams in 2008. She is survived by her children, Jeremy (Libby) Gordon, of Virginia, and Randy (Karen) Gordon, of New Hampshire; four grandchildren; and her sister-in-law, Ellie (Cyril) Freeman, of Fayetteville.

Burial was in Frumah Packard Cemetery. Sisskind Funeral Service had arrangements.

Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 6725 Lyons St., East Syracuse, NY 13057. 

Mark Lipton

Mark Lipton, 51, died on October 1 of natural causes in Syracuse. He was an independent contractor in his own business, M.I.L construction. He had lived most of his life in Syracuse until moving to Atlanta in the early 1990s. He returned home to Syracuse three-and-a-half years ago.

He is survived by his parents, Sidney and Donna Lipton; his sons, Jesse I. (Rebecca) Allen, and Joshua I. Lipton; his granddaughter; his brother, Michael; and his sister, Joanna.

Burial was in the Beth Sholom section of Oakwood Cemetery. Sisskind Funeral Service had arrangements.

Contributions may be made to Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas, P.O. Box 271, DeWitt, NY 132140271; or the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312. 

Laurie Rachel Nash

Laurie Rachel Nash, 53, of Fairfax Station, VA, died on September 28 in Falls Church, VA. Born in Syracuse, where she was a member of Temple Adath Yeshurun, she graduated from Jamesville-DeWitt High School in 1979. She received her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in 1983 and her master’s of social work from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985. She was a social worker, team leader and supervisor for the Center for Alexandria’s Children, in Alexandria, VA. She was recognized by the CAC as the Outstanding Advocate for Alexandria’s Children in 2010.

She is survived by her husband of 27 years, Robert; her daughters, Rebecca (fiancé, Michael Burbrink), Ariel and Eliana; her parents, Gerald and Lois Meyer, of Fayetteville; her brothers, Jeff (Audrey) Meyer, of Fayetteville, and David (Sandy) Meyer; her in-laws, David and Ellen Nash, of Fayetteville; and her brotherin-law, Stephen (Marla) Nash, of Manlius.

Burial was in Adath Yeshurun Cemetery. Sisskind Funeral Service had arrangements.

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Lenore Shapiro

Lenore Shapiro,78, died on September 30 at Crouse Hospital.

Born in New York City to Samuel and Roslyn Mosner, she graduated from Queens College. She received a master’s degree from Albany Teachers College and then a master’s degree in library science from Queens College. She met her husband in New York City. They lived in Oswego until moving to Syracuse in 1982.

She was a graduate of the National Auto Dealers Association Academy, and served as the vice president of Port City Ford-Mercury of Oswego. She was a college librarian at SUNY Oswego, and an active part of her community. She was a competitive tennis player.

She is survived by her husband of 45 years, Sidney; their children, Peter (Beth), Michael (Sharon), Todd (Michele) and Joanna; and seven grandchildren.

Burial was in the Congregation Adath Israel section of Riverside Cemetery in Oswego. Sisskind Funeral Service had arrangements. 

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Roslyn (Stolusky) Wilkins

Roslyn (Stolusky) Wilkins, 93, of Syracuse, died on September 27 at Menorah Park.

A lifelong resident of Syracuse, she was the youngest child of the late Israel and Rachel (Goldstein) Stolusky.

She was employed as a bookkeeper by State Storm Window and Glass prior to working in the family business, Meltzer’s Sandwich Shop. Upon retiring from the restaurant, she worked as a bookkeeper and office manager for Dr. Richard Fuller, O.D., for 13 years. She was a member of the Temple Adath Yeshurun Sisterhood and loved cooking, singing, family gatherings and crossword puzzles.

She was predeceased by her husband of 60 years, Warren Wilkins, in 2009; her son, Jay, in 2014; four brothers and three sisters.

She is survived by her son, Mark (Lauri); her granddaughter, Riley Sara Wilkins; and many nieces and nephews.

Burial was in Frumah Packard Cemetery. Birnbaum Funeral Service had arrangements.

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“I think it says a great deal,” Blatt said when asked what the trio’s ascension indicates about Israeli basketball. “Worldwide, the game has become more open and less border-oriented. You see it from a lot of different countries: the migration of players and other talents to and from one country to another and one continent to another,” he said. “And I just think that this has been a natural progression that we have sort of become included in.”

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Penn State students sentenced for vandalizing Jewish frat

Two Penn State students who pleaded guilty to spraypainting antisemitic graffiti on a mostly Jewish fraternity house were sentenced to community service and probation. Eric Hyland, 20, was sentenced the week of Oct. 10 in Centre County Court to 200 hours of community service and two years probation, and ordered to pay $6,000 restitution. In September, Hayden Grom was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and two years probation. Last November, Hyland and Grom spray-painted swastikas and antisemitic words and images on the Beta Sigma Beta fraternity building, on cars parked outside the house and on a dumpster. Their actions were captured on security cameras. The students were charged with ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.

They were kicked out of their own fraternity, Acacia, which reportedly condemned their actions.

Historic Buffalo synagogue demolished despite demonstrators

The oldest synagogue in Buffalo, NY, was demolished despite the efforts of two demonstrators who chained themselves to a pillar in the building. The Jefferson Avenue building was demolished on Oct. 11 after the demonstrators, identified as David Torke and Rabbi Drorah Setel, were peacefully removed and detained by police, the Buffalo News reported. Police said the building posed a safety hazard and thus was condemned. Preservationists said it should have been listed as a historical landmark. The building, which was designed in 1903 by A.E. Mink, once was the home of CongregationAhavath Sholem, also known as the Jefferson Avenue Shul. It was sold in 1960 to Saints Home Church of God and later to Greater New Hope Church of God in Christ, which owned it for about 30 years. The building has been empty since 2005. At first, the demolition crew did not realize there were people in the building. Eight other demonstrators remained outside the structure.

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