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Chanukah brings light into our lives at the dark time of year. and when you make a donation to the jewish federation of the desert, you share that light with those who need it most right now. Give so that emergency funds are there for a desperate family. assure hot meals are delivered to a homebound elderly woman. Give a young child a jewish book. Your gift to federation does all of that and more. Be the light at www.jfedps.org.

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This Chanukah,

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Chanukah brings light into our lives at the dark time of year. And when you make a donation to the Jewish Federation of the Desert, you share that light with those who need it most right now. Give so that emergency funds are there for a desperate family. Assure hot meals are delivered to a homebound elderly woman. Give a young child a Jewish book. Your gift to Federation does all of that and more. Be the light at www.jfedps.org.

jewish federation BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers and Executive Committee Celia Norian, President Sondi Green & Libby Hoffman, Vice Presidents, Campaign Vernon Kozlen, Treasurer Bernard Reiter, Secretary Lainie Weil, President, Women’s Philanthropy Allan Lehmann & Phil Glass, Allocations Nancy Ditlove, Major Gifts Roberta Nyman, Immediate Past President Howard Levy, Immediate Past President

President

There is a special relationship between all human beings and food.

There may be cultural differences and the foods may vary, but just about everyone has feelings regarding certain foods and the customs surrounding them. No less so for Jews. Food is intrinsic to Jewish ritual, life and culture. The first thing that we were commanded to do in Egypt was to have a communal meal.

Talking about food, you are probably aware that this month we have two holidays – one Jewish and

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Joseph Bernstein Sandra Borns Elliott Cohen Ellen Glass James Graff-Radford Fran Kaufman Marvin Lewis

Jason Novack Allan Nyman Dr. Paul Ross Stephanie Ross Elisa Schwartz Sandy Seplow Amy Stone

Bruce Landgarten, Chief Executive Officer

Table of Contents Vol. 39 • No. 4

Calendar 12-13 Federation 2, 3, 6, 29, 32 Endowment 11 Honor Roll 18-25 Women's Philanthropy 4 Young Adults (j-connect) 3 Food - Have a Nosh 31 Jewish Family Service 14 Schools 11 Simchas & Classifieds 30 Temples 12 Tolerance Education Center 14 Tributes 26 2 • JCN • November 2013 • Cheshvan/Kislev 5774 • www.jfedps.org

one American – that will overlap, each one having separate traditional foods. Some of us will even try to combine the usual Thanksgiving meal with the fried foods related to Chanukah.

What would our lives be like if we didn’t have/couldn’t afford to purchase food on a regular basis?

Would not have the traditional foods of the holidays? Had to make decisions between buying food or medicine? These situations happen to people every day. Right here, in our lovely Coachella Valley, there are people who are not as fortunate as you and I. This is where your Federation dollars come in to play. Did you realize that one third of our allocations are spent taking care of the vulnerable right here in the desert? We support food distribution programs through

our contributions to Aids Assistance Program, F.I.N.D., Food Now, and the Mitzvah Food Program at Temple Sinai. We support the Meals on Wheels Program of the Mizell Senior Center – the largest hot meal delivery program in the valley.

Your Federation contribution goes a long way to assuring that those who are in need have their basic food requirements met.

When you gather around your Thanksgiving/Chanukah table with your family and friends, be thankful that you can enjoy the holiday foods with your loved ones. Think of those less fortunate and be thankful that you have made a contribution to Federation to help make a difference in their lives.

Happy Chanukah. Happy Thanksgiving.

From the CEO Bruce Landgarten Jewish Federation Chief Executive Officer

Now that we have moved into the Fall season, we have rolled up our sleeves and are going into overdrive, fueled by the commitment simply to be of service to the Jewish people here and around the world.

Federation runs a lean machine.

As the economic crisis has not fully recovered, we have kept our overall budget down, while maintaining our funding of allocations to agencies.

Our annual campaign is our community’s “bread and butter”. So many and so much relies upon its success. Our Desert community’s impressive agency services are supported in part by the money we raise through our Annual Campaign and our 2012-13 campaign ended up over $2.3 million dollars, allowing us to continue to fund important programs and services.

These past tough economic years have been unnerving, and by no means are we completely out of the woods yet. Wallets that once held credit cards now hold food stamps. Formerly stable families are streaming into our Federation and making requests for our

Tzedakah Fund emergency support and to our recipient agencies for the basics: housing, utilities, medicine and groceries. Food banks need constant replenishing, and all this unfolds as our own Federation system is stretched by decreased income from all sources.

This past year, through our Federation, hundreds were served meals, received support for health care, including prescriptions, were given support for mortgage or rent payments, utilities and other necessities. We also have done our best not to neglect enrichment programs for children, including assistance to attend Jewish camps, Israel experience programs, pre-school, after school….and so much more.

Notwithstanding some of the particular accomplishments that were realized during this past year, the challenges ahead are daunting. We anticipate that our annual campaign, despite best efforts and the generosity of so many people, will be difficult to maintain at the same level. We know that all of our beneficiary agencies face significant financial challenges of their own.

While we can all hope that the economy will continue to recover, we have to face the fact that we are dealing with a new economic reality: We can’t plug every hole. But, make no mistake, this Federation will not allow Jews to go hungry or be put out on the street. We are able to make this pledge first and foremost because so

many generous people trust and rely on us to do the right things in the right ways on their behalf, effectively and efficiently, with ‘rachmonus’ on our part and dignity for those we help.

In the almost four years I have been in this community, I have trumpeted

our success in building for the future, and even in this most challenging year I continue to do so. But we cannot kid ourselves. This is not business as usual.

In past years, I have talked about how far we've come. This year, it’s all about how far we have to go.

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Women's Philanthropy 39 days and Counting... education day is Monday, december 9, 2013, with the highly anticipated return of Alon Ben-David, Senior Defense Correspondent for Israel 10 News. When he was here for INSIGHTS in March, Ben-David said “the next six months will be crucial” in the Middle East, and the tumultuous events in Syria and Egypt plus changes in Iran bear out his prediction.

Join us to hear a powerful speaker, whose extensive knowledge and penetrating analysis

of the Mideast events will assure Education Day is an insightful, riveting two hours.

Men are invited and urged to attend. The program is being held at the uCR Palm Desert Center Auditorium at Frank Sinatra Drive and Cook Street. Parking is free. Couvert of $25 per person includes mid-morning refreshments.

Seating is limited. Reserve your seat now with Linn Menne, Jewish Federation of the Desert at 760-324-4737.

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jewish COMMUniTY news A Publication of the Jewish Federation of the Desert VOL. 39, no. 4

ediTOriaL Bruce Landgarten, Chief Executive Officer Miriam h. Bent, Editor Bailey & Co., Layout & Design jCn sTaTeMenT The Jewish Community News seeks to provide news and feature material of special interest to its readership, and to create a heightened sense of Jewish identity through the dissemination of information about people, events and issues at home and abroad. The JCN seeks to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and opinions in the Jewish community.

The JCN is published monthly, ten months a year by the Jewish Federation of the Desert, 69-710 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, 760-324-4737, fax 760-324-3154. arTiCLes & adVerTisinG, Miriam h. Bent, Editor 760-323-0255, fax 760-320-6085, e-mail-mhbentjcn@earthlink.net adVerTisinG The JCN does not endorse the goods or services advertised in its pages and makes no representation as to the kashrut of food products and services in such advertising.

The publisher shall not be liable for damages if, for any reason whatsoever, it fails to publish an advertisement or for any error in an advertisement. Acceptance of advertisers and of advertising copy is subject to the publisher’s approval.

The JCN is not responsible if ads violate applicable laws and the advertiser will indemnify, hold harmless and defend the JCN from all claims made by government agencies and consumers for any reason based on ads carried in the JCN.

New Therapy for Brain Cancer?

The Israeli discovery of a cancer-driving protein could lead to a new weapon in the currently losing battle against brain tumors.

By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel

control group rapidly developed large tumors. In the second group of mice, the scientists used a biologic “knockdown” technique to reduce hnRNP A2/B1 before injection. Those mice developed only small tumors or no tumors at all.

“These results suggest that hnRNP A2/B1 is a driving oncogene — a gene that causes normal cells to become cancerous — on its own and probably directly contributes to glioblastoma development,” said

Karni. “Down-regulating hnRNP A2/ B1 levels in glioblastoma cells should be considered as a new strategy for glioblastoma therapy.”

The Israeli scientists’ data suggest that hnRNP A2/B1 is a new biomarker for glioblastoma patient survival and a new proto-oncogene that regulates the splicing and other RNA processing steps of several tumor suppressors and oncogenes.”

“Down-regulating hnRNP A2/B1 levels in glioblastoma cells should

be considered as a new strategy for glioblastoma therapy,” he said. The researchers in Karni’s lab are now trying to identify which genes are regulated by hnRNP A2/B1. He noted that in a previous study of brain and breast cancer cells with knockdown of hnRNP A2, “we identified key genes of very important pathways involved in cancer development and maintenance,” as well as genes that indicate proliferation of cancer or tumor suppression.

Regina Golan-Gerstl

Israeli biochemist Regina GolanGerstl has identified a genetic protein likely to be involved in the development and spread of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer in adults.

Each year, approximately 22,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with a potentially lifethreatening brain tumor. Glioblastoma tumors are extremely difficult to remove surgically, and they press on or damage brain tissue as they grow.

Chemotherapy and radiation do not help much; the median survival rate even with these interventions is just over a year. Only about 10 percent of glioblastoma patients live five years or longer after diagnosis.

Golan-Gerstl has identified a protein — splicing factor hnRNP A2/ B1 — that is highly “overexpressed” in tumor samples from patients with various types of brain cancer when compared with samples taken from healthy brains. The finding was reported in the journal Cancer Research, published by the American Association for Cancer Research.

Working in the laboratory of Rotem Karni at the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Golan-Gerstl and her team then injected lab mice with glioblastoma cells. Mice in the JCN • November 2013 • Cheshvan/Kislev 5774• www.jfedps.org • 5

Three jewish Professors — Two israelis — share 2013 nobel Prize in Chemistry

By Gavriel Fiske, The Times of Israel

Kibbutz-born Arieh Warshel fought in the 1967 Six Day War and 1973Yom Kippur War; Pretoria-born Michael Levitt taught at the Weizmann Institute for most of the 1980s, and became an Israeli citizen; Martin Karplus fled as a child to the u.S. from Nazi-occupied Austria. The prestigious Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded ‘for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.’

Of the 23 chemistry Nobels awarded in the past decade, 11 of the winners were Jewish and six of them were Israelis. But both Warshel and Levitt left Israel for the united States because they felt they could not progress there, underlining concerns about the ongoing brain drain of top Israeli academics.

Ariel Warshel was born in 1940 in Kibbutz Sde Nahum, in the Beit She’an Valley. He served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), reaching the rank of captain, then attended Haifa’s

Technion, where he got a BSc degree in Chemistry in 1966.

He earned MSc and PhD degrees in Chemical Physics (in 1967 and 1969), at the Weizmann Institute of Science Dr. Arieh Warshel in Rehovot. He then did postdoctoral work at Harvard university, returned to the Weizmann Institute in the early 1970’s and also worked for the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at USC in 1976 Asked why he had left Israel for the u.S., he said it was “hard to progress at the Weizmann Institute.” It was later learned that he had failed to secure tenure at the Institute.

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The third winner, Martin Karplus, was born in Vienna in 1930, and, along with his family, fled to the United States in 1938 to escape the Nazi occupation Dr. Martin Karplus of Austria. He attended Harvard university and received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology. Martin Karplus is based at the université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard university in Massachusetts. However, his daughter has called Jerusalem her home for over 30 years. Rivka

Karplus, a family physician and an internal medicine and infections specialist, settled in Israel in 1985 and has worked in numerous Israeli clinics and hospitals.

In determining that these three scientists be awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the academy noted that in the past, chemists “used to create models of molecules using plastic balls and sticks. Today, the modelling is carried out in computers. In the 1970’s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes … Computer models mirroring real life have become crucial for most advances made in chemistry today. Chemical reactions occur at lightning speed. In a fraction of a millisecond, electrons jump from one atomic nucleus to the other. Classical chemistry has a hard time keeping up; it is virtually impossible to experimentally map every little step in a chemical process.

Aided by the methods now awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, scientists let computers unveil chemical processes.”

It said the work of Karplus, Levitt and Warshel “is groundbreaking in that they managed to make Newton’s classical physics work side-by-side with the fundamentally different quantum physics. Simulations are so realistic that they predict the outcome of traditional experiments.”

The prize amount, approximately $1.25 million — is to be shared equally between the laureates.

Pope Francis: “It is a Contradiction for a Christian to be anti-Semitic” Public Diplomacy Network

Pope Francis called for increased vigilance to combat anti-Semitism in a meeting with representatives of the Jewish community in Rome. The Pope met with Rome Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni and other leaders to mark the 70th anniversary of the date when Nazis rounded up the Jews of Rome for deportation to Auschwitz.

Recalling the genocidal campaign, the Pope said: “We remember and pray for the many innocent victims of human barbarism, and for their families. It will also be an occasion to recall the importance of remaining vigilant in order that we do not regress, under any pretext, to any forms of intolerance and anti-Semitism, in

many Christian communities, “in accordance with the wishes of the Pope, opened their doors to provide a fraternal welcome” to Jews seeking to escape the Holocaust.

In his greetings, the Pope observed that the Jewish community of Rome “may claim to be the most ancient in

Western Europe.” He acknowledged that the history of relations between Christians and Jews had “often been marred with misunderstandings and real injustice,” but said that “many decades of development of friendly and brotherly relations” have improved ties in recent years.

Rome and in the rest of the world I have said it before, and I would like to repeat once more: it is a contradiction for a Christian to be anti-Semitic.

The “common tragedy of the war” had a devastating impact on both Christians and Jews, and “taught us to walk together,” the Pope remarked.

He reminded his audience that

JNF: For the Love of Israel The Jewish National Fund Palm Springs and Desert Region will be holding its seventh annual “Love of Israel Dinner” Tuesday evening, Debbie Orgen-Garrett December 17, 2013 at the Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa. “The dinner this year will be a truly special evening,” announced LOI Dinner Chair Debbie OrgenGarrett. “Our honorees, Jim and Donna Levitas and Leonard Sherman are deeply committed to the State of Israel and the work of the Jewish National Fund.”

Visiting Israel five months ago, Jim, Leonard and Debbie witnessed firsthand the creation and expansion of new communities in Israel’s Negev, the target area of JNF’s Blueprint Negev, a $600 million project to develop this region through the construction of new settlements for immigrants and Israelis.

Seeing the newly built synagogue in

the developing community of Carmit, walking through the completed areas of the Be’er Sheva River Walk Project, and dedicating the newly completed playground in Givot Bar (a Palm Springs and Desert Region Project), were just some of the highlights.

Proceeds from this dinner event will go towards completing the commitment of JNF Palm Springs and Desert Region to underwrite a group residence home at Aleh Negev, a state of the art facility for the severely developmentally challenged, in the town of Ofakim.

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Anti-Semitic Elmo’ Goes to Jail

Court says Dan Sandler, known for spewing anti-Semitic invective while wearing a muppet suit, extorted Girl Scouts

By Stuart Winer, The Times of Israel

A man who gained notoriety for going on anti-Semitic rants while dressed in an Elmo muppet suit in New York was sentenced to a year in jail for trying to extort $2 million from the Girl Scouts, where he worked briefly on a computer project. Dan Sandler showed no remorse for his crimes and said as much to Judge Robert Stolz as he was sentenced at the Manhattan Criminal Court.

“This is not the case of someone in the back room of the office trying to embezzle money — this is more of a protest, like laying down in the intersection,” Sandler said. “I am in no way sorry to the Girl Scouts organization, because I think they are a corrupt organization.”

Prosecutors claimed that in 2012 Sandler, 49, sent harassing emails to his supervisors at the Girls Scouts. In the emails, he threatened to publicize the false claim that the Girl Scouts organized sexual liaisons between men and its members, unless he was paid $2 million.

Sandler pleaded guilty to lesser charges of second-degree attempted grand larceny and third-degree stalking.

His defense lawyer, Lorri Cohen, said her client pleaded guilty to avoid a trial that might have ended with a heavier sentence, but also suggested that Sandler never really intended to receive the money. “Is there any realm in which we think the Girl Scouts would pay him

money because he sent them emails?”

Cohen said. “It was sort of a silly case.”

Sandler shot to fame on the Internet in June last year as “Bad Elmo” after he was caught on film hurling obscene, antiSemitic epithets at tourists while dressed as the Sesame Street character Elmo in New York’s Central Park. Sandler earned money from tips by posing for photographs

with tourists, including children, but was arrested for disorderly conduct because of his offensive behavior. According to The New York Times, Sandler has a shady past involving a website he ran from Cambodia, called “Welcome to the Rape Camp,” that featured videos claiming to be of nonconsensual sex. He was deported by local authorities in 1999.

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Golden Dawn Leader Jailed Ahead of Trial in Greece Crackdown on the Neo-Nazi Party

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A Greek court ordered the head of the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party held in jail until his trial. The decision to incarcerate Nikolaos Michaloliakos came early October 3rd, following six hours of testimony that ran through

Three of those MPs did not meet the conditions for being retained in custody and were released pending trial. Ilias Kasidiaris, the party spokesperson, was released on bail of EUR 50,000 and is forbidden to leave the country.

the night. Michaloliakos was arrested the week before with several other lawmakers and senior Golden Dawn members on charges of forming a criminal organization, part of an unprecedented crackdown on the neoNazi party. If convicted, Michaloliakos could face several years in prison.

Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou hailed the decision on Michaloliakos an important victory for the Greek legal system, calling it “the most dynamic confrontation of a neo-Nazi criminal gang in European, and possibly world history.”

Michaloliakos and another 20 members of Golden Dawn were detained in connection with the murder of left-wing activist and popular singer Pavlos Fisas in mid-September.

Michaloliakos is suspected of bearing direct responsibility for the party's illegal activities.

The party chair has been labeled an authoritarian leader on the model of the Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler.

The Greek authorities also reviewed the cases of four other detained Golden Dawn MPs on October 3rd.

Kasidiaris told the judges his detention is a case of political persecution.

Golden Dawn is defending itself against all of the charges by arguing that the right-wing extremist who has confessed to the murder of Fisas was not a member of their party.

Two other MPs, Nikos Michos and Ilias Panajotaros, are also banned from leaving Greece. The fourth detained legislator, Jannis Lagos, remained in custody, reportedly because his indirect participation in the murder of Fisas has been ascertained.

Golden Dawn, which has 18 seats in the 300-member parliament, has been accused of being behind dozens of attacks on immigrants in Greece. The party is known for its Nazi swastikalike flag and Holocaust-denying leadership.

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Technion Campus to Open in China

Chinese billionaire puts Israeli high-tech education on his Horizons, with a commitment to the Technion’s Israel campus and a new one in Shantou.

By Karin Kloosterman, Israel 21c

What’s China got to do with Israel’s startup success? A lot, and there’s more to come, if Asia’s wealthiest man has his way. According to Forbes magazine, the eighth richest man in the world is Li Ka-shing of China. Li has instigated a $280 million research and academic transaction between Israel and China to benefit both countries.

The money pot –– $130 million from his own Li Ka-shing Foundation and $150 million from the governments of Guangdong Province and Shantou municipality — will give the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology a continued cutting edge by updating its infrastructure, and will help China learn Israel’s “secret sauce” to startups with a Technion-styled campus in China.

Li’s pay-it-forward investment company Horizons Ventures underwrites a growing number of hot startups from Israel — including the navigation app Waze, seed-enhancement technology from Kaiima, image-processing technologies of Cortica, and socialmedia TV company Stevie. The HongKong-based Horizons also invested in the global brands Skype, Facebook, Spotify and Siri.

Li typically puts about one-third of his profits into socially conscious projects. After a recent billion-dollar buyout from Google, Israel’s Waze has made Horizons that much richer. Sources in Israel say that this is why Li decided to invest in Israeli higher education – specifically at the Technion, whose graduates lead many

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Signing of the agreement on September 29 are, from left sitting, Prof. Gu Peihua of Shantou University and Prof. Peretz Lavie, president of the Technion; and standing, Frank Sixt, co-director of the Li Ka-shing Foundation; Lu Kun from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China; Li Ka-shing Foundation co-director Solina Chau; Li Ka-shing; Governor Zhu Xioadan of the Guangdong Province; Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space Yaakov Peri; Danny Yamin, chairman of the Technion Council; and Technion Senior Executive Vice President Prof.

Paul Feigin.

of Israel’s most successful startups.

According to Danny Shapiro, director of public affairs and resource development at the Technion, there are two major developments in the pipeline. The first is $150 million toward building the TechnionGuangdong Institute of Technology at Shantou University, to open in 2014.

This campus, funded by the Guangdong Province and Shantou municipality, will draw on the Technion’s experience in science and technology. Technion faculty will help train Chinese students, who will earn degrees from the Technion in civil and environmental engineering or computer science.

“This is the first time China has invested in and completely paid for a university to open up business and start operating in China,” says Shapiro, noting that the Asian country is already host to satellite campuses of US, Canadian and European universities looking to attract Asian students.

“The Chinese and the people we are dealing with wanted the Technion to develop a world-competitive institution of education for engineering and science. They could have chosen any university in the world, and they chose Israel,” Shapiro tells ISRAEL21c.

Labs for superstars

In a separate but related development, the Li Ka-shing Foundation is donating an unprecedented $130 million to the Technion campus in Haifa to build new labs, classrooms and basic infrastructure.

If the Technion wants to “attract top people from MIT or Stanford, we need to build them half-million dollar labs,” commented Danny Shapiro.

“This money is going to go to labs for the superstars we just recruited.”

The Technion also is working with Cornell University in New York to construct a campus of technology at Roosevelt Island off Manhattan. This school will grant joint Technion and Cornell degrees.

While the American science and high-tech community is already turned into the cross-pollination between Israel and its states, China is starting to wake up to the enormous potential the startup nation can offer China’s fledgling entrepreneurs. According to Shapiro, the Chinese “have a tremendous amount of respect for our achievements. They identify with our history and especially about building ourselves and making our way in the world using technology and brainpower.”

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November Shabbat Schedule

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Children’s Program/Service 11:15 am. Daily minyan: Shacharit services MondayFriday 7:00 am; Sundays 8:00 am

desert hot springs jewish Community

Shabbat service Friday, November 1 at 7 pm and Havdallah Plus Saturday, November 16 at 7 pm - Mission Lakes Country Club, 8484 Clubhouse Drive, DHS, officiated by Rabbi Faith Tessler.

har-el Congregation

Member, union for Reform Judaism. Kabbalat Shabbat Services Fridays at 5:00 pm followed by a speaker or discussion.

shalom Bayit (Banning)

Havdallah the first Saturday of each month at 5:30 pm.

Shabbat Services the third Friday

of the month at 7:30 pm. Both held 1320 West Williams Street, Banning.

Temple isaiah

Friday Shabbat services 7:30 pm, followed by an Oneg Shabbat.

Saturday mornings: Services 10:00 am. Kiddush following.

Morning minyan 8:30 am Mondays and Thursdays.

Temple sinai

Friday Shabbat services at 7:30 pm Friday, November 8: Installation of Rabbi Ettman Saturday: 8:45 am: Torah Study, 10:00 am - Shabbat services.

Centro Cultural hebreo de Mexicali

Weekly Shabbat Services Friday at 7:00 pm, followed by dinner.

Saturday immediately before sunset: Havdallah.

November Community Calendar Tuesdays 5:30-7:30 pm Chabad Rancho Mirage’s weekly BBQ. Reservations not required, but helpful: 760-7707785. wednesdays 10:00 am and 1:30 pm The Tolerance Education Center offers free movies every Wednesday. Call for schedule: 760-328-8252. wednesdays 3:30-5:00 pm Jewish Family Service jewish Bereavement Group. Meets weekly at the JFS Palm Springs Office, 801 East Tahquitz Canyon. Free to local community and reservations not required.

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fridays 9:30-10:30 am Temple Isaiah Torah study with Rabbi Sally Olins.

Monday, november 4, 11, 18, 25 7:00 pm Chabad of Rancho Mirage Men’s Torah Class with Rabbi Benny Lew. For more information call 760-636-2897 or email rabbibenny@chabadrm.com.

Tuesday, november 5, 12, 19, 26 10 am Temple Sinai Yiddish Club Tuesday, november 5 noon Jewish Family Service “Lunch In & Out” program for homebound seniors at Jocelyn Senior Center.

Call 760-325-4088, ext. 205 to register. See details page 14.

wednesday, november 6, 13, 20, 27 10:00 am Temple Isaiah adult education class intermediate hebrew. Instructor: Rabbi Sally Olins. wednesday, november 6, 13, 20 10:30-11:30 am Har-El Galen Trimester Course “World Affairs: Key Places and People; the u.S. and World Affairs, Islam, BRIC Countries and Immigration.”

Instructor: Prof. Penny rivin.

Fee. Call 760-779-1691.

See ad page 9. wednesday, november 6, 13, 20, 27 12 noon Temple Sinai adult education course “judaism Today”

November Community Calendar Continued wednesday, november 6, 13, 20, 27 1 pm Temple Sinai Bereavement Group wednesday, november 6, 13, 20, 27 4:00 pm Temple Isaiah adult education class: “The Kings: saul, david & solomon.” Instructor: Rabbi Sally Olins. wednesday, november 6, 13, 20, 27 5:00 pm Temple Isaiah adult education class: Learning haftorah. Instructor: Rabbi Sally Olins.

Thursday, november 7 9:00 am Sun City Hadassah Meeting. Program: Linda Zweig “Hillel’s Admonition.” $5.

RSVP to 760-772-4610.

Thursday, november 7 4:00 pm Tolerance Education Center presents a film and lecture forum featuring survivor stories 75 years after Kristallnacht.

See details page 14.

Thursday, november 7 6:00 pm american friends of hebrew University Cocktails and

Conversation with Professor eilon Vaadia, See ad page 9. friday, november 8 1:00 pm Temple Isaiah free Memoir writing workshop followed by holiday shopping. See classified ad page 30 for details. friday, november 8 3:30-4:30 pm & 5:30-6:30 pm Har-El Symposium: Fridays with a Scholar - “The Jewish Image on Television.” Presenter: Marc Pariser.

Monday, november 11 5:30 pm Tamar Hadassah Dinner Meeting, Mission Hills CC. Program: wynn Bloch “Economical Flower Arranging.”

Mission Hills Country Club.

Couvert $20, pre-paid.

Contact 760-321-9941.

Tuesday, november 12 10:00 am Temple Isaiah Book Club.

Everyone welcome.

Tuesday, november 12 10 am Rimona Hadassah Light breakfast meeting. Montecito

Clubhouse, Shadow Hills. Speaker: shaindy friedman, “March of the Living” Tuesday, november 12 11:30 am Temple Sinai Sisterhood Book Club.

Tuesday, november 12 11:30 am Temple Sinai women’s Text and Torah study.

Thursday, november 14 6:00 pm Temple Sinai Brotherhood dinner & Movie.

Call 760-568-9699 for more.

Monday, november 18 10:00 am Brandeis open meeting.

Speaker: rabbi Glenn ettman. All welcome. At home of Gail Baum and Larry Fox. For information contact Caroline Weintraub at carolineweintraub29@gmail.com.

Monday, november 18 10:30 am Har-El Galen Trimester Book Course. Book: “The Storyteller” by Jodi Picoult. Fee. Call 760-779-1691.

Tuesday, november 19 11:30 am Temple Sinai sisterhood Luncheon

Tuesday, november 19 12:30-5:30 pm Temple Sinai Sisterhood holiday Bazaar.

See classified ad page 30. wednesday, november 20 6:00 pm Temple Isaiah’s "Palm swings” at the O’Donnell House in Palm Springs.

Call 760-325-2281 for information.

Thursday, november 21 11:30 am Na’Amat Golda Meir Chapter Luncheon at the Asian Bistro, 362 South Palm Canyon, Palm Springs. Bingo. Everyone welcome. Couvert: $15. RSVP to 760-408-0532.

Thursday, november 22 4:00 pm Tolerance Education Center presents dana adkins in Concert. $15. See page 14 for information.

Monday, november 25 2:00 pm Café europa - JFS Program for Holocaust Survivors, held at the Tolerance Education Center. See JFS column page 14 for details.

egypt has Plan to strike Gaza

by Maayana Miskin, Arutz Sheva

If attacks on Egyptian soldiers

by Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda aligned groups in the Sinai Peninsula continue, Egypt may carry out airstrikes in Gaza, senior Egyptian officers have warned. Egyptian officers told the Bethlehem-based Maan news that Egyptian planes had entered Gaza airspace to study potential targets in Rafah and Khan Younis, near the southern border.

They said the military would also consider targeting vehicles bringing goods across the border. “All options are open,” they warned. Egyptian

commanders say some of the attacks in Sinai are being carried out by terrorist groups based in Gaza. Among the groups they named is Ansar al-Sunna, which has ties to Hamas.

The Sinai has become a hotbed of terrorist activity since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi by General Abdel Fattah el Sisi in July. Since then the army has been cracking down on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, trying to undo its grip on some parts of the country. A torrent of attacks by gangs of Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic terrorists have killed over 100 Egyptian

soldiers and policemen since Morsi's overthrow. At least one group in the region has officially declared loyalty to Al Qaeda, bringing the group’s influence to Israel’s southern border.

Egypt is currently conducting a large-scale campaign to retake control of the Sinai region. As part of the campaign, the army has taken several steps that have put pressure on Hamas, including destroying many of the smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt and shutting down the border.

An Egyptian officer echoed

Israeli commanders, presumably unintentionally, telling Maan that Egypt does not blame Gaza civilians – but that Hamas must control terrorist groups within its domain. “The Egyptian army does not believe the population of Gaza is involved in the violence in Sinai, but certain factions strongly support Sinai groups … In addition, Hamas, although its involvement is limited, is responsible for maintaining control of the smuggling tunnels as well as the factions operating in the coastal enclave,” he said.

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jewish family service of the desert “Count on us… for life”

801 East Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 202 Palm Springs, CA 92262 (760) 325-4088 www.jfsdesert.org

We show free movies each week on Wednesdays, at 10:00 am and 1:30 pm. Call us for the November schedule.

TWO SPECIAL PROGRAMS IN NOVEMBER 75 Years After Kristallnacht

The Tolerance Center Education will present a film and lecture forum featuring survivor stories THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013 4:00 PM Free Admission Seating is limited. Reservations encouraged.

DANA ADKINS IN CONCERT

PrOGraMs & serViCes for further information about these services and others, please call the JFS offi ce, 760-325-4088.

COUnseLinG & faMiLY sUPPOrT: Experienced therapists help individuals, couples, and families address life's challenges.

InTensiVe OUTPaTienT drUG TreaTMenT fOr adOLesCenTs: Five week course for teens that are at risk or have been expelled from school due to substance abuse. sChOOL COUnseLinG PrOGraM: jfs counselors serve elementary school children in Palm Springs unified School District with on-site counseling and now with a new 5th grade curriculum to teach drug refusal and interpersonal skills to prepare them for success in middle school. sOLUTiOns fOr seniOrs: Serves older adults to maintain independence and help them enjoy a higher quality of life. Please call the office for information. jfs eXPress seniOr ride PrOGraM -If you know someone homebound and needing transportation to a medical or important appointment, please have them contact JFS Express for assistance. jewish BereaVeMenT GrOUP: Free to the local community. This group meets every Wednesday at the JFS Palm Springs office, 3:305:00 p.m. No registration necessary. friendLY VisiTOrs: For seniors who are isolated and would like companionship, a JFS volunteer can bring care and friendship. Friendly Visitors can also provide companionship and celebration during the Shabbat observation. Call for more information.

International performer starred in Hello Dolly, Annie Get Your Gun, Chicago and many more.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013 4:00 PM $15.00 Join us for Wine and Cheese, Meet and Greet after the show Seating is limited. Reservations encouraged.

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CafÉ eUrOPa GrOUP: Programming for holocaust survivors. Monday November 25, 2013 at the Tolerance Education Center 2:00 pm.

Transportation available, please call Julie Hirsh for more information 760-325-4088 X 109.

LUnCh in & OUT PrOGraM: Bi- monthly activity program for homebound seniors. Next Sessions Tuesday, November 5 & Tuesday November 19, 2013 at noon at the Joslyn Center, Palm Desert. Transportation is provided and participants take part in activities and lunch.

Some restrictions apply. To register and obtain further information contact Lisa Schmid 760779-9400. X 205. jfs/aleph academy Chanukah food drive: Jewish Family Service and the Desert Torah Academy have teamed up to collect food for needy Jewish Coachella Valley residents.

The scholars of Desert Torah Academy are enthusiastically taking part in the holiday food drive Mitzvah project. Please feel free to support the scholars with your generous donation of non-perishable food items.

2014 Campaign Cabinet

Celia norian President

sondi Green Co-Vice President, Campaign

Libby hoffman Co-Vice President, Campaign

nancy ditlove Major Gifts Co-Chair

Women's Philanthropy

Lainie weil President

judith n. Cohen Vice Chair of Lion of Judah Campaign

stephanie s. ross Vice President, Campaign

sherry salzman Outreach VP/ Pomegranate Chair

joanne Chunowitz Lion of Judah Event Co-Chair

Brenda weinstock Vice Chair of Pomegranate Campaign

judy Cohn Education VP/ INSIGHTS Co-Chair

Marjorie Kulp Major Gifts Co-Chair

Barbara weisberg Lion of Judah Event Co-Chair

evelyn Binsky INSIGHTS Co-Chair

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Italian Cycling Legend Gino Bartali Honored by Yad Vashem

Bartali, already an international icon, smuggled forged documents inside his bicycle frame during Germany’s occupation of Italy in WWII

By Andrew Samph, The Times of Israel

The clandestine World War II work of champion cyclist Gino Bartali was recognized October 10, 2013, when a ceremony Gino Bartali in 1938 was held in Jerusalem to mark his help in rescuing Jews in his native Italy. The ceremony was held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem to induct Bartali into the prestigious Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations for his work during the German occupation of Italy. The honor recognizes non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

The 1938 Tour de France winner aided the Jewish-Christian rescue network in his hometown of Florence and the surrounding area by shuffling forged documents and papers hidden in the tubes and seat of his bike.

Bartali, who died in 2000, rarely spoke about it for the rest of his life, but his son Andrea Bartali led an effort to gain recognition for what his father had done. “It’s very moving for me to be here now to talk about my father, a man who covered more than 700,000 kilometers (nearly 500,000

miles) on his bicycle, many of them during the war, to help people in need and, above all, Jews,” Andrea Bartali told The Associated Press at the ceremony.

The Jewish-Christian rescue network in Florence was led by Rabbi Nathan Cassuto and Cardinal Elia Angelo Dalla Costa, the Archbishop of Florence, who was previously recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. Even after Rabbi Cassuto was arrested by the Germans, deported and sent to his death, the network continued functioning.

Giorgio Goldenberg, who also attended Thursday’s ceremony, was a child when his entire family was hidden by Bartali, who was a friend of his father’s. “I’m alive because Bartali hid us in a cellar,” the 81-year-old Goldenberg, who now lives in Israel, told the Italian Jewish monthly Pagine Ebraiche.

Oscar-nominated director Oren Jacoby just finished editing a film called “Don’t Talk About It: Italy’s Secret Heroes.” It’s a documentary that tells the story of Bartali and other Italians who helped Jews during the Holocaust. “Of course there were bad stories, and we show in the film that there were Italians who were sent to Auschwitz and there were times when there were Italians who didn’t do the right thing,” Jacoby said in a phone interview. “But there were so many remarkable instances. And Bartali’s

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Andrea Bartali, the son of the late Italian champion cyclist Gino Bartali, speaks during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on October 10, 2013

was just a wonderful paradigm for what so many people did.”

Eighty percent of the Jews in Italy survived the war, according to the Italy Holocaust Foundation. Still, more than 7,000 Jews were deported under Benito Mussolini’s regime, and nearly 6,000 of them were killed.

October 16, 2013, marked the 70th anniversary of the rounding up of the Jews in Rome, which has traditionally held the religion’s largest community in Italy.

Before the war, Bartali had won the 1938 Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1937, making him one of the country’s biggest stars. He also won the 1946 Giro and 1948 Tour after the war.

“He was sort of like Babe Ruth and Clark Gable rolled into one, in Europe,” Jacoby said. “He had

everything to lose.” When Bartali was stopped and searched, he specifically asked that his bicycle not be touched since the different parts were very carefully calibrated to achieve maximum speed, according to Yad Vashem.

Jacoby’s film is a feature-length documentary narrated by Italian actress Isabella Rossellini. The director said he hopes to have it released by July 2014 on the 100th anniversary of Bartali’s birth.

“When people were telling him ‘Gino, you’re a hero,’” Andrea Bartali said. “He would reply, ‘No, no. I want to be remembered for my sporting achievements. Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. I’m just a cyclist.”

March of the Living

By Shaindy Friedman, Director, Sunshine Circle

This past spring, local non-profit Sunshine Circle sent six high school students to Poland and Israel as the Coachella Valley's first teen delegation to join 'March of the Living' in more than a decade. The students traveled alongside thousands of Jewish teens from around the world as they explored the history, legacy, and commemoration of the Holocaust. John Kimmes, Josh Weiss, Ethan Mezrahi and The trip was made possible by the Howard Berkowitz in Auschwitz. many generous patrons of Sunshine The excited chatter quiets as we pass Circle and the Jewish Federation of through the entrance. Was it just days the Desert. ago we sat with a Survivor and her son as he spread maps on the floor to show us the exact spot his mother scaled a wall and escaped the Ghetto through this cemetery? And just like that, we are here.

We walk slowly down the long paths, dwarfed beneath towering bare oaks, studying the epitaphs. Leah, Shmuel, Faiga...a modest woman, a pious man. The wise, the righteous, the young and old; peddlers, authors, masons, Torah scholars. I could spend A photo of Necha Landau, mother of local a lifetime here. I grow emotional Survivor Rickie Taras, rests on Howard reading the narratives of a once Berkowitz' knee as a he composes a bustling community, and then again placard in her memory on the train tracks of Auschwitz where she perished. at the unmarked mass graves covering those whose stories we will never The placard reads: NECHA ASSENFARB know; who never had the chance to LANDAU, WARSAWA, POLAND 1918-1942 finish their stories.

AUSCHWITZ You’re daughter has had a great A visit to the remnant of the life. Married. Grandchildren.

Still living in Rancho Mirage, CA. Warsaw Ghetto wall, a tour of the local Jewish day school and a bowl It's a warm desert night when a of hot soup later and we are headed group of Sunshine Circle teens trundle for Bialystok. off to board a flight to Poland, piling The next morning we marvel at out a day later in a very gray Warsaw, a massive twisted iron dome jutting wrapped in goose down and stepping through piles of white, untouched over piles of muddied snow. It feels snow in an empty square with tall like the dead of winter the April beige apartment complexes on either morning we arrive. Throngs of excited side. We string ourselves with tightly teens fill the terminal and spill out to clasped hands in a big circle halfway the street. The sensation is positive around the remains of the largest shul and strong. in town and stand silently as the tiny Through our charter bus windows we flakes falling all around--and then a watch roads of low slung communist low mournful kel maleh rachamim era buildings pass between streaks of and kaddish. wet snow until we park just outside There’s dancing in the still functional the iron gates of the Jewish cemetery. Tykocin Synagogue we visit next, with

upbeat, meaningful songs reverberating off the intricately painted walls. Two Holocaust Survivors are hoisted on chairs and the teens encircle them, clapping and singing.

The steps we take to retrace those of the small Jewish community of Sunshine Circle delegation in Israel: (L-R) Howard Berkowitz, Tykocin are heavy Kelsey Kimmes, John Kimmes, Ethan Mezrahi, Jaclyn Scarlett, and with heartache and Josh Weiss. thought. We trudge deep into the nearby Lupochowo women who lit Shabbos candles here forest and mourn those buried for generations and then I picture my beneath the tall watchful trees. And own two daughters doing the same. we mourn again in Treblinka, now The continuity is breathtaking.

I walk through the streets of Warsaw an expansive clearing in a thick forest. Concrete blocks replace train and dream of the sounds of yore. tracks and hundreds of sharp broken Of l’cha dodi and sholom aleichem stones represent Jewish communities emanating from every open door and of cities and shtetls shattered during window. The city seems so empty, the Holocaust. Shaina, the woman I so robbed. It is completely hushed now, and dark. And suddenly we am named for, lost her life here.

Back on the bus we are thawing hear it, a chorus of voices growing out, yanking off wet boots and folding stronger and louder. Turning a corner up gloves. Despite the fullness of we see, nestled amongst shuttered our day, there’s a palpable growing sleepy buildings, the brightly lit excitement for Shabbos. With only Nozyk Synagogue, the only prewar a short time to prepare, we rush up shul to survive the war. In the darkness of that night it stands stubborn and bright and beautiful. All around and within it are hundreds of youth, from scores of communities around the world. The singing and dancing during that Shabbos service is some of the most joyous and heartfelt I've experienced.

As we are leaving Nozyk the teens are singing “Am Yisrael Chai” at the March of the Living participants enter the gates of Birkenau on Yom HaShoah. top of their lungs, their faces shining bright as the desert sun. Those simple to our rooms and back down in time three words resonate in an astounding to duck into the hotel bar and light way. We are still here! We don’t Shabbos candles. I want to remain in merely exist, we are thriving! Now, this moment, to be fully conscious of thousands of miles from home, we its depth. I picture the thousands of truly understand what that means.

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Federation Campaign Donors Thank You for doing a world of Good!

The Jewish Federation of the Desert and its beneficiary agencies would like to thank our compassionate and loyal donors who gave so generously to the 2013 Annual Campaign. Together we raised over $2.3 million dollars for our community.

Federation’s Annual Campaign fills a gap as our community’s needs expand and our needy grow in number.

From Pre-school, Religious school and camp scholarships

$50,000 + Barbara Fremont Helene Galen Judd and Katherine Malkin

$25,000 - $49,999 Annette Bloch Robert and Sandra Borns Dennis and Nancy Ditlove Donald and Joni Maltzman *Mike and Cookie Miller William and Cydney Osterman Madeline Redstone Monroe and Rella Rifkin Irma & Irvine Robbins Foundation, Marsha & David Veit Trustees Ira and Sheila Stone

$10,000 - $24,999 Robert and Alice Abt Jerome Angel Ellen Bakst *Sidney and Elaine Blitz Annabelle Bresler William and Joanne Chunowitz Elliott and Judith Cohen Marv and Mildred Conney Tom and Lois Davidson Allen and Marilyn Eager Arnold and Edith Familian Ed and Sande Fineman Henry and Joyce Freund Bernie and Barbara Fromm Marshall Gelfand and Jacqueline Rudman Ted and Cora Ginsberg Philip and Ellen Glass Alma Glickman Sheldon and Enid Goldman Shelli Goodman Bruce and Sondi Green

to providing care, food and services to seniors, from aid to the unemployed to social services to the most vulnerable, the Federation Campaign changes lives. Jews in need at home, in Israel and all over the world are counting on us.

Thank you for making a difference in Jewish lives.

We gratefully thank our naming donors who contributed to our new Federation Building.

To everyone who contributed to our 2013 Annual Campaign, thank you. Your generosity has breathed life

James and Peggy Greenbaum Carol Horwich Luber Samita Jacobs Herbert and Loreen Jacobson Ronald and Barbara Kahn Mort and Sally Kirshner Vernon Kozlen Charles and Ellen Lane Annette Lerner Mark and Pearle Rae Levey James and Donna Levitas Howard and Patricia Levy Gary and Linda Nathanson Sanford and Celia Norian Lawrence and Annette Novack Allan and Roberta Nyman Barbara Platt Lila Rauch Paul and Stephanie Ross A. Lee and Elise Sacks Alan and Sandy Samdperil Robert and Gail Scadron Howard and Sherry Schor Barbara Schrayer Don and Carolyn Shagrin David and Evey Simon Marvin and Pat Weiss Robert and Lynn Zimmer

$5,000 - $9,999 Jerry and Betty Abeles Carolyn Ausman Becky Benaroya Frank and Toby Berman Harriet Bernstein Joseph and Audrey Bernstein Ruth Beschloss Lee Bohm Sheri Borax Darlene Brodovsky Naomi Caspe Benjamin and Bernice Cohen Francine Cohn

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into the words that define and guide our efforts: “The Strength of a People. The Power of Community.”

We have endeavored to honor every special request that we received, including those individuals who wish not to be listed on the Honor Roll, and apologize in advance for any mistakes. *Deceased

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Richard and Sheila Sloan Debra Star Ted and Elaine Stein Allan and Jill Steinberg Jerry and Helen Stern Amy Stone David Suss and Susan Rappaport Carol Traub Helen Varon Tom and Lainie Weil Sheldon and Barbara Weisberg Rosella Weissman Elle Winn Lenore Wyatt Larry and Eileen Zoll Pacific Premier Bank

$1,000 - $4,999 Martin Appel Robert and Judith Appelbaum Trevor and Lynda Bailey Michael and Naomi Bailie Richard and Kathi Balaban Richard and Janet Ball Irv and Muriel Becker Beverly Bell Richard and Bunni Benaron Miles and Sally Berger Saul Berger Dorothy Berns Evelyn Binsky Tammy Birnberg Herbert and Barbara Borovsky Ella Brandt Lois Buell Bonnie Carmell Jean Carrus Gloria Chodak Chuck and Karen Cohen Diane Cohen Jackie Cohen Joel and Susan Cohen Seymour and Rita Cohen James Cohn Joyce Cohn Gloria Colker Richard and Jackie Comras Leslie and LiLo Cooper Ron Cukier Isabelle Diamond Robert and Susie Diamond Susan Duman Jane Effress Stephen and Judy Ehrlichman

Rina Eliashar Peggy Epand Ruth Fairfield Steven and Cindy Farber Jeffrey and Suzanne Feder Sig Feiger and Rose Grossinger Betty Feinberg Neil Feinberg and Marcia Milkis Manley and Carol Feinstein Robert and Joan Feldman Murray and Rochelle Felson Robert and Cheryl Fey Lillian Fox Ronald and Carol Fragen Joyce Frank Henry Friedman Barbara Fuller Raymond and Jeannette Galante Ruby Gales Robert and Toni Garmisa Roger Getz Eli Glassman Jerry and Sue Goldberg Ronald and Muriel Goldberg Yona Goldberg Alan Goldstein and Mary Levine Dorothy Goldstein Rosemary Goldstine Robert Goodfriend Perry and Gloria Green Jim Greene J. Greenwald Stanley and Trena Greitzer Edward and Rachel Gubman Stanley Hack Jerome and Margot Halperin Jerome and Arlene Harris Alvin Haveson Melvin and Judy Hecktman Sanford and Rosemary Hertz Anne Holland Joan Holland Martin Honig Frances Horwich Alan Horwits Joan Hymanson Andrea Josephson William and Carol Kaplan Len and Trudy Kapner Ernest and Harriet Karmin Kurt and Lonny Karmin Fred and Beth Karren Susan Karsen Marc Kashinsky and Eileen Eisenberg Fay Katlin Sharon Kaufman

Debbie Dann Kay Sheila Keeshin Pat and Joan Kerns Maxine Kirshenbaum Bryan Kocen Yankel and Rochel Kreiman Edward and Rita Kroll Franklin Kulp Stephen and Marjorie Kulp Harvey Lambert Lana Landa Bruce Landgarten and Carol Moses Charlene Lane Tom Lang Family Foundation Marvin Leaf Allan and Sheryl Lehmann Joan Lehr Elaine Leib Jo Ellen Leifer Richard Levin Bernard and Marilyn Levinson Don and Reva Levy Carol Lewis Marvin and Rhoda Lewis Norman Lewis Beryl Libin Ken and Barbara Lieberman Terri Lind Stan Litt Jeffrey Louis Marilyn Malkin and Lawrence Wolf Fred and Susan Mardell Steven & Vera Mark Bernard Mars Les and Carol Mendelson Jim Mills and Lois Zoller Jean Mintz Shirley Narin Irwin Narter Beverly Nathan Jerry and Ruth Newman Phyllis Newman Terry Newman Reesa Niznick Joe Noren and Marnie Miller Jack and Mitzie Olshansky Robert and Ann Osterman Dorothy Palay Harold and Miriam Paley Don and Bonnie Pearlman Leslie Pepper Bob and Rita Philip Dolly Piano Ruben and Phyllis Poplawski Donald and Nora Rado

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$365- $999 Virginia Allen Leon Ampel Steven Anixter Merle Arenson Babette Bay Morris Belzberg Samuel Belzberg Nat and Miriam Bent Lynn Bernstein Lawrence Blum Valerie Blumenfeld Florence and Sid Bogin Carole Bookman Selma Bosse David Broude Evie Chersky Burt and Evette Chudacoff Hillel Cohn Martin and Judy Cohn Jay and Linda Cooper William DeWoskin Jacqueline Drucker Mark and Carol Epstein Leonard and Barbara Feldman Rancy Feldman Jean Fishkin Sherry Fishman Manny Flekman Shayle and Deanna Fox Arthur Friedman Robert and Carol Friedman Larry and Darlene Gilford Arnie Gillman Jerry and Marilyn Gitt Frederic Glazer Robert and Carolyn Goldberg Judie Goldetsky Stuart and Susan Goldfine Jack Goldner Ann Goldsmith Mollie Gole Joyce Gorney Judi Gottesman Adrian and Carol Graff-Radford James Graff-Radford Alan Green Irving Greenberg Shirley Greenwall Noel Hanford Sandra Harris Thomas Harris Kate Hauswirth Ira and Jo Ann Heiman

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• Joyce Gruenberg, Best wishes on your special birthday, from Margot and Jerry Halperin.

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• William Heller, In honor of your 90th birthday, from Gabrielle Gartner.

• Bob Zimmer, Best wishes for a happy, happy birthday, from Cora and Ted Ginsberg, Loreen and Herbert Jacobson.

In Appreciation For:

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Hareidi MKs Furious at Religious Zionists over Foreign Students

Bayit Yehudi under fierce attack for its support of a budget cut ending financial support to yeshiva students from abroad.

By Adam Ross, Arutz Sheva

Tension between hareidi and religious Zionist MKs seemed to reach an all-time high Tuesday, with the issue of funding for foreign students at Israeli yeshivot (religious academies) discussed at the Knesset's Finance Committee. The committee has proposed the allowance, amounting to several hundred shekels per student, be axed.

Amid other angry remarks by hareidi MKs, Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) warned Bayit Yehudi's (Jewish Home) MK Nissan Slomiansky, the head of the committee, that ending the budget would "sever ties between haredim and national religious with one sharp cut."

In the discussions, MK Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) appealed to Slomiansky, "I turn to you as head of the committee, who is able to stop this terrible decree that will slash the budget of foreign students." The state is committing

an unforgivable crime, Litzman said, "there is no value to these extensions in the budget that you are so proud of. Look what is befalling the world of Torah! You are cutting off flesh from the yeshivot for foreign students."

He continued his impassioned plea: "This is daylight robbery, and I call upon all members of the committee to vehemently oppose the passing of this budget, and for this decree to be cancelled. What message is this giving, that we are telling the whole world not to come and learn Torah in Israel."

He quoted a verse from scripture, "From Zion shall the Torah go forth," and added, "Now [Yesh Atid head] Yair Lapid and [Bayit Yehudi head] Naftali Bennett are telling everyone not to come here to study Torah, and are closing the doors of the yeshivot to foreign students."

"Overseas students contribute to immigration"(aliyah) he told the

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relationship between the hareidi and religious Zionist communities."

The same sentiment was reflected

by MK Yaakov Asher (United Torah Judaism) in an interview with radio Kol Hai, who said, "the Bayit Yehudi party is in a state of deficit regarding the issue of the budget for yeshivot.

MKs Gafni, Rosenthal in Finance Committee They promised not to harm the Israel news photo: Flash 90 Torah world, and here now we are committee, "I personally came to hearing about another decree, to cut Israel only because I learned here in the budget for yeshiva students from yeshiva. l, as well as all my family, and overseas. This cannot happen, that tens of thousands of Jewish families, such a party like this can be elected moved here to Israel after spending to government. The Finance Minister forces their hand, time and time again, time studying here in yeshiva."

MK Gafni turned to the chairman it is about time they took their hand of the committee and said "The gap away and started standing up to their between us is now like between promises," he charged.

Hareidi newspaper Kikar Hareidi Jews and secular Jews. For the Hashabbat, described the planned first time, in history, you are coming cut as "a death blow to yeshivot that and taking money from yeshivot and giving it to the 'settlements'. Don't have been catering to students from let this happen," he said, adding that abroad, the majority of whom are "with one sharp cut you will sever the American."

new study: U.s. jewish Population 6.8 Million and Growing

By Helen Chernikoff, The Jewish Week

New research has revealed that the united States’ Jewish population is growing and, with 4.2 million adults self-identifying as Jewish, is 33 percent larger than previously estimated in the National Jewish Population Survey of 2000-2001. using what it calls “data synthesis” techniques that involve amassing data from hundreds of academic, government and privately funded surveys, the Steinhardt Social Research Institute of Brandeis university estimates that the total Jewish population of the u.S. is 6.8 million, the Institute said in its report.

“Socio-demographic studies of the u.S. population have, over the last several decades, painted a mostly negative portrait of American Jewry. The research suggests that, beset by assimilation pressures, declining identification and levels of engagement, the Jewish population is

decreasing,” the study’s authors wrote.

By contrast, its own findings “indicated that the u.S. Jewish population was substantially larger than previously estimated.”

Data synthesis techniques, according to the study’s authors, correct for a methodological problem in most Jewish-specific population studies, which try both to obtain a census and collect data on the nature of Jewish life. Trying to achieve both aims using one source of data is risky, according to the study.

Other key findings: • 24 percent of Jewish adults are 65 years and older, compared with 18 percent in the general population.

• 52 percent of Jewish adults aged 65 and over are college graduates, versus with 24 percent of u.S. adults.

• u.S. Jews are clustered mainly in six states, with 20 percent in New York and 14 percent in California.

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fox international Buys rights to israeli spy Television series ‘False Flag’ is loosely based on the 2010 assassination in Dubai of a Hamas official.

By Viva Sarah Press, Israel 21c

Fox International Channels (FIC) and Keshet International will co-produce the u.S. adaptation of Keshet’s newest Israeli scripted drama series Shkufim (False Flag), for American audiences. The format was sold to the u.S. even before it has aired in Israel. False Flag, as the American series is expected to be called, is loosely based on the 2010 assassination in Dubai of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

The u.S. version will focus on eight ordinary Americans who wake up to find their faces and private lives broadcast across the Internet and news around the world as suspects in a dangerous international crime. Parkland director Peter Landesman will team up with Amit Cohen-Raab, one of the original writers of the Israeli series, to pen the American script.

“Our partnership with Keshet and Peter Landesman, who both have strong track records for telling compelling stories, is an exciting addition to our original development slate,” Sharon Tal Yguado, EVP Original Development and Scripted Programming at FIC, was quoted as saying in Deadline. “Peter with his background in investigative journalism understands the complexity of the story and has come up with a version that will connect deeply with audiences both in the u.S. and globally.”

“The pedigree and passion of FIC and Keshet make them the perfect creative partners. The espionage thriller is a genre we all know, love and are excited to take to a level we hope audiences will not have experienced before,” said Landesman.

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Since 1989 – making people look and feel good in perfectly fitted clothing.

760-323-8353.

Pamper yourself at Temple Sinai’s MAH JONGG TOURNAMENT Sunday, December 8, 2013.

Fabulous door prizes and raffle items. Continental breakfast, plated sit down lunch and afternoon snacks. Cash prizes. Goodie bags for everyone. 8:30 am. Mission Hills Country Club, 43600 Mission Hills Drive, Rancho Mirage. $50. Contact Pixie Glast at mjpglast@yahoo.com or 432-413-1011 for entry form.

PREMIUM CARE. NO AGENCY FEES. See www.CaregiverCoOp.org 760486-5627.

KRISTINE A. KAUFFMAN - SENIOR CARE SPECIALIST. Driving for appointments, shopping, dining, etc; Errands (groceries, banking, etc); Bill paying and other miscellaneous tasks; Companionship. Dog sitting, walking. References available. 4-hour minimum 760-902-3490.

FREE M E M O IR WRI T IN G WORKSHOP with Tammy Coia, “The Memoir Coach.” Temple Isaiah Palm Springs, Friday, November 8 from 1:00-2:00 pm, followed by two hours of Chanukah/Holiday Shopping from new vendors offering merchandise ranging from the practical to the unique. RSVP not necessary, but helpful: 760-3252281.

TRAVELING NOTARY PUBLIC for all your Health, Financial and Real Estate Documents. Available 7 Days. Ernest Sussman 760-408-9338.

Candle Lighting Times Friday, November 1 Shabbat Toledot 5:11 pm rd Daylight savings time begins Sunday, November 3 Friday, November 8 Shabbat Vayetze 4:05 pm Friday, November 15 Shabbat Vayishlach 4:00 pm Friday, November 22 Shabbat Vayeshev 3:57 pm Friday, November 29 Shabbat Miketz 3:55 pm Note: Light your Chanukah candles before the Shabbat candles

Latkes For Thanksgiving

Laugh out Loud Stories in the news that bring a smile!

Have A Nosh With Miriam

By Miriam H. Bent With Chanukah and Thanksgiving overlapping, I couldn’t resist giving you recipes that combine the favorite tastes of each, hence Sweet Potato Latkes.

Keeping with the “combination” theme, try serving them with a topping of cranberries instead of applesauce or, better yet, cranberry applesauce. I’m giving you recipes for both. Both cranberry toppings work well with traditional potato latkes too! Happy Chanukah! Happy Thanksgiving! MHB

Sweet Potato Latkes 1 lb. sweet potatoes, peeled 1 Tbsp. sugar 1 2" x 1" piece fresh ginger 1 teasp. baking powder 2 eggs ½ teasp. salt ½ cup apple juice Vegetable oil ½ cup all-purpose flour Grate sweet potatoes with grating disk of food processor or by hand. Place in large bowl. Cut ginger into small chunks, then put in food processor with steel blade and mince. Measure two tablespoons of the ginger and add to potatoes.

Combine remaining ingredients (except oil) then add to potatoes and toss together until mixed. Heat ½ inch vegetable oil in large skillet over medium-high heat to 365 degrees. Drop ¼ cup batter into hot oil. Cook for 3-4 minutes per side, until crisp. Drain on paper toweling before serving. Can be frozen. To reheat, do not defrost, but put in 400̊ degree oven for 10 minutes, or until hot and crisp. Makes about 15 latkes.

Marmalade Cranberry Sauce 1 lb. fresh or frozen cranberries 1½ cups sugar 1 cup sliced, toasted almonds 1 cup orange marmalade

3 Tablespoons orange liqueur Juice of ½ lemon 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind (optional)

Rinse and pick over the fresh cranberries. If frozen, there is no need to defrost.

Combine cranberries and sugar in a casserole dish. Cover and bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour. Add remaining ingredients, stir and refrigerate. 10 servings.

Cranberry Applesauce 2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg ¼ cup sugar

½ cup Manischewitz Concord Grape wine 4 large Granny Smith apples

In a medium sauce pot, combine cranberries, spices, sugar, and Manischewitz.

Bring mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. Peel and core apples, cut them into half inch chunks and add to the cranberry mixture. Cover sauce and continue to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. If sauce begins to stick, add water. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature before serving.

10 servings.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WELCOMED

The Jewish Community News welcomes letters to the editor Publication will be based on appropriateness of material and available space, at the discretion of the editorial staff. We reserve the right to edit submissions. Submit letters of 250 words or less by e-mail to: mhbentjcn@earthlink.net, fax to 760-320-6085 or mail to the Jewish Federation, 69-710 Hwy. 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, attn: Editor, JCN.

STRANGE AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT

Four Yemenite fishermen were apprehended on suspicion of smuggling arms but all the Israeli navy found on their boat was hash – 100 kilograms (220 lbs.) to be exact. Hauled into port and then into court, the four, who suffice it to say hadn’t taken passports with them on the ‘run,’ were handed over to the Ministry of Interior instead of the police.

Why? Israel doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Yemen. It took four months to cut through red tape until the International Red Cross was able to obtain travel documents for the foursome to be sent home via Egypt. But that wasn’t the end of their trials and tribulations.

The fishermen were taken into custody by Yemenite authorities upon their return – not for drug smuggling. They were arrested for “visiting Israel.”

BABY BOOM

The Pillar of Defense campaign in November 2012 was marked not only by 100 Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli civilian settlements in the south, but for the first time a rocket landed just south of Tel-Aviv, in Rishon Le’Zion during the flare-up.

Rishon Le’Zion authorities swore that during the eight-day campaign in November 2012, their personnel were working around-the-clock … but nine months later 24 employees are all at the end of their 9th month of pregnancy, and that doesn’t even count agitated rank-and-file Rishon residents who after the first boom jumped into bed instead of seeking shelter under the bed or in the hallway– giving birth to a minor local baby boom in the Tel-Aviv bedroom suburb.

COURTING JUSTICE FOR JESUS

Israel is used to ‘lawfare’ – attempts to use legal means to harass, isolate, and ‘criminalize’ Israel by accusing the Jewish State and Israeli nationals of trumped-up war crimes and human rights violations. But a Kenyan lawyer who recently filed a suit with the International Court of Justice at the Hague had a more ancient ax to grind.

The former spokesperson for the Kenyan Judiciary Dola Indidis wanted the court to ‘overturn’ the trial of Jesus and the court’s verdict “as a violation of human rights” and annul the legal proceedings as “judicial misconduct.”

The charge was brought against the State of Israel, but the Jewish state wasn’t alone in the docket; the Republic of Italy was named a co-defendant by the Kenyan. Apparently even UN institutions have their limits when it comes to Israel bashing: The ICJ ruled that they couldn’t pillory Israel in this case. Was there a statute of limitations after two thousand years? No. The ICJ said it has no jurisdiction in such a case since it “settles disputes between states.”

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This Chanukah, serve an extra helping of Thanks

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This year, for the first time ever, Chanukah starts on Thanksgiving. Both holidays are about gratitude and giving.

So as you plan your holiday meal, please give to the Jewish Federation of the Desert. Even a small donation can do so much for a grateful person in genuine need. donate now while you’re thinking about it. send your check to the jewish federation of the desert, 69-710 highway 111, rancho Mirage, Ca 92270 or via our secure website: www.jfedps.org.

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