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Women’s Campaign honours 42 volunteers at spring luncheon

By Benita Baker A capacity crowd of 325 gathered at Beth Shalom for a luncheon, Sunday, April 25, to honour 42 women who have made a difference in Ottawa’s Jewish community.

Women Inspiring Women – Generation to Generation, hosted by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa Women’s Campaign, featured keynote speaker Nancy Lublin, founder of Dress for Success.

“We are thrilled to honour 42 local women who lead by example, stand up for what they believe in and strive to make a difference in the lives of others,” said remarks in the printed program.

All local Jewish agencies and groups were asked to put forward

the names of inspirational volunteers.

The honourees, ranging from young adults to seniors, were Debbie Applebaum, Elana Aptowitzer, Myrna Barwin, Debbie Baylin, Isabelle Benhamou, Cecily Bregman, Anna-Lee Chiprout, Lisa Cogan, Nicole Colman, Golda Feig Steinman, Elaine Friedberg, Rachel Gray, Evelyn Greenberg, Ani Hinberg, Margie Kardash, Carolyn Katz, Ariella Kimmel, Katalin Kovacs, Elizabeth Kronick, Esther Kwavnick, Susan Marcus, Flo Morgan, Sharon Reichstein, Jean Rivier, Marlene Rivier, Shelley Rivier, Margo Rosen, Rickie Saslove, Chelsea Sauvé, Suzi Sauvé, (Continued on page 2)

Keynote speaker Nancy Lublin (left) with Jewish Federation of Ottawa Women’s Campaign Chair Linda Kerzner, at the Women’s (Photo: Peter Waiser) Campaign luncheon, April 25.

Hillel Academy & YRHS students visit Israel Nineteen Grade 8 students from Hillel Academy, along with three Yitzhak Rabin High School students, toured Israel between April 12 and 21. The group, seen here in Jerusalem, was chaperoned

by Hillel Academy teachers Rachel Kugler and Brian Lamb, Head of Schools Donna PalmerDodds, and parents Danielle Dworsky and David Roytenberg.

Gush Etzion mayor: Peace ‘will have to wait for the next generation’

By Michael Regenstreif “I’m against the fence,” said Shaul Goldstein, mayor of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, in reference to the security fence meant to keep Palestinian terrorists, particularly suicide bombers, from attacking Israelis.

The statement, coming from the leader of a settlement block across the Green Line, south of Jerusalem, and a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, surprised many in the small audience gathered, April 22, at the Joseph and Rose Ages Family

Building to hear the mayor discuss the history of his community and his views on the current state of Israel’s peace process with the Palestinians.

While the fence has been credited by Israeli authorities with virtually eliminating terrorist infiltration from the West Bank into Israel, Goldstein said it was Israel’s intelligence network “and the fact that our soldiers are everywhere” that have been responsible for keeping Israelis safe from terror attacks in recent years.

Contrary to what is typically

portrayed in the media in regard to relations between Jews and Arabs in the West Bank, Goldstein said the 20 communities of Gush Etzion enjoy good relations with the surrounding Arab villages.

Goldstein, who spent much of the day meeting with various members of Parliament, began his presentation by pointing out that there was a Gush Etzion block of Jewish villages on land legally acquired that fell to Jordanian forces in the 1948 War of Independence.

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Gush Etzion fell to Jordan in 1948, recaptured by Israel in 1967 (Continued from page 1)

Gush Etzion Mayor Shaul Goldstein speaks in Ottawa, April 22.

Etzion in 1948,” he said.

Israel captured the area in the Six Day War in June 1967, and the first Gush Etzion community was re-established just three months later.

Goldstein, who grew up in Be’er Sheva, said he and his wife settled in Gush Etzion as a young couple in 1988.

“We fell in love with the sunset and knew it was a place we wanted to live,” he said.

Goldstein pointed out that Gush Etzion stands on the ground where many of the events described in the Bible took place, and touring through the area and seeing the biblical sights help provide a better understanding of the Bible.

Goldstein said the Gush Etzion block is among Israel’s most successful communities.

“We have the highest proportion of doctors per capita in Israel,” he said.

Goldstein also said that Gush Etzion is home to a renowned school for children with autism and Down syndrome and to a successful facility for juvenile offenders, boasting a rehabilitation rate of 93 per cent.

In discussing the peace process, Goldstein said that West Bank settlements are not an obstacle to peace, and pointed out that the PLO was founded in 1964, three years before Israel captured any of the disputed territories.

“Israel would have given up the West Bank in a minute,” Goldstein said, if giving up the Gaza settlements in 2005 had led to peace there.

Goldstein said the current generation of Israelis “don’t believe in peace anymore,” that peace, when it comes, will be a “peace of simple people, from the bottom up,” rather than something im-

posed by politicians, and that a peace settlement with the Palestinians “will have to wait for the next generation.”

Goldstein also pointed out that the Arab world has largely abandoned the Palestinians.

“No Arab leader has ever visited the West Bank,” he said.

According to Goldstein, the most significant conflict in today’s Middle East is between radical and moderate forces within Islam.

“The moderate regimes are very worried,” he said.

“The second most important conflict,” he added, “is between radical Islam and the western world … [that] Israel is an outpost of the west in the Middle East and that the west is weakening Israel.”

While in Ottawa, Goldstein also spoke at Congregation Beit Tikvah during Shabbat.

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Leah Scarowsky, Debbie Scharf, Dina Schneider, Rosalie Schwartz, Stacey Segal, Liora Shapiro, Debi Shore, Anna Silverman, Ruth Tal, Miriam Taub, Margo Viner and Sabina Wasserlauf.

They represented a variety of organizations including Canadian HadassahWIZO, AJA 50+, Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation, JET, Torah High, Mitzvah Knitters, JSU Hillel, Tamir, Kosher Food Bank, Na’amat, Ottawa Modern Jewish

School, Chevra Kadisha and Hillel Lodge.

Each woman was asked to answer one of three questions: Who is your inspiration? Why do you volunteer for your chosen agency? Or, why is volunteer work important to you?

Regardless of the question they answered, or the organization they represented, it was clear the honourees are all proud of the work undertaken by their organizations and are committed to a strong Jewish community.

As participants filed into the exquisitely decorated social hall, the honourees’ photos and quotes were displayed on a large screen.

They talked about l’dor v’dor, following in the footsteps of a mother, a grandmother or other loved one and setting the same example of tzedakah in their own homes. They saw needs and jumped to fill them, motivated by the ability to help, to build, to strengthen, to reach out and to give back.

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ness demonstrated by the honourees, there was not a formal awards ceremony. Instead, the women stood in unison at their tables for the acknowledgement and applause of the crowd. A donation in their honour was made to Maslan, a rape crisis centre in Israel.

The inspiring story of speaker Nancy Lublin was the perfect complement to a luncheon honouring inspirational women. In 1996, after receiving a $5,000 inheritance from her grandfather – a peddler who had come to America with nothing and worked hard to create a better life for himself – Lublin decided to honour his memory by using his money to help others with their “new beginnings.”

She began Dress for Success to assist New York City’s disadvantaged women in getting the proper attire

needed for job interviews and the workplace. Her labour of love eventually expanded to include affiliates in 100 cities in eight countries.

Lublin described a typical Dress for Success client as one who would not go to a job interview because she did not have the proper clothes to wear.

“They leave their appointment [at Dress for Success] feeling two inches taller and two million times more confident,” she said.

Lublin credits her success, and her chutzpah, to her Bubby Minga, who always made her feel special. Lublin recalled that, when she was starting up the organization and was in desperate need of space, she found herself sitting next to Donald Trump at a Broadway play. She not only struck up a conversation with him, but also repeatedly approached him afterward to convince him to donate a location.

Trump declined her request, but she was left with a great story to tell and the realization that, without Bubby Minga, she would never have had the courage to have even tried.

“Bubbies – inspire your grandchildren to believe in themselves, to have chutzpah,” said Lublin after asking

all the bubbies in the room to stand.

A Dress for Success affiliate has been approved for Ottawa and plans are underway for a September launch.

Spearheaded by Debi Zaret and three other local women, the group has started collecting professional clothing, including outfits that luncheon participants were asked to bring.

To volunteer, or to contribute clothing, e-mail ottawa@dressforsuccess.org or visit dressforsuccess.org.

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Ophira Calof organizes special concert for World MS Day, May 26

By Michael Regenstreif Ophira Calof, 16, is as highly motivated a young woman as you’re ever likely to meet.

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ter and is active in the youth program at Agudath Israel Congregation. She takes voice, piano and music theory lessons, competes in vocal competitions, and had a lead role in her school’s recent stage production.

During a recent visit to the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin office, Ophira laughed when she was asked when she had time to sleep given her busy school, extracurricular and social schedule.

She was at the Bulletin with her mother, Cheryl

Calof, to talk about A Night for Music, a very special event she is organizing for World MS Day, May 26.

A variety of artists – professional and amateur – representing the worlds of opera, jazz, musical theatre and more, will perform in an evening to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.

“Mom was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis two years ago,” Ophira explained, “and that’s how we came into contact with the MS Society.

“Music is my passion, so organizing A Night for Music seems like a natural thing for me to do” to help the MS Society.

Ophira dates her passion for music to a show she attended, at the age of three, during a trip to England. By nine, she was taking singing lessons and her mitzvah project at the time of her Bat Mitzvah was working

with pianist Evelyn Greenberg entertaining residents at Hillel Lodge.

The industrious young organizer has lined up sponsorships, which will cover all of the actual costs of putting on the event so that all proceeds from ticket sales and online donations will go to the society to benefit programs that support MS education, research, and direct assistance to meet the needs of persons living with MS. Ophira has recruited CBC newscaster Laurence Wall as MC for the event and a growing lineup that includes a jazz group led by Saul Gunner, opera singers who work with acclaimed teacher Yoriko Tanno-Kimmons, and musical theatre performers who work with Kodi Cannon.

“No one has said ‘no,’ when I asked them,” said Ophira.

“Everybody checked their calendars and has been really great about donating their time.”

Ophira said her friends and teachers at school were shocked at first that she’d take on such a major project, but all have been very supportive.

Her family, too, has been very supportive and all, she said, are helping out.

“We’re very proud of

Ophira Calof (left) with her mother, Cheryl, was inspired to organize A Night for Music, a benefit for the MS Society of Canada.

her,” said Cheryl. “One day, she just came upstairs and said she wanted to do this.”

A Night for Music, in support of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, takes place Wednesday, May 26, 7:00 pm, at Carleton University’s Kailish Mital Theatre.

Tickets are $20 (general

admission) and $15 (seniors and students). Additional donations are welcome and donations above $20 are eligible for a tax receipt.

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Walkathon 2010 includes some exciting new features

By Jackie Luffman-Lyman and David Lyman Walkathon Chairs Its time to lace up your shoes, pump up your bicycle tires and get ready for the annual Walkathon on Sunday, June 6.

Aside from being an important event that raises much-needed funds for Ottawa’s Jewish community, Walkathon is a great opportunity to bring your family together for some fresh air, exercise and fun.

As always, the day will include a delicious lunch following the walk, family-friendly activities, plus some exciting new features, including a shorter, two-km family route and an official timed run of the nine-km route. In 2010, we will crown the first male and female winners of the Walkathon.

Also new for this year, Walkathon participants can collect donations online.

As parents, we know how busy it is balancing work and family life. It is truly a community effort to raise happy, healthy and passionate children. Our family relies on the Soloway Jewish Community Centre to keep us fit and healthy, for its warm and caring environment for our kids after school, and to provide

David Lyman (standing), Jackie Luffman-Lyman (on her bike) and their children, Rachel and Zev on bikes, ready and set to go at the 2009 Walkathon.

programs and resources for the generations of our family.

We are very fortunate to have such a great resource serving the interests of our diverse community, from special swim classes for the hearing-impaired or for post-stroke

patients, to summer camps for kids who otherwise could not participate.

We would like to see the Walkathon return to its roots and make it an experience where all community members proudly walk, run or cycle side-by-side. However,

we cannot achieve this goal without your participation.

The Walkathon kicks off at 9:30 am at the Jewish Community Campus. It is the biggest one-day solidarity event in support of our community. Be a part of it!

We encourage you to find as many people as possible to sponsor you for the Walkathon. Feel free to join a group and walk or run together.

If you commit to raising a minimum of $540, you can join us as Chai Walkers. With a minimum pledge of $36 for an individual, or $60 for a family, you get a lanyard, T-shirt and lunch. But, any amount that you can raise for the community is appreciated. Even more important is having you join in the walk.

The proceeds of your sponsors’ contributions go toward funding our diverse and important community agencies which allow us all to enjoy a thriving Jewish life in Ottawa.

In order to make this event a success, we also need the services of countless volunteers. If you, or someone you know, is interested in giving us a hand, please let us know.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, June 6.

For more information about the Walkathon, to set up your online donation link, or to volunteer, contact Sharon Diamond at 613-7989818, ext. 225 or by e-mail at sdiamond@jccottawa.com.

76th Annual General Meeting The Chair and President of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa Invite you to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa Wednesday, June 2, 2010 7:00 pm Social Hall The Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building 21 Nadolny Sachs Private

Refreshments to follow

Community Awards Presentation Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award • Ron Prehogan Freiman Family Young Leadership Award • Sarah Silverstein Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award • Blanche Osterer

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CIC is Canadian Jewish community’s voice on Israel-related matters The Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) is the organized Jewish community’s official voice on Israel-related matters in Canada.

Funded by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and Jewish communities across Canada through UIA Federations Canada, we are working on several critical issues in political circles, with media and within our community. It is important for all of us to understand the challenges confronting Israel that the Canadian Jewish community continues to deal with.

These challenges include the ongoing attempts to demonize and isolate Israel by those who deny to the Jewish people – and to Jewish people alone – what is granted to all other nations: to live as free people in our homeland.

These same individuals are abusing Canada’s and the international legal system to persecute Israeli political figures in an attempt to silence them and restrict their movements – with the threat of legal action or arrest.

There is an international imperative to respond to Iran’s impending capacity to implement its genocidal threats against Israel.

Many Canadians continue to deny the Jewish people’s right to live in their own homeland. The CIC is working to ensure Canadians understand that the State of Israel represents the successful repatriation of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland from which it was forcibly exiled 2,000

Federation Report Judy Zelikovitz Canada-Israel Committee years ago.

Israel has always served as the political, religious and historical homeland of only the Jewish people. Then and now, the only indigenous judicial system has been Jewish; the only economic, religious and governance structures have been Jewish.

The historical record asserts it. The archaeological discoveries confirm it and the existence of the Jewish people 2,000 years after the Roman exile attests to it. But, above all, the Jewish people’s willingness to share its exclusive claim with the Palestinian people for the sake of peace provides the ultimate proof of the claim. CIC is working with the pro-Israel community to ensure that they have the knowledge and resources to counter claims to the contrary.

Extremists, in Canada and around the world, who oppose Israel, have hijacked western democratic values and institutions.

The concept, known as lawfare, using the law as a weapon of war, poses an existential threat to the State of Israel. Individuals and groups are attempting to delegitimize the

sovereignty of the State of Israel by negatively manipulating the democratic legal system in countries like Canada, the United States or Britain.

Western courts are being exploited simply to harass Israeli officials. Using both civil lawsuits and criminal investigations, they are trying to tie Israel’s hands against Palestinian terror by accusing Israel of war crimes. The Canada-Israel Committee is raising the awareness of this issue as anti-Israel activists attempt to abuse laws and the Canadian legal system for their own political ends.

The CIC is posing some troubling questions about lawfare.

Why is justice not being sought for Israeli victims of terror? Why do groups who seem to promote universal human rights only target Israel? Why don’t they hold Hamas or Hezbollah terrorists accountable for hiding among civilians and attacking Israeli civilian targets?

While the delegitimization campaign against Israel is one way that groups threaten Israel’s existence, the continued threats from the Iranian regime may be even greater.

The CIC is challenging and encouraging Canada’s political sector to take the lead within the international community on the Iran file. The Iranian regime must be forced to honour its obligations regarding its nuclear program, its human rights record and its role as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Some steps have already been taken in Canada, including the successful passage of a resolution in the House of Commons condemning the Iranian regime’s systemic violation of human rights and its unlawful nuclear program. A number of senators have also indicated that they will seek approval of a companion resolution in the Senate.

The CIC has organized and consulted on several conferences focusing on the threat posed by the current Iranian regime, held in cities across Canada, including Ottawa, to educate and engage grassroots community members to keep this issue at the forefront of public discourse.

The Canada-Israel Committee now insists on framing every discussion of lawfare and the threat the Iranian regime poses by acceptance of key elements of Israel’s narrative.

Only with the acceptance of these principles can any discussion be seen as legitimate.

This will be the test of whether there is true dialogue, or whether anti-Semitism is driving one’s acceptance, or lack of acceptance, of the Jewish State.

The CIC is your resource. Sign up at our website, cicweb.ca, to receive regular updates about these and other issues. We are also available to consult on your advocacy efforts and to provide stimulating speakers for community events and programs. Contact National Manager of Community Services Judy Zelikovitz at judyzelikovitz@cicweb.ca for more information.

The long-term impact of every mitzvah is truly infinite We’re now in the six-week period between Pesach and Shavuot and we have a custom to study Pirkei Avot (the Ethics of Our Fathers) during this period. This is a time of introspection and refinement of one’s character in preparation for the giving of the Torah on the holiday of Shavuot. The study and application of the moral teachings of Pirkei Avot serves as a preparation for this special holiday.

In chapter 4 of Pirkei Avot, Ben Azai says: “Run to perform even an easy mitzvah … for one mitzvah brings another … for the reward of a mitzvah is a mitzvah.”

The commentaries explain that the greatest reward for fulfilling God’s commandment/mitzvah (often mistranslated as good deed, “mitzvah” literally means commandment) is a mitzvah, which also means a bond.

This refers to the bond that is created between the finite man and the infinite God through man’s fulfilment of God’s will.

Viewed in this light, we understand why one mitzvah brings another mitzvah. For, when a bond is created with God, it has an infinite and refining impact on the person who performs it which is not limited to this particular time and space.

As Rabbi Naftali Silberberg has written at askMoses.com, “The definition of time is that every act is limited to a certain time period.

Something that happened – happened. It is part of history. Something that will only happen in the future is not a reality yet.

From the pulpit Rabbi Menachem Blum OTC Chabad “Time, however, is only a creation. God isn’t limited by time and therefore in God’s ‘world’ (which is the ultimate truth) it can’t be said that something ‘happened’ or ‘will happen.’

“Therefore to our perception – which is our reality – a mitzvah causes only a temporary connection with God. The truth, however, is that every act, positive or negative, is infinite” and has an everlasting impact.

This notion became clear to me this past week when I received a phone call from a Chabad rabbi on campus in Montreal.

“I wanted to send you warm regards from a student here who had his Bar Mitzvah in your basement 10 years ago,” the rabbi said.

“He is very involved in Jewish activities here on campus and he attends classes on Judaism regularly.”

As he was speaking, I was remembering studying with this boy for his Bar Mitzvah and reaching out to an unaffiliated family to try to make the Bar Mitzvah as meaningful as possible.

“It is the book you asked him to read and the discussions you had with him that drive his desire to learn more about his Jewishness and keep his fire burning in terms of his Jewish involvement,” the rabbi continued.

I smiled as I thanked him for the call.

But, most importantly, I realized as I hung up the phone, that every time we do something good for another we never know the ramifications it may have in the future. The

Jewish experiences we create for our children today may seem limited in time and in the results they produce. The truth is, though, that the long-term impact every mitzvah and each Jewish experience have, is truly infinite.

Try it. This is an investment that promises great returns in the future – infinite returns for Jewish continuity and for a next generation of proud and committed Jews.

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Herzl’s Zionist vision led to the modern State of Israel Last week marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Theodore Herzl on May 2, 1860 in Budapest. Herzl is remembered as the father of the modern Zionist movement that ultimately led to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.

Trained as a lawyer, Herzl was a novelist, playwright and journalist who witnessed the anti-Semitism prevalent in Europe in the 1890s.

In Paris at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, Herzl saw mobs chanting “Death to the Jews,” in response to the charges of treason levelled at French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was framed and convicted in what was later proven to be an anti-Semitic conspiracy.

Herzl determined that the only solution to anti-Semitism was a Jewish state. He launched the modern Zionist movement with a book, Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) in 1896 and convened the first Zionist Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland.

In a novel, Altneuland (Old New Land), published in 1902, Herzl envisioned an enlightened, secular Jewish state; a co-operative society based on equality; a centre for science and agriculture; a “light unto the nations.” Herzl did not predict Arab rejectionism in his utopian vision.

Editor Michael Regenstreif Herzl was just 44 years old when he died of pneumonia and heart failure in Vienna in 1904, so, sadly, he didn’t live to see the fulfilment of his Zionist dream.

And, tragically, neither did any of his three children.

His daughter Pauline, a drug addict, died of an apparent overdose in 1930.

Herzl’s son, Hans, committed suicide when he learned of his sister’s death.

Herzl’s other daughter, Trude, died at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943, one of the six million Jews lost during the Holocaust.

Trude’s son, Herzl’s only grandchild, had been sent to safety in England before the Holocaust, but committed suicide in 1946 on learning the fate of his parents.

In 1949, Herzl’s remains were brought to Israel for reburial on Mount Herzl, which was named in his honour.

Those of us under the age of 62 have

never known a world without the State of Israel. But, it is a modern phenomenon and it is important we remember that the movement leading to its founding began with Herzl’s vision just a half-century before.

Shalom Ireland On Wednesday, May 12, the Soloway Jewish Community Centre will be screening Shalom Ireland, an excellent documentary about the Jewish community of Ireland. I saw the film at the 2004 Montreal Jewish Film Festival and recommend it to your attention.

The film discusses some of the most prominent members of Ireland’s Jewish community, among them Jack Briscoe, an Irish parliamentarian who served two terms in the 1950s and 1960s as lord mayor of Dublin. His son, Ben Briscoe, held the position in the 1980s. Ben, and his brother, Joe, are leaders of today’s Jewish community in Ireland.

The Herzogs were another prominent Irish Jewish family. Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, born in Poland, was chief rabbi of Ireland from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death in 1959, he was chief Ashkenazi rabbi of British Mandate Palestine and, from 1948, the State of Israel.

His son, Chaim, born and raised in Ire-

land, became a general in the IDF, was Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, and served two terms as president of Israel from 1983 to 1993.

The film looks at the role of Irish Jews in the struggles for Ireland’s independence and in the Zionist movement.

It also describes the impact the Second World War and the Holocaust had on the community.

Ireland’s Jewish population peaked in the 1940s and has been in decline since due to emigration to Israel and North America.

The film is an interesting study of a Jewish community struggling against the odds to retain and rejuvenate its vitality.

Shavuot The two-day holiday of Shavuot is next week, beginning on the evening of Tuesday, May 18.

We celebrate Shavuot as the anniversary of when the Torah was given at Mount Sinai and as the biblical agricultural festival that marks the harvest of the first fruits.

Among the Shavuot customs and traditions are all-night Torah study and the consumption of dairy foods.

Chag Sameach!

Which politician’s policies play to the religious right?

It’s time for a spot quiz. Answer quickly.

No crib notes and no looking over your neighbour’s shoulder.

Name the Canadian political leader whose policies are the most pleasing to social conservatives and who is most likely to listen to the concerns of the religious right.

We have an answer already: Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Thought you might guess him.

There’s no question Harper leads a party with many members who would describe themselves as social conservatives, and some of his policies and public statements certainly do please that constituency.

But “Stephen Harper” is not, in fact, the answer we were looking for.

You can chalk it up to the constraints of a minority government, to the prime minister’s desire to move to the political centre where more voters reside, or to some other factor, but Harper has largely avoided trying to implement an overtly socially conservative agenda. He has not gone nearly as far as his opponents ominously warned he would when he first became prime minister.

There’s been no feasible attempt to overturn the legalization of same-sex marriage, for instance. Also, Harper has consistently promised that he will not reopen the abortion debate in Canada (although his government recently did announce that it would not fund abortions in developing countries as

Alan Echenberg part of a new foreign aid program).

OK, time’s up. Quiz is over. Pens down.

So, did anyone out there answer “Premier Dalton McGuinty?”

No? The name didn’t immediately spring to mind? That’s understandable. After all, in the last Ontario election, McGuinty successfully ran against the Progressive Conservative Party’s proposal to expand public funding to non-Catholic religious schools.

Although it was a platform position that ultimately won him a majority mandate, it did not likely win him any support from the province’s religious right.

Social conservatives do not form a political constituency that the Liberal Party of Ontario has traditionally wooed. It’s also not a constituency from which Liberal premiers usually take their marching orders.

But Liberal Premier McGuinty seemed to do just that last month when he flip-flopped on a plan to revamp the province’s sex education program. He shelved the proposed educational changes only a couple of days into

a protest against the plan spearheaded by prominent Canadian evangelical leader Charles McVety.

In fact, McGuinty cancelled the plan two days after unambiguously defending it, and only a few hours after one of his cabinet members, Sandra Pupatello, minister of economic development and trade, rose in the legislature and said opponents of the sex-ed changes were “in the Dark Ages.”

The plan, which was intended to update a sex education curriculum that had last been revamped 12 years ago, was actually introduced back in January in a fairly quiet way: posted on a government website without much accompanying fanfare or explanation.

But the new curriculum had been several years in the planning, involving consultations with many different parties, including religious groups. The Institute for Catholic Education – an organization directly involved in setting the curriculum for Catholic schools – had given the plan its seal of approval.

The plan did not dramatically alter the subject matter taught in the existing sex-ed program, first introduced by the Mike Harris government in 1998, although it did require teachers to use more straightforward language about sex and to teach certain topics at earlier grades than they were previously taught.

Educational experts said the changes

were perfectly appropriate for children growing up in the early 21st century, providing information and context about sexual health, identity and choices in an era where a saturation of context-free information is available at the click of a computer key. By all accounts, the proposed curriculum was no more explicit than that found in a number of other provinces.

McVety, president of Canada Christian College, and his followers, disagreed. On April 20, he called the proposed new curriculum “unconscionable.” Two short days later, McGuinty pulled the plug, promising a “serious rethink.”

Why did McGuinty back down?

The reasons probably have more to do with political expediency than with religious conviction. The provincial government is facing much heat these days on a number files, from prescription drug prices to the Harmonized Sales Tax, and didn’t want to add yet another battle to its bout card.

But, in backing down, the premier may have handed a victory to a socially conservative constituency that would not otherwise support his party, and may have alienated a number of political constituencies that normally would.

This spot quiz is over. But there may yet be political lessons to learn.

Alan Echenberg is TVOntario’s Parliamentary bureau chief.

Page 8 – Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – May 10, 2010

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Ottawa’s first kosher pantry opens at Queensway Carleton Hospital

By Rachel Gray for Ten Yad of Ottawa A kosher pantry recently opened at Queensway Carleton Hospital. Although kosher pantries are relatively common in hospitals in the United States, and have existed for some time in larger Canadian Jewish centres such as Toronto and Montreal, it is the first of its kind in Ottawa.

The initiative is a project of Ten Yad of Ottawa, a charitable organization established just over two years ago to help Jewish individuals and families during times of crisis or acute need – for example, when a mother has just given birth, an elderly man’s wife has just passed away, or when the husband and father of a large family is sick. Ten Yad’s activities include running errands, providing transportation, visiting patients, and providing kosher meals at home when necessary.

Ottawa’s hospitals provide kosher meals on request to Jewish patients. However, for families and caregivers who must remain at the hospital, obtaining suitable food can be more problematic. The kosher pantry, located in the cafeteria, is designed to help those who find themselves stuck at the hospital. Perhaps they are there over a Shabbat. Perhaps an emergency situation afforded no opportunity to prepare in advance. The pantry contains non-perishable kosher food items, electric candles and grape juice for Shabbat, prayer books and other religious items.

“It is our hope that these kinds of resources will serve as a small, but meaningful, source of comfort, something from which to draw some strength or inspiration.” said Ten Yad’s Chair Esti Fogel. “When confronted with a sudden and acute medical situation, we want to allow family members to feel supported and be freed of concerns about kosher food and the like, so that they can focus on their loved ones.”

The kosher pantry was made possible through the generosity of the Taller Family.

Joel and Gaye Taller dedicated it in memory of Joel’s parents, the late Lillian and Archie Taller.

“The hospital staff was wonderful to work with. They met with Ten Yad to understand what was needed and were committed to finding a special place to create this pantry,” said Tamara Scarowsky, the Ten Yad member largely responsible for getting the initiative up and running.

The positive response from the Ottawa Queensway Carleton Hospital gives Ten Yad hope that similar pantries can be set up in other Ottawa hospitals.

Inquiries regarding the kosher pantry may be directed to Sarah Holland at 613-7984791.

If Ten Yad of Ottawa can be of assistance to an individual or family, contact Esti Fogel at 613-733-1518 or by e-mail at tenyadottawa@gmail.com.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – May 10, 2010 – Page 9

Helen Saipe to be honoured at Canadian Hadassah-WIZO tea

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By Anna Bilsky for Ottawa Hadassah-WIZO On June 6, members of the Amit, Mollie Betcherman and Ina McCarthy chapters of Canadian HadassahWIZO (CHW) will honour Helen Saipe at our annual tea.

Helen Dworkin was born on Sussex Drive in Ottawa a mere 95 years ago. In 1941, she married Roy Saipe and they raised four daughters.

As a young mother in 1945, she was invited to join the Bertha Slonemsky Chapter of Hadassah. At that time, chapter membership was limited to 50 ladies and each meeting cost 75 cents, a princely sum that was paid whether or not you attended the meeting.

Helen became a vital member of the chapter, which provided many volunteers for the Bazaar and put on delightful shows with local talent (including the children of its members).

When Helen became chapter president, she held the position for 30 years.

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The years have hardly slowed her down and Helen has never wavered in her support of Israel and the goals of CHW. She is both a Life member and a Sustainer and her devotion and enthusiasm are being carried on by

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two of daughters, Marcia and Geri, who are also lifelong members of CHW. Helen has chosen the Sylvia and Lorne Cristall Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel as the beneficiary of donations from the tea.

Assaf Harofeh, established in 1953, is the third largest government hospital in Israel and is a teaching hospital for the Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine. Assaf Harofeh provides comprehensive care to residents of Rishon LeZion, Lod, Ramle, and settlements along the old road to Jerusalem. It cares for an ever-increasing population of more than 500,000, many from Russia and Ethiopia.

The Sylvia and Lorne Cristall Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit teaches patients and their family members how to prevent the progression of heart disease and how to minimize its consequences.

The tea will be held Sunday June 6, 2:00 pm, at the home of Gina and Howard Grant, 3 Southern Hills Court, Nepean. Please join us for tea and fabulous baking as we honour this exceptional woman.

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JCC Summer Camps lead to community involvement

By Pamela Rosenberg Soloway JCC For many, summer camp is simply a great way to spend the best season of the year, playing, making new friends and just letting loose.

For others, in addition to all that, the Soloway Jewish Community Centre (JCC) Summer Camps have been an early springboard to a lifetime of Jewish community involvement.

Kayla Kershman’s involvement with Soloway JCC Summer Camps began almost 15 years ago, at the age of four, when she first attended camp at the Chapel Street JCC. Since then, the Soloway JCC has played a major role in her life and has been a kind of second home.

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Aside from a brief stint at overnight camp, Kayla has been spending summers at the JCC her whole life. This summer will be her fourth year as staff and she says she’s the last of the original downtown JCC crew.

At 19, Kayla is the youngest of the head counsellors of the Travelling Sports Camp. But, her vast camp experience helps her understand the ins and outs, the traditions and all the important things.

In the past, Jon says, he looked for university varsity athletes, who the kids could look up to, for staff members. Now, though, so many kids from the community have spent summers at the Travelling Sports Camp and they want to share those wonderful experiences with today’s campers.

“Today, the staff are mostly former campers who love sports camp, care about kids, are considering education as a career and are conscious of the importance of a positive summer camp experience,” explains Jon. “The relationship between the campers and the staff is a huge part of the kids’ summer camp experience. Each child is special. The counsellors recognize that and are committed to ensuring each and every camper enjoys, as we love to say, ‘the best summer of their lives.’”

For Kayla, who just completed her first year at University of Ottawa, Soloway JCC Day Camp has opened the door to a lifelong commitment to the community.

Soloway JCC Summer Camps staffer Lisa Levitan in the pool with a happy camper.

She was part of the 2004 Maccabi team and was president of BBYO, playing an instrumental role in rebuilding the chapter. She has continuously worked at the Soloway JCC, either in the gym or helping out with birthday parties.

Lisa Levitan also got her start at JCC Day Camp, at the age of three, and stayed on for eight summers before attending JCC Theatre Arts Camp at the Chapel Street JCC for a couple of summers.

As a French teacher in the public school system, Lisa saw her free summers as opportunities to get back to her roots and spend her summers in a Jewish environment at the Soloway JCC. “JCC Day Camp is an amazing experience for both campers and staff. It is a summer filled with memorable faces. As a child, I went to public school, so summer was my opportunity to meet Jewish friends.

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There was something about being around Jewish friends that gave me a sense of belonging and acceptance.”

Lisa, like many of the camp staff, will be back again this summer. She says she is most looking forward to the drama, music and dance program since she is a strong believer in expressing oneself through the arts, and is excited about the “spectacular” Friday Oneg services.

“I was raised to be proud of my Jewish heritage and I encourage others to do the same. All of my fondest memories in life include some aspect of being part of

the Jewish community.

Whether it was participating in a Walkathon, attending Camp B’nai Brith or working at Hillel Academy afterschool programs, the Jewish community is unparallelled.

I am very proud to be a member of our welcoming Soloway JCC team and family.”

Soloway JCC Children and Teen Program Manager Gail Lieff can honestly say that the JCC has been the centre of her life since she was a child and had her first experience at JCC Day camp.

When she was in junior high, Gail was a bus monitor for the JCC Ski Bus, in high school she was part of BBYO and USY. In university, she was involved with UJA and as an adult has been involved with the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s young leadership.

Her early involvement in the Jewish community led to her desire to work with kids and sparked her interest in obtaining an early childhood education diploma.

“I feel at home working in a Jewish environment,” Gail says. “It’s a good place to be.”

For more information on Soloway JCC Summer Camps, e-mail Jon Braun at jbraun@jccottawa.com or Shayna Leikin at sleikin@jccottawa.com or call 613-798-9818, ext. 267.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – May 10, 2010 – Page 11

Yom Hazikaron observed in solemn ceremony

By Pamela Rosenberg Soloway JCC The mood was sombre as more than 200 people gathered at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre (JCC) on Sunday evening, April 18 for Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror.

On Yom Hazikaron, the day preceding Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, the entire nation remembers its debt to its sons and daughters who have given their lives for the achievement of Israel’s independence and for its continued existence.

“The Ottawa community has a strong appreciation and connection to Israel and the dangers that the soldiers face,” says Soloway JCC Assistant Executive Director Maxine Miska.

Jack Silverstone moderated the evening, which included lowering the Israeli and Canadian flags to half-mast by Noam Steinman, followed by a sounding of the siren. Israeli sisters Noga Reiss and Irit Beck lit a candle for their brother, Yehoram Shiloni, who lost his life on January 11, 1972 in a military operation in the village of Hamam.

Paul Lyons, of Ottawa’s One Family Fund,

lit a candle to honour the 1,376 murdered victims of terror in Israel, followed by Yizkor led

by Rabbi Charles Popky.

Israeli Ambassador Miriam Ziv reflected upon the day, Jewish Federation of Ottawa Chair Donna Dolansky spoke on behalf of the Ottawa Jewish community, and Hillel Academy students Itzik Kamil and Jacob Landau recited the poem, “The Parade of the Fallen,”

by Haim Hefer. Noah Shack recited Amir Gilboa’s poem, “And my brother said nothing.”

Yonathan Ben Ari, Michaela Sadinsky and Noam Steinman read a letter written by a friend of Tal Kermann, a 17-year-old Haifa High School student who was killed in a terrorist attack, and the Musica Ebraica Choir sang “Hakotel” and “Shir Eretz.”

The ceremony came to a close with a prayer for the well-being of the Israel Defense Forces and the prayer for the safe return of the captive soldiers by Rabbi Popky. Lieutenant Colonel Avi Eliyahu, assistant to the military attaché at the Israeli Embassy, read the order of the day, and Cantor Shneur Bielak recited Kel Maleh Rachamim and led Hatikvah and O Canada.

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Greek synagogue survives two anti-Semitic arson attacks

By Hannah Mayne You’re walking along a café- and restaurant-lined harbour, Venetian architecture to your left and the deep blue Mediterranean on your right. The sun shines strongly. Gentle notes of Greek folk music and the smell of freshly cooked fish waft into your ears and nostrils. You make a left down a narrow, pebbled street, then a quick right, and you look up to see the modest gates of the restored 17th century Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete.

The scene seems pleasant, relaxed and cheery. Yet, the beauty of this quiet town is

contrasted against recent distressing events, reflecting very real, very ugly hatreds still alive beneath surface.

Entering the courtyard of the synagogue, the smell of soot and smoke takes the place of Greek cuisine aromas. Four months ago, the synagogue suffered two significant arson attacks. Just when the fresh paint was drying after the first fire, a second was set 10 days later. Manuscripts, religious objects, books, databases and technological equipment were lost.

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or. Though the intense, rapidly conducted renovations are now almost complete, the stench from those anti-Semitic incidents lingers still.

Perhaps worse than the irreplaceable documents and the estensive damage, it is the existence of such hatred in 2010 that is truly shocking. The horrors of the Holocaust, which wiped out the small Chania Jewish community, as well as more than 90 per cent of Greek Jewry, seem so far in the distant past. And, yet, today, Jews in Chania are again living in fear, forced to raise the height of protective fences, insulating the Torah scrolls in a copper, fire-proof box, installing video surveillance cameras, keeping eyes open for suspicious behaviour and lurking individuals.

The Etz Hayyim Synagogue was bombed during the Second World War and abandoned as a dumping ground for local rubbish and debris. In the 1990s, however, renovations began to save the surviving structure from collapse. For more than a decade now, the synagogue has been a functioning house of Jewish prayer once again.

Under the leadership of Nicholas Stavroulakis, the former director of the Jewish Museum of Athens, who spearheaded the rebuilding, this unique synagogue prides itself on being a spiritually open space welcoming individuals of all faiths and ethnicities. Yet, despite such positive attitudes, the synagogue was the target of such hateful acts of violence.

After a few moments to meditate silently in the small, peaceful sanctuary, let me guide you back to the courtyard, past the movers bringing the new office furniture, around the olive and lemon

The Etz Hayyim Synagogue on the Greek Island of Crete has been restored following two recent arson attacks.

trees, and back out to the narrow street. If you’re wearing a kippah, I suggest you remove it. It’s not necessary to pocket your religious identity, but most folks who live around here would recommend not taking the risk.

What are general attitudes towards Jews, and other minorities, in Greece? Several people I have asked suggest that, unfortunately, old prejudices sometimes remain beneath modern, educated facades.

Since coming here to volunteer with the synagogue and tiny Jewish community, my experiences have been marked by these stark contrasts: the care, respect and support shown by the diverse Etz Hayyim community, and the hate required to perpetrate the January assaults; perfect Mediterranean landscapes before my eyes by day, and a play about the traumatic experiences of Balkan immigrants by night; pungent, delicious Greek coffee, beside the morning headline describing an attack on a mosque in a nearby Cretan city.

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For me, the Etz Hayyim Synagogue is an example of the former winning over the latter.

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Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – May 10, 2010 – Page 13

Journalist to tell the story of Reserve Mines Cohen family

By Elaine Brodsky for Ottawa Jewish Historical Society The Ottawa Jewish Historical Society opens our 2010 lecture series, May 26, with Lynne Cohen delivering the Ben Karp Memorial Lecture.

Cohen, daughter of the late cardiologist, Dr. Goodman Cohen, will tell the story of the large Cohen family who came to Ottawa from Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia.

Cohen, 53, a journalist, lawyer and grandmother of two, has lived in Ottawa all her life.

“It’s the only city I’ve ever

Lynne Cohen will deliver the Ben Karp Memorial Lecture, May 26.

wanted to live in,” she says. “My Uncle David chose this city in the early 1950s. Virtually his entire family – including my father and grandmother – followed him here from Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia, and made Ottawa their home.”

Cohen, who studied political science and journalism at Carleton University, and law at the University of Ottawa, began her writing career in 1979 in the Northwest Territories where she wrote for the Inuvik Drum while spending four months visiting friends. Since then, she has edited several books and written for more than 40 publications including the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa City Magazine and the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. For about 20 years, Cohen wrote features for the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Although she has never practised, Cohen was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995 and wrote regularly for Canadian Lawyer and other legal publications until 2004.

Now semi-retired, she is writing a book about her family’s history and is the Ottawa correspondent for the Jewish Tribune, the B’nai Brith Canada newspaper.

Cohen is also a fledgling

standup comedian and has performed at Yuk Yuk’s and several other local venues, including her

synagogue, Beit Tikvah.

The Ben Karp Memorial Lecture will take place Wednesday,

May 26, 7:30 pm, at Agudath Israel Congregation, 1400 Coldrey Avenue.

From the Archives

Max and Dora Kapinsky with their eight sons, circa 1928 (front row, left to right): Ben, Max (seated), Allan (striped shirt in front of Max), Howard, baby Maurie and Dora; (back row) Charlie, Nate, Nap, Harry. The photo was taken in Ottawa at the Castonguay studio on Dalhousie Street. Ben Kapinsky later changed his name to “Ben Karp.” The Ottawa Jewish Historical Society’s Ben Karp (Photo courtesy Ottawa Jewish Archives) Memorial Lecture takes place May 26 at Agudath Israel.

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Ottawa celebrates Yom Ha’Atzmaut More than 1,100 Ottawans gathered at Lansdowne Park’s Aberdeen Pavilion, April 20, for a big party celebrating Yom Ha’Atzmaut on the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel.

The family-oriented celebration, hosted by the Soloway Jewish Community Centre (JCC) and the Vered Israel Cultural and Educational Program, included mini-circus performances, games and activities for kids, Israeli rock music by Shtreiml, dancing and food.

There was also a video presentation that included greetings from Israeli Ambassador Miriam Ziv; Yom Ha’Atzmaut Chair Penny Torontow; Jewish Federation of Ottawa Chair Donna Dolansky; and Soloway JCC Chair Arnie Vered and President Barry Sohn, as well as Yom Ha’Atzmaut tributes from the students of each of Ottawa’s Jewish schools.

Earlier, several hundred people gathered in front of the Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building for a Yom Ha’Atzmaut flag-raising ceremony at 11:00 am that also included remarks from Israel’s Deputy Head of Mission Amit Gil-Bayaz, Federation Chair Donna Dolansky and Soloway JCC President Barry Sohn.

Songs were performed by children from the Early Beginnings Multicultural Daycare and Ganon Preschool, and from the Hillel Academy and Tamir Choirs.

Poems were also read by Yitzhak Rabin High School students.

(Top) Yom Ha’Atzmaut activities for children included the Caesarea Archeology dig.

(Photos: Peter Waiser) (Right) Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebrants dance the hora as Shtreiml plays.

Canada and Israel issue joint stamp, celebrating 60 years of relations

A stamp, celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations, co-operation and friendship between Canada and Israel, has been issued jointly by the Canadian and Israeli postal services. The stamp was launched, April 26, at a reception on Parliament Hill.

Pictured (left to right) MP James Lunney, chair of the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group; Moya Greene, president and CEO of Canada Post; Minister of Transport and Infrastructure John Baird; Minister of State, Transport Rob Merrifield; Israeli Ambassador Miriam Ziv; Avi Hochman, CEO of Israel Post; and Yaron Razon, director of Israel Philatelic Service.

The year-long celebration of Canada and Israel’s 60-year relationship winds down this week.

(Photo: Peter Waiser)

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – May 10, 2010 – Page 15

Ottawa celebrates Yom Ha’Atzmaut

Children cheer and wave Israeli flags following the singing of Hatikvah at the Yom Ha’Atzmaut flagraising in front of the Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building.

Shalom Ottawa host Benita Siemiatycki interviews Soloway JCC President Barry Sohn.

Soloway JCC men’s basketball champs

The Hillel Academy Choir prepares to sing at the Yom Ha’Atzmaut flag-raising ceremony.

Team UCLA won the Soloway Jewish Community Centre’s men’s basketball championship for 2009-2010.

Pictured are (front row, left to right) Adam Aronson, Jon Dale, Doron Shmorgun; (back row) Noam Steinman, Hart Wener, David Lyman and Bryan Mackinnon. Missing from photo: Mitch Charness and Bob Wener.

Balloon animals were a popular Yom Ha’Atzmaut attraction.

(Photo: Peter Waiser)

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Savouring ‘the rest’ allows us to see life as it really is My six-year-old daughter has started to unlock the world of piano. Examining a piece of written music, recently, she puzzled over the last bar.

“How can there be a rest at the end of a song?”

While musically unremarkable, I think the question is philosophically fascinating, with hidden lessons for everyday life.

As anyone who has studied western music knows, musical notation is divided into bars of even rhythm. This might mean, as in “Old MacDonald,” that a rest is placed at the end of a piece to fill in the final beat where no note is played. Think “E-I-E-I-O. Rest”!

The final rest lets our body and spirit finish taking in the music even when there is nothing to be heard. We listen to the silence before applauding the musicians or bowing to our audience.

What if we turned this into a daily maxim: “Savour the final rest”? What could life look like?

Perhaps the most obvious implication would be that we would really listen to each other. By this, I mean engaging in empathy rather than doling out measured sympathy. Empathy and validation are much talked about these days on the parenting circuit. But practising it is more difficult than preaching it.

Is Egypt ready for democracy?

For the past couple of months, many Jewish and Israeli bloggers, writers, editors, Nobel laureates, and activists have been writing and speaking about the difficult Israel-Washington relationship, and the role of President Barack Obama.

Like many others, I was greatly annoyed by the treatment of Israel by Obama and his cohorts. Naturally, I was going to write about it, until I read my own thoughts in a Washington Post column and realized that I need a break from the issue and should write about something else.

So, here is my parting shot on this topic: land for peace has never worked and is unsustainable for a small country like Israel. Hands off Jerusalem, Mr. President. As Jews, not only are we resolute but, based on 5,000 years of experience, we also recognize a bad deal when we are dealt one.

Let’s talk about something different.

How about those Egyptians and their exercise of democracy? I hear Mohamed ElBaradei is in the running for the presidency of Egypt. You may have known him as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He did such a fine job that the UN voted to keep him for three terms from 1997 to 2009.

Who says political influence in the UN doesn’t work?

He and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for the admirable job of preventing Iran and North Korea from being regulated under the IAEA (it doesn’t matter at this point why they were actually given the award – the Nobel Institute gives the award away like candy).

During his tenure, he had to deal with Iraq’s nuclear facilities and inspections as well as the Bush Administration’s infamous fables and lies. He also had the pleasure of dealing with Iran as a new nuclear nation, not to mention its work towards building a nuclear bomb. In fact, he is still not convinced that they will.

Much like his father, who was a staunch democracy advocate in Egypt, ElBaradei tried to teach Americans how to exercise their democratic rights by undermining the Bush Administration every chance he got. Despite the IAEA’s poor track record in Iran, he was adamant about protecting Iranian nuclear sites from potential Israeli airstrikes. In a June 2008 interview with Al-Arabiya TV, he threatened to resign in the event of military action against Iran. As a potential future leader, and as a past UN bureaucrat, he has laid out his foreign policy and neighbourly relations clearly for all to see.

Not that he wanted to be critical of Israel, but he believes nuclear non-proliferation has lost its legitimacy because of a perceived double standard associated with Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons program, and obviously not because of his lack of accomplishments during his tenure at IAEA (and not to mention 50 years of arms race by the big boys).

World Affairs After his major success in keeping the world safe from nuclear non-proliferation, he is trying his hand at politics and democratic reform in Egypt. And, just in case you wondered how one reconciles fundamentalist Islam and democracy – wait for it – Mr. ElBaradei may have the answer. He has been talking with the largest and best-funded opposition group in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood.

They are the group most responsible for the Islamic fundamentalist undercurrent that now feels quite mature and ready to govern, not only in Egypt but all over the Middle East. Without their support, ElBaradei won’t really have any chance of success, and with the current state of the country being much like a dry tinderbox looking for a match, ElBaradei’s popularity makes him attractive to the Muslim Brotherhood as a way to light that fire.

ElBaradei’s followers are experiencing a bit of Egyptian-style intimidation by the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. Even the Kuwaitis, who are loyal to Mubarak, have turned on ElBaradei’s supporters and recently deported a number of them. In fact, Iranian state media refers to him as a high profile dissident.

ElBaradei’s popularity stems from several sources: his role as an instrument of change (much like Obama today or Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979); his foreign policy position vis-à-vis the U.S. and Israel; and his naïveté when it comes to ideal solutions in the perfect world vs. the reality on the ground.

Some say ElBaradei built and reorganized the IAEA into a large bureaucracy, which got into the game of conflict resolution rather than sticking to its mission of monitoring, measurement and reporting. Playing in that game simply mired the IAEA in an intellectual exercise that led to its own dysfunction and ineffectiveness. His successor certainly has a huge mess to clean up.

Now, as ElBaradei sits in his gated community near Giza pondering how to bring change to Egypt, and entertaining the parliamentary head of the Muslim Brotherhood at his house, one wonders what kind of change to expect, given his beliefs and track record.

I think we’ve seen this movie before! Wasn’t it Iran’s Prodemocracy Movement of 1979 – with an exiled ayatollah, who was compared to Gandhi, in the role of “agent of change?”

Values, Ethics, Community Mira Sucharov To wit: “I can see you’re upset, but ...” is often said by parents to frustrated kids as a substitute for really working at feeling the kids’ emotions in the moment. These sorts of phrases can sound more belittling than empathic.

True empathy means being not only a friendly ear to our friends, family and acquaintances, but being a whole self, ready and able to absorb the experience of others. Jewish custom sometimes gives us guidance on this issue.

In one experience I had paying a shiva call, I found the religious norms both enlightening and confusing. The custom of not speaking until the bereaved has spoken can be quite helpful – as my rabbi pointed out during a sermon – in meeting people where they are at. But, unaware of the custom of reserving special low chairs for the mourners, I once tried to comfort a grieving family friend by joining her on a small stool. Another guest swiftly instructed me to move to the sofa where I wouldn’t be marked as among the bereaved. I had instinctively thought the low stool to be the place where I could best achieve empathy with my grieving friend.

Practising empathy can be the most challenging when empathizing with the experience of someone in a situation where you are negatively implicated. Who really wants to admit that they were the cause of another’s discomfort? It is easier to blame and to deflect. Pausing to appraise the effect of our actions on others helps to unravel negative social spirals, even when they were unintended.

Savouring the rest would also help us evaluate our actions toward ourselves. Did what I do last night further my personal material, social or spiritual goals, or set me back? How can I improve for next time?

Conversely, it would also enable us to live in the moment.

Trying to achieve mindfulness ultimately helps us acquire the energy to achieve our goals in a focused way – or notice new goals that might be better than the ones we were clinging to.

Similarly, we could listen to who we really are and, therefore, know what we really want out of life as Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, says about her year-long quest to increase her happiness quotient. Rather than chasing golden calves, we can force ourselves to follow our authentic dreams.

On another note, savouring the rest reminds us to appreciate aesthetic principles of rule-based forms and free-flowing beauty. Sometimes, beauty relies on ordered symmetry while at other times, it draws from imbalance. The variance may rest with the beholder, or there may be more universal rules of aesthetics, such as the spatial golden mean that defines good design: spacing things according to thirds is said to be pleasing to the eye.

The rest mark completes the bar, as the rules of music notation require. The rest, therefore, reminds us of the importance of encoded language – the need to communicate our desires through accepted channels of discourse, or risk engaging in a dialogue of the deaf. Dialogue and negotiation are certainly preferable to violence.

Finally, by leaving an unheard beat, a final rest enjoins us to appreciate the beauty of asymmetry. We can take chances on abstraction where concreteness normally reins; we can enjoy nature in all its perfect imperfections; and, we can try to accept ourselves as we are..

Mira Sucharov is an associate professor of political science at Carleton University and the author of The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for IsraeliPalestinian Peace.

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Hillel Lodge celebrates a 102nd birthday

By Carl Raskin Betty Ballon recently celebrated her 102 birthday in this her 10th year as a resident of Hillel Lodge. In fact, Mrs. Ballon, who is Hillel’s oldest resident, has been living at the Lodge since we opened the doors on the Ottawa Jewish Campus in 2000. She notes that she has had “too many birthdays to celebrate.”

Betty was born in Russia, in the city of Uman. She was eight when she came to Canada. She says the boat trip was hard and she remembers being seasick. She doesn’t know the exact date her family arrived, but she remembers it was Pesach. They came to Ottawa, where her father was in the butcher business.

Mrs. Ballon says the family ran two butcher shops, one was kosher and one was not. “We were the only butchers in the city.”

She had three brothers. Her grand-

father also lived in Ottawa, next to them. “He was always at our place.”

She said the whole family got together for Shabbat, and her father closed the store.

As a child, Betty went to York Street School – it was new then.

“We lived a couple of streets from the school in Lowertown on St. Patrick Street. I remember there were a lot of Jewish people there. We were never lonely.”

After school, Betty said she had a private Jewish teacher who came to the house. “I learned songs.”

Asked about anti-Semitism in Ottawa when she was child, Mrs. Ballon says she was “too young to know the difference. But, we did not like them and they did not like us,” is the way she remembers it.

Betty was 19 years old when she married Jack Ballon, who was from Montreal. After they were married,

Betty Ballon shares birthday celebration with Lodge residents.

they attended Beth Shalom Synagogue. Her son, Fred, is the only child living still in Ottawa; her daughter passed away here.

The Ballons had four children and operated a grocery store on St. Patrick Street.

Betty states that Ottawa has

changed a lot over the years.

“There were not many cars, but there were street cars. Where Hillel Lodge is located there was nothing.

People grew stuff there – there were farms. When I was a little girl, the city of Ottawa ended where Hillel Lodge is – it was so long ago.”

Hille Lodge Awards to be presented at AGM, May 26 The Shalom Perel President’s Award of Merit has traditionally honoured an individual working behind the scenes to promote the aims of the Lodge. This year, the award goes to the accounting firm of Ginsberg, Gluzman, Fage & Levitz (GGFL).

The reason for the change is the Lodge had never encountered an organization with so many wonderful people who have in various ways contributed to the Lodge’s success. GGFL’s contributions have been long standing, multiple and manifold. GGFL has given selflessly to the Lodge with no thought of reward or acclaim.

The Outstanding Service Award: This year’s recipient of the Outstanding Service Award is the Jewish Federation of Ottawa (the Federation).

This award isn’t necessarily given every year. It’s only awarded when the Board feels that a particular group or organization has provided the highest standard of outstanding service to the Lodge and its residents.

This year in particular, the Federation has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Lodge in its ongoing approaches to the provincial government (which is responsible for longterm care funding and related matters). The Federation also acted as a key resource to the Lodge, providing expertise for the many key issues that arose during the past year.

The Thelma Steinman Direct Service Award honours an individual who works tirelessly with or on behalf of our residents.

This year’s winner is Joel Diener.

Joel has been involved with Hillel Lodge

for more than 20 years, ever since the late Lillian Kimmel told him that the Lodge’s popular bingos were at risk of ending due to a lack of volunteers. That was all that was needed to spur him into action.

Joel has organized our Monday night bingos ever since, recruiting helpers, soliciting prizes, and (when it too became too difficult to continually ask others for prizes) getting a group of friends together to put their own money into the pot to give away.

Despite his good deeds, Joel is exceedingly humble about his volunteer work and genuinely believes that other people are more deserving than him. That’s one reason why he typically shuns recognition, gauging his successes by results and the smiles on peoples’ faces.

If you want to make a difference in people’s lives (including your own), give volunteering at Hillel Lodge a try. The time commitment can range from a few hours per month to regular weekly or bi-weekly visits. To become a volunteer, please contact Marilyn Adler, our Manager of Recreation and Volunteer Programs.

Hillel Lodge is proud of the quality care we provide to our residents. To make a donation, please contact the Long-Term Care Foundation at (613) 728-3900 extension 111 or e-mail us at donations@hillel-ltc.com.

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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 wellbeing.

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 April 8 and 21, 2010 inclusive.

HONOUR FUNDS Unlike a bequest or gift of life insurance, which are realized some time in the future, a named Honour Fund (i.e., endowment fund) is established during your lifetime.

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.

Ruth and Irving Aaron Family Fund In Memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Ruth and Irving Aaron Mervin Butovsky by Ruth and Irving Aaron Betty Feller by Ruth and Irving Aaron In Honour of: Lorne Hanick In appreciation by Irving Aaron Bill and Leona Adler Memorial Fund In Memory of: Esther Sheffield by Elayne Adler and Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler; and Marilyn Adler, Neil and Daniel Blacher Auxiliary of Hillel Lodge Fund In Memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by the Avery family Jenny and Murray Citron Endowment Fund In Memory of: Rita Ryant by Murray Citron Gordon Viner by Murray Citron Friedberg and Dale Families Fund In Honour of: Magda and Peter Benedek Mazal tov and best wishes on the birth of your grandson by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Rabbi Ely and Sheli Braun Mazal tov on Naomi’s engagement by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Liz and Skip Kronick Mazal tov and best wishes on the birth of your granddaughter by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Rabbi Chaim and Mrs. Bassy Mendelsohn Mazal tov and best wishes on the birth of your son by Elaine Friedberg and Jonathan and Bob Dale

R’fuah Shlema: Bassy Mendelsohn by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Tanya Firestone Family Fund In Honour of: Bob Firestone Best wishes for a very happy 50th birthday by Jill, Zak and James Firestone; Suzanne Shillington and Michael Runia; James Crossland; Joseph Fournier; Lina and Zakarie Ghadie; and Susie and Phil Firestone Malcolm and Vera Glube Endowment Fund In Memory of: Betty Feller by Vera and Malcolm Glube Nell Gluck Memorial Fund In Memory of: Mervin Butovsky by Manny Gluck and Cheryle Hothersall Rita Ryant by Manny Gluck and Cheryle Hothersall Esther Sheffield by Maureen and Henry Molot and family Joseph Steinberg by Maureen and Henry Molot Gordon Viner by Manny Gluck and Cheryle Hothersall Gunner Family Fund In Memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Estelle and Sol Gunner Rita Ryant by Estelle and Sol Gunner Gordon Viner by Estelle and Sol Gunner Dorothy and Maurie Karp Endowment Fund In Memory of: Nathan Keyfitz by Etta Karp and family; and Dorothy Karp Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Etta Karp and family In Honour of: Marty Fortus Mazal tov and best wishes on your 80th birthday by Dorothy Karp Morris and Lillian Kimmel Family Fund In Honour of: Linda and Steven Kerzner With much appreciation and best of luck in your new Florida home by Brenda, Nathan, Jesse and Daniel Levine Joan and Russell Kronick Family Fund In Memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Joan and Russell Kronick In Honour of: Jane James Mazal tov and best wishes on your special birthday by Joan and Russell Kronick Bill and Phyllis Leith Family Endowment Fund In Honour of: Magda and Peter Benedek Mazal tov and best wishes on the birth of your grandson by Arlene and Seymour Isenberg Levenson/Polowin Feeding Fund In Commemoration of the Yahrzeit of: Fania Ingber by Pat Guthrie

Sam and Ruth Rothman Memorial Fund In Memory of: Jerry Taylor by Sonja and Ron Kesten Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Family Fund In Memory of: Eileen Gardner by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman Harold and Lillian Shoihet Memorial fund In Honour of: Shelley and Andre Engel Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson by Dovid Shoihet, and Miriam and Mayer Sabo Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fine Mazal tov and best wishes on your marriage by Dovid Shoihet and family Dr. and Mrs. Michael Froeschl Congratulations on the birth of your son, Henrik by David Shoihet and family Label and Leona Silver Family Fund In Memory of: Gordon Viner by the Avery family; Label and Leona Silver; Sylvia and Joel Cohen; and David Silver Ralph and Anne Sternberg Memorial Fund In Memory of: Eileen Gardner by Stephanie Dancey; Naida Grossman; Marcia and Dick Zuker; Natalie and Tommy Gussman; Annette Millstone; Judy and Paul Mendelsohn; Estelle and Sydney Backman; Anita Rappaport; and Laya Jacobsen Sarah and Arnie Swedler Family Fund In Memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Arnie Swedler Estelle McCarthy by Arnie Swedler Gordon Viner by Arnie Swedler In Honour of: Arnie Swedler Thinking of you on your special day

by Sheila and Larry Hartman Roslyn and Myles Taller Family Endowment Fund In Memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Roslyn Taller and Myles Taller Rita Ryant by Roslyn Taller and Myles Taller Gordon Viner by Roslyn Taller and Myles Taller Eric Weiner and Arlene Godfrey Family Fund In Memory of: Rita Ryant by Arlene Godfrey and Eric, Melissa and Laura Weiner; and Miriam and Lou Weiner Feeding Program In Memory of: Beloved father of Andrea Buchsbaum by Lynda and Alan Halpren Betty Feller by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky Rita Ryant by Carol and Larry Gradus Gordon Viner by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky In Honour of: Liz and Skip Kronick Wishing you a hearty mazal tov on the birth of your granddaughter by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky Recreation Program In Memory of: Lillian Kahan by Sally Matook Therapeutics Program In Memory of: Morton Roodman by Sonja and Ron Kesten

************ IN MEMORY OF: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Marilyn and Howard

Borts; Edie Landau; Jean Naemark; Ingrid Levitz; Lillian Laks; Felice, Jeff, Erin, Jordan, Zachary and Mitchell Pleet; Joy and Seymour Mender; Myra and Sidney Marko; and Diane and Gary Arkin Eva Bencze by Rhonda, Danny, Samuel, Zachary and Shelby Levine Regina Bienenstock by Roz and Steve Fremeth; and Liane Freedman Al Cohen by Annette and Jack Edelson; and Barb and Sid Cohen Polly Cohen by Sandi and Morris Dojm and family; and Roberta and Brian Mickelson Doris Finn by Anne and Hans Duncker Eileen Gardner by the Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge Barbara Gutman by Joy and Seymour Mender; Joanna and Ira Abrams; and the Levitz family Rita Ryant by Jean Naemark; Ingrid Levitz; Bea Torontow; Sandi and Raoul Korngold; Ursula and Andrei Grushman; Mona and Ralph Lacroix; Alan Freed; the Office of the Commissioner of Review Tribunal, Canada Pension Plan/Old Age Security; C. Mabel Carkner; The Sang family; and Murray MacCallum Esther Sheffield by Leah and Issie Scarowsky; Irving Singer by Barb and Sid Cohen Gordon Viner by Annette and Jack Edelson; Annette Albert and Lewis Perelmutter; Sandra and Eli Hoffman; Sylvia and Bert Bronsther; and Roberta and Sam Goldmaker In Commemoration of the Yahrzeit of: Jacob Aaron Bruner Z”L dear father and grandfather of blessed memory by Elly and Al Bruner and family IN HONOUR OF: Joanna Abrams In appreciation by Toba Shuster Ricki and Barry Baker Mazal tov and best wishes on the birth of your granddaughter by the Levitz family Rena and Jim Borovay Mazal tov on the birth of your grandchildren – three times lucky! by Arlene and Norm Glube Rabbi Bulka For all the wonderful things you have done in your career by Annette and Jack Edelson Roz Fremeth Wishing you a very happy birthday by Valerie and Gaby Terkel Belle Gitterman Mazal tov and best wishes on your special birthday by Barb and Sid Cohen Jane James Best wishes for a very happy birthday

by Judith Smith and Teresa Liz and Skip Kronick Mazal tov and best wishes on the birth of your granddaughter by Leah and Issie Scarowsky; and Yvonne and Yehuda Azuelos Joan and Russell Kronick Mazal tov on the wedding of Nicole and Jordan by Yvonne and Yehuda Azuelos Blanche Osterer Mazal tov on being named the recipient of the Shem Tov Award by Ingrid Levitz Fran and Mort Ross Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson, Alexander Pierce Ross. We are delighted to hear that you’ve joined the grandparents club by Dee and Yale Gaffen; and Roz and Steve Fremeth Elissa and Avraham Iny Mazal tov on your 40th anniversary and best wishes for many more happy and healthy ones by Barb and Sid Cohen R’FUAH SHLEMA: Sharon Steinberg by Arlene and Norm Glube The Foundation would like to thank: Lionel Metrick for a very generous donation to the Lodge Rabbi Levy and Mrs. Dina Teitlebaum for a generously sponsoring a kiddish in honour of the Bar Mitzvah of their son.

THE LODGE EXPRESSES ITS SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT AND APOLOGIZES FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, THE WORDING APPEARING IN THE BULLETIN IS NOT NECESSARILY THE WORDING WHICH APPEARED ON THE CARD. GIVING IS RECEIVING – ATTRACTIVE CARDS AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS Here’s a good opportunity to recognize an event or convey the appropriate sentiment to someone important to you and at the same time support the Lodge. Card orders may be given to Debra or Rhonda at 613-728-3900, extension 111, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Monday to Thursday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm Friday. You may also e-mail your orders to donations@hillel-ltc.com. E-mail orders must include name, address, postal code, and any message to person receiving the card; and, amount of donation, name, address and postal code of the person making the donation. Cards may be paid for by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Cheque or Cash. Contributions are tax deductible.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – May 10, 2010 – Page 19

Did you know who’s a Fat Cat? • Jon Dale will be playing baseball for the Ottawa Fat Cats, the newly created independent minor league team. Jon played baseball for Carleton University where he led the country in hitting with a .700 average.

• STOP! In your spring cleaning enthusiasm, don’t give away any children’s hockey equipment! When Ottawa’s hockey team

played in Israel in January, they discovered that local kids were anxious to play hockey but did not have access to equipment.

Team members Mitch Miller, Steve Baker and Bob Wener resolved to fix that.

They will be collecting new and used children’s hockey equipment and sending it to Metulla. Stay tuned for details on when and where to drop off donated equipment.

The Red Wings, this year’s SJCC Men’s Hockey champs: (front) Joel Dubrofsky; (second row, left to right) Mike Takefman, Howard Fremeth, Harris Prehogan, Jonathan Cohen, Alan Goldrosen; (back row) Marty Scheinberg, Justin Shulman, Josh Schwartz, James Hubbard, Doron Shmorgun, Demetrius Dalios, Matt Moss; (missing from photo) Mark Cohen, Michael Goldrosen, Ed Haldorsen.

• Congratulations to the Red Wings, this year’s Soloway JCC Men’s Hockey League Champions! Led by Captain Howard Fremeth, the winning team ranged in age from 16 to 60 and included two father/son combinations: Mark and Jonathan Cohen and Alan and Michael Goldrosen.

• Talk about talent! Eighteen-year-old Jason Gencher, who is studying jazz trumpet at McGill University, won the Ottawa Temple Choir Trophy at the prestigious Kiwanis Music Festival.

More than 10,000 young musicians, singers and musical theatre performers from the National Capital Region competed in the event, now in its 65th year. Gencher performed “Trio for Brass” in the classical contemporary category.

• Seymour Mayne was named 2010 Professor of the Year by the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Arts. Mayne, who teaches in the Department of English, is also the co-ordinator of the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program.

• Andrea Rosen is the new chief enforcement officer, telecommunications at the CRTC. Rosen leaves an impressive 28-year career at the Competition Bureau, where she spearheaded some high profile cases, including the Archer Daniels Midland case featured in the Matt Damon movie, The Informant, and the cigarette labelling initiative in which tobacco companies removed ‘light’ and ‘mild’ descriptors from cigarette packaging because they falsely led smokers

Did you know?

Benita Baker to believe that ‘light’ and ‘mild’ cigarettes were less harmful.

• If you followed the media coverage of alleged murderer Col. Russell Williams – and who didn’t? – then you couldn’t help but notice that the shocked and unsuspecting next door neighbour repeatedly interviewed on television was Michael Gennis.

They had both just moved into their newly built semi-detached homes in Westboro and Gennis was planning to invite his new neighbours over for dinner as soon as they settled in.

• In the ‘how time flies’ category, can you believe that it was 10 years ago, in April 2000, that the internal roadway of the newly formed Jewish Community Campus was officially named Nadolny Sachs Private in honour of the philanthropic Nadolny and Sachs families?

It was also 10 years ago that Doris Bronstein was appointed director of education at Hillel Academy. She replaced Mark Weinberg and put her indelible stamp on the school’s spirit.

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Roth’s masterful prose packs narrative punch The Humbling

By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin 140 pages With an author as renowned and as prolific as Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Roth, one might understandably look forward to each new novel with a mixture of great anticipation and great envy. Rare is the artist or intellectual who can obtain the feat of consistent excellence amidst such an impressively large collection.

The Humbling, Roth’s 30th book of fiction, is actually a novella (clocking in at a mere 140 pages) and is not as historically detailed as American Pastoral or The Plot Against America. In fact, the only research needed was probably furnished by a brief Internet search of great plays, their protagonists and a few famous theatrical lines. Neither does it investigate large American questions of post-war Jewish identity or democratic politics, themes that Roth has intelligently exploited over his half-century of writing. The book travels in parts like a potboiler. There are horror-story-like motifs that serve mainly to tease. But The Humbling packs the kind of narrative punch and mastery of prose that Roth’s fans have rightly come to expect from him.

Like Roth’s recent books Everyman and Exit Ghost, The Humbling deals with familiar themes of aging and loss, but through the “universal nightmare,” as one of the characters describes it, of an actor unable to act.

Simon Axler is a successful stage and film actor who decides he has lost his talent and, subsequently, checks himself into a psychiatric hospital. Upon his release, his agent im-

Book Review Mira Sucharov plores him to return, but Axler is convinced he is finished plying his craft. Thoughts of suicide pervade Axler’s waking moments. Unspeakable acts are recounted to Axler via acquaintances. But agency is never far from the surface, a theme first explored through a recounting of the literary and psychiatricpatient conversations about suicide.

But as is common with themes of death and destruction, sexuality emerges as a buoying counterpoint. The scenes are too graphic to detail here, but Axler’s sexual vitality – tempered only by a deteriorating spine – is reawakened by Pegeen, a woman 25 years his junior. This is no simple MaySeptember romance, as sexual orientation and gender identity also become themes helping drive the plot.

In the intensity of the sexual drama and the questions surrounding lesbianism as spectacle, I wondered whether this was a feminist or misogynist novel. (Surely, the answer might lie somewhere in between, but Roth is not a writer given to conceptual fuzziness.)

I’ve had the same thoughts recently watching various international superstar fashion designers wax eloquent about their models. In their dedication to laying the contours of female fashion, do they love women or hate them? It seems to

me that, in The Humbling, Roth lets the reader come up with the answer. Roth is creating an aesthetic experience – as Axler and Pegeen do in one pivotal scene regarding another minor character – that we are free to partake of as we wish. And Pegeen is endowed with too much agency for this to be considered pornography rather than erotica.

Much of The Humbling revolves around roles – the roles some people play as professionals on stage, the roles people play recreationally in the bedroom, the roles the covetous ascribe to others, and the conscious and unconscious roles we play every day as we negotiate our material and social interests and identities. It is not coincidental that Axler helps Pegeen along her sexual-transformation path through extravagant plunders along Madison Avenue. The material and social are forever intertwined.

The book is dark. But the pace of plot quickens the heart in a way that helps offset the bleakness of the initial setup. The writing is sharp. The dialogue is spare. The protagonist is honest. Marginal characters are not well developed, but we’re seeing them through the myopic lens of an aging actor contemplating his own demise.

We watch Axler and are perhaps relieved that we have not been deprived of our professional or creative gifts. But then we’re never sure if he has truly been deprived of them either (there is vague mention of “the reviews”), or just believes himself to be.

“You are forgetting who you are and what you’ve achieved,” his agent tells him. In this apex of self-doubt we might find the ultimate universal nightmare: the human tendency to doubt the worth of our greatest accomplishments, whatever they have already been or yet might be.

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Made with Love

Culinary lenses and lamb chops I believe most people view the world with lenses of some sort over their eyes that alter their vision of what they actually see.

For example, no matter where in the world we are, my husband will look at his surroundings to see what is wrong or broken. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me wrong, he is not a negative person (although his baby brother may disagree). He wears what I call Tikkun Olam lenses. He looks for ways to fix and improve things.

We could be driving in a foreign country and he will have suggestions on how to improve the roads and traffic laws. We could be visiting a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cottage and he will have suggestions on how to organize the boathouse so it is more efficient. He just wants to leave the world a better place than he found it.

On the other hand, I wear clown lenses and try to see the humour in every situation.

Every family goes through some difficult health issues.

Ours is no different. Various members have been diagnosed with autism, Budd-Chiari syndrome, cerebral palsy, depression, and edema (swelling) of the optic nerve. I laughed as I observed that we were working our way through the medical alphabet and wondered when focal motor seizures and gallstones would rear their ugly heads. Thankfully they have not!

If you are one of those people who look for the humour in life, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good idea to hang out with others who share your point of view. Luckily, I have a few family members and friends who get me and are usually not too aghast at the things I find humour in.

In 1999, my dad was sick with kidney disease and heart problems and needed heart valve replacement surgery.

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My dad was fighting an infection and not doing well.

I caught the next flight and went straight to his hospital room. I peeked inside and saw a nurse sitting with my dad.

He was sleeping. None of my family members were anywhere to be seen. The nurse smiled at me and left the room.

I gave my dad a kiss on the cheek and sat down and started talking to him, holding his hand as I sat. It was a warm summer day and I thought it was so strange that his cheek and hands were so cold.

After a few minutes, I went out into the hall, looking for my mom and my siblings. They all came running down the hall, crying and hugging me. It was at that moment that it dawned on me why my dad was so cold. To this day, I still get teased about how unobservant I can be.

Those lenses with which we view the world also apply to culinary matters. Whenever I make lamb chops, I always

Cindy Feingold marinate them in a Mediterranean mixture of olive oil, garlic, rosemary and lemon juice. To me, those are classic lamb partners. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never occurred to me to cook them any other way.

A few weeks ago, as I was leafing through some cookbooks trying to come up with something different to make for dinner, I came across a spice rub for lamb chops that used cumin, coriander and paprika and I was jolted out of my culinary comfort zone. Granted, this was not exactly an earth shattering revelation, but just a different pair of lenses.

Try viewing your world with a different pair of lenses.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be amazed at the view.

Spiced Lamb Chops with Chickpea Salad This recipe comes from the cookbook Real Simple Meals Made Easy from the same people who publish Real Simple magazine. I love the layout of this book. It is divided into sections containing recipes for one-pot meals, no-shop meals, 30-minute meals, no-cook meals and freezer meals. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a different way of viewing cooking dinner â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a simple, but brilliant, idea.

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Dice the tomatoes into 1/2-inch cubes. In a medium bowl, combine the chickpeas, tomatoes, onion, parsley, mint, olive oil, lemon zest and juice, vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper. Toss and set aside.

In a small bowl, combine the cumin, coriander, paprika, salt and pepper. Lightly coat both sides of each chop with the spice mixture.

Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

Place half the chops in the pan and brown for 2 to 3 minutes per side for medium-rare. Transfer to a plate and repeat with the remaining chops.

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Young children’s picture books with meaningful messages Many of us are now counting the Omer, the 50 days between the second day of Pesach and Shavuot. By linking the two holidays that celebrate our exodus from slavery and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, our ancient rabbis reinforced the notion that freedom is not licence to do anything.

Rather, freedom is meaningful only if it is accompanied by spiritual and moral teachings and behaviour.

That was a powerful message in ancient times and remains a meaningful message today. Putting it into practice is a lifelong challenge. But, it’s a challenge that can be met with joy and a sense of accomplishment as these picture books for young children demonstrate.

Time for Torah

By Devorah Schwebel Illustrated by Tova Katz Hachai Publishing 32 pages. Ages 3-6.

Studying Torah daily is one of the ways to further our goals for moral and spiritual self-improvement. And that is exactly what Time for Torah is all about. Written and illustrated from an Orthodox perspective, its slightly didactic but cute rhyming verses illustrate that, with good examples and encouragement, even young children can get into the habit of studying Torah daily.

What I found of particular interest were the examples of adults making time for study and pictures of them studying Torah in a variety of places, not just in shul or in school. A doctor goes to work early so he can study in his office. A rabbi studies outdoors while his class enjoys recess. A storekeeper has a little table in the store where he can study when he’s finished stocking the shelves and doesn’t have any customers. And our narrator, a young boy, studies at home before he goes out to play.

Produced on wipe-clean laminated pages, the lively fullcolour illustrations add to the impact of the rhyming story by including details not mentioned in the verses. I was especially pleased to see the boy’s mother and sister also studying at home and the businessman’s office filled with

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computers – modern settings for an age-old concept. Time for Torah is a sweet presentation of an old message.

The Remarkable Journey of Josh’s Kippah

By Barbara Elissa Illustrated by Farida Zaman Kar-Ben Publishing 24 pages. Ages 3-8.

The Remarkable Journey of Josh’s Kippah takes readers on a whirlwind circular tour of the world, and the traditional Jewish holidays. Josh’s Bar Mitzvah in New York City is the starting point. Like many Bar Mitzvahs, Joshua Jacobs gives his guests inscribed blue satin kippot. That’s how we know the airplane hopping kippah originally came from him.

But, after it was taken home to Los Angeles by Uncle Avi Abelson, he, and each successive owner, manages to lose it.

Thus the kippah keeps getting found by other alliteratively named folks as it flies with them to wherever they are going.

That’s how this globetrotting Kippah celebrates Rosh Hashanah in Los Angeles, Yom Kippur in Sydney, Australia, Sukkot in Israel, Simchat Torah in Paris, France, Chanukah in Argentina and Purim in Miami. The kippah comes back to New York City for Passover and onto Josh’s head for Shavuot.

Joyous full-colour illustrations show the kippah in all its settings. Readers can follow the kippah’s travels on a map at the back of the book and refer to the glossary for the mean-

By Devorah Schwebel; illustrated by Tova Katz

ing of Hebrew and holiday-related words. The Remarkable Journey of Josh’s Kippah is a simple, lively travelogue and a reminder that Jews and kippot can be found everywhere.

Before We Eat: A Thank You Prayer

By Jacqueline Jules Illustrated by Melissa Iwai Kar-Ben Publishing 8 pages. Ages 1-4.

Before We Eat: A Thank You Prayer is a straightforward, charming and peaceful board book that introduces the Hamotzi blessing to young children and the notion that we say Hamotzi because we are grateful that God makes good things happen – another message worth remembering.

From my family to yours, Happy Shavuot!

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Chabad Student Network already planning for the fall The Chabad Student Network (CSN) has become a big part of Jewish life on campus and has set up a new executive comprising students from both the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. The members include Corey Sauvé, Yael Gang, Ariella Singer, Naomi Lebovitch, Jeremy Izso and Yaron Benchlouch.

Each member of the new CSN executive is dedicated to attracting new students and exposing them to a new levels of Judaism as a religion, a culture and, most importantly, a community. CSN’s mission statement is primarily to be a “home away from home for Jewish Students,” and the executives plan to incorporate this as much as possible.

“My goal is to help inspire Jewish youth to be a part of Ottawa’s Jewish community and help them connect to the strong Jewish values that are so beautiful and close to their hearts,” said Sauvé, the citywide president.

“Some people need help and support to make that personal connection between themselves and their religion, and I’m here to help.”

Planning, added Sauvé, has already begun for the fall semester.

“We are working diligently on coming up with new events that will attract even more Jewish students,” said Izso, who has just completed his first year at Carleton and will spend his second year at uOttawa. “But, of course, we will be keeping the events that we already do because that’s what makes Chabad great.”

Gang, CSN’s Carleton president, said CSN is a great way to stay in touch with her Jewish roots while having fun at the same time.

“Chabad gives students like me, who are far from home, a Jewish family in Ottawa,” she said. “Through hosting Shabbat dinners, seders and other fun events, it lets me have fun while staying true to my Jewish values.”

Regular CSN events include Pizza and Parsha, which combines discussion of the weekly parsha with free pizza, the weekly Chill and Grill, an easy way for secular and religious Jewish students to integrate and socialize in a cozy

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atmosphere, and Shabbat dinners.

CSN is also active in community service and has had volunteers help out at the Ottawa Mission and deliver food to the elderly.

“Community outreach, spirituality, and Jewish identity have always been the pillars of Chabad. Its activities and programs on and off campus continue to engage students and encourage them to give back to the community,” said Benchlouch, uOttawa’s CSN president.

If the volcano wasn’t so serious, it would be lavable It’s that time of month again – no, not that.

I mean it is time for me to write another column and, what with all the great news we have been having about volcanoes and earthquakes, a nuclear Iran and a Scud-armed Hezbollah, I find that I feel like saying, “Not now, I have a headache.”

But, of course, according to some religious leader in Iran, we know the cause of these problems: women are too promiscuous.

Just think of the poor men who have to endure it all. My heart starts to overflow in em-

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Wait a minute! Promiscuity and earthIt’s an odd thing to do, as most kettles I see quakes, Los Angeles and Tehran. Hmmm, I are made of shiny metal or plastic and plug am beginning to see a connection. It’s anoth- into the electric outlet. If the kettle were er nefarious Jewish plot. black, unless it were made out of black plasHey, you knew, somehow, it had to come tic, it would be because, and tell me you back to the Jews. Didn’t you? haven’t done this, someone filled the kettle I was sure the volcano in Iceland was and put it on a hot burner on the stove. going to be blamed on some Jewish banker, And, now that you have brought this exbut, somehow, we have found a more cir- pression to my attention, just what kind of pot cuitous route to eventually get there. are we referring to? The kind that sits on a I had friends trying to get back to Gander, wood stove with smoke blowing up the chimNewfoundland. Instead, they were diverted to ney, or, the pot where you sit on the stove and Ottawa where they spent a pleasant night in blow smoke from it up who knows where? the airport.

And, if we got enough pot smokers toI have to fly to Fredericton soon and am gether, we could probably simulate the effect concerned I might end up somewhere else. Se of the volcano. Unfortunately, this might lead habla español? to the kind of activity that, according to the And it’s all because of the volcano and its Iranian cleric, caused earthquakes and volcabig ash. If it wasn’t so serious, it would be noes in the first place. lavable. (Blame these jokes on Laurence So, if you want to be careful, do as I intend Wall, another Jewish source for trouble and to do and stay away from anything to do with humour in the world.) volcanoes, earthquakes, pots, kettles and fish.

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS JOSEPH AND BETTY FELLER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Betty Feller by Joel and Shanah Barmish and family;

by Analee Servin; by Max and Rena Cohen; by Libby and Stan Katz; by Gloria Bass; by Lillian and Stephen Vineberg; by Gittel, Mufy, Cheryl and Sascha Tatz; by Mark and Maureen Tatz and family; by Ilene Starke; by Joe and Evelyn Lieff; by Barbara and Stanley Magidson;

by Bobby Mendelson; by Barbara and Stephen Coplan; by the Partners of Ginsberg, Gluzman, Fage & Levitz; by Charles and Marilyn Craft; by Denise and Larry Lithwick; by Virginia Lam and Jeffrey Edwards; by Angela and Ralph Lipper; by Dan and Marilyn Kimmel;

by Leslie Milton; by Partners of Brazeau Seller.LLP; by Sarah Faerman; by Janet and Peter Fabri and family, Daniel Bendon; by Arlene and Stephen Abramson; by the Partners of Doucet McBride LLP; by Eleanor and Paul Weiner; by Marla-Beth and Gregg Rosen; and by Jack and Judy Shaicovitch.

HENRIK AND WILMA GELBERGER HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Cornelia Engel, dear sister and mother by Magda Robicsek; and by Andre Engel.

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

JEFFREY AND ENID GOULD FAMILY FUND In memory of: Gwen Small by Jeff and Enid Gould.

Zenia Zaifman by Jeff and Enid Gould.

Morton Roodman by Jeff and Enid Gould.

Mazal Tov to: Liz and Skippy Kronick on the marriage of Abby and Peter by Jeff and Enid Gould.

BEN (BERCHIK) AND IDA GREENBERG MEMORIAL FUND Best wishes to: Rhonda Kerzner on her new business venture

by Jerry and Lily Penso; and by Ellie and Max Greenberg.

LAURA AND MILTON GREENBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION Mazal Tov to: Blanche Osterer on being the recipient of the Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by Laura Greenberg.

HY AND PAULINE HOCHBERG ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Gordon Viner by Pauline Hochberg.

Betty Feller by Pauline Hochberg.

DOROTHY AND HY HYMES ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Dorothy and Hy Hymes.

Gordon Viner by Dorothy and Hy Hymes.

MAXWELL AND ROSE KALMAN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Betty Feller by Elsa Wendman.

SAMUEL AND TILLIE KARDISH MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Laurie and Steve Gordon on the marriage of their son Alex to Sarah by Cheryl Kardish Levitan, Brian, Elayna, Tyler and Ian Levitan.

The Chair, Officers and Board of Directors of the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation cordially invites all fund holders and members of the Community to attend the

OJCF Annual General Meeting held on

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 Doors Open: 7:00 pm

Call to Order: 7:30 pm

Dessert Reception to follow proceedings

G.J. Cooper Scholarship Award Presentation Zelikovitz Family Social Hall of The Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building 21 Nadolny Sachs Private Please RSVP prior to May 21st, 2010 to Francine Paulin at 613-798-4696 ext 252 or at fpaulin@jewishottawa.com A copy of the meeting materials and By-law amendment will be available on our website. www.OJCF.ca

“Our Future is in Your Hands”

SHARON KOFFMAN ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND Birthday wishes to: Joel Koffman by Sandra Zagon.

Best wishes to: Melissa Koffman in her new home by Sandra Zagon.

Margie Kardash and Andy Bowcott in their new home by Sandra Zagon.

KOVOD ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Sarah and Steven Morgan.

Solange Ohana by Sarah and Steven Morgan.

Conrad Cohen by Sarah and Steven Morgan.

KRANTZBERG KRANE FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Cookie Krantzberg by Myra, Sam, Joshua and Justin Krane.

In memory of: Marguerite Cleinge-Green and Sarah Green by Myra, Sam, Joshua and Justin Krane.

Mazal Tov to: Jaclyn Schwartzman and Joshua Krane on their engagement by Evelyn Krane; and by Julia Krane, Dan Paul and Jacob Krane-Paul.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwartzman on the engagement of their daughter Jaclyn to Joshua by Evelyn Krane.

ISSIE AND EDITH LANDAU ENDOWMENT FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Ethel Goldberg, a dear mother by Edie Landau.

LEON AND BYRTHA LECKIE MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Leon Leckie by Douglas Marshall and Patricia Dunphy.

SALLY AND ELLIOTT LEVITAN ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Sally and Elliott Levitan on their daughter Shirley’s engagement to Bill Rogers by Joan Bloom.

ERNEST AND IDA LEVITZ MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Sarah Silverstein on being named the winner of the Freiman Family Young Leadership Award by the Levitz family.

Ron Prehogan on being named the winner of the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award by the Levitz family.

In memory of: Betty Feller by the Levitz family.

JOHN AND ESTELLE LIBERMAN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Mother of Judith Goldstein by John and Estelle Liberman.

JOSEPH AND EVELYN LIEFF ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Sally and Elliott Levitan on the engagement of Shirley to Bill Rogers by Joe and Evelyn Lieff.

ARNOLD AND ROSE LITHWICK FAMILY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Barry Lithwick by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

Mazal Tov to: Barry and Marieta Lithwick on Talia’s birth by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

Arnold and Charlene Fine on the birth of their granddaughter by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

MORTY MAYBERGER UNITED JEWISH APPEAL GOLF TOURNAMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Ron Prehogan on being the recipient of the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award by Charles Schachnow.

Blanche Osterer on being the recipient of the Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by Charles Schachnow.

Sarah Silverstein on being the recipient of the Freiman Family Young Leadership Award by Charles Schachnow.

CHUCK AND BONNIE MEROVITZ FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Brian Tannenbaum by Chuck and Bonnie Merovitz.

Michael Feldman by Chuck and Bonnie Merovitz.

Jack Torjman by Chuck and Bonnie Merovitz.

RHODA AND JEFFREY MILLER FAMILY FUND Mazal Tov to: Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hart on Bradley’s engagement by Rhoda, Jeffrey, Howard and Sarah Miller.

David Dubrofsky on the opening of his new showroom by Rhoda and Jeffrey Miller.

DAVE, LOUIS AND LAZ MIRSKY ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Kenneth and Linda Mirsky on their 50th wedding anniversary by Debra Cosman.

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS PERCY AND SHELLEY OSTROFF FAMILY FUND In memory of: Shai Menashe by Percy and Shelley Ostroff.

Gordon Viner by Percy and Shelley Ostroff.

Esther Miriam Sheffield by Percy and Shelley Ostroff.

ISAAC OHANA MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Solange Ohana by Steve and Judy Naor; by Eva Amzallag; and by Leo and Sylvia Stawczynski ALTI AND BEREL RODAL FAMILY FUND In memory of: Moshe Eli Gerlitsky by Alti and Berel Rodal.

Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Alti and Berel Rodal.

Mervin Butovsky by Alti and Berel Rodal.

SAMUEL AND RUTH ROTHMAN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Marty Cohen by Corinne and Sheldon Taylor.

SHELLEY AND SID ROTHMAN FAMILY FUND Mazal Tov to: Sarah Silverstein on being awarded the Freiman Family Young Leadership Award. by Shelley Rothman.

RICKIE AND MARTIN SASLOVE FAMILY FUND Mazal Tov to: Claire and Irving Bercovitch on their granddaughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bat Mitzvah and Irvingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday by Rickie and Martin Saslove.

MOE AND CHARLOTTE SLACK MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Moe Slack, a dear father and grandfather by Marlene Levine and Andrew Siman; by Enid Slack, Ron Kanter and family; and by Sandra Palef and Nissim Avraham.

Charlotte Slack, a dear mother and grandmother by Marlene Levine and Andrew Siman; by Enid Slack, Ron Kanter and family; and by Sandra Palef and Nissim Avraham.

IRVING AND HARRIET SLONE ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Irving Slone for 50 years service at Regional Realty

by Donna and Eric Levin.

MAX AND PEARL SMOLKIN FAMILY FUND In memory of: Max Smolkin by Joe and Evelyn Lieff.

PHYLLIS AND MAX STERNTHAL FAMILY FUND In memory of: Rita Ryant by Phyllis and Max Sternthal.

JAY B. TALLER MEMORIAL FUND Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;fuah Shâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;lemah: Morton Taller by Bert Palmer and Kathryn Palmer.

CLAIRE AND SAM TANNER MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Gordon Viner by Lana and Stephen Tanner.

Support your Ottawa Jewish community by sending a tribute card to your friends and loved ones.

Minimum donation of $18 for single cards or $15 per card for 18 cards or more.

Make your donation online at www.OJCF.ca or call the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation at 613.798.4696 ext. 232.

IRVING AND ETHEL TAYLOR ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Irving Taylor by Chick and Rose Taylor.

SAM AND HELENE ZARET MEMORIAL FUND Congratulations to: David Steinberg on completing his PHD by Debi and Neil Zaret.

STEPHEN AND GAIL VICTOR ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Eileen Gardner by Sandy Marchello.

ZIPES KARANOFSKY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Rose Hirsh by Rick and Helen Zipes and family.

SONIA AND ARTHUR VINER MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Gordon Viner by John and Gladys Greenberg.

PINCHAS ZUKERMAN MUSICAL EDUCATION FUND In memory of: Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Roslyn Wollock and sons.

Shirley Young by Norman and Sandra Slover.

HAZE WAINBERG FAMILY FUND In memory of: Betty Feller by Haze Wainberg and Merv Blostein.

Eileen Gardner by Haze Wainberg and Merv Blostein.

MICHAEL WALSH AND LISA ROSENKRANTZ ENDOWMENT FUND In appreciation to: Lisa Rosenkrantz by Neil and Sari Tudiver; and by Shelley Reuter and Richard McGrath.

MILDRED AND PERCY WEINSTEIN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Polly Cohen by Millie Weinstein.

Penny Bar-Noy Roodman by Millie Weinstein.

Betty Atin by Millie Weinstein.

Betty Feller by Millie Weinstein.

Leslie Fireman by Millie Weinstein.

IRVING AND DIANE WEXLER FAMILY FUND Speedy recovery to: Carole Segal by Sandy Marchello.

SANDRA AND SAM ZUNDER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Betty Feller by Philip Zunder and family.

THE SAUL AND EDNA GOLDFARB Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;NAI MITZVAH PROGRAM CHARLOTTE HAMBURG MITZVAH FUND In memory of: Sam Chait by Cybele and Lyon Hamburg.

Solange Ohana by Cybele and Lyon Hamburg.

LIEFF FAMILY Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;NAI MITZVAH FUND In memory of: John Carr by Francie Greenspoon and Norman Lieff.

Contributions may be made online at www.OJCF.ca or by contacting Carolene Preap at 613798-4696 extension 232, Monday to Friday. We have voice mail. Our e-mail address is donation@ojcf.ca.

Attractive cards are sent to convey the appropriate sentiments. All donations are acknowledged with an official receipt for income tax purposes.

We accept Visa, MasterCard and Amex.

In Appreciation My sincere thanks to everyone who so generously donated to various foundations and charitable organizations on my behalf during my recent illness, and to those who so warmly supported me by phoning and writing me notes. It is very much appreciated.

Rickie Saslove

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WHAT’S GOING ON May 10 to 23, 2010 WEEKLY EVENTS SUNDAYS Mazeltots, sponsored by Westboro Jewish Montessori School, for ages up to 4 years, 192 Switzer Avenue, 10:00 am.

Info: 613-729-7712.

CANDLELIGHTING BEFORE May 14 ✡ 8:06 pm EREV SHAVUOT May 18 ✡ 8:11 pm 1st DAY OF SHAVUOT May 19 ✡ AFTER 9:23 pm May 21 ✡ 8:14 pm May 28 ✡ 8:22 pm

MONDAYS & THURSDAYS Motorin’ Munchkins, sponsored by SJCC Ganon Pre-School, gym drop-in for children aged 1-5 years with parent or caregiver accompaniment, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 280.

TUESDAYS Israeli Folkdancing, learn dances, have fun, no experience or partner necessary, Hillel Academy, 31 Nadolny Sachs Private, 7:00 pm. Info: 613-722-9323.

WEDNESDAYS Coffee Club for parents of children up to 3 years, spon-

sored by SJCC Ganon PreSchool. Children play, parents enjoy coffee and conversation, 9:00 to 11:30 am. Info: 613798-9818, ext. 280.

Chill and Grill BBQ, sponsored by Chabad Student Network, for students and young adults, 29 Gilmour Street, 6:00 pm. Info: 613-601-7701.

FRIDAYS Shabbat Shalom with SJCC Ganon Pre-School, for children up to 5 years with parent or caregiver accompaniment, 9:30 am. Info: 613-7989818, ext. 280.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 Jewish Federation of Ottawa Members Meeting for affiliated agencies. Public is welcome to attend. 7:00 pm.

Info: 613-798-4696, ext. 236.

Shalom Ireland, documentary, chronicles the history of Irish Jewry and celebrates

For more community listings, visit ottawa.planitjewish.com

the blending of Irish and Jewish traditions. Post film discussion with Anne Vallely, associate professor of religious studies, uOttawa, 7:30 pm. Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 254.

THURSDAY, MAY 13 Yiddish-speaking group for seniors, sponsored by Jewish Family Services, 2255 Carling Avenue, 10:00 am.

Info: 613-722-2225, ext. 325.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, presented by Tamir to commemorate its 30th anniversary, Centrepointe Theatre, 7:00 pm.

Info: 613-725-3519.

Agudath Israel Congregation Annual General Meeting, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, 7:00 pm. Info: 613-728-3501.

SUNDAY, MAY 23 Shalom Ottawa, our community TV show on Rogers 22, 12:00 pm.

COMING SOON TUESDAY, MAY 25 Malca Pass Book Discussion Group, sponsored by Agudath Israel Congregation: Friendly Fire,

by A.B. Yehoshua, reviewed by Deborah Saginur, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, 7:30 pm.

Info: 613-829-2455.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 Jewish Federation of Ottawa Annual General Meeting.

All community members welcome, 7:00 pm.

Info: 613-798-4696, ext. 236.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6 SJCC Walkathon: run, walk, or bike the 9 km route, or do the family-friendly 2 km route; free lunch.

Route starts at SJCC, 9:00 am.

Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 225.

Hadassah-WIZO Annual Tea in honour of Helen Saipe, sponsored by the Amit, Mollie Betcherman and Ina McCarthy Chapters, 3 Southern Hills Court, 2:00 pm.

Info: 613-422-6766.

Unless otherwise noted, activities take place at The Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private.

This information is taken from the community calendar maintained by the Jewish Ottawa InfoCentre. Organizations which would like their events to be listed, no matter where they are to be held, should send the information to InfoCentre coordinator Benita Siemiatycki via e-mail at bsiemiatycki@jewishottawa.com or fax at 613-798-4695. She can also be reached by telephone at 613-798-4644. Accurate details must be provided and all events must be open to the Jewish public.

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Learn more by visiting the Romspen website. Call for an information package.

Condolences Condolences are extended to the families of: Rita Chernick Rita Cole Israel (Al) Hoffman, Toronto (brother of Eli Hoffman) Barbara Gutman Ruth Levine, Montreal (mother of Sandra Kaplan) Selma Tarantour

May their memory be a blessing always.

The CONDOLENCE COLUMN is offered a s a public service to the community.

There is no charge.

For a listing in this column, please call Carolene Preap, 613-798-4696, ext. 232.

Voice mail is available.

162 Cumberland Street, Suite 300 Toronto, Ontario M5R 3N5

www.romspen.com

BULLETIN DEADLINES MAY 26 FOR JUNE 14

JUNE 30 FOR JULY 19 JULY 28 FOR AUGUST 16 AUGST 11 FOR SEPTEMBER 6* SEPTEMBER 1 FOR SEPTEMBER 27 SEPTEMBER 22 FOR OCTOBER 11 OCTOBER 6 FOR OCTOBER 25 * Community-wide Issue (all dates subject to change)