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Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF OTTAWA ottawa jewish ✡ Tefilateinu page 11 ottawajewishbulletin.com bulletinoctober 28, 2013 volume 78, no. 4 cheshvan 24, 5774 Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. • 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, Ontario K2A 1R9 • Publisher: Andrea Freedman • Editor: Michael Regenstreif $2.00 Former CNN correspondent describes her ‘unlikely journey’ Linda Scherzer tells Choices audience “miraculous” happened when she picked up the book Exodus by about moving from reporting on Israel Leon Uris and was so inspired, she felt compelled to see Israel for her- to advocating on its behalf self. In 1987, she went on a Jewish singles mission only to fall in love By Ilana Belfer After studies at Brandeis Uni- with her Israeli tour guide. Life choices are what led Linda versity in Massachusetts and He was part of the reason she Scherzer, a Jewish girl from Mon- Northwestern University in Il- chose to return to Israel a year lat- treal, to the front lines of “one of linois, she began her career as a er. the most bitter and protracted con- television journalist with a local Although the romance eventu- fl icts on the international scene,” station in Burlington, Vermont – ally hit a snag, her career and love as a CNN correspondent in Israel. all the while removed from the for the country fl ourished. CNN More than 250 women were on Jewish community and aspects of was only eight years old at the hand, October 8, at Agudath Israel Jewish identity. time and, thus, she said, “Some- Congregation, to hear Scherzer’s “I was on that path,” she said, body like me with a little bit of keynote address at the seventh an- pointing to the recent Pew Re- chutzpah and a grand sense of ad- nual Choices dinner in support of search Center Survey of U.S. Jews venture was able to knock on their the Jewish Federation of Ottawa that shows 32 per cent of Jews door and get hired as a junior cor- Women’s Campaign. born after 1980 do not identify as respondent.” “It was an unlikely journey,” Jewish by religion, and an inter- Just like that, she went from said Scherzer, who noted she marriage rate of 58 per cent, with covering cow watches, teachers’ dropped out of the Shaar Hasho- many intermarried couples not (From left) Choices Chair Shari Silber, keynote speaker Linda Scher- strikes and city council meetings zer, and Women’s Campaign Chair Leiba Krantzberg at the Choices mayim Hebrew School just before raising their children as Jews. in Burlington to a full-blown in- event, October 8, at Agudath Israel Congregation. her bat mitzvah. Until, she said, something (Continued on page 2) (Photo: Howard Sandler) Grants will support preservation of video testimonies of Holocaust survivors Video testimonies from sur- brave individuals and ensure that Holocaust survivor testimonies in March of the Living is an annu- A statement from Citizenship vivors of the Holocaust will be the horrible events of the Holo- schools; the Montreal Holocaust al educational program that brings and Immigration Canada noted preserved, thanks to funding from caust are not forgotten, and ensure Memorial Centre and the Sarah students from around the world to “these projects support Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Can- that such atrocities never happen and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust explore the remnants of the Holo- goal, as 2013 Chair of the Inter- ada, Minister for Multiculturalism again.” Education Centre in Toronto will caust, and the March of the Living national Holocaust Remembrance Jason Kenney announced on Oc- Through Inter-Action, Cana- work in partnership to digitize Digital Archive Project, chaired Alliance, to promote Holocaust tober 10. da’s multiculturalism grants and existing footage of Holocaust sur- by Evan Zelikovitz of Ottawa, will remembrance, research and ed- “Canada has been profoundly contributions program, support vivors’ testimonies; and a digital receive $132,000 in funding. ucation across Canada. Federal shaped by approximately 40,000 will be provided to four organiza- archive of Holocaust survivor tes- “It’s a great start and gives us support will enable these organi- Holocaust survivors who resettled tions to preserve Holocaust survi- timonies taken during the March the momentum to begin to carry zations to educate Canadians on across our country after World vors’ testimonials. of the Living will be created by this important project forward,” what Holocaust survivors went War II,” said Kenney. The Vancouver Holocaust Ed- the Jewish Federations of Cana- Zelikovitz told the Ottawa Jewish through and to make essential “As Canadians, it is our re- ucation Centre will support the da-United Israel Appeal of Cana- Bulletin, when news of the fund- teaching tools more accessible to sponsibility to learn from these preservation, access and use of da. ing was announced. Holocaust educators.” World Class Outsourcing ... and more! 613-744-6444 613-244-7225 Providing quality service 613-744-5767 613-244-4444 to the National Capital Region Publications Mail Registration No. 07519 since 1947! www.boydgroup.on.ca Page 2 – Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – October 28, 2013 Choices moved Scherzer away from journalism (Continued from page 1) In 1993, facing reassignment the New York Jewish Week, which tifada. As Barbara Crook noted in elsewhere, Scherzer chose to seeks to engage, educate and em- introducing her to the Choices au- leave CNN so she could stay in power high school juniors to be- dience, Scherzer is, perhaps, best Israel, and became the only North come defenders of Israel when known for an interview with Ben- American to work as an on-air they get to college. She spoke jamin Netanyahu through a gas correspondent for Mabat, a He- about the anti-Israel climate on mask while Israel was undergoing brew-language news program. many campuses. a scud missile attack. Scherzer, who, for about a de- “I stand here today as an un- Scherzer described those cade, had “a front row seat to his- apologetic former correspondent years as “intensely diffi cult” and tory,” used her experience and ex- for CNN, but one who is today a touched on the need to keep “pri- pertise to share some observations proud supporter of the State of Is- vate feelings and professional re- about changes within the Israeli dy- rael,” she said. sponsibility in two separate box- namic and its current affairs, touch- “The choices I have made in es,” but she did not recall stories ing on the Oslo Accord, Egypt and the last 15 years have steered me of witnessing bloodshed or experi- Syria, and her opinion that a two- away from journalism but closer encing life-threatening danger. state solution is in Israel’s best in- to the Jewish community, a place Rather, her focus and greatest terest, but only once there is a Pal- I never imagined I would want to challenge seemed to be a more estinian leader who acknowledges be,” Scherzer said. personal battle over the backlash Israel’s right to exist. “Our choices defi ne us,” said against the media from North Scherzer noted her political Choices Chair Shari Silber, re- American audiences. views have changed over the years minding the crowd of the Choices “You felt as though you repre- veering from being left-of-centre motto. She asked guests to consider sented a network and an industry to a more conservative right-of- the motivation and impact of their that was grossly unbalanced … centre. She retains her Israeli pass- choices – whether choosing to do- If we were Jewish reporters, we port, but now lives in New Jersey nate to the campaign or volunteer were self-hating Jews; if we were and has chosen to send her three at a critical community event. non-Jewish reporters, we were all children to Jewish day school. Women’s Campaign Chair anti-Semites,” she said. In her career, she has embraced Leiba Krantzberg gave an update Scherzer came to the defence subjectivity, working as a media on the status of the Federation’s of the press, arguing that, although and public relations consultant 2014 Annual Campaign. At the Keynote speaker Linda Scherzer speaks at the Choices event, some reporters can be ill informed with clients that include the Con- six-week point, she said, the Cam- October 8, at Agudath Israel Congregation. (Photo: Howard Sandler) and ignorant, and nothing excuses ference of Presidents of Major paign had raised $1,842,000, a that, she believes the majority of a TV journalist, especially in Isra- to edit up to 10 hours of video foot- American Jewish Organizations, 10.3 per cent increase on a gift by journalists in Canada and the Unit- el, dealing with the a complicated age down to a 90-second report. where she advises Jewish com- gift basis from last year. ed States approach their jobs with history, tight deadlines – especial- “The perceived bias of any re- munity leaders on how to combat Each of the women attending honesty and integrity. ly with the pressures brought on by porter or news network often de- negative media images of Israel. Choices had made a minimum She also painted a picture for new technologies and a constant, pends on who is watching the sto- She also started a program gift of $150 to the Women’s Cam- the audience of what it’s like to be 24-hour news cycle – and having ry,” she said. called Write On for Israel with paign. Leslie Kaufman appointed to new Federation and Foundation position By Louise Rachlis Foundation. she wants some staff facing inward Enthusiastic and bubbly, Les- The position is one of two in the community and some facing lie Kaufman began her second vice-presidencies created in the outward.
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