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Premier’s comments dismay Ottawa community leaders

JSA-Hillel President Ariella Kimmel (centre) cuts the ribbon officially opening Hillel House assisted by (from left to right) JSA-Hillel Director Dov ben-Reuven, Committee Chair Linda Kerzner, Minto CEO Roger Greenberg and Rabbi Yonah Burr. See story page 5.

(Photo: Peter Waiser)

By Michael Regenstreif Provocative comments by Premier Dalton McGuinty on the issue of faith-based school funding have dismayed Jewish community leaders, including some who consider him a personal friend.

Whether non-Catholic faithbased schools should receive provincial education funding has become a significant issue in the Ontario provincial election campaign. Voters go to the polls on October 10.

On August 23, McGuinty told the Globe and Mail that this election was about “the kind of

Ontario” that voters want. If they “want the kind of Ontario where we invite children of different faiths to leave the publicly funded system and become sequestered and segregated in their own private schools,” then they should vote for Mr. Tory, said McGuinty. He continued by telling voters that if they “think it’s important that we continue to bring our kids together, so that they grow together and learn from one another, then you should vote for me.”

The Progressive Conservatives, under leader John Tory, have promised to appoint a commission (Continued on page 2)

Dream comes true, Jesse Levine turns pro

By Jason Sherriff Ottawa-born Jesse Levine has begun his rise to fame with his first professional match in the U.S. Open August 27. Even though the 19-year old Hillel Academy graduate lost after a valiant effort to Russian Nikolay Davydenko, ranked fourth in the world, Levine says he has a “tough road ahead,” but wants to become among the top 10 tennis players in the world.

After his loss in the singles tournament, Levine went on to win two rounds in the doubles tournament with American Alex Kuznetsov, losing September 1 to Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner.

With his professional tennis

career just beginning, Levine says he is excited to be able to play the sport he loves. “It’s great to not have to go back to my room and finish a school assignment,” he says, “and focus only on tennis. It’s in my blood. I love to play in front of a crowd and put on a good show.”

Levine has been playing tennis all his life, and the desire to play the high-energy sport runs in his family. Both his grandfather, Morris Kimmel, and his father, Nathan, played tennis, and Jesse seems to have a natural talent for the sport.

“He has so many cups and trophies,” says Kimmel, “he has no more room for them.” Kimmel says

he hopes Jesse will become the tennis champion of the world, and recognizes the significance of his success for the Ottawa Jewish community.

“Imagine if a Hillel graduate, a local boy makes it, and people say ‘Oh my God there goes Jesse!’ I feel good that he’s going to get there,” says Kimmel.

For his professional debut, Levine entered the stadium with goose bumps, according to his mother Brenda. “It was a fabulous experience,” she says. “He held himself and enjoyed the moment.

He deserves it all because he’s worked so hard. We started playing

Jesse Levine’s first professional match took place at the US Open.

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tennis with him in the driveway,” she says, noting he was only eight years old when he went to his first tournament in Toronto.

Levine’s tennis career has never faced many problems, says Brenda. “It wasn’t really difficult because he did so amazing right away and he blossomed. Nobody expected that he would go so fast,” she says.

One of the highlights of his career and one of the memories she will always have, says Brenda, is when Levine was invited to Dubai to train with top ranked Roger Federer. Federer won

the U.S. Open on September 9, becoming the first man in over 80 years to win four consecutive U.S. singles titles.

“They became friends,” says Brenda, “and Jesse had a wonderful time in a beautiful place he had never been before.”

Levine moved to Boca Raton, Fla. with his family after he graduated from Hillel Academy in 2000. The move, he says, helped him get his tennis game to where it is today, even though it was difficult leaving his friends and family behind.

Fortunately, Levine still maintains a lot of support

from his family and his friends in the Ottawa Jewish community. “Friends from Hillel and the Ottawa Athletics Club are calling me up, keeping in touch,” he says, “and it feels great to get so much support.

“The Jewish community in Ottawa is so strong, and there are so many people still following me since I left. I’m really thankful for all the support.”

Levine says he will “take one step at a time” in order to improve his game. “Mentally I’m already strong. I want to get physically stronger to be able to hang out with the big boys all the time.”

Since Levine holds dual citizenship, he has been approached to play for Canada. At the moment, Levine says, he will be sticking with the United States, due to all the financial support the United States Tennis Association has given him. “The USTA has been helping out so much, I really can’t ask for anything else,” he says.

With his professional career just barely under way, Brenda is very enthusiastic about his future.

“The sky’s the limit for him. He’s starting at the bottom again, but our dream is that he has the success that he wants,” she says. “Oppor-

Jesse Levine (right) with his grandfather Morris Kimmel and his mother Brenda Levine.

tunities will be open no matter what happens now. It’s an

amazing dream that has come true for him.”

McGuinty’s comments ‘pandered to public fears’ (Continued from page 1)

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Democratic Party (NDP) who support maintaining the status quo – providing funding to Catholic schools but not to other faith-based schools – and by the Green Party, which would eliminate funding from Catholic schools.

Quebec and the four western provinces all have some sort of funding plan for their faith-based schools.

McGuinty’s comments, implying that children educated in faith-based schools do not integrate well in the general population, were “beyond the pale,” according to Steven Shulman, Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) Ontario regional director.

In an interview with the Bulletin, Shulman said the Jewish community was rightfully offended by McGuinty’s comments. They were, he said, “absolutely insulting” and “targeted at particular groups.”

Shulman pointed out that

Ontario’s funding of the Catholic school system means more than 90 per cent of students attending faithbased schools – fully onethird of all students in Ontario – are already covered by public funding and that what is in place for Catholic students should be extended to students of other faiths.

Shulman also said that McGuinty’s comments, that students coming out of faithbased schools are sequestered and segregated, do not square with the real experiences of faith-based school students whose graduates participate in all aspects of public life and in the full range of professions.

Mitchell Bellman, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, told the Bulletin that the premier’s comments were “blatantly untrue” and that they “pandered to public fears” in the way they were directed at non-Catholic faith-communi-

ties. Jewish day school students “become model citizens of Ontario,” said Bellman. “All we’re asking for is fair treatment,” he added.

Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, of Machzikei Hadas Congregation and national co-president of CJC, is among the Jewish community leaders who count McGuinty as a personal friend. In an op-ed article published August 29 in the National Post, Rabbi Bulka took the premier to task for his comments.

Rabbi Bulka wrote that he was stunned by what McGuinty said and troubled by the implication that “funding my faith’s schools could lead to problems with social cohesion.” The rabbi’s article went on to argue a case for fairness in faith-based school funding.

McGuinty responded to Rabbi Bulka in the National Post on September 1 with a short letter to the editor mostly devoted to a partisan attack on the Conservatives.

The premier’s letter dealt with few of the rabbi’s points.

“I was glad he responded,” Rabbi Bulka told the Bulletin in a follow-up interview, “but I was not happy with how he responded.”

In particular, Rabbi Bulka said McGuinty’s response did not address the inherent unfairness of funding one

faith’s religious schools but not the others. “It doesn’t make sense,” said the rabbi, that most of the other provinces have been able to establish formulas for fairly funding all faith-based schools while Ontario hasn’t.

The United Nations Rights Commission has twice ruled – in 1999 and again in 2005 – that Ontario’s funding of Catholic schools, but not those of other religions, is discriminatory and a violation of Canada’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

With funding for nonCatholic faith-based schools becoming a major issue in the election campaign, the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for the extension of funding to schools of other faith communities.

“The public funding of Catholic schools recognizes that parents have the right to make educational choices for their children, and that the state should assist them,” said a statement from Bishop James M. Wingle, bishop of St. Catharines and president of the conference. “The primacy of parental rights in education is a value which should be realized not only

by Catholic parents, but also by others.”

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Reasons why people convert to Judaism

By Nicola Hamer Judaism does not encourage conversion. While followers of Christianity and Islam consider their faiths to be the only way to salvation, Judaism does not make a similar claim. Anyone can lead a righteous and ethical life; being Jewish only imposes further burdens.

This means there is no reason to encourage conversion. In fact, traditionally, it is actively discouraged.

And yet, there have always been those who seek to become Jewish, never more so than in the past few decades. Why do gentiles make that choice?

The most obvious answer is they convert to marry a Jewish spouse. This accounts for the vast majority of conversions. Some claim the numbers reach 80 per cent.

Another reason is a return to one’s roots – people who have discovered a Jewish past lost or abandoned, frequently with the Holocaust.

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And, finally, there are those who just decide, for a wide variety of personal reasons, they were meant to be Jewish and must pursue that path.

struck a chord. It said something to me,” says Malecki.

Intrigued, he asked Jewish members of the choir to tell him about the music, and that led to a discussion

It’s hard to generalize about what leads someone to choose Judaism.

The motivations are as varied as the people themselves.

It’s hard to generalize about what leads someone to choose Judaism. The motivations are as varied as the people themselves. For one such Jew-by-choice (considered the polite term for those who have converted), it was music that started him on his path.

David Malecki was a member of a choir that performed a concert of Jewish music.

“To use a bad pun, it

of Judaism in general. Seeing how curious he was, they invited him to shul.

When asked if he found it difficult to fit in as he learned without having the benefit of a Jewish partner to help him along, Malecki said no.

“There were always people inviting me to Seders or Shabbat dinner,” he explains. “Everyone was very welcoming. It came easily. I don’t recall ever

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feeling on the outside. It just seemed to fit. It felt right.”

Talking to Jews-bychoice, one commonly hears “it felt right,” even from those who apparently converted for marriage. The motivation behind those who meet someone Jewish, convert and then get married does seem simple to understand. They want to raise a family with less confusion or please the respective spouse and in-laws.

Individual stories are rarely so simple.

Christine Hamilton converted and married a Jewish man, but she describes her journey towards Judaism as one of searching long before she met her husbandto-be.

“I didn’t convert for my husband,” she says. He became the catalyst that helped me get started. As soon as I started learning about Judaism, I realized I’d found what I was looking for. It spoke to me. I fell in love with him and Judaism at the same time.”

Hamilton, who sits on the board of Tamir, is certain she would have become Jewish anyway. It is a sentiment held by many who appear to have converted for marriage. A few went so far as to refuse to bring their fiancés to meetings with their rabbis, insisting it had nothing to do with them.

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who converted for marriage because they are concerned others may question the sincerity of their choice, thinking they made the choice for the sake of someone else.

Michael Walsh, a consultant who does a lot of work for the community in leadership and community development, freely admits making his initial choice for someone else – in this case, his son. Married to a Jewish woman and fully committed to raising Jewish children, Walsh realized, when his first child was small, he might be sending his son mixed messages.

“I was afraid he’d question the value of being a Jewish man. Why is it good enough for me, but not good enough for Dad?” says Walsh.

vert, you are more aware that we are asked, as Jews, to make choices.”

Wayne Moore is another Jew-by-choice who converted before marriage.

“I have to be honest. It would be hard to separate my conversion from the pretty young Jewish woman I was dating, who wouldn’t consider marrying anyone who wasn’t Jewish,” he admits. “That being said, it was more substantive than that. Having made that decision, I wasn’t going to do anything in half measures.”

Moore points out, growing up in Newfoundland, there wasn’t much opportunity to meet Jews when he was younger. He had no sense he was meant to become Jewish. He simply fell in love.

“I think because we have to make an active choice to be Jewish, we perhaps don’t take it as much for granted as others who have been born into it.”

– Michael Walsh “I wanted my family to have a consistent community and spiritual life. And I wanted to honour my commitment to my wife to raise Jewish children.”

Now, says Walsh, who only has one of his three grown sons left at home, he no longer even thinks of himself as a convert.

He does still think it affects how he views his Judaism, though.

“I think because we have to make an active choice to be Jewish, we perhaps don’t take it as much for granted as others who have been born into it,” he says. “I fully appreciate this gift of being a Jew, both its blessings and its burdens. I’m not saying others don’t appreciate their Judaism, but you can’t help taking for granted, on some level, something you’ve been born with. As a con-

“This is now who I am,” says Moore. “Free will is important in Judaism, and this is what I choose. No matter what happens now, I am a Jewish man.”

These are just some stories of people who chose to become Jewish, and they represent only a few of the many motives for converting.

Some feel they were always meant to be Jewish; others feel it was mostly chance that set them on this path.

The one thing they all seem to have in common, though, is their gratitude for where they ended up.

As Wayne Moore puts it, “I can’t say that I was fated to be Jewish. But I am very fortunate to be here. I found something I needed and I am a better person for it.

“I am happy this is where I ended up.”

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Hillel House officially opens

By Jason Sherriff For years, Ottawa lacked a central location that Jewish university students could call their own. With the official opening of the Jewish Students’ Association (JSA) Hillel House on August 27, the JSA finally has a permanent home where it can now provide opportunities for students to keep in touch with their Judaism.

The opening ceremony consisted of speeches from Jewish Federation of Ottawa President and CEO Mitchell Bellman and Federation Chair Jonathan Freedman and a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Bellman says he was glad to “see the dream become a reality” to have a place dedicated to allowing students to “live, learn, make friends, debate issues and maintain their Jewish identity.”

Following the opening speeches, Rabbi Yonah Burr installed the mezuzah and, in an interview with the Bulletin, described his feelings about the Hillel House.

“I think it’s a great idea,” he says. “Students are coming from far and wide and they want to have a place where they can feel safe to express their Jewishness and learn about their culture as they’re tak-

ing their studies on campus.”

The rabbi also explained the importance of the house for providing students with a “wholesome environment.

“Campus life is not always the greatest, so if you have a wholesome place where you can go and get together and have events and parties in a comfortable environment, I think that’s very healthy for the kids.”

The Hillel House, located at 284 Laurier Avenue East, has room for six students and provides the JSA with a main office to plan and organize programming.

According to JSA Director Dov ben-Reuven, the house’s importance lies in its ability to serve as a place for Jewish students to gather and interact with each other.

“Whether they want to connect with their Judaism, or they want to connect with Israel or they’re coming in for a birthright interview,” he says, “as time goes on, everybody will recognize this as the focal point of the Jewish students.”

The Hillel House allows JSA to maintain a consistent connection with Jewish students that booking

rooms between campuses didn’t allow for, says ben-Reuven, who says he hopes professors will also take the time to visit the house and interact with students. He also notes JSA will still maintain some presence on campus in order to avoid losing touch with any students.

“I think it’s important to go out to campus,” he says, “to recruit the future leaders of the Jewish students and be interactive with other groups and societies on campus.”

Following the ceremony, Freedman told the Bulletin the house will ideally be “busy seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

“It’s important so that Jewish students can come together in one place and discuss issues in comfort,” he says, “and hopefully open a dialogue with the larger student body about Israel issues and about Jewish issues in a non-confrontational environment.”

Incoming JSA President Ariella Kimmel is among the first group of students to live at the Hillel House.

“It’s really nice that I have a place with other Jewish students,” she says, stressing the importance of having a safe place for all Jew-

Rabbi Yonah Burr installs the mezuzah on the doorway during the official opening of the JSA Hillel House on August 27.

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ish students to go to.

“When you’re walking through campus and you’re Jewish and, suddenly, you realize there’s all these people that don’t accept what you are and don’t support what you are, it can be really

nerve-wracking,” Kimmel says.

“Coming here gives us a place to really help develop a new spirit in Jewish students.”

Hillel House was made possible by a donation from the Minto Foundation.

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Setting higher sights for Campaign 2008 Editor’s note: JFO Chair Jonathan Freedman has arranged to share his column, on occasion, with the chairs or presidents of the community’s major beneficiary agencies or committees so they can provide some insight into their operations.

We are officially into the second year of our second term as chairs of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s Annual Campaign; and what a remarkable year of accomplishments it has been! Thanks to the generosity of our community, we have surpassed our $5 million goal for the 2007 Campaign, not including the $2 million raised for the Israel Emergency Campaign!

But, as we all well know, there is always more to be done to strengthen our community and pave the way for future generations. This year, we have increased our target goal to $5.2 million. Ambitious? Yes! Exciting? Without a doubt!

The 2007 Campaign included many highlights, from our Campaign kickoff featuring Marlee Matlin, to Dr. Marla Shapiro, to Mitzvah Day, to a newly revitalized and highly successful Walkathon, and a sold-out record-breaking golf tournament in memory of devoted community philanthropist Herbert Nadolny. All were successful fundraisers.

During our spring Mission, 36 people celebrated Yom Ha’Atzmaut in Israel.

Federation Report Debbie Weiss and Steven Kimmel Campaign Co-chairs

From Israel, nine of the Mission participants went on to Ethiopia to accompany 85 new Olim (immigrants) from Addis Ababa to Jerusalem. In three short days, these nine individuals came to understand the extent to which campaign dollars assist Ethiopians in making aliyah and reuniting with family and friends.

So what do we hope the Campaign will accomplish in 2008?

At last year’s community symposium, a constant theme was the inability of the organizations and agencies of the community to involve the numerous unaffiliated and unengaged within the community. It was clear that many of our constituents, whether in the youth, young adult or adult demographic, feel alienated or isolated from the mainstream Jewish community.

We need to engage all demographics of our community and hope to achieve this goal through increased outreach programming

geared to captivate both interest and involvement. We also need to focus on the youth of our community and increase their participation as volunteers and canvassers, cultivating the up-and-coming leadership within the community.

The year 2008 marks the 36th Anniversary of the Women’s Campaign in Ottawa.

The first Women’s Campaign in 1972 raised more than $10,000; but more importantly, laid the foundation for what has become a growing and dynamic campaign division. Thirty-five years later, the Women’s Campaign raised $748,000!

Plans are in the works for a special program to celebrate this double-Chai Anniversary.

As founding member Bertha Palmer once said, “The goal of my campaign is to make women active partners in the responsibility for Jewish life and community affairs. There is no greater legacy than to

leave future generations with a vital Jewish Community. It isn’t charity that is being asked for, but a sharing of responsibility for the mosaic of Jewish life, of which we too, are direct beneficiaries.”

On October 11, our Mission to Ottawa welcomes everyone in the community who is interested in taking a tour of some of our communal beneficiary agencies to see, first hand, where your campaign dollars are being spent.

The Women’s Campaign is focused on motivating more women in our community to lead, make independent giving choices and set examples of compassion and commitment for their children, grandchildren and their community. With this in mind, Women’s Campaign has planned Choices, a very exciting evening on November 1, featuring the provocative writer Irshad Manji.

It has been an amazing year, filled with opportunities to build partnerships, strengthen friendships and be inspired by the hundreds of volunteers who gave time and energy to strengthen our community.

Our commitment to charity speaks to a basic tenet of Judaism, the Mitzvah of Tzedakah. Charity is the Jewish way of life.

We look forward to going from strength to strength in the New Year, and wish you all a Shana Tova.

On Yom Kippur ask yourself how you can help the community Has anyone thought of bringing a flakjacket to shul for Yom Kippur to avoid injury from hitting oneself too hard on the chest during the Yom Kippur confessional?

Somehow, I doubt this will become the next Jewish in-thing. We do hit ourselves on Yom Kippur, but very lightly. The hits are more realistically taps. And that is fine. It is more symbolic. The important element is that the confessional impacts on us, that we are indeed truly sorry, repentant and resolved to make amends and corrections. A little tap can achieve this.

There is nothing wrong and everything right with acknowledging we have erred or acted improperly. There is much more wrong with being unable to admit to wrongdoing, to live in the delusion we are perfect and, if anything wrong happened, it is the fault of others.

There are many wrong things continuing to occur on the global scene, yet those who should shoulder the blame for their wrongdoings refuse to do so and continue to blame others.

This is most blatant and out of balance in the Middle East, where almost every problem is blamed on Israel, and the blamers never take even a slice of the blame. Israel, on the other hand, is out of balance in the opposite way, taking blame even when it should not and ready to make gigantic concessions, which, based on past experience and psychological projection, will never be enough.

From the pulpit Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka Machzikei Hadas Israel is about to enter into a most perilous period of its existence, wherein heavy diplomatic pressures may force it into making concessions that are not in its best shortor long-term interests. Our thoughts and prayers are with the decision makers, that they be granted the wisdom and resolve to make the right decisions. This will be a gutwrenching, soul-searching time.

Here at home, we have also been engaged in soul searching. In a process started under the regime of Ron Prehogan, and being pursued under the present leadership of Jonathan Freedman, we are looking at what we are all about, where we are going and how to ensure a meaningful Jewishness for now and future generations.

The flow of it all has been inclusive and positive, free of the blame game, and focused instead on what we can do together to enhance and assure our viability as a community.

A little bit of individual “taps” on the chest is not a bad idea. If you look at our community, be it on a financial or resource

or involvement level, most of the load is carried by a relative few. Arguably, this is the case in most communities and organizations.

But we are not so big that this can continue.

Eventually, the well will dry up and the overtaxed volunteers will burn out.

Besides, is not the very basis of community the notion that everyone, or almost everyone, is involved? Everyone wants a strong community, but not everyone asks – what can I do to make this happen? So, come this Yom Kippur, try not only tapping

the chest. Try also tapping the brain and the heart, so each of us will ask the question – what can I do to make ours a more vibrant, dynamic community?

And after asking the question, try to come up with responses that will help spread the responsibility onto a greater number. If everyone does even just a little bit, it will have an immense impact. The more people are involved, the stronger we will be. This Yom Kippur, try tapping our major resource – you.

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Two Ottawa rabbis’ perspectives on outreach The community is slowly but surely making progress on the unaffiliated file.

The Federation has and continues to fund and support programs as diverse as an Internet chat group for young adults, a program for parents with young babies, book discussions throughout Ottawa, food demonstrations and recipes at the Loblaws kosher aisle during the holidays and special programs for people in outlying areas.

And more funding is promised. Especially for those aimed at reaching the younger generation and families where one of the partners is of another faith.

We will, in the coming months, report on the different outreach initiatives and let you know how well they are working.

To begin our coverage, I recently sat down, at different times, with two individuals who know a thing or two about reaching out to the unaffiliated.

Rabbi Menachem Blum is a Chabad rabbi who has been involved in outreach ever since he moved out to what was then the wilds of Barrhaven and started the Ottawa Torah Center. Rabbi Steven Garten and his Reform congregation, Temple Israel, have also been involved in outreach for many years.

When it comes to outreach, how you market and package your event is very important. Being creative also helps. For years, Rabbi Blum has run a Purim theme party at local hotels that has attracted many of the unaffiliated. One of his latest ven-

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tures, funded by the Federation at Chapter’s bookstore, was successful because it was advertised as a Chapters’ event. As well as posters at Chapters, the rabbi ran ads in community newspapers.

The rabbi has held well-attended matzah-baking demonstrations at local libraries and schools throughout the city.

“It was nice because you get the kids and the parents attending,” he says.

“We try to hold events in public spaces,” says the rabbi. “You have to reach the people where they are, both physically and on their level. Programs have to speak to them and be offered in a non-threatening environment.”

It doesn’t end there.

“It is a two-step process. It’s great to bring them in but, if there is no follow-up, you don’t see them again. Name collection and follow-up is all about building a relationship,” he says.

No matter the event – religious service, adult education class or social evening – it is important to be non-judgmental and always be welcoming,” the rabbi insists.

It is all about creating points of entry

and then linking the people to them. At his popular adult education courses held at the SJCC, he arranges for guest passes for his students with the hope they would become members. His overall goal is to create an atmosphere where they can feel comfortable and be able to ask, he says, “what being Jewish means to them,” regardless of affiliation, knowledge or marital status. He believes it is especially important to be welcoming to the intermarried.

For the Reform movement, reaching out to the non-traditional members of the Jewish community and especially the intermarried is a priority.

“We have had a series of programs, directed to the intermarried, with no expectation of them converting. We simply said ‘here is how you can have a Jewish home at holiday times even if your spouse is not converting,’” Rabbi Garten says.

As well, Temple holds a year-long Jewish information course that helps people decide if they want to convert.

Their popular Taste of Judaism, with the help of a Federation grant, will be expanded and held at different locations throughout the city. The course allows anyone interested the opportunity to learn about Judaism.

“The primary focus is on intermarried couples who feel estranged from the Jewish community because all they hear is ‘join a synagogue or convert.’ This program allows them to learn about being Jewish. And if they want to learn more, they can take our

Jewish information class,” the rabbi says.

As well, those attending are offered free tickets to the High Holiday services.

Temple Israel’s latest outreach program, funded by the Federation, is First Steps Orleans. Based on a successful program they ran in Chelsea, Quebec, the idea is to get a number of interfaith couples and their children to meet monthly with a teacher, at a location other than Temple Israel, to learn about Judaism.

“Here is a way to teach your children about Jewish holidays and Jewish traditions.

At the same time, the parents have to participate, so they are learning too. It means the interfaith partner has an opportunity to learn without the pressure of conversion or synagogue membership,” he says.

“Overall, the intent is to make people feel that the Jewish community has not forsaken them and that there is an entrée to the Jewish community in non-traditional ways,” he says.

There are lessons to be learned from the experience of Rabbis Blum and Garten. Perhaps the most important one is the great lengths in which they go to make the participants feel comfortable.

After all, when you really get down to it, reaching out to the unaffiliated and the unengaged is all about creating a trusting one-on-one relationship.

Something to keep in mind for those who are planning more secular Jewish culture outreach programs.

Voyage to Vilkaviskis, Lithuania - part 2 A memoir of a 1995 trip from Vilnius to Kaunas to Vilkaviskis, Lithuania – hometown of my father-in-law.

We approach Vilkaviskis and it begins to pour. My wife’s face betrays a queasy dread.

The weather, the history and our own equivocal reasons for coming have conspired to make this trip even more depressing than expected.

For my wife, this visit is an attempt to connect with family she never knew, but also an act of defiance against her father’s inability to frankly discuss what happened to that family. She did not tell him we were travelling to Lithuania. But, for reasons she cannot fully explain, his deteriorating physical condition and worsening dementia have created an urgent need for us to find out whatever we can here.

Our tour guide, Chayim, tells our driver to take us along a pothole-covered dirt road on the outskirts of the town. When we get to the end of the winding path, turned to mud by the rain, we are confronted with a tall monument topped by a wrought-iron stylized sun.

Until a few years ago, Chayim explains, the monument was crowned with a hammerand-sickle. It was a memorial to the “Soviet citizens” of Vilkaviskis murdered by the

Alan Echenberg Nazis. Now, plaques in Lithuanian and Yiddish tell a more specific tale. The monument marks the site where 7,000 Jews from Vilkaviskis were brought during the summer of 1941, made to dig a large grave and then shot to death by Nazis and Lithuanian “helpers.” We are probably standing at the gravesite of my wife’s grandparents and one of her two aunts (the other died in France).

The surging rain makes it difficult for Chayim to read and translate the plaque’s inscriptions. My wife takes a few pictures of the site. I leave a small stone on its base.

It grows wetter and colder. But, after we return to the car and continue into town, the sky clears.

Vilkaviskis is a modern and pleasantlooking county seat of about 20,000 residents. Before the war, 40 per cent of the town was Jewish. A middle-aged woman behind the counter of a snack bar tells

Chayim she can remember where the Jews used to live and own businesses.

We go across town to the old Jewish cemetery. In fact, it is the new Jewish cemetery – the old, medieval one having disappeared long ago. The new-old cemetery looks on the verge of disappearance itself. It barely survived the Nazis and was neglected throughout the Soviet years. Vegetation has overrun the gravestones, many of which have been vandalized. The Lithuanian government seemingly has not lifted a finger to restore it. Judging by some of the strange looks we are getting from people on adjacent properties, visitors here are few and far between.

At the entrance of the cemetery stands a large mound of earth, ringed by neatly placed gravestones and gravestone-fragments lying on their backs around its base.

You don’t feel all that bad for some of the more recently deceased in the new-old Vilkaviskis cemetery – the ones who died in the late 1930s or early 1940s. They are, of course, among the last to be buried here.

You can’t help but count them luckier than those who lie anonymously beneath the monument we saw earlier.

We spend about an hour in the cemetery, the rain starting and stopping. We go from

one gravesite to another, trying to make out the fading Hebrew names on the stones.

About half the stones are missing, broken or indecipherable. It grows darker. My pants are soaked from wandering through kneehigh vegetation.

I remember reading something about disease-carrying ticks in the high grass of the Lithuanian countryside. I try to think of something else.

Finally, in the most remote, most deteriorated corner of the cemetery, we find a gravestone with the fading inscription, “Aryeh Leib, son of Mordecai Sideris, 1923.” The family name is a Lithuanianized version of my wife’s family name, Sider.

Chayim says it must be a relative. I take a picture of my wife standing next to the stone. We search the remainder of the area and find nothing else. We return to the car dripping wet.

In a strange way, everything this day feels automated and detached, as if we’re scientists on a fact-finding mission. It will take time to absorb this information. We’ll have to piece it together with what we already know.

To be concluded in a future issue.

Alan Echenberg is TVOntario’s Parliamentary bureau chief.

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over time. It’s great to be part of a religion that offers much flexibility and even has recognized denominations such as Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, etc.

We are faced with living and integrating into a secular, multicultural society, exposing ourselves to many different beliefs, cultures and customs. Is it so terrible to include articles that stem from different perspectives of our Jewish community? Are people sharing less traditional views identified as less Jewish? No person is in a position to judge another’s Judaic personal values.

I don’t believe that we as a Jewish community have really failed all that much. I feel a more open, inclusive approach to Judaism will help to strengthen the bonds of our community, which, I feel, suffer more from judgmental and excluding views.

Mike Cherun

I found Rabbi Finkelstein’s letter-tothe-editor response (August 20) to a previous Have a Knish column to be thought-provoking. At first glance, it’s natural for Jews having more conservative views to react to the inclusion of an article in a Jewish paper that recommends a restaurant and describes a nonkosher menu. This would make sense, demographically speaking, if you are targeting a strictly kosher readership.

However, from a different perspective, I look at the lifestyles of many Jewish families I know in town. The reality is that different Jewish families and individuals seem to have made different choices as to which Jewish customs and traditions make sense for them to observe. For example, some keep strictly kosher in and outside of their home; others keep kosher at home, but don’t when they eat out. Some don’t keep kosher at all. In fact, I personally view identifying oneself as being Jewish as being far more important than how religiously one follows the laws of Kashrut at any given point in one’s life.

I really appreciate this selective approach to tradition, because, in my view, one’s relationship with one’s religion spiritually evolves and develops

Orthodox policy protocol on conversion released Nicola Hamer’s excellent article on conversions (September 3) fails to clearly indicate what the position of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is in regard to Orthodox conversions performed in North America. While the issue of

Orthodox conversions is a highly contentious one that has been debated by the Rabbinical Council of America and the Chief Rabbinate, a policy protocol released by the RCA indicates that all conversions registered by the Beth Din of America, the RCA’s Bet Din, are accepted by the Chief Rabbinate.

At the present time, regional batei din are being set up across the North American continent by the RCA and the Beth Din of America with the intended goal of creating and implementing a universal standardized system of requirements for Orthodox conversions to take place.

Rabbi Howard Finkelstein

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By Jason Sherriff The Levitank Pool at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre (SJCC) has been converted from chlorine to salt water, an important upgrade that promises to leave you feeling a lot happier after your dip with itchfree eyes and softer-feeling skin.

Salt water pools are cleaner than chlorinated pools, according to Robin Jordan, SJCC’s manager of aquatics. The conversion makes the SJCC pool the largest salt water swimming pool in Ottawa.

The idea for the upgrade was brought to the attention of the SJCC by members who brought in articles outlining the benefits of using salt water over chlorine, says Jordan.

“Over the past couple years, we’ve looked into it,” she says, “and we’ve had people come in and talk to us about it.”

After her research, Jordan presented her findings to Mitchell Bellman, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, and Anita Bloom, president and COO of the SJCC. After the process was put in motion, Jordan says, the SJCC received an anonymous donation to make the upgrade a reality.

“This is a result of listening to our members,” says Bloom, “and doing what we can to offer an alternative to regular chlorinated pools.”

Use of salt water is becoming more common in residential swimming pools, says Jordan, and is cleaner, healthier and safer to handle than the corrosive chlorine used by most large pools.

“The only major con,” in shifting from chlorine to a salt water system, according to Jordan, “is the initial startup cost. But on a monthly basis, it will be a lot cheaper for us.”

Jordan says part of the reason salt water is beneficial, and the thing she hopes swimmers will notice, is the softer nature of the water.

“It will be soft, bubbly

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and a lot nicer, with no harsh chemicals,” she says.

A salt water system is more natural and environmentally friendly than using chemicals like chlorine, says Jordan, and is of benefit to people suffering from

allergies or asthma. A salt water pool is also effective at killing bacteria and fungi, leading to a more sterile environment.

Although swimmers might initially have an issue with the salty taste of the

water, Jordan hopes they will notice the difference and benefits of the water.

“I’m excited about it,” she says. “I hope the salt water system proves to be as good as what I’ve found in all my research.”

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – September 17, 2007 – Page 11 In support of the Bess and Moe Greenberg Family Hillel Lodge In the Joseph and Inez Zelikovitz Long Term Care Centre Card Donations Card donations go a long way to improving the quality of life for our residents. Thank you for considering their needs and contributing to their well-being.

On behalf of the residents and their families, we extend sincere appreciation to the following individuals and families who made card donations to the Hillel Lodge Long-Term Care Foundation between August 2 and August 29, 2007 inclusive.

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By making a contribution of $1,000 or more, you can create a permanent remembrance for a loved one, honour a family member, declare what the Lodge has meant to you and/or support a cause that you believe in.

A Hillel Lodge Honour Fund is a permanent pool of capital that earns interest or income each year. This income then supports the priorities designated by you, the donor.

The Auxiliary of Hillel Lodge R’fuah Shlema: Enid Gould by Carolyn and Sid Katz.

Bill and Leona Adler Memorial Fund In Memory of: Bill Adler by Janice Shelvock; and the Stein Family.

Sofia Nayvelt by Marilyn Adler.

Ghita Schneiderman by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler; Marilyn Adler and Neil Blacher.

Beloved Father of Laya Bulka by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler; Marilyn Adler.

In Honour of: Claire-Jehanne Dubouloz-Wilner For being recognized for your great contribution and hard work by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler.

Blanche Osterer In Appreciation by Marilyn and Elayne Adler.

Rabbi Simes Mazal Tov on receiving the Greenspoon-Steihardt Award for excellence in Jewish teaching by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan & Benjamin Stenzler.

Boris and Dolly Blacher Family Fund In Memory of: Bill Adler by Susan, Doug and Carly Bright.

Joel and Sharon Edelson Family Fund In Memory of: Bill Adler by Sharon and Joel Edelson & Family.

Ghita Schneiderman by Sharon and Joel Edelson & Family.

Feeding Program In Memory of: Maurice Ben-Kalifa by The Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; Bonnie Dobson; Debra and Gary Viner & Family; Bunnie Cogan; Dee and Yale Gaffen, Mitzi Merson; Evelyn Greenberg; Elaine Friedberg, Bob & Jonathan Dale.

Sofia Nayvelt by Estelle and Sol Gunner.

Tania Firestone Family Fund In Memory of: Solly Marcus by Susie Caplan-Firestone and Phil Firestone and Family.

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In Honour of: Sandra and Norman Slover Wishing you a happy and healthy 40th anniversary by Vera and Malcolm Glube.

Nell Gluck Memorial Fund In Memory of: Gertrude Marks by Manny Gluck and Cheryle.

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Ghita Schneiderman by Maureen and Henry Molot.

Ann Silverstone by Maureen and Henry Molot.

In Honour of: The Honorable Irwin Cotler Mazal Tov on your receipt of an honourary degree from Brandeis University by Maureen and Henry Molot.

Evelyn and Irving Greenberg Family Fund In Memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Evelyn Greenberg.

Sol Kronick by Evelyn Greenberg.

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Frank and Lily Hoffenberg Family Fund In Memory of: Solly Marcus by Roseann and Ron Hoffenberg.

Nordau and Roslyn Kanigsberg Family Fund In Honour of: Sandra and Norman Slover Wishing you a happy and healthy 40th anniversary by Roz and Nordau Kanigsberg.

R’fuah Shlema: Jack Silverstein Kanigsberg.

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David, Harvey, Victor Kardish Family Fund In Memory of: Bill Adler by Margo, David, Aaron and Gail Kardish.

Ghita Schneiderman by Gale, Victor and Sydney Kardish.

In Honour of: Cheryl and Brian Levitan Mazal Tov on your daughter Elana’s graduation by Margo, David, Aaron & Gail Kardish.

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Morris and Lillian Kimmel Family Fund In Memory of: Ghita Schneiderman by Morris Kimmel, Steve and Shelli Kimmel, Steve and Janet Kaiman, Brenda and Nathan Levine & Families.

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Joan and Russell Kronick Family Fund In Memory of: Sol Kronick by Joan and Russell Kronick.

Solly Marcus by Joan and Russell Kronick.

Sid Rothman by Joan and Russell Kronick.

Ghita Schneiderman by Joan and Russell Kronick.

Beloved Mother of Jeff Simbroe by Joan and Russell Kronick.

In Honour of: Allan Eisen Best wishes for a happy 65th birthday by Joan and Russell Kronick.

Kaysa Friedman Wishing you good luck in your new home by Joan and Russell Kronick.

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R’fuah Shlema: Marilyn Newman by Joan and Russell Kronick.

Bill and Phyllis Leith Family Endowment Fund In Honour of: David Allice Best wishes for a happy 40th birthday by Lisa and David Leith.

Lisa and David Leith Happy 10th Anniversary

by Marcia and Charles Rak. Levenson-Polowin Feeding Fund In Memory of: Ghita Schneiderman by Heidi and Steve Polowin.

Lipsky Cracower Family Fund In Memory of: Ghita Schneiderman by Naomi and Allan Cracower.

Sam and Dora Litwack Family Fund In Honour of: Dora and Sam Litwack Mazal Tov on your 50th wedding anniversary by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky.

Chaim and Raja Miller Memorial Fund In Memory of: Maurice Ben-Kalifa by Marcia Saipe and Ted Miller.

Ghita Schneiderman by Marcia Saipe and Ted Miller.

Dennis Newton Memorial Fund In observance of the Yortzeit of: Maureen Newton Shinder beloved mother of Wendy Klein by Golda Feig and Ned Steinman.

Music Therapy Program In Memory of: Maurice Ben-Kalifa by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky.

Sofia Nayvelt by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky.

In Honour of: Susan and Leonard Kerzner Mazal Tov on the Shimon Yitzhak’s engagement to Sarah Devorah Bromberg by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky.

Neima Langner, Rick Davies & Family Mazal Tov on Adina’s marriage to Josh by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky.

Sonia Rawicki Agulnik Music Therapy Fund In Honour of: Vera Schacter Mazal Tov on your very special birthday by Paula and Manny Agulnik.

Recreation & Therapeutics Fund In Honour of: Betty and Nate Dinovitzer We’re thinking of you both and wish Nate a speedy recovery by Estelle and Sol Gunner.

Aviva and Leo Lightstone Mazal Tov on your 25th wedding anniversary by Estelle and Sol Gunner.

Ritual Supply Fund A generous donation has been made by Sid Lithwick.

Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Family Fund In Memory of: Ghita Schneiderman by Debi and David Shore; Diane Elliott; Daniel and Marilyn Kimmel; Gavin Naimer; Rita and Maurice Ryant; Danielle Thomas & Family; Dee and Yale Gaffen, Mitzi Merson; Yehudis Stokes; Issie Scarowsky; Riva Lebofsky; Corinne and Sheldon Taylor & Family; Jackie Lyons, Gary Stein & Family; Bunnie Cogan; Joanna and Ira Abrams & Family; Elizabeth and Jean-Serge Richard; Estelle and Ian Melzer; Catherine and Jim Montgomery; Ruth Silbert & Shannon Conway; Cybil and Bernard Dorfman; Sadie Auerbach; Cobie-Ann Hotte, Penny & Claude Hotte; Paula and Manny Agulnik; Rhonda and Danny Levine; Jose Posen; Ina and Mark Golfman & Children; Morag Burch; Abe and Anita Levine; Alan Freed; Murray Citron; Gordon Naimer; Evan and Carol Diamond; Jean, Janice & Marcie; Frances and Joe Richman; Susan and Harry Barmash-Charton; Estelle and Sol Gunner; Sonia and Adam Greenspoon; Margie, Aaron, Adam & Elana Moscoe; Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale.

Ann Silverstone by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman; and Stacey Schneiderman.

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Label and Leona Silver Family Fund In Memory of: Rabbi Noah Hayyim Rosenbloom by Leona and Label Silver.

In Honour of: Dora and Sam Litwack Mazal Tov and best wishes on your 50th wedding anniversary by Leona and Label Silver.

Jessie and Joe Murray Mazal Tov and best wishes on your 50th wedding anniversary by Leona and Label Silver.

Ralph and Anne Sternberg Memorial Fund In Memory: Ghita Schneiderman by Laya and Ted Jacobsen.

In Honour of: Rabbi Stephen & Mrs. Lisa Garten In appreciation for a deed well done by Laya and Ted Jacobsen.

Orest Pidskalny Thinking of and praying for you, our cousin fighting the good fight by Ted and Laya Jacobsen.

Bram Potechin and his team In appreciation

by Laya and Ted Jacobsen.

Dulce Santos In appreciation for acts of loving kindness to my mother by Ted Jacobsen.

Sarah and Arnie Swedler Family Fund In Memory of: Sol Kronick by Sarah and Arnie Swedler.

Ghita Schneiderman by Sarah and Arnie Swedler.

In Honour of: Brenda and David Saxe Mazal Tov on the birth of your grandson by Sarah and Arnie Swedler.

Roslyn & Myles Taller Family Endowment Fund In Memory of: Ghita Schneiderman by Roz and Myles Taller.

Louis and Diane Tannenbaum Family Fund A generous donation has been made in honour of their special birthdays by Diane and Louis Tannenbaum.

Harry Torontow Family Fund In Honour of: Harry Torontow Wishing you a happy birthday with love by Dorothy and David Torontow.

Eric Weiner & Arlene Godfrey Family Fund In Memory of: Ghita Schneiderman by Arlene Godfrey, Eric Weiner & Family.

Anna and Samuel Wex Family Fund In Memory of: Bill Adler by Anna and Sam Wex. Toby and Joel Yan Family Fund In Memory of: Esther Engel by Toby and Joel Yan and Family.

Carole and Norman Zagerman Family Fund In Memory of: Bill Adler by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Sol Kronick by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Ghita Schneiderman by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Bea Wright by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Beloved mother of Lorne Shusterman by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

In Honour of: Henry Bloom for his special birthday by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Rhea and Jeff Hochstadter Happy 25th Anniversary by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Elliott Levitan for his special birthday by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Ralph Saslove for his special birthday by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Sarah Swedler for her special birthday by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

R’Fuah Shlema to: Enid Gould by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

Roz Taller by Carole and Norman Zagerman. ****************** IN MEMORY OF: Ilona Gal by Faigy and Zachary Muroff and Family.

Aron Greenspan by Elissa and Jeff Krupski.

Ralph Kamens by Barbara Schulman.

Henri Khaiat by Ron and Janis Silver.

Sol Kronick by Ruth and Irving Aaron; Roz and Stan Labow.

Solly Marcus by Dorothy and Hartley Stern.

Catherine McMenemy by Marilyn Adair.

Sofia Nayvelt by Rita and Maurice Ryant.

Rabbi Noah Hayyim Rosebloom by the Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge.

Ann Silverstone by The Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; and Joanna and Ira Abrams and Family; Carl and Lorna Raskin.

Beloved Mother of Lorne Shusterman by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz.

IN HONOUR OF: Sid Cohen May this birthday herald a year filled with continued happiness, and above all, the very best of health for you and yours by Sheila and Marvyn Kussner.

Lou Eisenberg Mazal Tov and best wishes for your 80th birthday by Debi and David Shore; and Rickie and Marty Saslove.

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Elliott Levitan Wishing you good health and happiness on your special birthday by Joan and Henry Bloom.

Lil and Norm Levitin Mazal Tov on your 50th anniversary by Ron, Janis, Isaac and Andrea Silver.

Rita and Maurice Ryant Happy Anniversary and many more healthy and happy ones by Helen Rosenthal.

Jack Silverstein Wishing you good health today and always by Inez Zelikovitz.

Allan Weiss Mazal Tov and best wishes on your 60th birthday by Carol, Evan and Miriam Diamond.

R’FUAH SHLEMA: Enid Gould by Roz and Stan Labow.

SJCC Music and Drama campers join Harry Torontow in celebration of his 104th birthday at Hillel Lodge.

Harry Torontow is 104 and counting …

As the strong voices of the SJCC Music and Drama campers sang Happy Birthday, Harry Torontow was presented with a chocolate birthday cake laden with candles in honour of his 104th birthday.

Harry was born in Russia, the ninth of 10 children, and came to Canada as a young child. The family soon relocated from Montreal to Ottawa where Harry

grew up and matriculated.

When his plans to attend McGill University were cancelled because of his father’s death, he took a job with Moses Loeb selling candy to stores.

“I was the first salesman for M. Loeb Ltd.,” he states.

He turned out to be a “crackerjack” salesman and stayed with the growing company in that capacity for more than 40 years, turning

down offers to work in the office.

Harry’s skills as a salesman led to his other great life-long occupation, volunteering for United Jewish Appeal. Today, his strong voice can still be heard making a minyan. On this special occasion, Hillel Lodge wishes you lots of love and nachas Harry!

– with files from the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin

Reichstein helps you find your Jewish ancestors The Ottawa Jewish Historical Society will present a talk on “Finding your Jewish Ancestors,” by Hymie Reichstein, president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Ottawa. The talk will take place on Monday, September 24 at 7:30 pm, in the Simcha Room at Agudath Israel Synagogue. The lecture will cover the myriad sources and techniques available to help one discover his or her roots.

Reichstein began his own quest to search for his roots about 20 years ago. In 1995, he, along with nine others, founded the Jewish Genealogical Society of Ottawa (JGSO). He has lectured to various groups in Ottawa and Florida on many aspects of Jewish genealogy and has helped many individuals in their search for ancestors. Along with John Diener, he has photographed and

Hymie Reichstein

databased all of the matzevot (tombstones) in the Ottawa, Kingston and Cornwall Jewish Cemeteries. Reichstein has also databased all of the names of individuals in Ottawa and surroundings who were recorded as Jewish in the 1911 Canadian census.

His favourite question is: “Can you do my family tree?”

His answer: “I have not finished mine and I have been working on it for 20 years.”

Although it is one of the smaller societies in the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS), the JGSO has contributed many important databases to assist people in finding their roots.

The index to the Naturalization records of all Canadians naturalized between 1915 and 1932, a joint project with the Montreal Jewish Genealogical Society, was donated to Library and Archives Canada and can be found on their website.

The Society also photographed the entire Chernovitz Jewish Cemetery in Ukraine, an undertaking which won the “Project of the Year award” from the IAJGS. The JGSO meets once a month to discuss new genealogical sources and to help people with their genealogical problems.

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Ottawa Folk Festival features virtuoso Israeli klezmer band

By Michael Regenstreif Klezmer music – Eastern European Jewish folk music – came to North America with the large waves of Jewish immigration between the 1880s and 1920s. The music flourished in the early decades of the 20th century but all but faded away by the 1950s.

Since the mid-1970s, though, there’s been a revival of klezmer in North America that began when young Jewish musicians – already expert in a variety of musical forms – became interested in their own roots and rediscovered the music their parents’ generation had left behind.

Klezmer music is now more popular than ever and while the klezmer music revival has exploded in North America and spread back to Europe, Israel, the Jewish homeland, has been very slow to reembrace this Jewish music.

Israel’s cultural imperative, beginning with the early Zionist movement before the establishment of the state, has been to create a new Hebrewbased culture. The Yiddishbased culture of the old countries of Eastern Europe was left behind as musicians and writers strived to look forward, forget the past and create something new.

Only very recently have Israelis begun to discover the joys of klezmer music and to appreciate the value of preserving old country Jewish culture.

Klezmer bands are still a rare commodity in Israel.

One of the first to establish a growing following is Oy Division, a band that began to take form after several Israeli musicians met in August 2006 at the annual KlezKana-

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Oy Division performs at the Ottawa Folk Festival in August.

(OJB photo: Michael Regenstreif)

da camp north of Montreal.

A year later, Oy Division was back in Canada to attend KlezKanada and to perform concerts in Montreal and Toronto and at the Ottawa Folk Festival.

Oy Division’s five musicians come from varied musical backgrounds.

Clarinetist Eyal Talmudi performs with the Balkan Beat Box, a well-known world music ensemble with members living in Bulgaria, Morocco, Spain, Turkey and Israel. Violinist Gershon Leizerson is a graduate student at Tel Aviv University’s music department and a member of several classical orchestras.

Accordionist Assaf Talmudi, Eyal’s brother, is well known in Israel as a record producer and lectures at Haifa University’s music department. Bassist Avichai Tuchman has backed many Israeli artists playing both secular and religious music and singer/percussionist Noam Inbar is the lead singer of H’Billuyim, a theatrical band that combines punk,

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polka and rock and roll.

Oy Divison’s Ottawa concert was on August 19, the final day of the Ottawa Folk Festival. The almost-full house – on the multi-stage festival’s sole indoor stage at Britannia Park – included folk music lovers who’d been at the park all weekend and people from the Ottawa Jewish community who turned out just for the performance.

Alan Baker, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, was front row and centre during the performance, which saw the relatively new band playing with the type of precision and depth of feeling more typical of veteran ensembles that have played together for years, rather than months.

Oy Division’s approach to klezmer music is very traditional. Unlike other bands that blend klezmer with strains of jazz, Roma, rock, bluegrass and other kinds of music, Oy Division plays arrangements that might have been heard a century ago as they move from up-tempo wedding tunes that quickly

get the dancers up and circling the room to deeply felt laments that seem to go straight to the soul.

Oy Division began with several instrumentals before singer Inbar came out from the wings. Eyal Talmudi’s soaring clarinet and Leizerson’s passionate violin playing provided the lead lines on top of Assaf Talmudi’s almost-orchestral accordion playing and Tuchman’s timekeeping bass work. When Inbar joined them on stage 20 minutes into the set, he added soulfully sung Yiddish vocals.

The band wasted no time between songs, barely saying a word to the audience and not introducing the individual pieces. Perhaps none of the band members felt comfortable speaking English, but it was somewhat disappointing that they provided no information – not even the song titles – about the music they played. That disappointment, though, was negated by the virtuosity of Oy Division’s musicianship.

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220 children receive school bags compliments of Na’amat Ottawa

By Sharon Reichstein Chair, School Supplies for Kids Project For the ninth consecutive year, volunteers from Na’amat Ottawa gathered to assemble 220 school bags stuffed with every supply needed to start the school year.

Volunteers had been busy applying for grants, buying supplies, co-ordinating the production line and organizing deliveries of the annual School Supplies for Kids Project, which is a nationwide initiative through Na’amat Canada.

The program aims to equip children who are being cared for in domestic violence shelters with the school supplies they need to start the school year on the right foot.

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turned into a factory and production line as volunteers stuffed the backpacks.

The supplies were divided into three age-appropriate bags. Children in Kindergarten received markers and crayons while children in Grade 7+ received calculators and geometry sets in addition to many other grade-appropriate items.

This project is spearheaded by the Otzma Chapter of Na’amat Ottawa, one of five vibrant and growing chapters in Ottawa. It has grown from providing 15 basic bags to a project allowing 220 children to receive a multitude of supplies in beautiful school bags.

In her thank-you note last year to Na’amat, Andrea Gardner from Jewish Family Services’ Tikvah program

wrote, “The beginning of the school year can be very stressful for those families who are unable to provide their children with the supplies they need to go to school. Your wonderful donation helped to make a difference.”

Jessica Sauve-Griffin from Chrysalis House said, “Your kindness will make it possible for mothers to provide their children with the basic essentials for back-toschool and has alleviated some of the back-to-school stress in an otherwise challenging time.”

Thanks to the generous support of concerned individuals, corporate sponsors, charitable foundations and volunteers, the Na’amat School Supplies for Kids Project has provided thousands of children in domes-

Five-year-old Sarah Aaron helps volunteer Marlene Reichstein fill backpacks.

tic violence shelters with school supply kits since its inception in 1998.

This has enabled those children to re-enter the

school system with hope and dignity, and also let them know they are not forgotten and their education is very important.

For more information about the project or to make a donation for next year, please contact Sharon Reichstein at 613-226-1989.

Around the Jewish world Eisen inaugurated at JTS (JTA) The new chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America said his mission is to focus on mitzvah, mission and Muslims. At his official inauguration at the Conservative movement’s flagship seminary, Arnold Eisen laid out an ambitious program for the coming year including a review of the seminary curriculum for rabbinical and cantorial students, expanded dialogue with Christians and Muslims and a sharpening of the movement’s message, beginning with a focus on the concept of mitzvah.

Eisen, the institution’s seventh chancellor, said he wants to provide “clear formulations, well-articulated and cogently argued, of my understanding of this movement. I want to share my understanding, in all humility and with full respect for other voices in our community, that this is the way on which God and Torah want us to walk.”

He rejected talk of the Conservative movement’s supposed “malaise,” a term used by his predecessor, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, in his final commencement address last year.

“Malaise is in the eye or head of the beholder,” Eisen said, as Schorsch, seated behind him on the dais, looked on. “It is certainly not in mine.”

Jewish woman runs for Moroccan parliament (JTA) A Jewish woman was chosen to head a national women’s list in Moroccan parliamentary elections. Maguy Kakon, a real-

estate consultant from Casablanca, would be the first Jewish woman elected to Morocco’s parliament, if her party, the Social Centre Party, prevails.

“I do admit it is not easy for me to run for elections,” Kakon said, according to AlJazeera. “Not because I am Jewish, but because I am a woman. Moroccan women, however, are present in all walks of life and I think I should give it a try.”

Kakon is not the first Jewish Moroccan to enter politics. When Morocco achieved independence in 1956, there were three Jewish members of parliament. Others have followed, and today Andre Azoulay, who is Jewish, is among King Mohammed’s senior advisers.

Nicaraguan Jews get Torah (JTA) Nicaraguan Jews have a Torah for the first time in nearly 30 years. A new Torah scroll was sent to the country in August, replacing the one that left the country for Costa Rica after a fire ravaged the country’s only synagogue in 1978 and the leftist Sandinista Revolution the following year forced the country’s Jewish community into exile.

The damaged synagogue was expropriated in the 1980s and now is a funeral home.

Nicaragua’s Jewish community today numbers about 60 people. Chana Sorhegan of New Jersey donated the scroll, which will be kept in the home of a Sabbath-observant community member, since the community has no permanent meeting place or synagogue.

Community president Eduardo Translateur said the Torah’s arrival is a major step toward rebuilding Nicaraguan Jewry. “The Torah was brought here last week and it is very beautiful,” he told JTA. “Slowly, slowly we are moving forward.”

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Young American Jews less attached to Israel

By Sue Fishkoff SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) – Young American Jews are increasingly alienated from Israel, according to a report released recently.

The report, titled “Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and their Alienation from Israel,” commissioned by the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, generally substantiates current suspicions rather than revealing new surprises.

The major findings are that successively younger American Jews feel increasingly distant from Israel, and that the trend has been increasing steadily for decades.

For example, less than half (48 per cent) of respondents younger than 35 agreed “Israel’s destruction would be a personal tragedy,” compared to 78 per cent of those 65 and older. And just 54 per cent of the younger group is “comfortable with the idea of a Jewish State,” compared to 81 per cent of those 65 or older, 74 per cent of those in the 50-64 age group and 64 per cent in the 35-49 group.

The report is based on data from the 2007 National Survey of American Jews, a mail- and Web-administered survey conducted in December 2006 and January 2007

by Synovate, Inc. It only considers the attitudes of nonOrthodox Jews. Of 1,828 respondents, 124 Orthodox were removed from the sample on the assumption that their relationship to Israel is

markedly closer than that of their non-Orthodox peers.

According to one of the report’s co-authors, Steven Cohen, a sociologist and research professor at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, the generational differences are more a function of the decade people were born than where they are on the life-cycle continuum.

That means the American Jewish detachment from Israel will increase as younger Jews age and replace their parents and grandparents’ generations.

“There is growing discomfort with the drawing of hard group boundaries of all sorts,” Cohen said of the so-called “millennials,” those born after 1980. “The idea of a Jewish state reflects hard group boundaries, that there is a distinction between Jews and everybody else. That does not sit well with young Jews.”

Overall, the picture of detachment from Israel is not as dismal as those figures might suggest, Cohen argued. More than 60 per cent of Jews younger than 35 in the study show “some level” of attachment to or caring about Israel.

“The glass is still half full; it’s just not as full as it used to be,” said Cohen, who wrote the report with Ari Kelman, assistant professor of American studies at the University of California.

Political leanings didn’t seem to affect the attitudes of

An Ottawa birthright israel group near the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.

younger Jews toward Israel.

In fact, the data suggest those who say they vote Republican, or describe themselves as politically conservative, are more alienated from Israel than self-professed liberals.

Cohen surmised there are so few young, non-Orthodox, right-wing American Jews that they are distanced from their Jewish peers in general, including when it comes to Israel.

The overall slide in attachment to, or interest in, Israel does not mean young American Jews are less “Jewish.” On the contrary, numerous recent studies and anecdotal evidence demonstrate great cultural and religious vitality and creativity among young Jews. Israel is just not as much a part of the picture, which should concern the greater community, the report warns.

“It’s worrying that young Jews may be creating a latter-

Sukkot Circus promises an afternoon of family fun Chabad of Centrepointe’s third annual Sukkot Circus takes place Sunday, September 30, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth or hut. During the holiday – one of the three festivals when the Jews of ancient Israel made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem – we construct temporary structures in which we eat, entertain guests, relax, even sleep. The sukkah reminds us of the huts Jews dwelt in during the 40 years of wandering the desert after the exodus from Egypt.

Another unique mitzvah the Torah prescribes for each day of Sukkot is to shake the Four Species – the Arba’ah Minim – or lulav and etrog. Three branches (myrtle, willow and date palm) and a fruit (citron) are held together and waved in a special ceremony.

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day Jewish Bundism, which affirms Jewish belonging but is neutral to the Zionist enterprise,” Cohen told JTA. “We’re seeing this growing phenomenon of Jews who have no problem saying the Shema but won’t sing Hatikvah.”

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, executive director of Mechon Hadar, which provides networking and support to startup minyans nationwide, seconded the notion that young Jews have a more nuanced attitude toward Israel than their elders. In the independent minyan movement, he said, that means they have not yet figured out how to do Israel programming.

“I think that reflects a problem our generation has not solved: how to engage with Israel without sloganslinging” – left-wing or rightwing – “but still remain emotionally engaged,” he said.

Kaunfer described Israel Independence Day celebrations at these minyans as “muted, not because of a lack of connection to Israel, but because we are still searching for appropriate ways to celebrate and connect to” the Jewish state.

One factor that seems to increase the attachment of young Jews to Israel quite dramatically is, not surprisingly, spending time in Israel.

While the report shows 19 per cent of young Jews who have never been to Israel exhibit a “high” level of attachment to the country, the number jumps to 34 per cent after a first trip and 52 per cent after two or more trips.

Conversely, 42 per cent of young Jews who have never

been to Israel report a “low” level of attachment. That number drops to 17 per cent after just one trip.

“Trips matter,” Cohen and Kelman write. “More trips are better than fewer, and trips of longer duration have more impact than those with shorter duration.”

“In some ways, that’s the most dramatic finding” of the report, said Barry Chazan, professor of Jewish education at Spertus College in Chicago and educational director of birthright israel, which has taken nearly 150,000 college-age and post-college Jews to Israel over the past seven years.

Taking young American Jews to Israel on these free, carefully organized trips is a powerful tool in Jewish identity-building.

“The motivation is strong; they’re not being dragged there,” he said. “They get a hefty dose of Zionist history, Jewish history and contemporary Israel. It’s very explicitly about that.”

Chazan has just finished a

book about birthright, scheduled for a publication this spring, with Leonard Saxe, director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.

They dispute the CohenKelman report’s prediction of a continuing downslide in American Jewish attachment to Israel, and say birthright has a lot to do with their optimism.

“Tens of thousands of young adults are having these experiences in Israel,” Saxe said. “It will create a generation of people who know Israel, and are interested in Israel, that is unprecedented.”

After last summer’s war with Lebanon, Saxe’s centre at Brandeis did a study comparing the reactions of birthright alumni to those of young American Jews who had not participated in a birthright program. They found “dramatic differences,” Saxe said.

“Program alumni got their information in very different ways from those who had not been on the program,” he said. “They looked to the Israeli media, or got news directly from Israelis they’d met. You had past participants reaching out to the Israelis they knew, not just watching it on CNN.” “If there’s that much interest in Israel, and in travelling to Israel,” he concluded, “it’s hard to say we’re facing a crisis.”

“Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and their Alienation from Israel” can be accessed online at www.acbp.net/ publications.html.

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Stuffed vegetables: perfect solution to bountiful harvest At this time of year, the Parkdale and Byward markets are filled with so much fresh produce it’s hard not to buy more than you can actually consume. Just seeing all those gorgeous peppers, eggplant, tomatoes and zucchini makes you want to buy them all. Then you get home and reality sets in. What will you do with all these vegetables?

Stuffed vegetables are the perfect solution.

The first recipe, for stuffed zucchini, was created for my daughter Jenna, a vegetarian. When she first announced she wanted to go vegetarian, she was 11 years old and I thought it was just a phase. However, five years later, she has not relented, so I have had to be creative in coming up with new ways for her to get enough protein in her diet. I have found that “Veggie Ground Round” by Yves works very well in all sorts of recipes where you’d normally use ground meat. It is a tofu-

based product and it takes on the flavours of whatever you are cooking it with. I have used it successfully in lasagna, spaghetti sauce and chili.

Stuffed zucchini often seem to represent either an attempt at a healthy but bland vegetarian dinner or a desperate effort to use up an abundance of zucchini from an overzealous trip to the market. In either case, the results are often soggy and flavourless. I learned a great technique from Cook’s Illustrated Magazine to create more flavourful stuffed zucchini. The secret is to scoop the seeds out of the zucchini to reduce the moisture and then roast the vegetable cut-side down for a flavourful sear and a head start on the cooking process.

The second recipe, for stuffed peppers, comes from the September 2007 issue of Homemaker’s Magazine. Most stuffed pepper recipes call for a mixture of some type of

2 medium green zucchini 2 medium summer squash (yellow zucchini) 4 tablespoons olive oil 3 cloves garlic, finely minced 1 small onion, finely diced 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 baby eggplant, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch dice 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 package veggie ground round 1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes 2 cups cooked white or brown long grain rice 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup freshly chopped Italian parsley Place a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet in oven and preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Meanwhile, halve each zucchi-

ni lengthwise. With small spoon, scoop out seeds and most of flesh so the walls of the zucchini are 1/4 inch thick. Season cut sides of zucchini with salt and pepper and brush with 2 tablespoons oil; set zucchini halves cut-side down on hot baking sheet. Roast zucchini until slightly softened and skins are wrinkled, about 10 minutes. Using tongs, flip zucchini halves over on baking sheet and set aside.

In a large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic, onion and red pepper flakes and sauté for about 2-3 minutes. Add eggplant and continue cooking over medium heat until vegetables are golden brown. It may be necessary to add more olive oil to pan if mixture seems too dry. Add salt and stir well.

Open package of veggie ground round and crumble contents as you add them to the skillet. Continue cooking mixture for another 3 minutes. Add crushed tomatoes and cook for another 5-7 minutes until tomatoes begin to thicken.

Add cooked rice and mix well.

Scoop mixture into zucchini boats and top with cheese.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, until filling is hot and cheese is bubbly. Garnish with fresh parsley.

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ground beef or lamb with rice. This recipe is unusual in that the peppers are stuffed with a pasta and cheese mixture. It works best with tiny pasta shapes, such as orzo (a rice-shaped pasta) or farfallini (tiny bow ties). Nicastros has a large selection of tiny pastas. In a pinch, you could even use the little alphabet-shaped pasta found in the supermarket.

3/4 cup tiny pasta (such as orzo) 4 ripe tomatoes 1 cup crumbled feta cheese 2 green onions, thinly sliced 1/3 cup chopped fresh mint 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 4 bell peppers (red, green, yellow or orange) 1/3 cup water 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta until al dente, according to package instructions. Drain. Chill under cold water and drain again. Set pasta aside.

Peel ripe tomatoes by dropping them in boiling water and leaving them there for about 15 to 30 seconds, depending on the ripeness. Remove with slotted spoon and peel with your fingers. To seed tomatoes, cut them in half through their equator. Gently squeeze out the juice and seeds while giving the tomato a sharp downward shake. Use your finger to remove any remaining seeds.

Dice tomatoes into 1/2-inch chunks.

Toss pasta, tomatoes, feta, green onions, mint and 3 tablespoons of the olive oil and black pepper. Set aside.

Cut tops off peppers and scoop out seeds and inner ribs. Stuff with pasta mixture. Place upright in 8-inch square baking dish. Pour water, lemon juice and 1 tablespoon oil around peppers. Cover with foil and bake for 55 minutes. Uncover and bake until peppers are tender, adding more water if necessary (about 1/4 cup of liquid should remain at end of baking), 15-20 minutes. Transfer to serving platter. Spoon juices into peppers.

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Endearing stories about God, angels and humanity I don’t know what the current state of Jewish belief in angels is. In Talmudic times, though, angels (and demons) were taken seriously and discussed with some frequency by sages and lay people alike. References to angels occur in the Chumash and in our prayers and heavily populate Jewish legends and midrashim.

Among the many Jewish notions about angels and their relationship to God and humanity, two are central. One, angels – though superior to humanity in knowledge and power – do not have free will. They exist only to praise God and to carry out specific tasks assigned to them by God. Two, human beings – who do have free will and must choose for themselves between good and evil – are considered more important than angels.

Based on these beliefs, numerous rabbis and scholars agree that while angels may act as helpful intermediaries between God and humanity, people can and should pray directly to God without the help of intermediaries. Something to ponder as we prepare for Yom Kippur.

Angel Secrets Stories Based on Jewish Legend

By Miriam Chaikin Illustrated by Leonid Gore Henry Holt and Company 2005 68 pp. Ages 5 and up Sometimes it takes a while and more than one reading to truly savour a book. That was my experience with Angel Secrets: Stories Based on Jewish Legend. I have read and reviewed other books of midrashim by Miriam Chaikin (e.g., Clouds of Glory), but this one gave me pause, forcing me to return to it again and again and to see it in so many different lights. At times, I was overwhelmed.

Not only are the seven endearing stories comprising Angel Secrets lyrically written, they evoke a harmony and melody that seduce the ear, mind and spirit. One does not often, simultaneously, find both humour and a sense of jubilation in a story. Yet those qualities are found in abundance in these stories.

Similarly, one does not often find ephemeral concepts portrayed as realistically as they are in Chaikin’s words, and in Gore’s softly coloured, flowing illustrations that accompany

Kid Lit Deanna Silverman each story. It could all be a glorious dream. But then, I’m not too sure we would want to wake up just as the tender soul in the last story, Palace of Love, doesn’t want to leave heaven to be implanted in a baby about to be born.

Angel Secrets creates a fantasy world for the spiritually inclined. But this fantasy world is rooted in quotations from such sources as Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Perle Epstein, Zechariah, Rabbi Nachum of Breslov and the Zohar.

Told from the perspective of Raziel, the female angel who sits outside the Holy Curtain separating God from his heavenly world, the stories describe more than the many links between heaven and earth. They describe the myriad details of a full life itself, whether it’s care for the environment, for humanity, for music, for love and fellowship.

Yes, God plays a central role in all of this. So do the thousands upon thousands of angels who populate the stories in so many different ways. Each story has at least one other story, often more than one, within it. But the crux of the matter always returns to the miracle of birth, humanity, concern for others and the decisions we make.

Perhaps the story titled A Trial in Heaven best illustrates that complex pattern of concerns. Imagine a public trial, complete with judge, jury, witnesses and prosecuting attorney, dealing with responsibility for the death of the dodo bird. Were the Guardian Angels assigned to the dodo bird to blame? Was God to blame? And how does such a trial benefit either heaven or earth?

SHAMES BURIAL To:

Jewish Community Organizations, Hebrew Schools and Synagogues

The Ottawa Jewish Cemeteries, in cooperation with Congregation Beth Shalom West and Hillel Academy, will provide the Jewish Community the opportunity to bury in one of the gravesites in the Bank Street Cemetery any religious items no longer in use.

This event will be held on Sunday, September 23, 2007 • 10:30 am The gravesite will be located at the rear of Section 9.

We hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity.

Yours very truly,

Mayer Alvo, Chair

Rabbi Howard Finkelstein

The Ottawa Jewish Cemetery Committee

Congregation Beth Shalom West

From Angel Secrets Angel Secrets is a tranquil, enticing series of complementary stories, which provide readers with a refreshingly new way of looking at ourselves, our actions, our world and critical aspects of Jewish thought and ethics. Reading it, thinking about it and discussing it is a wonderfully different way for all of us, kids and adults, to continue our mental and spiritual preparations for Yom Kippur.

May you and you family be confirmed for a sweet, healthy, successful and prosperous New Year.

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The High Holidays are an auspicious time for introspection, taking stock, charting a new course or recharting the same course with renewed vigour.

For those of us longing to find our soul mate, this time of year can be poignant as we realize yet another year has passed and our dream of becoming a couple remains unrealized.

“If you think that you’re not married yet because you haven’t met the right person,” says Rabbi Aryeh Pamensky, “you are probably right. The person you have yet to meet is yourself.”

Why not make a date with yourself and get to know yourself better? Schedule an evening at home, find a quiet spot, pour a cup of coffee and ask yourself: What makes me unique? What are my values? What are my goals? What are my passions? What are my fears?

Acquiring self-knowledge provides an opportunity to work on improving yourself and will help you focus in on the type of spouse you need. The guy who has everything – money, good looks, ambition, etc. – may have an easy time getting dates, but a hard time determining the right match if he does not know who he really is.

Assessing yourself is both easier and harder than assessing another person. On one hand, you grew up with yourself, (supposedly) know yourself fairly well and have a ready set of resources at your disposal – parents, friends, school reports, employment appraisals to aid in further self-discovery. On the other hand, because of your ego, it’s difficult to confront your weaknesses, acknowledge your deficiencies, recall your past wounds and arrive at an honest self-appraisal.

Here are some questions to help guide you.

What are your character traits?

Character traits are the most important determinants of the

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long-term success of a relationship. If you can establish compatibility in this area, you’re already halfway to the chuppa.

Write down the top five character traits that describe you (generous, patient, loyal, outgoing, optimistic, ambitious, shy, etc.). Are they the same or different from what you are looking for in a life partner?

What are your life goals?

When I dated Belinda, I disclosed to her that one of my treasured life goals was to become a grandfather. Since having kids is a necessary step in the process, I made that into an interim goal. My other life goals include growing in wisdom and worldly knowledge, refining my character traits, giving selflessly to my wife and children and contributing to the moral well-being of society.

Write down your most cherished life goals. When your time is up in this world, what would you like to have accomplished?

What are your interests?

Interests change more readily than life goals or character traits and are generally less important when looking for a spouse. Interests can include such diverse activities as camp-

Collective rachmonos: From Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur Rachmonos is the corollary of sincere prayer, repentance and behavioural change, the central message of the High Holidays. Once this is established through the stories of parents and children (the Rosh Hashanah readings), the theme of God’s mercy for collectivities develops – for Israel throughout the generations, but also for other nations and the whole of creation.

The development of the collective theme begins with the Haftorah from Jeremiah on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.

God justly rebukes Israel and reduces it to captivity. But the message of the prophet is that God will have mercy on his people. There will be a restoration and rebuilding of Israel in its land and a renewal of its ancient glory.

On Yom Kippur, the morning readings start with the pairing of the Parashah and Haftorah focusing on the Atonement mechanisms. The Torah reading focuses on the detailed instructions to Aaron on preparation of the sacrificial offering, to beseech rachmonos for the people of Israel. The Haftorah from Isaiah emphasizes personal and collective behavioural atonement and provides guidelines for the ethical actions of

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Jonah The broader message of universal rachmonos, intertwined with Divine Judgment, is the major theme of the Yom Kippur mincha Haftorah, the Book of Jonah.

The rabbis generally interpreted Jonah as a prophet who was contemporary with King Jehu. His role at Nineveh was a prophetic mission undertaken in the era before the Assyrians conquered the Jews and destroyed the First Temple. As a prophet, Jonah knew what the role of the Assyrians would be in the fate of the Jews and this was why he initially balked at the mission God assigned him. If the Assyrians weren’t warned about the consequences of their evil behaviour, they might not repent and would be punished before they could descend on Israel.

The Conservative movement’s Etz Chayim Chumash casts Haftorah Jonah in a different perspective. Etz Chayim proposes that Jonah was written after the Persians allowed the Jews to return from exile. Thematically, the Book of Jonah (like the story of Job) reflects an emphasis, in this period, on trying to understand Divine Judgment with regard to the Jews and other peoples.

In a sense, Jonah and Job are very contemporary books for us. How are we to understand our own fate, and relate to other peoples, when we know well the cruelty and indifference shown to the Jews during the Holocaust? And in the light of this experience, how are we to perceive the world in which we live, which sometimes does not seem to have repented and continues to tolerate the kinds of evil in which the Holocaust was incubated?

A short passage in the Haftorah for Shabbat Shuvah fore-

ing, travelling, public speaking, community volunteering, figure skating, bird watching, Italian cooking, playing chess and seeing movies.

Write down three to five interests that are most significant to you. How important is it that your spouse share these same interests?

What are your external attributes?

These are traits that don’t reflect your inner being but are important in having shaped your personality and which profoundly affect how you relate to others and to yourself. They could be mental or emotional attributes (artistic, studious, logical, intelligent, intuitive), physical attributes (age, height, weight, health, appearance) or situational attributes (ethnicity, educational attainment, rural or urban upbringing, religious beliefs and practices, socio-economic status, relationship history, occupation).

Write down five to 10 external attributes that help define the unique you.

The next step after completing your self-assessment is to corroborate the results. Find two trusted friends or relatives who know you well and ask them to reply to the same questions about you. Compare notes. You may be surprised that your own perception of yourself is different from how others perceive you.

May the year 5768 bring us new awareness and new blessings.

Jack Botwinik is the author of Chicken Soup with Chopsticks: A Jew’s Struggle for Truth in an Interfaith Relationship. Comments are appreciated and can be sent to Jack via his Author Page at www.PaperSpider.Net (www.papers pider.net/authors/jack_botwinik.html).

Global Shtetl The Jewish Internet Saul Silverman shadows Jonah. The main theme of Haftorah Shabbat Shuvah is to admonish the Jews to practise tshuvah – repentance – and promises to continue to bless them as God promised our ancestors. This Haftorah briefly states that those who sit in the shade of Ephraim will also be blessed. The way others choose to treat the Jews implies a blessing or a curse on these nations.

In terms of imagery, these few words may also foreshadow the story of the giant gourd that shades Jonah and is then destroyed. The gourd is used to instruct Jonah in the moral that God is not limited in either his concerns or his powers.

God’s actions and intentions cannot be judged from the narrow perspective of individuals or nations. Jonah must understand that even an evil society such as Nineveh has to be given a chance to turn from its ways and that such genuine turning will be answered despite past history or future prospects of backsliding.

Creation is an act of God’s rachmonos; destruction is an act of Divine Justice. Human beings do not judge God. They are best advised, as the readings for the Yom Tovim stress, to rush to emulate God in showing rachmonos to each other and to be slow to give way to yetzer harah, the temptation to destroy.

Websites Joseph Langer, “Jonah’s Question: How do we forgive our enemies?”: http://www.kolel.org/pages/holidays/ 5763_YKDT2.html Yehezkiel Landau, Jonah and Job – thematic outline of a course in interfaith relations: http://www.hartsem.edu/ academic/courses/janwntrspr04/sc626.htm

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS The Board of Directors of the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation acknowledges with thanks contributions to the following funds as of August 28, 2007.

A gift forever

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Join us in building our community by supporting these local agencies GREENBERG FAMILIES LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Sherwin and Bonnie Lyman by David, Jackie, Rachel and Zev Lyman.

In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

Claire Silverstein by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

HILLEL LODGE LEGACY FUND In memory of: Ilona Gal by Susan, Charles, Jaclyn and Paul Schwartzman.

Ghita Schneiderman by Joany and Andy Katz and Family.

Sol Kronick by Richard Addleman.

Edna Goldfarb by Chuck and Adrianne Shabsove.

Mazal Tov to: Sophie and Neil Frenkel on the marriage of their daughter Sharon to Mark Diamond by Susan, Charles, Jaclyn and Paul Schwartzman.

JEWISHFAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FUND Congratulations to: Mark and Lillian Zunder on the birth of their grandson, Jack by Marilyn and Will Newman.

MARTIN GLATT PARLIAMENT LODGE B’NAI BRITH PAST PRESIDENTS’ FUND In memory of: Helen Shusterman by Joy, Eric and Becky Weisbloom; and by the Ottawa B’nai Brith Bowling League.

Max Yegendorf by Joy, Eric and Becky Weisbloom; and by the Ottawa B’nai Brith Bowling League.

SOLOWAY JEWISH COMMUNITY SUMMER CAMP SCHOLARSHIP FUND In memory of: Ann Silverstone by Liz and Arnie Vered; and by Brenda and Mel Schafer.

Ghita Schneiderman by Liz and Arnie Vered.

Solomon Kronick by Liz and Arnie Vered.

Max Yegendorf by Brenda and Mel Schafer and Family.

Helen Shusterman by Brenda and Mel Schafer and Family.

Mona Silverstone by Brenda and Mel Schafer, Heidi and Karen.

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Birthday wishes to: Sheila Baslaw on her special birthday by Sol and Estelle Gunner.

MARY AND ISRAEL (AL) ALLICE MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Irving and Beverly Swedko.

Speedy recovery to: Enid Gould by Irving and Beverly Swedko.

APPOTIVE FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Ryan, Jaye and Brody Appotive.

ANNE AND LOUIS ARRON MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: David and Joy Kardish on the birth of their grandson, Sam

by Daphne and Stanley Arron, Jen and Shawn.

RICKI AND BARRY BAKER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Solly Marcus by Ricki and Barry Baker and Family.

Mazal Tov to: Lilyan Philipp on the birth of her granddaughter, Barrette Gali by Ricki and Barry Baker and Family.

Cally and Sid Kardash on the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter Sarah by Ricki and Barry Baker and Family.

MYRNA AND NORMAN BARWIN FOUNDATION OF THE PINCHAS ZUKERMAN MUSICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND In memory of: Solly Marcus by Myrna and Norm Barwin.

Helen Shusterman by Myrna and Norm Barwin.

Speedy recovery to: Jack Silverstein by Myrna and Norm Barwin.

CAYLA AND MICHAEL BAYLIN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Solly Marcus by Cayla and Michael Baylin.

Sol Kronick by Cayla and Michael Baylin.

Edna Goldfarb by Cayla and Michael Baylin and Caroline Baylin.

DORIS AND JACK BAYLIN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sol Kronick by Jack and Honey Baylin.

Edna Goldfarb by Jack and Honey Baylin.

IRVING AND ESTHER BELLMAN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Ann Silverstone by Mitchell Bellman and Nicola Hamer.

Max Yegendorf by Mitchell Bellman and Nicola Hamer.

JESSICA AND KEVIN CANTOR FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Danny Cantor on his 65th birthday by Kevin and Jessica Cantor.

Andy Katz on his 50th birthday by Kevin and Jessica Cantor.

In memory of: Pearl Takefman by Kevin and Jessica Cantor.

Bill Adler by Kevin and Jessica Cantor.

TILLIE AND HARRY CHERM MEMORIAL FUND Good wishes to: David Giusti and Gerolamo Viola by Robert and Donald.

In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Dora Waserman by Donald and Robert; and by Sylvia Kaiman.

DONALD AND LEAH CHODIKOFF ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Donald Chodikoff by Marni and George Benchetrit.

Bill Adler by Leah Chodikoff and Family.

DAVID AND QUEENIE COHEN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Sol Kronick by David and Judith Kalin; and by Stanley and Frances Cohen.

Happy and healthy New Year to: Aviva and Michael Kalin and Family by David and Judith Kalin.

Pearl Orenstein by David and Judith Kalin.

Howard and Marlene Cohen and Family by David and Judith Kalin.

Frances Tobias and Stan Cohen by David and Judith Kalin.

Barbara and Stephen Sussman and Family by David and Judith Kalin.

MAX AND GRETE COHEN MEMORIAL FUND Birthday wishes to: Sid Cohen on his special birthday by Malca and Chuck Polowin; and by Carole and Norman Zagerman.

SANDI AND EDDY COOK ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Irving Frisch by Sandi and Eddy Cook and Family.

Sol Kronick by Sandi and Eddy Cook and Family.

Max Yegendorf by Sandi and Eddy Cook and Family.

Birthday wishes to: Lenny Zelnicker on his 75th birthday by Sandi and Eddy.

Susan Firestone by Sandi and Eddy Cook and Family.

Peter Szirtes by Sandi and Eddy Cook and Family.

MARTY AND TERRI DAVIS ISRAEL CHESED FUND Mazal Tov to: Terri and Marty Davis on the marriage of their son Seth by Myrna and Norm Barwin.

NATHAN AND REBA DIENER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Ghita Schneiderman by Barbara and Joel Diener.

Mazal Tov to: Mr. and Mrs. Ian Slipacoff on the birth of their son by Barbara and Joel Diener.

JAMIE BEREZIN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Tami Berezin.

LOU EISENBERG CAMP B’NAI BRITH SCHOLARSHIP FUND Birthday wishes to: Lou Eisenberg on his special birthday by Shirley and Gordon Viner.

ALEX AND MOLLIE BETCHERMAN MEMORIAL FUND Speedy recovery to: Let Pandec by Joy Rosenstein, Bonnie and Ronald.

CYNTHIA AND ABE ENGEL ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Max Yegendorf by Josh Engel.

MARTIN AND ELLIE BLACK ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Jacques and Donna Shore in their new homes by Marty and Ellie Black.

Speedy recovery to: Vicky Charto by Marty and Ellie Black.

Anniversary wishes to: Jack and Carol-Sue Shapiro on their 40th wedding anniversary by Marty and Ellie Black.

In memory of: Helen Shusterman by Marty and Ellie Black.

Max Yegendorf by Marty and Ellie Black.

Ghita Schneiderman by Marty and Ellie Black.

Birthday wishes to: Sid Cohen on his special birthday by Marty and Ellie Black.

BARBARA AND LEN FARBER ENDOWMENT FUND Congratulations to: Barbara Farber on her accomplishments by Barbara and Louis Fine.

CELIA AND MAX BOOKMAN ENDOWMENT FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Max Bookman on his 40th yahrzeit, cherished husband and father by Celia Bookman and Rebecca and Sam Halpern.

MARJORIE AND MICHAEL FELDMAN FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Max Feldman on his 95th birthday by Marjorie and Michael Feldman.

JOSHUA HILLEL FINN ENDOWMENT FUND Thank you to: Martin and Shelley Levey by Sharon and Paul Finn.

SHARON AND PAUL FINN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Lorne Shusterman by Sharon and Paul Finn and Family.

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS anniversary by Sharon and Paul Finn and Family.

ALAN FREED FAMILY FUND In memory of: Sol Kronick by Alan Freed and Sharon Rosentzveig.

ROZ AND STEVEN FREMETH FAMILY FUND Anniversary wishes to: Steve and Roz Fremeth on their 35th wedding anniversary

by Marjorie and Michael Feldman.

Laurie and Carol Pascoe on their 35th wedding anniversary by Steve and Roz Fremeth.

Mazal Tov to: Alana and Mitchell Novick on the birth of their daughter by Steve and Roz Fremeth.

Annette Albert on the birth of her granddaughter by Steve and Roz Fremeth.

Tony Manne on the birth of his granddaughter by Steve and Roz Fremeth.

In memory of: Rhea Levin’s mother by Roz and Steve Fremeth.

ALFRED AND KAYSA FRIEDMAN ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Sid Cohen on his special birthday by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

In memory of: Sol Kronick by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

FRAN AND SID GERSHBERG FAMILY FUND In memory of: Mona Silverstone by Fran and Sid Gershberg, Jeremy and Lindsay.

STAN AND LIBBY GLUBE FAMILY FUND In memory of: Solly Marcus by Arlene and Norman Glube.

Mary Beauclair by Bev, Bryan, Alison and Rob Glube.

Anniversary wishes to: Malcolm and Vera Glube on their 40th wedding anniversary by Mera and Bill Goldstein.

ANN GLUZMAN MEMORIAL FUND Thank you to: Cally Kardash by Adam, Elayne, Sarah and Jeremy Kardash.

HOWARD HERZL GOLDBERG SCHOLARSHIP FUND Shana Tova to: Eileen Goldberg by Ibolya Goldberg and Family.

IBOLYA AND HOWARD GOLDBERG FAMILY FUND Anniversary wishes to: Julia and Sean Guttman by Ibolya Goldberg.

Shawn and Helene Goldberg by Ibolya Goldberg.

With appreciation to: Dan Zablubowski by Ibolya Goldberg.

Shana Tova to: Enid and Jeff Gould by Ibolya Goldberg and Family.

SAUL AND EDNA GOLDFARB COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

SAUL AND EDNA GOLDFARB ENDOWMENT FUND Get well wishes to: Dr. Miriam Salamon by Saul Goldfarb.

In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Bess Swedlove; by Edie Landau; by Libby and Stan Katz; by Joany and Andy Katz and Family; and

by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

STANLEY AND LISANNE GOLDFARB ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Chuck and Adrianne Shabsove.

EVA, DIANE AND JACK GOLDFIELD MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Sol Kronick by Morley Goldfield.

JEFFREY AND ENID GOULD FAMILY FUND Mazal Tov to: Jeff and Enid Gould on the birth of their grandson by Ron and Avalee Prehogan.

Well wishes to: Enid Gould by Roz and Arnie Kimmel and Family.

VICTOR AND RACHEL GOULD ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Pearl Simbrow by Rachel Gould.

Birthday wishes to: Sid Cohen by Rachel Gould.

Important Notice to all Fund Advisors of the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation If you would like to make changes in the allocations from your endowment fund for the 2007 disbursements, the request needs to be forwarded to the Foundation office in writing and received by October 31st.

Changes received verbally will not be accepted as an official change.

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BARBARA AND SYDNEY GREENBERG ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Stanley Kershman on being appointed to the Bench by Syd and Barbara Greenberg.

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BEN (BERCHIK) AND IDA GREENBERG MEMORIAL FUND Anniversary wishes to: Max and Ellie Greenberg on their 25th wedding anniversary by Bernice Kerzner and Family.

GROSSMAN KLEIN FAMILIES FUND Mazal Tov to: Vera and Leslie Klein on their 35th wedding anniversary by Pearl and Dave Moskovic; by Susan Baker; by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel; and by Lawrence Hercz.

In memory of: Sid Rothman by Vera and Leslie Klein and Family.

HY AND PAULINE HOCHBERG ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Pauline Hochberg.

RHEA AND JEFF HOCHSTADTER FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Frances Rothman on her special birthday by Rhea, Jeff, Elana and Lorne Hochstadter.

Elliott Levitan on his special birthday by Rhea, Jeff, Elana and Lorne Hochstadter.

Mazal Tov to: Ricky and Lauren Victor on the engagement of their son Matthew to Galit by Rhea, Jeff, Elana and Lorne Hochstadter.

PINNEY AND LIBBY KARDASH ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Joe and Jessie Murray on their 50th wedding anniversary and Joe’s 70th birthday by Cally and Sid Kardash.

BERTRAM L. KATZ MEMORIAL FUND Birthday wishes to: John Robinson on his special birthday by Carol and Larry Gradus.

Anniversary wishes to: Louise and John Robinson by Carol and Larry Gradus.

DANIEL AND MARILYN KIMMEL ENDOWMENT FUND In appreciation to: Dan and Marilyn Kimmel by Esther Ages.

Mazal Tov to: Marilyn and Dan Kimmel, David and Pasquale on the birth of Luca by Leema Magidson and Family.

KRANTZBERG KRANE FAMILY FUND Speedy recovery to: Evelyn Krane by Gerry and Morrie Krantzberg.

SUSAN AND DAVID KRIGER ENDOWMENT FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Kenneth Morris Ain, dear father by Susan Kriger.

ISSIE AND EDITH LANDAU ENDOWMENT FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Aaron Shier by Edie Landau, Jerrold, Tzippy, Faye and Michael.

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by Edie Landau.

Aviva and Leo Lightstone on their 25th wedding anniversary by Edie Landau.

MAYER AND ROSE LANDAU MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Doris Lobel by Sally and Morton Taller.

HARRY AND ZENA LEIKIN ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Ivan Kesler on his 56th birthday by Aunt Libby and Uncle Stan.

Libby Katz by Ethel Leikin Kesler.

SALLY AND ELLIOTT LEVITAN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Dr. Nathan Schecter by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

Sol Kronick by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

ERNEST AND IDA LEVITZ MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Ann Silverstone by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz.

JOSEPH AND EVELYN LIEFF ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Helen Shusterman by Francie Greenspoon and Norman Lieff.

Sol Kronick by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

Mazal Tov to: Evelyn and Joseph Lieff on the Bar Mitzvah of their grandson Ely by Mera and Bill Goldstein.

Birthday wishes to: Elliott Levitan on his 80th birthday by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Enid Gould by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

ARNOLD AND ROSE LITHWICK FAMILY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Annette Albert on the birth of her granddaughter and the Bar Mitzvah of her grandson by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and Family.

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IRVING AND ELLEN LITHWICK ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Ellen Lithwick on her special birthday by Herby and Pam Beiles and Family.

DAVID LOEB FAMILY FUND In memory of: Sydney Kronick by Adele and David Loeb.

SAMUEL AND LEEMA MAGIDSON ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Irving Frisch by Janice and Howard Spinner and Family and Bev Rosenstock and Family.

Norma White by Leema Magidson and Family.

ETHEL AND DAVID MALEK ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lightstone by Ethel and David Malek.

JACOB MALOMET MEMORIAL FUND Anniversary wishes to: Dora and Sam Litwack on their 50th wedding anniversary

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BONNIE AND CHUCK MEROVITZ FAMILY FUND In memory of: Edna Goldfarb by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Helen Shusterman by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Ann Silverstone by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Speedy recovery to: Enid Gould by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Jack Silverstein by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Anniversary wishes to: Roz and Steve Fremeth on their 35th wedding anniversary

by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

MERVIN MIRSKY FAMILY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Get well wishes to: Mervin Mirsky by Reesa Greenberg.

ABRAM AND EDITH MOLOT MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Henry Molot on his wonderful achievement by Dorothy and Hartley Stern.

PINKUS AND YEHUDIT NEWMAN MEMORIAL FUND Speedy recovery to: Marilyn Newman by Mera and Bill Goldstein.

In memory of: Gert Marks by Marilyn and Will Newman.

Sol Kronick by Marilyn and Will Newman.

OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Rachel Stern by Debbie and Ron Weiss.

HAROLD AND YETTA PEARL MEMORIAL FUND Anniversary wishes to: Jack and Carol-Sue Shapiro on their 40th wedding anniversary by Herb and Susan Pearl.

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS HARRY AND BERTHA PLEET MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Rabbi Noah Hayyim Rosenbloom by Pinchas and Barbara Pleet.

BESSIE AND BENJAMIN POLOWIN MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Howard Polowin, beloved son and brother by Alex and Kathleen Polowin.

PREHOGAN FAMILY FUND IN MEMORY OF AARON HARRY COHEN In memory of: Rabbi Noah Hayyim Rosenbloom by Ron and Avalee Prehogan.

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Here are a few texts to help you through elul The Days of Awe – the 10 days of repentance that begin with Rosh Hashanah and end with Yom Kippur – are part of the month of Elul. The letters of Elul form the acrostic for the verse Ani le-dodi ve-dodi li – “I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine” – from the Song of Songs (6:3). The sages believed the “beloved” referred to God, and this verse described the special close relationship between God and Israel.

Elul is a time when, for many, God becomes more accessible, and so it is a time when we must “Seek God when He is at hand; Call upon Him when He is near” (Yeshayahu 55:6). Here are some new texts to help you get closer to God.

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Book Beat Kinneret Globerman Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda’s Book of Prayers for Jewish Women Edited and adapted into verse by Dinah Berland Schocken Books/Random House Hardcover, 2007 Fanny Neuda would sit in the women’s gallery of the Lostice synagogue looking down upon the men of the congregation. Inspired, perhaps, by the Moravian synagogue’s celestial ceilings, or by her husband Rabbi Abraham Neuda’s sermons, Fanny wrote the first women’s Jewish prayer book for all occasions.

Book editor, poet, and journalist Dinah Berland chanced upon a tattered copy of Hours of Devotion: A Book of Prayers and Meditations for the Use of the Daughters of Israel, During Public Service and at Home, for All Conditions of a Woman’s Life, circa 1866, in a second-hand book store near her home in LA. Her story – weirdly coincidental – about how she came to produce this wonderful collection of prayers is as compelling as the prayers themselves.

It reunited her, in a circuitous set of events, with her estranged son of 11 years and led her back into Jewish study and practice.

I won’t go into Berland’s interesting story. Nor will I detail Fanny Neuda’s, except to say she was born in 1819 in Ivancˇice, Moravia (then Eibenschutz, Austria) and was living, with her husband the rabbi, in Losˇtice (then Loschitz, Austria) in 1855 when the book was first published. The Jewish population then constituted about 17 per cent of Losˇtice, with the Jews of the community living in peaceful harmony with their Christian neighbours. After 1942, the last Jew had been rounded off and sent to concentration camps.

Neuda’s prayers follow in the tradition of tkhines – the generally Yiddish, personal and devotional prayers written for primarily Ashkenazic Jewish women who could not read Hebrew. They were usually anonymously written (or published), and some were thought to have been written by men.

Fanny’s prayers are written for women by a woman who understands another’s heart and needs. Would a man have written a prayer for a childless wife, for a mother whose child is abroad or in military service, for an unhappy wife, for a widow with young children? Possibly. But could he have written them in this way: “… Far from his mother’s care and concern, / My child lives in a foreign land, and I,/Who would find delight in watching over his health, / …

Am separated from him … Take my child into your almighty protection / Lead him safely over every rock and thorn in his path … Guard him against all evil, calamity, and danger … O parent of All, hear my fervent prayer / And bring my child back to me / At the right time, full of joy and the vigor of life, / To be the pride and delight of my heart …”

There are prayers for every occasion here: for daily, Shabbat, and holiday observances. There are prayers for special situations (childbirth, becoming a bride, being orphaned, widowhood) and circumstances (prosperity, poverty, danger, travelling), prayers for healing and memorial prayers. No doubt there is a prayer here for you.

Jewels of Elul III: Inspirations on Hope and Healing American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem and Craig ‘N Co. Softcover, 2007 (w) This tiny and colourful little booklet is a joint project between the Committee and Craig ‘n Co., a Jewish-American music production company based in LA. Twenty-nine contributors (to cover the 29 days of the month), from the Dalai Lama and bestselling author Shmuley Boteach to rapper Matisyahu and actor Kirk Douglas, to personalities and various rabbis and scholars (including Joseph Telushkin, Harold Kushner and Elie Wiesel) have offered their thoughts. The theme is a propos for today’s uncertainty and seeming chaos: Hope and Healing.

There are some nice little nuggets here. Slip this into your pocket and take it to shul with you to ponder over during a lull in the High Holy Day services.

Booknotes: Here’s another compact book you can take to shul: The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, The Song of Solomon, illustrated by Marc Chagall, Chronicle Books/Raincoast, hardcover. You know the stories. Chagall’s paintings make them come to life. The images littered throughout this pocket-sized book are taken from 30 of Chagall’s paintings.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – September 17, 2007 – Page 27

Yiddish proverb revised I received several phone calls today.

One was from my daughter-in-law who wanted to let us know our grandson is asking for us in his own way. In his house in Toronto today, feeling a little bored, he said he wanted to go home, so she asked him where that was.

“With Bubbie and Zaidie in Ottawa,” he answered.

Why? “Because they have lots of interesting movies.”

A few hours later, my grandson phoned me directly.

“Hello, Zaidie,” he said. “Is this the right call?”

I could hear his father coaching him in the background, “Number, Noah, is this the right number. You called the wrong number before.”

“Yes, I called 643.”

I assured him he had the right number.

“Good,” he said and hung up.

When he called back shortly, I asked him how he was; I asked what he was doing.

“We are about to go Yorkdale.”

“What will you do there?”

“Run around.”

“Will your parents run around too?”

“No, they always walk.”

“When I come to Toronto, can we go to Yorkdale and run

around together?”

“Oh, yes and call Bubbie.”

“But Bubbie isn’t here.”

“So CALL her.”

Click.

A few minutes later, he called back.

“Zaydie,” he said, “are you coming to Toronto on Wednesday?”

“No,” I said, “I’m coming on Thursday.”

“Oh, OK.” Click.

Apparently, he calls his grandparents in Toronto and has similar conversations with them, precise and to the point.

Around supper, I received my fourth phone call from Toronto. It was my second son. We had a long talk about life, the universe and everything. We wandered over time and space in our conversation and I wandered around in Ottawa. We started on my house phone, switched to my cell phone as I drove out to pick up some fries and switched back to the house phone when I got back. I think we talked for about an hour.

Later, my third son called and we talked about his plans for university and how he could afford to go to New York. He had very detailed plans and he explained them all to me. I listened and mostly got to say things like, “yes,” “uh huh,” and “that

Humour me, please Rubin Friedman sounds good.” We were on the phone for about 40 minutes when he said, “Did I call you or did you call me?”

“I think you called me,” I said.

“Oops,” he said, “better go. I’m out of minutes.”

Finally, my eldest son called just before I went to bed. He talked about Aikido and work and the intricacies of programming which, being an ignoramus both about martial arts and computers, I had to have explained several times. I started to yawn, so my son asked if he was boring me.

“I’m just getting tired,” I said. “It’s been a long day.”

So we said goodbye.

So now I think I can revise the Yiddish proverb kleyne kinder, kleyne tsuris; groyse kinder, groyse tsuris (small children, small problems; big children, big problems).

My new version is small children, short conversations; big children, long conversations.

Zay gezund!

Ottawans help Ethiopians on their journey to Israel

By Sandra Zagon It is a trip I will always remember.

Last spring, along with eight others from Ottawa, I travelled from Tel Aviv to Addis Ababa to observe, witness and participate in the emigration of 85 Ethiopian Jews to the land of their dreams – Israel.

Micha Feldman, an Israeli who was the chief architect of Operation Solomon (a twoday airlift in 1991 during which 14,000 Ethiopian Jews, known as the Falasha, were evacuated to Israel), accompanied us to Ethiopia. He began his briefing, a couple of hours before our plane took off for Ethiopia, telling us stories about the background and context of what we would be seeing in our four short but full days in Ethiopia.

The Falash Mura are descendants of Ethiopian Jews who reportedly converted to Christianity several generations ago out of fear of persecution in the predominantly Christian country and who now want to return to their Jewish roots and reunite with relatives. Every month 300 Falash Mura are brought out of Ethiopia to Israel.

When we arrived at Addis Ababa, we visited a small village directly across from our luxurious hotel.

What an introduction that was!

Dwellings covered by corrugated metal, no running water, open-sided community kitchen structures, raw sewage running down the sides of the dirt packed streets, women selling their vegetables set out on cloth on the ground at the entrance to the village and the village school – with people who had smiles on their faces as Feldman spoke with them and introduced them to us.

We met Dr. Rick, who runs the Blue Nile Clinic in Addis Ababa, with support from the Jewish Distribution Committee (JDC). Originally from the U.S., Rick has been in Addis Ababa for almost 18 years and has adopted a large number of Ethiopian children to facili-

Sandra Zagon with an Ehtiopian child immigrant arriving in Israel.

tate their medical care in the U.S. or Africa.

At his clinic, with the help of a few other professional staff, he runs a feeding centre for mothers and children and provides basic medical services such as vaccinations.

We also visited the compound where those waiting to leave for Israel are housed temporarily. This was the most real part of the day – meeting people, some of whom would actually be flying out with us in two days, their lifetime wish coming true. The prayer we so fervently say at the beginning of each Jewish year – “Next Year in Jerusalem” – was going to be a reality for them.

We flew to Gondar on our second day,

where most of the Falash Mura live. There we visited another JDC-funded compound with a feeding station for mothers and children, a recreational playground for the children and an activity program designed to help pass the time for those waiting to get word that their applications for immigration had been processed and approved.

Day three and the last full day of the trip started with a visit to the Israeli embassy where the ambassador briefed us on IsraeliEthiopian relations and the emigration program under way. We met a number of other officials involved in the emigration program.

It was estimated, we were told, that by the end of 2008, all eligible Ethiopian Jews would be in Israel; including another 5,000 to 6,000 Falash Mura.

Before leaving the Israeli Embassy compound, we saw classrooms where the Ethiopians readying to leave were introduced to modern conveniences like a toilet, a stove and a fridge, and where they began learning what life was going to be like in Israel.

They even began Hebrew classes in the two weeks before their planned departure with the goal of learning at least a few words.

At the Israeli Embassy compound, we distributed new clothes to the children, parents and elders who would be travelling with us to Israel.

That night, we watched as the select 85 Ethiopians walked down the road from the compound to the Embassy, dressed in their Shabbas best, with their suitcases and personal belongings on their shoulders and with children, babies and elders in tow. It was dark and hardly a word was spoken.

A most emotional and solemn process.

When we arrived in Israel, many Ethiopians bent down to kiss the ground. A dream come true. How interesting for us to notice

that most of the immigration officers on duty were former Russians who themselves had gone through the same process the Ethiopians were about to go through.

In many cases, the Ethiopians signed their papers with a thumbprint, not able to sign their names. After clearing Customs and Immigration, they finally were able to fetch their luggage and meet friends and family members who had come to the airport to meet them.

What a scene that was – the most emotional part of our experience – parents reuniting with children and in some cases grandchildren; brothers finding brothers; sisters finding sisters. The traditional Ethiopian custom of children kissing the feet of their parents or grandparents, family members kissing each other on their cheeks, from side to side, seemed to go on forever.

You could see they just wanted to hold on to each other to make up for the years they had not seen each other.

Unbelievable!

Indeed, we had been witness to Exodus 2007, a time of great dreams and hope. At the same time, we clearly saw the huge challenge lying before these brave souls. For the most part, the Ethiopian Jews now coming to Israel are poorly educated, mostly illiterate and coming from societies that are not much different than they were 2,000 years ago.

Immigrating to Israel, one of the most technologically modern societies today, is a challenge many of them will simply not be able to meet. The young ones, of course, have a better chance of making the adjustment, of taking advantage of all the services Israel puts at their disposal to succeed. The older ones will likely have to be supported for the rest of their lives.

In spite of the challenges that lie ahead, it is clear they have made the right choice to come to Israel.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Ottawa Jewish Historical Society lecture, Hymie Reichenstein speaks about the Art of Jewish Genealogy, Agudath Israel Synagogue, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, 7:30 pm.

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2008 JANUARY 2 FOR JANUARY 21 JANUARY 16 FOR FEBRUARY 4 JANUARY 30 FEBRUARY 18 FEBRUARY 20 FOR MARCH 10 MARCH 5 FOR MARCH 24 MARCH 19 FOR APRIL 7 * Community-wide Issue (all dates subject to change)