HAKOL - October 2015

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By Laura Rigge HAKOL Editor How do you bring to justice those who commit acts of genocide?

The Wallenberg Tribute Lecture at Muhlenberg College will look at how the answer to this question has changed over the years when keynote speaker Deborah Lipstadt presents “Adjudicating Genocide: From The Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem to Irving v. Lipstadt in the High Court in London.” The event will take place on Oct. 18 at 3:30 p.m. at the Miller Forum at Moyer Hall at Muhlenberg College.

Lipstadt brings a unique perspective to this topic. In 2000, she was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel. Lipstadt, a history professor from Emory University, won her case by proving in court that the Holocaust occurred. One of the ways she proved Iriving’s arguments were based on lies and distortions was by using the diaries of Adolf Eichmann, one of the masterminds of the genocide of the Jews.

After she won her lawsuit, Lipstadt wrote a book about the Eichmann trial. By

when he was 18 years old.

Eventually, Ettlinger was assigned to the Monuments Men, a unit tasked with locating and recovering the Nazis’ prodigious haul of art and other culturally significant items that had been systematically looted from churches, synagogues, museums and private collections of Holocaust victims. He was served Monuments Man Continues on page 7

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For more information about this event, please contact Christine Bartholomew at bartholo@muhlenberg.edu or call 484-664-3470.

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By Laura Rigge HAKOL Editor Harry Ettlinger has seen a lot in his 89 years.

Ettlinger was born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1926. He and his family personally witnessed the rise of Hitler and the National Socialist Party, before fleeing Germany the day after Ettlinger’s bar mitzvah in 1938.

Just six years later, he was drafted into the U.S. Army

By Laura Rigge HAKOL Editor To Wayne Woodman, BenGurion University cannot be separated from the land where it resides. “The university and the Negev are absolutely intertwined,” he said.

For the past 11 years, Woodman himself has also become intertwined in the catalytic relationship between the desert and BenGurion University, and his dedication to the university has not gone unnoticed. On Nov. 8, Woodman will be honored by the American Associates of Ben-Gurion University’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter at their 2015 Tribute Brunch honoring powerful voices for Israel.

Woodman, a national vice president of AABGU, has spent his professional life in the investment management business. He first became involved with BenGurion University through his wife, Lisa Scheller, who was honored by the AABGU in 2013. In 2004, his father-in-law was being honored by the university, and he and his wife were invited to Israel to film a short piece commending his commitment to BGU. “I had never been to Israel before, and I had never been down to the Negev or paid much attention to that area,” Woodman said.

“When I went on a tour of the university, I was very impressed by the facilities and decided to get involved myself.”

In 2014 Woodman and Scheller established the Woodman-Scheller Graduate Fellowships in Israel

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the time Adolf Eichmann was tried for his crimes in Israel in 1961, many other Nazi war criminals had already been convicted in Nuremberg and elsewhere. What made the Eichmann trial unique was that instead of trying a group, Eichmann was made to account for his personal role in the deaths of millions of Jews throughout Europe. His trial brought the Holocaust to the attention of many people who had never fully understood its significance.

Lipstadt sees an evolution in Holocaust denial away from the hard-core denial of David Irving and toward what she calls softcore denial. “Soft-core is more slippery. It’s ‘Why do we have to hear so much about the Holocaust?’ Soft-core denial is not denying the facts, but either inverting it so the victims become the perpetrators — ‘Why did the Germans hate the Jews? Because they Jews were rich and conniving,’— as if to say they deserved it. It’s justifying it. Soft-core denial is also making a false comparison, and that dilutes what the Holocaust was. It’s a much more slippery kind of manifestation, but it’s very much there,” she told JTA. Lipdstadt is also concerned about the role of the Internet in fostering soft-core denial.

“What the Internet has done is put a lot of unfiltered information out there, and by so doing it makes it harder for people to differentiate what is legitimate information and what is not; what is fact and what is fiction. The Internet is a wonderful thing — it allows us to spread information in a way we never did before. But it puts out a lot of lies and it’s easy access for people,” Lipstadt said.

Lipstadt’s work to put Holocaust denial on trial recently scored a major coup. This fall, production began on a major Hollywood movie dramatizing the trial. The film stars two-time Oscar winner Hillary Swank as Lipstadt and Tom Wilkinson as David Irving. "It's been in the works for a while, but I never quite imagined it would come to be,” Lipstadt said. “I’m delighted it’s coming to fruition.”

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The historian who made history I don’t have many Facebook friends, largely because I don’t spend much time on Facebook, but also because I am really bad at accepting friend requeststs. I have over 250 pending friend requests (so if you are one of those 250, don’t take it personally. I am probably ‘into you’ just not that into Facebook.)

Most of my Facebook friends are typical family, friends, and business associates. While many are very impressive personally and professionally, real “stars” are absent. With the exception of one.

I first met Dr. Deborah Lipstadt in Los Angeles when I was a graduate student in Jewish communal service and Social Work. She spoke to the student body one day. I was captivated by her topic, her New York accent, and her bright red hair. I heard her again a year later when I was interning at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

Subsequently, as a Federation professional, I was instrumental in bringing Dr. Lipstadt several times to my previous communities in St. Louis and Virginia Beach. And not solely to my credit, but due to the collaborative efforts of the Institute for Jewish Christian Understanding at Muhlenberg College, the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University, and our Jewish Federation, Dr. Lipstadt will be speaking in the Lehigh Valley on Sunday October 18, 2015, at 3:30 PM, at Muhlen-

berg College’s Moyer Hall.

Dr. Lipstadt is a professor of Modern Jewish History and the Holocaust. She is an acclaimed lecturer and presenter. She is engaging, thoughtprovoking, and inspiring.

So are many professors, but, when modern Jewish history is written, Dr. Deborah Lipstadt will be noted as a historian who made history.

Her book, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, addresses the question “what did the American public know and when did they know it?” The book helped spark broader discussions about the relationship between press coverage, public knowledge and government policy and is required reading in many journalism circles.

Her book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, addressed the growing efforts of Holocaust denial. By outlining the history of history revisionism, she noted that while ignoring Holocaust deniers as a lunatic fringe, their numbers and influence was increasing.

She adroitly linked Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. The book was the first full length study of Holocaust deniers and forever changed the discussion and tactics of addressing the deniers.

The book also led to a landmark trial. In 1996, Dr. Lipstadt was sued in British courts for libel against David Irving, a prolific Holocaust denier referenced as such in her

book. English libel law puts the burden of proof on the defense, meaning that it was up to Dr. Lipstadt to prove that her claims of Irving’s deliberate misrepresentation of evidence to conform to his ideological viewpoints were substantially true. The Holocaust was on trial and Dr. Lipstadt had to prove it to be fact above the distortions of historical revisionists.

The trial ended in 2000 with history upheld and Holocaust denial sufficiently exposed for the trash that it is.

The trial, chronicled in several books including Lipstadt’s History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, was noted by the London Daily Telegraph as having “done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.”

When members of Congress need to consult on political responses to Holocaust denial, they call Dr. Lipstadt.

When Secretary of State Madeline Albright sought a small group of leaders and scholars to advise her on matters of religious persecution abroad, she called Dr. Lipstadt. When President George W. Bush assembled a small US delegation to represent the White House at the 60th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz, Dr. Lipstadt was included. When the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum needed a historical consultant to help design the section of the Museum

have so many exciting events to attend, from fun outings to learning opportunities. Maybe you’ll meet Harry Ettlinger, the last living Monuments Man, or perhaps you’ll the afternoon at the Allentown Art Museum with PJ Library (I know I will!)

It’s hard to believe I’ve been here at the Federation for six months already; the time has flown as I have met so many of you and heard your stories. I look forward to many more meetings and stories to come!

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remain flattered and honored that she accepted.

Please join me on Sunday October 18, 2015, at 3:30 PM at Muhlenberg College’s Moyer Hall when Dr. Lipstadt delivers the 2015 IJCU Wallenberg Tribute Lecture.

She is, after all, a historian who made history and a pretty cool Facebook friend.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR As the leaves start to change and the weather turns colder, we here in the Lehigh Valley are getting back to school and back to work.

This month, we are featuring stories about the importance of education, from the upcoming lecture by famed Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt to the efforts of community members to give better academic opportunities to the Ethiopian-Israeli community.

This October, the Lehigh Valley has been blessed to

dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust, Dr. Lipstapt was tapped. When in 2011, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Eichmann Trial, the US State Department sought to learn about the impact of the trial, they selected Dr. Lipstadt to provide the address.

All of these alone would be sufficient to set Dr. Lipstadt apart from everyone else in my Facebook friendbook. But added is the distinction of a major motion picture in development about the Lipstadt-Irving trial with Hillary Swank set to portray Dr. Lipstadt.

Somehow Dr. Lipstadt showed up one day on my Facebook page. Wouldn’t it be cool, I thought, to have someone as important as Dr. Lipstadt as a Facebook friend.

I tendered the request, and I

In order to unite, sustain, and enhance the Lehigh Valley Jewish community, and support Jewish communities in Israel and around the world, the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley is dedicated to the following core values:

• Supporting Jews in need wherever they may be.

• Supporting Israel as a Jewish homeland.

• Supporting and encouraging Jewish education in the Lehigh Valley as a means of strengthening Jewish life for individuals and families.

• Supporting programs and services of organizations whose values and mission meet local Jewish needs.

To accomplish this mission the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley is committed to the following operating guidelines: • Raising and distributing funds to support the core values.

• Developing Jewish leaders.

• Building endowments to support implementation of core values.

• Committing to ongoing Jewish community strategic planning.

• Fostering cooperation among organizations and community building.

• Evaluating all decisions with respect to fiscal responsibility.

• Identifying unmet needs and investing in community initiatives to help get them started.

• Coordinating and convening a community response as an issue or need arises.

• Setting priorities for allocation and distribution of funds.

• Acting as a central address for communication about events, programs and services of the Jewish community as a whole.

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PLAY IT AGAIN, GENE: Federation partners with Local doctor performs for a cause

By Laura Rigge HAKOL Editor Editor’s Note: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Maimonides Society, we will be profiling founding members each month.

Dr. Gene Ginsberg has worn a lot of hats over the course of life: husband, father, internist, founding member of the Maimonides Society, and now, concert pianist.

On Sept. 20, Ginsberg was the featured performer in a concert filled with family and friends to benefit the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF). He has played a concert previously in Florida, where he has spent part of the year since retiring.

Parkinson’s disease, which affects nearly one million people in the United States, is a chronic neurological disease.

While there is currently no cure, promising research is being conducted. Since its founding in 1957, PDF has dedicated over $105 million to fund the work of leading scientists throughout the world and over $44 million to support national education and advocacy programs.

Ginsberg was diagnosed with early stage Parkinson’s Disease nine years ago. “I was going to give up the piano because my right hand was really uncoordinated and stiff and painful.

I just couldn’t do it anymore,” Ginsberg said. But after he found the right combination of drugs, Ginsberg was able to slow and mostly stop the progression of his Parkinson’s Disease, allowing him to start playing again.

“I play just as well now if not even better than I did before my diagnosis,” he said. “I have not significantly regressed in nine years. Most people don’t even know I’ve got it.”

During the concert, Ginsberg displayed his technical skills by playing a selection of classical music before segueing into a jazz section complete with guitar and percussion accompaniment.

Although he still considers himself an amateur, Ginsberg has gotten a kick out of playing

to the crowd. “I love to perform for people,” he said. “I’m eating this up.”

Ginsberg hopes the concert will give people a greater understanding of what it’s like to live with Parkinson’s.

“I don’t think I’m really suffering. Sometimes people act like it’s the worst thing in the world. There’s a lot you can do.

There’s a lot of new drugs, lots of research that’s been done.

Things are hopeful. You don’t have to just have to pack up and say it’s over. There’s a lot you can do to keep yourself in the game as long as possible.

I exercise, try to eat right, I’m engaged, and I keep my mind occupied. Nobody can predict the course of this. I’m using this as a window of opportunity to get my life going,” he said.

While Ginsberg claims to have retired, he remains actively involved in the community and the Federation. Now that he lives in Florida part-time, he has been working to try and create a Maimonides Society at his local Federation in Florida. He speaks fondly of his time chairing the Physician Exchange Program that brings Israeli doctors to the Lehigh Valley to learn new techniques and foster connections.

He hopes to bring similar programs to Florida and spread the wealth of knowledge he learned as a member of the Maimonides Society in the Lehigh Valley for the past 30 years.

Ginsberg believes his diagnosis and subsequent treatment has brought him closer to his faith. “I try not to dwell on it, and I just keep doing things. I feel that I’m really lucky in a lot of ways. It’s made me approach this as just another challenge in life. I think it’s made me stronger when it comes to my feelings about Judaism. It’s made me appreciate things more and be more spiritual. I think my religion has helped me to deal with it and will help me in the future,” Ginsberg said.

#GivingTuesday for Annual Campaign

By JFLV Staff We all know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

But have you heard of #GivingTuesday? Since it launched in 2012, this global day of giving has engaged over 10,000 nonprofit organizations worldwide and has helped them raise tens of millions of dollars.

This year, the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley is once again joining with more than 50 other Lehigh Valley nonprofits in this national movement using social media to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.

To this end, the Federation has chosen to end the 60 Day Challenge on #GivingTuesday, which this year falls on Dec. 1. All new gifts and pledge increases to the Federation’s Annual Campaign made by Dec. 1 will be matched dollar for dollar, allowing donors to double their impact.

The Federation is joined in its participation in #GivingTuesday by other area nonprofits like the JCC, the Allentown Art Museum, the

United Way, the Wildlands Conservancy and dozens more. #GivingTuesday was founded by New York’s 92nd Street Y in partnership with the United Nations Foundation. Coinciding with the Thanksgiving holiday and the kickoff of the holiday shopping season, #GivingTuesday inspires people to take collaborative action to improve their local communities, give back in better, smarter ways to the charities and causes they support and help to create a better world.

“Last year, the 60 Day Challenge made a huge impact on the work we were able to do, and we hope that this year, we will continue that success on #GivingTuesday,” said Federation Assistant Executive Director Judy Diamondstein.

Last year, nonprofits found

different ways to make their mark on social media using #GivingTuesday. Northampton County Meals and Wheels told donors just how many meals they were providing with their gifts to put donations into perspective, while ProJect Easton and Bethlehem Area School District Foundation both asked supporters to share their “unselfie selfie” encouraging others to give as well.

Their efforts paid off. #GivingTuesday reported that in 2014 nationwide giving to its partnership organizations saw a 36 percent spike in giving, a number it hopes to improve upon this year.

With your help, we can make this #GivingTuesday a day of generosity and community that reaches across the country and around the world.

Make your pledge by #GivingTuesday and DOUBLE THE IMPACT! All new gifts and pledge increases made by Dec. 1 will be matched dollar for dollar!

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WOMEN’S DIVISION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY

A NEW BEGINNING AT ALMA: An Update from Moran Alem

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Bnai Abraham Synagogue Chabad Lubavitch of Lehigh Valley Children’s Healthcare Congregation Am Haskalah Congregation Beth Avraham Congregation Brith Sholom Congregation Keneseth Israel Congregation Sons of Israel Edwin Davis Photography Eva Grayzel Gross McGinley LLC Attorneys Jennifer Oxfeld Jewish Community Center of Allentown Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley Just Born Marsha Gordon, Pediatric Dentist Muhlenberg Hillel Music Together Richard Morse Sheryl Block Temple Beth El Temple Covenant of Peace Temple Shirat Sholom

Editor’s Note: This year, the Women’s Division committed to sponsor one young woman at the Alma Preparatory School, a premilitary academy that helps young women from the perfirary of Israel prepare for greater success in the IDF. Last month, we introduced you to Moran Alem, the young woman we are sponsoring this year. This month, Moran told us what she has been doing during her first month at Alma.

I can’t believe it has already been a month since the mechina started! I have accomplished and done so much. I have explored Ofakim, met its residents, and learned the “vibe” of the city. I have volunteered, attended lectures, planned and implemented activities. I have spent Shabbat with my peers, and I visited the Gush Katif museum and learned about the not so distant part of Israel’s history. I went on a trek up north, and I was assigned to one of the mechina’s committees.

This past month has been very enjoyable for me. I had no idea which committee I wanted to be a part of, but I was assigned to the Group Dynamics Committee that is responsible for the overall atmosphere in our home.

At first I was disappointed since this was not one of my

top choices, but now I know just how important our role as a committee really is. The girls know who they can turn to with new ideas, issues, or needs.

Last week, we set out on our first trek up north. We were all really scared about not having showers, about roughing it in nature, and other scary things we got ourselves worked up about.

Even though I was scared, this type of excursion was not new to me. I often went on hikes and treks with my high school so I was used to the physical demands. My experience actually allowed me to help some of the other girls who found it hard. It was fun and challenging to build tents, to stay up at night guarding our camp from the wild boars and foxes that came to visit us every now and then, and to do workshops about overcoming fears and hardships.

We laughed together, danced together and really enjoyed ourselves. The theme of the trek was giving. We dealt a lot with the questions of “what is giving?” and “who benefits more, the giver or the receiver?” Each girl had to share a story about a time when she gave or received. It was very inspirational.

The trek ended at the

Alumot Agricultural School, a former training facility for women agriculturalists.

While the school operated from 1911-16, it was a leading institution pioneering educational, agricultural and feminist advancements for women in Israel.

Finalizing our trek in Alumot was very special and emotional. It was the perfect send off before we went home for the Rosh Hashanah break.

It certainly has been a great month! I am confident that the months ahead in the mechina will be even more special. A long and transformative adventure awaits us and I am sure it will change my life.

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‘Homeland’ creator to direct film on Israeli medical Israel’s rescue of Ethiopian Jews student thanks community for support

By Gabe Friedman Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Left, David Mashasha describes how programs funded by ENP helped him succeed.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir greeting Ethiopian immigrants in 1991.

Ethiopian’s journey during Operation Moses, won a Cesar award (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for best screenplay and garnered several other awards in international festivals.

Alexandra Milchan, who was an executive producer on the 2013 hit “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is set to produce alongside Raff.

Raff has been arguably the most successful Israeli crossover filmmaker in recent years, bringing Israeli and Middle Eastern themes and political issues into the Hollywood mainstream.

“Homeland” and its progenitor “Prisoners of War” both involved soldiers who return home after

being held captive by Islamists.

“Dig,” which got poor reviews and was cancelled after one season, followed an American FBI agent on an archaeological mission in Jerusalem. “Tyrant,” which has reached moderate success, follows the son of a fictional tyrannical Arab ruler in a fictional Middle Eastern country. The latter two shows had to be filmed outside of Israel during the summer of 2014 when the conflict between Israel and Hamas flared up.

But if Raff’s new project succeeds, it might be the most quintessential Israeli work he has created so far.

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Below, Richard Master introduces David to the guests in attendance.

Since adapting his Israeli show “Prisoners of War” for U.S. audiences in the form of the Showtime hit “Homeland,” writer and director Gideon Raff has seen his Hollywood career take off.

After creating the series “Tyrant” for FX and “Dig” for USA, the Israeli Raff has now sold a pitch for a film on Israel’s early 1980s rescue of Ethiopian Jews to Fox Searchlight Pictures.

According to Variety, Raff will write, produce and direct “Operation Brothers,” which will be based on Israel’s efforts in the ’80s to airlift Ethiopian Jews who were trapped in refugee camps and discriminated against in Sudan.

Raff’s film will follow the story from its beginnings in 1977, when then-prime minister Menachem Begin ordered the Mossad to devise a plan to save the Ethiopians. It is unclear yet whether the film will depict either of Israel’s two biggest rescue operations: Operation Moses (1984 -1985 ) or Operation Solomon (1991), which combined led to the rescue of over 20,000 Ethiopians.

A French film from 2005 named “Live and Become,” which centered on a young

On Aug. 30, guests were held spellbound by the words of David Mashasha, a fourthyear medical student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem who described his incredible life story and urged attendees to support the work of the Ethiopian National Project (ENP).

The event was hosted by Susan and Richard Master, who have been ardent supporters of ENP. David was joined by Grace Rodnitzky, the director of International Relations at ENP, who travels the country every year informing communities across the United States about the important work the ENP does.

But the true star of the evening was Mashasha.

One of five children, he was born in Israel to immigrant parents who made their way by foot from Ethiopia during Operation Moses in 1984. His parents’ journey was arduous, and the pain of the losses they sustained surface even today. In 2004, Mashasha’s eldest brother, an officer in the Israeli army, was critically injured during a Gaza operation, and his leg was amputated. The tragedy of that injury was nearly insurmountable for their family—but one which prompted Mashasha at the age of 13 to decide to become a combat doctor. The only Ethiopian-Israeli pupil in his entire school, his struggles as an outsider, compounded

with the challenges he faced by learning disabilities, posed innumerable barriers to his success in school that he was determined to overcome.

Mashasha was invited to participate in a special science program at the prestigious Weitzman Institute. An intensive preparotry program enabled Mashasha to improve his grades and demonstrate that he was capable of entering medical school Today he works tirelessly to fulfill his dream of becoming a surgeon so he can help amputees such as his brother.

Mashasha is a recipient of the Ethiopian National Project Yanoff Master EthiopianIsraeli Healthcare Fellowship, which provides critical financial support during his medical school years. He has the comfort of knowing he is not a financial burden to his parents. Through this scholarship and his hard work, Mashasha serves as a role model for so many, especially for young people in the EthiopianIsraeli community who, like Mashasha, have tremendous potential to succeed despite the odds.

The Yanoff Master Ethiopian-Israeli Healthcare Fellowship is made possible by the Harry Yanoff and Jeannette Master Yanoff Charitable Trust, Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley’s Maimonides Society, and Beth Israel federated Jewish Charities of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Partnership2Gether plans year of personal connections

By Aaron Gorodzinsky JFLV Director of Outreach and Commnity Relations This year is all about peopleto-people connections for our Partnership2Gether.

Partnership2Gether, a program of the Jewish Agency for Israel, connects the Jewish community of the Lehigh Valley with residents of the Yoav Regional Council in Israel.

These links are a crucial factor in strengthening our communities and enhancing their prosperity, both in Israel and at home. The partnership is a part of a global network of 45 communities, which are designed to serve as the primary infrastructure for developing a cohesive relationship between the communities of the Jewish people.

The partnership initiates face-to-face encounters with members of the Israeli community of Yoav, and with their way of life, encourages the community members to look into, and deepen, their bond with the Jewish people and Israel and serves as an incubator for developing ideas and initiatives in education, Jewish identity and community.

As the school year gears up, P2G will launch another class of “Under the Same Moon� with Temple Beth El and Congregation Keneseth Israel. For the past two years, over 60 families in the Lehigh Valley and 60

families in Yoav have participated in this program where they have an opportunity to communicate by writing each other letters and learning that despite the distance, our communities share a lot of commonalities. Most of the families have continued to communicate with each other and maintain their relationships.

Partnership2Gether will also introduce a new program for 5th and 6th graders at our religious schools to engage with their peers in Yoav.

Another exciting opportunity will revolve around a teen leadership initiative between our Shalshelet teens and the Yoav teen council. The initiative will allow our teens to develop their leadership skills together and share with each other what they have learned during the year.

The Jewish Day School will continue working with the Sdot Yoav Elementary School in Yoav in their twinning programs. This year, the program will culminate with a delegation of 8th graders from the Jewish Day School visiting Yoav to learn alongside their friends.

Partnership2Gether will join the rest of the partnerships in Israel this coming April to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the program and to showcase the great work our partnership has been able to achieve since its inception.

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Above, Lehigh Valley community members visit Yoav.

Left, Chair of Partnership2Gether in the Lehigh Valley, sees the sights in Yoav in July.

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as an interpreter thanks to his fluency in German.

Now the last living member of this elite unit, Ettlinger will share his story on Oct. 18 at the JCC. The interactive lunch is sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans, the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation and is free and open to the public.

Ettlinger spent much of his time in the unit overseeing the underground operations at the Nazi repository in the Heilbronn-Kochendorf salt mines.

The underground mines had been utilized by the Nazis to protect German museum treasures as well as for the building of jet engine parts by Hungarian Jewish slave laborers from concentration camps.

The Strasbourg windows were the first thing we sent back. “That was on orders from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as a gesture of good faith,” Ettlinger said. The stained glass had been removed from the windows

by French authorities for safe keeping at the onset of the war and later sent to Heilbronn by the Nazis. The windows alone required 73 shipments to be safely returned to their rightful owners. In all, it took 10 months and five shipments, including one to Paris, to empty the mines of some 900 works of art. Most of the treasures later went back to their German institutions.

While many of the Monuments Men were trained art historians, Ettlinger, while brought up to appreciate art, had no plans to go into the field

professionally. “I was just the kid from New Jersey. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t as interested in the paintings as I was in other things over there,” he said.

Following the war, Ettlinger went home to Newark, New Jersey and later to Long Island, New York. There he earned master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and business administration before becoming deputy program director for a company that produced guidance systems for submarine-launched nuclear weapons. Today he lives in Rockaway Park, New York and continues to educate young people about the power of a single person’s actions to positively affect society as a co-

chair of the Wallenberg Society of New Jersey.

In November 2012, Ettlinger accepted an award from the American Jewish Historical Society on behalf of all the Monuments Men. He is proud of the work he and his unit accomplished during the war. “It makes me feel good that I did something of value for the rest of the world,” Ettlinger said.

The Monuments Men recently came into national prominence when they were the subject of a 2014 movie of the same name starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. In the movie, British actor Dimitri Leonidas portrays the character Sam Epstein, who was based on Ettlinger.

Studies, a matching fund created with Roberta and Ernest Scheller, Jr. Every spring, Woodman visits BGU with a guest—this year his son Andrew—for a teaching and learning experience.

“The idea is to formalize the manufacturing of future leaders,” Woodman said. “We created a program that recruited 20 people who were younger leaders in the Jewish community to train them about the university and the Negev. We took people to Israel and other parts of the Negev, and many of them had never been there before” Ben-Gurion University was established with the aim of promoting the development of the Negev desert that comprises more than 60 percent of Israel. The university was later renamed after Israel's founder and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, who believed that the Negev was central to the country’s ability to thrive and survive into the future.

Today, Ben-Gurion University is a center for teaching and research with about 20,000 students. Much of its research focusing on how to make desert conditions more liveable, including water and solar research. “The work the university does under its mandate is to bring BGU’s vision of settlement into the realm of possibility,” Woodman said. “It attracts a different kind of student, ones who have a pioneering spirit already in them.”

Woodman is also proud of the way BGU has created opportunities for young Israelis that don’t exist at other institutions. “Unlike other elite institutions, BG is a school where people who aren’t part of the elites have an opportunity to be trained into occupations where they can be successful,” he said.

Here in the Lehigh Valley, Woodman served two terms as chairman of the Lehigh County Republican Committee. He has forged close relationships with elected officials at the national level and is a powerful voice on behalf of Israel.

He is a former board member of the JCC of Allentown, and currently serves on the board of Keystone Community Hope.

Woodman encouraged others to get involved and offered some advice on how to make the greatest impact. “Find what you’re passionate about, solve a problem and get involved personally,” he said.

For more information about the AABGU 2015 Tribute Brunch, visit aabgu.org/events/2015-tribute-brunch.

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Maimonides Society

Celebrating 30 years

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IN MEMORY EMIL AMOUYAL (Husband of Odette Amouyal) Fred and Barbara Sussman BART AXELROD (Father of Rebecca Axelrod-Cooper) Mark Goldstein and Shari Spark ISADORE “IZZY” BRODY (Husband of Joan Brody) Mark Goldstein and Shari Spark Beth and Wesley Kozinn ELLEN B. GREENBERG (Daughter of Norman and Sandra Wruble) Wendy and Ross Born HARRY KAMESAR (Brother of Diane Kamesar) Marilyn and Elwood Kolb BEA KULLER (Mother of Sue Traub) Robert and Jeff Epstein Donald and Randi Senderowitz JOEL TELLES (Husband of Selma Telles) Nathan and Marilyn Braunstein Selma Roth and Family Donald and Randi Senderowitz IN HONOR SUSAN AND LARRY BERMAN Marriage of daughter Lindsay to Ari Beth and Wes Kozinn SCOTT AND JACKIE BISHINS Birth of their grandson Marc Nissenbaum SAM AND SYLVIA BUB Happy and Healthy New Year Francine and Anthony Godfrey MILTON AND SARITA EISNER Happy Anniversary and Special Birthday Amy, Jack, Jess, and Abby Silverman

HOWARD EPSTEIN Speedy Recovery Barry and Sybil Baiman Laura and Bob Black HOWARD AND LINDA EPSTEIN Marriage of Joel to Blaire Roberta and Jeff Epstein JOAN EPSTEIN Marriage of Joel to Blaire Roberta and Jeff Epstein ROBERTO AND EILEEN FISCHMANN Marriage of daughter Claudia to Ryan Beth and Wesley Kozinn SANDRA AND HAROLD GOLDFARB Marriage of granddaughter Hailey Roberta and Jeff Epstein Arlene and Dick Stein ROBERT AND JANICE KAPLAN Engagement of Jeff Carol and Stewart Furmansky MERRY LANDIS Happy ‘Special’ Birthday Audrey Sosis LUCILLE LEHRICH Happy Birthday Joan Lichtenstein LOIS AND DON LIPSON In honor of their new home Jeff and Roberta Epstein Suzanne Lapiduss and Family TAFFI NEY Congratulations on New Home Suzanne Lapiduss ROBERTA AND ALAN PENN In honor of their new home Roberta and Jeff Epstein SHARON AND HOWARD RICHMAN Birth of their granddaughter, Sophie Wendy and Ross Born ABRAHAM ROSS Happy ‘Special’ Birthday

Roberta and Jeff Epstein KYLE AND LISA ROTH Happy Anniversary Selma Roth DONALD SENDEROWITZ Richard and Nancy Cooperman LOLLY AND SHEL SIEGEL Happy Anniversary and ‘Special’ Birthdays Beth and Wesley Kozinn MARSHALL AND NINA SILVERSTEIN Happy 60th Anniversary Fred and Barbara Sussman Arthur and Barbara Weinrach ARTHUR AND AUDREY SOSIS Happy 50th Anniversary Laura and Bob Black Roberta and Jeff Epstein ARLENE AND DICK STEIN Grandson’s Bar Mitzvah Roberta and Jeff Epstein STAN AND VICKI WAX Happy and Healthy New Year Laura and Bob Black HELEN & SOL KRAWITZ HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FUND IN HONOR LARRIE AND JUDY SHEFTEL Engagement of Andrew Lynda and Stuart Krawitz IN MEMORY MONRO ROTH (Husband of Mimi Roth) Lynda and Stuart Krawitz) HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER IN MEMORY BELLA CITRON Ann and Gene Ginsberg We gratefully acknowledge those individuals who have offered expressions of friendship through recent gifts to the Lehigh Valley Jewish Foundation. The minimum contribution for an Endowment Card is $10. Call 610-821-5500 or visit www.jewishlehighvalley.org to place your card requests. Thank you for your continued support.

Kicking off the New Year with flying colors On Sept. 20, 17 members of Congregation Keneseth Israel went for a half hour plane ride to celebrate the New Year.

KI member Bill Berger helped organize the flights, which flew out of Queens City Airport. Berger was joined by fellow pilots Chuck Collins and Tim Conrad who helped make the day special.

Matan Peled, Rachel Salomon, Daniel Ross, Michele Salomon, Ashley Weiner, Zee Livezey, Ray Livezey, Tara Livezey, and Jared Livezey pose with pilots Chuck Collins, Tim Conrad, and Bill Berger.

KI Rabbinical Intern Matan Peled conducts a service before the flights take off.

Above left, A view from above 476. Above right, Peled sounds the shofar before take off.

The planes were flown out of Queens City Airport.

Josh Friedman flies with pilot Tim Conrad.

Peled also blew the shofar out the window of the plane.

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Airbnb, Tel Aviv to create interactive city guide

LEVUSY prepares for exciting new year

By Ethan Weg Special to HAKOL

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The city of Tel Aviv has partnered with Airbnb to create a guide to the city that includes layers of interactive content.

Airbnb, which connects travelers with hosts in cities around the world, said in an announcement this week that it is the company's first partnership with a municipality on a city guide. The company has produced guides to 22 other cities, partnering with hosts.

The guide will include include maps, custom photography and local editorial about things to see and do, as well as tips from Airbnb hosts about local businesses.

“Tel Aviv is comprised of little, fascinating neighborhoods that will be showcased through this initiative,” said Hila Oren, CEO and founder of Tel Aviv Global, a company started by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Mayor's Office dedicated to elevating the city’s global positioning.

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Last fall the Lehigh Valley got a new taste of USY and Kadima, as the new chapter known as LEVUSY brought back the passion and life that had once been present in the Valley. Comprised of young people from Temple Beth El in Allentown, Congregation Brith Sholom in Bethlehem and B’nai Abraham Synagogue in Easton, Lehigh Valley USY and Kadima made a huge impact on Jewish teens in the area.

This past year LEVUSY and LevKadima had some amazing events; we took a trip to see the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, we participated in a PB&J sandwich-making social action project, and we had a blast at our laser tag and sleepover events.

For those who may not know Hebrew, or for those who overlooked our astute wordplay, in addition to indicating our chapter location in the Lehigh Valley, LEVUSY also stands for something else. The word Lev in Hebrew means heart, and it is our belief and goal to keep USY and Kadima the heart of Jewish teen engagement in the Lehigh Valley.

On that note, we are proud to announce that LEVUSY was the Eastern

Pennsylvania region (EPA) Chapter of the Year Award recipient, and we are finishing up the application process for the USY International Chapter of the Year ward – which will be announced at USY’s International Convention in Baltimore this winter.

It is with great honor and pride that we will accept the EPA Chapter of the Year Award in our first full year in the Lehigh Valley, and we are hoping to continue the legacy we started.

We encourage anyone

who is interested in getting involved with USY and/ or Kadima to contact us and join our chapter. We offer unique programing focused on social action, Israel awareness and advocacy, religious education and socialization.

Try something new and make LEVUSY and LevKadima your home.

For more information about LEVUSY, please visit LehighValleyUSY.wix.com/ LEVUSY or contact us at LehighValleyUSY@gmail.com.

What makes an etrog kosher?

RABBI MOSHE RE’EM Temple Beth El

The story is told about Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev that one year, following terrible rainstorms, the community of Berdichev was without etrogim for Sukkot. His students, determined to help their rebbe fulfill the mitzvah, set out by foot to find an etrog. They were ready to pay any price.

Finally, after days of searching, they came upon a Jew who was travelling and had a gorgeous, yellow etrog. They begged the

owner, ‘Please sell us your etrog! We must have it for our beloved rebbe! Name your price!’ No matter how much they begged and pleaded the individual would not part from his etrog, saying. “All my life I’ve observed this mitzvah and I have no intention of changing my ways now.”

Crestfallen, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s students asked him to travel home by way of Berdichev so that their rabbi could, at least, see this beautiful etrog.

When Rabbi Levi Yitzchak saw the etrog, his face lit up. “Please, stay here with us as our guest for Sukkot!” The man agreed on one condition, that he be rewarded in the afterlife with a place next to Rabbi Levi Yitzchak.

Levi Yitzchak agreed, and they shook hands on the deal. The visitor remained in Berdichev throughout Sukkot and was wined and dined. Only one courtesy was withheld from him. He could not enter a Sukkah.

Finally, in desperation, he ran to the rabbi and pleaded that he be allowed to enter a Sukkah. “How can you refuse me this

one mitzvah?” The rabbi responded, “You can observe the mitzvah on one condition. You must return that place in paradise.”

What was he to do? What a choice, paradise or a mitzvah? “Take back your paradise,” the man said.

“All my life I have observed the mitzvah of eating in a Sukkah because that is what G-d has commanded of us, but nowhere does G-d command paradise!” Levi Yitzchak was overjoyed.

“You have chosen well, my son. Paradise cannot be gained through a bargain. It can only be attained through the kind of life you lead.

Having been willing to forgo your place in paradise, in order to fulfill a mitzvah, is what secured your place in paradise.”

Implicit in this wonderful Hassidic story is the notion that we should go to great lengths to fulfill the mitzvot. We should make sure that we acquire all that is necessary to fulfill the mitzvot and that we go about doing it properly.

What makes an etrog kosher? There are actually many requirements for a kosher etrog. I would like

to highlight perhaps the most famous one – the pitam, the rounded crowned bud at the top of the stem protruding from the top of the etrog. The mishah states regarding the etrog “If boils arose on its majority, its pitam was removed, it was peeled,

the Lord, your God, seven days.” The rabbis later identified this fruit with the etrog, citron. Since the Torah explicitly refers to it as “beautiful,” anything that detracts from its beauty invalidates it. Moreover, if the pitam was removed, the etrog is invalid because

“Implicit in this wonderful Hassidic story is the notion that we should go to great lengths to fulfill the mitzvot." it was split, or it was punctured and is missing a slight portion, it is invalid.” The central mitzvah of taking the etrog, together with the other three species, is stated in the Torah (Lev. 23:40): “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a hadar (beautiful) tree, the branches of date palms, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before

it is considered deficient, since the rabbis understood the verse “to take” as complete taking. However, this ruling only applies to an etrog that had a pitam to begin with. If the etrog grew without a pitam, as is often the case it is not considered “deficient.”You may have come across etrogim without the crowned bud. If they grew that way then they are 100 percent kosher. Chag Sameach! Wishing you a joyous festival of Sukkot!

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Even after Iran deal is enacted, most sanctions will remain in place

By Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency If you’re an American who likes Iranian caviar and pistachios, you’re in for a treat.

Once the nuclear deal with Iran is implemented, the U.S. sanctions that until now have blocked the export of those Iranian foodstuffs into the United States will be lifted. Bon appetit.

But if you’re planning on packing a suitcase and making Iran your next vacation destination — or seeking investment opportunities in the Islamic Republic — keep your excitement in check: Travel will continue to be inhibited by a ban on dealing directly with Iranian airlines or tourism businesses.

Iran and six world powers led by the United States reached agreement in mid-July to lift some sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on the country’s nuclear program. Though the deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, has yet to be formally adopted, it looks increasingly likely.

Thanks to his veto power, President Barack Obama has enough votes of support in the U.S. Congress to overcome any vote to disapprove the deal, and possibly even thwart a vote if Senate Democrats filibuster.

(Iran’s parliament, while yet to vote on the agreement, is expected to approve it.)

But Obama administration officials are also taking pains to make clear that non-nuclear sanctions on Iran will stay in place once the International Atomic Energy Agency verifies Iranian compliance with the nuclear restrictions, probably in about six months to a year.

The motivation is partly to assuage deep concerns among Americans about the deal and partly to warn Iran against bad behavior.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces Iran sanctions, says it’s already stepping up enforcement of non-nuclear sanctions — restrictions in place for human rights abuses and for backing terror, which

are not tied to the JCPOA. “We have no illusions that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism and is continuing to engage in these bad activities,” a Treasury official, who spoke on condition of not being identified, told JTA. There are several areas where sanctions still remain in force.

The U.S. government’s primary sanctions, which have been in place since the 1990s and ban any U.S. residents or businesses from dealing with Iran, will stay, with only a few exceptions.

“General prohibitions include: investment in Iran; importing Iranian-origin goods or services; and exporting goods or services to Iran, including clearing U.S. dollars,” the Treasury Department said in the sanctions outline it provided to JTA. More than 200 Iranian individuals and groups targeted with “secondary sanctions,” which penalize non-U.S. entities for its dealings with Iran, also will remain in place. Among the groups targeted is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls substantial portions of Iran’s economy, including the construction, energy and shipbuilding sectors.

Long lists of individuals and groups designated as terrorist by the United States remain sanctioned, as do any U.S. or non-U.S. parties that deal with them. That includes Ghasem

Soleimani, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Qods Force. Soleimani had been singled out because he is on a list of individuals to be delisted from nuclear-related sanctions, but U.S. officials say he remains sanctioned for the Revolutionary Guard’s backing of terrorist acts.

Other areas where the United States will keep in place sanctions on parties who deal with Iran include transfers of weapons of mass destruction technology to Iran, including missile delivery systems.

Using technology to track and oppress one’s citizens, such as software that allowed Iran to spy on activists or to disrupt communication among Iranians, is also still banned, the Treasury official told JTA. U.S. sanctions targeting “persons providing information technology to Iran or Syria that could be used by those governments to commit serious human rights abuses” stay in place.

But the United States will no longer sanction non-U.S. entities that deal with Iran’s financial sector — most importantly, with its central bank. Until now, the U.S. government has thwarted dealings by third parties with Iran by threatening to ban those parties from any dealings with the huge and lucrative U.S. market if they also dealt with Tehran.

Also lifted are U.S. sanctions on insurers who underwrite

Iranian businesses, on software developers and on those dealing with Iran’s carmakers. Iranians will be able to download the latest software updates to their devices and expect a return of French Peugeots to their streets.

Some sanctions will remain in the United States but be lifted elsewhere. For example, gas stations in Beijing, Brussels and London may be dispensing petrol that started out as Iranian crude, but no such crude will reach the United States. An oil importer in London or Delhi wanting to transfer funds to an Iranian bank account to import goods will be able to do so.

Iran’s shipping sector will be free to deliver goods and invite foreign investment.

In fact, under the deal the European Union will lift virtually all of its sanctions on financial dealings with Iran and on trade with its energy sector. The U.N. Security Council also will remove

bans on dealing with Iran's financial institutions.

U.S. companies, while banned from dealing directly with Iran, will be able to license their services to non-U.S. entities. For example, Iranian airlines will be able to purchase airplane parts manufactured under U.S. license.

Iran has blamed airline crashes on its inability to get replacement parts for U.S.-made planes in service since before the 1979 revolution.

But not all Iranian airlines will see the bans lifted. Mahan Air, which the U.S. government says has secretly ferried Iranian Revolutionary Guards fighters and weapons on its flights, will remain sanctioned.

The few areas where direct trade between Iran and the United States will resume include pistachios and caviar, a nod to Iranian-Americans who have imported these luxury goods in the past.

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Arab Americans look to Jews for help on Syrian refugees

By Jacob Wirtschafter and Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency Arab Americans advocating on behalf of Syrian refugees have found some unlikely allies in their effort to resettle families from the war-torn nation: influential Jewish groups.

Recently, HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, launched a petition drive calling on President Barack Obama to swiftly open

America’s gates to an additional 100,000 Syrians, and the president of the Union for Reform Judaism wrote to the president and congressional leaders calling for a coordinated international response.

“Our great nation must respond immediately by providing safety, food, shelter, refuge, and dignity,” wrote the Reform leader, Rabbi Rick Jacobs. “How can a nation built by refugees from political persecution turn our back on refugees fleeing

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religious and political persecution?”

Omar Hossino, the Washington-based Syrian American Council's public relations director, singled out HIAS as being particularly helpful.

“HIAS has been consistently calling for more resettlement and pushing back against the discriminatory rhetoric opposing opening the doors to Syrian refugees,” he said.

In September, HIAS president Mark Hetfield held a conference call with American Jewish organizational officials to talk about his agency's decision to join with ArabAmerican leaders in critiquing U.S. policies that limit the numbers of refugees settled in the United States to about 70,000 per year.

Only about 1,500 Syrian refugees have been admitted since the start of the civil war in 2011. Obama announced in September that the United States soon would take in 10,000 refugees, but Hetfield said that number was inadequate.

“We are dealing with a global humanitarian crisis to which the entire world must respond,” he said in a statement issued within hours of Obama's announcement. “If Germany can open its doors to 800,000 asylum seekers, the

U.S., with a population four times the size of Germany’s and a history as a nation of immigrants and refugees, can take 100,000.”

Hetfield appealed to regional Jewish groups to act on the grassroots level to help absorb refugees.

“The Jewish voice is very influential here, very important and very much needed,” Hetfield said.

Akram Abusharar, a Gaza-born U.S. immigration attorney who handles approximately 80 Syrian asylum cases per month, said HIAS’s involvement was a boost to his cause.

“The Jewish community has more capacity to move the politicians on this issue than the Arab-American community,” he told JTA in an interview.

Responding to lobbying from HIAS, the administration moved in February to provide exemptions for people who provided limited or insignificant support to

Syrian rebels who do not pose a danger to the United States.

But more recently Hossino has tracked an uptick in opposition to bringing Muslim immigrants to the United States — especially among Republican candidates and members of congress. In television appearances, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said the United States has "done its fair share" when it comes to the refugee crisis. Sen. Rand Paul asserted that the U.S. “can’t accept the whole world” and should adopt a cautious stance towards resettlement.

Hetfield, in the conference call, said concerns about the Muslim and Arab identity of the refugees are misplaced, reminding listeners of similar reasoning when some nations in the 1930s blocked Jewish immigration from Germany.

“To confuse the refugees with the people that they’re fleeing," he said, "is to make the same mistake that kept Jews out."

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By Elsa Collins Lehigh University Would you risk your life to save a stranger and never talk about it?

Lehigh University is proud to host a free screening on Oct. 22 of the documentary “My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes,” which tells the story of Italians who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. A panel discussion will follow the screening of the film.

A journey through time and memory, the documentary is the story of a few individuals who risked their own lives to rescue innocent people. The story of these individuals serves as a vehicle to share the larger untold story of thousands of Italians who helped Jews during World War II. The documentary film features real people who, as children in Italy living under Fascism, survived because of silent heroes who were willing to sacrifice their own safety and well-being to hide or help strangers being pursued by the Nazis.

One of those heroes is Gino Bartali, an Italian cycling legend who won the Giro d’Italia three times (1936, 1937, and 1946) and the Tour de France in 1938 and 1948. But, Bartali’s most heroic deeds were never known during his lifetime. He risked his life time and time again, transporting false documents in his bicycle frame to save Jews threatened by extermination.

As an entire continent was engulfed in a genocide that took the lives of most Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, more than 80 percent of Italy’s Jews—and more than 10,000 Jews who fled Germany and Austria to Italy—survived. Bartali, like most of the rescuers, never sought recognition or reward. Few of those he helped knew his name or the role he played in their rescue.

Directed by Oren Jacoby, executive produced by Lehigh University alum Joseph R. Perella ’64, and narrated by Isabella Rossellini and Robert Loggia, “My Italian Secret” was screened at the Rome International Film Festival and at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2014.

MY ITALIAN SECRET: THE FORGOTTEN HEROES Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 6:30 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.

Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center Free admission, no ticket required

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Falling Back

By Sandi Teplitz Special to HAKOL

Many people associate the words “falling back� with the time change. Then there are others of us who know that the true meaning is a quick thought about things that we miss in the past, or maybe we can refer to it as getting in touch with our inner foodie, retroactively. Here are some people's thoughts about things that are not easily available any longer, plus one recipe that I still make because some delicious things should never be toyed with!

Susan Levin craves her grandmother's beet borscht with flanken and cabbage, served piping hot.

The Honorable Henry Perkin can't forget his first taste of Coffee-Time Soda; it was available at Rosenblatt's deli, near Muhlenberg School, and was a Sunday treat.

Mimi Silberstein was nostalgic about Hoodsie's, little cups of ice cream eaten at the beach.

After you pulled the top off and licked the inside, a movie star picture would suddenly appear.

Michael Molovinsky was awed by the strawberry pie at Hess's

Patio. I wonder if it was the sheer size of one portion, or the actual taste.

Cantor Ellen Sussman knows what true chopped liver tasted like before people worried themselves with the cholesterol craze, the kind that was made with real chicken fat, or as my grandmother called it, schmaltz.

Pam Byala travels to South Africa and returns with anchovy paste in a jar that can't be found here in the United States. It is tasty when used as a spread; its mild, creamy taste makes it a terrific toast topper for breakfast Libby Golomb realizes that some things take awhile to cook well. Remember cholent that had to simmer through the night and part of the next day? It was then all ready to be served after services on Shabbat.

Judy Cohen begins to wax rhapsodic when it comes to those little round waffle cheddar cheese sandwiches that were packed in a tube can like Pringle's; they were made by Old London.

Lana and Marty Fetner were two lucky soulmates- her father was a butcher, his a deli owner.

Their memories include Halvah sold in chunks from the counter, real kishka and Cel-Ray soda by Dr. Brown.

One of the liquid refreshment's that I personally miss from my childhood is whole chocolate milk sold in glass bottles -- it stayed colder longer and was great when used to wash down a cupcake with lots of frosting!

I also find myself craving this recipe that used to be served at so many parties. This autumn, I encourage you to try an old favorite and fall back into old memories.

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Lemon Refrigerator Bars CRUST

INGREDIENTS: 3 c. graham crumbs 12 T. unsalted butter, melted 2 1/2 T. sugar TECHNIQUE: Mix together and put on bottom of buttered rectangular pan.

Bake for 10 minutes at 325 degrees.

Cool.

FILLING

INGREDIENTS: 1 1/8 c. heavy cream 2 t. grated lemon rind 1 c. fresh lemon juice 2 cans sweetened condensed milk 7 medium sized egg yolks TECHNIQUE: Mix together and pour over the cooled crust. Place in a larger pan filled with a quarter way up with hot water. Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes; remove from hot water. Cool for an hour at room temperature. Chill for at least five hours. Cut into pieces and serve with real whipped cream.

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Israeli author and journalist Lihi Lapid to speak at Muhlenberg College through Hillel Muhlenberg College Hillel will welcome bestselling Israeli author and journalist Lihi Lapid to campus to speak about the role of women in Israeli society on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m.

Lapid, who has written three bestselling novels has a finger on the pulse of contemporary women’s issues and speaks openly about motherhood and the difficulty of maintaining a professional career while raising a family.

As the wife to a high-profile Israeli politician, Yair Lapid, Lihi Lapid offers her own take on the “good wife” role which has been called “refreshingly flawed and warm.”

Muhlenberg College Hillel is bringing the renowned speaker to campus as part of a program created by Hineinu and the Israel Action Program at Hillel International. This speaker and others throughout the year are being coordinated by Muhlenberg College Hillel’s Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and Hillel International Israel Fellow Or Adi. Adi is working on the college campus this year focusing on Israel engagement, Israel education and Israel experiences.

TBE to host Mah Jongg tournament for charity

By Ilene Rubel Temple Beth El

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On Nov. 1, Temple Beth El Sisterhood will host a Play All Day Mah Jongg Tournament from 9:30 a. m. to 3:30 p.m. The event will be held at Temple Beth El and is being co-sponsored by Temple Beth El and anonymous donors.

The event has been organized in memory of Sisterhood Member Lisa Mishkin. All profits from the tournament will go to Dana Farber Cancer Institute to benefit its groundbreaking work in cancer research.

Mah Jongg is a game of Chinese origin played by four people. The goal is to collect combinations of domino-like tiles until one player wins with a hand of four combinations of three tiles each and a pair of matching tiles. The tournament will be played by national Mah Jongg League Rules. Both experienced and first-time players are encouraged to attend; there will be a section specifically for first-

time players at the tournament.

Please join us for a day of fun for a good cause!

The cost is $36 per player which includes snacks, beverages, lunch and tournament prizes. Please RSVP by Oct. 16. For more information, contact Ilene Rubel at Ilene@ bethelallentown.org or call 610-435-3521.

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celebrates unity, friendship Early in the morning on Sept.

11, a group of faith leaders from across the Lehigh Valley gathered at WMUH-FM, the Muhlenberg College radio station, to take part in a special program.

Cantor Kevin Wartell of Temple Beth El was hosting his weekly radio program “Kol Haemek...The Voice of the Valley,” but he wanted to do something special to not just commemorate the tragic events of that fateful day, but also to bring together local leaders of different faiths to share a message of friendship and community that crosses religious lines.

The program was dedicated to the memory of Alan Merdinger, a member of Allentown’s Jewish community who was killed in the World Trade Center attacks.

Guests included Mark Goldstein, executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley, Rabbi Melissa Simon,

director of Muhlenberg Hillel, Rabbi Moshe Re’em of Temple Beth El, Rabbi David Wilensky of Congregation Sons of Israel, Rabbi Yaacov Halperin of Chabad Lubavitch of the Lehigh Valley, the Rev. Dr. Peter Pettit of the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding, Scott Beker (Jor-

ikiosho) of Blue Mountain Zendo Koryu-ji, Stephen Emick of First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, Mohamed Rajmohamed of Shia Ithna Asheri Jammat, Jude-Laure Denis of POWER Northeast and Matin Moosa of the Muslim Association of the Lehigh Valley.

Knitting Club donates blankets and creates friendships

By Gwen A. Jacobs Special to HAKOL In 2006, an appeal was sent out from Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg for some comfort lap blankets for the Oncology Department. The blankets would be for the patients receiving chemotherapy infusions, who often experience chilling during treatment. A group of women from Temple Covenant of Peace and B’nai Abraham Synagogue responded to that request. Under the guidance of Gwen Jacobs (TCP) and Jessica Ytkin (BA) a monthly meeting was arranged on the basis of the floating crap game from the Broadway show “Guys and Dolls.” Even those who could not knit or crochet responded with cash to buy yarn.

The result was that some 25 women managed to hand make and donate an extraordinary number of blankets, reflecting various levels of expertise, from very simple to beyond beautiful. Some of the women who participated did not belong to either congregation, but wanted to join our endeavors. They came as far away as California, Arizona and Tennessee. No two blankets were alike. All were made with love,

were machine washable, and received a label reading “Made with love by B’nai Abraham Synagogue and Temple Covenant of Peace.”

The hospital was overwhelmed both emotionally and physically. Their need was satisfied, and our vision was expanded. Our donations have gone to Jewish Family Service, Meals on Wheels and the 3rd Street Alliance (a shelter for women). Our criteria are very simple: we give where there is a need to nonprofit organizations.

To date, over 750 blankets have been donated. We are looking to expand our numbers, so we would most heartily welcome new members to our fun group. We meet once a month (mostly) in each other’s homes, serve coffee, tea, a small nosh, and large dollop of friendship.

We take comfort in the knowledge that wherever the need is the greatest, these dedicated women answer the call with nimble fingers and caring hearts!

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If you are interested, or know of someone who would love to learn to knit, crochet or just donate time and or money, or if you have a suggestion for a charity, please contact either Jessica Ytkin at 610-253-8251 or Gwen Jacobs at 908-859-6509.

TCP dedicates new Torah mantles

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Temple Covenant of Peace, Easton’s oldest Jewish congregation, will dedicated new Torah mantles [covers] for the holiday season on Sept. 13th, at the start of Rosh Hashanah.

The new mantles, donated by members of the congregation will replace the existing covers that have been in use for the past 50 years.

Most congregations use special Torah covers, usually in white, which reflect the theme of

the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which is purity, and the desire to be close to God. The covers were designed and constructed by Annelise Davis, formerly of Emmaus, who is a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She has been an intern at the Sigal Museum for the past two summers.

Her artistry with a needle was greatly appreciated for their

Eras of Elegance exhibit and the upcoming Here Comes the Bride. The mantles are made of cream silk noil and have been embroidered as a triptych of a wisteria vine. Ms Davis discovered dedications in the lining of the retired covers which she has appliqued into the lining of the new ones, thus preserving the memory of those earlier congregants in the Jewish principle of l’dor v’dor – from generation to generation.

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ourteen years ago our sense of security was shattered.

On September 11, 2015, our Middle School students stood in remembrance. They lowered the flag to half staff while singing the national anthem and then continued to stand for a moment of silence.

Lillian B., our JDS student council president, reported on the events of 9/11 while the Middle School students gathered around the flagpole. For them, 9/11 is a news story from recent history -- BEFORE they were even born. What they know of 9/11 is from news stories, documentaries, films and possibly from their parents and families.

Head of School, Al Goren, welcomes students back at an assembly on the first day of school.

A video of them singing has been posted on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/JewishDaySchoolLV

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he lessons of our sages come to life when they are chanted with the ancient sounds associated with the verses of the Torah. This year our Middle School students have been offered an in-school elective in Trope that will be taught by Moreh Nati Kind.

Hebrew words are marked with a set of symbols that work as vowels, appearing above and below Hebrew text, indicating school students, along with students from 24 how to pronounce its words. Text from other Jewish schools across the United States the Five Books of Moses and other books and Canada, will assume the roles of key Jew- of the bible include an additional set of ish figures of the past to not merely learn but symbols called trope (Yiddish) or te’amim really experience history. They will discuss and (Hebrew). Trope show how to chant the “litigate” a challenging set of issues raised in text. Most Jewish children are introduced to this fictitious case.

The “Case” This year’s case involves a recently passed law in France banning the wearing of “ostentatious” religious symbols - large crosses, kippot, and the headscarf (hijab). Two French high school students in separate schools – one Jewish and the other a Muslim–were banned from entering their school and classes because they were wearing one of these items. Each challenged the law, asserting that it was a violation of their human rights; the appeals, however, were rejected by the French courts, causing great controversy. On advise of counsel, both teens decided to bring

their “case” to the Jewish Court of All Time to hear ther appeals. The “court” agreed, but with one stipulation: it would hear the appeals only if the two cases were joined, tying the fates of the Jewish and Muslim students together. The JCAT decision is expected to be handed down by December.

Over the course of several months, with the help of their teachers– Dana Kind, JDS Director of Hebrew and Judaics and Athena Greenspan, JDS Library and Instructional

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this ancient set of symbols as they prepare for their bar or bat mitzvah.

The trope are organized in a way that creates pauses and groups certain words together, outlining the grammar of the sentence. By chanting a verse with the proper melody (as well as pronunciation), a reader’s accuracy will improve.

In addition, the melody of the verses elevates the spiritual effect on those listening to it and helps to distinguish that text as something holy. Depending on the occasion, melodies may vary in tone from festive to sad. Melodies even vary regionally.

They are a special part of Jewish culture and tradition.

Technology Specialist–as well as college students from participating universities, students will delve into the background and context of a person from Jewish history.

Using as much information as they can gather, students will turn a biography into a three-dimensional character, imbued with thoughts and feelings. They will get plenty of opportunities to practice thinking and “speaking” in character.

In several weeks, the courtroom will “open” for the trial, in which they must decide what the just outcome should be regarding the suit being reviewed. Once they are prepared to take on their new persona, the students will construct arguments from their persona’s point of view and make their case in an online simulation.

For the trial, a group of justices will be appointed—made up of both mentor and student portrayed characters—who’ll make the ultimate decision on the “case.”

This is the second year the the JDS is involved with this program. Last year six JDS middle school students participated. The JDS has expanded the program this year to include all 6th–8th grade students; 5th grade students are also being introduced to the program.

JCAT is the recipient of a prestigious Signature Grant from The Covenant Foundation.

The program is implemented by RAVSAK in collaboration with three university partners: University of Michigan School of Education, the Davidson School at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew College, and the University of Cincinnati.

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viva Sussman credits her parents with nurturing her Jewish identity. “It was a priority for them,” says Sussman, who attended the JDS from kindergarten-grade 6. “My mom focused on the spiritual aspect and my dad on the tribal, familial aspects of Judaism. I really appreciate how they gave us [brother Adam and sister Abby] the opportunities to explore the beautiful and engaging spectrum of Judaism to find our own comfort zones.”

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Sussman and her family (including sister Abby, on far left) on a recent backpack trip in the North Cascades of Washington.

Each month, the JDS is pleased to feature JDS Alumni in ROOTS & WINGS, written by Monica Friess. If you have an alumni story to share, please send your current contact information by email to Carolyn Katwan, JDS Director of Marketing & Communications at ckatwan@jdslv.org

Sussman indeed experienced a wide crosssection of the Lehigh Valley’s Jewish community. For example, in addition to the JDS, she attended the JCC day camp, celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at Sons of Israel, attended Hebrew school and later taught at KI, read Torah and taught at Beth El, and was president of the local BBG chapter. She first went to Israel on the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program and has gone back every 2-3 years since then.

A graduate of the University of Rochester (B.A., Studio arts and Geology), Sussman earned a Ph.D. in Geosciences from the

University of Arizona and completed a postdoc in Spain. She is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and her work, which is focused on nuclear treaty monitoring and verification, requires frequent international travel. While abroad, Sussman says she specifically visits Jewish points of interest – an old synagogue, museum or memorial.

Traveling around the world brings Sussman into contact with people from many different cultures. One of the benefits of growing up in a Jewish family and being nurtured by the Jewish community, she says, “is that my heritage gives me the grounding to listen to and value other people’s opinions and perspectives while being true to myself.”

Sussman and her family live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Growing up in a community with so many resources and with parents who made Judaism a priority, makes it a bit easier for me to parent in a town with a small Jewish presence. We started a Chavura and regularly host Shabbat dinners and holiday celebrations,” she says.

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Rabbi Goldman-Wartell participates in Journey for Justice in Alabama

By The Reporter Group Staff Jewish Federation of Greater Bimington Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell, a former resident and longtime leader of the community in the Lehigh Valley and rabbi at Temple Concord in Bimington, New York, recently visited Alabama to participate in the Journey for Justice, a march that started in Selma, Alabama, during August and ended in Washington, D.C. in September.

The Journey for Justice was sponsored by the NAACP and a coalition of partners; the theme of the march is “Our Lives, Our Votes, Our Jobs, Our Schools Matter.”

Goldman-Wartell was one of many rabbis throughout the country who helped carry a Torah scroll throughout the march. Her participation in the effort showed support for its goal, but also offered her an opportunity to learn about local and national issues, and the work being done in response.

“I was there for day five. We were marching outside of Montgomery and marched through Tuskegee in Alabama, home of the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Airmen and George Washington Carver,” Goldman-Wartell said in a phone interview. “The town and the NAACP chapter held sort of a rally, a welcome for that day, and we got to hear speakers from that community who were quite compelling.

So part of the march was really getting to know people and hear their stories, know where their passions were, why they were there, why they’re active, and relate that to why I was there. A key piece was to talk to people. I had my eyes and my ears and my heart open to what I would experience, to be open to what I would take in.”

Goldman-Wartell noted that she felt “compelled” to take part in the march for numerous reasons, including the ongoing violence against African Americans and racial profiling. She decided “to not just stay on the sidelines, but to get out there and show up and walk and actively be a part of

it, [to] show my connection and my solidarity.” Her participation and that of other rabbis demonstrated “for the other people who were there [that] we are full partners and fully committed to continue the work for equality... and to try to address the many inequities in our country and in our society.”

Goldman-Wartell described the daily activity of the march, noting that most participants walked two to three miles at a time, many days in high heat and humidity.

Collectively they covered approximately 15 miles a day, with buses transporting people at different points on the path so that they would join together later. “Each evening there’s a teach-in, so there are a number of subjects covered,” Goldman-Wartell said.

“Voting rights, criminal justice reform, economic equality, education –- there are national leaders in those fields [present] and local people so that we learned not just the overall goals we’re trying to do nationally, we also found out what is happening in the state in which we were in.”

Goldman-Wartell explained that the Reform Jewish community in the U.S. has supported the NAACP and the Civil Rights Movement dating back many decades, making “the idea of coming back and continuing that was a very natural thing.” The decision to carry a Torah on the march was supported by many who were interested in getting involved. “When the NAACP announced they were going to have the Journey for Justice March,” she said, “Reform Jewish leaders, particularly rabbis, thought about what would be an important way to be a part of this, so they decided that we would carry a Torah throughout the whole march. They put a call out maybe four weeks ago for rabbis to commit to one day at a time to march with the Torah. It was a very powerful experience to carry the Torah in the march.”

Goldman-Wartell met many notable individuals, and learned surprising facts about minority struggles both past and

Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell (far left) with the Torah she marched with in the Journey for Justice. present. During the march GoldmanWartell met Keshia Thomas, the subject of a photograph in 1996 in which she, an African American protestor, defended a believed Ku Klux Klan supporter when he was attacked. She learned of voter suppression tactics used before the Voter Rights Act was enacted, as well as how businesses to this day observe traditions related to the slave trade. For example, “one woman talked about going for the literacy test to register to vote,” she said.

“There are a lot of older people, if they were not born in a hospital, they don’t have a birth certificate – these issues don’t just affect blacks, they affect other people as well – a lot of older people who may not have a birth certificate. Certain documents count, some don’t count for your ID, so it is a system that cuts people out of the elec-

tion process.”

Goldman-Wartell also learned about protestors’ experiences in and after Ferguson, Missouri, which included Klan members appearing “in full regalia.” She added, “To me, the fact that the Klan would come – not just dressed up, but in the whole thing – that to me was pretty horrifying. As this march was going on there were police, state and local, with the whole march at every point, so they were very friendly. People driving by were very friendly, but in some places that’s not the case.”

Goldman-Wartell concluded by saying she was “appreciative of the support I got from people to be involved in this, and feel quite honored and humbled to be able to participate in the march and the whole experience of the Journey for Justice.”

When Your Heart Skips A Beat Or Flutters You Rarely Think Of Electricity Have you ever felt your heart skip a beat or race unexpectedly? If so, you probably never considered that it could be the result of an abnormal electrical impulse. In the same way your home can have electrical issues, so can your heart.

Your heart is made up of a complex system of muscles, valves and chambers that control where blood is pumped. But for it all to work, each heartbeat starts with an electrical impulse generated by the hearts specialized conduction system. If the hearts electrical system is compromised, resulting in too many heartbeats, irregular or not enough beats, the patient is diagnosed with an arrhythmia or abnormal heart rhythm.

There are several types of abnormal heart rhythms, including: • Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) – heart rate is too fast and usually caused by an extra pathway or circuit in the heart • Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) – an irregular and often rapid heartbeat. The most common arrhythmia • Atrial Flutter -- the heart’s upper chambers (atria) beat too quickly resulting in a fast, regular rhythm • Bradycardia (heart rate is too slow) • Ventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Fibrillation (this type of abnormal rhythm can be life threatening) – usually occurs in people with previously damaged or weakened hearts

Most heart rhythm disturbances are harmless, particularly when the hearts structure is normal.

If an abnormal rhythm results in debilitating symptoms such as shortness of breath, fainting or chest discomfort, prompt medical attention is warranted. Arrhythmias can affect anyone but are more prevalent as we age.

Access to Trained Specialists St. Luke’s Heart & Vascular Center is the region’s fastest growing cardiovascular program in the region.

This includes a specialized team of Cardiac Electrophysiologists (otherwise known as the heart’s electricians). The electrophysiology (EP) team is comprised of talented cardiologists who spent an additional two years in training dedicated to diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disorders.

St. Luke’s electrophysiologists perform catheter ablations using cutting edge ablation technology.

The abnormal heart impulse or circuit is pinpointed and eliminated with radiofrequency energy (heating) or cryo-ablation (freezing tissue).

“We recruited physicians from UCLA and The Mayo Clinic, two of the busiest programs in the country, to increase the breadth and depth of our electrophysiology program at St. Luke’s”, says Darren M. Traub, DO, Medical Director of St. Luke’s Heart Rhythm Center. “Heart rhythm disorders can be difficult to diagnose, particularly when episodes are intermittent.” he adds.

Treatment for an arrhythmia depends on the type of rhythm disturbance. Simple reassurance or behavioral changes may be enough.

When necessary, medications are given or minimally invasive procedures performed to quiet the abnormal rhythm.

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The electrophysiology team at St. Luke’s also has specialty training in implantation and management of cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Teamwork is a key part of the St. Luke’s Electrophysiology program. The EP physicians and the cardiovascular surgeons regularly perform procedures together in an effort to optimize patient outcomes.

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WEDNESDAY, October 21st 7:00 pm* – 10:00 pm Gala Dessert Reception featuring music by Jim Meck

*All sponsors will be invited to a private event starting at 6 PM for the largest selection before opening to the community. To support this event, Sponsorship levels are contributions of $1800, $500, $118 and $54.

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Israeli themed food and drinks will be featured with music provided by The David Listwa Quartet.

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Light brunch will be served 10 am-12 pm

There will be 2 raffles including 4 unsigned lithographs valued at over $300, and a signed & numbered lithograph valued over $200. Raffle tickets will be available during the entire show at $5 per raffle ticket or 3 for $10.

Join us in supporting Israeli artists by visiting the show and purchasing a unique work of art.

For further information, please call the Temple office at 610-435-3521.

The Jewish don of Latin American TV says 'adios' after 53 years

By Julian Voloj Jewish Telegraphic Agency On Sept. 19, the Spanish language television network Univision hosted the final broadcast of “Sábado Gigante.”

With 53 years on TV, the world’s longest-running variety show is an eclectic, strange mashup of a game show, a talk show and live entertainment.

There are singing competitions — the poor-performing contestants are eliminated by a trumpet blast, a la "The Gong Show" — as well as lie-detector tests for husbands accused of infidelity, comedy segments and beauty contests.

Each week, the three-hour hodgepodge is broadcast in 40 countries and watched by tens of millions of viewers. With a reach beyond the Spanish-language market — it's been the subject of parodies on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Colbert Report" — “Sábado Gigante” is a wellknown pop-culture phenomenon.

Less known, however, is that Don Francisco, the show's Chilean creator and host, is Jewish.

The son of German Jews who had fled Nazi persecution, Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld created "Sábado Gigante" and transformed it into an unprecedented success. Drawing on his immigrant background and influenced by American television culture, the kindly Kreutzberger connected with a pan-Latino audience and became the the undisputed "Gran maestro" of Spanish-language media — not in spite of, but because of, his Jewish identity.

“Among Spanish speakers in the United States he is an icon,” said Ilan Stavans, a professor of Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College who has been a guest on “Sábado Gigante." “In my view, he couldn’t really come to that type of persona were he not Jewish.”

Kreutzberger, 74, was born in Chile, the "only option" his refugee parents had when they left Germany, he told CBS News. In his 2001 Spanish autobiography “Don Francisco: Entre la Espada y la TV” (“Between a Rock and the TV”), he describes a Jewish upbringing in Chile filled with bar mitzvahs, Hanukkah celebrations — and anti-Semitism.

His world was the world of immigrants. At home with his family, German was the language of communication, not Spanish.

“German is my first language,” he wrote. “I only learned Spanish when I started to go to school.”

This immigrant experience — facing linguistic challenges and prejudices — was what eventually allowed the TV host to connect with his pan-Latino audience, who faced similar challenges in the United States.

In fact, it was at Club Israelita Maccabi, the Jewish community center in the Chilean capital of Santiago, that the prototype of Don Francisco was born.

“Every Friday night, we had a soiree that I presented in the character of ‘Don Francisco Ziziguen González,’ a German-Jew who had arrived some 15 years earlier to Chile,” he wrote in the autobiography. “He spoke some faulty Spanish the way Germans pronounced it. The character wasn’t a mere invention, but based on my parents and their German friends who came to our house on the weekends.”

Kreutzberger’s father, a tailor, wanted him to join the family business and sent him in the late 1950s to New York to learn the trade. In the Big Apple, however, the young Chilean discovered a different passion: television. Inspired by what he saw on the screen, he returned to Chile with the goal of becoming the country’s Johnny Carson. He pitched his idea of an American-style variety show to Channel 13. The executives were enthusiastic but there was one problem: His name was “too difficult to pronounce and not easy to remember," he recalled in his autobiography.

In search for a more universal Spanish name, “I decided to resurrect my old character from my times at Club Maccabi,” he wrote — and Don Francisco was born.

Kreutzberger’s show — then called “Show Dominical” ("Sunday Show") — premiered in 1962 on Channel 13. (The same year, Carson started his 30-year tenure as host of "The Tonight Show.") In 1963, the broadcast was moved to Saturday and the name consequently changed.

In 1986, the U.S.-based Univision came calling and “Sábado Gigante” — “low-brow entertainment geared toward the working and middle classes," as described

by Stavans — became an American show. No longer confined to the slim borders of Chile, it was produced for the rapidly growing Spanish-speaking community in the United States.

“With the move to Miami, the show acquired a new identity as a Latino show,” Stavans said. On Univision, the son of immigrants to Latin America quickly became the pride of Latin American immigrants in the United States. He said Kreutzberger "sees himself as a Latino, not just a Chilean, because of his Jewish identity."

Simon Guindi Cohen, the New York-based founder of the clothing label Spenglish, is a lifelong fan of "Sábado Gigante."

“Don Francisco was always a people person and in less than a second he could make them laugh and also cry," Guindi said. “The show was amazing. It was a great, dynamic show like any other American family show. It was a

show full of emotions, just like a Latin soap opera but with games.”

“I could relate to him because he literally looked like one of my uncles, but never in my mind did the idea of him being Jewish come across,” said the Mexicoborn Guindi, who is Jewish. “To me, and I think that to the rest of the viewers, Don Francisco was an aspirational character of a Latino that has genuinely made it in the United States.”

Stavans is not surprised.

“Only a minuscule and largely educated portion of the audience is aware of his Jewish identity,” the Amherst professor said. “In Latin America, Jews constitute less than 0.001 percent of the entire population of close to 460 million. This means that the vast majority has absolutely no experiential knowledge of Jewish culture.”

Kreutzberger didn’t address Jewish topics on "Sábado Gigante." But off camera, Stavans said, “he sees himself as very Jewish.”

In advance of the final broadcast, which will include guests like Shakira and Enrique Iglesias, a street in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood was renamed last week in honor of Don Francisco. Hundreds of fans jammed the streets in hopes of seeing their idol.

In a way, honoring Don Francisco also was recognizing an increasingly self-confident Latino community in the U.S. "'Sábado Gigante' was like a little miracle in everyone’s weekend when you were in a country that wasn’t yours,” Guindi said.

“It was a reassurance to the people who watched, so they could know and see that we were not in this country alone.

“It gave us a little extra push on the weekend so we could go on and strengthen our Latin roots.”

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JDS families stress academics, Jewish values as reasons to enroll

By Ben Notis Special to HAKOL The Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley is a community school that, in addition to providing students with a top-rate secular education, immerses the students in an environment that enables them to take pride in their Jewish identities.

The school motto; Respect, Responsibility, Effort, and Kindness; is “foundational to the culture of the school,” said Carolyn Katwan, the director of marketing and communications.

The Jewish Day School is a school for “members of the Jewish community who come to us from every corner of the Jewish community, geographically and in terms of observance level. We cover the whole Lehigh Valley. We embrace children who come from all levels of observance,” Katwan said. “We try to instill

a love of learning and a joy in being Jewish.”

“We take advantage of our smallness,” Katwan added, “which provides opportunities for personal attention.” Even if there is one student who struggles, the teachers can “cater to his or her needs through oneon-one learning.” The small class sizes allow for “differentiated learning,” in which each student is nurtured according to his or her needs.

Citing a case in point, Katwan describes the experience of a general studies teacher in the middle school, who after teaching for over 30 years in public school, is “reveling in the pleasure” of being able to “critically review work” with his students.

Parents agree that the school’s small size is a big advantage. “I love the small classes, and I love that all the teachers know my kids,” said Naomi Shachter, whose

son Isaac is a student at JDS. “There’s no falling through the cracks. I even get text messages from the teachers.

It’s like we’re in it together as a team.”

Linda Miller, a professor at Muhlenberg College whose son Gabe is in the eighth grade at JDS, was also impressed by the academic rigor at her son’s school. “The families of the JDS are so dedicated to education. The school is so much more accelerated,” Miller said.

Gabe Miller is certainly happy with his Jewish education, especially noting how important it is to him to know Hebrew as a second language. “I appreciate Jewish culture. I can feel comfortable in a Jewish synagogue, and I can read and understand Hebrew,” he said.

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she sent her son to JDS on the strength of its academics, she has come to see the value of a Jewish education. “It gives my son family values, an identity, and ethical responsibility, which, of course, are also human values,” she said.

Survey shows broad dissatisfaction with Israeli religious policy

By Ben Sales Jewish Telegraphic Agency Secular and haredi Orthodox Israelis differ on many things, but there’s one thing both sides agree on: When it comes to religious affairs, the government is failing.

That’s one of the findings of an annual survey of Israeli religious identification and attitudes toward religious policy released by Hiddush, a 6-year-old organization that promotes religious freedom in Israel.

The survey found that 95 percent of secular respondents are dissatisfied with the government's handling of religious issues, with large majorities favoring civil marriage or civil unions and official recognition of non-Orthodox conversions.

But the survey also reported dissatisfaction with religious policy among 81 percent of haredi Orthodox Israelis, despite the fact that haredi parties regained control over the Religious Affairs Ministry and the powerful Knesset Finance Committee following the March elections. Since then, the parties have set about rolling back several reforms adopted by the previous government by removing the teeth from a law drafting haredi men into the military and repealing a conversion reform passed last year.

"When the haredim are unhappy, they're unhappy about something different than why the secular [Israelis] are unhappy," Rabbi Uri Regev, the Hiddush CEO, said. "To many of them, Israel is not giving them enough, not enforcing their prerogatives enough, not enforcing Shabbat observance.”

Covering a broad spectrum of questions on religious policy and identification, the Hiddush survey reported large majorities of Israelis supporting religious policy change, as it has every year since the poll began in 2009. Sixty-four percent of Jewish Israelis support recognizing Conservative and Reform conversions -- not just Orthodox, as is currently the case. Nearly three-quarters of Israelis want public transit on Shabbat. And 86 percent of respondents support haredi men performing military or civilian national service.

Sixty-four percent of Jewish Israelis want Israel to enact civil marriage or civil unions, though 63 percent said they would still choose an Orthodox ceremony for themselves -- including three-quarters of Conservative Jews.

“There is clearly a growing, solid, overwhelming majority of Israelis who are unhappy about the way religion and state are linked and impacting the lives of individuals and the state,” Regev said. “The public clearly does not like what the Israeli government has provided it with.”

The survey also found a rise in support for same-sex marriage -- with 64 percent in support, compared to 56 percent last year. The jump follows national legalization of gay marriage in the United States and a stabbing attack at the Jerusalem gay pride parade in July that killed a 16-year-old girl. But a substantial portion of Israel’s governing coalition opposes same-sex marriage, making its passage unlikely.

Israelis' long-held desire for religious reform hasn't led to corresponding government action. According to Regev, that's because Israelis, when voting, place less of a priority on religion than security or economics. That was especially true ahead of this year's election following a war in Gaza and much public discussion about skyrocketing housing prices. Religious issues didn’t even register in a March pre-election poll that asked about the country's most pressing concerns. Nor have issues like marriage and conversion been subjects of major public protest.

In 2013, religious policy briefly rose in prominence as Yesh Atid became the Knesset's second-largest party, promising to draft haredim and push for civil unions. But those issues faded as Israel entered last summer's war in Gaza. In this year's elections, the new kingmaker was Kulanu, a party largely focused on economics. Yesh Atid, meanwhile, lost eight seats and joined the parliamentary opposition.

“Yes, the majority of Israelis don’t like the way things are.

Yes, they want religious freedom and equality," Regev said.

"But should that be the condition for sitting in the government?

No. The challenge is how do you translate passive support and understanding of the issues into mobilization.”

Why some public school parents are switching to Jewish day schools

By Uriel Heilman Jewish Telegraphic Agency When Ali Martell’s eldest daughter reached school age, Martell and her husband both assumed she’d go to a Jewish day school, as they had.

And for a while, she did. But after the couple’s two younger children started school, too, the Martells began to feel overburdened by tuition. They couldn’t afford to send their kids to the summer camp of their choice, replace their aging minivan or go to Israel for a cousin’s bar mitzvah. So three years ago, they pulled their kids out of their Toronto Jewish day school and enrolled them in public school.

But this fall, Martell’s kids are all going back to Jewish day schools.

“My husband I were both happy that we had a bit of financial flexibility, but we were really missing the Jewish day school system,” Martell said. “We just didn’t feel connected to the community like the way our kids were when we were in Jewish day schools.”

The last straw came on Israeli Independence Day this past May, when Martell found herself teary eyed watching her friends’ day school kids marching down a blocked-off street wearing Israel’s blue and white. For her kids, Yom Haatzmaut was just a regular school day.

“As a family, we were all feeling that little piece was missing from our lives,” Martell said.

The Martells are among the many Jewish families who are making the switch this fall from public school to Jewish day school. Though precise data about such students doesn’t

exist, record-keeping at the Avi Chai Foundation suggests that the annual number of switchover students is at least in the hundreds: In the last year alone, Avi Chai was aware of 200 or so public school children switching to Jewish high school.

While transferring the opposite direction, from Jewish day school to public school, is probably more common and has an obvious financial benefit, there are a variety of factors motivating families to go the other way.

Many do so for the same reason families choose Jewish day school from the get-go: because they value a Jewish education.

Without the financial means, some families opt to split their kids’ education between public school in the early years, then Jewish day school once they’re older (or vice versa).

For others, the decision can be motivated as much by “push” factors — such as the shortcomings of the local public schools — as “pull” factors, like the benefits of full-time Jewish education.

“Some people who transition to Jewish day schools are transitioning out of public school because they’ve decided the public school system doesn’t work for them,” said Marc Kramer, executive director of RAVSAK, a network of 135 community Jewish day schools. “They perceived the quality of the public school education is not high, or their child excels in certain areas in ways the school cannot serve those needs.”

Andrea Askowitz, a mother in Miami, said she switched her kids into a Jewish day school only because her local public school, Sunset Elementary, was way too rigorous.

“I wasn’t drawn to the Jewishness, just drawn away from the inhumanity,” Askowitz said.

Some parents don’t realize what they’re missing until their child already is in public school and the parents gradually become aware of the importance of having their kid in a Jewish environment – to say nothing of the benefits of a formal Jewish education, Kramer said.

He recalled one public school father whose “aha moment” came halfway through a Passover seder, when he observed with disbelief how his friend’s day school-educated kids seemed capable of leading the seder.

“They see their friends’ kids, and they see they’re happy, excelling, building competency in Hebrew,” Kramer said. “They have the realization that unless you’re in this game you can’t play beyond the beginner level.”

Northwest Yeshiva High School, the only modern Orthodox high school in the Seattle area, usually gets a few students every year from public schools.

Melissa Rivkin, the school’s advancement director, says many come from families who would have preferred Jewish education throughout but just couldn’t afford it.

“They either are from families who save until high school and then will put their kids in a Jewish school in high school because those are very pivotal years in a teenager’s life and they want them to have Jewish values, Jewish education, Jewish friends,” Rivkin said. “Or, they are kids who were in public school and didn’t like it — maybe it was too big, or the social group was too fragmented —

and they’re looking at our school more as a community environment.”

Some enroll simply because they want the benefits of a small school, like access to teachers and fewer students in each classroom; Northwest Yeshiva has only 60 students in total.

For Barret Gruber Harr, a Reform Jew whose two daughters are switching this fall from public school to Hillel Day School near Detroit, the decision to switch was a convergence of considerations. She and her husband weren’t happy with their kids’ local public school, which had denied her eldest daughter’s diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They had considered Hillel two years ago when they moved to the area from Dallas, but they were put off by its seeming Orthodoxy.

Then they learned from friends that Hillel recently had undergone a philosophical change, and they took a second look. Initially skeptical, they fell in love with the school almost immediately. Harr, who is getting a master’s degree in Jewish education, says Hillel appears to be doing everything right.

“Every class we went in the kids were deeply engaged, the teachers were charismatic,” she said of her tour of the school.

“They’re really cultivating 21stcentury learners, and to really love Jewish values, and teaching collaboratively and creatively. I was crying by the end of the tour.

I will eat ramen for the rest of my life so my kids can go to this school.”

Miriam Greenstein, who lives in the Northeast, decided to make the switch this year for her oldest daughter, who is entering the sixth grade. She had been at a Hebrew charter school, a publicly funded school, but Greenstein decided that having excellent Hebrew-language studies and Jews among her peers just wasn’t enough.

“This is her bat mitzvah year.

She’s missing out on the Jewish part of her education, and that’s important to us,” Greenstein said. “When it’s Purim, I want her to feel like it’s Purim that day. When it’s Chanukah, I want her to feel it’s Chanukah all week long. You’re not going to get that in a public school. And that’s an experience I want my daughter to have.”

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Raphael Ettinger-Finley

Raising money for music education Raphael Ettinger-Finley is an eighth grade student at

Springhouse Middle School who enjoys reading, playing Magic the Gathering and spending time with his friends. Raphael will become a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Beth El on Oct. 10. Rafi enjoys spending his summers at the Suzuki Institute at Ithaca College and at Camp Pinemere.

Raphael started playing violin at the age of four with the Valley Suzuki Strings and now also plays in the SMS 7th/8th grade Orchestra and Honors Orchestra, as well as competing in fiddling, Celtic, and classical music settings.

Because music has been such a big part of his life, Rafi has chosen to support El Sistema Lehigh Valley as his mitzvah project. El Sistema provides free string instruments and lessons to disadvantaged children in Allentown. Rafi is raising money by playing his violin and requesting donations using a sign placed

in his case.

“I have been playing violin for almost nine years, and it has become a very big part of my life,” Raphael said, “I enjoy all of the opportunities that it has given me, including playing in my school orchestra and my Suzuki group. Because of my interest in and love of music, I wanted to raise money for kids whose parents cannot afford to pay for a private musical education, and I found out that the El Sistema program does just that. I decided to perform pieces from my repertoire and collect money to donate.

For example, the Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers’ Market generously allowed me to put out my violin case and play there.”

El Sistema Lehigh Valley (ESLV) is a free music education program made possible through the Allentown Symphony

Association’s collaboration with the Allentown School District. ESLV provides underserved and special needs youth with intensive after school string instrument instruction, choir instruction, and academic tutoring. ESLV is inspired by the Venezuelan music education system that nurtured the current music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel. You can read more about the program at asaeducation.weebly.com/elsistema-lehigh-valley.html.

If you would like to support El Sistema in honor of Raphael’s mitzvah project, donations can be made to El Sistema Lehigh Valley, Allentown Symphony Association, 23 North Sixth St., Allentown, PA 18101.

Audrey Ettinger and Michael Finley, Raphael’s parents, love what he does. “We have always been proud of Rafi’s work ethic and his enthusiasm for music and for helping others, and we always enjoy hearing him play violin,” Ettinger said.

“Rafi was truly moved when he realized how much the customers and merchants at the Farmers Market cared about supporting music education for city kids.”

In addition to his mitzvah project, Rafi has made his first adult gift of tzedakah to the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley Annual Campaign for Jewish Needs.

Eliza’s beaded bookmarks to best hunger Sometimes a special talent is discovered and turned into a mitzvah project.

This is how it happened for Eliza Wiener. Eliza spent the summer at New Jersey Y-Camps in Milford, Pennsylvania. “At camp, there is a jewelry shop where they taught us the coiling technique,” Eliza said. “I made hooks with extra loops and made a necklace out of the hooks.

They put it on special display at camp. Mom saw it on visiting day.”

“When I saw the necklace,” Eliza’s mom, Lynn Wiener, said. “I was in awe of her talent.

Later, I thought, she can incorporate this talent into her mitzvah project. What a wonderful thing, to use a talent doing something she loves to help others.”

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bookmarks. “I want to help stop childhood hunger,” Eliza said. “I saw an ad for the No Kid Hungry campaign from Share our Strength on Food Network. This charity seemed really good. I researched it and some other charities, but I like the way this one can sometimes provide up to 10 meals per dollar raised and that they teach the parents how to buy and cook nutritious food, and so I decided to make No Kid Hungry the charity that I would raise money for.”

No child should grow up hungry in America, but one in five children struggles with hunger. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign is ending child hunger in America by ensuring all children get the healthy food they need, every day. The No Kid Hungry campaign connects kids in need with nutritious food and teaches their families how to cook healthy, affordable meals. The campaign also engages the public to make ending child hunger a national priority.

Eliza, who is a 7th grade high honor roll student at Salisbury Middle School, plays clarinet in the school band and piano in the jazz band. She is in her 10th year studying dance at Dolly Haltzman Dance Academy and swims competitively with the Emmaus Aquatic Club.

She is also a black belt from Hoover Karate Academy. She will become a Bat Mitzvah on Nov. 28 at Temple Beth El in Allentown. “I have a goal of 100 donations of at least $5 each. For every donation of $5 or more, I will give a silver plated bookmark with a handmade copper charm and bead as a thank you gift.

I already received several donations just by sending a flyer with a link to my donation page explaining my mitzvah project to friends and family.”

If you would like to make a donation in support of Eliza’s mitzvah project you can do so at join. nokidhungry.org/goto/ elizaw. Eliza will make sure you receive a bookmark.

To continue the theme of helping those who are hungry, at Eliza’s bat mitzvah luncheon, flowers will be replaced with centerpieces

GIVE A MITZVAH, DO A MITZVAH that will benefit Jewish Family Service of Lehigh Valley.

In addition to her mitzvah project, Eliza has made her first adult gift of tzedakah to the Jewish Federation of the the Lehigh Valley Annual Campaign for Jewish Needs.

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Madeleine Rosenthal

Encouraging acceptance through the Ethiopian National Project For her bat mitzvah, Madeleine Rosenthal has been learning the book of Ruth, and reflective of her learning, she has chosen to raise awareness and money for the Ethiopian National Project (ENP) in Israel.

Madeleine will be celebrating her Bat Mitzvah this November. She has been a student at the Jewish Day School since Pre-K. At school and at home, Madeleine has always felt the importance of living a life of Jewish values. She takes part in the weekly Kinderlights program with Rabbi Wilensky and Eva Levitt, in which children visit the elderly of our community to help bring preShabbat cheer. She has spent time serving in a soup kitchen and harvesting produce from a farm that supplies that kitchen. At summer camp she has spent time visiting the elderly and giving tzedakah to various causes.

The ENP is an organization that works to advance the integration of EthiopianIsraelis into Israeli society. The foremost strategy is improving scholastic assistance and social outreach to young EthiopianIsraelis. Currently, ENP is reaching over 4,300 Ethiopian Israeli youth and has built 19 youth centers.

Madeleine learned of the ENP from her parents, Nicole and Jarrod Rosenthal, after their recent mission to Israel as Wax Family Fund Fellows. Madeleine immediately chose

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this as her mitzvah project. She says that it appealed to her because “the book of Ruth is about acceptance. If you accept someone as they are, something good can come of it.

When Ruth was accepted, the Jewish people got King David.”

She was fortunate to be able to meet privately with David Mashasha, an EthiopianIsraeli medical student who has benefited from the program, and to learn more about it from him first-hand.

Madeleine plans to raise awareness and financial assistance by educating her family and friends about the ENP. She also plans to present the ENP as a tzedakah project at the Jewish Day School. Madeleine is most excited about continuing to raise money and awareness at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake during the MADIMOW (Making A Difference In My Own Way) Fair. At this fair, senior campers present and raise money for the charity most important to them. Madeleine says she will be honored to bring the ENP to the MADIMOW fair for the very first time.

Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius unveiled the sign of the first street in Lithuania named for a non-Jew who risked her life to save Jews from the Holocaust.

The Sept. 22 ceremony was at Simaites Street, where a heavily Jewish crowd of several dozen people convened to honor Ona Šimaitė, a Vilnius University librarian whose actions helped rescue numerous Jews from the Vilna Ghetto.

Simaites, who was recognized in 1966 as a Righteous Among the Nations – a title conferred by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on behalf of the State of Israel — arranged for the rescue of Jews, including children, by other Righteous.

She was also responsible for the forging of identity documents, and helped smuggle provisions into the Vilna Ghetto as well as carrying letters between

ghetto inmates and residents of the city outside the ghetto gates, according to the defendinghistory.com site on Jewish news from Lithuania.

Separately, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite posthumously stripped a Lithuanian anti-communist fighter, Pranas Koncius, of a state honor because of his complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust, when many Lithuanians volunteered to serve the Nazi army and occupation government. “He was never worthy of this award,” the Baltic News Service quoted Grybauskaite as saying on Sept. 21.

On Tuesday, a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the genocide of Lithuanian Jews was held at the Paneriai Memorial.

Parliament Speaker Loreta Grauziniene and several hundred others paid tribute there to thousands of people killed at the site during the Second World War.

For help developing your mitzvah project, contact Abby Trachtman, program coordinator, at abbyt@ jflv.org or call her at the Federation office at 610821-5500.

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Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn and British Jewry may need to make up

By Cnaan Liphshiz Jewish Telegraphic Agency Jeremy Corbyn, the new head of Britain’s opposition Labor Party, has many of the makings of a hero for British Jews.

A Labor lawmaker with over 30 years of experience, Corbyn passionately and eloquently defends blue-collar Britain, multiculturalism and a left-of-center notion of social justice. These are issues that resonate with Britain's 250,000-strong Jewish community, which has historically leaned Labor.

Yet Corbyn’s election in September has generated unprecedented concern in British Jewry’s ranks, where many resent his Israel-critical views and endorsement of anti-Semitic enemies of the Jewish state, including Islamist militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

Following an acrimonious exchange of allegations during Corbyn’s campaign for Labor leader, he and representatives of British Jewry may now find they need to mend fences and figure out a way to work together.

“The problem is not that Corbyn is an anti-Semite or a Holocaust denier – he is neither,” said Dave Rich, a spokesperson for the Community Security Trust, British Jewry’s main watchdog. But Corbyn “seems to gravitate towards people who are, if they come with an anti-Israel sticker on them."

Corbyn, 66, who has visited the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel nine times, publicly endorsed a blanket arms embargo on Israel and the boycott of Israeli universities involved in

weapons research.

Jonathan Sacerdoti, a Jewish political commentator and journalist, said Corbyn’s election "and failure to convincingly and definitively distance himself from his endorsements of anti-Semitic entities is sure to embolden the anti-Israel camp, and its anti-Semites."

Ambrosine Shitrit, co-founder of Yad B'yad, a right-leaning British anti-Semitism watchdog, called Corbyn’s election “one of the most tragic things to have happened to Labor.”

Corbyn’s Jewish critics have said that if he is to be trusted, he must first clarify or backtrack from a string of gestures he made toward anti-Semitic individuals and groups.

Famous among those gestures was his use during a speech he made in 2009 of the term “friends” to describe activists from Hezbollah and Hamas.

“It will be my pleasure and my honor to host an event in parliament where our friends from Hezbollah will be speaking,” Corbyn said of members of the Shiite Islamist militia and political party, whose leaders have made numerous anti-Semitic statements.

On Hamas — a Palestinian Islamic military and political group whose charter proclaims “a very great and very serious struggle against the Jews" — Corbyn said, "I’ve also invited friends from Hamas to come and speak as well.

Unfortunately the Israelis would not allow them to travel here.”

Labeling Hamas a terrorist group, Corbyn added, was “a big, big historical mistake.”

In another widely cited incident, Holocaust denier Paul Eisen wrote that Corbyn donated money to his Palestinian advocacy group, Deir Yassin Remembered.

Corbyn denied the claim and said during a television interview in July that he did not agree with Hamas and Hezbollah. He called them friends only, he said, as a figure of speech. He defended his talks with militant Islamists by comparing them to right-wing Israelis, "who have the same view possibly that the state of Israel should extend from the river to the sea."

His explanations failed to convince supporters of Israel and Labor Jews, including lawmaker Ivan Lewis, who following Corbyn’s election quit his Labor position as shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland.

Lewis challenged Corbyn to attend a meeting on antiSemitism on the political left, and Corbyn accepted this week. The meeting, Lewis said, is meant in part to address “Jeremy’s support in the past for people who have used anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

Corbyn faces a chorus of other Labor critics, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who say the Labor leader's radically socialist views on the economy will either split Labor, make it unelectable as a ruling party or both.

One of the most dramatic twists in Corbyn’s strained relationship with British Jewry’s establishment unfolded on Aug. 14, when The Jewish Chronicle — neither a right-wing publication nor one prone to making

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unfounded claims — warned in an editorial that Corbyn risked being “regarded from the day of his election as an enemy of Britain’s Jewish community.”

Speaking for what the paper said was "the vast majority of British Jews," the Chronicle's unusually harsh-worded editorial spoke of "deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr. Corbyn’s election as Labor leader."

Yet British Jews also have an interest in working with Corbyn, as evidenced in a Sept. 12 statement by Simon Johnson, CEO of Britain’s Jewish Leadership Council, an umbrella group with representation by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

Despite “a number of concerns regarding some of Mr. Corbyn’s past connections,” Johnson wrote, “We will, as we always have, find ways of working with Her Majesty’s Opposition on matters relevant to us.” He added, “We hope that the Labor movement remains a welcoming environ-

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ment for members of the Jewish community, many of whom have lifelong commitments to it.”

Johnson's statement reflects a mutual need by Corbyn and the British Jews for cooperation.

This need will prevail — perhaps through a succession of lowkey, trust-building encounters — over the current atmosphere of distrust, according to Keith Harris-Kahn, a London-area Jewish sociologist and editor of the Jewish Journal of Sociology.

“It’s a very bad idea for the Jewish community to not have workable relationships with the major opposition party,” Harris-Kahn said, citing the community’s need to avoid partisanship and promote its interest in various British parliaments.

For Corbyn, Harris-Kahn said, “as a politician aspiring to be the prime minister of a multicultural country, it’s a very bad idea for him to be alienated from the majority of one significant British minority.”

The Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle

By David Benkof Special to HAKOL

Designing puzzles with the knowledgeable but not necessarily bilingual Jew in mind, David

Benkof says, “No more than a very few clues per puzzle expect the solver to simply translate between Hebrew and English.” Note that some answers may actually be two words

written as one, without a space between them.

For answers to the crossword puzzle, visit the Federation website at www.jewishleighvalley.org.

“READING UP ON THE BIBLE”

By Alan Olschwang Difficulty Level: Manageable ACROSS

1 Joel’s “Cabaret” costar 5 Jacob to Abraham: Abbr.

9 The Exodus, in a sense 13 Japanese lokshen 14 Prefix with “pathy” (together, treatment method strongly advocated by Yehudi Menuhin) 15 Wedding staple 16 Over-the-top sermon 17 How some remove their yarmulkes 18 Second Commandment taboo 19 Fischer fixation 21 Canaan dog, e.g.

23 8th sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life 24 Gershwin song, “___ All Laughed” 25 Menorah finish, perhaps 29 Manifestations of Sodom and Saddam 31 Gymnast Kerri Strug’s home state 32 Feature of “Hatari!” (1962) in which Red Buttons played a lead role 34 “Cross Creek” director Martin 35 Mitzvah type, for Ashkenazi Jews 36 Lerner and Loewe’s “If ___ I Would Leave You” 37 Sound made by the stone as it struck Goliath, perhaps 39 Samson’s were no doubt quite impressive 40 First person 41 Dolph Schayes datum 42 Really digs, as one’s Torah study class, e.g.

44 Do some dor-to-dor work with your values 46 One who is not to be trusted 47 “Remington ___”: TV Series in which Stephanie Zimbalist played Laura Holt 48 3800 - 3900 to the Romans 49 Start of the name of the character who saw Princess Leia’s hologram on Tatooine 52 Brad Ausmus’s milieu: Abbr.

53 Hung around after Hebrew school, say 55 “Abbie an’ Slats” writer 58 Research subject for Lise Meitner 60 It’s one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world 61 Second son 62 Lisa of “A Different World” 63 Ward who starred in Zwick/Herdkov-

itz’s “Once and Again” 64 She costarred with Dustin in “Outbreak” 65 Competitor of Donna, Calvin and Ralph 66 M’od to 65 Across

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1 Carolyn Jones character’s manservant in “The Addams Family” 2 Common source for the main latke ingredient 3 Football strategy 4 Example of provident and organized industry, according to Proverbs 5 Tzedakah beneficiaries 6 Sidney Lumet’s “Running on ___” 7 Vav in Venice 8 Anton Rubinstein, e.g.

9 Red alternative from the Galilee 10 Ben Gurion International’s locale 11 Valuable metal in Ladino 12 Gun designer Uzi 14 Words before “don’t you cry” in the song “Summertime” 20 Direction in a borscht recipe 22 Omer, for one 26 Goon 27 What the Knesset can do with laws 28 Prop used by Billy Crystal in “City Slickers” 30 Matzah to matzo: Abbr.

31 “To be a free nation in our Land,” for example 32 Penultimate round in the Ligat HaAl playoffs 33 Elliot Sharp’s genre, ____-garde 34 “Megillat ___” (Book traditionally read on Shavuot) 38 Kubrick’s computer 39 Knish, so to speak 41 One place to cool a 39 Down 43 State in which you don’t want the bat mitzvah just before her service 45 “Second” destroyed by Titus 46 Garden guardians that have five letters in common with creatures like the one from Prague 48 Like the high priest in the Holy of Holies, always 50 Mr. Television of a Golden Age 51 Tony Martin’s song “I Get ___” 54 Charles Goren’s position, at times 55 Sabra of the ‘60s, for one 56 One-time New York mayor Beame 57 “Today I am a fountain ___.”

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