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BY MONIQUE ELLIOT ongoing support and solidarity. sport,” said Federation Chair Steven service awards. The Jewish Federation of Ottawa unveiled After the meeting, many in the crowd Kimmel. It is a sign of a “healthy, evolving Mitchell Bellman, the former its fi ve-year strategic plan for 2014 to held up signs displaying the hashtag community” when members decide to Federation president and CEO, was 2019, celebrated the achievements of #BringBackOurBoys as photos were taken embrace change and take on leadership presented with the Gilbert Greenberg volunteers and lay leaders, and honoured to contribute to the international social roles. Distinguished Service Award, the highest three deserving award recipients at its media campaign on behalf of the three Leadership was also addressed in an tribute offered by Ottawa’s Jewish 80th annual general meeting, June 18, at Israeli teens. inspiring D’var Torah delivered by Rabbi community. the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. Federation vice-chair Linda Kerzner – Yehuda Simes and in comments by Over the course of his career at the The meeting began on a solemn note as who chaired the board committee that Federation President and CEO Andrea Federation, Bellman said many commun- Rabbi Barry Schlesinger of Agudath Israel developed the strategic plan – gave a Freedman. ity members repeatedly told him they Congregation led the assembly in prayer presentation outlining the process and The only way to become a more vibrant would never want his job as CEO, think- for the quick and safe return of Gilad major highlights of the fi ve-year plan. Jewish community is if more people ing it was thankless and diffi cult. Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach, (See the article on page 9 for detailed actively participate, said Freedman, “The truth of the matter is, I love the three Israeli teens abducted the week information on the strategic plan.) noting that attracting and developing serving the Jewish community,” Bellman before in the West Bank. As Kerzner noted, the strategic plan new volunteers and leaders is one of the said. “I love seeing the magic of what our Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak also was about inclusivity and building goals of the new strategic plan. collective actions can accomplish. I love expressed Israel’s concern for the kid- community, a theme that echoed A high point of the meeting came when helping people get the most out of their napped yeshiva students and thanked throughout the evening. Federation past-chair Debbie Halton- experiences.” Ottawa’s Jewish community for its “Building community is not a spectator Weiss presented the three community See AGM on page 2

PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER Community members and dignitaries including Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak attending the Federation AGM express their desire for the quick and safe return of the three Israeli teens kidnapped earlier this month.

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Continued from page 1 teerism and community leadership of Henry Molot received the Shem Tov someone under the age of 40. Community Volunteer Award, which Receiving the award “is an incredible recognizes an outstanding and active honour,” said Fathi. “It is so much a part community volunteer who, through of who I am and something I just love to many years of service, has contributed do.” to the enrichment of Jewish life in Fathi said she fi nally realized how Ottawa. much volunteering in the community Molot was recognized for his many truly means to her when she was asked years of engagement, service and leader- about her extensive volunteer experience ship within a diverse range of activities, when she was interviewing for her organizations and community agencies. “dream job” at Export Development While he never sought recognition for his Canada, where she now works. actions, Molot warrants it, said Halton- “I am a product of my environment,” Weiss. said Fathi, who attributed her love of Molot said he was surprised when he volunteerism to the examples set by her got the call and learned he would receive parents. the award this year. As recipient of the Freiman Family “It’s not false modesty on my part to Young Leadership Award, Fathi also recognize how many very active and received the Lawrence Greenberg Young deserving volunteers there are in the Leadership Development Award, which Jewish community, who make extra- will allow her to attend the General ordinary contributions to not only within Assembly of the Jewish Federations of the Jewish community, but also the North America (GA) where she will join other young leaders from across North PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER- Ottawa community-at-large,” he said. Mitchell Bellman (left) receives the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award from Robert Tamara Fathi received the Freiman America in being honoured. Greenberg, June 19, at the Federation AGM. Family Young Leadership Award, which This year’s GA will be in Washington, annually recognizes outstanding volun- D.C. from November 9 to 11.

PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER- Tamara Fathi receives the Lawrence Greenberg Young Leadership Development Award from PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER- Henry Molot receives the Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award from Debbie Halton-Weiss, Debbie Halton-Weiss, June 19, at the Federation AGM. Fathi was also the recipient of the June 19, at the Federation AGM. Freiman Family Young Leadership Award.

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fences in dire need of repair and a coat of yet been placed on each grave was a cause Cemetery offi cials cleaning up paint. for concern among some wishing to pay “We are aware of this and are working their respects at the graves that had been on this. We are very unhappy with the missed. Jewish Memorial Gardens situation, ourselves, and … we will not Freedman said the graves that had stop our efforts until the grounds are been regrettably missed by the original amid community complaints back in shape,” Freedman said. deadline of Father’s Day have now been Both the Bank Street and Greely- taken care of. BY MONIQUE ELLIOT complaints about the general appearance Osgoode locations had been impacted, The temporary contractor may become Cemetery offi cials say they are aware of of the cemeteries for several with Bank Street requiring greater permanent, and the board is exploring all community complaints about the weeks and at fi rst worked with the upkeep. Kardish said he had been seeing options, Freedman said, anticipating a worsening conditions at both Jewish contractor to resolve the issues, a decline in cemetery upkeep as far back resolution by late-June with community Memorial Gardens locations and have Freedman said. The contractor quit as 2009. announcements to follow. hired a temporary contractor to clean up in mid-June. Freedman said the board worked The Bank Street location is slated to both sites. David Kardish said he and his wife around the clock to get the grounds get a “major facelift” starting in spring “We have struggled for several years usually go to the Bank Street cemetery back up to their proper service levels, 2015. Some old trees will be removed and now to get the service levels of our every Mother’s Day and Father’s Day to which includes the temporary con- all of the roads leading into the cemetery maintenance to as high as possible a visit the graves of their parents. tractor that has already been working will be improved. A new road will run level, and we had a breakdown in service “We’re very upset because we found it on-site. along the back of the cemetery to allow levels this year due to problems we had to be very disrespectful; not only for our The work was completed at both people to drive in and park on the with our third-party contractor,” said parents, but for people we didn’t know,” locations by the week after Father’s Day, grounds. Jonathan Freedman, chair of Jewish he said. one of the most important memorial Staff and volunteers will ensure Memorial Gardens. 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BY DIANE KOVEN causes close to the rabbi’s heart: Addressing close to 500 people gathered Congregation Machzikei Hadas and the to honour Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation. Employment and Social Development For one evening, there were no and Minister Jason philosophical or denominational Kenney – who is not Jewish – told the differences among the hundreds in crowd he has always thought of Rabbi attendance. Having served as spiritual Bulka as his rabbi. leader of Machzikei Hadas for nearly a “I am proud to say he is my rabbi. The half-century, and during that time truth is that Reuven Bulka is Canada’s having been involved in myriad com- rabbi,” said the MP from munity events and causes – in both the Southeast. Jewish and wider communities – Rabbi The gala tribute dinner, held June 11 at Bulka is known by, and has touched the the Fairmont Château Laurier, was a lives of, countless people, from every PHOTO: ALEX SARNA virtual love-fest as people from every segment of the community. Linda Eagan (centre) and Dan Greenberg (right) present a gift to Rabbi Bulka on behalf of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation at the gala tribute dinner honouring the rabbi, corner of Rabbi Bulka’s wide-reaching In his keynote speech, Kenney praised June 11. The foundation and Congregation Machzikei Hadas were the beneficiaries of funds network came out to honour and praise Rabbi Bulka for his many years of work raised by the event. the man known by many as “the in the community, paying particular people’s rabbi” and raise funds for two attention to his outreach efforts to other faith and ethnic communities. devotion to community service.” year. The congregation’s next spiritual “Rabbi Bulka has done more than But, added Greenberg, Bulka’s leader, Rabbi Idan Scher, will be arriving anyone for the cause of interfaith “greatest impact happens more quietly, in Ottawa toward the end of the summer relations in the for fi ve out of view, helping others.” and will work closely with Rabbi Bulka decades. As a Christian, I must say how Rabbi Bulka’s legendary wit was in as associate rabbi until his installation in touched I am by the way you have evidence as he began his own remarks. advance of the High Holidays in 2015. reached out to the Christian commun- “This is a miracle. Two eulogies, and I Rabbi Bulka thanked everyone who ity,” he said. am still alive,” he quipped. had been involved in organizing the Linda Eagan, president of the Ottawa “I want to begin by telling you that tribute, but particularly noted the Regional Cancer Foundation, said that, this rumour that I am retiring is an ugly extreme efforts of Arnie Vered, who at fundraising events for the foundation, rumour; it is not true. A rabbi never, ever worked tirelessly in spite of his own they would ask people to stand if their retires, never ever,” he said. personal health challenges. Vered, he lives had been touched by cancer. That He is, however, beginning his transi- noted, was ably assisted by his daughter, evening, she asked people to stand if tion to become rabbi emeritus of Jordana Vered, who took on the enor- their lives had been touched by Rabbi Congregation Machzikei Hadas next mous job of event co-ordinator. Bulka. Not surprisingly, the entire crowd leaped from their seats. Dinner co-chair Stephen Greenberg

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or change tactics in order to ensure We have accomplished a lot success between now and 2019. As in most Jewish communities, Jewish education affordability is still a concern in Ottawa. We continue to by ‘getting the job done’ struggle, but are committed to provide a Jewish education for every Jewish child. positive difference wherever possible. I hope Special thank you to Stephen Victor and Getting the job done takes commit- Richard Sachs for taking on the special ment to take on the tasks at hand and you will consider fundraising initiative for the Ottawa follow through to complete the job. doing a mitzvah Jewish Community School in order to Getting the job done takes dedicated ensure our community school will be volunteers and staff who are not afraid to by getting involved sustainable for the future. roll up their sleeves and do the tough and helping make At our annual general meeting on

FEDERATION REPORT work. As Chair of the Federation, I am June 18, we honoured three individuals STEVEN KIMMEL extremely proud of our Board of a positive difference who have each, in their own way, “got CHAIR Directors, staff and committee members today and the job done.” Mazel tov to Mitchell who have committed themselves to Bellman, recipient of the Gilbert ust a few weeks ago, my father, building a stronger more vibrant Jewish for years Greenberg Distinguished Service Award; the late Morris Kimmel, passed community. to come. Henry Molot, recipient of the Shem Tov away. In the past year, we have had many Community Volunteer Award; and J While sitting shiva, my sisters and success stories. An increase of donations needs of our agencies. Tamara Fathi, recipient of the Freiman I heard so many stories about Morris, and an increase in donors to our Annual Thanks to Linda Kerzner and the Family Young Leadership Award. many of which focused on the fact that, Campaign are very positive signs. strategic planning committee, we have As you can see, we have accomplished when my father was passionate about a Thank you to our Campaign Chairs just rolled out our fi ve-year strategic a lot by “getting the job done.” But there cause, he “got the job done.” Leiba Krantzberg and Charles plan. I am personally very excited about is a lot more work to do. I hope you will My late parents, Morris and Lillian, Schachnow and all the captains and the plan, which establishes clear bench- consider doing a mitzvah by getting were both committed to our community. canvassers who have devoted so much of marks so that we will be able to monitor involved and helping make a positive They were the perfect role models for their valuable time to ensure we have where we are meeting our goals and difference today and for years to come. getting involved and trying to make a funding to support the many essential where we will have to pay more attention Am Yisrael chai b’shalom.

Judaism has always been, at Ottawa Jewish Bulletin VOLUME 78 | ISSUE 17 Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. its core, a joyous expression 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, K2A 1R9 observation that Jewish festivals, includ- accept the Torah as a burden we are stuck Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 ing the three pilgrimage festivals, are, in with? What better way to express our joy Email: [email protected] the words of the Torah, FOR YOU. These at being who we are? Published 19 times per year. are powerful, impactful words, establish- If there is one spiritual challenge we ing that these days are celebrations that must meet head-on as we agonize over the © Copyright 2014 are for us at the same time as they are for Jewish future, it is how do we convey the PUBLISHER God. In the famous words of the Talmud, joy of being Jewish? Historically, to this Andrea Freedman half for God, half for us. day, there are those who would deny Jews EDITOR Michael Regenstreif FROM THE PULPIT In other words, God wants us to the ability to celebrate being Jewish. We RABBI REUVEN BULKA celebrate. The fact that we eat, meaning- have so many melancholy commemora- PRODUCTION MANAGER MACHZIKEI HADAS fully, on these days, is therefore the tions in our calendar that we sometimes Brenda Van Vliet fulfi lment of a biblical mandate. forget Judaism is a joyful embrace of life. BUSINESS MANAGER Barry Silverman e just concluded the Yom There is a debate in the Talmud as to In fact, if you search the Torah, you will Tov, the Jewish Holy Day, how to fulfi l this 50-50 formula. Is it not fi nd any day that is defi ned as sad. Not INTERN Monique Elliot which often gets lost in the either-or, or is it 50-50? But read the even Yom Kippur is a sad day, just the mix. following Talmudic snippet regarding opposite. The Bulletin, established in 1937 as “a force W for constructive communal consciousness,” A funny thing happened to me a few Shavuot: Judaism has always been, at its core, a communicates the messages of the Jewish days before. Someone who is not Jewish Says Rabbi Elazar: All authorities agree, joyous expression. Yes, we have a boatload Federation of Ottawa and its agencies and, as the city’s only Jewish newspaper, welcomes a asked me to come to a meeting on the with regard to Atzeret (Shavuot) that we of restrictions, but these are all to ensure diversity of opinion as it strives to inform and second day of the festival. I wrote back require also that it be FOR YOU. What is the that the joy we live is a meaningful joy, not enrich the community. Viewpoints expressed in these pages do not necessarily represent saying I could not attend because it was reason? It is the day on which the Torah was a narcissistic, destructive joy. the policies and values of the Federation. the Pentecost. I used that term thinking given (Talmud, Pesahim, 68b). So, how do we make sure that the The Bulletin cannot vouch for the kashrut of that, if I used the Hebrew, he would not This is a fascinating observation. On the obligation to eat on a festival does not advertised products or establishments unless know what I meant. He wrote back and day that the guide to life was transmitted degenerate into an orgiastic eat-fest? We they are certified by Ottawa Vaad HaKashrut or wished me a “Happy Shavuot!” to us – a truly spiritual day – the Talmud do this by investing the eating with a rabbinic authority recognized by OVH. So, while some do know of Shavuot, it is takes it as self-understood that we must spiritual substance; by inviting others less $36 Local Subscription | $40 Canada $60 International | $2 per issue not on the Jewish radar screen to the same celebrate. Using words like feast, festival or fortunate to join us at the table; and by extent as Chanukah, Purim or other major celebration to defi ne Shavuot, as well as using the opportunity to expand our We acknowledge the financial support of the through the celebrations such as Pesach and Sukkot. other Holy Days, is not a misnomer – quite knowledge and increase of our Canada Periodical Fund of the Department There is an interesting nuance to the contrary. commitment. of Canadian Heritage. Shavuot that speaks volumes about This is all myth-shattering. Exactly why Joy lived with a noble purpose becomes ISSN: 1196-1929 Judaism as a faith-based way of life. It is did the Talmud associate transmission of joy that is shared. Joy that is shared is joy Publication Mail Agreement No. 40018822 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: best conveyed through a fascinating the Torah with feasting? What better way that inspires. Joy that inspires is the way Ottawa Jewish Bulletin comment in the Talmud regarding to convey our joy at receiving the Torah? that ensures our posterity. That always was 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa ON K2A 1R9 Shavuot. We begin with the simple What better way to project that we not and always will be the way. June 30, 2014 7 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

removing the exhibit “would constitute City Hall exhibit portrayed an infringement on the artist’s right to freedom of expression.” However, as Kimmel and Freedman terrorists as ‘artists, activists, pointed out in their letter, the Charter clearly states that the rights and freedoms it delineates are subject to reasonable writers and leaders’ limits. The City’s response to the controversy While the whole exhibit could easily be were Abu Iyad, the leader of Black was to post a sign at the galley entrance interpreted as propaganda art meant to September, who was responsible for explaining that its exhibits are “selected paint all Palestinians as innocent victims, several major terror operations, including by an independent professional arts jury”

FROM THE THE FROM EDITOR it is the slide show that led Israeli the massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games and that “points of view or comments MICHAEL REGENSTREIF Ambassador Rafael Barak to speak out, in Munich in which 11 Israeli athletes and conveyed … do not represent those of the and for such organizations as the Jewish a German police offi cer were murdered; City of Ottawa.” y now, Invisible, the multi-media Federation of Ottawa, the Centre for Israel and Dalal Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Now, while it is entirely appropriate exhibit by Palestinian-Canadian and Jewish Affairs and the Canadian Road massacre in 1978 in which 38 that selections for public galleries be artist Rehab Nazzal, has come Coalition Against Terror (an alliance that people, including 13 children, were made by juries at arm’s length from Band gone from the City of includes a variety of Muslim, Christian, murdered. government, I know, having sat on arts Ottawa’s Karsh-Masson Gallery at City multicultural and other concerned Another, Khalid Nazzal, the artist’s juries (specifi cally music juries, not Hall. organizations), as well as many individ- brother, a leader of the Democratic Front visual arts), that such juries also operate The exhibit was an installation that uals, including parliamentarians, to ask for the Liberation of Palestine, was within clearly defi ned guidelines. There included a wall of photographs and the City of Ottawa to remove the exhibit. responsible for multiple acts of terrorism, are boundaries that should not be several fi lm clips, including one without Looking at the slide show – I spent a most notoriously the Ma’alot massacre of crossed and juries need to be aware of sound and another that was just a morning at the gallery examining all 1974 in which 25 people, including 22 them and to act responsibly in their soundtrack with no visuals other than facets of the exhibit – it seems obvious children, were killed and another 68 decisions. subtitles, all meant to convey the artist’s that Nazzal was portraying these so-called injured. And such boundaries have nothing to interpretation of Palestinian life under “artists, activists, writers and leaders” as There are many other examples of do with Charter freedoms. Israeli occupation or of the brutality faced innocent martyrs killed by Israel. terrorists who are memorialized in the Freedom of the press, for example, by Palestinians prisoners in a Negev The fact of the matter is that these are slide show, too many to name here. does not mean that anyone is free to say prison during a military raid. portraits of people responsible for some Mayor Jim Watson, in refusing to what they want in the Ottawa Jewish Most controversially, the exhibit also of the most heinous acts of terrorism. Two remove the exhibit from the City Hall Bulletin. It means that we have the included “Target,” a slide show of quickly of them, as Federation Chair Steven gallery, cited the Charter of Rights and freedom to set the boundaries of what changing names and faces, which the Kimmel and President and CEO Andrea Freedoms and said “the artwork and the gets said in our newspaper. Similarly, the exhibit brochure explains “are portraits of Freedman pointed out in a letter pub- artist herself benefi t from the Charter City of Ottawa needs to set boundaries as lost artists, activists, writers and leaders.” lished in the on June 19, protection of freedom of expression,” and to what may be exhibited in its gallery.

That leaves the aspiring leadership candidates with the challenge of build- Will he stay or will he go? ing teams within a cone-of-silence. There is no question that organizations are way he or she can win again. But it is In fairness to Harper, I have never being built on paper. The blueprints are more complicated than that. It is all experienced a prime minister who ready and their architects poised to about leaving at the right time in order wasn’t a bully, but that’s for history or pounce the moment Harper might say to provide your successor with enough political science classes. It is a whole goodbye. ramp-up time to be competitive in the other story that won’t help Harper’s There is an interesting sidebar to this next election. image or popularity between now and being played out in . It involves The next election is no later than 17 the election in 2015. His problem is the leadership race for the Progressive months from now. As things stand today, actually more personal than political. Conservative Party there looking for a it is hard to make any reasonable The clock is ticking on the optimal new leader to succeed . It

IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS argument that would assure anyone that time to announce he won’t be there for involves the candidacy of former Harper JASON MOSCOVITZ Harper could turn the tide and win. the next election, should that be his minister . But everything can dramatically decision. If he would want to leave his Prentice left the Harper government change in an election campaign, and the party with enough time to prepare a in 2010 to make some money and to year from now, we will know recent and elections are seamless transition without it being a think about his political future. There the absolute answer to a prime examples of being cautious in rush from leadership race to election, was never a shortage of smarts, charm question. Will making predictions. That being said, the then the timing framework is within the and ambition. He had always been Astill be leader of the problem for Harper is that he has been next few months. considered a serious candidate to Conservative Party of Canada? He is the prime minister for almost a decade, and it Both Liberal in 1984 and succeed Harper. only person who knows the answer, is just hard to be liked and popular when Progressive Conservative But there are those in Alberta who except he probably doesn’t. Not yet. Not you have exercised power over such a in 1993 proved how foolhardy it is to go think Prentice would be a fi rst-rate absolutely. long period of time. It is political life. One to the people just after a leadership race. . Last month, they fi nally There is always great intrigue and day it is over and once unpopular it is Both suffered historically humiliating convinced him to commit to the leader- considerable mystique about a prime diffi cult to get people to like you again. defeats, and it is hard to imagine anyone ship race. Prentice hesitated as long as he minister’s future. At the height of power, Aside from his many years as prime else trying that anytime soon. could before opting for Alberta. it is so hard to conceive of walking away. minister, there is growing discontent One of the more interesting aspects of a Prentice’s decision just may mean It is often said very few know when to over his leadership style. He has been leader contemplating leaving is that it is that, a year from now, Harper will still be leave and even fewer leave properly. labelled a bully, and his latest public done in virtual silence. In a town where leader of the Conservative Party of Leaving properly is about knowing argument with Chief Justice Beverly gossip can be lethal, a leader is sizably Canada. when it is over. That fi nite moment McLachlin of the Supreme Court of diminished as soon as there is any sugges- Then again, there is only one person when the powerful realize his or her ride Canada seems to have reinforced that tion that he or she is leaving. The decision who may know for sure, and he’s not is out-of-road because there is just no image. to stay or go is a lonely one for sure. talking. 8 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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Advertorial JEWISH Federation strategic plan NATIONAL FUND is all about community More than trees BY LOUISE RACHLIS Bronstein, Mike Shahin and Jason Alan Blostein 613.798.2411 • [email protected] President Imagine the year is 2019. The quality of Shinder. The committee’s advisers were Jewish life in Ottawa is exceptional. The Federation Chair Steven Kimmel and Urban renewal and innovation community – built on the cornerstones of Debbie Halton-Weiss, the immediate In a partnership with the Telfer Executive Management inclusiveness, accessibility, education past-chair, and it was staffed by Bram program, developed by our Executive Director, Lynda and engagement – is thriving. Jewish Bregman, Federation vice-president of Taller-Wakter, Telfer and JNF Ottawa will welcome Mayor organizations are working together on community building, and President and Udi Gat who will focus on three key areas of the Israeli common agendas, while Jewish schools CEO Andrea Freedman. model developed in Eilot (southern Arava with Eilat). are experiencing growth and are centres It has been a careful and effi cient 1. Hevel Eilot as an ethical scientific centre: Scientific of excellence. Youth and adults are taking process. possibilities in the region in academic education and part in meaningful Jewish experiences in Business transformation consultant technology; co-operation with Jordanian researchers; increasing numbers, and seniors and the Michael Walsh of Totem Hill, who establishment of a large Science and Laboratory Centre. vulnerable feel well looked after through facilitated the consultations, called the 2. Hevel Eilot as the Sun (Silicon) Valley for Renewable a variety of options and services afforded process “the most interactive and Energy: As a model for regional development, attracting to them. Volunteers from a broad participatory” he’d been involved in in additional population, and developing a Community spectrum contribute their skills and more than 30 years in Ottawa. Interest Company for Renewable Energy for start-ups, energy. Communal needs are better met PHOTO: PETER WAISER The majority of the consultations whose goal it is to advance the region as the Silicon Valley through a rise in charitable dollars. Jews Linda Kerzner chaired the Board were held in January and February, with for Renewable Energy. from all backgrounds and walks of life committee that prepared the Jewish separate sessions for different groups 3. Ensuring a green environment: People live in Hevel feel welcome. Federation of Ottawa Strategic Plan and two town hall meetings. Eilot due to the environment, clean air, quality of life and In one word: community. 2014-2019. “The priority was to ensure that it the beautiful surroundings. Mayor Gat will discuss how The above passage taken from the was a highly interactive process,” said to preserve and maintain open spaces and the connection conclusion to Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s newly Kerzner. “I believe we’ve given the community as much and contrast between the green areas and the surrounding approved Strategic Plan for 2014 to 2019, refl ects the input as possible.” desert landscape. raison d’être – and the hope – of why the Jewish Federation There were 130 community members who participated Mayor Gat will speak at Telfer Centre for Executive of Ottawa exists, and why the strategic plan matters. in the initial sessions, producing more than 40 pages of Leadership on August 20. Visit www.jnf.ca for full details. As the report states, the entire strategic plan process notes. was fuelled by the contributions of countless members of As the Strategic Plan outlines, every great organization the Ottawa Jewish community. “Feel proud,” says the See Strategic on page 19 report, “we did this together!” “It’s never quite over,” said Federation Vice-Chair Linda Kerzner. “The next step is the work plan. That’s the staff job and that will make it all happen … It was very import- ant to me, the committee and our staff that the commun- ity can feel confi dence in our leadership and where we are Barrhaven Councillor Chair, Board going to go … If you don’t have a roadmap or a game plan, you are pulled in a lot of different directions. We have 613-580-2473 come up with a meaningful plan we can accomplish in the [email protected] next fi ve years that refl ects the strategic priorities of this @BarrhavenJan great community we have.” When in Israel Overseeing the process has been a committee of the facebook.com/BarrhavenJanHarder Tamir Executive Director Mark Palmer and his son board, chaired by Kerzner, and including Lauren www.JanHarder.com Josh were recently in Israel and took the time to plant saplings in the JNF Visitor Centre. If you plan to visit Israel, please let us know so we can arrange your very own personal tree planting. The next JNF Negev Dinner is October 21 issue of the The JNF Negev Dinner with Canadian Friends of Hebrew University honouring Dorothy Nadolny takes Ottawa place on October 21, 2014. Dinner Chair Stephen Victor QC and the Ottawa boards of JNF and CFHU are working hard Jewish on this event, which promises to be an exceptional evening. Bulletin Funds are being raised to supplement the Nadolnys’ Gift to Israel: Passion and Tribute – a cardiology research hub will be at Hebrew University of and a tribute gift of the Teddy Kollek Park entry gates in the heart of Jerusalem. published Sefer Bat Mitzvah Monday, Mazel tov to Jessica Wiener of Toronto, who was July 28, 2014. inscribed in Sefer Bat Mitzvah by Robert and Joanne Jeffs.

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Continued from page 8 our collective responsibility in Raoul Wallenberg’s Your goals are unique. I can help you reach those goals with questioner – may also be dismissed with the judgment memory to make the world a kinder, more tolerant the right financial solutions. With a variety of options, like life insurance, health insurance and financial planning, I can help you that it is “stupid” or even attacked, held up to ridicule place. She felt she owed her life to Wallenberg and find the right fit today. Let’s talk about Money for LifeTM. (today’s use of blogs to undermine and mock people is would continue to speak on his behalf as long as God Diane Koven BA(Hons.) CFP® CDFA CHS one of the most recent developments). The effect, gave her the strength to do so. 613-728-1223 ext 2235 however, is often far greater than leadership has Those who heard her speak will never forget the [email protected] www.sunlife.ca/diane.koven considered. experience. Judith was living history. She knew 1525 , Suite 600 Recently, accounts in the Ottawa Citizen described Wallenberg and witnessed his departure from Budapest. Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R9 two disparate situations in which boorish, anti-social Her father was the last person to speak to him. That *Mutual funds offered by behaviour had a long-lasting and serious impact on the event was included in a Hollywood fi lm based on Sun Life Financial Investment Services (Canada) Inc. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada is a member of the individuals involved. Wallenberg’s extraordinary humanitarian efforts during Sun Life Financial group of companies. © Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, 2014. Life’s brighter under the sun One occurred in a restaurant, in which a patron the Second World War that saved hundreds of thou- loudly demanded that a mother and her infant leave. sands of lives. The boor was rewarded as his targets left while everyone I think I can speak for all who witnessed this incred- PRIVATE SALE else present remained silent, aside from one person at ible event, that our lives were touched by this woman’s his table who spoke up rather weakly. The other article honesty, integrity and her powerful message to our cited research on subtle workplace ostracism (giving young adults. someone the silent treatment) in which one person May her memory always be a blessing. leads by example and other staff members become confederates to the harassment. The result, once again, Irv Osterer is that the recipient of this behaviour is much more Merivale High School likely to leave. Is it possible that the large number of people who do THANKS not affi liate with the Jewish community have not done My faith in humanity has been restored. so, in part, because of responses that conveyed some- Just at the time of Passover, I was at the College thing like the above? As we know, this small community Square Loblaws and accidently left my purse in the cannot afford, in any sense, to exclude people in even grocery cart in the parking lot. subtle ways. I called Loblaws and explained my situation, but Centrepointe I am happy to see that the community has seen the there was no sign of my purse. I returned home to fi nd need to publicly state that questioning and answering 32 Marble Arch Crescent my purse and a note in my mailbox, but I do not know are good things – they have always been good. • $879,000 who was so kind enough to return it. It is a sign of maturity and security in all parties. It is I would like to thank whoever it was. • 3,000 Square Feet the launching point for growth rather than stultifying new approaches. It provides the groundwork for • 4 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bathrooms Renee Greenberg inclusiveness and acceptance of the varied needs and • 65 x 110 ft lot abilities of all the people who make up a community. It 613-727-9895 is inherently positive, friendly, respectful and accepting – and, most importantly, it is Jewish. LETTERS WELCOME It might be an interesting exercise to create a forum for people to ask some of these questions more openly Join Margo & Alan Blostein – an Ottawa Jewish Bulletin “Dear Abby,” as it were. It can Letters to the Editor are welcome Jewish Heritage reveal some of the problems that many of us encounter if they are brief, signed, timely, River Cruise in our interactions, and assist all of us in reaching our and of interest to our readership. goal of creating a vibrant, inclusive Jewish community. July 29 to The Bulletin reserves the right to refuse, August 10, 2015 Barbara Okun edit or condense letters. Now Open for Deposit JUDITH WEISZMANN The Mailbag column will be published Don’t be disappointed It is with great sadness that I must tell you that Judith as space permits. Weiszmann passed away on May 27. 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his past April 23, we knew nothing In addition to Max, Lillian Nemetz, a of what was to come in the next survivor from Vancouver, also joined us on two weeks. We landed in Warsaw our two-week journey. They passed on Tfeeling excited, nervous, eager and their wisdom, their history, their experien- scared. After a long transatlantic fl ight, we ces to us – the next generation of wit- boarded the bus and admired the passing nesses. All of the coast-to-coast marchers scenery: trees in full bloom, birds chirping, (our delegation representing the smaller the sun shining bright. But the 26 of us (24 Canadian communities) vowed to never let teenagers and two chaperons) were still their stories be forgotten. unaware of the horrors hidden in the We were given the incredible opportun- history of Poland. ity to travel with Lillian to the town of

We had embarked on a journey that Zalesie where she was hidden as a child. PHOTO: ADELE LEWIN would forever change our lives. She shared vivid memories of her child- From left) March of the Living participants Rachel Kardish, Joshua Kofsky After walking through memories of hood with each step she took, guiding us and Jordan Geist at Birkenau. Jewish life lost, Poland seemed to us like a through the little house where she was massive graveyard. Every new site brought kept hidden for years. opportunity to experience. We left as Jewish high school students from Ottawa new sorrows: ghettos, camps, cemeteries, After an emotionally exhausting week in teenagers and returned as witnesses. who participated in the 2014 March of the abandoned synagogues. Little remains of Poland, we couldn’t have been happier to Rachel Kardish, a student at Canterbury Living. The next March will take place in places once rich in Jewish life. arrive in Israel. It felt as if we were taking a High School, and Joshua Kofsky, a student at April 2015. For information, call Benita On Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remem- breath for the fi rst time since arriving in Colonel By High School, were two of 24 Siemiatycki at 613-798-4644. brance Day), we participated in the March Europe. The sites we visited in Israel were of the Living, walking from Auschwitz to completely different from the sites we Birkenau. Thousands of Jews from around visited in Poland. Every nook and cranny Ottawa now participates in the world gathered for a common purpose: was fi lled with life and joy. remembering the victims of the atrocities On the day we arrived, we climbed perpetrated by the Nazis. Masada to celebrate Max’s bar mitzvah. March of the Living every year The March concluded in a solemn Max did not have the chance to have his BY KAREN PALAYEW students on the March, our largest ceremony where dozens of survivors were bar mitzvah when he was 13, and we felt an MARCH OF THE LIVING COMMITTEE contingent ever. honoured. Among them was Max Iland, a enormous sense of pride in being there arch of the Living Canada Another objective is fundraising. While Holocaust survivor from Sault Ste. Marie while he recited the blessings. Before it has taken on an exciting the Jewish Federation of Ottawa subsid- whom we were lucky to have accompany began, Max dedicated his bar mitzvah to pilot project. Intermediate- izes the program for each student, the cost our group throughout the journey. Max his younger brother, Kopel, who was killed sized Jewish communities of the trip is high and some families was one of six honourees who fulfi lled the during the Holocaust. Everyone wore huge M across the country – those other than require further fi nancial assistance. Our mitzvah of completing a Sefer Torah. smiles on their faces as Max and Lillian Montreal and Toronto – which form the objective is to help all interested students For us, the most poignant moment of danced in the centre of the hora. coast-to-coast contingency, have trad- embark on this journey. the day was the fi nale when more than A few days later, on Yom Ha’Atzmaut, all itionally participated in the March every On the March of the Living, students 10,000 marchers from around the world of the marchers gathered for a second second year. Beginning this year, we will become witnesses to the horrors of the collectively sang the “Hatikvah,” fi lling the march: this time, walking in Jerusalem be involved annually. Holocaust. Many of them feel both a duty camp with the sounds of hope and from the gates of the Old City to the Kotel. March of the Living is an educational and a responsibility to share these stories continuity. On the same grounds where, 70 The energy of the crowd was incredible and program that has a powerful and enduring with others so that the world never years ago, the Nazis tried to obliterate our it was an experience like no other. impact on participants. The students forgets. The committee works to encour- people, we sang the anthem of the Jewish March of the Living is a life-changing spend one week in Poland alongside age and facilitate students’ involvement in State of Israel. journey every student should have an survivors, witnessing the tragedies of our the community with respect to Holocaust past. The survivors share their stories of education. Marchers have been involved loss and demonstrate the resiliency of the in numerous events, including Holocaust human spirit. Many survivors never spoke Education Month and Yom HaShoah, about their lives in Europe until Holocaust speaking and writing about their experi- deniers surfaced in Canada in the 1980s. ences to both Jewish and non-Jewish Subsequently, they felt a responsibility to audiences. speak about their experiences and to be a The students become the voices of our voice for those who perished. past. They have an obligation to speak out The second week of the March is spent against racism, hatred and discrimination in Israel, celebrating the triumph of the towards Jews and any other group. survival of our people and the strength of Hopefully, the sensitivity, compassion and our nation. Returning home, the students wisdom they have gained through their feel a more meaningful connection to March of the Living experience will help their Judaism and many develop a them become strong community leaders stronger bond and appreciation for the with a focus on improving the world in importance of our homeland. which they live, both for themselves and Ottawa’s March of the Living for future generations. Committee was created following the 2012 Donations to the March of the Living

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PHOTO: ISSIE SCAROWSKY 10 days • 15 meals: 8 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 6 dinners Eager runners at the start line of the Am Echad Walk/Run for Jewish Education Included in price: Round trip air from Ottawa, air taxes and fees/surcharges in Ottawa, June 8. of $730 per person (subject to increase until paid in full), hotel transfers Not included in price: Cancellation waiver and insurance of $320 per person *All rates are per person and subject to change Am Echad Walk/Run For more information contact Our Team Expedia CruiseShipCenters Kanata promotes unity and benefi ts 613-831-9100 • ask for Elliot Finkelman or Lynnie Zunder [email protected] 12 Jewish schools in Ottawa For a full brochure visit www.holyland2015.com TICO # 50019734 BY MONIQUE ELLIOT Walk/Run T-shirts to the participants. More than 500 community members, “When you look here, you don’t know acting together as “one people,” came what school they attend, what synagogue together on a sunny Sunday, June 8, and they go to, or what neighbourhood they raised a record amount of approximately live in,” Miller said. $50,000 by participating in the Am Echad “It’s all just one, big, happy commun- KLEZKANADA Walk/Run for Jewish Education in Ottawa. ity. It’s been a growing success,” Miller DISCOVER THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED Participants completed either the said, adding that it also allows non-Jew- FESTIVAL OF JEWISH/YIDDISH CULTURE AND THE ARTS one- or three-km course near the Jewish ish participants like Ciaran Smith, 12, to Community Campus to show their feel more easily integrated with the Featuring an all-star faculty, world-class concerts, and a KlezKabaret support for 12 Ottawa Jewish schools. festivities. that will keep you singing and dancing late into the night! Each participant chose which day or Smith joined his friend, Ottawa Jewish PLUS... Films and classes on Jewish history, culture, Yiddish language, and literature supplementary school would benefi t Community School (OJCS) student Isaac Workshops for instrumentalists, singers, dancers, and visual artists of all levels from the funds he or she raised. Glassman, 13, in the run. Children's and teen programs that set the standard for learning and creativity “Our main focus was [that] we weren’t Isaac’s mother, Jennifer Glassman, said choosing one school over another,” said she would not have assimilated as well in Our 2014 theme is di Yene Velt...the mystic world of superstition, Mitch Miller, the co-chair. Canada without the support of the Jewish golems, dybbuks, and demons...Yiddish is supernatural... “Each school has the opportunity to community and by volunteering at fundraise for themselves,” he added. events like Am Echad. “It’s nice because it’s one of the few A native of South Africa, Glassman is events that really is directed to families,” on the board at OJCS and said she has said Miller, who has organized the event been volunteering at the school since she with Julie Ross for the past four years. “It came to Ottawa fi ve years ago. really encourages the community, “I have to say, it’s the best way to regardless of how they express their integrate as an immigrant. Being part of Judaism, to come out and be here.” the Jewish community has been phe- Parents could be heard sharing stories nomenal. We’ve met amazing people, of participating in the walkathon when amazing friends,” she said. they were young, while guiding their For U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman, register online today at children around to activity sessions like the walkathon was one of the fi rst Jewish www.klezkanada.com face painting after the walk/run con- community events he has been able to cluded. Many praised the walkathon for attend since his arrival in Ottawa in being able to bring generations together March. Heyman said he anticipates each year for a good cause and to pro- becoming an involved member of the mote volunteerism and togetherness in community by attending similar events. the community. “This is a strong, vibrant community, Camp B’nai Brith, Lantier, Quebec To encourage a sense of unity among and one that everybody here should be students from all the different schools, proud of. I look forward to being much AUGUST 18-24 · 2014 Miller and Ross distributed Am Echad more involved going forward,” he said. June 30, 2014 13 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM OJCS and Hulse students come together for Day of Cultural Understanding

BY MONIQUE ELLIOT their character, which is what we want tudents squealed and jumped them to do,” Mascoe said. with delight at the sight of their “When we began, there was a lot of pen pals and ran to greet them at apprehension, and people were a little Sthe 10th annual Day of Cultural bit worried about what we were doing. Understanding, June 17, when Grade 6 We had some parents that had concerns, students from the Ottawa Jewish and that has totally changed. Our school Community School (OJCS) visited their environment now is very open and counterparts at Charles H. Hulse Public welcoming,” he said.

School, whose students are predomin- Teacher supervisors beamed with PHOTO: MONIQUE ELLIOT antly Muslim. pride as the students worked together on Grade 6 students from the Ottawa Jewish Community School and Charles H. Hulse Public School It was the students’ third meeting over team projects like a scavenger hunt, work together on a word game exercise during their Day of Cultural Understanding, June 17. the course of a year in which they wrote word games and physical activities. letters to each other in an effort to dispel “Everyone’s the same,” said Hulse rights at as a result Shentow allowed students to gather stereotypes, and promote co-operation student Fatema, 12, who said she wants to of her experiences. She said she still closely around him and took questions and understanding. stay in touch with her OJCS pen pal, Olivia. keeps in touch with her then-Hillel after the video, showing them his tattoo, Hulse teacher Patrick Mascoe, who “We only met three times, but I’m really Academy pen pal. and emphasizing the damage hate and founded and developed the program, close with her,” Olivia, also 12, added. “It’s defi nitely had an impact on my intolerance can do. said he has noticed a major improve- A testament to the lasting, positive life,” she said. “God willing, if I’m still here next year, ment in how Jewish and Muslim stu- effects of the program, Sophia Mirzayee, The day of fun transitioned to a I’ll be glad to come back,” he said. dents relate to each other from when he 20, volunteers and speaks every year at sombre lesson about tolerance, when Mascoe said the students have started the program in 2004. the event where she met her pen pal Holocaust survivor David Shentow, 89, strongly responded to the emphasis on “You often hear that Jewish people eight years ago. shared his story with the students at the character-building and have been and Muslim people are not always on the The Hulse alumna is one of the more end of the day. applying the lessons they’ve learned. best of terms, and yet now our kids are so than 500 students who participated in While he has always stressed how “They realize now that they’re the excited about meeting their pen pals and the pen pal initiative over the past diffi cult it is to tell his story, he opted this community leaders and they’re showing really just measuring them based on decade and is now studying human year to show a video from a past Day of adults and the rest of the community Cultural Understanding in which he that people of different races, religions, explained his ordeal, in full detail, to and colours can come together and work students. together.”

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Longtime community leader Morris and was deeply involved in several Montreal to live at Hillel Lodge, he and Kimmel passed away, May 29 at Hillel community organizations. Among them Lillian became highly involved in the Lodge, at age 83, following a brief illness. was B’nai Brith Lodge 885, which led to a Lodge, an association that continued Kimmel was the 2011 recipient of the long association with Camp B’nai Brith of until he passed away. Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award, Ottawa, where his tireless dedication to “Lillian got involved in Hillel Lodge which recognizes an outstanding volun- the camp earned him the honour of after my mother came,” Kimmel said in teer within the Jewish community who, lifetime membership on its board. the 2011 Bulletin interview, “and then I through many years of service, has Kimmel was a member of the Ottawa got involved.” Both served terms as contributed to the enrichment of Jewish Vaad HaKashrut for many years and president of the Hillel Lodge Board of life in Ottawa. served as its chair. Directors. As Kimmel explained to Ottawa Jewish In the 1960s, Kimmel was in the Kimmel was a leader in the Hillel Bulletin contributor Cynthia Nyman vanguard of a movement to establish an Lodge Community Campaign, which Engel on the occasion of his Shem Tov Orthodox synagogue in the city’s west raised funds to build the new Hillel Lodge Award, he and his wife, Lillian, who end and was a founding member of facility on the Jewish Community passed away in 2006, moved to Ottawa in Young Israel of Ottawa, which opened in Campus – which opened in 2000 – and 1953 and quickly became active in the 1966. He served as president of the continued as a frontline volunteer. Jewish community. congregation and as its representative on “Morris is that rare combination of Kimmel served as an active UJA and the Jewish Memorial Gardens Committee. no-nonsense individual who does Jewish Federation of Ottawa Annual In the early-1970s, when Kimmel everything in his power to get things Campaign canvasser for nearly 60 years brought his widowed mother from done, quickly, correctly and completely. Moris Kimmel For Hillel Lodge, he has been a godsend,” said Stephen Schneiderman, Hillel Lodge executive director, in 2011. Kimmel is survived by his son and On behalf of the Ottawa March of In recognition of his efforts, Kimmel daughter-in-law, Steven and Shelli the Living Committee, many thanks to received both the Thelma Steinman Kimmel, by his daughters and sons-in- Direct Service Award and the Shalom law, Janet and Stephen Kaiman and Shira Benlolo and Nathan Cantor for Perel President’s Award from Hillel Brenda and Nathan Levine, and by seven your commitment to the Committee and Lodge. grandchildren. to Holocaust education in our community over the past two years. Best of luck as you begin your university studies. Subscription about to lapse? Don’t miss one issue. RENEW TODAY!

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BY DAVID SACHS FOR OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL fter three years as head of school at the Ottawa Jewish Community School (OJCS), ASheldon Friedman is riding off into the sunset – or, at least, home to Toronto. Friedman has retired before. After a distinguished career in Toronto public schools, and 15 years as principal at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, he retired only to return for a year at Toronto’s United Synagogue Day School, and as an educational consultant. That led to a principal’s position in Italy before fi nally coming to OJCS. When Friedman arrived, his mission was to truly unify the newly merged Hillel Academy and Yitzhak Rabin High School. He leaves with this accomplished, having incorporated school program- ming, logos, charity projects and more in the project “We created a new mission statement for all OJCS: ‘Respect, Responsibility, Reaching for excellence,’” Friedman said. “The kids really identify with the theme and try to model that in everything we do.” Sheldon Friedman is set to retire at the end of Lisa Miller, president of the OJCS the school year after three years at the helm board, spoke for many, when she said, of the Ottawa Jewish Community School. “Working with Shelly has been an absolute privilege.” OJCS administrator and teacher Brian shaped his ideas on Jewish education. Lamb spoke of Friedman as a mentor in “I’m concerned with the balkanization his fi rst administrative role and praised of denominations. There was more of a his calm leadership persona. feel of continuity after the Holocaust, Jared Roth “He often used Yiddish words to [when] people were more tolerant of each credits Ashbury illustrate the emotions of a certain other. That is an important philosophy College for his amazing high situation, which always lightened the for me,” Friedman said. school experience. He rose to the mood. My Yiddish is much better as a Friedman hopes the OJCS high school challenges of the International result of it!” will become a more common part of the Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma Friedman’s time at OJCS was trans- Jewish experience in Ottawa. with skill and hard work. He formative, introducing comprehensive “It is at that age that a lot of social competed for Ashbury on both innovations to curriculums and time- pressures come to the fore, and that’s the Alpine ski and rowing tables, as well as leadership and music where you need the strong core of Jewish teams, and counts the Grade 12 programs, upgraded technology, and values to go forward and on to university.” Huntsman biology program in increased physical education. The results By bringing continuity between the New Brunswick as an academic have led to OJCS students performing elementary and secondary levels at OJCS, highlight. Jared loved the music well above Ministry standards and an Friedman has laid the groundwork for program at Ashbury, playing increased awareness in the community of that evolution. tenor sax in the jazz band. This OJCS as a place of academic excellence. “It’s been a pleasure working with accomplished young man is Friedman said he is most proud of these people,” Friedman said of his OJCS excited for his next challenge: helping to heal an institution that had colleagues. “I think they’re excellent.” Congratulations Jared! Queen’s University to study undergone a lot of change and stress, As for his next steps, Friedman said he Class of 2014 engineering. creating an environment of trust, and his wife “are talking about doing a structure and professionalism. OJCS little travel: perhaps Italy and Israel. I did has seen higher parental satisfaction a lot of volunteer work when I fi rst and an increase in elementary level retired, I’ll ease into it again. A group of Grades 4-12, Coeducation enrolment. high school buddies have a weekly card ashbury.ca | [email protected] Friedman’s family survived the Holo- game I’d like to get back into. I’ve got a 613.749.5954 caust before coming to Canada. That history big garden and a lot of projects.” 16 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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th retention numbers SATURDAY AUGUST 9 , 2014 10am – 5pm SUNDAY AUGUST 10th, 2014 10am – 5pm BY SARA-LYNNE LEVINE ART STUDIO OF: OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL TEENA TARANTOUR GOLDBERG A good sign of an excellent school is its retention rate. Continuing the trend of strong 1018 KITOMAN CRESCENT MANOTICK, ONTARIO, K4M 1K4 retention and support for Jewish education, the Ottawa Jewish Community School TEL. (613) 692-6666 (OJCS) has seen its strongest retention numbers in many years heading into the 2014-2015 school year. A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS “In multiple grades we have 100 per cent retention,” said OJCS Principal Sheldon WILL BE DONATED TO Friedman. “Registration for current students closed at the end of March and we are THE CANCER SOCIETY pleased to see families sticking with OJCS. Our parents realize they are getting a top-notch secular education with the benefi t of a strong Jewish education. They realize selecting OJCS is the right choice for their family.” Over the past three years, Friedman has seen attrition rates slip to single digits, lower than the average 11 per cent attrition rate for Jewish day schools in North America. In addition to strong retention, we are pleased to see dozens of new students choosing to join OJCS, many joining our middle or high school divisions. “We’re seeing a shift in the community,” said Friedman. “Our parents are seeing the excellent product offered at OJCS, and they are telling friends and family members. Our high test scores, dedicated math coach and small class sizes are a big draw for parents looking for the best place to educate their child. When you add in teaching Jewish customs, values and traditions, OJCS is an attractive option for those looking for a great place for their child to learn and grow. If you are interested in an OJCS education for

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BY MONIQUE ELLIOT health and wellness of women with Tamir, an organization supporting those special needs. with developmental disabilities in a “This education series has been in the Jewish environment, announced the works for more than a year, and the launch of a new women’s initiative at the interest within the Tamir community is annual general meeting of the Ottawa strong. Now, thanks to the WCPP, we can Jewish Community Foundation, held get this important project up and June 10 at the Soloway Jewish running,” said Mark Palmer, Tamir Community Centre. executive director. The initiative, the Women’s Health “Our grant allocations committee was PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER and Wellness education series, will unanimous in its praise of this year’s Tamir received this year’s Women’s Collective Endowment Fund grant at the Ottawa promote self-care and awareness for recipient,” WCPP co-chair Yaffa Jewish Community Foundation annual general meeting, June 10. Laurie Oakley (left), women already living and working Greenbaum said. residential operations manager at Tamir, accepts the grant from Erica Sher, 2013 co-chair semi-independently in Ottawa and will Steven Kimmel, chair of the Jewish of the Women’s Collective Philanthropy Program. be funded by the Women’s Collective Federation of Ottawa, congratulated the Endowment Fund (WCEF) grant for leadership of both the Federation and creating a “powerful legacy for our Moscoe, a Queen’s University student, 2104. the Foundation for an “outstanding community and our children.” had returned to Ottawa only a few days The Women’s Collective Philanthropy year” of fundraising and community Foundation Chair Lynne Oreck-Wener prior to the AGM after spending a Program (WCPP) awarded the $2,000 work, applauding all community said the Foundation attracted 26 new semester in Israel studying at the grant to Tamir in an effort to support the members for their involvement in donors this year and enjoyed a very Hebrew University of Jerusalem. strong fi scal year, with assets growing by “[Studying in Israel] was really cool almost 21 per cent. because it gave me a chance to focus on “We have set an ambitious fundraising my own Jewish growth,” she said. “It was goal because there is no alternative,” said really nice to kind of take a step back, Andrea Freedman of the goal of $5 and I got to meet people from all over million in additional donations by 2018 the world.” that is part of the Foundation’s strategic Moscoe, who is studying Jewish plan. history and English concurrently with “Together, with the Federation, the the teacher education program, said Foundation has a responsibility to meet Jewish life has been an “integral com- the needs of our community’s most ponent in [her] time at Queen’s” to the vulnerable and disadvantaged mem- point where it is strongly infl uencing her bers” while investing in future genera- career options. tions, the president and CEO of the “I’m hoping to combine my love for Federation and Foundation said. teaching and Judaism and communal The Foundation’s George Joseph work,” she said. Cooper Scholarship for leadership, Moscoe was a key organizer of academic excellence and involvement in Holocaust Education Week at Queen’s, the Jewish community was awarded to running the campaign for the past two Elana Moscoe, 20. The scholarship, years. She is also a member of the Israel valued at approximately $14,000, is on Campus executive, and is a fellow of granted annually to a member of the the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER Ottawa Jewish community between the This coming year, Moscoe will be Elana Moscoe (centre) receives the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation’s George ages of 18 and 30, and must be used for co-president of Hillel at Queen’s, one of Joseph Cooper Scholarship for 2014 from Foundation Chair Lynne Oreck-Wener (left) and further education in artistic, literary or the fi rst Queen’s students who is not Cooper Scholarship Committee Chair Diane Koven at the Foundation’s AGM, June 10. social sciences. from Toronto to fi ll that role. June 30, 2014 19 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Strategic: ‘The ottawa jewish bulletin board Federation’s plan LIMMUD OTTAWA CALLS FOR PROPOSALS ant project. The Kosher Food Bank is currently looking The next edition of Limmud Ottawa, a festival of Jewish for a volunteer to manage this important community for the community’ culture and learning, will take place Sunday, November service. 2 at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. For information, contact Ian Borer, executive director Continued from page 9 Limmud Ottawa is now accepting proposals for of Agudath Israel Congregation, at [email protected] sessions and presentations from members of the Jewish or 613-728-3501. needs an inspirational vision to guide its actions and community. focus. The deadline for proposal submissions is July 29. MOSCOVITCH WINS TRILLIUM BOOK AWARDS “The strategic plan is a road map to take Federation Sessions should be planned to run between 40 and 50 The Trillium Book Awards, Ontario’s foremost prizes for from where it is today to where it needs to be. The minutes. Proposals and enquiries about volunteer Jewish Federation of Ottawa, building on its dis- literary excellence, were announced June 17, at a dinner opportunities at Limmud Ottawa may be made via in Toronto hosted by the Ontario Media Development tinguished 80-year history as the heart of Jewish life in www.limmudottawa.ca. the nation’s capital, has created such a vision to move Corporation. the community forward,” said Kerzner. This year’s winner of the Trillium Book Award in VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY AT KOSHER FOOD BANK “Be bold” was the key message that Federation kept English-language was Ottawa-born playwright Hannah hearing throughout its strategic planning process, The work of Ottawa’s Kosher Food Bank, which serves Moscovitch for the published version of her play, This which included community consultations across a wide clients in need who have been vetted and referred by is War. spectrum. With this simple yet powerful message in Jewish Family Services, and currently serves 66 families, The play was presented in Ottawa in February by the mind, the new mission, vision, core values and is performed by a dedicated group of volunteers who Great Canadian Theatre Company at the Irving corporate principles were created. cheerfully donate their time and energy to this import- Greenberg Theatre Centre to wide acclaim. Ultimately, the report says, this is not a plan for the Federation, but Federation’s plan for the com- munity. In April and May, the committee fi nalized the strategic plan. It was ratifi ed by the Federation Board Yarchei Kallah of Directors on May 21 and was presented to the com- munity at the Federation AGM on June 18. Jewish Educational Extravaganza Among the aspects of the strategic plan are the mission “to advance and promote an exceptional quality of Jewish life”; the vision of “a thriving Ottawa July 6 - 12 Jewish community that is inclusive, accessible, educated and engaged”; core values of “Torah, chesed (loving-kindness), k’lal Yisrael (Jewish peoplehood), tzedakah (philanthropic giving), and tikkun olam Opening Night - Sunday, July 6 (repairing the world)” with “enduring affi nity and Join Rabbi Cary Friedman for a special screening of Legends of the Knight support for the Jewish State of Israel”; and corporate principles of “collaboration and partnership, care, Be inspired and uplifted by true stories of ordinary acceptance and respect for every individual, trans- individuals who’ve become real-life superheroes parency and accountability,” and “innovative and forward-thinking leadership.” through their shared love of Batman. Five goals and measurable targets were established and each of the goals will be achieved over the next fi ve Location: Soloway JCC years, and completed with the conclusion of the fi scal Time: 7:30pm year ending June 30, 2019. The goals are to “increase fi nancial resources to Cost: $15 support the Jewish communities of Ottawa, Canada, Israel and the world; manage and communicate a transparent and responsible process to allocate funds Be inspired morning, afternoon, and evening with: from the Annual Campaign; foster greater co-operation and partnership among community agencies and organiz- ations; expand involvement and engagement in Jewish life and learning, for all ages” and “attract and develop diverse volunteers and leaders.” The goals, including measurable targets, are explained in more depth in the report, which can be read – along with supporting documents and background material – at www.jewishottawa.com/strategicplan. Rabbi Cary Friedman Rabbi Reuven Tradburks Mrs. Ellie Riesel The community consultations strongly showed the Spirituality consultant Former head of Toronto Master educator at the Melvin need to create a more welcoming and inclusive Jewish for the FBI Board of Rabbis J. Berman Hebrew Academy, community. Washington D.C. The next step for the Federation is for staff to develop Morning classes and Lunch & Learns work plans and strategies that will achieve the goals over the next fi ve years. @ Hillel Lodge For more info. and the complete Yarchei Kallah schedule: There will be reports to the community twice yearly Evening classes @ SJCC on the progress being made to achieve the goals of the 613.695.4800 strategic plan, which will be based on the Federation’s Key [email protected] Shabbaton @ Beit Tikvah www.jetottawa.com Performance Indicators, “a series of quantifi able meas- ures to gauge performance of an organization.” 20 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Shemitta (sabbatical) year. Rabbi Hattin Rabbi Michael Hattin will review the main practices and probe into the essence of Shemitta. He will demonstrate that, while the formal returns to Machzikei Hadas observances may be limited to Israel, the ideals of Shemitta remain relevant wherever we live. as scholar-in-residence On Saturday, before mincha, his topic will be “Seasons of the Soul.” The current BY LISA GARMAN for more than 20 years and has served as year is a leap-year in the Jewish calendar, FOR CONGREGATION MACHZIKEI HADAS scholar-in-residence in many commun- a system of time keeping based upon the abbi Michael Hattin, a master ities in North American and Europe. This motions of both the sun and the moon. teacher of Tanakh (Bible) at the will be his second year as scholar-in-resi- Rabbi Hattin will cite Biblical text, Pardes Institute of Jewish dence at Machzikei Hadas. rabbinic commentary and basic science RStudies in Jerusalem and Rabbi Hattin will give three talks, the as he demonstrates the mechanics of director of the beit midrash at the Pardes fi rst at the Friday night Shabbat dinner synchronization as well as the spiritual Center for Jewish Educators, returns to (reservations required), the second on implications. Ottawa as scholar-in-residence for the Saturday approximately one hour before His fi nal topic, at seuda shlishit, will be Shabbat weekend of July 4 and 5 at mincha, and the third on Saturday at “Bilam’s Messianic Vision.” Perhaps the Congregation Machzikei Hadas, 2310 seudah shlishit. earliest mention of a messianic vision Virginia Drive. The topic at the Shabbat dinner will be occurs in that week’s Torah reading. Rabbi Hattin has taught Bible studies “The Perils of Possession.” Next year is a Rabbi Hattin will present an early Torah scholar Rabbi Michael Hattin will give interpretation of the words of Bilam’s three talks at Congregation Machzikei Hadas, July 4-5. fi nal prophecy that changed the course of Jewish history. A number of Ottawa residents have selected teachings of classical Jewish THE OTTAWA JEWISH BULLETIN IS ONLINE! studied at Pardes Institute with Rabbi commentary. The resulting innovative Hattin and have reported being readings apply the Torah’s message to the impressed by the depths of his under- complexities of modern living. Read the entire Ottawa Jewish standing of Tanakh and by the quality of His next book, Joshua (Studies in his teaching. He lives in Alon Shevut with Tanakh) will be available in the fall. Bulletin online ... and more ... his wife Rivka and their fi ve children. The entire community is invited to join His fi rst book, Passages: Text and us at Congregation Machzikei Hadas for at www.ottawajewishbulletin.com. Transformation in the Parasha was what promises to be a most exciting published in 2012. In it, Rabbi Hattin Shabbat. For further information, Past issues too. provides a study in English of each Torah including lecture times, and to make portion in an accessible way that deftly reservations for the Shabbat dinner, call weaves literary analysis of the text with the synagogue offi ce at 613-521-9700. A Taste of Summer.

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In support Sandra and Norman Slover Mazal tov on the Gary Steinberg by Nordau and Roslyn of the Bess and Moe birth of your first granddaughter, Riley Jaclyn by Kanigsberg Greenberg Family Malcolm and Vera Glube R’fuah Shlema: Laya and Sol Shabinsky Mazal tov on the birth Barry Baker by Nordau and Roslyn Kanigsberg Hillel Lodge of your great-granddaughter, Maya by Malcolm and In the Joseph Vera Glube David, Harvey, Victor Kardish Family Fund Ian Borer Mazal tov on the birth of your grand- In Memory of: and Inez Zelikovitz daughter, Maya by Malcolm and Vera Glube Irving Bercovitch by Margo, David, Aaron and Long Term Care Centre Gail Kardish; and by Sheryl and Harvey Kardish Nell Gluck Memorial Fund Morris Kimmel By David, Margo, Aaron and In Honour of: Gail Kardish; and by Sheryl, Harvey, Mallory and Card Donations Touch of Klez Mazal tov on receiving the Henry Molot Mazal tov on receiving the Shem Ryan Kardish Card donations go a long way to improving Outstanding Service Award by Marilyn Adler Tov Community Volunteer Award by Morris and Phyllis Sternthal by Margo and David Kardish the quality of life for our residents. Thank you Shelley Schachnow; by Manny and Cheryle Gluck; In Honour of: Samuel and Jean Akerman Memorial Fund for considering their needs and contributing to by Toby and Joel Yan; by Julia Gluck and Ted Reisa and Allan Glenns Mazal tov on the R’fuah Shlema: Overton; and by Sherwin and Bonnie Lyman arrival of your granddaughter, Sadie by Margo, their well-being. Maureen Katz by Sheila and Larry Hartman On behalf of the residents and their fam- Manny and Cheryle Gluck Best wishes on your David, Aaron and Gail Kardish In Honour of: marriage with love by Sally and Elliott Levitan; by Jennie Roberge Yasher Koach on winning the ilies, we extend sincere appreciation to the Sheila and Larry Hartman Mazal tov on your Miriam Lipman; by Marilyn and William Newman; Teddie Metrick Award by Margo, David, Aaron and following individuals and families who made 50th wedding anniversary by Alvin and Monica Stein by Bella and Elliott Edelstein; by Ruth Calof and Gail Kardish card donations to the Hillel Lodge Long-Term and family; and by Irma Sachs Dave Moskovic; and by Henry and Maureen Molot Suzi Shore-Sauve Yasher Koach on winning the Care Foundation between May 7 and June Maya Nix Happy milestone birthday by Julia Teddie Metrick Award by Margo, David, Aaron and 11, 2014 inclusive. Elsie Baker Endowment Fund Gluck, Ted and Jess Overton Gail Kardish In Honour of: Joel and Toby Yan Mazal tov on the engage- Sandra and Norman Slover Mazal tov on the HONOUR FUNDS Julie Sherman Happy special birthday by Polly ment of your daughter Meira to Gidi Aviram with birth of your grandchild by Margo and David Kardish Unlike a bequest or gift of life insurance, and Jackie Moran and Sammy love by Julia Gluck, Ted and Jess Overton; and by The Israeli Brunch Committee Yasher Koach which are realized some time in the future, a Henry and Maureen Molot and family on a job well done by Margo Kardish named Honour Fund (i.e., endowment fund) Fred and Esther Ballon Family Fund Alfred Friedman Happy special birthday by In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: is established during your lifetime. In Memory of: Manny and Cheryle Gluck Tezzie Zelikovitz, beloved mother and grand- By making a contribution of $1,000 or Irving Bercovitch by Fred and Esther Ballon Connie and Gerald Steinberg Mazal tov mother by Margo, David, Aaron and Gail Kardish Irving Atkins by Freddie and Esther Ballon more, you can create a permanent remem- on Sygall’s engagement to Regev by Henry and Maureen Molot Dorothy and Maurie Karp Endowment Fund brance for a loved one, honour a family mem- Sid and Barbara Cohen Family Fund Shmuel and Eve Keren Mazal tov on the birth In Memory of: ber, declare what the Lodge has meant to you R’fuah Shlema: of your second grandson, B’eri Elazar with love by Irving Bercovitch by Dorothy Karp and family and/or support a cause that you believe in. Barry Baker by Sid and Barbara Cohen Henry and Maureen Molot A Hillel Lodge Honour Fund is a per- In Honour of: Paul Matthies Happy milestone birthday by Morris and Lillian Kimmel Family Fund manent pool of capital that earns interest or Henry Molot Mazal tov on receiving the Shem Julia Gluck and Ted Overton In Memory of: income each year. This income then supports Tov Community Volunteer Award by Sid and Carl Gluck Mazal tov on the engagement of Irving Bercovitch by the Kimmel, Kaiman and the priorities designated by you, the donor. Barbara Cohen your son Akiva to Russi by Julia Gluck and Ted and Levine families Jess Overton Morris Kimmel by Leah and Issie Scarowsky; Ruth and Irving Aaron Family Fund Joel and Sharon Edelson Family Fund Julia Gluck Mazal tov on receiving the Israel by Bev and Bryan Glube; by Debi and David Shore; In Honour of: In Memory of: Engagement Community Award with love by Toby by Susan and Charles Schwartzman and family; by Roz and Steven Fremeth Mazal tov on the birth Anne Magill by Joel and Sharon Edelson and Joel Yan Roz Taller; by Pinchas and Barbara Pleet; by Lynne of your twin grandchildren, Seth Henry and Laila Leslie and Marvin Kirshenblatt Mazal tov on Oreck Wener and Bob, Taryn, Eleni and Hart Wener; Corina by Ruth and Irving Aaron Tania Firestone Family Fund the birth of two more grandchildren, Paige Louella by Laurie and Carol Pascoe; by Ingrid Levitz; by Henry Molot Mazal tov on receiving the Shem In Memory of: Samson and Leah Sophia Kirshenblatt by Henry and Alvin and Monica Stein; by Marilyn and William Tov Community Volunteer Award by Ruth and Irving Bercovitch by Phil Firestone and Susie Maureen Molot Newman; by the Firm Besner, Gallay and Kreisman; Irving Aaron Caplan Firestone Sharon Goldstein Berg and Dr. Jonathan Berg by Danny and Rhonda Levine and family; by Morris Shelli and Rabbi Ely Braun Mazal tov on the Mazal tov on the engagement of your son Noam to Presser and Jamie Mahon; by Howard and Barbara birth of your grandson, Jacob by Ruth and Irving Friedberg and Dale Families Fund Adrienne O’Hanlon by Julia Gluck and Ted Overton Geller; by Joseph Lichtenstein; by Issie and Marlene Aaron In Memory of: R’fuah Shlema: Grajcar; by Noa and Sheldon Schwartz; byAriela In Memory of: Arnold Rose by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Yanda Max by Henry and Maureen Molot and Heilman-Faiola and family; by Murray Citron; by Moe Sobcuff by Ruth and Irving Aaron Morris Kimmel by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale family Evelyn Greenberg; by Sid and Barbara Cohen; by Phyllis Sternthal by Ruth and Irving Aaron In Honour of: In Memory of: Shnier, Gesco Ltd. Partnership; by Rosalie, Harold, Morris Kimmel by Ruth and Irving Aaron Skip Kronick Mazal tov on completing the Daf Morris Kimmel by Henry and Maureen Molot Leah, Josh and Naomi Schwartz; by Bess and George Yomi cycle by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Phyllis Sternthal by Manny and Cheryle Gluck Silverman; by Sol and Estelle Gunner; by Sally and Bill and Leona Adler Memorial Fund Sara and Leonard Kerzner Congratulations Geri Migicovsky by Manny and Cheryle Gluck Norman Raicek; by Norman and Myrna Barwin; In Observance of the Yahrzeit of on the birth of your granddaughter, Esther Rena by Margaret Lhamey by Manny and Cheryle Gluck David and Cheryl Breger; by Raoul and Sandra Leona Adler by Jeff, Marilyn and Elayne Adler; Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Father of Laurie Gray by Manny and Cheryle Korngold; by Alvin and Diana Malomet; by Arlene by Esti, Shimon, Rochel-Leah and Moishele Fogel Gluck and Mel Schwey and Family; by Cheryl Leyton and Father of Esti Fogel by Elayne Adler, Jordan Malcolm and Vera Glube Endowment Fund Manuel Glimcher; by Sarah, Jack, David and Lev and Benjamin Stenzler In Memory of: Gunner Family Fund Silverstein; by Eric and Joy Weisbloom; by Vera In Memory of: Irving Bercovitch by Malcolm and Vera Glube In Memory of: and George Gara; by Raina and Chaim Feig and Morris Kimmel by Elayne Adler, Jordan and Morris Kimmel by Malcolm and Vera Glube Irving Bercovitch by Sol and Estelle Gunner Rachael Cohen; by Steph and Devon Carr; by Helen Benjamin Stenzler; and by Marilyn Adler, Neil and Don McGahan by Malcolm and Vera Glube In Honour of: and Chaim Gilboa and family; by Evelyn and Issie Daniel Blacher In Honour of: Seymour Mender Mazal tov on winning the Hoffman; by Edie Landau; by Howard and Evelyn In Honour of: Morty Weinberg Happy 80th birthday by Shalom Perel President’s Award of Merit by Sol and Silverman and family; by Arlene and Norman Glube; Leslie Bricker Mazal Tov on receiving the Malcolm and Vera Glube Estelle Gunner by Golda and Ned Steinman and family; by Julius Thelma Steinman Direct Service Award by Marilyn Marvin and Sandy Granatstein Happy 50th and Marcia Majerczyk and family; by Sylvia and Adler, Neil and Daniel Blacher wedding anniversary by Malcolm and Vera Glube Nordau and Roslyn Kanigsberg Family Fund Morton Pleet; by Barb and Larry Hershorn; by Tom Seymour Mender Mazal Tov on receiving the Sharon Rosentzveig Congratulations on the In Memory of: and Cathy Trueman; by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz; Shalom Perel President’s Award of Merit by Marilyn birth of your first granddaughter, Jillian Rose by Gertrude Brown by Nordau and Roslyn by Sally Matook; by Eva and Frank Lepore and Adler Malcolm and Vera Glube Kanigsberg (Continued on page 23)

THE LODGE EXPRESSES ITS SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT AND APOLOGIZES FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, THE WORDING APPEARING IN THE BULLETIN IS NOT NECESSARILY THE WORDING WHICH APPEARED ON THE CARD. GIVING IS RECEIVING – ATTRACTIVE CARDS AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS Here’s a good opportunity to recognize an event or convey the appropriate sentiment to someone important to you and at the same time support the Lodge. Card orders may be given to Bev at 613- 728-3900, extension 111, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday. You may also e-mail your orders to [email protected] or online donations can be made through CanadaHelps.org. All orders must include name, address, postal code, and any message to person receiving the card; and, amount of donation, name, address and postal code of the person making the donation. Cards may be paid for by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Cheque or Cash. Contributions are tax deductible. June 30, 2014 23 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Morris Kimmel by Stephen and Debra Leonard Shore and Jane Ehrenworth Mazal marriage of Yoni and Ryan by Susan and Charles Schneiderman tov on your recent marriage by Carole and Norman Schwartzman and family Joel Bainerman by Bunny Cogan Zagerman Linda and Les Lauer Mazal tov on the Bat In Honour of: Mitzvah graduation of your granddaughter Eliana Evelyn Eisenberg Happy special birthday by * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * with love by Susan and Charles Schwartzman and Bunny Cogan family Julie and Frances Cogan Happy 60th anniver- Feeding Fund Roslyn and Lee Raskin Mazal tov on your (Continued from page 22) sary by Bunny Cogan In Memory of: grandson Adam’s Bar Mitzvah by Claire Bercovitch family; by Marion Silver, Alan Brass, Lawrence, Stan Cherney by Barbara Fine and Steve Shirley Kriger Mazal tov on the marriage of Rafi and Shira; by Anita Roodman; by Staff of Harold and Lillian Shoihet Memorial Fund Levinson your granddaughter Valerie by Claire Bercovitch Urbandale Construction Limited; Staff of Westboro In Memory of: Mark Kerzer by Barbara Fine and Steve Jack and Sherry Torjman Happy 40th wedding Flooring and Décor; by Marilyn and Dan Kimmel; Irving Bercovitch by David Shoihet Levinson anniversary and becoming grandparents by Roz and by Patty and Jeremy Haas; by Harry and Sally Welt- Faige Zylberlicht by Dovid Shoihet and family Reuben Fine by Barbara Fine and Steve Steve Fremeth man; by the Staff of Tartan Homes Corporation; by In Honour of: Levinson Sol and Laya Shabinsky Mazal tov on the birth Eli and Sharon Cohen, Melanie and Netanya; by Lisa Glaser Happy birthday by Dovid Shoihet Irving Bercovitch by Barbara Fine and Steve of your great-grandchild by Bill and Jane James Marty and Janet Shimkofsky; by Sunny and John and family Levinson; and by Carol Gradus Marsha and Art Saper Mazal tov on John’s Tavel; by Mindy and Joe Benmergui; by Ruth Calof Tamara Fathi Mazal tov on receiving the Frei- Morris Kimmel by David and Sharon Appotive graduation from Medical School by Eric and Joy and Dave Moskovic; by Claire Bercovitch; by Fray- man Family Young Leadership Award by David and and Family; and by Joy, Seymour, Jess, David and Weisbloom da and Charles Wiseman; by Sol and Zelaine Shin- Jessica Shoihet Jared Mender Lysette and Louis Kohn Mazal tov on the der; by Audrey Kaufman and Barry Ganz; by Patty Rabbi Dr. Reuven Bulka Happy birthday by Phyllis Sternthal by Carol Gradus upcoming marriage of Melissa and Jamie by Susan Guthrie; by Cynthia Cowan and Deborah Malone; by Dovid Shoihet and Miriam Sabo and family In Honour of: and Charles Schwartzman and family Roz and Lee Raskin; by Rickie and Marty Saslove; Rebecca Rotenberg Mazal tov on the birth of Sharon and David Appotive Mazal tov on the Henry Molot Congratulations on receiving the by Tamarack Developments Corporation; by Sonja your grandchild by David and Jessica Shoihet marriage of Ryan and Yoni by Marilyn and David 2014 Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award with and Ron Kesten; by Lisa and Tess Fischer; by Bev Akman and family much love by Sandra Appel, Jerry Shuman, Mira and Abe Feinstein; by Susan Katz and Lawrence Label and Leona Silver Family Fund Seymour Mender Mazal tov on receiving the Shuman and Naomi Shuman Hercz; by Nassie Godel; and by Celia, Stephen, Matt In Memory of: Shalom Perel President’s Award of Merit with love Sandra and Norman Slover Mazal tov on the and Ryan Bobkin Gertrude Brown by Label and Leona Silver by Sharon, David, Ryan, Yoni, Jaye and Brody birth of your granddaughter by Claire Bercovitch In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Appotive; by Marilyn and David Akman and family; Bess Swedlove Happy special birthday by Leona Adler by Janet, Steve, Tobin and Aaron Sarah and Arnie Swedler Family Fund and by Laurie and Carol Pascoe Marilyn and William Newman Kaiman In Honour of: Susan and Charlie Schwartzman Mazal tov Brenda Korn Happy 75th birthday with love by on the upcoming marriage of Paul and Amanda by IN MEMORY OF: Joan and Russell Kronick Family Fund Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin Sharon and David Appotive and family; and by Joy, Gertrude Brown by Marilyn and Ronnie R’fuah Shlema: In Memory of: Seymour, Jess, David and Jared Mender Goldberg; by Claire Bercovitch; and by Marion Barry Baker by Joan and Russell Kronick Morris Kimmel by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Henry Molot Mazal tov on receiving the Shem Vexler Linda Mirsky by Joan and Russell Kronick Zaitlin Tov Community Volunteer Award by Sol and Donna Shore by Alvin and Monica Stein and Yanda Max by Joan and Russell Kronick Estelle Gunner family In Memory of Milton and Mary (Terry) Viner Dorothy and Hartley Stern Mazal tov on Mother of Ellen Wright by Yvonne and Irving Bercovitch by Joan and Russell Kronick Family Fund Daniel and Erin’s marriage by Joy, Seymour, Jess, Yehuda Azuelos Morris Kimmel by Joan and Russell Kronick In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: David and Jared Mender Mother of Erin Gailor by Golda and Ned Phyllis Sternthal by Joan and Russell Kronick Joe Viner, dear brother and uncle by Millie, Andrea Shabinsky Borer Mazal tov on the Steinman In Honour of: Fran and Stephen Schaenfield birth of Maya Ruth Borer by Laurie and Carol Herb Gray by the Sandra and Norman Slover Mazal tov on the Pascoe Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge birth of your granddaughter by Joan and Russell Eric Weiner and Arlene Godfrey Dr. Andrea Wershof Schwartz Mazal tov on Bruce Baker by Alvin and Monica Stein and Kronick Family Fund completion of your residency in Internal Medicine family In Honour of: with love by Carol and Laurie Pascoe Irving Bercovitch by Alvin and Monica Stein; Bill and Phyllis Leith Family Paul and Sharon Finn Happy anniversary by R’fuah Shlema: by Debi and David Shore; by Rickie and Marty Endowment Fund Arlene Godfrey, Eric, Melissa and Laura Weiner Yanda Max by Carol Gradus Saslove; by Eric and Joy Weisbloom; by the Ottawa In Memory of: In Memory of: Cynthia Engel by Carol Gradus B’nai Brith Bowling League; by Ruth and Uri Tal; Mark Kerzner by David and Lisa Leith and Morris Kimmel by Eric Weiner and Arlene by Lisa and Tess Fischer family Godfrey Receation/Music Fund Anne Magill by the Residents, Board and Staff Irving Bercovitch by David and Lisa Leith and Phyllis Sternthal by Barbara and Jeff Rosen- In Honour of: of Hillel Lodge; by Alison Glube, Alana Levitan and family berg; by Paul Weiner; and by Carla and Bruce Seymour Mender Mazal tov on receiving the Dara Stein; by John Rutherford and Jackie Holzman; Weiner Shalom Perel President’s Award of Merit by Glenda by Howard and Marilyn Borts; by Linda and Stephen Farrand and Joyce Miller Family Fund and David Moss Weiner; and by Bill and Flora Silverman In Honour of: Toby and Joel Yan Family Fund Hillel Lodge In appreciation for receiving the Josephine Levalliant by the Residents, Mitchell Bellman Mazal tov on receiving the R’fuah Shlema: Outstanding Service Award by the Members of A Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; and by Margaret Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award by Sharon Manson-Singer with love by Toby and Touch of Klez LeValliant Farrand and Joyce Miller Joel Yan In Memory of: Dr. Gerald Glantz by Ellie, Hy and the Cutler R’fuah Shlema: In Honour of: Gerry Glantz by Debra and Gary Viner and family Cindy Engel by Farrand and Joyce Miller Joel and Toby Yan Mazal tov on the engagement family Moe Sobcuff by Claire Bercovitch of your daughter Meira by Adele and Jeff Sydney Sol Goldmaker by Felix and Helen Quinet Pencer Family Fund Therapeutics Fund Morris Kimmel by the Residents, Board and In Memory of: Carole and Norman Zagerman In Memory of: Staff of Hillel Lodge Morris Kimmel by Marcia and Irwin Pencer Family Fund Mark Kerzner by Sonja and Ron Kesten Riva Giterman by the Residents, Board and In Memory of: Staff of Hillel Lodge Shirley and Maurice Rose Memorial Fund Morley Sobcuff by Carole and Norman * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Jack Lasky by Marcella and Gaston Seropian In Honour of: Zagerman Anne Magill by the Social Work discipline at Laura and David Rose Thank you for the Reuben Fine and Grandson of Sara Shabsove IN HONOUR OF: the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group Pesach hospitality by Mavis and Simon Wasser- by Carole and Norman Zagerman Lily Feig Happy special birthday by Gloria berger Mark Kerzner by Carole and Norman Krugel; by Yvonne and Yehuda Azuelos; and by R’FUAH SHLEMA: Zagerman and Andrea Arron Marla and Peter Veres Judith Slipacoff by Alvin and Monica Stein; by Shelley and Sidney Rothman Family Fund Morris Kimmel by Carole and Norman Shoshana Kagedan Mazal tov on the birth of Golda and Ned Steinman; and by Sheila Beck In Memory of: Zagerman your grandson, Yonatan Nadiv by Golda and Ned Barry Baker by Bill and Jane James; and by Morris Kimmel by Shelley Rothman and family R’fuah Shlema: Steinman and family Linda Slotin and Jonathan Fisher Millie Weinstein by Carole and Norman Shelli and Rabbi Ely Braun Mazal tov on the Maureen Katz by Linda Slotin and Jonathan Schachter/Ingber Family Fund Zagerman birth of your grandson, Jacob by Golda and Ned Fisher In Memory of: Judith Slipacoff by Carole and Norman Steinman Cindy Engel by Bill and Jane James George Edelman by Bob and Maggie Lederman Zagerman Rabbi Braun Congratulations on receiving the Linda Mirsky by Bill and Jane James Linda Mirsky by Carole and Norman Zagerman by Shirley Viner Stephen and Debra Schneiderman and Andrea and Laurie Arron Henry Molot Mazal tov on receiving the Shem IN OBSERVANCE Family Fund In Honour of: Tov Community Volunteer Award by Cally and OF THE YAHRZEIT OF: In Memory of: Henry Molot Mazal tov on receiving the Shem Sid Kardash; by Lawrence Pleet; by Bev and Abe Jacob Aaron Bruner z”l, dear father and grand- Irving Bercovitch by Stephen and Debra Tov Community Volunteer Award by Carole and Feinstein father by Elly and Al Bruner Schneiderman Norman Zagerman Sharon and David Appotive Mazal tov on the Abe Dubinsky by Marilyn and Will Newman 24 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM ‘Garten’ party celebrates Temple Israel’s retiring rabbi

BY PAUL MCKEAGUE In his years at Temple Israel, Rabbi FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL Garten offi ciated at approximately 345 ith hugs, gifts, songs, b’nai mitzvot, 103 weddings, 79 funerals, laughter and tears, throngs 800 Shabbats, and 152 festivals and of people celebrated Rabbi holidays. WSteven Garten’s 19 years as Cohen noted his concern for the Temple Israel’s spiritual leader, June 15, at disadvantaged. a “Garten” party held for the longest “There are so many places where the serving rabbi in the Reform congrega- powerful are treated with great rever- tion’s history. ence,” she said, “but you were always Rabbi Garten will retire and become concerned about the weakest members rabbi emeritus on June 30. of our community. That says so much In keeping with the theme, crowds of about you, and I hope about us.” people strolled through the festively In a letter of congratulation that was decorated synagogue in straw hats and framed and presented as a gift, Mayor Jim summer wear, sipping tea and punch and Watson noted Rabbi Garten’s leadership nibbling on munchies as they chatted in developing “a vibrant congregation and shared memories about the rabbi. which is representative of the diversity of There were quips about Rabbi Garten’s the Jewish community,” while also noting love of baseball and golf and – in recogni- his success in “fostering meaningful tion of his musical tastes – the crowd dialogue with other faith communities.” sang folksongs from the 1960s whose The rabbi’s stature in Ottawa’s wider lyrics spoke of parting and moving on. Jewish community was recognized by the Heather Cohen, Temple Israel’s presence at the event of Rabbi Reuven P. executive director, mentioned how hard Bulka of Congregation Machzikei Hadas, it was for her to watch the rabbi “pack Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton of Or up.” She recalled the changes he had Haneshamah, Cantor Daniel Benlolo of made, such as performing interfaith and Congregation Beth Shalom, and Andrea same-sex marriages, and allowing Freedman, president and CEO of the Rabbi Steven Garten and wife Lisa Hans at Temple Israel’s “Garten” party. interfaith couples to be buried together Jewish Federation of Ottawa. in a Jewish cemetery. In an emotional speech, Rabbi Garten “You welcomed people, at all times of paid tribute to his children Micah and teaching Torah,” he said. “I have taught Rabbi Norman Klein will assume the their lives, and from all walks of life,” she Alyza, and to his wife Lisa Hans. my understanding of how liberal Judaism position of interim rabbi at Temple Israel said. “My 19 years here with you were about can enrich one.” in August.

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Organizers of the 16 th Annual Tee-up for Tamir Golf Fun-raiser held on June 10th at Rideau View Golf Club, called the event a “huge success,” raising over $30,000 in support of Tamir’s Residential Programs.

“Team Brownsteins” were awarded Rookie of the Year (Laurie Oakley with Joe, Margret, Daniel) Executive Director Mark Palmer, Board President Joel Kanigsberg, and Cantor Daniel Benlolo unveil the total raised for the event.

The Tzofim Friendship Caravan from Israel will perform at the Soloway JCC on August 7. Israeli culture to be highlighted at JCC summer day camp

BY PAMELA ROSENBERG ties to Israel and develop meaningful Special thanks to our event sponsors: SOLOWAY JCC connections to people in Israel.” Platinum sponsors: District Realty, Emond Harnden, Dow Honda ids attending JCC of Ottawa Tsion, who is studying law and govern- Gold sponsors: Ernst & Young, M.B. Keller & Associates, Ontario Medical Supply Inc. Summer Camps will get a ment, and Ashta, who is studying Silver sponsors: Arnon Corporation, Urbandale Corporation, Merovitz & Potechin, Mark Borts Insurance strong dose of Israeli culture communications, are two of about 50 & Financial Services, The Regional Group of Companies, Standard Life, Ginsberg Gluzman Fage & Levitz this season through a couple of students earning degrees through the K Bronze sponsors: Westboro Flooring, Desjardin Fianancial Insurance, R.G. Packman & new staff members and some entertain- Ethiopian Scholarship Project at IDC. As ing programming. part of the program students are sent Associates, Royal Lepage Team Realty, Hunt Club Nissan, Manulife Financial, Gemstone Storage The Tzofi m Friendship Caravan returns across the globe for internship positions Thank you to our Golf Fun-raisers: to perform for the campers and the relevant to their fi eld of study. Joel Kanigsberg, Vera Glube, Malcolm Glube, Sol Reichstein, Bob Thompson, Coral Thompson, community in August and two counsel- During their month-long stay in Irv Hoffman, J.J. Clarke, Jay Dover, Betty Dover, Cantor Daniel Benlolo, Margret Brownstein, lors from Israel will be joining the camp Ottawa, interning at the day camp, the Joe Brownstein, Daniel Brownstein, Aron Barrett, Gen Emerging, Ferkin Family, Vesna Scott staff. two will have the opportunity to perfect Thank you to our Tamir Program Golfers: The counsellors are Tsion Abunie, 23, their English and gain valuable work Vicky Ferkin, Kathi Jones, Robyn Purkasthaya, Meredith Caplan, Chris Frizell, Laurie Oakley and Ashta (Danny) Ayanou, 26. They are experience they can add to their resumés. Ethiopian Jews who now live in Israel and Through their camp experience they will Thanks to our Volunteers: they’ll be leading Israeli-themed activ- build friendships with other camp Chris Frizell, Joel Kanigsberg, Ellie Kanigsberg, Vesna Scott, Robin Purkathaya, Sharon Reichstein, ities and teaching campers about counsellors, educate the campers and Kayla Reichstein, Frances Mercer, Morris and Pat Neuman, Cantor Daniel Benlolo, Melantha Bain Ethiopian Israeli culture. They have staff about Ethiopian Israeli culture, as Special Thanks to Rideau View Golf Club General Manager, Steve Ducat, for the completed their service in the Israel well as take part in Federation emerging use of the facilities, and to Jason Walmark, Clubhouse Manager for all of their assistance and Defense Forces and are part of the generation programs. Head Professional Paul Sherratt for his wise counsel and guidance. Ethiopian Scholarship Project at the The Tzofi m Friendship Caravan returns Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC). for a second year to perform their Big thanks to David Smith, Creative Kosher Catering; Tamir Passages Cooking; Now in its seventh year, the project action-packed show of singing, dancing Koffman Signs; Dow Honda; Allegra Print; Sandy Lynch gives Ethiopian students the chance to and interactive fun, and spread their “fulfi l the Zionist dream” and become message of peace for all generations. Thank you everyone for your support and friendship! productive citizens of the State of Israel, A delegation of fi ve girls, fi ve boys and despite the hardships of their earlier two leaders from Israel will be travelling lives. The IDC’s prime objective is to through the U.S. and Canada and will assist these students through higher perform a free family show for the education to integrate them into Israeli community on Thursday, August 7, 7 pm society and see them meet their true at the Soloway Jewish Community potential. Centre. Tee Up for Tamir Hall of Fame “Part of the mandate of the Jewish On Friday, August 8, JCC campers will Federation of Ottawa, through our be treated to a special performance from Norm and Debbie Ferkin Irv Hoffman Partnership 2Gether program, is to create the Tzofi m Friendship Caravan followed stronger people-to-people connections to by a fun day of workshops where the kids Mark Borts Betty and Jay Dover Israel. Through the support of the will learn about Israel and Israeli music. Judi (Aleiha HaShalom) and Edward Kerzner Federation, these Israelis will come to “The kids loved the high energy show Ottawa for the month of August and they saw last summer, and we are excited If Tamir had a Hall of Fame these devoted individuals would defi nitely be inducted as MVPs. become part of the community,” that they are coming back to do it again,” explained Sarah Beutel, director of said JCC Day Camp Director Lauren Lee. Today we honor them for founding, leading and advancing the Tee Up for Tamir Golf community collaboration for the “It’s a great way to incorporate Israel into Fun-Raiser. They have contributed their time, skills and heart since the tournament’s inception Federation. “They will bring their Israeli our camp programming, and it teaches and we want to thank them for their outstanding efforts. language and culture. It is an opportunity the kids about it the country in a fun for people in Ottawa to strengthen their way.” 26 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Aviv Trio in Ottawa: The Aviv Trio, including (from left) violinist Daniel Aizenshtadt, violist Shira Majoni and pianist Tomer Gewirtzman – all recipients of Sharett Scholarships – performed works by Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Schumann, Ysaye and others, May 25, at Tabaret Hall at the in a concert sponsored by the Embassy of Israel and the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation (CICF). A key role of CICF is to financially support talented young Israeli musicians through the Sharett Scholarship progam. Contact Jane Gordon at [email protected] or Evelyn Greenberg at [email protected] for information about the program or to make a donation.

Seymour Mayne in Romania: Two books by University of Ottawa professor Seymour Mayne were launched in Romanian translation at Bookfest, the international book festival in Bucharest, May 27-June 1. Romanian literary critic Ion Bogdan Lefter described Mayne as “the most important foreign writer at the Bookfest this year.” Mayne, who also delivered a lecture at the University of Bucharest and was guest of honour at a reception at the Canadian Embassy, is seen here reading from his work at Bookfest.

Newfy goes to preschool: Ayala Sher brought Newfy, her Siberian husky, to visit the children at the Westboro Jewish Montessori Preschool, June 11. Newfy is a therapy dog and the students enjoyed hearing about Newfy as a “Shabbat dog.” She waits patiently for the HaMotzi to be said and does a “doggy amen” before eating a piece of challah, her favourite food. Sher and Newfy visited the preschool on behalf of the Be a Tree program, which teaches children about dog safety. For information about the preschool, call Devora Caytak at 613-729-7712. June 30, 2014 27 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Temple Israel Religious School (TIRS) Creating Jewish Community; Instilling Jewish Values “Our children feel a great sense of attachment to the Jewish community through their involvement with TIRS, and with our synagogue.” – Michelle Lajzerowizc and Bruce Gottfred

Jewish Experiences that: Promote Jewish Life Skills.

Promote Social Justice.

Encourage a Bond with Israel.

Participate in Jewish Life Cycle.

Prepare for Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

Offer Exciting High School and Youth programming.

Offer K-Grade 10.

“Temple School is much more than a place to learn Hebrew reading. It has given our children membership in a unique community.” – Penny Gershon-Giaccone and Roberto Giaccone

“TIRS has a warm, inclusive, welcoming atmosphere that fosters learning, growth, and pride in a Jewish identity.” – Marie Carmen Berlie and Charles Khazzam Building Jewish Community that grows with your child Temple Israel Religious School TIRS 1301 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON K2C 1N2 613-224-3133 • Sheli Braun, Principal www.templeisraelottawa.ca 28 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Or Haneshamah installs fi rst permanent rabbi

Or Haneshamah (OrH), Ottawa’s other faith groups, and Reconstructionist Reconstructionist congregation, formally leaders from as far away as Baltimore and installed Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton as its Philadelphia. fi rst permanent spiritual leader, May 25. Ken Victor welcomed the rabbi on More than 150 people attended the behalf of OrH. installation ceremony and welcomed “Our readiness and her readiness, her Rabbi Bolton with speeches, song and life journey and our community journey, prayer. have fi nally intersected,” he said. Attendees included OrH members, “Call it serendipity, call it God’s plan, rabbis and other leaders from Ottawa’s there is no doubt it is right. It is our great

Jewish community, representatives of good fortune to have Rabbi Liz with us.” PHOTO: ART TURNER Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton (far right) leads a joyful “instant choir” during a celebratory weekend that culminated with her official installation, as the first permanent spiritual leader of Or Haneshamah, Ottawa’s Reconstructionist congregation, in its 26-year history.

PHOTO: ART TURNER Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton is surrounded by the smiles of Or Haneshamah’s steering committee PHOTO: ART TURNER during the weekend of celebration to mark the rabbi’s official installation. From left to right: Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton (centre) celebrates with installation ceremony co-chairs Deborah Joyce Schachter, Jackie Lyons (chair), Rabbi Bolton, Janice Singer, Sarah Waisvisz and Marcie Margo (left) and Monica Rosenthal during Or Haneshamah’s official welcoming of its first Campbell. permanent spiritual leader. Memory of Norman and Evelyn Potechin inspires new bimah cover

BY DANIELLE DUGAS at Agudath Israel lives on, and with it, the to cherish and be proud of. FOR ADATH SHALOM CONGREGATION spirit of Norman. We inaugurated the bimah cover on ast summer, the Ottawa Jewish Later in the summer, Norman’s brother, May 24, the Shabbat preceding Rosh community lost a very special Len Potechin, a member of Adath Chodesh Sivan, with a chapel full of couple when Evelyn Potechin Shalom, bereft and still shaken, asked me congregants and members of the Lpassed away, followed a very few if I would prepare something special for Potechin family. weeks later by her beloved Norman, after Adath Shalom, in loving memory of The bimah cover gathers many of the 67 years of shared love. Although I was Norman and Evelyn. blessings we seek with each new moon: not privileged to know Evelyn, Norman I was very touched by this gift to be life and peace, joy and gladness, long life, was a faithful participant in the morning entrusted with making something consolation and deliverance, and also minyan at Agudath Israel and I found his special, of my choosing, linked to prayer represents ancient prayer, new life and reassuring presence and smile a renewed and the memory of dear human beings. the lunar cycle. pleasure each morning. In the months following the High Holy Much gratitude goes to a very special At breakfast, he favoured the same seat Days, Christine Shugar, Leslie Ram, Ellen family whose generosity to Adath Shalom each day, as we tend to do at home. He Caplan, Alison and Aliza Popky, Roslyn over the years has provided for the extended the Birkat Hamazon with an A new bimah cover for Rosh Chodesh was Brian, and Gabi and Maya Avni agreed to acquisition of the portable ark for High additional blessing that started with dedicated in memory of Evelyn and Norman help assemble a new bimah cover to mark Holy Days, the Ner Tamid, and the bimah “Have a good day,” to which everyone Potechin by Adath Shalom Congregation. Rosh Chodesh. Participation is an cover for festivals, among many other responded, “you all.” He then continued essential component of success for our gifts. Thank you, Len and Mary Potechin. in Yiddish with a blessing for health and conclude the moment and declare the congregation’s activities and we each May the loving memory of Norman and strength. A resounding “amen” would start of the rest of the day. This tradition contributed a piece – yet the whole is ours Evelyn Potechin be a blessing always. In Appreciation In Appreciation To our dear friends, a heartfelt thank you for your sup- We would like to thank all of our family and friends for port, donations, cards and calls after the loss of our their donations, cards, meals and expressions of sympa- beloved mother and grandmother Tzirel Ilana in Israel. thy on the loss of Mark Kerzner. Your thoughtfulness Cantor Pinchas and Sarah Levinson and Family was appreciated during this time. The Kerzner Family June 30, 2014 29 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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The Board of Directors of the Ottawa Cynthia Engel by Tracey Kronick and Alan Jewish Community Foundation acknowl- Abelson. Our future is in your hands edges with thanks contributions to the Linda Mirsky by Tracey Kronick and Alan To make a donation following funds as of June 9, 2014. Abelson. and/or send a tribute card, ABELSON FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND MARJORIE AND BEN ACHBAR In Memory of: COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND call the Foundation office Irving Bercovitch by Tracey Kronick and In Memory of: (613-798-4696 ext. 274) Alan Abelson. Morley Sobcoff by Marjorie and Ben Achbar. Morley Sobcuff by Tracey Kronick and Alan Phyllis Sternthal by Marjorie and Ben Achbar. e-mail: [email protected] Abelson. R’fuah Sh’leimah to: ROSE AND LOUIS ACHBAR website: www.OJCF.ca Barry Baker by Tracey Kronick and Alan MEMORIAL FUND Abelson. In Memory of: Morley Sobcuff by Zelda Freedman. Join us in building our community FRANCEEN AND STANLEY AGES ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: by supporting these local agencies Morris Kimmel by Fran and Stan Ages. AJA 50+ ENDOWMENT FUND Award by Shirley and Shier Berman. OTTAWA JEWISH Mazel Tov to: Mazel Tov to: Henry Molot on being the recipient of the COMMUNITY SCHOOL Sara Lipnowski on the birth of her grand- The Sigler Family on Jacob’s Graduation Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by CHILDREN OF THE BOOK child by Fran and Stan Ages. from Queen’s University with a Master’s in Shirley and Shier Berman. AWARD FUND Sandra and Norman Slover on the birth of Engineering by Carol and Laurie Pascoe. their first granddaughter, Riley Jaclyn by Fran OTTAWA JEWISH and Stan Ages. AJA 50+ DAVID SMITH COMMUNITY SCHOOL GREENBERG FAMILIES OTTAWA JEWISH FUND IN MEMORY MARY AND ISRAEL (AL) ALLICE LIBRARY FUND COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF EVA WINTROB In Memory of: SCHOLARSHIP FUND MEMORIAL FUND OTTAWA JEWISH Mervin Greenberg by Carole and Norman In Memory of: AKIVA EVENING HIGH SCHOOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY FUND Irving Bercovitch by Andrea Vecsei and Zagerman. ENDOWMENT FUND OTTAWA LODGE Murray Allice. HILLEL LODGE LEGACY FUND ADINA BEN PORAT MACHON SARAH B’NAI BRITH #885 In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: In Appreciation to: TORAH EDUCATION FUND PAST PRESIDENTS FUND Israel Allice by Beverly and Irving Swedko. Sydney Backman by Shirley Strean-Hartman. DORIS BRONSTEIN OTTAWA LODGE In Memory of: TALMUD TORAH B’NAI BRITH #885 APPOTIVE FAMILY Morris Kimmel by Bernard and Donna AFTERNOON SCHOOL FUND PRESIDENTS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Mazel Tov to: Dolansky; by Debi and Neil Zaret and family; BARRY FISHMAN OTTAWA MODERN Sharon and David Appotive on the mar- and by Jean Morin. OTTAWA JEWISH BULLETIN JEWISH SCHOOL FUND riage of their son Ryan to Yoni, by Randi, Ian, SCHOLARSHIP FUND OTTAWA POST OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY Jonathan and Inna, Matthew and Adam MARTIN GLATT JEWISH WAR VETERANS FUND SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND Sherman. PARLIAMENT LODGE Birthday Wishes to: OTTAWA TORAH INSTITUTE B’NAI BRITH Ron Paritzky by Mark and Cindi Resnick. TORAH EDUCATION FUND ANNE AND LOUIS ARRON PAST PRESIDENTS’ FUND MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of: PINCHAS ZUKERMAN In Memory of: Irving Bercovitch by Sarah and Steven MENDEL AND VALERIE GOOD MUSIC EDUCATION FUND Morgan and family. HOLOCAUST Irving Bercovitch by Daphne and Stanley CONTINUING EDUCATION FUND RAMBAM MAIMONIDES Arron. Mazel Tov to: JEWISH CONTINUITY FUND Henry Molot on being recipient of the FUND FOR THE NEXT GENERATION Phyllis Sternthal by Daphne and Stanley Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by SOLOWAY JEWISH Arron. JEWISH COMMUNITY CEMETERY COMMUNITY CENTRE Mazel Tov to: Yanda and Mark Max and family. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FUND R’fuah Sh’leimah to: EARLY CHILDHOOD Sandra and Norman Slover on the birth Honey Kirshenblatt by Sarah and Steven JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES EDUCATION FUND of their first granddaughter, Riley Jaclyn by Morgan. AGENCY FUND SOLOWAY JEWISH COMMUNITY Daphne and Stanley Arron. JEWISH MEN’S SUMMER CAMP SCHOLARSHIP FUND ALYCE AND ALLAN BAKER SARA AND ZEEV VERED SOFTBALL LEAGUE FUND SOLOWAY JEWISH FAMILY FUND ISRAEL CULTURAL PROGRAM FUND JEWISH STUDENTS ASSOCIATION - COMMUNITY CENTRE Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: HILLEL FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Morris Kimmel by Sara Vered. Michael Baker on being the recipient of the JEWISH YOUTH LIBRARY SOLOWAY JEWISH Geraldine Migicovsky by Sara Vered. 40 Under Forty Award by Barbara, Len, Steven OF OTTAWA COMMUNITY CENTRE Morley Sobcuff by Sara Vered and family. and Michael Farber. ENDOWMENT FUND YOUTH SERVICES FUND Phyllis Sternthal by Sara Vered. Mazel Tov to: DAVID “THE BEAR” KARDASH TORAH ACADEMY OF OTTAWA RICKI AND BARRY BAKER Manny and Cheryl Gluck on their marriage CAMP B’NAI BRITH TORAH EDUCATION FUND ENDOWMENT FUND by Sara Vered and family. MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of: Sara Vered on receiving the Order of OTTAWA JEWISH CEMETERIES Irving Bercovitch by Ricki and Barry Baker. Canada by Yehuda and Yvonne Azuelos. ZICHARON FUND Morris Kimmel by Ricki and Barry Baker. R’fuah Sh’leimah to: OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY Barry Baker by Rena and Max Cohen; by SHIRLEY AND SHIER BERMAN FUND ENDOWMENT FUND FOR OTTAWA JEWISH ARCHIVES Sylvia, Morton and Harris Pleet; by Sandra and In Memory of: OTTAWA JEWISH Norman Slover; by Len and Jane Shore; by Irma Morris Kimmel by Shirley and Shier COMMUNITY SCHOOL Sachs; and by Roberta and Sam Goldmaker. Berman. PARENT FUND Mazel Tov to: Mazel Tov to: OTTAWA JEWISH Andrea Borer on the birth of her first grand- Mitchell Bellman on being the recipient of COMMUNITY SCHOOL daughter, Maya Ruth by Ricki and Barry Baker. the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service AGENCY FUND Continued on page 30 30 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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Laya and Sol Shabinsky on the birth of their Kimmel; by Ingrid Levitz; by Sam and Sandra and family; by Lori and Shabetay Lazarovitz; by DONALD AND LEAH CHODIKOFF first great-granddaughter, Maya Ruth by Ricki Zunder; by Sandra and Norman Slover; by Leila and Stuart Ages; by Ruth Calof and Dave ENDOWMENT FUND and Barry Baker. Bernice, Bobby, Seth, Gabriel, Maya, Elliott Moskovic; by Jessica and Marc Borenstein and In Memory of: Norman and Sandra Slover on the birth of and Regina Feller; by the Partners of Ginsberg, family; by Anna and Ronny Cantor; by Len and Irving Bercovitch by Leah Chodikoff. their first granddaughter, Riley Jaclyn by Ricki Gluzman, Fage and Levitz; by Rita Hornstein; Jane Shore; by Felicia and Aaron Greenberg; by Gertrude Brown by Leah Chodikoff. and Barry Baker. by Tootsie and Arnie Greenberg; by Debbie Rhona and Leonard Cogan; by Peter Ginsberg; R’fuah Sh’leimah to: and Lawrence Sculnick and family; by Pamela by Syd Streicher; by Sylvia Cohen; by Merle Betty Baylin by Leah Chodikoff. CAYLA AND MICHAEL BAYLIN Churchill; by Nick and Cathy Pantieras; by Gencher and family; by Ruth and Joe Viner; by ENDOWMENT FUND Anne and Irving Huss; by Carole and Wally Josh Engel; by Karen Chodikoff Jesin and Gary HOWARD, JEFFREY, ANDREW, Anniversary Wishes to: Cherun; by Sandy Goldberg and John Jussup; Litwack and families; by Shirley Strean-Hart- MICHAEL, GREGORY Sandy and Marvin Granatstein by Cayla and by the Stelcner family; by Adrienne and Chuck man; by Josee and Jerry Posen; by Alfred and AND ZACHARY COGAN FUND Michael Baylin. Shabsove; by Oded and Pamela Ravek and Kaysa Friedman; by Sunny and John Tavel; Birthday Wishes to: Birthday Wishes to: family; by Susan and Sheldon Rosenfeld; by by Leslie Tavel; by Arlene and Gary Bonn Ed Abrahams by Fred and Lisa Cogan and Alfred Friedman by Cayla and Michael Baylin. Steven and Hildy Lesh; by Michael and Eliza- and family; by Anita and Mike Roodman; by family. beth Friedman; by Mark and Cindi Resnick; by Deborah, Steven, Noah, Adam and Ruby Bess Swedlove by Fred and Lisa Cogan and ISAAC AND HELEN BEILES Riva Levitan and Richard Roth and family; by Kokinos; by Elissa and Avraham Iny; by Donna family. ENDOWMENT FUND Bob and Lindsay Firestone and family; by Car- and Howie Nadolny; by Cynthia Cowan and In Memory of: In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: ol-Sue and Jack Shapiro; by Murray Citron; by family; by Peter and Debra Szirtes and family; Rt. Hon. Herb Gray by Fred and Lisa Cogan Herby Beiles by Eileen Marcus. Albert Klein; by Re/Max Affiliates; by Chantale, and by Laurie Nadolny and Bill Green. and family. Walter and Raymond Telio; by Michelle and Gizela Klein by Fred and Lisa Cogan. IRVING AND ESTHER BELLMAN Allan Kofsky and family; by Shirley Kriger and JAMIE BEREZIN Mazel Tov to: MEMORIAL FUND family; by Barbara Sherman Gutmajer; by Leah ENDOWMENT FUND Rabbi Bulka on receiving the Order of In Memory of: and Bob Gencher; by Barbara and Len Farber; In Honour of: Canada by Fred and Lisa Cogan and family. Morris Kimmel by Mitchell Bellman. by Ian and Melissa Shabinsky and family; by Joe Jacobson’s unveiling by Yanda and Henry Molot on being the recipient of the Mazel Tov to: Jonathan, Lois, Andrew and Michael Calof; Mark Max and family. Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by Mitchell Bellman on being the recipient of by Cally and Sid Kardash; by Irma Sachs; by Fred and Lisa Cogan. the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Robert Krantzberg; by Sharon and Paul Finn; by MARTIN AND ELLIE BLACK R’fuah Sh’leimah to: Award by Randi and Ian Sherman. the Staff at LiveWell Family Health Centre; by ENDOWMENT FUND Millie Weinstein by Fred and Lisa Cogan. Mina and Harry Cohn on the birth of their Rhoda Caplan; by Jeffrey Appotive; by Norma In Memory of: grandson by Joyce and Seymour Bellman. and Phil Lazear; by Randi, Ian, Jonathan and Irving Bercovitch by Martin and Ellie Black. SID AND BARBARA COHEN Inna, Adam and Matthew Sherman; by Ethel and Morris Kimmel by Martin and Ellie Black COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND CLAIRE AND IRVING BERCOVITCH David Malek; by Frances and Julie Cogan; by and family. Mazel Tov to: ENDOWMENT FUND Sharon, Gord, Melanie and Jared Swedko-Kush- Mazel Tov to: Mitchell Bellman on being the recipient of In Memory of: ner; by Barbara and Larry Hershorn and family; David and Sharon Appotive on the marriage the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Irving Bercovitch by Daniel and Marilyn by Zelaine and Sol Shinder; by Sophie Moher of their son Ryan to Yoni, by Martin and Ellie Award by Sid and Barbara Cohen. Black. SANDI AND EDDY COOK DR. GERALD BLOOM ENDOWMENT FUND MEMORIAL FUND Anniversary Wishes to: Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation Mazel Tov to: Marvin and Sandy Granatstein by Sandi and Adam Bloom on being accepted into Medi- Eddy Cook and family. cal School by Ethel Bloom and family. In Memory of: Legacy Challenge Fund Andrew Papizian on receiving his Nursing Abby Bryant by Sandi and Eddy Cook and Degree by Ethel Bloom and family. family. Gregory Papizian on receiving his Mas- Morley Sobcuff by Sandi and Eddy Cook Everyone has the ability to create a Jewish legacy ter’s Degree in Public Administration by Ethel and family. Bloom and family. Mazel Tov to: The OJCF Legacy Challenge Foundation as recipient of a Leonard and Jane Shore on their marriage by asks you to consider making a gift bequest through your will, the CHANI AND BRAM BREGMAN Sandi and Eddy Cook and family. to the Foundation in your estate OJCF Legacy Challenge Fund JEWISH EDUCATION FUND R’fuah Sh’leimah to: In Memory of: Barry Baker by Sandi and Eddy Cook and plans and wills. Leaving a gift will pay for the professional/ Morris Kimmel by Chani and Bram family. in a will or as part of your estate legal services to help create Bregman. Rinaldo Canonico by Sandi and Eddy Cook plans helps ensure the vibrancy this bequest or codicil up to a Mazel Tov to: and family. David and Sharon Appotive on the mar- and long-term sustainability of maximum of $1,000. riage of Ryan to Yoni, by Chani and Bram NATHAN AND REBA DIENER our community for years to come, Bregman. ENDOWMENT FUND creating a lasting and personal Who is eligible? Mina and Harry Cohn on the birth of their In Memory of: grandchild by Chani and Bram Bregman. Irving Bercovitch by Joel and Barbara legacy. All donors choosing to leave Diener; and by John Diener. $10,000 (or more) or 1% (or SAM AND ANN BROZOVSKY Morris Kimmel by Joel and Barbara Diener. The OJCF Legacy Challenge more) of their estate to the Ottawa ENDOWMENT FUND R’fuah Sh’leimah to: JOSEPH AND JEAN DOVER is your chance to personally Jewish Community Foundation Linda Mirsky by Ann Brozovsky. ENDOWMENT FUND commit to the ongoing growth are eligible to participate in the Birthday Wishes to: and vitality of our shared OJCF Legacy Challenge. NAOMI BULKA MEMORIAL FUND Herbert Zagerman by Gerry and Madelaine Mazel Tov to: Dover. community. We hope you will Rabbi Bulka on receiving the Order of accept this challenge. For more information on how Canada by Daniel and Marilyn Kimmel. CYNTHIA AND ABE ENGEL this challenge program works, ENDOWMENT FUND TILLIE AND HARRY CHERM In Appreciation to: What is the OJCF please visit www.OJCF.ca MEMORIAL FUND Stephen and Gail Victor by Cynthia Engel. Legacy Challenge Fund? or contact Jared Isaacson at In Memory of: In Memory of: If you decide to name the 613-798-4696 extension 248 or Irving Bercovitch by Mel and Arlene Irving Bercovitch by Cynthia Engel and Schwey. family. Ottawa Jewish Community email [email protected]. Morris Kimmel by Donald Cherm and Continued on page 31 Robert Lebans. June 30, 2014 31 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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R’fuah Sh’leimah to: LARRY AND SHEILA HARTMAN Don McGahan by Marilyn and Daniel Marilyn and William Newman; by Ruth and Joe Barry Baker by Cynthia Engel and family. ENDOWMENT FUND Kimmel. Viner; and by Nina and Mark Dover. Anniversary Wishes to: Phyllis Sternthal by Roslyn and Arnie R’fuah Sh’leimah to: LESLIE AND CORNELIA ENGEL Larry and Sheila Hartman by Blossom Read. Kimmel. Barry Baker by Evelyn Lieff. ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: Cynthia Engel by Evelyn Lieff. In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Morley Sobcuff by Larry and Sheila PHILLIP AND ETTIE KIMMEL Cornelia Engel by Andre and Shelley Engel. Hartman. MEMORIAL FUND ARNOLD AND ROSE LITHWICK In Memory of: MEMORIAL FUND ELLEN AND RAHAMIM FATHI TEENA AND WALTER HENDELMAN Irving Bercovitch by Stan Kimmel. Birthday Wishes to: ENDOWMENT FUND FAMILY FUND Millie Meyers by Yvonne and Harvey In Memory of: In Memory of: SHARON KOFFMAN Lithwick and family. Irving Bercovitch by Ray and Ellen Fathi. Phyllis Sternthal by Teena and Walter ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND Hendelman and family. Birthday Wishes to: SAMUEL AND LEEMA MAGIDSON MOSHE AND LILY FEIG Fay Koffman by Bunny Cogan; by Cynthia ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND HY AND PAULINE HOCHBERG and Max Weinstein; by Carole and Norman In Memory of: Birthday Wishes to: ENDOWMENT FUND Zagerman; by Antoinette Capelle; by Anne Irving Bercovitch by Roslyn and Arnie Lily Feig by Zahava, Barry, Miriam and Birthday Wishes to: Monson; by David and Joy Kardish; by Gloria Kimmel. Asher Farber. Beatrice Dubinsky on her 99th birthday by Mostyn; and by Anita Ablin. R’fuah Sh’leimah to: Pauline Hochberg. Barry Baker by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel. SAM AND SUSAN FIRESTONE In Memory of: KRANTZBERG KRANE FAMILY FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Irving Bercovitch by Pauline Hochberg. Mazel Tov to: ETHEL AND DAVID MALEK In Memory of: Morley Sobcuff by Pauline Hochberg. Rhea Wohl on the Bar Mitzvah of her grand- ENDOWMENT FUND Irving Bercovitch by Joany and Andy Katz son, Evan by Myra and Sam Krane and family. Condolences to: and family. RHEA AND JEFF HOCHSTADTER Marsha Kaiserman on the loss of her dear Morris Kimmel by Sam and Susan Firestone FAMILY FUND ANNICE AND SYDNEY KRONICK mother by Ethel and David Malek. and family. In Memory of: FAMILY FUND Morley Sobcuff by Sam and Susan Firestone Mark Kerzner by Rhea, Jeff, Elana and Lorne In Memory of: JACOB MALOMET MEMORIAL FUND and family. Hochstadter. Morley Sobcuff by Debi and Neil Zaret; and In Memory of: Morley Sobcuff by Rhea, Jeff, Elana and by Barbara Sugarman and Sydney Kronick. Morley Sobcuff by Diana and Alvin Malomet. FLORENCE FAMILY Lorne Hochstadter. Phyllis Sternthal by Barbara Sugarman and Phyllis Sternthal by Diana and Alvin Malomet. MEMORIAL FUND Mazel Tov to: Sydney Kronick. In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Arnie Vered on receiving the Ontario Medal ANNE (BLAIR) AND HYMAN Freda Florence by A.L., Ann, Leanne and for Good Citizenship by Rhea, Jeff, Elana and JOAN AND RUSSELL KRONICK MAYBERGER ENDOWMENT FUND Brendan Smith. Lorne Hochstadter. FAMILY FUND In Memory of: Mazel Tov to: Morris Kimmel by Shelley and Morris ALFRED AND KAYSA FRIEDMAN DOROTHY AND HY HYMES Joan and Russell Kronick and family on the Schachnow. ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND marriage of Adam and Julie, by Yanda and Mark Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: In Honour of: Max and family. Andrea Borer on the birth of her granddaugh- Helen Better by Alfred and Kaysa Dr. Shithra Ginsburg receiving her Professor- ter, Maya Ruth by Charles Schachnow. Friedman. ship by Dorothy Hymes. NORMAN AND ISABEL LESH Sol and Laya Shabinsky on the birth of their R’fuah Sh’leimah to: R’fuah Sh’leimah to: ENDOWMENT FUND great-granddaughter, Maya Ruth by Charles Barry Baker by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman. Barry Baker by Dorothy Hymes. In Memory of: Schachnow. In Memory of: Gertrude Brown by Norman and Isabel Lesh. GILBOA/MAOZ FAMILY FUND Morris Kimmel by Dorothy Hymes. MORTY MAYBERGER In Memory of: Morley Sobcuff by Dorothy Hymes. RHODA AND JOE LEVITAN UNITED JEWISH APPEAL Irving Bercovitch by Helen and Chaim AND FAMILY GOLF TOURNAMENT FUND Gilboa. INY FAMILY FUND COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: Irving Bercovitch by Shelley and Morris JACK AND GERT GOLDSTEIN Andrea Borer on the birth of her first grand- Morris Kimmel by Rhoda and Joe Levitan. Schachnow. MEMORIAL FUND daughter, Maya Ruth by Elissa and Avraham Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: Iny. SALLY AND ELLIOTT LEVITAN Mendy Taller and Lori Loeb on their mar- Morris Kimmel by Diane and Allen Laya and Sol Shabinsky on the birth of their ENDOWMENT FUND riage by Charles Schachnow. Abramson. first great-granddaughter, Maya Ruth by Elissa R’fuah Sh’leimah to: and Avraham Iny. Barry Baker by Sally and Elliott Levitan. R HODA AND JEFFREY MILLER BARBARA AND SYDNEY GREENBERG In Memory of: FAMILY FUND ENDOWMENT FUND JEREMY KANTER MEMORIAL FUND Irving Bercovitch by Sally and Elliott Mazel Tov to: Happy Mother’s Day to: In Memory of: Levitan. Randi and Ian Sherman on the engagement of Linda Signer by Tamara, Ilana and Marissa Irving Bercovitch by Evelyn Eisenberg. Morley Sobcuff by Sally and Elliott Levitan. their son Jonathan to Inna, by Rhoda and Jeffrey Signer. Morris Kimmel by Evelyn Eisenberg. Mazel Tov to: Miller. Mazel Tov to: Sally and Elliott Levitan on the birth of their GROSSMAN KLEIN Seymour Eisenberg on his upcoming Bar great-grandson, Parker by Ruth and Joe Viner. ABRAM AND EDITH MOLOT FAMILIES FUND Mitzvah by Evelyn Eisenberg. MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of: JOSEPH AND EVELYN LIEFF Birthday Wishes to: Lawrence Gradus by Vera and Leslie Klein. HIRAM AND LILLIAN KATHNELSON ENDOWMENT FUND Henry Molot by Carol and Stuart Levine. Mark Kerzner by Vera and Leslie Klein. FAMILY FUND Anniversary Wishes to: Mazel Tov to: Rt. Hon. Herb Gray by Vera and Leslie Klein. Condolences to: Sheila and Larry Hartman by Evelyn Lieff. Henry Molot on being the recipient of the Gizela Klein by Yanda and Mark Max. Judith Robertson on the loss of her father by Birthday Wishes to: Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by Mazel Tov to: Stephen and Lois Kathnelson. Sandi Cook by Evelyn Lieff. Carol and Stuart Levine; by Barbara and Len Mitchell Bellman on being the recipient of In Memory of: Farber; and by Ian and Melissa Shabinsky and the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service ARTHUR AND SARAH KIMMEL Irving Bercovitch by Evelyn Lieff. family. Award by Vera and Leslie Klein. MEMORIAL FUND Morley Sobcuff by Blossom Read; by Sandra Tamara Fathi on being the recipient of the Birthday Wishes to: Shaver; by Miriam Pleet; by Marty, Ellen and JACK AND HONEY MONSON Freiman Family Young Leadership Award by Doris Weiser Small by Roslyn and Arnie Sharon Cardash; by Mark and Cindi Resnick; ENDOWMENT FUND Vera and Leslie Klein. Kimmel. by Enid and Jeff Gould; by Clair Krantzberg; by Birthday Wishes to: Henry Molot on being the recipient of the In Memory of: Ruth and Manny Shacter; by Rick, Alice, Sam Barry Cantor by David and Joy Kardish. Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by Morris Kimmel by Roslyn and Arnie and Molly Kronick; by Zelaine and Sol Shinder; Continued on page 32 Vera and Leslie Klein. Kimmel. by Judi Hoffman; by Leonard and Jane Shore; by 32 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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PINKAS AND YEHUDIT NEWMAN Geraldine Migicovsky by Phyllis and Alan In Memory of: LINDA SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FUND Rackow. Irving Bercovitch by Elayne and Wesley MEMORIAL FUND Mazel Tov to: Morley Sobcuff by Phyllis and Alan Rackow. Schacter and family. In Memory of: Judah and Margo Silverman on the birth of Helen Brockman by Elayne and Wesley Morley Sobcuff by Phyllis and Marvin their granddaughter, Maya Shoshana by Marilyn ALTI AND BEREL RODAL Schacter and family. Silverman. and William Newman. FAMILY FUND Grace Shapransky by Elayne and Wesley Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: Schacter and family. Cheryl and Manny Gluck on their marriage JACK AND MIRIAM PLEET Edward Sieb by Alti and Berel Rodal. Mazel Tov to: by Phyllis and Marvin Silverman. ENDOWMENT FUND Sharon Rosentzveig on the birth of her grand- BEN AND MARY ROSENBLATT Birthday Wishes to: daughter, Jillian Rose by Elayne and Wesley SAM AND SUE SLACK MEMORIAL FUND Alfred Friedman by Lawrence Pleet. Schacter. 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BY JON BRAUN Hamilton. She is an elite runner in her SOLOWAY JCC gender and age group, having completed early 100 people attended the her most recent Boston run in 3 hours, 30 13th annual Soloway Jewish minutes. Community Centre (SJCC) Other honourees included Jonathan NBreakfast of Champions, June Cohen, who won the Sharon Koffman 1, to applaud local student athletes, Award for top university varsity athlete; volunteers and the winning teams from Michael Marceau, Olivier Marceau the SJCC basketball, softball and hockey and Samantha Cogan, who won Jack leagues. Goldfi eld Awards for high school athletes The theme this year was “Women in of the year; Naomi Kirshenblatt and Sport” and the keynote speaker was Danielle Lavitt, who shared the Genevieve Lacasse, a member of this Parliament Lodge Award for top graduat- year’s Olympic gold medal-winning ing high school athletes; and Matan Canadian Women’s Hockey team. Sirota, Ryan Kaufman and Samantha A highlight of the event was the Wiesenfeld, who shared the Noah Cantor induction of Faye Goldman and Sharon Award for middle school athletes. Saslove into the Ottawa Jewish Sports The Irving Shapero Award for athletic Hall of Fame. and leagues volunteer of the year was Saslove, a competitive gymnast in the presented to Ashley Potter while Jeffrey 1970s, was a city, high school and Sherman received the Lou Honigman provincial champion. A pinnacle Award. moment of her career was being one of The winner of the SJCC Hardest only two Ottawa athletes to represent Working Athlete of the Year Award was Canada at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Jamie Greenberg. Israel. The Breakfast of Champions was a Goldman, a long-distance runner, has wonderful celebration of our commun- completed 19 marathons, including ity’s athletes and volunteers and the seven Boston marathons, six at home in accomplishments of all the honourees Ottawa, as well as in Philadelphia, are truly impressive. Ottawa’s Jewish Chicago, Tampa, New York, Toronto and community can be very proud. SJCC Hardest Working Athlete of the Year Award winner Jamie Greenberg (front) with his mother, Cindy Feingold, and SJCC Athletics Director Jon Braun at the SJCC Breakfast of Champions, June 1. University of Ottawa

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about the people. Many of us are family- Ottawa, I will miss you dearly! less, but you would never feel it. Whether for Shabbat dinners or lunch dates, f you had asked me seven years ago drinks, or late-nights at Zac’s, there is where I would be today, I couldn’t, in always an invite, somewhere to go or my wildest dreams, have come up SAMANTHA BANKS someone to see. with the adventure I’ve had. Now on to my next chapter – which I I GUEST COLUMN can’t believe will fi nally be back in my Four years in Montreal, rolling around in contemporary dance class by day and home town. My mother is over-the-moon advocating on behalf of the State of Israel excited! On August 1, I’ll start work as by night introduced me to some of the Jewish professionals coalesce. Now, director of operations and development most passionate and driven people I whether for an event, conference, trip to at The House, an incredible organization know. Hillel Montreal, the Canadian Israel or micro-grant, young Jewish in Toronto for Jewish young adults. Federation of Jewish Students and the adults in Ottawa will always have a place To my friends, colleagues and everyone Concordia Student Union taught me to volunteer and meet like-minded folk I met along the way, thank you for skills that just can’t come from a class- (and maybe even meet the one). making Ottawa an unforgettable journey. room or a book. Ottawa is one of those hidden secrets From the bottom of my heart, thank you As my fourth year of university was that, unless you live and breathe the again to my teachers, mentors, co-work- coming to a close, a wise man suggested quaint and vibrant culture, you will never ers and community members. The checking out a graduate program at really understand why people love it so connections made at this stage of our Humber College in fundraising and much. From the tightness of the com- lives are those that will last a lifetime. volunteer management. Understanding munity to the foodie and entertainment To my friends, who will remain good that I couldn’t support the lifestyle I industry, there is never a dull moment. friends always (and you know who you wanted as a dancer, I realized Concordia There is also something very special are), thank you for being you. had opened a most amazing door that Samantha Banks allowed me to take on leadership roles in the Jewish community and fi nd my true and 40. I had no idea what I was in for. calling in outreach, engagement, events Now, three years have fl own by, and and development. A career in fundraising working in Ottawa with young profes- Please support our advertisers and development – here I come! sionals has been an experience of a Fast forward a year and I interviewed lifetime. It is bittersweet to pass the torch, and tell them you saw for the position of director of Initiatives but the next director will be able to take for the Emerging Generation at the Jewish our brand to a whole new level, with their advertisement in the Federation of Ottawa. It would be my fi rst amazing leaders to help him or her along job in the fi eld, a brand new position at the way. the Federation and I’d be working with What stands out the most for me is Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. very fervent Jews between the ages of 20 that I witnessed a community of young 36 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM It is ethically acceptable and morally desirable to question

ith summer approaching, I’m catching up state, and we, the members of that Jewish nation, have on The Good Wife, the courtroom and an obligation to steer its policies in the right direction. political drama that has played on CBS MIRA SUCHAROV This, despite the fear many Diaspora Jews experience, Wover the past fi ve years and is now stream- VALUES, ETHICS, which leads them to consider Israel more akin to a ing on Netfl ix. parent who can do no wrong. There’s a wonderful scene early in season 2 when COMMUNITY So, back to the discussion around that Yom Kippur Peter Florrick, who is running for state’s attorney, seeks break-fast table in The Good Wife: Can one indeed be to establish pro-Israel credentials after having been frustrated, critical or even outraged by one’s country (or caught on fi lm carrying a copy of Jimmy Carter’s symbolic homeland, as the case may be) and still feel a controversial 2006 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid In the same episode, Florrick’s wife, Alicia, is con- deep sense of attachment? via a Yom Kippur break-fast organized by Eli Gold, his fronted by her brother in the kitchen. Emboldened by The question is really two-pronged. We can ask, adviser and campaign manager. red wine, he tells her how much he dislikes Florrick and sociologically, whether there are individuals and groups Around the dinner table with big donors, who are implores her to leave the marriage. With the humilia- who do manage to juggle these two positions. And we Jewish, Gold attempts to steer conversation in the tion of having been publicly cheated on with prostitutes, can ask, philosophically, whether there is an ethical desired direction when Grace, Florrick’s teenage daugh- and with illegal dealings under her husband’s belt, we basis for doing so. ter, brings up the question of the Gaza fl otilla. Eyebrows know Alicia has been struggling over whether to stay On the fi rst question, there are enough individuals are raised, glares are traded and damage control is with him. Marriage and divorce are like that. Except for and organizations, historically and today, who have attempted. Florrick’s track record on Israel and the kinds of invisible emotional separations some combined both stances to demonstrate that it is not an anti-Semitism is impeccable, Gold stresses, while couples fall prey to, you’re generally either in or you’re empirical oxymoron. Organizations like Peace Now, Florrick’s mother awkwardly asks about the fundamen- out. And, as pop psychologists have long told us, J Street, Ameinu and the New Israel Fund all attempt to tals of Judaism. demanding that one’s partner change is usually a recipe right wrongs they see in Israel, the country to which The humour of the scene lies in the teenager’s candid for disaster. their supporters feel great attachment. And, in the past, remarks as potentially undercutting the election But connection to Israel isn’t binary in the way there were organizations like Breira in the 1970s, which prospects of her deeply fl awed father, a fi gure we are, at marriage is. Nor is Israel, to Diaspora Jews, like a spouse. pushed for Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. best, morally ambivalent about. But, humour aside, the To Israeli citizens, the State of Israel, as a democracy, On the question of ethics, I believe it is both ethically scene is especially powerful to me because it raises is by defi nition meant to be the public representation of acceptable and morally desirable to question and to questions that we in the Jewish community are often their collective preferences. wrestle. In the face of perceived injustice, one has a duty grappling with, though not always explicitly enough. And to Jews worldwide, Israel is the sovereign to act. Now, certainly one person’s perceived injustice is The questions are these: Is it possible to feel attached expression of Jewish nationhood. So, by defi nition, sometimes another person’s defensive act in the face of to Israel, support Israel, love Israel, and yet be publicly Israelis along with Diaspora Jews have a right and even another’s injustice. But at least one has the duty to start troubled by Israeli policies? Is it possible to love Israel, obligation to wrestle with the politics and policies of the the conversation – over dinner and beyond. and yet feel outrage? Is it possible to feel committed to Jewish State. Using the family metaphor, Israel is more Mira Sucharov, an associate professor of political science Israel, and yet want to see it change? akin to our children: we, the Jewish nation, created the at Carleton University, blogs at Haaretz.com. ‘We need to make conscious choices about what we eat’

current trend in books and movies is to vilify composition and health? When we fail to consider the the food industry, specifi cally for the excess sugar and empty calories in that can of soda, the licorice hidden sugar in processed foods. We do GLORIA SCHWARTZ whips, the handfuls of jellybeans and the brownies, we Aconsume far too much sugar and people who FOCUS ON become our own worst enemy. are not particularly interested in, or savvy at, decipher- We naturally lose skeletal muscle mass and gain body ing ingredient and nutrition labels may be unaware of FITNESS fat as we age. But we must not resign ourselves to a what they’re putting into their bodies. After all, sugar is future with a fl abby body and weight-related health listed on labels under dozens of names: sucrose, issues. If we work hard, we can age gracefully. It’s not dextrose, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose … the list just about appearance. We can stay fi t and strong well goes on. realized that the cachet of smoking cigarettes is out- into old age. Sitting around eating bonbons won’t help, However, I disagree with the popular notion that weighed by the deadly damage smoking does to our although I am a proponent of occasional indulgence. we’re helpless victims who must resign ourselves to bodies. I think most of us understand that frequently After age 65, we’re at risk for sarcopenia, the loss of being overweight or obese, and living with health eating sugary foods contributes to unwanted weight muscle mass and strength that can lead to limited problems brought on by poor eating habits. We can help gain. What’s not always clear is how much hidden sugar mobility, functional limitations, frailty and decreased ourselves by making better choices. But are we willing to lurks in our food. What are the long-term consequences quality of life. Sarcopenia is typically caused by a diet do so? of frequently consuming sugar-laden, nutritionally with insuffi cient protein and vitamin D, physical Would better labelling and more public education depleted processed foods and beverages? It should be inactivity and hormonal changes. (There are other help? It took decades of education before Canadians noted that there are many other ingredients and causes beyond the scope of this article). behaviours that contribute to weight gain and put us at Sarcopenia is diagnosed by healthcare workers who risk for diabetes, high blood pressure and cancer. measure gait speed, hand grip strength, muscle mass I recently attended a social function that made me and other factors. It is preventable, and, for those Would you like realize how oblivious we, as a society, are to the choices already diagnosed, it is often manageable and some- we make. Thirty of us sat around a large table on which times reversible. refreshments were generously laid out. It struck me that Strength training and nutritional modifi cations are to advertise in the 90 per cent of the food was junk. often recommended for patients with sarcopenia. But Nearly everyone dived in. Willy Wonka would have this sound advice is benefi cial for everyone. Make the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin? been in his element with all the jelly beans, licorice, effort to eat better and cut out some of your bad habits sodas and assorted gob-stopping goodies. As I helped such as high sugar consumption. The food industry is myself to fresh fruit salad and water (and admittedly, a more interested in revenue generation than your health. Contact Barry Silverman handful of popcorn chips before pushing the bowl If you take ownership of your choices, you just may live 613 798-4696, ext. 256 away), I wondered why the ratio of junk-to-healthy to be 110. Now that would be the sweetest revenge! choices wasn’t reversed. Gloria Schwartz is a personal trainer at the Soloway JCC [email protected] We need to make conscious, deliberate choices about and author of Personal Best: Train Your Brain and what we eat. How will our choices impact our body Transform Your Body for Life. June 30, 2014 37 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM A hand up is always better than a handout

hy help only one generation when you can would make sacrifi ces – the case with most immigrants help two with the same programs? – but the kids would soon catch up and thrive. Through my work with United Way But the Israeli government, the JDC and the Jewish WOttawa, I’ve seen great programs that help BARBARA CROOK Agency for Israel soon discovered that children who had more than one generation break the cycle of poverty, MY ISRAEL never held a pencil or crayon, seen a book or played a addiction and limited education. word game in any language would not easily catch up to My favourite is the Youville Centre, which allows 48 their native Israeli peers. teen mothers each year to fi nish high school in an And they fell behind even further without support incredibly supportive environment. from their parents, who could not read or write in their Most of these young women go on to college or But that can mean that kids who have never touched native Amharic and struggled with basic Hebrew. university, and many kids of earlier Youville graduates a smart phone, tablet or computer are already way So the JDC created Parents and Children Together are now graduating from post-secondary institutions as behind their peers by the time they’re in school. (PACT), an early intervention program for kids that also well. And their parents aren’t usually able to help them, engages their parents. In this case, helping mothers helps kids. especially immigrant parents with literacy, numeracy When I visited the program in Be’er Sheva, I watched In the case of my favourite organizations in Israel, and language issues. a group of fi ve kids who had been working with a pet programs for kids have had remarkable benefi ts for their WIZ Kids bridges that gap by offering hands-on therapist introduce a chinchilla to their classmates. The parents. computer experience that focuses on school readiness kids had learned all about the little fur ball, and fed the I was recently honoured by three Ottawa chapters of – numbers, letters, colours and basic vocabulary. It’s pet dried chickpeas while they shared their knowledge. Canadian Hadassah-WIZO, whose CHW acronym also couched in computer games, so it doesn’t feel like work. An astounding 90 per cent of students in this kinder- stands for “Children, Healthcare and Women.” Another benefi t of the program is that it encourages garten had at least one parent in jail. One of the little Some of the proceeds from the fundraiser will support parents to come to the daycare centre to work with their girls working with the pet had not said a word during the daycare in Acco named after the late Terry kids. Under the pretext of helping and interacting with her fi rst few months at school because of previous Schwarzfeld of Ottawa. their own children, the parents are able to obtain some trauma. It has 12 staff for 57 kids – many referred by welfare basic learning skills for their own advancement. But there she was, showing off her newfound know- offi cials. It offers nutritious meals and snacks, and has a Parents and children learn skills, but also feel pride in ledge and basking in the accompanying pride. team of professionals – psychologist, occupational their achievements – a scarce commodity among A recent JDC newsletter – http://tinyurl.com/nelp92k therapist and speech therapist – on call to work with the immigrants and the economically challenged. – told of Getahun Ayele, a visually impaired Ethiopian kids and their families. I was particularly drawn to the WIZ Kids program Israeli whose work with his daughter’s PACT program in We’re also supporting CHW’s WIZ Kids Program, because of my earlier connection with the American Netanya enabled him to connect with other parents and which operates in all six of CHW’s daycare centres in Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (better known as start two choral groups that sing traditional Ethiopian Israel. the JDC or “the Joint”). The unsung hero of inter- music. Ever handed your kids or grandchildren your iPhone national aid organizations, the JDC works in more than Their kids are proud to see their parents onstage, and or iPad and been astounded by how quickly they master 70 countries around the world. learn about their unique heritage. it? By the time they’re in daycare or kindergarten, it’s When Ethiopian Jews fi rst started arriving in Israel in A hand up is always better than a handout – especially like an extension of their hands and brains. large numbers, the assumption was that the parents when both parents and kids can reach it.

It has been very rewarding to help someone always acquiring new database subscriptions, the most recent one being the Drouin Society database, which provides great details on all marriages in the province of solve a mystery about their family Quebec up to the 1990s. Some JGSO meetings feature guest speakers with onnecting the Branches has appeared in every interesting topics to share. Each meeting begins with second issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin since JGSO President Hymie Reichstein presenting a list of June 2010. In almost 40 columns, I have covered JOHN DIENER new resources that may be of help to members. Ctopics of interest to serious genealogists and also CONNECTING To join the JGSO, to ask a question or to be put on to those with a passing curiosity about their ancestry. the notifi cation list for meetings, send an email to I’ve discussed new databases, excellent web sources for THE BRANCHES [email protected]. research, Holocaust materials, genealogical techniques, Finally, I would like to acknowledge the wisdom and travel in Eastern Europe. and advice of Hymie Reichstein, and to thank him for Many of the columns dealt with my own personal his support, and to Editor Michael Regenstreif and experiences developing and expanding my family tree, as they have uncovered something relevant to their the Bulletin staff for their assistance over the past and the wonderful discoveries associated with that research either through a vital record document, or four years. pursuit. It was my hope that writing the column would from an archived newspaper article. encourage people in our Ottawa Jewish community who Particularly satisfying has been the feedback from so may have been interested in their family history, but had many readers telling me they have read and enjoyed the not yet taken up the hobby, to take that fi rst step using column. I thank everyone for their comments and Subscription the tools and tips I was offering. support. As I believe the articles have, by now, provided I think I’ve been successful in stimulating interest. a good overview of Jewish genealogy, I have decided about to lapse? Almost every time a new column appeared, I was that, rather than contribute to the Bulletin on a regular approached by people asking for assistance with their basis, the column will now appear occasionally, when Don’t miss one issue. own personal research. there is something new in the fi eld I believe is of general These requests have come by telephone, by email and interest to readers. in person, often by complete strangers at the Soloway If you are interested in genealogy, but haven’t yet RENEW TODAY! Jewish Community Centre (SJCC) and other Jewish taken that fi rst step, I encourage you to attend a meeting community buildings, and even at my place of business. of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Ottawa (JGSO). In most cases, I have been able to offer some help or This group meets monthly, with the exception of July Contact Barry Silverman have been able to point them in the right direction to do and August, usually at the SJCC. Most meetings are the research themselves. research meetings, where those in attendance can ask 613-798-4696, ext. 256 It has been very rewarding to help someone solve a questions of the more experienced members, as well as [email protected] mystery about their family, and to see their excitement use the databases the JGSO subscribes to. The society is 38 June 30, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Salsberg never wavered from his life of commitment

Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment By Gerald Tulchinsky University of Toronto Press MURRAY CITRON 183 pages BOOK REVIEW erald Tulchinsky – a professor emeritus at Queen’s University – has long been a distin- guished historian of Jewish life in Canada. His Glatest book, Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment activity, aiming to protect workers against harsh is a biography of Joseph Baruch “J.W.” Salsberg, a conditions. member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the He became interested in politics, moving left from Toronto-area riding of St. Andrew from 1943 to 1955. religious Zionism through Labour Zionism to commun- Tulchinsky begins with Salsberg at the height of his ism. In 1938, he was elected alderman for Toronto’s Ward career, walking along Spadina Avenue, the main street of Four, but lost the next year. Toronto’s Jewish district in those days. Meeting, greeting The Communist Party was outlawed following the and schmoozing with his constituents, he visits delis and Hitler-Stalin pact and the start of the Second World War coffee shops, offering to help the people he meets. The in 1939, and Salsberg went into hiding. In 1942, after the narrative follows. Soviet Union became an ally, he gave himself up and was Salsberg was born in 1902 in Lagow, a Polish shtetl, to jailed for a short time. After his release, he helped form frum parents where young Yosele (as he was known) the Labour-Progressive Party and was elected MPP for St. had a cheder education. He also learned something Andrew in 1943, a seat he held until 1955. about anti-Semitism: “There were places you didn’t go.” In discussing Salsberg’s 12 years in the Legislature, In 1913, the Salsbergs, by then including Yosele’s two Tulchinsky shows him advocating on behalf of human younger sisters, immigrated to Canada and settled in rights and working class causes and generally refusing to Toronto where they remained religious Jews and the be drawn by anti-Semitic and red-baiting barbs. family grew to include seven children. Salsberg lost the 1955 election, partly because of Cold In Toronto, Salsberg’s cheder education continued and War pressures, but also because postwar prosperity he also attended Lansdowne Public School whose meant many Jewish voters were moving out of St. students were mostly Jewish and from low-income Andrew. families. Two years after his arrival at the school, Salsberg Out of offi ce, Salsberg had to face something that had himself. He asked questions but got only evasions. foreshadowed his later career by organizing a student troubled him for years. Marxist doctrine held that In 1948, he tried to visit the Soviet Union again to strike to protest against the required singing of anti-Semitism was the result of capitalist exploitation investigate the Jewish question, but was denied entry. He Christmas carols. and Yiddish culture had been encouraged in the early went to Lagow, his home shtetl, and wept at what he saw. In 1916, not yet 14, Salsberg quit school to work in the years of the U.S.S.R. However, by 1939, he realized that Within the Communist Party, he continued to ask needle trades to help his family. He became a skilled Jewish institutions there were withering away. questions, but maintained party discipline outside, even tradesman, but, by the 1920s, he moved into trade union Wondering why, he travelled to Moscow to see for as the evidence of Soviet anti-Semitism became over- whelming. In 1953, when Stalin died, Salsberg delivered a eulogy in the Ontario legislature. Only after the BS"D Khrushchev revelations in 1956, and even then, only after a meeting in Moscow that included anti-Semitic barbs by Khrushchev himself, did Salsberg resign from the party. Tulchinsky struggles with Salsberg’s conduct, as he did MIDTOWN himself and gives specifi c examples of Salsberg’s “dis- THE ONLY KOSHER HOTEL IN MONTREAL honest” public statements denying Soviet anti-Semitism. AFFORDABLE ELEGANCE IN THE HEART He also says Salsberg was moved to communism by calls OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY for justice in the writings of the Prophets. Salsberg eventually came in from the cold. He LE GRILL MK GLATT KOSHER RESTAURANT returned to Labour Zionism, was an advocate for secular BANQUET HALL FOR 200 Yiddishkeit, and wrote columns for Canadian Jewish SHABBOS KEYS & ELEVATOR COMPLIMENTARY KOSHER BREAKFAST News. Salsberg died in 1998. 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