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Social justice forum educates voters on controversial voter ID law BY LEE CHOTTINER Executive Editor
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Ron Samuels (left) and Paul Silver, musicians with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, perform spiritual music Thursday, July 19, at a concert at Beth El Congregation of the South Hills as the moderator, Helen Faye Rosenblum, looks on.
PSO musicians touch souls with sounds at Beth El BY ANDREW GOLDSTEIN Staff Writer
People swayed in their seats at Beth El Congregation of the South Hills. Some tapped their feet; others sat mesmerized by the music that touched their Jewish souls. No, this wasn’t a Shabbat service; it was a concert. The near-capacity crowd came Thursday, July 19, to listen to “Music of the Spirit,” a free concert at the synagogue social hall put on in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Paul Silver, a violist, who also played keyboard during the concert, and Ron
Samuels, a clarinetist, both from the PSO, performed instrumentals based on Jewish stories. “Music of the Spirit” began in 2004 when the PSO became the first American orchestra to play in the Vatican for a pope. The concert celebrated the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s papacy and his commitment to interfaith understanding. From that beginning, a partnership developed between the PSO and religious communities in Pittsburgh, where they continue to hold concerts to celebrate the spiritual and universal message of music. “I think if you talk even in a universal
sense, music is a language that everybody can understand at some level without any real schooling or knowledge,” Silver said. “There’s an innate understanding it can communicate at the most simple and deepest levels of consciousness and even subconsciousness so that the music always seems to speak to the spirit.” The duo played selections based on “Eli, The Fanatic,” by Philip Roth, from the book, “The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection”; and “The Little Shoemakers,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, from Singer’s book “Gimpel the Please see PSO, page 19.
Joyce Block has voted in every election since 1944. But Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law could end her streak. Under the law, the 89-year-old Bucks County resident, like all Pennsylvania voters, must show an acceptable photo ID at the polls to vote in the November election. Having never driven, Block asked for a nondriver photo ID from PennDOT, but agency officials wouldn’t issue one because her maiden name on her birth certificate and social security card didn’t match her married name on her voter registration. The only proof of marriage she could present? Her ketuba. It wasn’t enough. “The Department of Motor Vehicles clerks could not understand the ketuba and refused to accept it as proof of a name change,” said Arlene Levy, a past co-president of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania. Block, who eventually got a temporary voter ID with help from her state senator, is one of an estimated 750,000 eligible Pennsylvania voters who could be disenfranchised this fall because of the new law, according to the Department of State. So much so that the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced this week it is investigating the law to determine if it discriminates against minorities. Levy recounted Block’s story, and that of several other at-risk voters, Monday during a public forum at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill. She joined a panel, which included State Please see Voters, page 19.
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Jewish community plays role in Community House project BY TOBY TABACHNICK Staff Writer
The East End Cooperative Ministry — which partners with local congregations of diverse faiths, including Beth Shalom, Dor Hadash, Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha, Temple Sinai and Rodef Shalom — has begun construction of a new 56,000 square feet facility that will provide a single space for its myriad of services. The new facility, called Community House, will be located at the edge of the East Liberty business district at the corner of Penn Circle North and Penn Circle East. It will house a homeless shelter, respite care center, commercial kitchen, dining room, food pantry, a nondenominational chapel, classrooms, computer rooms, counseling space, and various meeting and administrative rooms. Currently, these services are housed in several different locations. The EECM was founded in 1970, when an acute need for support services
began to arise for residents of East Liberty, according to Myrna Zelenitz, executive director of EECM. Area congregations formed a cooperative to provide aid because “they could not do it alone,” she said. “It began with a breakfast feeding program at Peabody High School, and it added programs as the needs existed,” Zelenitz said. With the establishment of Community House, EECM will have space to develop additional programming to further meet the growing needs of the community, according to Zelenitz. The larger space will offer a venue for community events, serve 15 percent more children and provide double the current tutoring classes, and be equipped to serve 25,000 more meals each year through programs such as Meals on Wheels and Soup Kitchen. “A significant number of volunteers come from the Jewish community,” Zelenitz noted, adding that area Jewish congregations also provide monetary donations, as well as donations of needed goods.
“Rodef Shalom has been very supportive of EECM in quiet ways for many years,” said David Kaplan, a Rodef Shalom member who also serves on the Council of Congregations, an advisory board to the EECM. “Our brotherhood, once a week, picks up just out of date bread from the Giant Eagle, and delivers it to EECM’s soup kitchen. It’s a very small thing, but we do it consistently. Also, Rodef Shalom provides 100 pounds of ground meat to EECM on a weekly basis. There has been a very supportive relationship between our congregation and EECM for many years. “EECM seems to be a very quiet organization that’s providing immediate care for people that desperately need it in the East End,” he added. Likewise, members of Temple Sinai have been working with EECM for years in providing aid to the underserved.
According to Rabbi Ronald B.B. Symons, director of the Tikkun Olam Center for Jewish Social Justice at Temple Sinai, the congregation supports EECM with annual financial appeals, coat drives, and baby showers to collect items for children and infants in need. “I think it’s fabulous,” Symons said of the Community House project. “They do God’s work, and we know God’s work is done across the religious spectrum.” The opening of Community House is scheduled for the fall of 2013. EECM will pursue a LEED Platinum certification for the facility, making a commitment to green technology.
Corrections
••• The link to purchase tickets to the annual Jewish Community Day at Kennywood Park Sunday, Aug. 19, is http://www.kennywood.com/site/tickets.html?keyword=Daily%20Tickets#. An incorrect address was listed in the July 19 Metro Briefs.
The owner of Ben’s restaurant in Boca Ratan, Fla., is Ronnie Dragoon. His name was printed incorrectly in the July 18 story “Conservative heksher could expand kosher market, rabbis say.” The Chronicle regrets the error.
(Toby Tabachnick can be reached at tobyt@thejewishchronicle.net.)
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METRO Briefly Lynn Maggid Lazar of Pittsburgh was part of a group of Reform Jewish leaders invited to a recent private White House briefing. White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew conducted the briefing, which took place Thursday, July 19. Lazar is president of Women of Reform Judaism and a member of Temple Sinai in Squirrel Hill. Among the other dignitaries in the group were Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism; Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; and Rabbi David Ellenson, president of the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion. More than 90,000 men and women, including several from Pittsburgh, will gather together at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 1, to celebrate the end of seven and a half years of learning to the completion of the Talmud. The culmination of the study of the 2,711 pages of the entire Talmud by the “Daf Yomi” or “Page a Day” study program will be celebrated with the Siyum HaShas, the 12th Siyum HaShas (Talmud Completion Celebration) of Daf Yomi, marks the completion by tens of thousands of Jews worldwide. Those who have engaged in the learning run the gamut from doctors and lawyers to
accountants and plumbers, and span several generations. In addition to the 90,000 celebrating at MetLife Stadium, the event will be broadcast live around the world in 80 cities and 14 countries. A Polish rabbinical leader, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, introduced the Daf Yomi method of Talmud study in 1923 at the First International Congress of Agudath Israel in Vienna. The program brought uniformity to the study of Talmud and enhanced the sense of unity among Jews worldwide. In virtually every city in the world, Daf Yomi students study the exact same page of Talmud each day. Amy and Lou Weiss hosted speakers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev at a reception in their Squirrel Hill home, Thursday, July 19. American Associates, Ben-Gurion University sponsored the program. Professor Fred Lazin, emeritus professor of government and politics at BGU, spoke on “Israel: Between the Iranian Threat and the Arab Spring,” an update on the current state of Middle East politics as they relate to Israel. A BGU post-doctoral student, Yulia Sapir, whose research on using algaebased materials to repair tissue damaged by heart attacks, also attended. BGU is a leading research institution in the areas of alternative energy research, water usage and management, desert studies, homeland security and Please see Briefly, page 5.
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Health center moves to newer, expanded space BY TOBY TABACHNICK Staff Writer
The Squirrel Hill Health Center has dramatically increased its capacity to serve its medical and dental patients with new, expanded offices located at 4516 Browns Hill Road. The new space — which has been open to patients since February, and had its grand opening this past May — boasts nine examination and procedural rooms, two behavioral health spaces, four dental exam rooms, and plenty of administrative and office space. The larger space has allowed the center to serve more patients. “We have already seen a huge up-tick in patient visits,” said Susan Friedberg Kalson, CEO of the SHHC. “We have had a 43 percent increase in patient visits in the first six months of the year.” Founded in 2006, the SHHC operated from its former location at the Charles M. Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. In 2010, its dental offices moved to Browns Hill Road, and a $525,000 grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation in 2011 enabled the health center to renovate the vacant space adjacent to the center’s dental office into a new, expanded medical office. The space is now a one-stop shop for dental, medical and behavioral health needs for community members, regardless of income.
The Squirrel Hill Health Center recently relocated to Browns Hill Road.
The offices are modern and well-designed, with brightly painted walls and art to welcome a vast array of patients. “We provide care to everybody, whether or not they have insurance, as well as people on Medicare and Medicaid,” said Kalson. “We have a sliding
scale for the uninsured. Anyone who is uninsured with a household income below 200 percent of the federal poverty level pays a discount. If their income is 100 percent of the poverty level, they pay $15 for a medical visit, and $25 for dental.” The SHHC also works with those who cannot afford the minimum fees. “We’re not about shutting the doors,” Kalson said. “We’re about opening them as wide as we can.” The Jewish Healthcare Foundation took the reins in establishing the center six years ago, and in helping it meet the qualifications required to receive federal funding. “The Jewish Healthcare Foundation knew there was an unmet need in this part of town, in the Jewish population and beyond, and in the populations once served by Montefiore Hospital,” Kalson said. “We opened in June 2006, and it took us awhile to get up and going. It has unfolded in ways nobody could have
foreseen.” For example, the diversity of patients coming to the center is vast, and more than 40 languages can be heard spoken there. The multilingual staff includes speakers of Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew and Nepali, the language of the many Bhutanese refugees that the center serves. Dr. Deborah Gilboa, a physician on staff (and a blogger for the Chronicle), is fluent in American Sign Language. The SHHC not only provides health care needs to its patients, but also works with other agencies to help them obtain additional services for which they may qualify, such as WIC (a federally-funded program that provides supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income women, infants and children), and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The health center also refers patients to the Squirrel Hill Food Pantry. “We work with a lot of other social service agencies, both within and outside of the Jewish community,” Kalson said. Although the SHHC was created by the Jewish community, it is a secular agency, receiving an annual federal grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration. SHHC is also funded by state grants, and several private organizations, including the Fine Foundation, Highmark Foundation, JHF and the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. The health center partners with other Jewish agencies, notably Jewish Family & Children’s Service, helping to care for many immigrant families the JF&CS works to settle in the area. Medical services at the center range from pre-natal to geriatric, and the focus, Kalson said, is on quality. “Everybody gets the same quality of care in a nice setting,” Kalson said. “We are just trying to get better and better, and take care of more and more people.” (Toby Tabachnick can be reached at tobyt@thejewishchronicle.net.)
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METRO First Kander Award gives career boost to Hollywood-bound filmmaker BY TOBY TABACHNICK Staff Writer
The inaugural winner of Steeltown Film Factory’s Ellen Weiss Kander Award, Carnegie Mellon University graduate Yulin Kuang, wrapped filming her award-winning script, “The Perils of Growing Up Flat-Chested,” in Pittsburgh last week. Born in China and raised in Kansas, the 22-year-old Kuang won $15,000 for her coming-of-age tale, which she said was inspired by “a lifetime of growing up flat-chested myself.” The Steeltown Film Factory is a yearlong filmmaking competition, sponsored by the Steeltown Entertainment Project, and supported by a series of public workshops, panel discussions and staged readings, designed to engage aspiring filmmakers to create projects with Pittsburgh-inspired content.
Briefly Continued from page 3. community medicine. Contact AABGU Associate Director Andrew Demchick at 215-884-4510 or ademchick@aabgu.org for more information. The New Light Men’s Club is planning a day trip to the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Cleveland, Sunday, Aug. 26. The bus leaves New Light in the morning, stopping at the Cleveland Jewish Community Center to have lunch at a kosher Subway. A guided tour of the Maltz Museum will follow. A bus tour of Jewish Cleveland and dinner at one of two kosher restaurants — Sababa (meat and Sushi) or Issi’s Pizza (dairy) — will conclude the visit. Call Sid Shapiro at 412-421-4635 for reservations. The Wightman School invites all former students to a reunion Saturday, Aug. 4, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the building on Solway Street. Light refreshments will be served. Built in 1896 and designed for another era, the building has been revamped to house the Carriage House Children’s Center on two floors as well as many community organizations on its upper levels. Tours will be available to see how the building has been updated to serve the needs of a changing population. There is a minimum donation. Those planning to attend should email wscb@carriagehouse.org and bring or send any memorabilia, pictures or momentos you may have. To reach as many alumni and teachers as possible, send classmate information to Wightman School Community Building, 5604 Solway St., Pittsburgh, PA 15217 and check the Wightman Reunion page on Facebook for more details. Contact Honey Adelsheim at 412-3434333 or hadel@verizon.net for more
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Kuang’s script was selected from over 180 entries. “The film is charming, funny and poignant,” said Carl Kurlander, executive producer of the Steeltown Entertainment Project. “Out of 182 scripts, Yulin’s stood out. She said the story was about her 22-year-old self talking to her 16-year-old self, and saying, ‘It’s going to be OK.’ ” The Ellen Weiss Kander Award honors Kander — Steeltown Entertainment Project’s co-founder and founding executive director who died last month at the age of 51. She, along with Kurlander and writer/producer Maxine Lapiduss, cofounded the nonprofit Steeltown Enter-
tainment Project in 2003 with the mission of building a vibrant and sustainable entertainment industry in southwestern Pennsylvania. They wanted Pittsburgh to be a viable place for those with talent to live and work, and the filmmaking competition was conceived as a way for Pittsburgh expatriates to mentor a new generation of entertainment professionals in their hometown. “Ellen had that tenacity, that not giving up,” Kurlander said. “She hated that people were bemoaning that their kids were leaving Pittsburgh and going to other places.” Kuang, however, will soon be moving
to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television writing. She said the award helped her to realize her long-time dream of being a filmmaker. “For the last 10 years, I knew I wanted to be a story-teller of some kind,” she said. “The prize money was incredible, and Ellen Weiss Kander is an incredible inspiration.” “The Perils of Growing Up FlatChested” premieres this fall at the Three Rivers Film Festival. (Toby Tabachnick can be reached at tobyt@thejewishchronicle.net.)
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A diminished entity t seems as though the International Olympic Committee is willing to hold a moment of silence for the 11 Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Massacre everywhere except where it truly matters — the Opening Ceremonies of the London Games. This week, IOC President Jacques Rogge held a moment of silence for the Israelis at a small ceremony in the Olympic Village attended by about 100 people. On Aug. 6, he will honor them again at a private reception in London. But on the world stage, which is exactly where this gruesome act unfolded 40 years ago, Rogge refuses to remember the Israelis, saying that the Opening Ceremonies is not the appropriate place to do so. Is he kidding? The chorus of calls for a moment of silence at the Opening Ceremonies is growing. President Obama and other Western leaders have signed on though Obama’s spokesman only mentioned “a minute of silence at the Olympics to honor the Israeli athletes killed in Munich”; there was no mention of the Opening
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Ceremonies. Globally, more than 100,000 plus petitioners have joined families of the 11 victims in calling on the IOC to do the right thing. And in case anyone needed a reminder as to why such gestures are necessary, we got one last week from Bulgaria, where a bus bomber murdered six people — five Israelis and their tour guide — and injured 34 others — all Israelis — in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas. Yet the IOC refuses to remember the Israelis in the one venue that matters, preferring instead to make the gesture in small out-of-the-way settings — almost as if it’s ashamed to be seen remembering dead Israelis. The reason is obvious: politics. Among the 205 countries sending teams to this year’s games are many that are hostile to the Jewish state. Some see the perpetrators of the Munich Massacre as heroes rather than villains. Would the athletes from those countries remain in Olympic Stadium were the moment of silence held? Would they
even participate in the Opening Ceremonies? We rather doubt it. But this much we know: By not allowing a moment of silence on the anniversary of the worst tragedy to befall the modern Olympics — in its most public arena — apparently for political reasons, the IOC is politicizing the Games far more than if it did permit the gesture. It is acknowledging that political pressure from the dark side works and that perhaps Israelis killed in a peaceful gathering of nations don’t rate such remembrance. Most of all, it makes a statement far more telling about the IOC: It is a committee of cowards. No one is asking the IOC to ban nations from the Games. No one is calling on Rogge to make a political statement. But many people are asking him to show solidarity with the victims of violence — in this case, violence that occurred in his own house. Such courage Rogge and the IOC apparently lack, and for that they are a diminished entity.
What will Romney say on his trip abroad? joel rubin
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is in the midst of his first international jaunt as the presumptive Republican nominee for president. This is a moment for him to show the world and the American people that he is a serious alternative to President Obama, a leader who understands the complexities of the world, the threats we face and the seriousness of the times. It is a golden opportunity for Romney to demonstrate his skills in Britain, Israel and Poland. But there is also risk for Romney in this trip, as it will be tempting for him to break with the bipartisan American tradition of not criticizing a sitting American president when abroad. Instead, Romney, much like Obama had during his 2008 trip abroad, needs a message that clearly articulates what he stands for on foreign policy. Back in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama traveled to Britain, Germany, France, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan and Israel to share his vision of a new American foreign policy. He vowed to reset American relations with Europe and the Arab world, to maintain vigorous support for Israeli security, to withdraw American forces from Iraq, and to aggressively combat terrorism. At the time, it was a needed message. Recall that just four years ago, America’s global reputation was in tatters; we
didn’t know where Osama bin-Laden was; the Iranian nuclear program was under fewer restraints; and we were mired in a war in Iraq that seemed irretrievably endless. Now, four years later, the United States can look abroad with confidence. Osama bin-Laden is gone and his terrorist network is on the run. Relations with Europe have been mended. We are out of Iraq and on our way out of Afghanistan, with security arrangements embedded in these relationships. Nuclear weapons stockpiles are decreasing. Iran’s nuclear program is under intense international pressure and scrutiny while diplomacy to resolve the crisis is under way. Israel is the beneficiary of the highest levels of American security assistance ever provided. America’s relations with the world have been revitalized. As a result, the American people judge these actions as effective, with 64 percent of Americans, in an Associated Press poll from this spring, approving of Obama’s handling of terrorism — the core national security issue of our time. This trip therefore provides significant risks for Romney. He won’t match the hero’s welcome that Obama received in Berlin, when Obama spoke in front of hundreds of thousands of Germans. And he is unlikely to convince Americans in one trip abroad that he can outperform Obama on foreign policy, as evidenced by a 53 to 36 percent advantage that Obama holds over Romney on international affairs, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll. So how will Romney distinguish himself? In Britain, will he denounce Obama’s attempts to withdraw all of our combat troops from Afghanistan by 2014? If so, that would be criticizing a position that
the United States shares with Britain, a country whose leader, Prime Minister David Cameron, recently called our bilateral relations “rock-solid.” Would Romney call for the United States to break with Britain — and the majority of Americans — to keep our troops in Afghanistan indefinitely? In Israel, will he denounce Obama’s assessment that a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians is essential to preserving Israel’s democracy and Jewish character? If he does, he’ll be challenging a position shared by the majority of Israelis and American Jews, including multiple past Israeli prime ministers and security leaders. Or, would he argue that Israel is less secure with Obama at the helm, despite record levels of security assistance provided by the U.S. to Israel — nearly $10 billion over the past three years — and an unprecedented level of pressure on Iran to come clean about its nuclear program? As Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak reminds us, “I don’t think that anyone can raise any question mark about the devotion of this president to the security of Israel.” In Poland, will he reiterate his view that Russia is our country’s “number one geopolitical foe,” despite Polish pleas for positive relations between Russia and the United States? Will he denounce the 2010 New START treaty that reduced both American and Russian nuclear arsenals — a treaty that he called President Obama’s “worst foreign policy mistake?” When he meets with Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, will he tell Sikorski that he was wrong for publicly supporting the treaty? While Americans might not be paying as much attention to foreign affairs this Please see Rubin, next page.
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Letter not relevant I am puzzled by your publication in the July 12 Jewish Chronicle of another right-wing rant by Oren M. Spiegler (“Be careful what you wish for”). True, he is very clever in his careful selection of “facts,” which is a hallmark of his many letters. But, what exactly is the relevance of this letter to the Pittsburgh Jewish community? How does he know that no one in Congress read or understood the ACA? Did he read it and not understand it and thus conclude that if he couldn’t, no one else can? And why did you not edit out his closing, sarcastic reference to “my friends?” Safely tucked away in cozy, affluent Upper St. Clair, far from the joys and trials of urban Jewish living, he deigns to address his presumed inferiors in condescending fashion, carefully avoiding confrontation with those of a different point of view. This isn’t the first time I have wondered why you publish so many of his nonrelevant-to-the-Jewish-communityletters, but this one seemed particularly unnecessary and unenlightening. Hopefully, you’ll be more selective next time he sends you something.
Appalled by language As a United Methodist who worked very hard on the Divestment Resolution for our General Conference, I am appalled by the recent editorial in The Jewish Chronicle (“Watershed moment,” July 19). Such language continues to perpetuate hatred among Christians and Jews. How sad we cannot all be working toward peace and basic human rights for all God’s people. With my hope that soon there will be peace for all of God’s people, Karen Peterson (The author co-chairs the United Methodist Task Force on Peace with Justice in Palestine/Israel of Upper New York Conference.)
No war declared In her July 5 column, “Iran has declared war; why haven’t we?” Abby W. Schachter stated, “Iran has declared war against the United States. ...” In case any of your other readers were foolish enough to take this as a statement of fact, I’d like to put their concerns to rest. A call to the U. S. Department of State revealed that their personnel are of the belief that there has been no declaration of war by Iran against the United States. Michael S. Lando Oakland
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what it takes to keep Americans safe. The sitting president has passed this test. Now it’s time to see whether his election opponent is up to the challenge.
election cycle as they did during the 2008 election, it still matters, as evidenced by Romney’s trip abroad. A candidate’s aptitude on foreign policy shows the character of the candidate. It also creates a baseline against which the American people can judge whether the next occupant of the Oval Office has
(Joel Rubin, director of policy and government affairs at Ploughshares Fund in Washington, D.C., and a Pittsburgh native, can be reached at joelr@thejewishchronicle.net. His views are his own and not necessarily those of Ploughshares Fund.)
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OPINION Be grateful Presbyterians voted before the settlements were ‘legalized’ Guest Columnist RABBI ERIC YOFFIE The Presbyterian Church (USA) recently rejected a resolution calling for divestment from Israel. This was a victory for supporters of Israel — sort of. The resolution was defeated by a single vote, and another resolution endorsing a boycott of West Bank products was adopted. Divestment advocates have vowed to continue their struggle, and they may win next time around. The Presbyterian Church first raised the divestment from Israel issue in a 2004 resolution. The Jewish community, unanimously opposed to divestment and boycotts, responded to this resolution with anger, and a meeting of Jewish and Presbyterian leaders at Reform movement headquarters quickly became a shouting match. But in an effort to build understanding, we agreed to create a framework for dialogue, and over the next three years, heads of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements met regularly with their Presbyterian counterparts, both in New York and at Presbyterian headquarters in Louisville. These were fascinating, eye-opening meetings, generally friendly in tone even when our differences were sharp. We shared an interest in religious life in America, but Israel was always at the heart of the agenda. We learned as Jews that the Presbyterians were not Israel-haters or anti-Semites. On the other hand, neither could we assume an instinctive sympathy for Israel — or, in a few cases, any sympathy at all. Their concern for Palestinian suffering was deeply felt and frequently expressed. On the Jewish side, we saw it as our task to create a greater understanding of the Zionist narrative and of the vulnerabilities and fears of Israel’s citizens. The Presbyterians wanted to do the same for the Palestinians. But the framework for our discussions was clear: The Jews supported a two-state solution that would divide the land and provide dignity and security for both peoples, and the Presbyterians — in most instances, it seemed to me — supported this as well. The most difficult conversations were with those most moderate in their views. They wanted to know why, if Israel were sincerely interested in a peaceful resolution to the conflict, settlement building continued in all parts of the West Bank. These were knowledgeable people; they had facts and figures and they knew what was happening on the ground. They pushed us hard to explain how expanding settlement, even beyond the major settlement blocs, was consistent with a desire for peace. We noted that there were many reasons to doubt the Palestinian
commitment to peace; if they wanted us to take a hard look at the side with which we sympathized, we urged them to do the same. Still, while we made Israel’s case emphatically, their questions on settlement were tough to handle, then and now. But not everyone in the Presbyterian world was moderate in outlook. And after about three years, our conversations petered out, in some measure because statements on matters of theology and politics being prepared elsewhere in the Church were far less reasonable and measured than what we were hearing; we had a sense that one-sided, pro-Palestinian voices were setting the tone in other forums and that our conversations were carrying little weight. As a result, I thought it likely that in the long term, prospects for avoiding a Presbyterian divestment resolution were bleak. I was reminded of this history by events of the past week. The failure yet again of the Presbyterian General Assembly to pass a divestment resolution is indicative of the considerable grassroots support for Israel in the church, support that the leadership has often underestimated; it is a tribute as well to the careful, focused, and professional work in the Jewish community, and especially the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, to mobilize sympathy among Presbyterians for Israel’s cause. The victory, as noted, was a partial one, but a victory nonetheless. At the same time, I was struck by the irony that the Levy Committee, established by the prime minister, issued its report only three days after the Presbyterian vote. This report provides a basis for legalizing all currently illegal West Bank settlements and outposts, and it provides as well a legal justification for expanding settlement activity in the future. I thought back to my conversations with the most moderate, responsible voices in the Presbyterian leadership, and remembered their doubts and concerns about Israel’s settlement policy. Of this I am sure: If the report had been issued a week prior, the Presbyterian divestment resolution would have passed. Israel should, of course, make decisions based on its interests, and not on the policy preferences of American Presbyterians. But in this case, the two categories happen to coincide. A stunning reversal of previous Israeli government positions on settlement and a challenge to all mainstream readings of international law, the Levy Report, if adopted, would be incomprehensible not only to Presbyterians but to the great majority of Americans. Let’s be thankful that it came out when it did and not before, and let’s hope that the prime minister now files it away — and forgets it.
(Rabbi Eric Yoffie is the immediate past president of the Union for Reform Judaism.)
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OPINION True face of Iranian regime shows in state-sponsored terrorism Guest Columnist JONATHAN S. TOBIN For several years, United States policy toward Iran has been focused on using diplomacy to persuade Iran to give up its ambition of achieving nuclear weapons. Starting with the Bush administration, American diplomats and those of its Western allies have tried various strategies, including outsourcing the problem to be handled by France and Germany, direct “engagement” with Tehran, and now the multilateral negotiations known as the P5+1 talks. All have utterly failed. Iran’s intransigence is deeply troubling to the foreign policy realists who deprecate talk of the need to at least threaten the use of force to influence the outcome of the negotiations. Part of the explanation lies in the feckless manner with which the West, and in particular the Obama administration, has pursued the issue. Tehran does not believe the president is earnest when he says he will prevent them from going nuclear, and it is difficult to fault them for that conclusion. The “crippling sanctions” im-
posed on them have not been fully enforced, leaving them with enough economic muscle to muddle through. The Iranians believe, not without reason, that the administration’s only real interest right now is to prolong the negotiations until after the November elections and thereby prevent Israel from attacking on its own. But there is another more fundamental fact that has foiled diplomacy and that will continue to ensure that nothing short of force will convince the Iranians to desist. The real problem is not so much President Obama’s policies — foolish though they might be — but the essential nature of the Iranian regime. The world got a good look at the true face of Iran not in the P5+1 negotiations but on the bloodstained pavement of Burgas, Bulgaria, where a terrorist attack took the lives of five Israeli tourists and a local bus driver. The atrocity, which both Israel and the United States agree is the work of Hezbollah, Iran’s loyal terrorist auxiliary, was dismissed by some, including senior U.S. officials speaking off the record, as a “tit for tat” retaliation for the assassination of Iran-
ian nuclear scientists. But the vicious targeting of Jewish victims is not so much a tactic as an avocation for the Iranians. Foreign policy “realists” continue to insist that if a “compromise” can be crafted that will enable them to keep their nuclear program, the Iranians can be trusted to keep their word and behave as a rational international actor if they do get a bomb. But the truth is, Iran’s fundamentalist leaders are deeply immersed in an anti-Semitic worldview in which hatred of Jews is integral to their ongoing war on the West. Iran’s statesponsored terrorism did not begin in the wake of alleged Western and Israeli assassinations of scientists or cyber attacks on their infrastructure. It dates back to the very beginnings of the Islamist regime. Iranian and Hezbollah terrorists have struck at Jews around the world, including the bombing of a Jewish community building in Buenos Aires, Argentina 18 years ago last week. The regime’s bizarre obsession with Jewish power extends to all sorts of topics. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial is well known. But the country’s vice president opened a United Nations
Ahmadinejad gloated about the Burgas attack.
conference on drug trafficking last month by claiming that Jews ran the international trade in opiates and even asserted that they were instructed to do so by the Talmud. These are not stray facts that are sidelights to the main debate about Iran’s quest for power but are essential to understanding the nature of the regime. Once you understand that their leaders are besotted with conspiracy theories about Jews and believe that killing them is a duty, the “realist” arguments about Iran’s rationality are quickly exposed as not only absurd but irrelevant to the decisions that must be made about halting their nuclear nightmare. The bloodshed in Burgas, about which Ahmadinejad openly bragged, cries out for more than mere vengeance upon the perpetrators and their sponsors. It should compel us to think more clearly about the murderers and draw the proper conclusions about the futility of sending our diplomats on a fool’s errand of more nuclear talks. (JNS Columnist Jonathan S. Tobin is senior online editor of COMMENTARY magazine and chief political blogger at commentarymagazine.com. He can be reached at jtobin@commentarymagazine.com. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/TobinCommentary.)
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Style Keeping kosher as we age
Traditional meals aren’t the healthiest choices for seniors BY LISË STERN JNS
We all have our traditional kosher favorites — and for many this means Ashkenazic fare, like slow-roasted
brisket, matzo ball soup, lockshen kugel, and perhaps cholent and blintzes. But such kosher classics aren’t the best choices for us as we get older. “Age 50 appears to be the time when some of our nutritional needs change,”
said Toby Smithson, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and founder of DiabetesEveryDay.com. “Our metabolisms begin to slow down, so we need fewer calories — yet at the same time, we still need food that is high in nutrients. The challenge, then, is to get all the necessary nutrients without overeating. If you are physically active, great — though most people are not scaling the same number of mountains at 60 or 70 that they were at 30. There are also specific vitamins and minerals we need more after we hit Smithson 50, notably says, potassium, calcium, and vitamins B12 and D. We also but fiber, need slightly less than when we’re younger. Sodium is a concern in the opposite direction — too much can contribute to high blood pressure, and we need to significantly reduce consumption as we get older, to about 3/4 teaspoon per day (1500 milligrams) — that includes both what we add to our plate and what occurs in foods naturally. Unless specifically made for seniors, prepared kosher foods can be high in sodium. Too much sodium is a concern regarding blood pressure, and potassium helps blunt sodium’s effect, Smithson said. Calcium, coupled with vitamin D, helps with bone strength, and vitamin B12 protects against anemia. Fiber serves multiple purposes — it helps with digestion and heart health, and can help prevent certain kinds of cancer. Good sources include fruits and vegetables, as well as whole grains like oatmeal and brown rice. For many people age 50 and older, choosing meals and preparing their own food may not be an issue. But as the Jewish population ages, more and more of them are living on their own, with family far away. Jewish organizations in several cities around the country offer
services to this group. Kosher Meals on Wheels is a federally subsidized program that supplies a daily meal to those 60 and older who cannot easily get out of the house. In Skokie, Ill., Ted Starcevich is the program manager of home delivered meals and Kosher to Go for CJE SeniorLife, an organization that serves older adults in a variety of ways. They deliver 300 to 400 kosher meals daily, often by volunteers who visit with their clients when bringing the food, which provides a third of their daily nutritional requirements. The menus, which are all taste tested by Starcevih and his staff, are sent to a state dietitian for approval. “Sometimes the state dietician will come back and will tell us to switch the apple on Tuesday with the orange on Thursday, for nutritional balance,” he said. Neal Drobnis is coordinator of the Kosher Nutrition Program of Jewish Family Service of Rhode Island. The program provides both home delivery and a Senior Café. “The Jewish Federation has been really supportive of this program,” Drobnis says. It offers kosher lunches daily for a $3 donation and provides transportation. Most guests are in their 80s. Café meals are all kosher, as are the delivered meals, and meet federal guidelines in terms of nutrition. “Seniors try to stay away from salt and use salt alternatives,” Drobnis observes. “Everything is low sodium. In general, they stay away from sugar as well. We try to have a balance of proteins, carbohydrates, fruits, and vegetables. For carbs — grains, pasta, bread — we try to use whole grains when we can. It can be very difficult with the budgetary limits to have brown rice or whole wheat pasta.” Zan’s Kosher Delicatessen Restaurant runs a similar program in Lake Grove, N.Y., supplying delivered kosher meals for area townships. The Supper Club 60 Please see Kosher, page 14.
Suggested Kosher Menu for a Day Toby Smithson suggests the following sample kosher menu. Breakfast: oatmeal, a glass of skim or 1 percent milk; 1 cup of berries, and a slice of whole grain toast with tub margarine, almond butter or peanut butter Lunch: tuna fish salad with reduced fat mayonnaise; 1 slice low fat cheese; 2 slices whole grain bread, 1 cup baby bell peppers, 1 peach or nectarine. Snack: 3 graham cracker squares, 6 ounces low fat vanilla yogurt sprinkled with cinnamon and chopped almonds. Dinner: 3 ounces baked skinless chicken breast with rosemary; 1 medium sweet potato; 1 cup green beans; an orange.
Suggested Shabbat Meal Shabbat: chicken soup with whole grain noodles; cholent with more beans than meat; a green leafy salad with bite-size raw vegetables; baked sliced apples with cinnamon and sugar substitute.
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Simchas & Mazel Tovs! Engagements
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Ross/ Lercher: Ilene and Jim Ross of Squirrel Hill announce the engagement of their daughter, Natalie Rebecca, to Joshua Lercher, son of Allan and Renee Lercher of Dix Hills, Long Island. Grandparents are Claire and Kenny Ross of Pittsburgh, the late Dr. Sydney and Hana Freilich, Irene Halegua and the late Isidore and Edith Lercher. Natalie graduated from George Washington University and has her master’s of social work degree from Fordham University. She is a licensed social worker. Josh attended Bucknell University and is a financial analyst and associate equity trader at JP Morgan. Natalie and Josh reside in New York. A summer 2013 wedding is planned.
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Kwicien: Jennifer (Tauberg) and Jason Kwicien of Baltimore are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Madison Lily, June 26. Grandparents are Dr. James and Cindy Tauberg of Pittsburgh and Carol Kwicien and Jack Kwicien of Baltimore. Great-grandparents are Irene Stoehr and the late Harry Stoehr, Madelain Tauberg of Pittsburgh and the late Dr. Herbert Tauberg, and Doris Sanders of New Jersey. Madison Lily is named in loving memory of her maternal great-greatgrandmother, Anna Pearlman. Malvin: Courtney and Reid Malvin of Monroe Township, N.J., are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Riley Whitney, July 12. She is the sister of Emma Joely. Grandparents are Renee and Michael Kaye of Monroe Township, and Denise and Jack Malvin of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of Pittsburgh. Great-grandfather is Leonard Malvin of Squirrel Hill. Riley is named in loving memory of her paternal great-grandmother, Rose Rosenfeld; and her maternal greatgrandfather, William Wasserman. Markovitz: Bryan and Alina Markovitz announce the birth of their son, Brayden Matthew, June 29. Proud grandparents are Randi and Jeff Markovitz of Jefferson Hills and Irina and Yuriy Rosenberg of Scott Township. Brayden is named in loving memory of his great-grandfathers, Boris Milyavskiy and Benjamin Specter.
B’nai Mitzva
Bailey/Herzog: Jeff and Jacki Herzog, Paul and Karen Hutchko, and Paul and Kitty Bailey announce the marriage of their children, Justin Herzog and Megan Bailey, at Rodef Shalom Congregation. Justin graduated from the Virginia Tech University with a degree in mechanical engineering and works as a business to business IT consultant for GSX in Gaithersburg, Va. Meagan works full time for a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., while pursuing a master’s degree in family and family counseling
Jared Kanter, son of Adam and Jodi Kanter, will become a bar mitzva Saturday, July 28, at Temple Sinai. Grandparents are Alan and Paula Kanter of Lake Forest, Calif.; Joyce Karafotias of Norton, Mass.; Ellen Smith of Boca Raton, Fla.; and Steven and Jane Zaslaw of Canton, Mass. Great-grandparents are Shirley Zaslaw of West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Gertrude Smith of Del Ray Beach, Fla.
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Robin Joshowitz with campers in Arad, Israel
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Young children from the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh’s Early Childhood Development Center do chalk drawings, assisted by a Weinberg Terrace resident and a teen volunteer from Jewish Family & Children’s Service Pittsburgh Summer Youth Employment Program. Their activities are part of the Intergenerational Play Project, a new partnership between Weinberg Terrace and the JCC’s ECDC. Children and seniors gather several times a week to do projects in the outdoor courtyard situated between Weinberg Terrace and the JCC’s Robinson Building on Darlington Road.
Local congregants attend choral festival Zev Kraut, a ninth-grade student at Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh, has been named a winner of the 2012 OU Kosher Essay Contest for grades seven through 12, for his essay titled, “What is God Teaching Me with the Laws of Kosher.” The essay was published at jewishpress.com.
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Pittsburgher Robin Joshowitz has been selected to participate in the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future’s Counterpoint Israel Program. The program is a month-long service learning initiative that aims to empower the next generation of Israeli youth via a Jewish values-driven summer camp experience. Now tripled in size with the addition of three new camps, Counterpoint Israel will serve 300 Israeli campers from varied socio-economic backgrounds in five student-run camps through Aug. 5. Now in its seventh year, Counterpoint Israel is staffed by 70 undergraduate students from the United States, Canada and South Africa. A graduate of Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh, Robin is a history major at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. She is the daughter of Linda and James Joshowitz, who are members of Congregation Poale Zedeck. Robin is pictured above with campers in Arad. She is in blue, sitting between two of her female campers.
Artists donate their work
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The 23rd Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival was held July 15 to 19 at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Attending the festival were from left, top row, Mimi Botkin, Arlene Wolk, Lynn Naman, Carol Rosenthal and David Pollock from Temple Sinai; in the bottom row are Connie Schwartz-Bedo, Jan Zimmer and Marsha Myerowitz from Temple David in Monroeville. All participants are volunteer choir members. The festival attracted more than 500 singers and cantors from the United States and Canada.
Lila Hirsch Brody, center, leader of the local art group that donated several paintings to Jewish Residential Services for their new Jason Kramer Hall residence, is speaking with one of the artists, Rina Shuldiner, who donated a painting to Jason Kramer Hall, and Dan Damick.
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STYLE/SPORTS Kosher: Continued from page 10. is offered in the afternoon Mondays through Thursdays, according to Anthony Ruggiero, who owns the business with his brother Pat. The $4 donation offers a choice from a daily menu. For seniors, Ruggiero said, “We make everything with less salt.” The National Osteoporosis Foundation indicates that our vitamin D needs can almost double once we hit 50 — those under a half century need 400 to 800 IU daily, while those over need 800 to 1000 IU. “Vitamin D is needed to help keep bones strong along with calcium,” Smithson said. The primary natural source of vitamin D is sunlight, but how our skin absorbs it can depend on where we live, if we use sunblock, and how much time we spend inside, an issue for shut-ins. If you don’t spend much time in the sun, you may need vitamin D supplements; check with a health care provider for the best balance. Kashrut can be an issue for some vitamin D supplements. Smithson noted that there are two kinds, D2 and D3, and “D3 is derived from ultraviolet irradiation of a substance derived from sheep’s wool.” In general, the most efficient sources for the nutrients we need as we get older
is food, rather than supplements; supplements should do just that — help with what we’re getting from food already. Food has the added advantage of being good for multiple nutrients. Dairy products, for example, contain both calcium and potassium. Other good sources for potassium include beans (think cholent) and fruit, including dried apricots, prunes, and raisins (tzimmes, anyone?). Dates are also a good source, along with pistachios and other nuts. (Nuts can be high in fat, so moderation is key.) Fortunately, it’s easy to fit a healthy diet into a kosher diet — for the most part. Brisket isn’t the leanest cut of meat, but it can be reserved for special occasions “Unfortunately the leanest cuts of beef are not kosher, so we need to have a stronger focus on cutting back on our sources of fats, especially saturated fat,” Smithson said. “Many traditional dishes can be modified,” she advises. “Dishes like lockshen kugel can be made with a heat-resistant sugar substitute and egg whites to make it more heart-healthy and diabetes friendly.” “The best advice is to modify recipes, watch portion size and add more vegetables to your meals,” she added. Good advice for diners moving into their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. And if they make it to their 90s, that may be the time when they no longer have to worry about moderation, and can have a second helping of brisket.
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Junior tennis stars from Israel will put on an exhibition next month in Squirrel Hill.
Junior Israeli tennis stars to play here A special exhibition match featuring young athletes from the Israel Tennis Center teams will be held in Pittsburgh, Monday, Aug. 20, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at a private home in Squirrel Hill. An hors d’oeuvres and dessert reception follows the exhibition. With tennis at the core of each of its initiatives, the ITC leads and supports co-existence programs for Jewish, Arab, Druze and Bedouin children. The programs are intended to nurture tolerance and collaboration and promote a future of peaceful co-existence. Featured at the exhibition will be Nadine Fahoum, a product of the ITC coexistence program. Fahoum began playing tennis at age 9 at the ITC Haifa and was the first Arab Israeli athlete to represent Israel in the Youth Olympic
Games in 2006. She is a 2012 graduate of Duke University, where she played No. 1 singles and doubles on a full athletic scholarship. Fahoum recently joined the Israel Tennis Centers Foundation as a development associate. Funds raised during the exhibition will support the Pittsburgh KarmielMisgav Dream Bus to will allow more children to participate in the co-existence programs at the ITC Galilee-Sajur. These programs promote friendship and social awareness among Jewish, Druze and Arab Israeli children. For more information or to attend the exhibition, contact the co-chairs of the exhibition, Tom Bernstein at 412-780-2802 or tom@woodlandfamilypartners.com or Steve Halpern at 412-298-4368 or steve@woodlandfamilypartners.com.
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MUSIC Averbach, Duke — composers with local ties — release CDs BY LEE CHOTTINER Executive Editor
Two musicians with Pittsburgh connections are out with CDs this year that are worth a listen. Shoshana Averbach, a Pittsburgh area native, has released “The Time is Coming,” a 14-track CD of Jewish spirituality. And Sarah Dukes, who went to school in Pittsburgh, is out with an all-instrumental piano CD, “Finding Forever,” the music of which is likewise spiritually themed. Averbach draws from her own family memories as inspiration for her song “Souls in Heaven,” in which she lyrically recounts her grandparents’ lives — their trek to America, the struggles they en-
countered here — and how she hopes they’re proud of her in the World to Come: “Up in heaven They’re lookin’ down Up in heaven I hope they’re proud They need my prayers I need their love. I am their future They were my past Show me a sign That you’re doin’ fine Up in heaven, heaven above.” Her style turns more pensive and reflective in “Love, Live Forgive,” an emotionally powerful song that acknowledges the dark side of life and the need to leave pain behind us whenever possible. “Pain has left its scars Which we will never forget, Yet to live in its shadows Stains our life with regret.”
Averback changes tempo throughout the CD, making it hard to pinpoint any one musical influence. “HaShem, I Need You,” for instance, is a decidedly Calypso song with a Jewish theme. She switches from Hebrew to English on this CD as she sings about God, love, family regret and hope. It’s a creative album and one well worth playing when your mood is reflective and seeking some inspiration. ••• Dukes, who began playing the piano at age 8, went to high school in Pittsburgh and later studied music at Yeshiva University in New York. Two of her songs, “The Memory that Lives On,” and “If Only,” won awards in the Performing Arts Senior Division for
the Pittsburgh Holocaust Center’s Annual Holocaust Arts and Writing Competition. “Finding Forever,” a solo piano CD, is Dukes’ debut album. Her classical training is apparent as she infuses each piece with stirring, provocative tones. The self-taught composer plays aggressively and softly depending on the composition. Her music is interpretative; it draws listeners in, inviting them to stay in a safe, reflective place where no words are necessary. (And don’t we all need that sometimes?) It’s a very creative album. (Lee Chottiner can be reached at leec@thejewishchronicle.net.)
CD Reviews “The Time is Coming,” Shoshana Averbach, healingnotes.com, 2012 “Finding Forever,” Sarah Dukes, sarahdukesmusic.com, 2012
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TORAH Love without reason trumps senseless hatred Portion of the Week RABBI SHARYN HENRY RODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION Devarim, Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22
Last week, The Times of Israel published an article entitled, “Why I’m not fasting on Tisha B’Av this year.” The title arises out of the fact that this year, Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, falls on Shabbat. If a fast day (other than Yom Kippur) falls on Shabbat, the fast is delayed. This year, the fast of Tisha B’Av will take place Sunday, July 29. So, if we are not fasting on Tisha B’Av this year, what should we do? One answer comes from the sacred texts we read this week. The Shabbat immediately preceding Tisha B’Av (this year it coincides with the actual date) is called Shabbat Hazon, after the first word of the haftara portion for this day. The portion, which opens the Book of Isaiah, prophesies the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem as a result of the people’s iniquity, infidelity to God and false reliance on ritual sacrifices. The “Etz Chayim” Torah commentary states, “Three separate pronouncements of doom and disaster make up this haftarah. Viewed as a whole, the three speeches present the inverse of what a society should value: the betrayal of covenantal loyalty, the perversion of ritual, and the blindness of moral vision.” Of course, the teshuva, repentance, of the people would save them. “Hazon” means vision, and the vision described in this passage from Isaiah is bleak, the people and the land are suffering: Every head is ailing And every heart is sick… Your land is a waste, Your cities burnt down. (Isaiah 1: 5, 7) When members of society as a whole are distracted from a moral life of principles and values, when Jews disconnect from Torah, then we are all weakened. Just as it was true in the time of the prophet, it is true in our day as well.
When we stop to consider the wars, oppression, violence, corruption, hunger and poverty-related disease that exist in our world today, we lament. Every head is ailing and every heart is sick. But at the end of the passage, we are reminded that we can turn things around: Wash yourselves clean; Put your evil doings Away from My sight. Cease to do evil; Learn to do good. Devote yourself to justice; Aid the wronged. Uphold the rights of the orphan; Defend the cause of the widow. (Isaiah 1:16-17) What will we do this Tisha B’Av when we cannot fast and on the following day when we do observe the fast? One answer: Let’s start with visioning what our world could look like, if only we learned to do good and devoted ourselves to justice. Another answer emerges from our history and the history of Tisha B’Av in particular. The Talmud (Yoma 9b) explains that the destruction of the First Temple was due to the Jewish nation’s violation of the three cardinal sins: idol worship, murder and sexual immorality. At the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, however, the Jews were occupied with Torah and good deeds. Why then, asked the rabbinic sages, was the Second Temple destroyed? The conclusion presented in the Talmud was that, though they did occupy themselves with Torah, nevertheless there was “baseless hatred — sinat chinam” for one another. The lesson is plain: baseless hatred is equivalent to the three sins of idolatry, immorality and bloodshed. According to Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Israel’s first chief rabbi, the second Temple, destroyed by sinat chinam, senseless hatred, will only be rebuilt by ahavat chinam, love without reason. On this Shabbat, and on Tisha B’Av, may each of us take a few moments to imagine what would happen if we started to practice ahavat chinam — in our homes, in our synagogues and in our communities. And then, let’s begin. Shabbat Shalom. (This column is a service of the Greater Pittsburgh Rabbinic Association.)
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OBITUARY BLOOMFIELD: On Thursday, July 19, 2012, Enice Bloomfield; beloved wife of the late Herman Bloomfield; beloved mother of Steven Bloomfield of the Chicago area and Harold (Diane) Bloomfield of Monroeville; grandmother of Eva, Daniel, Joshua and Emma Bloomfield, Michelle and Gabriel Bloomfield. Services and interment were held at Beth Shalom Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Parkway Jewish Center, 300 Princeton Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235. Arrangements by Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15232. www.schugar.com CHERNEW: On Saturday, July 21, 2012, Sandy Chernew; beloved wife of Dr. Irwin "Nick" Chernew; beloved mother of Michael Esman (Susan) Chernew and David Stephen Chernew; sister of the late Marcia Raphael; sister-in-law of Richard Raphael; grandma of Adam and Olivia Chernew; aunt of Eric (Lois) Raphael. Services were at Temple Sinai. Contributions may be made to Temple Sinai, Chernew Fund,
5505 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or National Council of Jewish Women, 1620 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa., 3459 Fifth Ave., STE N-709, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or Women’s American ORT, 7347 Beacon Hill Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15221. Arrangements by Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15232. www.schugar.com FLEISCHMANN: On Saturday, July 21, 2012, Annette Fleischmann; beloved wife of the late Fred Fleischmann; beloved mother of Mark (Cathy) Fleischmann and Steve (Jerome Palec) Fleischmann; sister of Stewart (Susan) Cook and Marvin (Soralee) Cook; also survived by wonderful nieces and nephews. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel; interment Temple Sinai Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Heartland Hospice, 6500 Busch Blvd., Suite 210, Columbus, OH 43229. Arrangements by Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15232. www.schugar.com
HELLMAN: On Monday, July 16, 2012, Betty Hellman, 92, of Squirrel Hill; devoted wife of the late Fred Hellman; loving mother of Sharlene (Douglas) Lindsey of Tampa, Fla., Judy Hellman Levy of Jerusalem, Israel and Joel Hellman of Aliso Viejo, Calif.; loving grandmother of Lon Savini, Liat Margalit, Amir Levy, Sarah and Rachael Hellman; also survived by six greatgrandchildren. Services and interment were held at B'nai Israel Cemetery. Arrangements by Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15232. www.schugar.com KRONICK: On Monday, June 25, 2012, in Virginia Beach General Hospital, Harriet Kronick, 84; beloved wife (of 61 years ) of the late Sidney Kronick; beloved mother of the late Kevin Kronick, Kate (Tony D’Amato) Kronick and Jeff Kronick; daughter of the late Bess and Abraham Herman; sister of the late William Herman and the late Rhoda Silverstein; grandmother of Jacia Monaco and Dorey Kronick; sisterin-law of Milton and Chari Kronick; also survived by many loving nieces and nephews, all of whom will miss her dearly. Born in Pittsburgh, Harriet graduated from a commercial art school, and having learned all types of advertising art, life drawing, and fashion illustration she (until her marriage) worked as a fashion illustrator in Pittsburgh department stores. After moving to Uniontown, she continued with freelance artwork, specializing in portraiture. Kronick taught drawing and painting classes in Uniontown for 10 years and then in Virginia Beach, for many years, until 2011. She exhibited her portraits and pastel landscapes in local galleries and her many artworks hang in homes and institutions, including judicial portrait commissions, which hang in Norfolk, Va., and Portsmouth Va.,
courthouses and a portrait of Edgar and Gertrude Cayce, which hangs in the Association for Research and Enlightenment. She was also known for her "green thumb" and loved tending to her many beautiful plants. Harriet and Sidney Kronick were members of the Tree of Life Congregation during their 25year residence in Uniontown, Pa. She volunteered for the American Cancer Society for 20 years, and also for Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. for over 30 years. Services were held at the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach. MELHADO: On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Ruth P. Melhado; beloved wife of (64 years) Robert J. Melhado; beloved mother of Mark (Vivian) Melhado, Joan (Jay) Solak and David J. (Deborah) Melhado; grandma of Aaron (Jamie) Solak, Jason, Ethan and Dylan Solak and Daniel Melhado. Ruth served as a former Reach To Recovery volunteer for the American Cancer Society and was a member of Beth Israel Center Sisterhood. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel; interment West View Cemetery of Rodef Shalom Congregation. Contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Association (Greater Pittsburgh Chapter), 1100 Liberty Ave., Suite E-201, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 or Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, Suite 509, New York, NY 10018. www.schugar.com
Unveiling PEARLMAN: A monument in loving memory of Stanton Howard Pearlman was unveiled last Sunday, July 22, at Beth Shalom Cemetery; Rabbi Michael Werbow officiated. Relatives and friends of Carol and Jordan Pearlman attended.
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METRO Voters: Continued from page 1. Rep. Dan Frankel, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Executive Director Barb Feige of the American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Pittsburgh, county Elections Manager Mark Wolosik and former Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff. Attorney Mark Frank, who moderated the program, said the Pennsylvania Department of State was invited to participate, but it declined. The Pittsburgh Jewish Social Justice Roundtable hosted the program, as a means to educate voters on the new law. The ACLU, National Council of Jewish Women, League of Women Voters and Disability Voting Coalition of Pennsylvania all manned information tables throughout the evening. But panelists also made it clear they oppose the law, seeing it as an effort to suppress voter turnout among elderly, young, disabled and lower income voters who trend Democrat in elections. They cited the party line vote on which the law passed the legislature and a recent statement by House Majority Leader Mike Turzai that it will “allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.” Fitzgerald, who said the county must shoulder an unfunded mandate to train its 6,500 election workers in the new law, dismissed GOP claims that the law would fight voter fraud, arguing that it’s already extremely difficult for someone to impersonate a registered voter at the polls. “You’re not going Downtown; you’re not going to Harrisburg or some mysterious place. You’re going to see your
PSO: Continued from page 1. Fool and Other Stories.” “The stories were chosen by a number of people,” Silver said. “The symphony actually picked them, but we thought that they were wonderful, evocative stories of Jewish life and Jewish spirit and two seemingly contrasting works that have so many similar themes.” Although all of the songs were based on stories, only one song had words while all of the others were pure instrumentals. This gave the audience a chance to feel the music and find meaning on their own instead of listening to words. “It’s the kind of thing where you can’t describe why, but when you hear it you know that [the music works with the stories],” Samuels said. “I think that’s symbolic of the stories themselves that are constantly pitting old world versus new, and somehow the music evokes that.” Between selections, Helen Faye Rosenblum, who moderated the concert, gave explanations to the story behind each piece. “Each of these stories deals in a way with something else that the music is going to tell us,” Rosenblum said. “Each of these stories deals, in a way, with a Jewish soul educating a family, finding a marriage, finding peace, finding war, finding hecticness, finding tumult and tension and eventually finding his way back to the culture that courses through
neighbors,” he said. “They know who you are.” He predicted “absolute chaos” at the polls if the courts do not overturn the law. A suit brought by the ACLU was to be heard Wednesday in Commonwealth Court, Harrisburg. “You may have done everything right, but the 10 people in front of you may not,” Fitzgerald said. “You may have done everything right and get tied up in that line. That’s their strategy.” The ACLU passed out “Know Your Voting Rights” cards at the start of the program, which bullets the types of acceptable photo ID under the new law. Those types include a Pennsylvania driver’s license, PennDOT nondriver photo ID, U.S. passports, U.S. government issued photo ID, U.S. Military or Pennsylvania National Guard photo ID, Pennsylvania municipality-issued photo ID, accredited Pennsylvania college- or university-issued photo ID and nursing and personal care facility ID. But many Pennsylvanians don’t have acceptable ID, and getting it often requires a birth certificate, which comes with a fee. Many opponents equate that to a poll tax. The law is still being tweaked, Feige said. She described the legislation as “a moving target.” The State Department has said it will issue voter-only ID, but only after residents have exhausted all other options Feige said. In fact, Frankel has introduced a package of bills, called the “Every Voter Counts” package, which would require the Department of State to create a mobile voter outreach program to educate Pennsylvanians about the new voter ID law, waive the fees for a birth certificate if a person needs one to obtain state-is-
his blood and his veins and his bones.” Rosenblum compared these stories to family tales the audience’s parents and grandparents may have once told them. “One of the wonderful things about these short stories and about so many short stories about the immigrant experience is that each one tells a different story,” she said. “Each of these stories does stimulate the thought of the stories that we know in different ways.” One story told by Silver recounted his great-grandfather who was a soldier in the Russian army during World War I. “He was a real talker, and he had his mouth open when a snipers’ bullet went right in his mouth and through his cheek, so all he had was a little hole,” Silver said. “He was lucky he avoided the infection that probably would have killed most people. So for the longest time we would joke about how lucky we were that he was a talker.” The end of Silver’s story sent a wave of laughter through the crowd, but he soon went back to stirring emotions with his instruments. “It can intensify euphoria, it can intensify despair, it can give you strength when you’re weak and if you want to be depressed there’s great music for that,” Silver said about the music. “There’s a universal element to communicating with sound and when you do that, if it feels good to you then it probably feels good to somebody else.” (Andrew Goldstein can be reached at andrewg@thejewishchronicle.net.)
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Former Pittsburgh Mayor Sophie Masloff, seated in the audience at Monday’s roundtable on Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law, reads from a prepared statement opposing the legislation.
sued photo ID, and create an online voter registration system. “We ought to be doing a lot more if we’re going to do this right,” he said. About 300 people attended the forum, according to Deborah Fidel, executive director of the Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee, one of the supporters of the Roundtable. In delivering the forum’s invocation, Rabbi Ronald B.B. Symons of Temple
Sinai whipped out his driver’s license and showed it to the near capacity crowd, which also included supporters of the ID law. “I know who I am because I have one of these,” he said. “If I don’t hold on to that, I won’t get to vote.” (Lee Chottiner can be reached at leec@thejewishchronicle.net.)
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