November 10-16, 2017 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVI, Number 45 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK JCC Speakeasy fund-raiser on Nov. 11 The JCC Speakeasy is this year’s in performing classic selections such as strengthen our community and provide annual Jewish Community Center sports Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra and Michael a safe place for our youth to grow. This fund-raiser to support the Center’s sports Buble, and has been featured at weddings is an excellent opportunity for all of us programming. It will be held on Saturday, and other events. The JCC Speakeasy to come together as a community. Doing November 11, from 7-10 pm. Admission to event will also feature , drink and so, we will all have a great time and the event is $50 per person, with additional casino games. support a great cause. sponsorship levels available. Reservations The fund-raiser supports the Jewish “Here at the JCC, we aim to run the can be made by calling 724-2417. The entire Community Center’s youth and adult highest quality program at the lowest pos- community is welcome and encouraged sports programming, including the Sun- sible price,” Whalen added. “This event is to attend. day Hoopsters program, Elite Product instrumental in keeping our costs affordable The evening will feature live music and Training, various children’s basketball for people from all socioeconomic back- entertainment by local DJ and singer John camps, and competitive and recreational grounds. It also helps us provide financial “Yanni” Koutsaris. Koutsaris has been leagues for men. These programs are assistance to families who are going through involved in music since he was a child, designed and managed by Dan Whalen, tough times.” and has been performing professionally the JCC health, physical education and For more information, to sponsor L-r: Harry Cohen, Breige Graven and since the age of 14, when he joined his recreation director. or participate, contact the JCC Office Lynette Errante are dressed for the JCC father’s Greek band as a drummer. Aside According to Whalen, “The main at 724-2417 or e-mail at jccoffice@ Speakeasy. from being a DJ, Koutsaris specializes focus of our sports programs is to binghamtonjcc.org. Lance Sussman to discuss “Jews, Catholics and the American Experience” at BU on Nov. 12 The Newman House and Hil- traditions. Subsequently, both numerous books and articles, including of the American Jewish Archives (Cin- lel at Binghamton will sponsor played a major role in defining “Isaac Leeser and the Making of Amer- cinnati) and past chairman of the Judaic a talk by Rabbi Lance Sussman, and broadening the American ican Judaism” and “Sharing Sacred Mo- Studies Department at Binghamton Uni- Ph.D., on “There’s a Place for Us: concept of freedom of religion. ments,” a collection of his sermons. An versity. Sussman has taught at Princeton, , Catholics and the American With massive immigration editor of “ in America: Rutgers and Hunter College. Currently, Experience” on Sunday, Novem- in the 19th century, discrimi- A Biographical Dictionary and Source he is working on a TV documentary on ber 12, at 7:30 pm, in room LH14 nation against both Jews and Book,” Sussman is a member of the the Jewish experience with in the Lecture Hall building on Catholics rose while, at the Academic Advisory and Editorial Board History Making Productions. the Binghamton University cam- same time, the two groups also pus. The community is invited to increasingly collided with one attend and refreshments will be another. In recent years, official provided after the talk. Rabbi Lance Jewish-Catholic relations have Federation board meeting “Please join us for Rabbi Sussman improved significantly while at Sussman’s intriguing, comparative dis- the same time the rate of mixed marriage cussion of Judaism and Catholicism in between the two has also increased.” open to community the United States,” said organizers of Sussman is the senior rabbi of Re- the event. “Both Judaism and Catholi- form Congregation Keneseth in The Jewish Federation will hold a full board meeting on Wednesday, November cism in America have a long, complex Elkins Park, PA, and adjunct professor 15, at 7:30 pm. The community is invited to attend. Those interested in attending and intertwined history. In the British of American at the He- should make a reservation by calling the Federation at 724-2332 so that enough colonies, prior to the Revolution, both brew Union College-Jewish Institute of materials will be available. groups were relatively small, minority Religion-New York. He is the author of Spotlight Adding a spiritual component to the counseling experience By Rabbi Rachel Esserman opportunity. “[The woman] was good fit for me. I worked at the program, in addition to , there was For Rabbi Michele Medwin, counseling working as a Jewish chaplain at high school in the counseling a Seventh Day Adventist minister in our was always a natural part of her rabbinate. a nearby residential high school department for two additional cohort. It was interesting to learn about “Congregants often come to me with various for ‘at risk’ teens,” Medwin said. years while I was getting my each other’s beliefs. We learned the various issues, including family problems, strug- “She was going to retire soon and degree. Then, in the middle of aspects of mental health counseling, as well gling to deal with losses, especially deaths, wanted to know if I would like to working on my D.Min. project, as understanding that there can be a spiritual learning to live with chronic or serious take her place. I worked there for the high school went out of busi- component to the counseling experience. As illness, and being caregivers of those who five years as the Jewish chaplain ness. I still enjoyed counseling part of the program, we were required to are ill,” Medwin said in an e-mail interview. helping students with addiction Rabbi Michele and found it meaningful, so I have actual face to face counseling experi- “While we had some training in rabbinical and substance abuse challenges, Medwin finished my degree.” ence. Some of that I did at the high school, school, most of the counseling I did for as well as behavior and mental Attending classes made life some in Monticello with my congregants congregants came from life experience, health issues.” more hectic, but there were benefits. “I got and some in Binghamton for Jewish Family being empathetic and intuitively knowing When the school began focusing more to know the Shortlines Bus schedule very Service and at the Samaritan Counseling what to say.” on mental health counseling, rather than well,” Medwin noted. “Classes were once Center in Endicott.” Yet, it was a different opportunity to use spiritual counseling, Medwin decided to a week for a full day every Monday for two In addition to the D.Min. degree, her counseling skills that led Medwin to join more advanced training. “I knew that years in . That enabled me given when she graduated in May 2016, the D.Min. program in clinical and pastoral I enjoyed the work and decided to go for to continue my part-time work at the syna- Medwin has now received a temporary counseling designed for working clergy at advanced training as a mental health coun- gogue and at the high school. The third year license through New York state, which Hebrew Union College. While working selor to be able to continue my work at the involved researching and carrying out the requires her to continue being supervised part-time as a rabbi for a in high school,” she said. “I felt that program D.Min. counseling project. My classmates for a period of time. What she learned at Monticello, someone approached her a job [at Hebrew Union College] would be a were other clergy. Since it was an interfaith See “Spiritual” on page 6 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Preserving the past theater saved Digging up the past Special Sections Librarians at Coimbra U. continue Bucharest’s Theater Recent archeological discoveries Legal Notices...... 4 to preserve Jewish texts hidden was saved by the actions of its reveal ’s transformation Health and Wellness...... 5-8 there during Portugal’s Inquisition. actors and public outcry. during the Second Temple period. Congregational Notes...... 10 ...... Page 6 ...... Page 8 ...... Page 9 Classifieds...... 12 Page 2 - The Reporter November 10-16, 2017 Opinion How anti-Zionists fueled a far-right victory By Daniel Treiman the far left. Anti-Zionist BDS supporters are masquerading a JVP and BDS supporter, complained of “silencing and (JTA) – In September, New York’s Center for Jewish as champions of free expression after their hijacking of the censorship.” JVP’s executive director, Rebecca Vilkom- History was the target of a right-wing campaign seeking august and heretofore largely apolitical AJHS was foiled. erson, decried what she called AJHS’s “shameful caving to oust its new president, David Myers, over his dovish The latest controversy erupted into public view recently to right-wing pressure.” The New York Times picked up views on Israel. The campaign drew an appropriately out- when AJHS’s board canceled two events that the society on the ensuing “backlash” from various cultural figures raged response from leading Jewish scholars, who rallied had been scheduled to host: a play by the anti-Zionist angered by what they saw as AJHS embracing censorship. around Myers, a highly regarded historian who has publicly playwright Dan Fishback on intrafamilial disagreements Critics focused on the cancellation of the play, “Rubble opposed the anti-Israel BDS – Boycott, Divestment and about Israel and a discussion on the Rubble,” casting Fishback as a superficially sympathet- Sanctions – movement. that was co-sponsored with the BDS-backing Jewish Voice ic-seeming party in the drama. But the play’s cancellation Now, one of the five independent historical organizations for Peace. The cancellation came the same day as an article cannot be understood in isolation. housed at the center, the American Jewish Historical Society, criticizing AJHS for hosting the events appeared in the For starters: Why was AJHS hosting a discussion with is also coming under attack. This time, however, the most far-right FrontPage Magazine. Jewish Voice for Peace on the Balfour Declaration – with consequential attacks are coming not from the far right, but Fishback and JVP immediately cried foul. Fishback, a panel consisting of a Palestinian activist in dialogue with a JVP activist, neither of whom is even a historian? Would AJHS also host a panel discussion on the Oslo Accords Israel and Africa need each other sponsored by a far-right pro-settler group like Women in Green? I doubt it. By Yosef I. Abramowitz It is no wonder that AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, had for AJHS, consistent with its focus on American Jewish his- (JTA) – The Jewish month that began recently, , the first time an African head of state – President Paul Kag- tory, does little Israel-related programming. But the planned has traditionally been dubbed “mar,” or bitter, because it ame of Rwanda – address 15,000 activists at its annual policy Balfour Declaration panel was not even the only event in alone among the months is devoid of any holidays. It is conference earlier this year. And the African Institute of the partnership with JVP. Earlier in the year, AJHS partnered time for the Jewish people, and the Jewish calendar, to American Jewish Committee has not only lobbied African with JVP to host an event with an anti-Zionist Ethiopian drop mar from Cheshvan, since it is blessed with one of ambassadors to the United Nations, but also has been spon- Israeli activist. AJHS also was publicly offering discounted the most remarkable and sweetest : . soring them on transformative fact-finding missions to Israel. tickets to JVP members for Fishback’s play about Israel. At the end of Cheshvan for well over 1,000 years, the The push into Africa has deep roots in the Zionist These three events, it’s worth noting, seem to be the Jewish community of Ethiopia would dress in white, climb narrative. In Theodor Herzl’s day, Africa was ruled and only Israel-related programs hosted by AJHS in 2017. It’s Mount Ambover in Gondar and pray for their redemption exploited by European empires. “There is still one other simply not as if AJHS was hosting tons of Israel programs and to Jerusalem. The miraculous airlifts and rescue question arising out of the disaster of nations which remains – or even many plays – and then singling out Fishback’s of Ethiopian Jewry, and the subsequent aliyah of tens of unsolved to this day, and whose profound tragedy only a performance for cancellation because some people com- thousands more, stands as one of the proudest moments can comprehend. This is the African question,” Herzl plained about his views on Israel. in Jewish history and a shining example of what Jewish wrote in his diary in 1901. “Once I have witnessed the Here’s the real question: How is it that American peoplehood can accomplish against great odds. Now the redemption of the Jews, my people, I wish also to assist Jewry’s leading historical society came to select a fringe Ethiopian community celebrates Sigd en masse on the Haas in the redemption of the Africans.” anti-Zionist group as its sole interlocutor on Israel-related Promenade, overlooking the Old City, with prayer, music While Herzl himself didn’t witness the creation of the programming? and speeches. Israeli schools are starting to celebrate Sigd, state of Israel, Golda Meir did. And when she became AJHS’s director of programming, Shirly Bahar – who as should Jewish schools worldwide. foreign minister, she set out in 1958 on an African tour that publicly supports the boycott of Israeli academic institutions Africa has gifted to the Jewish people sweetness and led to the creation of Israel’s famed international agency – announced the society’s fall schedule with the declaration hope in Cheshvan, which is also Jewish Social Action for international development, Mashav. that she had worked to foster “critical, edgy and politically Month, when we turn outward as a community. When Netanyahu declares that “Israel is coming back challenging cultural and academic programs where difficult I have accompanied Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Africa,” he is channeling Golda. And when he says that conversations about Mizrahim, Jews of Color, Palestine, and other Israeli leaders to Africa over the past several years, “Africa is coming back to Israel,” he’s channeling Ethiopian cross-cultural solidarity and anti-racism are highlighted promoting not only a solar-powered vision for the continent, Emperor Haile Selassie, the “Lion of Judah,” who claimed rather than censored.” but an enlightened Israeli policy of becoming a superpower King Solomon as an ancestor. The result, at least as far as Israel programming, seems to of goodness. Israeli water, agricultural, medical and green The challenges facing Africa, and the potential for African-Is- have been a schedule that reflected only one very particular energy technology and investments can play a transformative raeli partnerships to address them, are staggering. There are 600 strand of thinking on Israel – one that is far removed from role by uplifting the dignity of hundreds of millions of people. million Africans without access to electricity and 300 million the views of the overwhelming majority of . And with a quarter of the votes in the U.N. General Assembly without access to clean water. A famine sweeping East Africa The AJHS board officers did not seem to be aware of this belonging to Africa, as well as two swing votes on the Security affects 16 million people, including the hungry 2,000-member sudden slant in the society’s programming until quite recently, Council, there are diplomatic benefits to Israel as well. See “Africa” on page 11 See “Far-right” on page 11

In My Own Words Two year check-up RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR The leaves were already past their prime, but that My visit with the audiologist took more time. I’d for- did specifically mention the show “Imaginary Mary” didn’t bother me on my recent trip to see the ear surgeon gotten just how complex the CI is: she had to upgrade the and the CGI character I like so much.) in Syracuse. The late October date meant there was far technology by connecting it to her computer and download- Both the surgeon and the audiologist asked if I was less construction and vacation traffic on the road. The ing a new version of the software. She also changed my thinking about having a CI done on the other ear. I have surgeon wants to see me every year to check on my programming a bit, which should help me hear the letters thought about it, but am just not ready. The idea of having cochlear implant and the visit also includes a meeting f, s and h better. It was only a slight increase so I haven’t the same technology in both ears makes me a bit nervous. with the audiologist. noticed a big difference, but, then again, a little difference Plus, while the sound is so much better with the CI, there Bottom line: Everything is going well. The surgeon was could mean a lot in the long run. are times it blocks out noise so that I can hear only with satisfied after checking the site of my implant and looking We also discussed how the implant is affecting my the hearing aid. The difference in sound is really hard to in my ear. My answers to his questions – any balance life. That gave me the opportunity to share the comments believe – something I frequently note when I move peo- problems, any ear noise problems – were satisfactory. I I’ve received about my speech – about how much clearer ple from my left side to my right side. (After 30 years of don’t think my balance has been any worse and, as for the my speech is and how those who knew me before the placing people to my left, it’s not always easy to remember ear ringing, the sound in the ear with the implant bothers hearing loss say I sound like “the old Rachel.” (I’m to move to the other side.) me less than the noise in my other ear. At least with the taking that as a compliment.) I also told her about It is hard to believe that two years have gone by since CI, it’s just one roaring sound that I can relax into. The how much I appreciate being able to hear some music, the surgery. Once in a while, I forget how hard things noise in my other ear is more complex – sometimes two even though the result is far from perfect, and the joy were before because my expectation of what I can do has or three different kinds of noises are buzzing at the same of sometimes being able to understand speech without increased. But then something happens and I remember time. When I wear my CI and my hearing aid, the noise having to lip read. I couldn’t resist mentioning how just how lucky I am to be born in a time and place where usually disappears, which is wonderful. (If you’ve never much fun it was to be able to understand the speech of medical miracles can occur. I am so grateful for the CI appreciated quiet, try some ear ringing for a bit and you’ll computer generated imagery – at least after I’ve watched and for all the support I’ve received from those who read soon change your mind.) a program with captioning two or three times. (Yes, I this column.

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Polachek graduate work in England and has published the luncheon, but Beth David welcomes donations to the On Saturday, November 11, Beth David’s in journals in four countries. After her retire- Luncheon Fund in order to keep the program going. Dona- Luncheon Speaker series will feature Nancy ment, she pursued her interest in photography. tions can be made in honor of or in memory of someone, Basmann, who will speak about Henryk Ross, She is a certified professional photographer or to mark a special occasion. Tax-deductible donations an official photographer of the Lodz Ghetto in and a master of photography, credentials can be sent to Beth David Synagogue, 39 Riverside Dr., Poland. Before the liquidation of the ghetto, given by the national trade organization, Binghamton, NY 13905, Attention: Luncheon Fund. Ross buried in a box 4,000 negatives showing Professional Photographers of America. Her the life and conditions of those in the ghetto images have appeared in the Marathon Press during 1940-45. One of the few who survived, series, PPA Loan Collection and PPA Show- Ross unearthed the box and found that the neg- case Collection. A recipient of many awards Salute to Jewish atives had remained undamaged. During Adolf for her photographs, Basmann will receive a Eichmann’s trial in Israel, Ross’ photographs Nancy Basmann trophy at the annual banquet of the American played a role in providing material evidence (Photo by Nancy Society of Photographers in, Nashville, TN, Womanhood leading to Eichmann’s conviction. It was not Basmann) on January 15, 2018. Last minute reservations are still being accepted for the until the 1980s that Ross began organizing his “We are doubly fortunate,” organizers say, annual Salute to Jewish Womanhood program, sponsored collection for public display. “to be able to learn more about Henryk Ross, an important by Chabad’s Women’s League. The event will be held on “I had the good fortune,” says Basmann, “of seeing an photographer whom many may not have heard about, and Sunday, November 12, at 5 pm, at the Chabad Center. extraordinary exhibit of his photographs when they were to have Nancy Basmann, an award-winning photographer, The program will feature a dinner buffet and guest featured in a special show at The Art Gallery of Ontario be the one to educate us about his work. Not only will speaker Esther Sternberg (Rivkah Slonim’s mother), who in 2015. Being a photographer myself, I continue being she tell us about Ross, but she will illustrate her talk with will address “Hidden Royalty; the Life and Times of Reb- impressed by Ross’ technical skill, the emotional impact examples of his work. We can’t think of a better way to betzin Chaya Mushkah Schneerson.” of what he captured in his photographs, as well as by the spend November 11!” The program couvert is $18 with sponsorship levels at incredible historical value of his work.” Beth David’s luncheon speaker series takes place the $36 and $54. Formerly an associate professor of economics spe- second Saturday of the month after morning ser- Reservations can be made online at www.Jewishbu.com/ cializing in the history of economics, Basmann did her vices and is open to the community. There is no charge for womanhood or by calling Chabad at 797-0015. Cornell students to discuss trip to visit Tbilisi’s Jews at TBE in Ithaca The Ithaca Area United Jewish Community will host an The Cornell students traveled to Tbilisi, Republic of served Jewish populations. By working with the Joint informational presentation by Cornell University students Georgia, in the former Soviet Union on an alternative Distribution Committee on the ground, students said they on Sunday, November 12, from 3:30-5 pm, at Temple service summer break trip, which provided the students were able to provide aide to the elderly, learn about the Beth-El of Ithaca. with the opportunity to interact face-to-face with under- history of Georgian Jewry and discover different ways to support the community. The talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Temple Beth-El is located on the corner of Children’s book reading in Ithaca Court and Tioga streets in downtown Ithaca. Those attend- Children’s book author Pamela Ehrenberg will read a of potato pancakes. We will enjoy some songs, a simple ing the presentation should use the temple’s side entrance pre-Chanukah story at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca on craft and delicious Indian mango lassi,” said organizers on Tioga Sreet. For further information, call 257-9924. Sunday, November 12, from 1-2 pm. of the event. “In preparation for the upcoming holiday, author Pa- The book will be available for purchase and Ehrenberg The Jewish Community wishes to express its mela Ehrenberg will read to us from her new children’s will sign copies. Buffalo Street Books is located in the book, ‘Queen of the Dosas.’ The family in Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca. For further infor- sympathy to the family of her story celebrates Chanukah by frying dosas instead mation, call 257-9924. Harriet Ribler TC Sisterhood Whale of a Sale The 34th annual Whale of a Sale sponsored by Temple Whale of a Sale will feature brand name winter clothing Early deadlines Concord Sisterhood will feature new and nearly new for babies, children, teenagers, women and men, as well as Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, The Reporter will merchandise. It will be held in the first floor social hall at baby equipment, books and games for children and adults, have the following early deadlines. No exceptions will Temple Concord, 9 Riverside Dr., Binghamton. toys, housewares, sports equipment, tools, art, jewelry, be made. The sale will be open from noon-4 pm on Friday, No- appliances and more. Issue Date Deadline Date vember 10. It will be closed Saturday, November 11. On Whale of a Sale is being run by a committee of Deb November 24...... Wednesday, November 15 Sunday, November 12, the last day, it will be open from 10 Williams, Barbara Thomas, Vicki Niman, Lisa Blackwell, December 1...... Monday, November 20 am-4 pm. Sunday will be an all-day bag sale at $12 per bag. Lisa McCarthy and Babs Putzel-Bischoff.

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November 10-16, 2017 Page 5 - The Reporter Beth David farewell for Claire Ladenheim

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At right, l-r: Claire Ladenheim spoke with Absolut Care of Endicott will be Cathy Velenchik and Judy Silber during the holding an additional opportunity Claire Ladenheim (seated) with Lillian farewell dessert. for open interviews on Sommer (left) and Marlene Serkin at the farewell dessert. Saturday, June 13, 2015 from 10am-3pm. If you are unable to attend, stop by at one of our weekly open interviews every Thursday from 10-5pm or email resumes to [email protected] Medicare Open Enrollment means more to boomers than ever (NAPSI) – Each year, Medicare Open Enrollment begins Here are four tips to consider as you plan for Medicare on October 15 and ends on December 7. It’s an important Open Enrollment: opportunity for eligible individuals to select a Medicare plan 1. Create a monthly budget to assist in managing your We are currently recruiting for: that best meets their current and potential health needs, and debt. Boomers are realizing they will not be as financially also offers protection for unexpected costs. independent in retirement as they once expected. Examine • CNA’s - All shifts, full & part-time Although it’s been 10 years since the worst financial crisis your monthly financial obligations and create an achievable since the Great Depression hit the U.S., most middle-income budget to manage your income and pay down debt. We are seeking motivated, boomers say they still don’t feel their finances have fully 2. Determine which Medicare coverage plan is right for recovered. According to a recent study from the Bankers Life you. Health needs vary by individual. Evaluate your personal resident-centered organized employees. Center for a Secure Retirement, today, only 57 percent of health needs and research each plan to determine the right middle-income boomers feel confident meeting their daily amount of coverage. For example, Original Medicare sup- Job Fair financial obligations, down from 65 percent before the crisis. plies beneficiaries with Parts A (hospital insurance) and B Along with their smaller savings accounts, concerns about (medical insurance). However, some people may need more every Thursday rising health care costs as they age could be feeding boomers’ coverage. Medicare supplement plans are sold by private lack of confidence in their financial futures. companies and can help pay some of the health care costs from 10am - 5pm Today, boomers expect to carry more debt into retire- that Original Medicare doesn’t cover, such as co-payments, ment; only 34 percent expect to retire debt-free. One of the See “Medicare” on page 8 We offer a variety of main drivers of debt for this demographic is the nationwide increase in health care costs. Boomers – an estimated 74.9 health insurance programs, million Americans aged 53-71 in 2017 – will likely live to vacation, sick and personal time around age 85, on average, according to the Social Security Women’s OB/GYN Associates including weekly pay. Administration, and unexpected health issues associated with is pleased to welcome age can drain savings and increase the risk of added debt. Melodye Onysko, Please see our web site at During Medicare Open Enrollment, middle-income www.absolutecare.com boomers can identify health care savings opportunities and ANP, CNM prepare for unexpected costs related to illness or injury, with for more information the goal of achieving a more personally satisfying retirement. Melodye’s personal warmth and extensive knowledge and to apply online. helps patients interested in holistic approaches to women’s health care. You may also stop in and She is now accepting new patients who are seeking: complete an application and • Traditional and Holistic Gynecology have an on-the-spot interview. • Early Pregnancy Care • Birth Control Options including IUD's and Nexplanon Accepting New Residents • Infertility Counseling and Testing • Menopausal Support with Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy 24 Hours A Day | 7 Days A Week • Weight Management Melodye Onysko offers the area's only Optifast program including Please call Advanced Body Composition and Phone (607) 754-2705 other Nutritional Supplements! 607.754.9870 Fax 754-2610 Women’s OB/GYN Associates 301 Nantucket Dr., 401 Main Street, 1st Flr. Endicott, NY 13760 Johnson City, NY 13790 Dr. Carol Miller, Dr. Marianne Davis and my.womensobgyn.info Karen Castoro FNP www.absolutcare.com ÊVisit us on the web at www.thereportergroup.org

r Greeting New Yea s from Page 6 - The Reporter November 10-16, 2017 How a 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition By Cnaan Liphshiz wanted to destroy, reintroducing them to the indexes only COIMBRA, Portugal (JTA) – From its mountaintop after the Inquisition was abolished in 1821 – Coimbra perch, the University of Coimbra towers majestically over was in possession of a collection of rare, pristine Jewish the downtown square that used to be the regional headquar- manuscripts found nowhere else. ters of the Portuguese Inquisition. It’s a fitting location for One such manuscript is the Abravanel Hebrew Bible. At right: Antonio the 737-year-old university, the seventh oldest in the world, Ranked by the university in a 2012 statement as its rarest Eugenio Maia do which outsmarted and outlived the campaign of persecution artifact, the handwritten Bible from the 15th century is Amaral with the against Jews and freethinkers unleashed by the Catholic perfectly preserved. The book is filled with drawings on 15th-century Ab- Church and Portugal’s rulers in 1536. parchment that are so vibrant, they seem to have been ravanel Hebrew “This place was almost literally an ivory tower of knowl- recently created. Bible at Coimbra edge during those dark times,” Antonio Eugenio Maia do The Abravanels – a distinguished, wealthy Sephardic family University in Amaral, assistant director of the university’s 500-year-old with branches in Spain and Portugal that fled to Amsterdam 2016. (Photo by library, recently told JTA. and the Balkans during the Inquisition – commissioned 20 Cnaan Liphshiz) Thanks to the university’s undocumented policy of sub- such Bibles. The volume in Coimbra is among the best pre- terfuge against the Inquisition – Amaral said its librarians served of the handful whose whereabouts are known today. essentially hid many books that censors would likely have See “Bible” on page 9

Spiritual Continued from page 1 HUC has assisted her in her current counseling position new ways to cope and process past traumas. “I truly believe but for millions of families around the world. I thought at the Samaritan Counseling Center and her work with that what happens in childhood is carried through into how this was a good place to devote my energies. My D.Min. her congregation in Monticello. “[My studies] helped we act and feel as adults,” Medwin said. “I certainly deal project was called ‘Alzheimer’s Families: Emotional me to understand difficult people and to react to them in with the present and give them tools to cope or change and Spiritual Tools for Coping.’ I learned things during a more positive way,” she said. “It also gave me a strong negative and erroneous thinking, but often times it is also my research that I wished I had known when my dad foundation in ways to guide people through the various helpful to allow a person to process past traumas and/or was alive. It would have made coping easier for me and mental health issues they are dealing with, adding to my feelings of rejection or abandonment, physically or emo- my family. I wanted to help other families in the same natural gifts as a listener and counselor. When working tionally, from childhood. This gives them insights into situation. As part of the project, I meet with various with congregants, I often talk about God and spirituality why they are the person they are, and helps them to get Alzheimer’s family members to learn what was the most because that is a large part of who I am as a rabbi. I teach past guilt and shame – to move on to being a person more stressful, what helped and what made things worse. I also classes on spirituality and often bring it into my sermons at peace with themselves.” ran an Alzheimer’s Support Group through Jewish Family and divrei Torah on the bima. They know that about me and Her D.Min., project, which focused on Alzheimer’s Service at the Jewish Community Center.” expect it from me. With clinical mental health counseling, disease, was personal. “My dad had Alzheimer’s disease Medwin feels an important part of her rabbinate is to help while my degree includes pastoral counseling, the people I for over 10 years,” Medwin said. “I was personally dev- those in need and sees her counseling work as a continua- counsel have various religious backgrounds. I let the client astated when I heard of his diagnosis. The 10 years were tion of that. “Becoming a mental health counselor enables lead the way regarding when and if spirituality might be emotionally draining for our family and also physically me to reach even more people,” she added. “It is such a an appropriate addition to the counseling process. I enjoy draining for our mother who was his caregiver. It was wonderful feeling watching the progress of my clients as working at the Samaritan Counseling Center because the hard to watch my dad deteriorate cognitively over the they walk in the door at the first visit being distraught and Center is spiritually oriented, and I feel comfortable and years, and watch our mom deteriorate emotionally and feeling helpless, to watching as they transform into people welcomed there.” physically. I knew the statistics for Alzheimer’s and de- more at peace with themselves and with the circumstances In her counseling, she focuses on helping people learn mentia. It is a growing problem, not just for my family, of their lives.”

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On October 22, OU-JLIC, in partnership with Hillel at Binghamton, held the first segment of the series “Super Interesting People with Super Interesting Stories.” The Binghamton University President Harvey Stenger’s talk was titled “Failing Forward” and program was created by OU-JLIC educators Rabbi Akiva Weiss and Tali Weiss in an showed how setbacks and personal failures can be the catalyst for self-improvement and effort to inspire students through life stories of figures in both the university community achievements. More than 65 students took part in the evening of discussion and dinner, and beyond. The first segment featured Binghamton University President Harvey which included a reception and the opportunity to speak with Stenger. L-r: Rabbi Akiva Stenger (standing). Weiss, Stenger, Tali Weiss and Nataly Weiss, director of Hillel at Binghamton.

Brunch Continued from page 4 later to Lublin to visit his dying mother in Ida Fink’s story “The Key Game” was the 1930s. According to the speaker, upon also discussed. It contains a veiled descrip- Glatstein’s return to the U.S., he despaired tion of a damaged Jewish family hiding of the future as Hitler and his followers from detection and moving from location had already launched his “night of the long to location. In the story, a child is being knives,” which eliminated his opposition. trained to help prevent his father from being Glatstein learned English and became a discovered if someone comes to where they lawyer in the U.S., but chose to write in live. The story is taken from the experiences the Yiddish vernacular. The speakers noted of her husband, Bruno Fink. She started the that Glatstein recognized that the Western story 10 years after the Holocaust and did democracies would not protect the innocent not publish it for 40 years. She used real Jewish victims of Nazism, which led to sources or scraps of knowledge and provides Members of Temple Israel and Temple Concord listened to the speakers at the brunch real despair. a collective voice. held on October 26.

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Bringing New Life to Senior Living® brookdale.com ÊVisit us on the web at www.thereportergroup.org Page 8 - The Reporter November 10-16, 2017 To save Yiddish theater, these Romanian actors abandoned their home By Cnaan Liphshiz ater’s 20-some employees packed up the surviving sets, BUCHAREST, Romania (JTA) – When the roof of the costumes and gear. Jewish State Theater collapsed during a 2014 snowstorm, its But the story of Bucharest’s Jewish State Theater didn’t director reluctantly knew it was finally time to abandon the end there. Instead, the Yiddish troupe’s members lever- century-old building in this capital city. Maia Morgenstern aged their forced exile to raise awareness of the need to did not take the decision lightly. preserve the four-story building. How did they accomplish Following years of neglect by authorities, the Bucharest this? “We just took the costumes and relocated across the Jewish community had fought for decades to keep the storied street,” Morgenstern said, gesturing toward an empty lot. theater afloat. The Jewish State Theater had been a major For weeks on end in early 2014, the performers put cultural institution for Central European Jews prior to the on free shows once or twice a day out in the open, in the Holocaust. Later, during communism, it was the Romanian freezing cold. The actors’ devotion and talent did not go Jewish community’s only independent institution. unnoticed. Despite bone-chilling cold, the shows attracted The ornate theater downtown flooded severely following media and spectators. That, in turn, drew attention to the the storm, destroying the wiring. theater’s uncertain future, despite vague assurances from “It was obvious we couldn’t stay,” Morgenstern, a well- city officials that it would reopen at some point. known actress in Romania and the theater’s director since The increased exposure, Morgenstern said, put pressure Nicolae Botezatu, sitting, with the rest of the cast of 2012, recalled in September during an interview. on officials to solve the problem of the dilapidated theater, Romania’s Jewish State Theater last year. (Photo courtesy So they didn’t. Morgenstern – who is best known which was founded in the eastern Romanian city of Iasi and of Jewish State Theater) internationally for playing Mary, the mother of Jesus, in moved into the Bucharest building in 1941. For example, Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” – and the the- the decision to perform outside the ruined theater did not sit It made a huge dent in the municipal budget, which is so well with the mayor’s office, Morgenstern said. “They asked overstretched that even celebrations of Romania’s national twice if we don’t mind to stop performing,” she recalled. day are canceled occasionally for lack of funds. But Morgenstern, 55, persisted, citing her employees’ As city officials debated the problem, Morgenstern’s salaries, which are paid by the state. (Morgenstern earns team leveraged her celebrity status and the media’s interest about $13,000 annually, a figure she revealed earlier this in the colorful spectacle outside the building to pressure year to protest low wages in Romania’s cultural sector.) “So City Hall. “This show is meant to be a warning to public if we get paid, we need to perform,” she said. “And if the opinion, but also for the authorities,” said a statement state doesn’t give us a theater, we’ll perform in this field. announcing the open-air production in February 2014 of “It wasn’t like we were protesting or anything,” she “Mazl Tov – And Justice For All!” – a musical comedy added with a smile. about the role of humor in Jewish tradition featuring Yiddish Immediately following the collapse, city officials told the and Romanian songs. “Do not let a theater with a unique media that the building would be repaired. Behind the scenes, tradition and identity disappear from Europe’s cultural however, a blame game was being played: Local officials and landscape because of carelessness.” a contractor entrusted with preserving the building argued over And disappear it didn’t. Last year, the Jewish State each other’s responsibility and that of the theater. Theater – boasting a shiny new metal roof, reinforced A view of the collapsed roof of Bucharest’s Jewish State The sum required for restoring the theater, which was foundations and a new wooden floor – reopened in time Theater in 2014. (Photo courtesy of Jewish State Theater) last renovated in 1956, was staggering at nearly $3 million. See “Theater” on page 11

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Earmark more, visit www.BankersLife.com/TopTips6. November 10-16, 2017 Page 9 - The Reporter As the Romans did: discoveries show Jerusalem’s transformation after destruction By Adam Abrams The newly revealed eight stone courses of the Western Wall JNS.org had been hidden beneath 26 feet of earth and were perfectly Israeli archaeologists recently unveiled the results of preserved after being excavated. The Roman theater contains large-scale excavations that lend unprecedented insight approximately 200 seats and, according to archaeologists, into the transformation of Jerusalem around the time of required a “great deal” of investment in its construction. its destruction during the Second Temple period more One of the most significant aspects of the discoveries than 2,000 years ago. The discoveries – including massive is that they exhibit “the cultural change that Jerusalem portions of the Western Wall unseen for 1,700 years and underwent around the Second Temple period, when Jerusa- an ancient Roman theater – were made in excavations lem was a Jewish city with , which after the conducted during the past two years in Jerusalem’s Old destruction turned into a Roman city with Roman culture,” City. The findings were disclosed at a press conference IAA archaeologist Tehillah Lieberman told JNS.org. held by the Israel Antiquity Authority beneath Wilson’s “The Romans needed different buildings,” she said. Arch in the Western Wall Tunnels. “They had different structures with different uses… the focus and the center of the city had to change, and that’s what we see in Wilson’s Arch. We see how the street Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Tehillah from the Second Temple was dismantled and in its place Lieberman at the newly discovered ancient Roman theater a Roman theater-like structure was built facing its back in Jerusalem. (Photo by Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities to [the] Temple Mount, and this tells us the story of what Authority) happened to Jerusalem after the destruction.” Israel Hasson, director-general of the IAA, said the similar arches that formed a large bridge leading up to the findings “enhance the importance of expanding - thear Temple Mount compound from the west. chaeological excavations in this region” in order to unveil “When we started the excavations, there were three ancient Jerusalem. opinions regarding the age of Wilson’s Arch,” Lieberman The excavation project was initiated with the intention said. “We wanted to see which opinion was correct. One of accurately dating Wilson’s Arch, which is believed to opinion held that the arch originated from the Second be the only structure from the Temple Mount compound Temple period. If Wilson’s Arch really is from the Second of the Second Temple period that remains intact today. The Temple period, it means that it’s the only complete structure arch, which stands above the Western Wall’s foundations, is standing today in Jerusalem from that time.” A view of the Wilson’s Arch excavation in Jerusalem’s named after 19th-century explorer Charles William Wilson, According to Lieberman, all other known structures Western Wall Tunnels. (Photo by Yaniv Berman/Israel who identified it in 1864. It is constructed from enormous dating back to the Second Temple period, including the Antiquities Authority) stones, and is the only remaining arch from a series of Western Wall, have signs of destruction. On the other hand, Wilson’s Arch “is complete from its foundation all the way to the top of the arch and its connection to the Bible Continued from page 6 Western Wall,” she said. The book is worth north of $3 million, according to To verify that the arch dates to the Second Temple the university’s Joanine Library, which in 2013 was rec- period, archaeologists sent samples from inside the arch ognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. That’s where and its connecting pillar for carbon dating tests. “We’re the Bible is kept – along with hundreds of other precious At right: The 15th- still waiting for the official results,” said Lieberman. “The manuscripts – inside a huge vault with special climate century Abravanel excavation isn’t finished yet, and I hope that as it goes on, control and aerial disinfection facilities. Hebrew Bible at we’ll be able to give a more accurate date.” The vault is typically only opened to scholars. Yet last Portugal’s Coimbra As the IAA team awaits the results, Lieberman said she year, Amaral took JTA inside to see the Bible. There was University (Photo by believes the arch “has been standing in its place since the a brief moment of confusion when the employee asked to Cnaan Liphshiz) Second Temple period.” She bases her assessment on how locate the book said she could not find it in the index system. Wilson’s Arch relates to the other architectural elements at But Amaral, who has worked at the library for more than 20 the excavation site. “On the supporting pillar of the arch, years, shrugged and said calmly that he would have to “let there are five openings that look like five little rooms,” said the fingers do the looking” once inside the vault. Lieberman. “The theater-like structure [that was uncovered Amaral may have been laid back, but he was anything Language differences aside, the printed book looks in the dig] blocks the entrance to two of them.” but cavalier. He expertly navigated the labyrinthine vault – similar to the handwritten one. Both have illustrations and This, she said, “means [the theater] definitely has to two cards with digital keys are required for access – while hand-drawn margins that writers used to keep their text post-date the pillar of the arch and the arch itself.” donning librarian gloves. He took care not to breathe directly straight before the invention of print. Archaeologists also found plaster from Jewish ritual on the books he handled, so as not to introduce moisture. That’s no accident, Amaral said. “The margins and baths “on the other side of that same pillar… which means Alongside its technological solutions, the library employs drawings were added to the printed copy to make it seem it has to be from some time between the first and second a uniquely time-tested and green method for pest control: as though it was handwritten,” he said. This retrograding century,” said Lieberman. For centuries, it has been home to a colony of nocturnal, was partly done for aesthetic reasons – readers were used Lieberman believes the future holds discoveries that insect-eating bats. In the evenings, when the library is closed, to seeing them – and partly as a “precaution,” Amaral said, could date even earlier than “everything that has been the tables beneath their flight paths are covered with furs in because some Christian fanatics considered print machines exposed up until now,” speculating that artifacts from the order to protect them from the bats’ excrement. “the works of the devil.” First Temple period could be found. The University of Coimbra has little information on how Thousands were murdered during a series of Portuguese “Time after time,” said Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, rabbi of exactly it came to possess the Abravanel Hebrew Bible, pos- Inquisitions that followed the Spanish Inquisition of 1492. At the Western Wall, “the amazing archaeological findings allow sibly because it was hidden or scrubbed from the library’s least 200,000 Jews fled the Iberian Peninsula for the Nether- our generation to actually touch the ancient history of our people indexes to hide it from Inquisition agents. What makes the lands, South America and the Middle East during the period, and Jewish heritage, and its deep connection to Jerusalem.” Abravanel Bible so rare, however, isn’t just its age – it’s the which lasted nearly three centuries. Thousands more stayed pristine condition. Across the Iberian Peninsula, numerous and practiced Judaism in secret for generations. books remain that Jews smuggled out during centuries of The library’s archives also contain rare, chilling re- Advertisers! Inquisition, at risk to their own lives, but they are damaged. cords that reveal the bureaucracy behind the Inquisition’s One such specimen: A 1282 copy of the Mishneh Torah, barbarity. For example, the minutes of a 1729 trial against the code of Jewish religious law authored by Rabbi Moshe Manuel Benosh, a Portuguese Jew, indicated that he was Chanukah ben Maimon, or . The book has whole passages “released” by the Inquisition to civil authorities with an that an Inquisition censor singed away, making them lost instruction that he be “punished in flesh” – a euphemism forever. It’s kept at the 400-year-old library at the Portuguese for a death sentence by burning. is coming! Synagogue in Amsterdam, which was founded by refugees Outside of Lisbon, Coimbra University is the largest from the Inquisition. owner of Portuguese Inquisition verdicts. “It was a mission Your ad could be in one of our The second-rarest specimen at Coimbra’s library is that made this place not only a victim and opponent of upcoming Chanukah Gifts ad section! another Bible dating to the 15th century. The Latin-lan- the horrors of the Inquisition, but also a witness to them,” guage volume was one of the world’s first printed books, Amaral said. prepared by partners of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor True to its tradition of defiance, the library was also one Chanukah Gifts I of the print machine. Printed in 1462 – just 12 years after of the few institutions to openly refuse to comply with the Issue Date: November 24 the original 42-line Gutenberg Bible, which is on display censorship policies of the regime of Antonio de Oliveira Ad deadline: November 16 in Mainz, Germany – the one in Coimbra is the only sur- Salazar, Portugal’s pro-fascist dictator of 34 years, until 1968. viving copy of an edition of four 48-line Bibles printed “Again there were the same tricks as during the Inquisition,” Chanukah Gifts II by two of his partners. Amaral said. “In the end, we now see who has prevailed.” Issue Date: December 1 Ad deadline: November 21

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Weekly Parasha Giving of oneself through chesed

Chaye Sarah, Genesis 23:1–25:18 RABBI ELIAV BOCK, DIRECTOR OF RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES

Standing 200 feet away from the blazing building, scared people, some whom we knew, some who had only heard family. Later in the story, when discussing the betrothal and cold, I wondered what would come next. And then, our story, reached out and offered kindness, support and with Laban and Bethuel, the slave again asks that they as 200-plus counselors and campers walked arm in arm love. The world that often emerges from tragedy is one treat him with chesed. Doing chesed is the lynchpin of toward the predetermined assembly point, I saw the first of kindness. But why should it take a tragedy to bring out creating Abraham’s legacy. red and blue lights of what would become about a dozen the best in humanity? Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote an incredible book called emergency vehicles in total. At Camp Ramah in Colorado One of the most basic concepts in Judaism is first “To Heal a Fractured World” in the early 2000s to respond this summer, we saw first-hand the incredible power to reach mentioned in the Torah in parashat Chaye Sarah, that of to what he saw was a breaking apart of civility in our out and help strangers for no other reason other than the chesed. Abraham sends his slave back to Sarah’s birth-clan modern society. In it, he delves deep within our tradition strangers (in this case us) needed help and it was the right to find a wife for his son, Isaac. Abraham’s slave asks God to understand the core texts and values that underlie our thing to do. Each emergency responder offered not only to do chesed with him by finding a woman who will not religious framework. He offers a view of religion based on their rescue services, but also their kind words; some even only water her camels, but also his. According to Rashi “ethics of responsibility,” not on the minutia of religious gave hugs. In the hours, days and weeks after this event, (24:14), it is through this act of doing chesed that the ritual. In this work, Sacks refers to chesed as “covenant long after the charred remains had cooled, countless other woman will prove herself worthy of joining Abraham’s See “Chesed” on page 11 Congregational Notes Beth David Synagogue Temple Concord Temple Israel Affiliation: Orthodox Union Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism Orientation: Conservative Rabbi: Zev Silber Rabbi: Barbara Goldman-Wartell Rabbi: Geoffrey Brown Address: 39 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 9 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 4737 Deerfield Pl., Vestal, NY 13850 Phone: 607-722-1793 Office hours: Tues.-Fri., 10 am-2 pm Phone: 723-7461 and 231-3746 Rabbi’s Office: 607-722-7514 Phone: 723-7355, Fax: 723-0785 Office hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30 am-4 pm; Fri. 8 am-3 pm. Fax: 607-722-7121 Office e-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Office hours: Mon. closed; Tues. 10 am-1 pm; Wed. closed; Website: www.templeconcord.com Website: www.templeisraelvestal.org Thurs. 9 am-1 pm; Fri. 10 am-1 pm Regular service times: Friday, 8 pm; Saturday, 10:35 am, when Service Schedule: Tuesday and Friday, 5:30 pm; Saturday, Beth David e-mail address: [email protected] religious school is in session. 9:30 am. Rabbi’s e-mail: [email protected] On Friday, November 10, at 8 pm, the Shabbat evening On Friday, November 10, will be held at Website: www.bethdavid.org services with Rabbi Goldman-Wartell and Jason Flatt will 5:30 pm. Facebook: www.facebook.com/bethdavidbinghamton Shabbat Services: honor veterans and remember Kristallnacht. The service is The bat of Sonia Horowitz will take place Friday, November 10...... 4:30 pm also welcoming people of other faiths as part of the Children on Saturday, November 11, at 9:30 am. Services will be Shabbat, November 11...... 9 am of Abraham of the Southern Tier House of Worship Visits led by Rabbi Geoffrey Brown. The Torah portion will be ...... Mincha/Maariv 5:50 pm this fall. Guests will be welcomed prior to services at 7:45 Genesis 23:1-25:18. The haftarah will be I Kings 1:1-31. Weekday Services: pm. An oneg Shabbat will follow the service. The kiddush sponsor will be Phyllis Heller. Mornings: On Saturday, November 11, at 9 am, there will be religious On Tuesday, November 14, at 1:30 pm, there will be Sun., November 12...... 8:30 am school; at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study; at 9:30 am, a Sisterhood open program meeting. Members are asked Mon.-Fri., Nov. 13-17...... 7 am Evenings: Tot Shabbat for children ages 1-4 and accompanying adults; to bring ideas for future events. Those who plan to attend Sun., November 12...... 4:30 pm and at 10:35 am, there will be a Shabbat family service with should RSVP to the temple office. Mon.-Thurs., Nov.13-16...... 7 pm birthday blessings led by Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell On Wednesday, November 15, at 7 pm, the second Classes: Rabbi Zev Silber will hold his weekly Talmud class and Jeff Strosberg. session of the Hebrew Crash will be held. every Tuesday evening after services. On Sunday, November 12, the last day of Whale of a On Tuesday, November 21, at 7 pm, there will be a On Thursday, November 16, there will be a synagogue Sale, including a bag sale, will be held from 10 am-4 pm. Board of Trustees meeting. board meeting at 6 pm. The temple office will be closed Wednesday-Friday, Congregation Tikkun v’Or November 22-24, for the Thanksgiving holiday. Rohr Chabad Center Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism Affiliation: Chabad-Lubavitch Address: PO Box 3981, Ithaca, NY 14852; 2550 Triphammer Rd. Penn-York Jewish Community Rabbi: Aaron Slonim, E-mail: [email protected] (corner of Triphammer and Burdick Hill), Lansing, NY President and Treasurer-Secretary: Harvey Chernosky, Address: 420 Murray Hill Rd., Vestal, NY 13850 Phone: 607-256-1471 570-265-3869 Phone: 797-0015 Website: www.tikkunvor.org B’nai B’rith: William H. Seigel Lodge Fax: 797-0095 E-mail: [email protected] Purpose: To promote through religious, Website: www.Chabadofbinghamton.com Presidents: Miranda Phillips and Shawn Murphy cultural, educational and social activities in the Southern Chabad on the West Side Rabbi: Brian Walt Tier of New York and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, Rabbi: Zalman Chein, E-mail: [email protected] Religious School Director/Admin. Coordinator: Naomi Wilensky including Waverly, NY; Sayre, Athens and Towanda, PA, Address: 27 Bennet Ave., Binghamton, NY 13905 Services: Fridays at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Family and surrounding communities. Phone: 722-3252 services and Tot Shabbat once a month at 6:30 pm. Call for Regular service times: Daily 7:30 am, Friday evening 6 pm, weekly schedules. Temple Beth-El of Ithaca Shabbat morning 9:30 am, Maariv and Havdalah one hour Religious School: Preschool through seventh-grade classes Affiliation: United Synagogue of after candle-lighting time, Sundays 9:30 am. meet on Sunday mornings. Sixth-grade Hebrew and seventh- Rabbi: Scott L. Glass Linking Hearts for youngsters with special needs: This program grade b’nai mitzvah classes meet on Wednesday afternoons. Address: 402 North Tioga St. (the corner of Court and Tioga connects Jewish special-needs children and teenagers, ages Adult Ed: Mini courses throughout the year. Adult Hebrew offered streets), Ithaca, NY 14850-4292 5-14, who have mental, physical and/or functional disabilities, regularly. Call the office for details. Phone: 273-5775 with student volunteers who will visit participating youngsters E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] weekly in their homes. Temple Beth El of Oneonta Website: www.tbeithaca.org To join the mailing list, for up-to-date information on adult Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism President: Jerry Davis education offerings or to arrange for a private tutorial, for Rabbi: Molly Karp Sisterhood President: Julie Paige details concerning the Judaica shop and resource center, or Address: 83 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820 Director of Education: Rabbi Suzanne Brody for assistance through the Piaker Free Loan Society or Raff Mailing address: P.O. Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 Administrative Assistant: Jane Griffith Maasim Tovim Foundation, call Chabad’s office at 797-0015. Phone: 607-432-5522 Services: Friday 8 pm; Saturday 10 am, unless otherwise Website: www.templebetheloneonta.org announced. Weekday morning minyan 7:30 am (9 am on Norwich Jewish Center E-mail: [email protected] Sundays and legal holidays). Orientation: Inclusive Regular service times: visit the temple website for days of Religious School/Education: September-May: Classes meet on Rabbi: Dena Bodian services and times Sunday, 9 am-12:30 pm and Wednesday afternoons, 3:45-5:45 Address: 72 South Broad St., Norwich, NY 13815 Religious School/Education: Religious School, for grades pm. The Midrashah (eighth-grade and high school) classes Contact: Guilia Greenberg, 373-5087 kindergarten through bar/bat mitzvah, meets Sunday mornings. will meet at times designated by their respective teachers. Purpose: To maintain a Jewish identity and meet the needs Rabbi Karp conducts services and holds classes in Torah, Adult Ed.: Numerous weekly courses, several semester-long of the Jewish community in the area. beginning Hebrew and Maimonides. courses and a variety of mini-courses and lectures are offered Adult Ed.: Saturday morning study is held at 10 am. Call for For the schedule of services, classes and events, see the website. throughout the year. Call the temple office for more details. more information and to confirm. On Friday-Saturday, November 10-11, at 6:15 pm, the Temple Brith Sholom bat mitzvah of Meital Brody, daughter of Rabbi Suzanne Kol Haverim Affiliation: Unaffiliated and Marcus Brody, will be celebrated. Affiliation: Society for Humanistic Judaism Address: P.O. Box 572, 117 Madison St., Cortland, NY 13045 On Sunday, November 12, from 3:30-5 pm, in the Address: P.O. Box 4972, Ithaca, NY 14852-4972 Phone: 607-756-7181 TBE social hall, Ithaca Area United Jewish Communi- Phone: 607-277-3345 President: Louis Wilson, [email protected] ty will host a talk on the Jewish community of Tbilisi, E-mail: [email protected] Service leaders: Lay leadership Website: www.kolhaverim.net Shabbat services: Either Friday evening at 7:30 pm or Saturday Georgia, given by Cornell University students who took Chairman: Jonathan Joseph at 10 am from to . Holiday services an alternative summer break trip there. Kol Haverim: The Finger Lakes Community for Humanistic are also held. Check the weekly e-mail for upcoming services. On Friday-Saturday, November 17-18, the bat mitzvah Judaism, is an Ithaca-based organization that brings people Contact the president to get on the e-mail list. of Johanna Sofia Monosoff Pancaldo, daughter of Mia together to explore and celebrate Jewish identity, history, Religious School: Students are educated on an individual basis. Pancaldo, will be celebrated. culture and ethics within a secular, humanistic framework. Temple Brith Sholom is a small equalitarian congregation serving On Saturday, November 18, from 6-7:30 pm, the KH is part of an international movement for Secular the greater Cortland community. Congregants span the gamut of Humanistic Judaism and is affiliated with the Society for observance and services are largely dependent on the service USY youth group members will make their own pickles Humanistic Judaism, a national association with over 30 leader. The Friday night siddur is “Likrat Shabbat,” while the in Temple Beth-El’s main and learn why they member communities and congregations around the country. Saturday morning siddur is “Gates of Prayer.” The community are such a staple to American Jewish . E-mail Established in the spring of 1999, it offers celebrations of extends a warm welcome to the Jewish student population of questions/RSVP to [email protected]. Jewish holidays, monthly Shabbat pot-lucks, adult education, SUNY Cortland, as well as the residents of local adult residences. On Sunday, November 19, the Pre-Chanukah Sister- a twice-monthly Cultural School for children, and a bar and hood Gift Shop Sale will take place from 9 am-12:30 bat mitzvah program. KH welcomes all individuals and families, including those Friday, November 10, light candles...... 4:28 pm pm; the Kadima youth group will go ice skating from from mixed religious backgrounds, who wish to strengthen Shabbat ends Saturday, November 11...... 5:28 pm 1-2:30 pm at Cass Park (RSVP to tbeneshama@gmail. the Jewish experience in their lives and provide their children Friday, November 17, light candles...... 4:22 pm com); and at 3 pm, the ACT Multi-Faith Thanksgiving with a Jewish identity and experience. Shabbat ends Saturday, November 18...... 5:22 pm Service will be held at St. Catherine of Siena church. November 10-16, 2017 Page 11 - The Reporter

Africa Continued from page 2 Abayudaya Jewish community in eastern Uganda. Jewish Community Center At the same time, Africa boasts 11 out of the 20 fast- est-growing economies on the planet, according to the World JCC Friendship Club Bank, and its billion-plus population will double by 2050. For this economic and humanitarian potential to be unleashed, at least two obstacles have to be overcome – The JCC Friendship Club met on November 1. Several added that a good friend will not disappoint you. Sylvia one-self-inflicted, the other political. members were out sick. We wish a speedy recovery to Morty Diamond said that a friend will help you in time of need. The self-inflicted thorn in the side of Israeli-African re- Hofstein and Ann Brillant. Those of us who came enjoyed We continued the discussion by remembering incidents lations has been the treatment of African asylum seekers in the refreshments of and cookies. Sue Herzog read the in our past about a good friend. It is interesting to hear Israel. The Israeli High Court has consistently ruled against article “The Test of a True Friend” from a “Treasury of because we all came from different backgrounds, but we the government’s treatment of the 46,000 people considered Jewish Folklore.” Rabbi Moshe Shmaryahu stopped in and all agreed about having a good friend. “infiltrators,” as if those fleeing Eritrea and Sudan – both joined the discussion. He said that God created Adam. He The meeting on Wednesday, November 15, will be a mu- cruel dictatorships – are simply economic refugees. continued by saying that it is not good to be alone so God sical one, featuring Deb Foreman on the piano. Come join us A new strategy is needed: turning over to Mashav created a friend for him. for friendship and nosh. We will meet at the JCC at 1:30 pm. the Holot Detention Center to train Africans in the latest We talked about the qualities a good friend should have. Sylvia Diamond Israeli water, agricultural and green energy technologies. Sue said a friend will tell you the truth. Renee Fromer President Those who would graduate and leave voluntarily could be emissaries from Israel on how to transform Africa, and they would have the skills to begin their lives anew and Far-right Continued from page 2 prosper. Plenty of African countries would line up to woo as a source confirmed to theForward . Ultimately, members National LGBTQ Task Force. these newly skilled Africans if they brought the blessing of of the AJHS board decided to cancel the events, with AJHS Activists like these appear all too happy to see those Israeli know-how, technology and investments with them. stating that “they do not align with the mission of the AJHS.” with whom they disagree shut down or shouted down. And Mostly political threats led to the postponement of an The Jewish community does have genuine problems with they seem equally happy to aggressively try to co-opt the Africa Israel Summit with African heads of state and Israeli campaigns to stigmatize and shut down people based on Jewish institutions to which they can gain entry. When they leaders that was supposed to take place in Lome, Togo, at their views on Israel. Too often those who criticize Israel are denied, they kvetch about being silenced. the end of October. The postponement was due to a toxic – liberal Zionists and anti-Zionists alike – are subjected AJHS was the collateral damage. Now it faces the wrath combination of political unrest in the West African state, a to campaigns of invective and incitement. The right-wing of those who were wrongly led to believe that AJHS “caved” concerted effort by South Africa and Morocco to undermine campaign against David Myers is a prime example. to right-wing censors. And AJHS has alarmed constituents it, and the mounting political and legal challenges that the That’s not what happened at AJHS. Rather, an anti-- who wonder why a pre-eminent communal historical Israeli prime minister faces at home. Even so, the pace of ist fringe co-opted the programming of a mainstream Jewish institution would subcontract its Israel programming to a African-Israel engagement on many levels continues to institution, then cried “censorship” when the institution’s widely loathed anti-Zionist group. increase, especially with Christian heads of state. board realized what was going on and put a stop to it. But if AJHS came out as a loser, there were also win- The best answer to the diplomatic pressure that caused Moreover, JVP and Fishback don’t exactly have the ners. The incident gave new ammunition to those on the the postponement of the Africa Israel Summit would be for strongest standing to complain about shutting down or far right who are now trying to smear David Myers and the Netanyahu to appoint member Avraham Neguise stigmatizing others. This is the same JVP that tried to Center for Jewish History for the programming decisions as Israel’s foreign minister. Dr. Neguise, a Likud member, shame LGBT supporters of Israel who marched in this of AJHS, an independent organization. And JVP gets to is the only Ethiopian member of the 20th Knesset and was past summer’s Celebrate Israel parade in New York by resume its favorite posture: righteous “silenced” victim. seated strategically next to Sara Netanyahu when her hus- disrupting their contingent. This is the same Fishback who Daniel Treiman, a recent graduate of New York Uni- band wowed the Ethiopian parliament last year. Netanyahu defended pro-Palestinian activists who shut down an event versity School of Law, is a former managing editor of JTA currently holds the foreign minister portfolio. by a pro-Israel LGBT group at a conference hosted by the and a former opinion editor of the Forward. Sixty years after Golda Meir’s historic mission to Africa, it is time for Israel to have an African foreign minister. This Continued from page 8 will be met joyfully by world Jewry and the world at large, Theater sealing Cheshvan’s transformed sweet status and elevating to host Romania’s first international Yiddish 10,000, non-Jews account for the majority the Israeli-African story into our mainstream consciousness. theater event, with troupes appearing from of the thousands of people who come to the Yosef I. Abramowitz serves as CEO of Energiya Global Canada, the United States, Israel and Germany. Jewish State Theater to see its productions Capital, a Jerusalem-based impact investment platform, City officials said they had worked tirelessly – a varied repertoire ranging from classics and is a founding partner of the U.S. Power Africa program. from the get-go to resolve the issue. While that by Avrom Goldfadn and Sholem Aleichem to He is co-author with Sharon Udasin of the forthcoming may be true, Marcel Draghici, the theater’s irreverent satires by Israeli cinematographer “Shine on! A Solar Superhero’s Journey to Save the World.” longtime executive producer, believes the Hillel Mittelpunkt. Follow Abramowitz @KaptainSunshine. outdoor performances “are part of the reason And though they don’t speak a word of we reopened last year,” he told JTA. Yiddish, some of the regulars prefer per- Putting on a major production in an empty formances in that language. “I follow the Chesed Continued from page 10 and frozen field was certainly a challenge, added subtitles in Romanian,” said Elena Albu, a love… an open-ended relationship lived toward an unknown Draghici, who like most of the theater’s employ- Maia Morgenstern at 23-year-old university student who comes to future” (page 45). He argues that chesed is a deep religious ees is not Jewish. “But, in a way,” he said, “it her Jewish State Theater the theater at least twice a year. “But I prefer value with a reciprocal nature: it is a “gift of love that gets felt like we were connecting to the old history office in Bucharest on to go to the Yiddish productions because it’s love” (page 46). He is clear that chesed is not tzedakah. of Jewish theater, which was often performed September 11. (Photo by like reconnecting to the rich culture this city When doing chesed, one gives of oneself: love, kindness outside in shtetls, without theater houses.” Cnaan Liphshiz) and country lost.” or even a kind word. It is profound, because it requires The theater performs mostly in Yiddish now human on human interaction to both people one knows before a predominantly non-Jewish crowd. And while the NEWS IN BRIEF and people one does not. actors take special language courses, they don’t always The narratives of our patriarchs are crucial to our learning understand the exact meaning of the words they recite on how to live as people in the world today. They are the stories stage, several of them said. From JNS.org on which our entire religion is based. Our patriarchs were Though speaking in Yiddish can lead to thespian Egypt’s El-Sisi: and Palestinians not perfect, and certainly there are aspects of their family complications, the language barrier was a boon during and character we might never want to emulate. But the re- the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, who can achieve peace peated emphasis of chesed, and the constant demonstration ruled Romania with an iron fist until his overthrow and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said that he by Abraham of how to treat others, is certainly one that we execution in 1989. “Because we were talking Yiddish on believes a peace deal can be reached between Israel and the should model. Not just Jews, but anyone who claims to be stage, we could say things that weren’t allowed to be said Palestinians. “We are trying, together with all sides who can a descendant of Abraham should be putting this value at in Romania,” Rudi Rosenfeld, 75, a Jewish actor who contribute their part to this issue. The United States is the the forefront of their religious expression. has been involved in the theater since the late 1940s, told main world power that can steer the peace process toward Almost 15 years after Sacks wrote his book, our world The New York Times earlier this year. “The audience had a better future,” El-Sisi told the London-based Arabic daily needs his words even more. We have seen throughout the headphones on and our colleagues were translating into newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on Nov. 7. “We, the Arabs, can past few months, on a national scale, the chesed performed Romanian, but they would skip the sensitive parts.” convince public opinion in Israel of the advantages of peace. after a disaster: Houston, Florida, Las Vegas and Puerto Morgenstern was among several dozen Jews who gathered The benefits gained following the agreement between Egypt Rico, just to name a few. What we do not see enough of is at the theater and stayed there during the chaotic days of the and Israel are evidence of that. Finding a solution to the Pal- the day-to-day chesed when talking with those whom we bloody revolt against Ceausescu in which security police estinian issue will bring about a new situation in the region. do not know in the course of our daily interactions. When killed dozens of protesters. “It was my second home,” she Our brothers in the Gulf states understand this issue,” he said. looking at the driver of a pick-up truck with a Trump sticker said. “We went there because it offered us a sense of safety.” on it, or a minivan with a Hillary ‘16 sticker on it, too often The only time that Yiddish was not permitted at the we make assumptions about those people and fail to begin theater was during World War II, when the pro-Nazi re- with the same sense of chesed that is the underpinning gime of Ion Antonescu allowed the institution to remain oler schach Happy Chanukah from our religious tradition. We open the paper and onto open, even as preparations were made for the murder of oler schach any news site, and we see headlines filled with vitriol for half of Romania’s Jewish population of 800,000. 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JNS briefs Nov. 7, 2017 From JNS.org Theresa May praises UK’s role in creation of Israel Watchdog calls for probe into Rutgers professor who Marking the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, British Prime Minister Theresa accused Israel of organ trafficking May praised her country’s role in helping pave the way for the creation of the state of Israel. At a dinner attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as a host of other British UN Watch, an international human rights group, is calling on the U.S. to launch an in- and Israeli dignitaries, May said the U.K. is proud “of the relationship we have built with Is- vestigation into Rutgers University’s Prof. Mazen Adi, who has “deep ties” with the Syrian rael,” and called for “renewed resolve to support a lasting peace that is in the interests of both government and has accused Israel of organ trafficking. “The U.S. government needs to Israelis and Palestinians.” Netanyahu, who was on a five-day visit to the U.K., said that Israel is investigate how a longtime agent of the Syrian regime, close ally of Iran, was granted a visa “committed to peace” and that “the Palestinians should finally accept the Jewish national home to work and teach in America,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “It ought and finally accept the Jewish state.” Issued in November 1917, the Balfour Declaration offered to be a matter of profound concern that an American university would allow an apologist for Britain’s support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” the Syrian regime’s genocide to be a teacher.” Adi joined Rutgers as an adjunct professor in 2015. He teaches international criminal law, political science, and United Nations and global IDF says it will protect Syrian Druze village bordering Golan policy studies. According to The Algemeiner, the Rutgers professor has “deep ties” to the (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) – A resident of the Israeli Druze village of Majdal Assad regime, working for the Syrian Foreign Ministry in various roles since 1998, including Shams, in the northern Golan Heights, suffered a gunshot wound on Nov. 3 from what the as a diplomat and legal adviser at Syria’s U.N. Mission from 2007-14. Adi has often spoken IDF said was apparent spillover from fighting between the Syrian army and rebel forces. out in favor of the Assad regime, which has been accused of perpetrating war crimes and IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis said in a statement that the military was pre- crimes against humanity during the Syrian2x2 Civil War. 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