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24 Etul 5767 On the web at: www.jvhri.org September 7, 2007 ADL reinstates Tarsy NEW YORK OTA) - The Anti-D efamation League has reinstated A ndrew Tarsy as its New England regional director. An ADL spokesman confi rmed Monday that Tarsy would be rehired, effective immediately. Tarsy was fired Aug. 17 after publicly breaking ranks with the organization for its refusal to recog­ nize the Armenian genocide. Abra­ ham Foxman, the ADL's national director, subsequently reversed him- self, iss uing a statement calling_ the Andrew Tars World War I massacres of Armenians y "tantamount to genocide." Tarsy's firing set off a mutiny in the New England region, one of the ADL' s most active and influential. The regional board called on Foxman not only to rehire Tarsy, but to support a resolution in Congress that would recognize the genocide. Foxman continues to oppose the resolution. Turkey: Genocide

Photo by Noah Schwartz debate could hurt Israel On Aug. 25, this Jeep Cherokee slammed into the Chabad House on Hope Street and exploded. By Ben Harris to contain the fallout from NEW YORK OTA) the ADL's statement, which The Anti-Defamation recognized the World War I Woman, baby survive fiery League's reversal last week of massacres of Armenians by its position on the Armenian Ottoman Turks as "tanta­ genocide has set off a flurry of mount to genocide." crash into Chabad center diplomatic activity in Turkey The ADL was forced to and Israel. reverse its longstanding posi­ ByMary Korr ..... ~ i.... • • • Officials in A nkara and tion - shared by other major Sr>\LClvl [email protected] Jerusalem, in coordination American Jewish organiza­ tions - of neutrality on the PROVIDENCE - Rabbi CHABAD ll()llSE with American Jewish lead­ Yehoshua Laufer believes in Jewish Hospitality Center ers, were working this week See TURKEY, page 10 miracles, both large and small. 401-27-3-723 8 Last week, he stands in ___ ...JII! the ruins of the Chabad House at 360 Hope Street, damaged when a speeding Jeep crashed Feinberg to chair into the brick foundation before dawn on Aug. 25 and caught fire . Federation campaign "I keep seeing the shoes," By Marty Cooper the rabbi says . "One high heel and a baby's shoe on the back [email protected] seat." "When my father passed away According to police, the in 1991, I went through my parents' Jeep had been speeding the financial records and noticed that wrong way on Thayer Street, virtually every other check writ­ and continued onto Hope ten was to a charity. I asked my Street, where it ran a red light mom, 'How is it that we lived so and crashed into the triple­ simply, when we could have lived a decker wooden building that lot easier?' My mother replied, 'We Photos by Mary Korr gave away the cream and kept the bears the sign: Jewish Hospi­ Rabbi Yehoshua Laufer in front of the Chabad Center on Hope milk.' This comment further instil­ tality Center. You know it by Street , now boarded up. the giant menorah on the porch led my belief in Tzedak.ah," stated roof. moments before the engine Esserman, in a telephone inter­ D oris Feinberg of Newport. block exploded. view last Friday. "The officer Doris Feinberg Patrolman Robert Brad­ Feinberg serves as the Jewish didn't see any brake lights when dock who was in pursuit of Providence Police Chief, Federation of Rhode Island's annual Jr., the car hit the building." the speeding vehicle, called for Col. Dean Esserman, was campaign chair for the second year in a row; the campaign kicked assistance and ran to free the returning home from duty Braddock and Esserman off on Sept. 5. driver. He was startled to hear when he heard the call for back­ dragged the semi-conscious Feinberg brings with her years of fund-raising experience and cries coming from the back and up, and arrived at the scene at mother and her baby further enthusias m. A former nurse, she has a passion for caring for people. found a baby lying on the floor. about 4:30 a.m. "I was shocked away as the house began to go He pulled driver and child out, there were any survivors," said See CHA8AD HOUSE, page 23 See FEINBERG, page 7 ,· ' ' '

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POSTMASTER : From the Jewish Federation ofRhode Island Sept. 27 7:20 Send address changes to: Jewish Federation of RI , 130 Sessions Board and Staff See page 28 for holiday Street, Providence, RI 02906 candle lighting times. 4 Jewish Voice & Herald May 11, 2007 Opinion A MAJORITY OF ONE Repentance in the modern world

uld you believe it is read that correctly. ready September? The ADL didn't think that Hebrew This is the month The AOL didn't think that Hebrew could be taught without involving religion, which it sees as break­ could be taught without involving reli­ hat two activities gion, which it sees as breaking the wall engage the Jewish community, the High ing the wall that separates synagogue from state. that separates synagogue from state. Holy Days and the opening of Jewish Bowing to pressure, Ben Gamla has schools. Herewith, some reflections on agreed not to teach Hebrew since, as each. opportunity limited to Catholics; Protes­ New York City and Hollywood, Florida, a charter school almost independent I have always envied Catholics their tants have set up their own websites even two public schools are centers of contro­ of state control, the possibility of it ability to confess sin anonymously to a though formal repentance is probably versy involving the Israeli-Palestinian becoming a state-financed Jewish Day priest and walk away easier for Catholics to deal with seeing , conflict. To borrow a phrase from the School was worrying to many besides absolved in the sight as they have been doing it for centuries. gay and lesbian organizations, "We are the ADL. The ADL doesn't object to of God and other Where does that leave us Jews? We everywhere." Khalil Gibran teaching Arabic because Catholics. This feel- do have a website in Israel to which we In Florida, the Ben Gamla Char­ the school is the responsibility ofNYC's ing becomes even can email requests to be placed in the Board of Education which the ADL more pervasive now ter School Qewish), will open with cracks between stones in the Western \rusts to keep politics out of the cur­ that the High Holy grades K-8 and in New York City the Wall. That's not repentance, that's asking riculum. Opponents of Khalil Gibran Days are upon us and Khalil Gibran International Academy for favors. Catholic priests have adopted (Muslim), will open as a high school. have already forced the resignation of its we Jews are expected this new electronic system because fewer first dean, a Lebanese woman, although to repent our sinful (Suggested solution - egalitarian Jews and fewer believers were making use she has won awards, including from the actions while sitting might enroll their children first in Ben of the confessional box. Sounds famil­ Gamla and then in Khalil Gibran for ADL, for her interfaith work. She has Yehuda in the synagogue. I iar? How much company did you have been replaced by a Jewish woman, non­ Lev have been looking for a balanced education.) But balance in shul last Shabbat compared to, say, a is not what critics of the two schools Arabic speaking and with an Orthodox a better repentance decade ago? expect from either one and therein lies Jewish background. And the leader of system and it seems that I may have the fight against Khalil Gibran is a man Which brings us to the obvi­ the problem. Ben Gamla (named for a found it. named Yerushalmi whose anti-Semitic ous question. If we are going to trade first-century rabbi who brought public If you are a Catholic who has had statements are a matter of public record. our Jewish seats in shul for emailed schools to ancient Israel) and Khalil improper thoughts or pushed an old repentance, how do we decide what is Gibran (named for the great Arab poet) It begins to look as if a Jewish pen­ woman out of your way or has otherwise worthy of our admission of guilt? For will be funded by their respective states. ance website might do a lot of business. transgressed the rules of social behav­ insight into this we turn to September's In Florida, Ben Gamla students would Now, which rabbis, which set of Jewish ior, you can now write a description of second major annual event. Schools have learn Hebrew and in New York Khalil laws and customs, will determine the your misbehavior, append your name reopened, there's no room to park on Gibran students would study Arabic. price to be paid for such deviant behav­ and email address and send it off to any Thayer Street and you would think that The Anti-Defamation League had its ior? It is something for us all to ponder of a number of websites maintained by matters are back to normal in the Jewish doubts about the Jewish school but is upon as we sit in shul later this month. churches which will, in return, assign education world. Yes, but not quite. In defending the Muslim school. Yes, you Yehuda Lev can be reached at yehudal@ you an appropriate penance. Nor is this cox.net. Shanah Tovah everyone By Marty Cooper like Rhode Island is to the United States. one Temple attending other Temples' have agencies that were created to pro­ [email protected] But, we are by no means small in stat­ programs and events. I also see a com­ vide this much needed support, they too Happy 5768 to you. I hope that it ure. For such a small group however, we munity's members doing things that are are in need of additional support. This will be one filled with peace, joy and certainly have a lot of opinions. In fact best for the overall growth of the greater support is in the area of volunteerism harmony throughout the Jewish com- . we take pride in being an opinionated community, with the possibility of sac­ and monetary contributions. munity. group and often agree to disagree with rificing some of their own needs for the In my vision I see a Jewish commu­ one another. Through the centuries this benefit of others. nity whereby those that can, will help to A few weeks ago I asked the pub­ has been a valuable characteristic of our lisher of the Voice & Herald to consider A community is only as good as its promote a better Jewish community for people. me to be the interim managing editor of support group. We live in a fast, dynamic all of us. For being Jewish should have the paper. I did this without thinking This coming year it is my vision to and changing community. As such, our no boundaries. about the ramifications of taking on this see that we will work together to build community now has more needs for A happy and healthy Jewish New position nor my qualifications. a stronger and prouder Jewish commu­ services than ever before. Although we Year to all. nity in our homes, Temples, in our state, The reason why I stepped up to the nation and the world. To do so we will plate was so I could make a positive dif­ have to learn how to agree and compro­ ference and impression on a community mise more. I have learned to enjoy and cherish, the Letter to the Editor Rhode Island Jewish community. In my vision I see Jewish homes where the meaning of family is para­ Newspaper should not charge for obituaries As the New Year approaches I have mount. That we enjoy a Shabbat meal as a lot to be thankful for. I also have many It is beyond appalling that the Voice & Herald will now charge members of the a family more often and that we do good Jewish community for publishing obituaries, thus joining the ranks of for-profit, large­ concerns and hope that in my tenure as deeds for one another, including doing your interim managing editor I can help city newspapers where corporate greed has long since strangled any commitment to one's chores, attending family gatherings to influence positive change for our com­ fostering a sense of community. One is hard pressed to rationalize how this policy was and, most importantly, being respectful approved for a newspaper published by the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, which, munity. to each other. As parents we would pro­ after all, purports to be a builder of community. The Jewish community, like our mote Jewish family values and miztvot religion, is a basic yet complex and while at the same time making Jewish Having been a consulting editor at the Voice & Herald during its creation five intricate one. Within our community life fun and meaningful. years ago, I am well aware that there is a need for the paper to generate income to help is a group of many communities. Each offset its Federation subsidy. However, putting a financial hammer to the bedrock of In my vision I see each synagogue information needed by Rhode Island's Jewish residents can bring nothing but seri­ one has its own dynamic and serves the growing and serving their Jewish com­ ously compromised returns. needs within their community and the munity. I also see Temples working greater community. Our Jewish commu­ together for the greater good of the com­ Let's remember that in its own self-description, the Federation lists as one of its nities include our home, Temple, local, munity. I also see its members attend­ missions "to ensure that the needs ofJews throughout our community are being met." national, and international including ing services on a somewhat more regular Taking this shameless and insensitive whack at our fellow Jews in their hour of deep­ Israel. basis as well as attending social events est sorrow is hardly a sign of mission accomplished. Compared to the rest of the world, and participating in fundraising activi­ Gerry Goldstein the Jewish community is small in size ties. My vision also sees members of Greenville ■ 4---~-- -- - • May 11, 2007 Jewish Voice & Herald 5 Opinion

FROM THE OLD OLIVETTI NoT ALONE Teaching history, Com·munal atonement • • During these days of the schools, or other organizations, community and a commitment is no a pastime New Year, each of us stands or in terms of the entire local or to work together. alone before God. We seek larger Jewish community? This means to stand before uch of today's paper concerns education. forgiveness for our sins. We I've been engaged in the process my entire As we recite the Avinu God not merely as individuals confront our Maker, in a Malkenu prayer this year, we but as a life, from first grade at the yeshiva of Flat­ solitary audience. bush (I was expelled) to the present as a might imagine some additions: community, co lege professor. I'm vain enough to think that some might like 0 ne- on- one. Alone. Our Parent, Our Sovereign and to return, to know what professors (or at least one history professor) think of Right? Ruler, we have sinned: a year from the process. I do not pretend that what I think about education is Well, no. Not really. by not communicating with now, closer universally held, but I hope it is. After all, each of us is each other, to fulfilling our potential. Let me begin with a negative. I don't teach to the student there in synagogue, not alone, by contributing to but surrounded by dozens or Indeed, as present; I teach to his future self. I don't only divisiveness rather than unity, Rabbi Yosef Alan teach what happened, I teach methods of deter­ hundreds of others. Hardly by failing to build stronger Szendro, a mining what happened; it's not the same thing. alone. Krinsky relationships and institutions, member of our Some students take one course with me and And what do we say? by substituting personal, community, love it, while others hate it, some take multiple Avinu malkeinu. OUR individual interests fo r recently pointed out to me, Father, OUR King, not MY courses with me either out of love for the way I communal interests, there is a traditional notion present or as evidence of masochism. In all cases Father, MY King. (In truth, that while during this time the goal is the same - to make of them think­ although the Hebrew language by failing to provide an of year even individuals can is gendered, God is not, so affordable, profound, meaningful Josh ing human beings. approach and stand before we can think of God as Our Jewish education for all of our Stein I assign grades, but I know that their grade community's children, God, the community can do so can only be determined in a dozen years. Do Parent, Our Sovereign Ruler.) by assuming we were always throughout the year. God does they remember the facts beyond the course? If"yes," fine; if not, Indeed, many of our prayers, correct and those who disagree not refuse us an audience when it may not be important. Do they remember that they are part at this time of year and year­ with us incorrect, we stand together. of history, not the end of it; that they are products of a chain round, are in the first person plural, not the singular. And by not cultivating a culture of Let us therefore take some of human endeavor inheriting from the past, contributing to the time this year, this time of development, and then leaving the world to the next and the next many of the ancient, sacrificial accountability and transparency rituals concerned communal in our institutions, return and renewal, to expand and the next generations for as far as can be imagined? If so our reflections beyond our own atonement. This included the by not celebrating enough I have succeeded. If after a dozen years they are still asking of individual spiritual growth and most famous ritual of the Yorn our community's strengths and something they read or hear, "is this true?" then I have succeeded. consider the communities of Kippur service, that of the two accomplishments, If they become teachers and pass along the knowledge and the which we count ourselves part. perspective I've taught, then I've succeeded. But whatever profes­ goats, one the scapegoat, upon by allowing yet another year Indeed, after the usually sion they enter, if when they hear a politician speak they can also which the commun~cy,'s sins are to pass by in which we have inward focus of the New Year, hear Pericles, and Cicero and Caesar saying the same things, even transferred before it is sent off fallen far short of fulfil1ing our we turn to Sukkot-and not if they don't remember exactly where they heard all that first, I've into the wilderness and over a potential as a community. as an afterthought, but rather succeeded. If when entering a polling booth they take their obli­ cliff. We need to realize that who as the true culmination of this gations seriously, I've succeeded. The name and focus of we are and who we become as season. How so? During the It is to them I teach, the students who are not yet there but this column is the fact that individuals is, to a great extent, we are "not alone." Yet, it is Sukkot holiday, we extend our the people they will be in a dozen years, hearing the echoes of the shaped by the communities homes outward into the larger lessons; they are the ones at whom my class is aimed. How suc­ perhaps startling to consider we live in and that nurture us. that our intimate relationship world and join together with cessful I am can only be judged by them. This past Four th ofJuly We ought to cultivate these others in celebration. I met a middle-aged man who asked ifl remembered him. I said with God is not entirely one­ communities with conscious My prayer is that we all, as his face and voice were familiar but that I couldn't place them. on-one. During this season conscientiousness, and help individuals and as community He had been a student of mine in the early 1970s and he said that especially, we focus not only them live up to their potential members, have a meaningful what he had learned from me was vital in his career. I asked what on our individual failings and to cultivate us, in an ongoing, and joyous New Year and that career had been, expecting that his reply would be "teacher" positions before God, but our cyclical process. holiday season, and that all of but, no, he said he had been employed in the defense intelligence communal ones too. This means humility and us continue to come closer to establishment. What was useful to him was not the facts I taught, We might, in this light, caring. This means respect for fulfilling our potentials. but the questions I'd taught him to ask of documents, the process ask in what ways we have human dignity, even while Alan Krinsky can be reached of discovering truth. He remembered. I had succeeded. fallen short as a community we maintain passionate and at [email protected]:zero.net. Teaching, to me, is the transmission of the accumulated or communities - whether legitimate disagreements. wisdom (and failed attempts at wisdom) of mankind from antiq­ in our particular synagogues, And this means celebration of uity to yesterday. It is the role of the teacher in society, especially the historian, to distill this accumulated knowledge and present it in readily digested portions. I do not know everything that hap­ Letters to the Editor pened in Europe; I do not teach everything I know; I hope to stimulate my students to want to know more than I have taught Longtime reader disappointed on charge them, more than I currently know, to understand their role in his­ tory, to understand what and how the present receives from the I twas c.ustomary to have the Jewish Voice and Herald in the the R.I. Jewish community. past and contributes to the future. Jewish Herald and the Jewish home while living in Florida. There are many positive things I encourage my students to challenge me when they dis­ Voice in the home while living Your paper keeps us to be said about the paper. agree and to prompt me when they want more than I have given in R.I. for almost 65 years. informed of activities and life There now appears to be them. In the process I hope that they learn that authority may Now it is customary to have the cycles and we still feel part of a negative aspect to the paper, be challenged, should be challenged, and how best to challenge namely, you will now charge it. This process intimidates some students. They don't like their S45 or more to list an obitu­ core ideas threatened and some don't li ke my making them think How you made a difference ary. I find this to be extremely about things they have always taken for granted. Some realize We received a call last week from a congregation in Taunton. 1he disturbing. You state that you that raising uncomfortable issues is to their benefit, allowing local Shaw's had $2000 in Passover food to donate and they called "appreciate your support and them the opportunity to confirm with knowledge that which her Temple. Since they did not need it, she looked in her Guide to understanding of this delicate they had previously held on ly as an opinion. Some appreciate new Jewish Living and found JFS' number. We ended up taking all the matter." (to them)perspectives and change their minds about the issue at food and, in addition to keeping some for our clients, we were able I do not appreciate, support hand. l always require them to think about what they believe. to donate some ofit to three other organizations in the Jewish com­ nor understand your pathetic So, when I'm not typing columns on this old Olivetti, that's munity. Sec how the Guide ca n have an impact!! action in view of the numerous what I do. Sara Masri ads, annual appeal for funds and lack of compassion. j osh Stein can be reached al [email protected]. Development and PR Coordinator Jewish Fam ily Service of RI . Harvey Silverman I

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From the Executive Vice President Reflections at the New Year adjustment for my family (they're to build new facilities, how to is tikkun olam. And Federation and we do not lack the necessi­ ~in;;Il~t~ doing great! Thank you for engage more people in Jewish reminds us of our responsibility ties of life. At this time of year (Oabout being making us feel welcome.) And a life, what our commitment is to - and privilege - in giving of our­ I am reminded that helping the ewish is big transition for me in becom­ Jewish education and so on. selves for the good and welfare of unfortunate members of our that each year I celebrate two ing the Federation's chief execu­ For me and. I hope for you, the Jewish people. society is not only important new years, the Jewish New tive officer, with the attendant tumult means excitement. It We have thousands of dedi­ but is commanded of us. But Year and the secular New Year. issues of winning the confidence means we have opportunities to cated volunteers and donors while a commandment, giving The way I see of new colleagues and commu­ innovate and change. And we who are committed to making tzedakah is a privilege, not an it, I have two nity figures, and translating this need to approach this new period our Jewish community vibrant obligation. As former Presi­ shots every community's hopes and dreams ofJewish life - and the important and accessible. Each and every dent Bill Clinton says, "Noth­ 12 months into action. philosophical and practical ques­ donor and volunteer is making ing makes you feel better than to start over I think it's fair to say our tions - with a sense of adven­ a difference by improving our doing or giving something for - to reflect community is living in chal­ ture, curiosity and energy. Jewish life. Every dollar, every others .... " If nothing else, we on the pre­ lenging times. We are asking I acknowledge the frustra­ volunteer hour helps the Jewish know that we would rather ceding 12 questions that prior generations tions of past years and recognize people. Sometimes those who are help to mend the world, than months, to would never have predicted, like our shortcomings. We have to touched by our collective support need to be mended. reconfigure "why be Jewish?" and "what does learn from our mistakes. But re­ are people we know. More often Laura, Rebecca and Gavri­ my life and being Jewish mean?" On a local living them doesn't help anybody. than not, they are anonymous, ela join me in wishing you and Stephen to recom­ level, we are thinking about what It certainly doesn't help those connected to us by virtue of our your loved ones a happy, healthy Silberfarb mit myself kind of community we want to be in our own community or the shared heritage, and by the bonds and sweet 5768. L'Shanah to improving and how we will address chang­ thousands of people worldwide of our Jewish people. Tovah Tikatevu V'Tikatemu over the following 12 months. ing Jewish needs across the state. whose lives are made better by It is particularly at this time - To a happy New Year, may This past year has been More practically and immedi­ ourwork. . of year that I consider how lucky you be written and inscribed in tumultuous. A big move and ately, we have major decisions Because when all is said I am. My family is in good health the Book of Life. about building renovation, where and done the core of our work

Opinion ..., Bones M~. sHuLDIG AND D- # HIS DOG DOOSIE A special Labor Day PROMISES 0~ By Stuart Appelbaum as "an important milestone in the PEACE/ THREATS 0~ As is the custom, millions fight against attempts to demon­ SCIENTI~IC WAR/ of American families flocked ize Israel and Israelis." to beaches and backyard barbe­ "Our hope," said Stern, "is BREAK- cues to celebrate the Labor Day. that other unions around the THROUGHS/ MEDICAL just passed. Unfortunately, the world will follow the example of reason for the holiday, recogniz­ their American counterparts and INT'L ACHIEVEMENTS/ ing the value of the labor move­ realize that it is morally wrong to ment, is too often forgotten. Of focus solely on Israeli actions in BOYCOTTS/ course, every family has reason this conflict and to realize that to salute the contributions unions such bigoted behavior is entirely have made to our country. After inconsistent with the norms all, it was organized labor that and purposes of the trade union introduced the idea of the week­ movement." Stuart Appelbaum end and the 8-hour day. How­ Is the U.S. labor movement's Unionists. ever, this year there's one group opposition to the Israel boycott Some may ask why so many of Americans who have special having an impact? So far the American union leaders decided reason to be thankful for orga­ answer is an unequivocal "yes." to stand up against anti-Israel nized labor -- those of us in the Many foreigi:i unions who once boycotts. After all, Jews today Jewish community. may have been tempted to follow comprise only a miniscule por­ At a time when many in the lead of their British counter­ tion of U.S. union members. The business, the media and other parts are having second thoughts. real question ought to be "why institutions are too timid to Perhaps most important of all, wouldn't they?" After all, whether challenge the rising tide of anti­ Israel's supporters within the it was opposing the Nazis, sup­ Semitism abroad, America's labor international labor movement porting Soviet Jewry, or chal­ leaders did something extraordi­ now know that they are not lenging bigotry against Jews in nary this summer. In a stunning alone. our own country, the labor move­ show of solidarity with Israel Clearly, the mobilization of ment has never wavered in its the presidents of virtually every the U.S. labor movement against opposition to anti-Semitism or major US union signed on a dec­ the Israel boycott didn't happen its support for Israel. laration denouncing anti-Israel on its own. It was organized Especially at this time we boycotts and divestment cam­ by the Jewish Labor Commit­ ought to reflect on the contribu­ paigns like the ones, which have tee, the national organization of tions unions have made to our Submission Guidelines been endorsed by several British Jewish union leaders and their country. But that's not all. We unions. supporters. But while it was the should also recognize that the Submissions must be signed and include city of The fact that unions repre­ JLC who launched the effort it American labor movement is one residence and telephone number. Letters should be senting everyone from teachers was hardly "a Jewish thing." The of the best friends Jews have ever limited to 250 words, and Viewpoint pieces to 700 vast majority oflabor leaders who to truck drivers bashed the Israel­ had. words. Submissions may be edited for length. Send bashers is no small thing. Just ask backed the JLC's campaign were Stuart Appelbaum is presi­ submissions to: Jewish Voice & Herald, 130 Sessions Kenneth Stern, the director of the non-Jews. In fact, one of the first dent of the Retail, Wholesale and St., Providence, RI 02906, or E-mail to: voiceheraldO American Jewish Committee's to endorse the effort was Bill D epartment Store Union and presi­ department on Anti-Semitism Lucy, the influential president dent of the Jewish Labor Commit­ jfrl.org. of the Coalition of Blac k Trade and Extremism who described it tee. May 11, 2007 Jewish Voice & Herald 7 Community Feinberg to chair Federation campaign

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If she could, she would take care of ~II of the world's problems. She has been on several missions to witness firsthand poverty, home­ lessness and illness around the world. Her missions have included trips to Israel, Odessa and most recently to Ethiopia where she met Ethiopian Jews making aliyah. "In Odessa and Ethiopia I saw kids smiling and laughing even though they were living in sub-poverty conditions, where disease and sickness are commonplace. They have no idea how bad life really is for them," said Feinberg when asked to describe the people she met. "Our job as Jews is to help fellow Jews around the world, including here at home, to have a better life. We have done some incredible work, but there remains a lot more to do." A high-energy person, Feinberg is also deeply committed to ser­ ving the Jewish community. She learned this early on, in Bayonne, N.J., where she grew up. "I relied heavily on the Jewish community when I was a child," said Feinberg. "My mother was chronically ill. The JCC and the Jewish community became my extended family. I would have been lost if it had not been for the help and warmth given to me by them." "I hope that I can return that favor to at least one other child Doris Feinberg on a mission to Ethiopia this summer. who needs it like I did," she states . True to her word, she became actively involved in a number of community youth programs and activities. She was the head of her teen travel camp and became pre­ sident of the teen council at her JCC. It was activities such as these that gave her the self-confidence needed to become a fundraiser at JFRI grants will fund six Hasbro Hospital and then president of the Rhode Island Hospital Foundation. Today, Feinberg owns Prospero; a business dedicated to fundraising for nonprofits. collaborative programs Feinberg, whose twins, Daniel and Sara, are now in their twenties, met her husband Alan, also of Bayonne, while they ByMaryKorr Endowment funds allocated by RECIPIENTS were both camp counselors. In the early 1970s, the Navy brought [email protected] the Jewish Federation of R.I.'s The South County Hebrew them to Rhode Island, where he began his dental practice. It was Jewish Federation grants board of directors in January. The School (SCHS) and community Alan who first became actively involved with the Federation and totaling approximately $64,400 application process began in May library and the South County Jewish community. "Herb Epstein, a prominent Jewish busines­ have been awarded to a half and the awards were distributed Jewish Collaborative were awar­ sperson, invited us to attend a Newport Federation fundraiser at dozen Jewish organizations by July 31. ded $2,500 to purchase books Salve Regina College. The event was co-chaired by Joe Dannin and throughout the state, from the Amy Seigle, director of fund and supplies to open a Judaic Michael Josephson. Charlie Samdperil, the Federation's campaign South County Hebrew School distribution, said priority was library for students and members chair, was also there. The event included "card pulling;" people in Narragansett to Congregation given to innovative and collabo­ of the community. publicly calling out their financial commitment. It was astonishing. Agudas Achim in Attleboro. The rative programming. The grant arrives at the right Alan, whose father helped found a temple in Bayonne, did not hesi­ grants were from the unrestricted time; the Hebrew school finally tate to give," recalls Feinberg. See GRANTS. following page "The Federation is com­ ■------mitted to tikkun olam, (repairing • or perfecting the world). We I L'shanah tovah! YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE GOES are a special group that is well I BEYOND STOCKS AND BONDS. organized to serve our people. II My personal goal last year was II SHOULDN'T YOUR FINANCIAL to bring the Jewish community II 5. Honor Your Father & Mother bac~ to the center by developing I STRATEGY DO THE SAME? a strategic vision. Last year, in I th addition to raising $4 million for I The 5 Commandment finall the Federation, we also raised an I TO SEE HOW YOUR MONEY CAN WORK HARDER BY WORKING additional $930,000 to help the I TOGETHER, CONTACT A MERRILL LYNCH FINANCIAL ADVISOR TODAY Israel Emergency Campaign. I has a support structure! Before that we also raised funds I 401-863-8745 to help the victims qf Hurricane II Age Well is a one-stop resource linking older adults and their family members OJ Katrina," said Feinberg. II caregivers to a variety of services, including: assessment; lunch programs and 1-800-819-4945 This year the Federation's II home-delivered meals; adult day services; assisted living, nursing home, or othe goal is to enhance donor rela­ II MERRILL LYNCH tionships, and seek their input. II residential care options; home healthcare; transportation; counseling and suppon This will help to drive phi­ II groups; and, social, recreational and wellness programs. ONE CITIZENS PLAZA, SUITE 1000 lanthropy forward. II PROVIDENCE, RI 02903 Age Well RI is a collabnrative program of Jewish Family Service Jewish Seniors Agency & the "Ultimately," says Feinberg, II Jewish Community Center, core agencies of the Jewish Federation of RI, working together to "the Federation is the communi­ II GREGORY J. LAVINE, CFP' ty's shepherd. We work with all II provide seamless delivery of servic,s to older adults, their family members and caregivers. of the agencies and are accessi­ II FINANCIAL ADVISOR ble to donors on all levels. Every II time I see the work of Federation II I feel touched and privileged. +++AgeWellR II Merrlll Lynch TOTAL MERRILL' We help give and restore dignity ~ II Answers A Guidance A Directior to people." II CFP" Is a cerilflcatlon mar1< owned by lhe Certified Financial Planner Boarll of Standarlls, Inc ,.. rorat Memll (de~gn;woros/ Is a regiSlered service mar1<,lservlce mar1< of Memll l.yndl & Co . Inc. ______223-2335 or 1-866-5-AGEWELL _ (11 2007 Merrill lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smit!l lncol])Orllled. Member, SIPC. ·------II 8 Jewish Voice & Herald May 11, 2007 Communitv with mental health issues and GRANTS physical disabilities, with aging From page 8 and isolation dilemmas. The social worker will con­ has a home in a building on the nect those in need with the Collaborative site in Narragan­ appropriate services available to sett, after meeting for over 40 them. years in various churches, cam­ The PJ Library program, puses.and libraries. Ethan Adler, administered by the Bureau of school director, said the library Jewish Education, received $21, would be located in a beautiful 767 to establish a monthly Jewish room overlooking a picturesque book or CD club for children pond and would be a central under six, at no charge for the repository for Judaica available to first year. The following year the the South County Jewish com­ fee is $18. Community program­ munity. ming and parenting materials The Collaborative has a supplement this program. monthly book club, and additio­ Nicole Katzman, who coor­ nal adult and holiday programs dinates the program, ·said 230 will expand. "Since many of our children are signed up for the pro­ school families are blended, this gram to date. She said the goal is would be a good way to provide to have 375 children enrolled by them with Jewish books and the end of the year, but with such other materials," Adler said. a good response, expects to reach A grant of $20,000 was the number sooner. awarded to Jewish Family Ser­ The PJ Library has set up a vice and Congregation Agudas Photo by Mary Korr schedule of dates to introduce ENVIRONMENTAL FAIR - Clean Water Action representatives Erica Aus and Denise Parrillo educated Achim. The Kesher (connection) the program at various synago­ visitors at the envitonmental fair held at the JCC last Feb. 4 by the then-fledgling organization, the R.I. program will support a licensed gues and venues. This week, a Jewish Environmental Alliance. social worker, hired and supervi­ PJ representative and Agudas sed by Jewish Family Service, to Kolle! director, said about 180 Achim presented "PJ Parties" at work at the synagogue two half people attended each of the five the Attleboro, North Attleboro days a week. communal dinners held last year. and Norton public libraries. Rabbi Elyse Wechterman He said there are singles, families, The upcoming PJ events will has seen the need for this ser­ and couples of all ages, who meet be noted in the Calendar section vice grow over her six years lea­ each other and mingle, enjoying a of the Jewish Voice & Herald. ding the Attleboro congregation. Kosher Shabbat dinner prepared An event is planned at the South "We are not immune to the ills by chef Darren Bulley in the kit­ County Hebrew School on Tues­ of society. Jews traditionally don't chen of die Providence Hebrew day, Sept. 30, at 5 p.m. know how to make use of services Day School. available to them. They feel asha­ The Providence Kolle! Com­ The first dinner is set for med. They are not going to walk munity and the Jewish Commu­ tonight, Sept. 7, beginning with into a social service agency or ask ni_ty Center OCC) were awarded a service at 5:45 p.m., dinner at for state aid. In many cases they $11,750 to host inspirational 6:45 p.m. and talk and dessert at are not poor enough or not sick community Shabbat services with 8:15 p.m. with Rabbi Dr. David enough," she says. "But they will dinner and entertainment or Gottlieb as guest lecturer. He come in and talk to their rabbi." guest lectures several times a year will speak on "Mysticism, mea­ Photo courtesy of SCHS for approximately 200 people at She said she sees Jews strug­ ning and mitzvah." South County Hebrew School's new library. each event. gling with alcoholism, with eco­ Gottlieb spent 12 years on Rabbi Raphie Schochet, nomic downturns and lost jobs, the philosophy faculty at Johns The JCC and the R.I. Jewish environmental fair around the Tu Hopkins University, and has a Environmental Alliance were B'Shevat festival of trees holiday. Ph.D. in mathematical logic and awarded $5,000 to partner and This year's theme will be a cel­ philosophy from Brandeis. provide innovative family pro­ ebration of the gifts of the trees We Wish You and Your Family a Happy Cost is S15, no charge for grams that educate about the said Alicia Lehrer, co-founder of children under 8. RSVP at 383- environment through a Jewish the group. The tentative date is 2786 or Shabbat@providencekol­ lens. They ~nticipate holding an Jan. 20, 2008 at the JCC. lel.org. Collaborative holiday pro­ grams at kosher mealsites will continue with a grant of S4,400 Welcome New Members!! awarded to Jewish Family Service and the JCC. The funds will pro­ from vide transportation for seniors in the dining program at the JCC to EAST SIDE PRESCRIPTION CENTER Celebrate the High Holidays with Us participate in holiday programs Congregation Beth -David of Narragansett with those at the kosher mealsite at Temple Torat Yisrael in Cran­ Membership Information & Registration ston. To receive notice about At The Center Sunday, September 9, 2007 375 Kingstown Road at the Narragansett Rotary future grant opportunities, con­ 9:30am to Noon tact Seigle at [email protected]. The members of the Fund Or Contact: Distribution Committee for this year included: Susan Leach Walter Horowitz, President 783-4170 DeBlasio, Ellie Elbaum, Robin Ethan Adler, Religious Leader 946-2604 Engle, Alan Feinberg, Bonnie bethdavidri.org We Bare a Large Selection af Ko,her Traditional Steinberg Jennis, Gary Licht, ml Varietal Wlna far tbe BaHd.ap Beth David Is a year-round Conservative-style synagogue that is now Richard Licht, Susan Odessa, attili ated with the South County Hebrew School. The temple offers a Jamie Pious, Jennifer Witt, Celelmltlnr 14 Ytim A, A Family Bwlnw wide variety of services and programs, including Shabbat and holiday David Yavner, chair; and Herbert & ,IS services, religious school, bar/bat mitzvah, adult education, junior B. Stern, ex officio. S WA ll ,#HG I14 QUE congregation and more.

IL May 11, 2007 Jewish Voice & Herald 9 World Deal adds $250 M in reparations Martin B. Felblsh, CLU, ChFC MBF, Inc. Roberta P. Narrin, CLU Howard M. Myers, JD, MBA BERLIN OTA) - For the past. Until now, those with available at Claims Conference Laurie Turchetti Aviva G., the significance oflast annual income above $16,000 offices and on its Web site, www. week's announcement that more were excluded from the pay­ claimscon.org. There is no dead­ Holocaust survivors like her will ments. line for applications, according be eligible for pension payments Under the new deal, income to Taylor. Happy Rosh Hashanah from the German government received from other pension The decision to lower the bar was not about the money. sources, including governmental for eligibility comes just as Ger­ It was about principle and pensions, disability payments, many has enacted a law grant­ Financial Services and Strategies the notion that a certain degree retirement plans and the like, ing pensions to victims of the of justice may now be done. or a spouse's income, will not German Communist regime. 300 Centerville Road • Summit South Aviva, 71, says there is no be counted toward the $16,000 For these victims, too, pensions Suite 400 •Warwick• RI 02886 true compensation for years in total. and income from spouses will 401-921-4170 • 401-921-4174 (fax) not count against eligibility. ghettos, but she sees the new The change effectively email: [email protected] • www.mbfinc.com deal as a "recognition of suffer­ enables thousands more low­ The Law for Support of Vic­ ing." Aviva asked that her family income survivors to collect pen­ tims of the Socialist German name be withheld. sion payments from Germany. Dictatorship, the third post­ After extensive negotia­ The funds will be distributed reunification law aimed at com­ tions with the Conference for starting Oct. 1 and continue for pensating victims of World War Jewish Material Claims Against 10 years. II, was enacted Aug. 29. Low­ 'PROVIDENCE 'HEBREW 'DAY SCHOOL Germany, Germany eased some "It's a huge thing," Gideon income applicants who were AND eligibility requirements so more Taylor, executive vice president imprisoned under the Com­ low-income survivors like Aviva of the Claims Conference, said munist regime for at least six Gf'JEW 'ENGLAND ACADEMY O F 'fORAH can receive so-called Article 2 in a telephone interview with months may receive 250 euro per pension payments. JTA. "It will make a big differ­ month. The agreement, which adds ence for a lot of people world­ The additional payments for Wish the Jewish Community $250 million to the pension fund wide." Holocaust survivors will be from a Happy, Healthy, & Prosperous over 10 years, may be one of the Taylor said it took "a long the Claims Conference Article last and biggest breakthroughs battle" and months of negotia­ 2 Fund pension program, which New Year in the area of reparations to sur­ tions to reach the agreement. currently distributes pensions to vivors, according to the Claims The Claims Conference will 51,000 survivors. The new rules Conference. be launching a major advertising will lead to a 10 percent increase Sliana Tova The deal affects survi­ campaign to reach those who in those who qualify for pay­ vors whose income levels made might be eligible, he said, Infor­ ments, or about 6,000 people, them ineligible for payments in mation about how to apply is the Claims Confer,~nce esti­ mated.

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Turkey: Genocide debate could hurt Israel From page 1 and the Turkish Jewish com­ in protest of the organization's genocide question amid growing munity is part and parcel, and refusal to acknowledge the dissension within its own ranks. an integral part, of the Turkish genocide. Jewish leaders warned that community." After the vote, the ADL's recognizing the genocide, as What began more than a regional director in Boston; Wishing you a happy Congress is now considering, month ago as a small local protest Andrew Tarsy, switched gears could undermine American against an ADL-sponsored pro­ and condemned his organi­ strategic interests in the Middle gram in the Boston suburbs has zation's position. Tarsy was and healthy New Year East and Turkey's robust mili­ escalated into an international promptly fired by Foxman. tary and economic partnership crisis with a nation deemed cen­ The Boston ADL leader­ with Israel. Also deemed at tral to American interests and ship rebelled and with pressure risk was the security of Turkish Israeli security. mounting, Foxman reversed Jewry, which sent a letter earlier Turkey is Israel's closest - himself last week, acknowledg­ this year opposing a congressio­ and arguably its only - regional ing that the "consequences" of nal resolution on the matter. ally and is central to American Ottoman massacres of Arme­ Nabi Sensoy, Turkey's policy in the Middle East. nians were "tantamount to ambassador in Washington, Mindful of Turkey's impor­ genocide." Tarsy was reinstated told JTA that his government tance, the Conference of Presi­ Monday as Boston director. Debbie Gold Edlzeman Sam Glicksman was strongly opposed to any dents of Major American Jewish An outraged Turkey com­ 401-640-0403 401-440-1949 401-480-0852 congressional action, but that Organizations began a series of municated its dismay to Israeli the Turkish Jewish community discussions on the matter last and Jewish leaders, with some had nothing to fear in any case. week. Malcolm Hoenlein, the Turkish officials suggesting that Sensoy was less sure that Tur­ group's executive vice chairman, Israel had to "deliver" American key's relations with Israel and toldJTA that the conference had Jewish groups on this issue. the United States would survive not yet decided how or whether Namik Tan, Turkey's a resolution unscathed. to respond. O,,ned and operaled by NR:r, Jq; ambassador, reportedly said that "I cannot really dismiss that "As wiser heads have pre­ his country believed its stra­ if this resolution does pass that vailed, people are looking for us tegic relationship with Israel there will be certain impacts on to play a role in trying to control also involved the whole Jewish certain relationships," Sensoy and calm down the situation so world. • Insured said. "There is no doubt about there are no ramifications and The Turkish people "cannot it." repercussions that have nothing make that differentiation" • Bonded Of those raising the spec­ to do with the substance" of the between Israel and American • Ask about the Veterani Program ter of reprisals against Turkish issue, Hoenlein said. Jewish organizations, Nan told Jewry, Sensoy said, "I'm · very Though Jewish groups have The Jerusalem Post. disturbed to hear this kind of toed a careful line on the geno­ Office phone: 401-432.7999 "On some issues there is remark coming from anywhere. cide question for years, the issue no such thing as 'Israel cannot 50 Maple Street - Unit A They seem to be forgetting the exploded last month after the deliver,'" he continued, adding Warwick, RI 02888 history ofTurks and Jews, which town council of Watertown, that this was one of those issues. Providers of www.apeaceofmindhotnecareinc.com goes back at least 500 years. Mass., home to one of the coun­ Quality Senior Care According to an unofficial We've always had the best of try's largest Armenian commu­ translation, the Turkish For­ relations between Turks and Jews nities, voted to sever ties with eign Ministry issued a statement an ADL anti-bigotry program asserting that "the attempt of the ADL to rewrite the history is in contradiction with the realities, Brier & Brier and the rationale behind this is One Richmond Square incomprehensible." Providence • Rhode Island • 02906 On Sunday, the ADL released a second statement reit­ 401-751-2990 GRAUBART IRVING erating its support for a joint Visit our updated website Turkish-Armenian commission to investigate the matter - a www.brier-brier.com CONCERT move Turkey supports - and its opposition to a resolution in Congress. Foxman also wrote to Temple Beth-El - Providence, Rhode Island Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, "to express Saturday, September 8, 2007 regret for any pain we have caused to you and the Turkish 7:30 PM people in these past few days." In Turkey, those steps were A wonderful musical welcome to the seen as backtracking. Erdogan High Holy Day season! said the ADL had rectified its "mistake," according to the Turk­ Music provided bJ' Community· Musi c Works * ish Daily News. Sensoy said he felt the ADL had reversed itself A concert of musiCill meditations fo ll owed by Se lihot \.VOr~hip. again and that its current posi­ Business We wilJ be joined by our friends from Temple Hab onim in Barrington tion reflected a more "balanced situation." for this unique opportunity for prayer and refl ection . Life· Home "We are expecting the Long Term Care American Jewish organizations •C-•uMr lltmclt'.,.i, ~tdaJr• ujin-JfflOC!l •u..•..- ..J1Ka1ion ond rnfa,raoJ,..., r•¥oJ•• ,n,,i /,ul)J •.:anlrtg{ul to be neutral about this," Sensoy ,..,, lff• ,J~HtNbir M~ ,-jmknJ/ •U>h.io1m , chi/Jrm. o1 r>J /,, f'rrlthnf', (-a/11 ,r"" 1ht t,u .,,.J ffl

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By Yehuda Lev in office. invited Nonie Darwish, an Arab Americans love stories with Meanwhile, whatabout"hap­ woman from Cairo and Gaza happy endings. Boy meets girl, pily ever after"? For that we go to to lecture on the "The Road to boy loses girl, boy marries girl. Beersheba where Alison Golub, Peace: Women's Rights." The That sums up the plot of many native of Seattle and adopted invitation was withdrawn by a movie, novel and sitcom. But daughter of Rhode Island (she the Hillel Jewish student lead­ does it help in reviewing a Jewish graduated from Brown University ers, and the cancellation turned year? Can a Jewish community and worked in our Jewish com­ into a media storm. The invita­ find itself involved in a story that munity) has been living in recent tion was reissued, this time by may or may not end "And they years since making aliyah. Her another campus organization lived happily ever after"? Let's experiences have been chron­ and Darwish gave her lecture. find out. No fair peeking ahead. icled in these pages and at the Darwish, who left the Palestin­ Passion aside, much of our start of this year we were intro­ ian cause and became a pro-Israel community news this year con­ duced to her boyfriend, Michael spokesperson, has written a book cerned structural and substantive (Mikhael), newly discharged explaining her opposition to jihad changes in the largest of our com­ from the Israeli Army. More to and violence in the region. munal organizations, the Jewish come. Which brings us, somewhat Federation of Rhode Island Stay with Israel for a moment. circuitously, to Jewish educa­ (]FRI). (Full disclosure: The Our ties with the ancient home­ tion, always a big item on the Federation is the publisher of the land continued to be strong. This community agenda. With two Jewish Voice & Herald.) It began year, as every year, we hosted day schools, the Harry Elkin the year with a new executive vice two young Israelis who came as Midrasha Community High president, as well as proposal to emissaries to work with Jewish School program, a number of reduce the Board of Directors schools and camps and to pres­ synagogue-sponsored schools from 180 to 40 members, and ent a more positive picture of and adult education classes the creation of a Community Israel than we find in the media. everywhere, the Bureau ofJewish Leadership Council to include Two doctors also visited us from Education had its hands full. The representatives from every Jewish Miriam's sister hospital in Afula, day schools, the Jewish Commu­ agency and synagogue as well as one Jew and one Christian Arab, nity Day School (]CDS) and the community leaders. The Council representing the mixture of Providence Hebrew Day School will help form the JFRI's agenda faiths that depend upon the hos­ (PHDS) accounted for most of and discuss issues that impact the pital as patients or who practice the education stories this year entire community. medicine there. A major mission because of another •;;;_atter high The new Executive Vice Pres­ by our community's Jewish lead­ on the community agenda, fund­ ident is Stephen Silberfarb, who ers was taken in July; they trav­ ing, or more accurately, funding: came to us from Minneapolis, eled to Ethiopia and Israel, at a lack of. where he was the executive direc­ time when our special campaign STEPHEN SILBERFARB joined the Jewish Federation as its executive tor of the Jewish Community to assist Israelis impacted by the See YEAR IN REVIEW, page 11 vice president. Relations Council of Minnesota War in Lebanon raised approxi­ and the Dakotas. Hershey Rosen mately $930,000, in addition was our Interim Executive VP for to the $4 million contributed to almost a year during which time Federation's annual campaign he attended, by his estimate, 600 by the Jews of Rhode Island and meetings and watched over the southeastern Massachusetts for rebirth of the Jewish Community the benefit of the local Jewish Center and its fitness program, community and Jews abroad. the creation of the Jewish Com­ Supporters and opponents munity Day School, among other of Israel found themselves in an Since 1980, we've been New England's favorite major projects. And our Federa­ interesting ideological juxtaposi­ transporter of automobiles. And for good reason: tion president, Herbert Stern, is tion this year when Brown Hillel entering his third and final year FULLY INSURED, GUARANTEED PRICES Snowbirds: t· d What We Quote an~c::::ed ;~u~~~1 Migrating South Wisfiing you a sweet :Jfew Year RELIABLE, C~Nlf/1 DOPll;:,'FO-POOR DELIVERYANYWH fRE 111 1~/il AIRPORT DA YTRIPS Congregation

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PHYSICIANS FROM EMEK MEDICAL CENTER IN AFULA took part in the Miriam Hospit al's exchange pro­ gram, and worked at Miriam for several months. At center is Dr. Michael Fine of Providence. Alison Golub and Mikhael Perez. Orthodox schools in Massachu- S200,000 for the two schools, In Beersheba, clouds appear have gone to the rabbis to make YEAR IN setts and some who have trans- made possible because of changes on the horizon. Mikhael is from the arrangements. The rabbis ferred to JCDS. The decline has in the state tax laws. Additional a traditional Moroccan Jewish insist to Alison: Prove that you REVIEW averaged four percent a year, contributions and Federation family, Alison is a secular Jew. are a Jew. This could be a deal From page 11 from a peak of 195 more than 10 grants added to the total and Sharing an apartment, she is breaker. Stay tuned. PHDS, with an increasingly years ago to its current enrolment while money remains a prob­ learning about kashrut and the As ever, this was a year filled Yeshiva-Orthodox philosophy, of 134. The Bank of America !em, both schools are expecting a other laws and customs of Ortho­ has been losing students, some came to the rescue with a gift of better year ahead. doxy. Intending to marry, they See YEAR IN REVIEW, page 13 of whom are studying at Modern

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A TALK BY THE PALESTINIAN but pro-Israeli author and activist Nonie Darwish caused an uproar at Brown University when her visit was canceled by the Hillel student leadership, and then took place under different university sponsorship.

ELIE WIESEL visited Providence to announce a world youth peace summit.

and Resource Center of Rhode Alan Axelrod, 52 , died of YEAR IN Island". Jon Rubin, founding cancer ending a lifetime of ser­ editor. of the Voice & Herald, vice to the Jewish c'~mmunity. REVIEW departed for the Northwestern He worked to feed the homeless From page 12 University Graduate School of througli the Social Action Com­ with less existential but rewarding Journalism. Marty Cooper has mittee of Temple Beth-El, to and (sometimes) disappointing stepped in as interim managing house them through Habitat for events. Izzy's cafe and catering editor. Humanity, and to make all of our closed down, depriving us of one In Beersheba the clouds lives better by heading the Fed­ of Rhode Island's Jewish land­ have brought on thunder and eration's Community Relations marks. Rabbi James Rosenberg, lightning. Alison misses Apple Committee at one time, and on a fixture at Temple Habonim for Jacks and other sinful luxuries the editorial board of the news­ paper. .I the past 33 years, retired. Elie of American life unavailable in Wiesel came here to announce Israeli shops and the rabbinate is Barbara Jacobson, 64, an edu­ a youth world peace summit in as unwilling as ever to marry the cator and community role model, 2011, hosted by the Institute of young couple if she cannot prove died of cancer after a career of International Sport. The Holo­ her Jewishness. Can this be the training bar and bat mitzvah stu­ caust Center has a new director, end? dents at Temple Beth-El. She also taught English as a second Ian- THE PROVIDENCE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL showed their support for a May-Ronny Zeidman, and a new This year we suffered griev­ corporate tax credit scholarship program at the State House. name, "The Holocaust Education ous losses. See YEAR IN REVIEW, page 14 Have a Sweet & Happy New Year Best Wishes 5Way the comino year 6rino you for a sweet

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JONATHAN RUBIN departed as managing editor of the newspaper to attend gradu­ ate school for journalism at Northwestern in Chicago. He was the recipient of many journalism awards during his tenure.

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as spiritual leader of Temple From page 13 RABBI JAMES ROSENBERG retired after 33 years at Temple Habonim. Habonim on July 1. guage at Martin M iddle School in East Providence. H er funeral was attended by an outpouring NEW BEDFORD of teachers from the region and dozens of her past and present Happy New Year! students. Charles Samdperil, 75, a past president of the Jewish Fed­ eration and very active in Temple Emanu-El, died of ASL (Lou Br patronizing a new leaf rou are doing a lot more than adding Gehrig's disease), ending a long beautr to your life. You ,m: helping adult~ with p,;ychiatric disJbilitie~ history of service to the temple and to the community. Samdperil g.1in t'mployment. 3 ne,v leaf is J non•profo agency whose sole created "mitzvah projects'' long mili\ion i\ to prmidc nu:aningful johs for adults who,t: p\ychi,nrll.: before the term became fashion­ Ji,.1hilitic, make it tliffirnlt to find work. Th1.· ne\\1 leaf progr,1111 able. He had a wonderful sense of k,irhn joh skilh ,md ,l\\i,t, 1'11..•,c ,ululh tr.rn,i!ion to (ompc1itin: humor and before his death as ked Skilled nursing care l'mplo~ml·nl in 1h'-' lOl1lt1111ni1~·. Cantor Brian Mayer to chant the Hospice care memorial prayer "with a smile." Medical services Rehabi litat ive services • l"h.rnk ~1111 for hdping u\·;lll' ,1 hriµhtn h1111rc . l n Beersheba the clouds have • Pain management Restorative therapy • lifted, the rabbinate has backed AKosher fewishfa cility ~ off, and Alison and Mikhael will Shop for 11-,. on our website 2417. be married in Jerusalem on Oct. www.anewleafflorist.org 16. Apple Jacks are not on the w Bedford Jewish Co11 va lescenl Hom e wedding menu. L 00 Hawthorn Strttl, New Bedford, MA 01740 135 Ga no Street, Providence RJ 02906 • 40 1-35 1-4330 And they will live happily 508. 997. 9314 • Pax: 508-996-3664 ever after. May 11, 2007 Jewish Voice & Herald 15 Calendar

Correction: The issue of Aug. 10 incor­ MON., SEPT. 10 rectly listed the phone number in an Temple Emanu-El Leisure Club ------advertisement to call for the Charlie 10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. "Reminisces" -The Carol Schneider Samdperil dinner on Sept. 30. The cor­ Honorable Richard Israel Member of the rect number is 751-2470. See below for 11:10 a.m. to 12 p.m. "I am my Beloved's" - more information. Rabbi Natan Schaeffer, JERI #1 Gammons Team TUES., SEPT. 11 • Realtor since 1983 SAT., SEPT. 8 Chabad CHAI children's enrichment • Multi-million dollar producer Temple Am David Havdalah Every Tues. 1 to 2:30 p.m. Pre-Hebrew school 40 Gardiner St., W arwick. After Shabbat ages. Focus on mitzvot, holidays baking, singing • Serving all of Rhode Island ends, join the Temple Am D avid community for and group play. For more information call 884- Exceeding Havdalah, followed by a movie and then Selichot, 7888 or 884-7081. The Center is at 3871 Post Rd., your expectations at 10 p.m. Warwick. ~ Prudential 401-374-3774 ...,./;,:I Gammons Realty Selichot at Etz Chaim SUN., SEPT. 16 7:30 p.m. at the temple, 900 Washington St., Sunday on Manning (i$ E-mail: [email protected] G:r Franklin, Mass. Dessert & movie. For info call 2 to 5 p.m. Located at 60 Manning St. 0 2005, An Independentlyowned and operated member of Prudentia l Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. (508) 528-5337 Holocaust Education & Resource Center of Rhode Prudential is a service mark oflhe Prudential Insurance Company of America, Equal HousingOpponunity Emanu-El Selichot service Island will join forces with the Women's Alliance. 8:30 p.m. The program is called "Generations: House tour of the home of Ms. Hope McCulloch, Three Generations and their "Judaisms." Followed wine and light refreshments. All will receive a Stephen F. Schiff, M.D., F.A.C.S. by coffee hour and Selichot service at 10:30 p.m. hand-made bracelet by Ms. McCulloch's daughter led by Cantor Brian Mayer, Rabbi W ayne Franklin and her friends. The cost of $36 to be donated to MOHEL and Rabbi Alvan Kaunfer in the Temple Emanu­ the Holocaust Education Center and the Women's El Chapel. The program and service are open to Alliance. For reservation or more information, call CERTIFIED by Jewish Theological Seminary the community. See Community. May-Ronny Zeidman at the Holocaust Education and the Rabbinical Assembly Temple Sinai Selichot Center at 453-7860. 9 p.m. breakfast followed by service at 10 Spiritual retreat to prepare CERTIFIED by the American Board of Urology p.m. for the High Holidays SUN., SEPT. 9 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Brown University Hillel 401-274-6565 House, 80 Brown St., Providence. Rabbi Andrea Temple Sinai Brunch/ first day Cohen-Kiener leading a spiritual retreat titled of Sunday school "Teshuvah: Return to Essence," where she will be 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Sisterhood brunch for new, bringing material from her recent studies of how old & prospective members. Sunday school classes our personalities help or hinder the transformatior:i begin. Pre-K through 3rd grade session is from process. The registration fee is $45, students Hair Solutions, Inc. 8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Grades four through seven $10. Vegetarian lunch buffet. Spaces are limited, meet from 11 am to 1 pm. Parents are invited to reserve early. For registrations or more information Turn back time with our meetings at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. A meeting of the call Chaim at (401) 267-0029; email at info@ advanced hair systems. parents of those students who will be consecrated rijewishhealing.org or visit www.rijewishhealing. will be held at 10 a.m. org. Regain the confident and JCC, Miriam road races BBYO meeting atJCC youthful appearance that Youth races begin at 9 a. m., followed by 11:30 a.m. At JCC. Regional Director, Malki come with a full head of hair. the SK race at 10 a.m. Both races will start at Karkowsky, will be holding an informational the JCC at 401 Elmgrove Ave. All children meeting. For more information, call (781) 341-201- • Finest Quality will receive medals and t-shirts. The adult SK is 6268. • Undectable 100% human hair open to men and women of all ages, with cash Sinai adult education prizes. Refreshments, JCC open house. For more • Permanent Bonding information visit www.jccri.org or call 861-8800. 10 a.m. Sundays, September 16, 23 and 30. "Welcome to the Torah" Part of Temple Sinai's • Custom & Ready to Wear Systems Agudas Achirn pre-Sukkot festival Adult Education program, this class will be an • Hair Extensions ~ Private Rooms 11 a. m. -1 p.m. at the temple, 901 No. Main introduction to classic Jewish texts. Learn what's in St., Attleboro. Activities include Sukkah-related Torah, Talmud, Midrash, and other writings of the crafts, and foods, folk dances, food collections and great sages. Attend any and all classes - each session Linda A. Piccione & Staff - Board Certified more. Local produce, gourds and potted "mums" will be open to new and returning participants. 1243 Mineral Sprin9s Avenue • No. Protlidence, RI fo r purchase. For more info rmation call (508) 222- Please RSVP to the Temple at 942-8350. 401- 726-6800 2243. MON., SEPT. 17 www.hairsofutions.com JCC past presidents' event Temple Emanu-El Leisure Club 6 p.m. Ledgemont Country Club in Seekonk. 10 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. "The Mezuzah in the Tribute to the past presidents. Doug Emmanuel, Madonna's Foot": Book review and discussion - ]CC vice president, will emcee the tribute, and Tess Hassenfeld M argaret and Bertram Lederer will chair. Tickets The Brightest Tmno,rm 1·:-; fo r the event are S125 and include cocktails, dinner 11:10 a.m. to 12 p.m. "SWAP: 30 Years of stations, and dessert. Sponsorship opportunities Affordable Housing" Jeff Austin, SWAP (Stop Begin Here. are available. For more info rmation, contact Kevin Wasting Abandoned Properties) Olson at 861-8800 or e-mail development@jccri. Sinai Sisterhood org. 7 p.m. Monthly meeting of the Temple Sinai North Bay Manor Pocasset Bay Manor Temple Am David school registration/ Sisterhood. Meeting will take place at the home of Smithfiel d 232-5577 Johnston 42 1-6610 D ebbie Roberts. South Bay Manor Greenwich Bay Manor Memorial service S. Kmg:nown 789-4880 E. Greenwich 885 -3334 9:30 a.m. Temple A m D avid , 40 Gardiner TUES., SEPT. 18 East Bay Manor Sakonnet Bay Manor St., Warwick. School registration and fi rst day of Sinai Hebrew School E. Providence 433 -5000 Tiverton 624 1880 classes. Emerald Bay Manor Tuesday H ebrew School session begins fro m 4 Cumberland 333-3393 10 a. m. M emorial service at Li ncoln Park to6 p.m. West Bay Manor Cemetery, Ave. A , Temple Am D avid section. 'Thursday, Sept, 20th - Thursday Hebrew School WMWi( k 739 7100 URI HiJlel beach bagel brunch session begi ns from 4 to 6 p. m. llor 1zo\ 8\Y 12:30 p.m. 12 Fraternity Circle. Students Sinai adult education

gather at H illel at 12:30 p.m. and travel to Tuesdays, September 18, 25 and O ctober 2, 9 INDEPENDENT • ASSISTED LIVING • SKILLED NURSING Scarborough Beach for food and fu n. at 10 a. m. and 8 p.m. - "M itzvot: Commandments,

See CALENDAR, page 17 •

16 Jewish Voice & Herald May 11, 2007 News Briefs Land for Jews only? Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ate attack, wrote Wilkerson, but lhank You .for Making Me _ JERUSALEM: A major hinted that Israel's armed forces, said that Washington "should not political battle is looming in now limiting themselves to strikes be distracted by Iraq and Saddam the #1 Co,1dwell Banker Israel over a proposed Knesset bill against Palestinian rocket crews, Hussein" from the Iran threat. Residential Brokerage that would limit the sale of land could now pursue those who are CTTA) owned by the Jewish National responsible for ordering the rocket firing. "We view this attack very Olmert-Abbas summit Agent in Rhode Island. Fund to Jews only. The bill passed inD.C. its first preliminary reading and gravely," he said. "The military 401-374-4488 was quickly condemned as racist has been instructed to destroy JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime every rocket launcher and to strike Minister Ehud Olmert is not sure BonnieS9llsHouses.com by Arab members of the Knesset. It was introduced by Uri Ariel of all those involved in the firings." that he can reach a deal on prin­ the National Religious Party and CTTA) ciples when he meets in Novem­ Ze'ev Elk.in of Kadima. Ariel said Iran steps up ura- ber with Palestinian president lfy.\jj;f@f Mahmoud Abbas. "I have been t~, that "(We) must honor the wishes nium processing of generations ofJews who wished holding meetings with Abbas and to purchase land that would be TEHRAN: Iran has I hope that in the near future this sacred to the Jewish people." announced a breakthrough in will lead to a joint declaration" he Ahmed Tibi called the bill "insti­ its nuclear program. President said. Olmert is seeking a agree­ tutionalized Jewish racism and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the ment on a broad "declaration of ethnic democracy going against country is now running more than principles" whereas Abbas wants anything that is Arab." The 3,000 centrifuges for enriching a more explicit "framework agree­ debate continues. (YEDIOT uranium, providing enough fis­ ment" with a timeline for imple­ FOR EXCELLENCE IN JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION! ACHRANOT) sile material for an atomic bomb mentation on the core issues of in about a year. In Washington, a Jerusalem, borders and the fate of 1> Sderot shelling goes on former senior U.S. official, Law­ the Arab refugees. The Novem­ .,.\@ta F i~- JERUSALEM: The Israeli­ rence Wilkerson, has written that ber summit in Washington will ~O" ... "·":---'j·- ~ ~, /' -~ -f n •.,.... ~ Gaza border is heating up again Israel warned the Bush Adminis­ include the participation of the following a salvo of rockets fired tration early in 2002 that "If you United States which has not yet =-~~-/' ·~~· tP at Sderot including one that nar­ are going to destabilize the bal­ said what it expects from the ' rowly missed a day-care shel­ ance of power, do it against the conference. (BEIRUT DAILY ~~~ ter. No one was injured but 12 main enemy," referring to Iran. STAR) I\ I Y children were treated for shock. Israel did not counsel an immedi- Two notable passings Developing A Child's Love For Jewish Life NEW YORK: Two nota­ Through Music, Art, & Movement ble American Jews have died in BIRTH THROUGH FM YEARS AND THEIR FAMILIES recent days. Rabbi Judah Nadich, This weekty class will aid in the development 95, was the long-time rabbi at the of your child's rhythm, language, social, fine .o.~and Or(S>;'>o>,,., Park Avenue Synagogue in New motor and gross motor skills. You will have s . -;.. the opportunity to meet other Jewish York, one of the nation's largest families while sharing quality bonding ~ ~- Conservative synagogues. As a >- . . n time with your child and having FUN! chaplain during World War II, : .. No prior Jewish Rabbi Nadich served as the advi­

cxperience necessary! Classes are located in sor on Jewish affairs to General Everyone is Welcome! Warwick at Temple Am David Dwight Eisenhower, commander of the Allied forces in Europe. Registrations are now being accepted for our And Grace Paley, 84, a short-story FALL 2007 session which begin October 12th & 14th Classes are offered on Friday and Sunday mornings. writer, poet and essayist, whose work was critically praised, has For more information call (401) 463-7944 or died in her home in Vermont, She print out a Registration Form at www.shalomfriends.org entered Hunter College at 15 and was promptly expelled for absen­ teeism but later studied under the poet W. H. Auden and became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. CTTA) Moderate Muslims ask for tolerance ROSEMONT, ILL: Ameri­ can Muslims are asking that their fellow citizens learn to differenti­ ate between mainstream Muslims and the small groups of jihadists and others who carry out terror­ ist activities. At the annual con­ vention of the Islamic Society of North America, just ended, lead­ ers attributed the growing intol­ erance they see as taking place to three main factors; global terror­ ists in the name of Islam, disap­ pointment with the Iraq war, and Everyone at Steere House - from the nurses and activities staff to the cooks and social workers - is committed to fostering an environment attempts by supporters of Israel where Jewish residents feel comfortable and where the traditions you to undermine sympathy for the Faye L. Si/r;oerman Patricia M. Herron cherish are celebrated and respected. Palestinians. They expect the We're doing everything possible to make Steere House the Jewish attacks to worsen as candidates for Silverman McGovern Staffing community's first choice for quality nursing care, short-tenn rehabili ­ president criticize Islam to prove tation and early through advanced stage dementia care. Rhode Island's Leadiflf] Office Sraffina A/}ency they are tough on terrorism. The Come visit. Let's talk about how we can meet your loved one's needs. lone Muslim in Congress, Keith 67 Cedar Street, Suite 104, Providence, RJ 02903 Ellison (D-Minn), the keynote 632-0580 speaker at the convention, said ■J~ stereotyping is ill-informed and www.SllvermanMcuovem.com NURSINO &. REHABILITATION CENTER typical of bigoted attacks that other minorities have suffered. (fHE NEW YORK TIMES) -

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CALENDAR fun event at the Save the Bay TUES., Oct. 2 program. Power card, act1vmes, Talmudic Ethics Exploration Center in Newport. Chabad "Soup in the breakfast, transportation to and Six Mondays, 6:30 to 8 p.m. TUES., SEPT. 18 Bring children and grandchildren Sukkah" from the mall included in $15 at Phyllis Siperstein Tamarisk to see this unique aquarium and Sinai adult education cost. For more information call Assisted Living Center, 3 enjoy the beach, the playground 7:30 p.m. Event in the (781) 341-2016 ext 268 or Malki From page 15 "Women"s Evenings" series by Shalom Drive, Warwick. A and more. Cost is $10 for adults, Karkovsky at mkarkovsky@bbyo. course sponsored by the Jewish $5 for children, with a maximum Chabad of West Bay. Variety of org. Suggestions and Good Deeds - autumn soups under the stars Learning Institute of Chabad What Are They?" Part of Temple of $25/family. Snacks will be MON. OCT. 8 of RI. In this course you are provided. For more information with friends. Donation $5. RSVP Sinai's Adult Education program, to Shoshana at 884-7888. Great Day of Service invited to experience the same this class will survey the classic contact Sara at 331-1244. fascinating application oflaw and SUN., OCT. 7 in Barrington listing of 613 mitzvot in the Cranston High School logic as· the rabbis of the Talmud, 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. B.O.W. Torah. Learn what they are and reunion BBYO new young teen who struggled to determine what community collaborative working speculate on their importance in program is just. The cost for the course Class of1952- 55th Reunion. for community betterment. For is $118, text book included. our lives today. Cost is $10 for Contact Norma Hill at 942-5328 9 - 11:30 a.m. for 7th and more information contact Amy Scholarships are available. To Temple members, $20 for non­ or [email protected]. 8th graders. (Game Day)At Rovin at 258-6860, www.bowri. members. Please RSVP to the register, or for mqre information, Temple Am David Dave & Busters' Providence org or email [email protected]. Temple at 942-8350. pizza in the hut Place Mall. Pick-up and return call Rabbi Laufer at (401) 884- at the Providence JCC. Kickoff MON., OCT. 29 7888. WED., SEPT. 19 12 p.m. Temple Am David, Yiddish language course 40 Gardiner St., Warwick. RSVP At the JCC, 401 Elmgrove 463-7944. Ave., Providence, taught by Mara FRI., SEPT. 28 Plot shtick-ens on top-rated soap Sokolsky, librarian at Temple Sinai pot luck dinner Emanu-El. 11-week course for Annual New Member as hunk says sorry on Yorn Kippur people with some knowledge of Pot Luck Dinner and Shabbat Yiddish. The classes will meet Services. Join us for a pot luck By Jacob Berkman ters he has wronged during the on W ednesdays from 11:30 dinner at 6 p.m., followed by 7:30 NEWYORKQTA)-Soap past year: his daughter Colleen, a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more p.m. services. opera plots are built more on the played by Tammin Sursok, and information, call Sue Suls at 861- Genoa City's wealthiest man, SUN., SEPT 30 selling points of sin than on the 8800, ext.108. healing powers of redemption, Victor Newman, played by Eric Shofar making Sinai program but one of the main characters Braeden. 6:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. At on colonial Jews on the Young and the Restless H ere's why: Colleen, a col' the Jewish Collaborative of 1 p.m. The Temple Sinai is about to do some Jewish-style lege student, is dating her former Southern RI, Narragansett. Sisterhood and the Seniors repentance - just in time for professor. The professor had been Fashion Shofar from an animal Group will present a special Yorn Kippur. offered a job at a museum in Paris. horn as you learn the entire event featuring Keith W. Stokes, The character, Brad Carlton, In a successful attempt to nix process from the cooking to the executive director of the Newport who entered the Y&R scene about the jdeal and keep his daughter final polishing. Admission $2 for County Chamber of Commerce. 20 years ago as the gardener to from moving overseas with her the demonstration, $5 for each Mr. Stokes will be presenting the wealthy Abbott family of the scholarly beau, Brad bribed the shofar. RSVP to Rabbi Yossi "Faith, Family & Freedom: fictional Genoa City, is not what museum with a coveted piece of Laufer, 884-7888 Colonial Jewish Families of you'd call a saint. The womaniz­ art. Colleen found out and cut off NCJW open membership Newport." This discussion will ing gardener, after all, worked his communications with her father. meeting be detailing the early Jewish way into the Genoa City social Don Diamont of the Young and Just before Kol Nidre ser­ settlement of Newport in 1658 elite in part by marrying a suc­ the Restless. vices, Brad will try to make 7 p.m. Nat'! CouncilofJewish and the growth ofone ofAmerica' s Women. At JCC, 401 Elmgrove cession of rich women, the first amends with Colleen, sources earliest and most significant Ave., Providence. Speaker, ofwhich was the insecure Abbott knew that he was Jewish, but say. "The start of Yorn Kippur. Jewish communities during the Jametta 0. Alston, Esq., RI daughter Traci. he lived as someone else a long For Jews, it's the holiest day of Colonial period. Refreshments But last year the soap time." the year," he'll say. "We fast, con­ Child Advocate. Short business will be served. This program dropped a bombshell: The Diamont says that in his sider the wrongs we've done, and meeting and 2007-08 calendar will be held at Temple Sinai, 30 upwardly mobile stud was actu­ mind the character had on occa­ try to make amends." preview. All are welcome. Free. Hagen Avenue, Cranston. It is ally a Hebrew hunk. It turns out sion celebrated some Jewish holi­ He tells her that he would SUN., SEPT. 23 FREE and open to the public. that Brad had been hiding his days in secret, but this year Brad like to have her by her side on the Please RSVP to the Temple Sinai Temple Emanu-El Jewish identity to protect himself will have the have his first oppor­ first Yorn Kippur he can attend in office at 942-8350. Leisure Club and his mother, who had drawn tunity to celebrate them openly public since his childhood. But 2 p.m. Epoch, one Butler. Charlie Samdperil event the ire of Nazis because of her - and he will do so on the show's Ave., near the Eastside 6 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. work as a Holocaust art restitu­ Sept. 21 episode. See SOAP, page 19 Marketplace. "Steven & Philip Dinner, presentations and tion investigator. According to Y&R sources, Martorella in concert - 1 piano, entertainment to celebrate the "For 20 years, there was a Brad will not only attend ser­ LAW OFFICES OF 4 hands" life of Charlie Samdperil at complete mystery as to Brad's vices for Yorn Kippur, which JEFFREY B. PrNE EsQ. Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., Jewish Family Service background," said Don Diamont, falls the day after the show airs A PROFESSIONA L CORPORATION family fun event. Providence. RSVP by Sept. 10. the actor who plays Brad, during on CBS, but he will openly ask 1 to 3 p.m. JFS family a phone interview with JTA. "He forgiveness from two charac-

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18 Jewish Voice & Herald May 11, 2007 Nation Fla. officials: Stop Hebrew classes BROWN By Larry Luxner WASHINGTON (]TA) - Continuing ,Studies Less than 48 hours after classes began at the nation's only Jewish­ oriented charter school, officials COME TO KNOW YOUR WORLD AT BROWN UNIVERSITY in Broward County, Fla., issued a command of their own: Thou Fall Program Highlights: shalt not teach Hebrew, at least for the time being. Middle Eastern Studies The Ben Gamla Charter Arabic Language School ignored the ruling for one Clash of Civilizations? Islam and the West day, then decided to cooperate Election 2008 with the Broward County School Explore the candidates, issues, Board - even though Ben Garn­ and strategies of Election 2008 la's founder, former Democratic congressman Peter Deutsch, said Spanish for Healthcare Providers 1 & 2 Thursday that his Hollywood, Fla., institution is going strictly Introduction to Travel Writing by the book. "I had to literally run around Photo by Avi Frier/The Florida Jewish News And Many More school yesterday telling the A vote regarding the nation's first Jewish-oriented charter school Hebrew teachers not to teach drew a crowd to the Broward School Board meeting on July 24. Hebrew," Deutsch said. He insisted that there's a great deal Courses Begin October 1st and whose innovative teaching "We're not saying they can of confusion over what is being methods are expected to produce never teach Hebrew again. It's For a full course listing, and Online Registration visit allowed and what's not. "The higher academic results . just a temporary suspension," www.brown.edu/ continuingstudies school board says we don't have a he said. "We want to bend over contract at this point in time. We Ben Gamla's supporters were backwards to make sure there isn't say we not only have a contract already told months ago that the any proselytizing going on, other that allows us to teach Hebrew, school would be forbidden from than casual references to religion. but a contract that obligates us to teaching Torah or prayer; its We are ultimately responsible teach Hebrew." original proposal was soundly rejected by school board members for insuring there's separation of Nevertheless, Deutsch said on the grounds that overt Jewish church and state." that he and the superintendent symbolism would be involved. Ben Gamla's director, Adam of schools, James Notter, want Siegel, says that the 400 students exactly the same thing: a Hebrew­ But the teaching of Hebrew at the school - which is now off English curriculum with no as a foreign language was far less On behalf of the limits to reporters - are getting religious co;nent. "It can't be reli­ controversial and never emerged lessons in Israeli geography until Board of Directors and Staff gious - that would be unconsti­ as a bone of contention until now. the 25 faculty members are once of the Jewish Seniors Agency tutional," Deutsch said. Keith Bromery, spokesman for the school board, said it's possible again permitted to resume teach­ By definition, charter schools Hebrew-language instruction ing Hebrew. are publicly financed elementary may resume Sept. 11, following 'Tm disappointed, but I'm or secondary schools that are the board's next meeting. not sitting here crying," Siegel managed privately, with minimal input from local school boards, See facing page SAVE THE DATE

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under his supervision - working Broward School Board is focused HEBREW closely with the school board's entirely on the issue of separa­ foreign language department - tion of church and state. They presented the school board with are paying no attention whatso­ CLASSES a meticulously crafted 600-page ever to the issue of competition From previous page curriculum. or money," said Stillman, whose said. "We don't get depressed. We "They found one reference organization provides grants to private Jewish day schools. still have a lot of other subjects to to a website with religious con­ Diane Lazarus & Lazarus Group of Coldwell Banker teach. I believe that within three tent, out of the 600 pages we put "The question · is whether Residential Brokerage Welcomes Miriam Cohen weeks, we'll be able to resume together," said a frustrated Siegel, the instruction is limited to con­ teaching Hebrew for the rest of insisting that the school board's versational Hebrew, which is of formerly of Cress and Co. and Storm Realty. She the year, and for years to come." "no Hebrew" ruling has nothing no concern to us. The issue has brings with her 5+ years of sales experience and Siegel said a group ofseventh­ to do with the curriculum itself. to do with teaching Jewish cul­ extensive knowledge of the area coD1D1unities. She's graders came up to him Thursday "Anybody who tells you that it ture, and whether religion would a former teacher and is a master gardener. with a petition signed by several does either doesn't know or is be included. · At this point, the hundred students, declaring "We playing games with you," he said. responsibility lies with the Bro­ want Hebrew." "It's about money - people feel­ ward School Board to monitor Diane Lazarus, MBA, GRI ing that they're losing control of a the school and make clear what is Siegel, 37, is an Orthodox Group Leader customer base." and what's not acceptable for the rabbi who ran a Jewish elementary 4-0 1-64-0-1658 school to be teaching." school in North Miami Beach Eric Stillman, president before being hired by Deutsch and CEO of the Jewish Federa­ Stillman said it appears that Service+ r-,· ...... • ..,.. tion of Broward County, doesn't the school board "is taking its Attitude= I • ' to supervise Ben Gamla. He . claims that the Hebrew teachers buy that. "As far as I can see, the role very seriously in making sure Results Ben Gamla is only teaching that ' SOAP which is within the boundaries of Miriam Cohen 'J Sales Associate From page 17 separation of church and state." i. . 4-01-4-87-4-533 will she come with him? In the meantime, Bromery f ' . Things with his soon-to-be ex-father-in-law Victor Newman are said there would be serious reper­ a little more complicated. The upshot is that in something of a love cussions if Ben Gamla resumes Hebrew-language instruction octagon involving blackmail, adultery and an attempt to keep Victor's 875 Oaklawn Ave. before Sept. 11. COLDWeLL son Nick - the son of a former stripper, Nikki - off of the board BANl(eRC_ Cranston, RI 02920 of Newman Enterprises, Brad had gotten Victor's daughter-in-law, "If we find that they're fla­ Phone: 401-942-1900 Phyllis, thrown in jail for six years; he also cheated on his wife, Vic­ grantly violating a board direc­ tive, we can take action up to and toria - Victor's daughter. RESIDENTIAL BROKERAGE So Brad plans to apologize to Victor. But will the musta~hioed including revoking their charter," he warned. 'Tm not saying we're millionaire accept? going to do that, but that's the Brad's hidden Jewish identity resonates with Diamont, whose potential." birth name is Donald Feinberg. The actor grew up in Los Angeles as a secular and unaffiliated Jew, and only had a bar mitzvah in his early 20s, after his father died and his brother Jack was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. The two brothers studied together. Now 44, he belongs to a Reform synagogue and celebrates some Jewish holidays, including H anukkah, with his daughters.

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PRAGUE OTA)- Ha'aretz Rubinstein, the Arab affairs by the outcry his comments had Israel. In a statement explaining columnist Danny Rubinstein had editor for Ha'aretz and a member caused. its decision to go ahead with the the unrepentant last word after ofthe newspaper's editorial board, "I never want to go through event, the organization rejected being dropped by a British Zion­ had been scheduled to speak this again," Rubinstein was over­ the use of the apartheid label but ist organization that objected to Monday at the annual meeting heard saying to one audience stressed the need to defend "free his calling Israel an "apartheid" of the British Zionist Federation, member. speech." state at a U.N. Palestinian rights which has about 10,000 mem­ According to another source, The controversy also under­ conference in Brussels. bers. Rubinstein had received 20 scored what some pro-Israel "I am not apologizing for After JTA reported on requests for interviews - and activists described as a general what I said," Rubinstein told a Rubinstein's Aug. 30 comments was ignoring all of them. He did ignorance among Israelis when it crowd of about 100 Monday eve­ at the U.N. conference, how­ not return phone calls from JTA. comes to Diaspora life. ning at the New North London ever, the speech was canceled by In addition to highlighting Paul Usiskin, a Zionist who Synagogue, according to several mutual agreement, according to the increasing use of the word heads British Friends of Peace people in attendance. "People do the Zionist group. apartheid in left-wing Israeli cir­ Now UK, a group openly critical use the word apartheid in my cir­ Sources familiar with the cles, the flap unleashed dueling of Israeli settlement policy and cles. My newspaper increasingly situation said that Rubinstein waves of outrage between those treatment of the Palestinians, Ha'aretz columnist Danny uses that word. This is nothing offered to cancel when he learned who were upset by what Rubin­ said Rubinstein should have been Rubinstein new." that the federation membership stein said in Brussels and those allowed to speak at the Zionist "I only started using the word was angry over his remarks, but who were appalled that he would Federation meeting. apartheid recently after Jimmy was hurt deeply by the overall During his talk in London, be dropped by a major Zion­ However, he also said that according to audience members, Carter's book, though I didn't controversy, including a slew of ist organization for speaking his Rubinstein and other Israelis like the book," Rubinstein said, negative editorials around the Rubinstein ' said he could not mind. often do not understand how fathom why he should modify his referring to "Palestine: Peace Not world. The talk at the London syna­ their words are used by those who positions for an audience abroad Apartheid." He also noted that Several attendees at the gogue was organized by the New are hostile toward Israel. - even one that includes anti­ "even Ariel Sharon used the word London synagogue event said Israel Fund, which promotes "There is a difficulty with Zionists. 'occupation,' which was a word Rubinstein appeared tired, democracy and human rights in Israelis, and Danny Rubinstein "I have a professional respon­ never used before." stressed and genuinely shocked is not the only one who has sibility to say what I think, and I fallen in on this, of coming out won't change what I say or what of Israel and going into another I think depending on the place," context," Usisk.in said. He added he was quoted as saying. later that "it's not necessarily the Rubinstein made his contro­ same lef'., wing as what he knows versial remarks in Brussels last at home. week at a meeting put on by the Some British Jews cried cen­ U.N. Committee for the Exercise sorship, but the Zionist Federa­ of the Inalienable Rights of the tion stood firm . Palestinian People. The commit­ "The Anglo-Jewish com­ tee, which was established by the munity and other supporters of U.N. General Assembly in 1975, Israel have been fighting growing the sa me day the world body efforts by various British unions adopted the infamous "Zionism to boycott Israel, the latest being is Racism" resolution, has a long an attempt by the U.K.'s Univer­ history of anti-Israeli activity. sity and College Union to sever Pro-Israel observers who links with the Israeli academic attended the Brussels event community," said Gavin G ross, - titled "International Confer­ director of public affairs for the ence of Civil Society in Support Zionist Federation of Great Brit­ of Israeli-Palestine Peace" and ain and Ireland. "By using the held in the European Parliament phrase 'apartheid state' to describe - say it lived up to their worst Israel, Danny has provided legiti­ expectations and was anything macy to the pro-boycott camp." but a peace meeting.

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The autumn of 1930: What dren can generate. Great War of 1914 - 1918. They too delicate to fly or even handle To them, flight might did eight-year-old Jewish boys in "Hey, whatcha makin?" was could tell you all about the various and so they were suspended from also have been symbolic of an inner Brooklyn, growing awk­ the common greeting between bi-winged SPADs [Societe Pour the bedroom chandeliers by a autonomy which elevated them wardly toward a distant maturity, the local male youngsters when L'Aviation et ses Derives] flown length of sewing thread. above the squalor of Browns­ dream about? Contrary to Roth, meeting each other on these side­ by the French Escadrilles and These models were not to be ville, the drudgery of both secu­ Mailer and a walks. To an outsider, some one the British Royal Air Force; that confused with sturdier model air­ lar and Hebrew schooling and generation of from New England perhaps, it the plane was one inch short of craft, powered by rubber-bands, a future jeopardized by a dev­ post-Freud­ may have sounded like an exotic 20 feet in length, had a wingspan which could actually be flown as astating Depression. Somehow, ian writ­ tongue but to the children of of 26 feet, seated one, weighed much as 50 or more feet. Inner too, making little model air­ ers, it was Pitkin Avenue it clearly meant: but 1,124 pounds, was powered Brooklyn, however, had few craft equipped these children not sex, nor "What are you making or con­ by a Hispano-Souza motor, but unobstructed spaces that were as with greater emotional latitude the Brook­ structing, currently? What new was not as agile in the skies as much as 50 feet in diameter and and allowed them to envision lyn Dodgers projects occupy your free time?" the German Fokker biplanes and so the planes were often flown expanded options in life. And nor even the In an age and subculture with­ triplanes. And, of course, they solely on early Sunday mornings this new freedom became more devastating out TV [or its interactive games], could relate the life story of the when the street traffic was light. than the mere capacity to do Stanley Depression. without toys or cameras, without legendary Baron von Richthofen, For the earthbound young­ the unusual; it meant, rather, an AronsonMD. The concerns athletic equipment save for the the fabled Red Baron, who had sters of Brooklyn the fascination escape from the daily impedi­ of these pre­ ever-present spaldeen ball and shot down over 80 allied planes with model aircraft began as an ments of their lives and the privi­ adolescent youngsters, living in perhaps a pair of roller skates, the before he too was defeated in innocent wonderment of flight lege to dream, unrestrained, of physical surroundings that were Brownsville children were con­ aerial combat. and flying machines. Life, they other possibilities. wretchedly drab and unappeal­ strained to find their own creative How did the children of instinctively knew, was too short ing, were more in finding means outle.ts. 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CHABAD HOUSE From page 1 up in flames. The police chief called Braddock a hero. Inside German Betzalel Ortez­ Cadena, an artist, was a guest on the third floor of the center. He could not sleep and began read­ ing the Zohar, a book of the Kab­ balah. Suddenly, he felt as though the building had been hit by an earthquake; the house shud­ dered and shook violently. From the window, he saw an SUV had slammed into the basement. "In a way it could have been worse," Ortez-Cadena said. "The car came within inches of hitting the gas main. Had it done so, the whole building would have exploded." Police back-up arrived and came inside to look for any occu­ pants. Ortez-Cadena grabbed his passport and exited the building with two other residents. Meanwhile, the Fire Depart­ ment had arrived and the rescue vehicle took mother and baby to the hospital. The driver was later identified as Chantria Sar, 20, of Lowell, Mass. The baby was her GERMAN BETZALEL ORTEZ-CADENA, with his ash print on the Zohar, Photo by Macy"°" the book he was reading when the Jeep hit. This photo was taken at 11-month-old son, Aysharian. Damage done to a bedroom. The mother was taken to Rhode the Lower East Side festival two days later. Island Hospital, and the baby was sent to Hasbro Children's Hos­ to the center from his home on says. "Thank God for all the mir­ been filed against the driver. "This house," he says, "is full pital, and later transferred to a Savoy Street. He conducted ser­ acles protecting everyone, and The Chabad Center has of good deeds. It is a living build­ Boston hospital. Family Services vices in the backyard, and held a the Torah scrolls." been at 360 Hope Street for 25 ing." of R.I. dispatched social workers havdalah service under the stars Esserman said the case con­ years. Rabbi Laufer hopes it can Uoshua Stein contributed to to the hospitals. that evening. tinues to be under investigation; be rebuilt; in the meantime he is this article.) Last Friday, Sar was released Three Torah scrolls, one of as of last Friday no charges had looking for temporary space. from the hospital, according to a which was a scroll inscribed by Rhode Island Hospital spokes­ Rabbi Laufer's uncle, and hidden person. by him during the Holocaust, were taken safely out of the build­ "Thank goodness everyone ing. The family scroll has trav­ survived," Esserman said. He eled far and wide, from Poland expressed pride in his men who to South America to Detroit to buddied up to enter the building California to Rhode Island. to evacuate occupants. The house next door was also evacuated. The Jeep remained lodged throughout the day until the At 5:30 a.m. that morn­ house could be shored up by join in septembjr ing, Rabbi Laufer hurried over structural en ineers, the rabbi and save ._J 75! Sign up for a 1-vear membership during the month of September and we'll waive the $75 application feel

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September 7, 2007 Jewish Voice & Herald 25 Communitv l~t ' B'nai Israel, a small treasure of Judaism in Woonsocket

ByJessica Perlman Yom Kippur discussion [email protected] On the first day of Yorn Kippur, there WOONSOCKET - At Congrega· will be a discussion group led by Peter tion B'nai Israel in Woonsocket, the High Tedeschi, who is a producer at CNN, and Holiday services are sure to offer every· a member ofB'nai Israel. Currently, Tede­ thing from the warmth of community, to schi is in Dachau, Germany, and is in the the intensity of prayer, as this small con­ process of beginning research for a docu­ gregation prepares to entice all with its tre­ mentary that he is both producing and mendous dedication to Judaism. writing. "When people come to B'nai Israel, we "Recently, some amazing sketches want them to feel comfortable, and really have been unearthed, apparently drawn consider this their home," said Jeremy by a Jewish prisoner in Dachau, while in Brenner, president. captivity in the Holocaust," explained Brenner. "They made their way to another Founded in 1893, B'nai Israel is the survivor who kept them hidden in a closet oldest conservative synagogue in Rhode for decades." Island. In 1962, it was uniquely re­ designed by "internationally recognized Tedeschi will be in Germany for a few synagogue architect," Samuel Glazer, and weeks, and will be accompanied by "noted includes a sanctuary with magnificently Holocaust historian" Michael Berembaun, detailed stained glass windows, a social­ and Avi Hoffman, who is the executive izing lounge, a library with an extensive director of the National Center for Jewish collection of books, and a museum with Cultural Arts. Beginning at 4 p.m. on "notable Judaic works," dating back to the Sept. 22, Tedeschi will lead the discussion, 1700s, as well as a courtyard complete with explaining the documentary, and what he discovered while in Germany. a sukkah, and an auditorium, and class­ Photos courtesy of Congregation B'nai Israel rooms. Breakfast The detailed and unique design of B'nai Israel. With approximately 100 families, ser­ The afternoon on Yorn Kippur is also vices at B'nai Israel are generally small, and one of the most spectacular times to be in there are plenty of opportunities for con­ the synagogue and witness its true beauty, gregants to take active roles in the services, as the stained glass windows bask in the which are led by Spiritual Leader, Cantor glow of the sun. Jeffrey Cornblatt. "When the sun drapes in, it's abso­ There is also a Hebrew school, cur­ lutely my favorite time to be in the sanc­ rently with 11 students, each receiving a tuary. It's just so peaceful and calming," well-rounded, education based on Jewish Brenner said. history, language, tradition and prayers. As the day comes to an end, B'nai Special art/jewelry display Israel offers the annual break-fast. "In the For the High Holy Days, B'nai Israel evening, we have a long-standing tradi­ will be welcoming Rabbi Elyse Winick, to tion of breaking the fast as a community. lead the services, and Brenner is expecting Whether people are alone or sharing the about 100 people, including an estimated holidays with family, everyone is invited," Congregation 15-25 children. said Brenner. In addition to the traditional services, People wanting to take part in the SHARAH ZEDEK B'nai Israel will be hosting an art and jew­ High Holiday services and activities at elry display created and designed by Michal Congregation B'nai Israel are asked to call Westerly, Rhode Island Maoz, to raise awareness of the autistic the synagogue office at 762-3651. There is spectrum community at large. Maoz has a charge for the break-fast (S6 adults, S2 Asperger's syndrome, which is one of the children 5-12.), and attendees must RSVP five autism spectrum disorders, and she has by Sept. 12. For more information, go to two children also on the autistic spectrum. www.shalom-cbi.org. Maoz's work will be on display throughout Rosh Hashanah the high holidays, in the lounge. Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:30 a.m. Yom Kippar Friday, September 21, 2007 7:00 p.m. Saturday, September 22, 2007 9:30 a.m. Saturday, September 22, 2007 4:30 p.m. Break the Fast following conduding service on Yom Kippur 000000000000000000000000000000 Services /.ed by Jerome Fischer F.xecutive Director ofthe Jewish Fedn-ation ofEastern eo-«tiaa

Cantor r Jane Myers Torah read by r Iuma Fischer Scl,;zpiro Shofar by r Ronald Gabrilowil:z @omr. till.ii a1td tni~'I '"" U1'11tdu/ttf tOtttJ.rr.gafion. 10r. look. /o,wa,d lo mr.r.liluJ gou. 6 Union Street • Downtown Westerly, Rhode Island www.congregationsharaJuedek..org Fo r additional information and ea,y directioos to Congregation Shanh :z...id<. THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS at B'nai Israel display beautiful scenes for all to enjoy. call Matthew Lewiss, pres ident :

BBYO is coming to Rhode Island. BBYO begins HAPPY NEW YEAR early-teen program An information meet­ vah are integral to forming a ing will be held at the strong Jewish identity." She will give an informa­ ]CC on Sept. 16. tional talk on Sun., Sept. 16 at LGC&D Wealth Management, LLC 11:30 a.m. at the Jewish Com­ The B'nai Brith Youth munity Center in Providence. A Registered Investment Advisor Organization is starting a new The first New England event program to bridge the gap will be "Game Day" at Dave and JERROLD N. DORFMAN, CPNPFS, PRJNCIPAL between the bar and bat mitzvah Buster's in Providence Place Mall 10 Weybosset Street • Providence, Rl • 401.421.4800 • www.lgcdwealth.com and the high school years. In an on Oct. 7 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. effort to address the decline in The $15 fee will include breakfast participation in Jewish activities beforehand at the JCC, where [i!,;iiiiiiii;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;iiiji; from the seventh to the twelfth kids can be dropped off and grade, new experiences will be picked up, transportation to and provided for the middle school from the mall, and a Powercard. group, ages 12 to 14. Future events of the coming Malki Karkowsky, BBYO season will be a winter pool party, regional program director for a Celtics game, a Hanukkah party Slanah Tovah! New England, will be in charge and a field day in the spring. of "Teen Connection" in Rhode For more information, call Island. She says, "The years fol- (781) 341- 2016 ext. 268 or con­ , lowing a teen's bar or Bat Mitz- TEMPLE TORAT YISRAEL tact [email protected]

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Sept. 9, 2007 High Holiday Schedule 11 am-1 pm 901 North Main St. Trying to figure out what time morning services start on Rosh Hashanah or when Youth or Family services begin at your Temple? This year the Voice & Herald has created a listing of schedules from many of the Temples in the area to help you plan your holidays. If your Temple is not listed, we recommend going to your Temple's website as many do list their services schedule. If you do not know your synagogue's website address we suggest you "Google" or go to another search engine site and simply type in the Temple's name and the city and state it is located. BARRINGTON Conservative Temple Torat Yisrael Reform WED., SEPT. 12 Temple Hahonim 6 p.m. Ma'ariv evening service Call for High Holiday and Membership Information! WED., SEPT 12 THURS., SEPT. 13 8 p.m. Evening service 8:30 a.m. Shaharit morning serv­ THURS., SEPT. 13 ice 9 a.m. Family worship service 6:15 p.m. Tashlich/Minhah service 10:45 a.m. Morning service 8 p.m. Ma'ariv service 3:30 p.m. Tashlikh service \X'e extend our warm wishes for a happy Rosh Hashanah. FRI., SEPT. 14 FRI., SEPT. 14 8:30 a.m. Shaharit service 10:30 a.m. Rosh Hashanah (second day) morning service 7:30 p.m. Shabbat service FRI., SEPT. 21 SAT., SEPT. 15 8 p.m. Kol Nidre evening service 9:15 a.m. Shaharit service ''Only a life SAT., SEPT. 22 FRI., SEPT. 21 9 a.m. Family worship service 6 p.m. Kol Nidrei/Ma'ariv serv­ lived for ices 10:45 a.m. Morning service SAT., SEPT. 22 3:15 p.m. Yizkor afternoon serv­ others is ice 8:30 a.m. Shaharit/Yiskor Memorial service 6 p.m. Break the fast worth living'' 5 p.m. Minhah/Nilah services -Albert Einstein BRISTOL 7:44 p.m. Group Shofar blast and Havdalah Conservative Non-denominational Each patient is someone United Brothers Synagogue special, someone who's WED., SEPT. 12 Kingston/University ofR.I. URI Hillel deserving of the best possible Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah services Services 8 p.m. care. Through ongoing research, THURS., SEPT. 13 THURS., SEPT. 13 - FRI., innovations in technology and the SEPT. 14: Services 10 a.m. 6 p.m. Memorial Union Atrium - dedication of our experienced FRI., SEPT. 14 I, 50 Lower College Rd. Rosh staff, we're providing the kind of Services 10 a.m. Hashanah evening service and care you expect for your loved FRI. SEPT. 21 dinner. High Holiday Services Yorn Kippur conducted by executive director ones. For the past 81 years, Amy Olson. Dinner is free for Kol Nidre 8 p.m. we've provided a unique kind of students and S15 for non-stu­ SAT., SEPT. 22 dents. Reservations are required care-care that's based on the Services 10 a.m. by Sept. 10 and may be made by philosophy that every patient (No tickets necessary) emailing [email protected] or call­ ing (401) 874-2740. deserves to be treated like family. CRANSTON 9:30 a.m. Rosh Hashanah morn­ At The Miriam Hospital, you ing service. Reform never feel like just another Temple Sinai MIDDLETOWN patient. You are the reason WED., SEPT. 12 Conservative we're here. WeJre here to care. 8 p.m. Erev Rosh Hashanah www.miriamhospital.org service Temple Shalom WED., SEPT. 12 THURS., SEPT. 13 7 p.m. Erev Rosh Hashanah 10 a.m. Morning service 3:30 p.m. Tashlikh service THURS., SEPT. 13 Fust day of Rosh Hashanah FRI., SEPT. 21 9 a.m. Morning services 8 p.m. Kol Nidre service 7:30 p.m. Evening services The Miriam Hospital SAT., SEPT. 22 FRI., SEPT. 14 A Life.,pan Partner 10 a.m. Yorn K.ippur morning service SecMUI d,,y ofRosh Hashanah 1:15 p.m. Discussion 10 a.m. Morning service A major tMching hospital for 3 p.m. Afternoon service 7:30 p.m. Sabbath of Repentance The Warm, Alpert Medirnl School of 4:30 p.m. Memorial service Brown UntVff'Sity 5 p.m. Coocluding service See SCHEDULE, page 28 28 Jewish Voice & Herald September 7, 2007

WED., SEPT. 12 6:15 p.m. (Temple) Ne'illah SERVICES 7:30 p.m. (Temple) Havdalah/ From page 27 6:30 p.m. Erev Rosh Hashanah Happy Rosh Hashanah THURS., SEPT. 13 Shofar FRI., SEPT. 21 from your friends at 9 a.m. Rosh Hashanah First day PROVIDENC:t: 6:15 p.m. Kol Nidre 5:30 p.m. Tashlich - Narragan­ SAT., SEPT. 22 sett Pier Gazebo Non-denominational YomKippur 6:30 p.m. Minhah/Ma'ariv Chabad House Jewish Heri­ 9 a.m. Morning service FRI., SEPT. 14 tage Center 9 a.m. Rosh Hashanah second WED., SEPT. 12

HOLIDAY WARWICK SCHEDULE Non-denominational From page 28 Chabad Chai Center of West Bay SAT., SEPT. 22 WED., SEPT. 12 YomKippur Rosh H ashanah 9 a.m. Shaharit 6:50 p.m. Evening service 9:35 a.m. End Shema time THURS., SEPT. 13 - FRI., 11:15 a.m. Yizkor SEPT. 14 4:15 p.m. Minhah 9:30 a.m. Morning service 6:44 p.m. Shkia 6:50 p.m. Evening service 7:29 p.m. Tekias Shofar/Tzais 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Kids hour SUN., SEPT. 23 11:30 a.m. Sounding of the Shofar 6:45 a.m. Shaharit 6:23 p.m. Minhah/ Ma'ariv 6:50 p.m. Evening service FRI., SEPT. 21 Reform YomKippur Temple Beth-El 6:30 p.m. Kol Nidrei WED., SEPT. 12 8:15 p.m. Rosh Hashanah SAT., SEPT. 22 evening 9:30 a.m. Morning service THURS., SEPT. 13 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Kids hour 10 a.m. Rosh H ashanah morn­ 11:40 a.m. Yizkor ing 5:15 p.m. Neilah FRI., SEPT. 21 7:29 Fast ends 8:15 p.m. Kol Nidre Conservative 10 a.m. Yorn Kippur morning Temple Am David Ci!Y of Providence SAT., SEPT. 22 SAT., SEPT. 8 Mayor David N. Cicilline 2:30 p.m. Afternoon service Selichot www.providenceri.com 4:30 p.m. Yizkor/concluding Havdalah 7:53 p.m. service Movie 8 p.m. 6 p.m. Break the fas t Service 10 p.m. For more information and on services and tickets, contact (401) See SERVICES, page 30 331-6070 You may think youknowJNE

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WED., SEPT. 12 7:35 p.m. Blow Shofar and con­ ,HOLIDAY Sales, Service, & Rentals of Scales & Material Handling Rosh Hashanah clusion fast SCHEDULE 6:45 p.m. Minhah/Ma'ariv Conservative From page 30 Tifereth Israel Congrega­ CENTRAL SCALE CO. . THURS., SEPT. 13 - FRI., Scale & Caster House of Southern New England SUN., SEPT 16 SEPT. 14 tion 10:00 a.m. Annual Memorial 8 a.m. Shacharit/Preliminary WED., SEPT. 12 Wishing You and Your Family Service at Sharon Memorial 11 a.m. Blow Shofar Erev Rosh Hashanah Park 4:30 p.m. Community Tashlich 7:15 a.m. Morning service Ajoyous Rosh Hashanah FRI., SEPT. 21: 5:45 p.m. Evening service 6:45 p.m. Minhah/ Ma'ariv 2027 Elmwood Avenue (401) 467-7500 7:30 p.m. Kol Nidre and Shabbat FRI., SEPT. 21 6:43 p.m. Candle lighting Warwick, RI 02888 Fax• (401) 785-0010 service. YomKippur THURS., SEPT. 13 SAT., SEPT. 22 2:30 p.m. Minhah Rosh Hashanah first day 10 a.m. Yorn Kippur and Shabbat 8:30 a.m. Morning service service. 6:30 p.m. Kol Nidrei SAT., SEPT. 22 4:30 p.m. Tashlich at Button­ Contact temple office at 508-528- wood Park 5337, www.temple-etzchaim.org. 8:30 a.m. Shacharit/ Preliminary 5:45 p.m. Minhah/ Ma'ariv 9 a.m. Shacharit After 7:26 p.m. Candle lighting NEW BEDFORD 12 p.m. Sermon and Yizkor FRI., SEPT 14 Orthodox 4:30 p.m. Minhah Rosh Hashanah second day Ahavath Achim Synagogue 6 p.m. Neilah 8:30 a.m. Traditional service 10 a.m. Contemporary service 5:45 p.m. Minhah/Ma'ariv Beth-El prepares for 6:36 p.m. Candle lighting FRI., SEPT 21 2,000 congregants Erev Yom Kippur 7:15 a.m. Shacharit By Marylyn Graff 1 p.m. Minhah [email protected] 6:15 p.m. Kol Nidre PROVIDENCE - While the rest of us were letting down over 6:24 p.m. Candle lighting the summer, there was still a hum of activity at Temple Beth-El in H. Aiello Providence, a Reform congregation and the largest Jewish congrega­ SAT., SEPT. 22 Edith tion in Rhode Island, in the knowledge that the High Holy Days YomKippur State Representative would soon follow. 9 a.m. Morning service To get ready for the approximately 2000 worshipers who will be 11 a.m. Yizkor 'W~t4JL attending the various services, programs and other items need to be 4:30 p.m. Minhah printed, schedules set up, ushers, traffic, police, and security arranged 5:45 p.m. Neilah/Ma'ariv for, and rabbis meeting to plan the services, according to Rabbi Sarah ./I Sweet c. ollapptf, Ne,w. lJ/tui/1, 7:22 Conclusion of fast Mack, Beth-El's associate rabbi. · Paid for by the committee to elect Edith H. Ajello Although there is a basic rhythm and order to the services in the prayer books, the rabbis have some latitude. There is much musical preparation. And of course, there are sermons for the rabbis to give their attention to. Ruby Shalansky, executive director of the temple, noted that the

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September 7, 2007. Jewish Voice & Herald 33 Community Emanu-El to hold 'three-generations' Selichot program on Saturday

PROVIDENCE - Temple Michael, the father, and Gabe, Markoff, the program's pro­ Emanu-El will be presenting the teenage son will each present ducer, has been designing and a special program for Selichot a personal perspective on Juda­ producing dramatic presentations evening, Saturday, Sep. 8 at 8:30 ism. for over 50 years. p.m. The program is called, Gen­ In the second "set," Florence The program will be followed erations: Three Generations and Markoff, the coordinator of the by a coffee hour and a traditional Their "Judaisms." Seven congre­ program, will also be a partici­ Selichot service beginning at \ltouro jfraternal gants from three different gen­ pant representing an "older" gen­ 10:30 p.m., led by Cantor Brian erations will reflect on how their eration. The "middle" generation Mayer, Rabbi Wayne Franklin particular generation has related will be portrayed by Gershon and Rabbi Alvan Kaunfer in the ~ssoctatton to Judaism. Levine, and the "younger adult" Temple Emanu-El Chapel. One "set" of participants will generation will be represented by The program and service are include three generations of the Shira and Nathaniel Strossberg, open to the community. Fine family: Sy, the grandfather, who are in their 20s. WISHES YOU A ffAppy ANff HEALTHY 5768 Yiddish classes to.begin at the JCC FILLED WITH PROVIDENCE - Yiddish group members, the JCC is offer- The cost is $40 for JCC mem- has seen a revival at the JCC in ing an 11-week class for those bers, and $45 for non-members. recent years with the now five­ who have a beginner's knowledge Pre-registration is required. HARMONY year-old Yiddish Shmooz group. of Yiddish, the "Mama Loshen". To sign up or for more infor­ This group meets twice monthly The class will begin on Wed., mation on the class or Yiddish FRIENDSHIP for socializing, laughter and Sept. 19 from 11:30 to 12:30 a.m. Shmooz, call Sue Suls at 861- learning. at the JCC and will be taught by 8800, ext. 108. Due to the efforts of several Mara Sokolsky. BENEVOLENCE Temple Sinai JESNA releases two new publications 45 Rolfe Square, Cranston, Rhode Island NEW YORK - JESNA (Jewish Education Service of North offers incentive America) recently put out two new publications: 1) Redesigning www.tourofratemal.org Jewish Education for the 21st Century and, 2) Making Jewish Edu­ 401-785-0066 for its 50th cation Work: Community Hebrew High Schools - Lessons Learned CRANSTON - In honor of from Research & Evaluation in the Field. Temple Sinai's 50th anniversary Redesigning Jewish Education for the 21st Century is the prod­ (coming up in 2008) the temple is uct of more than a year of research and deliberations by Dr. Jona­ offering a reduced dues incentive than Woocher and a distinguished Advisory Council of educators, for new members. The incentive religious, communal, and philanthropic leaders, and experts from applies to those who join from domains outside Jewish education. now until Dec. 31, 2008. If you The publication was produced by Dr. Leora Isaacs and Dr. Tobin ...... * are interested in learning more, Belzer. A hard copy of the report can be obtained by emailing * ... call Betsy Shimberg at 398-0098 [email protected]; an electronic version can also be downloaded THEW SHINGTON TRUST or Dottie in the temple office at from the JESNA website (www.jesna.org). Trusted Advisors Since 1800 942-8350. Keep your money working CELEBRATE "REMEMBER WHEN" TO BENEFIT THE so someday -.J. Arthur Trudeau Memorial Center "Bringing The Only Originals to Providence" you don't have to. - Wasblnglon Trnsl can belp you build tbe bridge between your The Original financial resources a,u/ your reffrem"111 goals. lie offer a full ranRe of Teenagers seivlces, Includi ng fi nancial plan ning. goal-b3.ll>d im.,,onen l planning. and a.s.set 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love' al locaUon strategies. We' ll help )'OU design an indhidualized approach and support 11 •i tl1 personal. knowledgeable sen ice I( yo u ha,~ $1 million or more in a.""ts. call

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HARRY C. SAX, MD, FACS Habonim to participate in day of service SURGEON-IN-CHIEF, THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL BARRINGTON - Temple ous faith traditions, as well as groups, and the sponsorship of PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, BROWN MEDICAL SCHOOL Habonim will participate in "The the religiously unaffiliated, who local companies and institutions. Certijied by the Great Day of Service," a col­ share a common goal of commu­ Everyone's participation is not laboration of individuals, groups nity betterment. only welcomed, but encouraged. National Organization of American Mohalim and companies joining to provide The event uniquely brings For event information con­ local anesthetic available much-needed services to various together agencies in need of sup­ tact Amy Roving, (401) 258- public works and agencies in and port, citizens of all ages giving of 6860, visit www.bowri.org or around the East Bay and beyond. their time, participation of civic email [email protected]._ 401-793-4545 Everyone is invited to partici­ pate. Event kick-off and registra­ tion will be at 8:30 a.m., Mon., Habonim plans Israel trip Oct. 8, (Columbus Day), at Bar­ BARRINGTON - Temple H abonim has announced that it is r-- Jiappy ~ rington High School, 220· Lin­ planning a trip to Israel which will take place from Feb. 14 through coln Ave. Work will begin at 9 25, 2008, to correspond with school vacation. The varied itinerary a.m. and most sites will be open will combine historic, religious and fun times, including Jerusalem, to 1 p.m. Galilee, the Dead Sea, Eilat and Tel Aviv. Israel Discovery Tours ~~ After a morning kick-off will lead the trip. event, volunteers of all ages will The application deadline is Sept. 12. For more information and proceed to various agencies in the an application call the temple at 245- 6536. area to lend their help. Antici­ pated volunteer activities include: gathering donations for Tap-In, landscaping help with the Bar­ Temple Shalom registering rington Land Conservation Trust, making sock-monkeys for religious school for children affected by domestic MIDDLETOWN -.The Samuel Zilman Bazarsky Religious violence, visiting senior citizens School at Temple Shalom in Middletown is commencing its 18th at East Bay Manor, making cards year of providing a Jewish education for the children of Newport for servicemen, baking cookies County and surrounding areas. Classes are held on Wednesday after­ and pizza for firemen and police­ noons and two Sunday mornings each month. men, sandwich making for Cross­ The school is for children of all ages and has a graded and varied roads, craft making for patients at Hasbro Children's Hospital curriculum. Throughout the year it provides family workshops for and local park clean-ups. Most holidays and a parent education program as well as Shabbat and fe s­ sites are suitable for families to tival worship. work together. The Rhode Island Registrations are now being accepted for the coming year. Blood Center will also be on hand For more information, call Rabbi Marc S. Jagolinzer at 846- to accept blood donations. 9002. The event is organized by Beyond Our Walls (B.O.W,) an Chabad to hold shofar factory interfaith, outreach and social action organization established in Warwick, Narragansett Best Wishes For A in Barrington in 2005. B.O.W. members include people of vari- The Rhode Island Chabad is to make and sound the ancient Happy & Healthy New Year holding its annual shofar factory instrument. All are invited to to teach about shofars and how fas hion their own real animal FALL RIVER JEWISH HOME horn shofar from cooking to final polishing. 538 ROBESON STREET, FALL RIVER , MASS 02720 Shofar factories will be held Benefits of Living at the on Sunday, Sept. 9 at 2 p.m. at Fall River Jewish Home Chabad of Warwick, 3871 Post Rd., and Wednesday, Sept. • Friendly Family-like 19 at 6:15 p.m. at the Jewish Atmosphere Collaborative of Southern Rhode • Religious Services Island, Narragansett. • Sm all Enough to Make a There's a $2 fee fo r the Difference demonstration and $5 fo r each • Smoke- free shofar. 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By Sue Fishkoff conversation that emerges from It's no coincidence that SAN FRANCISCO OTA) questions, is deeply Jewish. many of these books appear in - Got a question? "I'm not giving people late summer or early fall, right Rabbi Jennifer Krause has answers," she says. "I want to around the High Holy Days - a the answer: Keep asking ques­ reintroduce the power of the period when Jews traditionally tions. questions themselves." are engaged in self-reflection. Krause says she didn't plan for "I want to help people trust "The Answer" is part of the her book to come out during their ability to come up with the hugely popular and still-grow­ Sukkot, but nevertheless con­ answers that fit their own lives ing genre of personal growth lit­ siders the timing "bashert," or rather than depending on the erature that has spilled over into decided by heaven. one-size-fits-all answers that the world of Jewish publishing others give them," says Krause, a with a vengeance. Jewish Lights this fall is New York rabbi whose first book, "Self-help books are very publishing "Happiness and the RON WOLFSON, author of uGod's To-Do List: 103 Ways to Be an Angel and Do God's Work on Earth." "The Answer: Making Sense of much a function of the age," says Human Spirit: The Spiritual­ Life One Qµestion at a Time" Rabbi Elliot Dorff, the rector of ity of Becoming the Best You (A Perigee Book), is scheduled the American Jewish University, Can Be," by Abraham Twerski, nition for spirituality that has that spiritual development can little to do with God or Jewish one be happy, he concludes. to hit the shelves Oct. 2. formerly the University of Juda­ a prominent Orthodox rabbi and psychiatrist who has written theology. Like Krause, Twerski writes Krause divides her self-help ism, in Los Angeles and author dozens of books about spiritual­ For him, being spiritual is about actual exercises for the book into seven chapters, each of of"The Way into Tikkun Olam," ity and self-esteem. developing one's human capa- reader, from being nice to some­ which addresses a universal "why published this spring by Jewish bilities to the fullest, "to be the one against whom you hold a am I here" question. It's action Lights Publishing. "People are Twerski, who developed best we can be, to exercise all grudge to mowing the lawn for oriented: Written exercises at focused on themselves, and it's many of his ideas as medical the qualities and traits that are the end of each chapter encour­ not seen as narcissistic." director of The Gateway Reha­ unique to humankind," Twerski age readers to identify their per­ Written frequently by rabbis bilitation Center he founded in says. And only by reaching for See SELF- HELP BOOKS, page 39 sonal needs and obstacles. or Jewish educators, Jewish self­ rural Pennsylvania, posits a defi- "Use your 'highlighter,' " she help books range from those urges on page 166. "What stirs that advocate a return to reli­ your heart to action? What will gious observance to ones based you 'walk the line' for?" loosely on Jewish values. What Although her book is aimed they share is the aim of using at the general reader rather than these spiritual or psychological a specifically Jewish audience, tools to set an ethical path aimed Krause says this method of self­ at improving one's life and the improvement, which relies on world at large.

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TWERSKI, of "Happiness and the Human Spirit: The Spirituality of Becom­ ing the Best You Can Be.• Jewish self­

• Happiness and "The Answer· growth books JEN KRAUSE author of " The Answer• the Human Spit\rit" flooding the shelves

From page 37 your father. The reader is encour­ aged to keep a journal to record these deeds. "Remember, you are not doing this for someone else," writes Twerski, who now lives in Monsey, N.Y. "You are doing this to improve your character, to be more spiritual, to be a hap­ pier person." Like many other authors of WTTH THE JE'"'ISH FEDERATION OF RHODE LA....'\"'D S Jewish self-help books, Twerski l takes the universal human desire CHARITABLE GIFT A1'1~TUITY. to be happy and shows how it is intertwined with doing good - which means, doing Jewish. Even more clearly aimed at High Holy Days reading is Current Rates "God's To-Do List: 103 Ways E/)ectfre /11/_{. 1, 2007 to Be an Angel and Do God's annuity with the Jewish Work on Earth" by Ron Wolf­ AGE B_ATE son, an education professor at Federation of Rhode 90+ 11 .3% the American Jewish University 85 9.5% 8.00,, and co-founder of Synagogue Island gives you guaranteed income for 80 75 7.1% 3000, a synagogue renewal ini­ 6.5% tiative. life. It also leaves a charitable legacy for 70 65 6.0¾ First published by Jewish the Jewish community. Lights last October, the book has caught on among rabbis and teachers this year as a foil for Call Meye1· Goldtsei11 toda,_y at, 421-4111, ext 1 i.J. High Holy Days programming. Some 12,000 copies have been J E Vi'IS H FEDERA TION OF RHODE ISLA..1'-7) printed, which Matlins says tes­ tifies to the popularity of the genre as well as "God's To-Do fOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE COMPLETE AND MAIL THIS FORM TO: Li st." JEWISH FEDERATION OF RI • 130 SESSIONS STREET• PROVIDENCE, RI 02906 Some rabbis are devoting OR E-MAIL us: [email protected]. their Rosh Hashanah sermons to the book, asking their con­ gregations to read it during the NAME: ------DATE OF B1RTH: ------10 Days of Awe - the book is divided into 10 chapters to ADDRESS: ______CITY: ______STATE: Z1P: ---- faci litate that use - and coming together as a group afterward for discussion. PHONE: ______E - MAIL: The lessons in these Jewi sh sel f- help books are universal, say the authors. 40 Jewish Voice & Herald September 7, 2007 Food / Dining Pomegranate authority mourns lost Eden, but fruits of labors live IN HONOR OF OUR LONG-STANDING By Sue Fishkoff research dried up, so SEPHARDIC ITALIAN JEWISH SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) Levin was forced - Gregory Moiseyevich Levin to abandon his COOKING, WE INVITE YOU spent 40 years building his agricultural pomegranate paradise in the station in TO JOIN us EVERY THURSDAY Kopet Dag mountains of rural 2002 and Turkmenistan. immigrate EVENING TO EXPERIENCE OUR Levin, a Leningrad-trained to Israel. He agronomist who became chair­ lives there PRE-FIXE MENU THAT man of the subtropical fruit quietly with his project at the remote Garrigala wife in a small apartment REPRESENTS THE CULTURE AND Turkmen Experimental Agri­ cultural Station, amassed the in Petach Tikvah. THE FOOD OF THE JEWISH world's largest collection of pomegranates - 1117 varieties "It was HERITAGE OF ITALY from 27 countries. unbearably The blue pomegranate. painful to AFTER THE }500"s The black pomegranate. The witness the Virtually all the pink-petaled pomegranate. The collections per- pomegranates small-fruit pomegranate. The ishing, dying," sold in the United dwarf pomegranate. Collecting he wrote in "Pome- States today are the exotic fruit frequently used granate Roads," his memoir one variety, called "Wonder­ on Rosh Hashanah was a labor published last year by Floreant ful" - the familiar large, red of love and devotion for only a Press, a small California pub­ fruit with semi-soft seeds. certain kind of research scien­ lishing house. "In the wake of tist. the collapse, the Soviet Union vP and the agricultural institutes Levin collected many vari­ ishing, have become his living 286 AIWELLS AVENUE abandoned their scientists and legacy. eties himself on dangerous researchers. We were assigned PROVIDENCE, RI yearly treks through the moun­ to the emergent sovereign "They're all in our orchard," tain gorges of Turkmenistan, a states, left without any protec­ said Jeff Moersfelder, green­ Central Asian region that is the 401-273-2652 tion, without any possibility of house manager at the U.S. birthplace of the pomegranate continuing to work." Department of Agriculture's For menu and more information and one of the last places on Wolfskill Experimental Soon after Levin's aliyah, earth where it still grows wild. Orchard, which sits on Univer­ go to: www.chefwalter.com the Turkmen government But the Soviet Union col­ sity of California, Davis, land. ordered his research station Levin sent 90 varieties of pome­ lapsed and state funding for bulldozed to the ground. granates to Davis, most of them Levin's tale is not unfamil­ between 1999 and 2000. iar. He is one of many former Those pomegranates have Soviet scientists, artists, doc­ a rich future, Moersfelder pre­ tors and intellectuals who were dicts. ripped from their culture and their work who now live in Virtually all the pomegran­ Israel, their contributions for­ ates sold in the United States gotten, their world a close-knit today are one variety, called circle of Russian-speaking col­ "Wonderful" - the familiar leagues. large, red fruit with semi-soft seeds. Some of Levin's varieties One thing, however, sets have soft, edible seeds that have Levin's story apart. Before he great commercial potential. left Turkmenistan, he sent cut­ tings of his precious pomegran­ "Big growers are cer­ ates to scientists at Ben-Gurion tainly looking at Levin's mate­ University of the Negev in rial," Moersfelder said. "It Beersheba and the University will become a big part of what of California, Davis. Those cut­ people are growing." tings, planted and now flour- See pomegranate. page 45 C!a~u.al J~ in tfu E

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Coat loaf pans with to 20 minutes, until a toothpick no-stick spray. Line pans with 2 inserted into the center comes pieces of parchment paper and out clean. Transfer to cooling coat paper with no-stick spray. rack and cool completely. Frost Sift the flour, baking soda, with Chocolate Mousse Topping cinnamon," ginger and allspice (below). Yield: 12 cupcakes. into a bowl. Set aside. Place the Chocolate mousse topping eggs and sugar in the bowl of an Ingredients: electric mixer fitted with a whisk 2.3-ounce package extra-firm attachment. Beat on high speed silken aseptic tofu, such as Mori­ until the mixture is light and Nu, drained of excess liquid fluffy. Reduce the speed to low and add the honey, then the oil. 1/4 cup plain soy milk Mix on low for 2 1/2 minutes, 2 tablespoons agave syrup or then on medium for 2 1/2 min­ maple syrup utes. WISHING 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Fold in the flour mixture by 12-ounce package semi-sweet hand in several additions, mixing chocolate chips well with a spatula. Spoon the YOU A Preparation: batter into the prepared pans, Crumble the tofu into a dividing evenly. Bake for 30 to 40 blender. Add the soy milk, syrup minutes, or until domed, set and HAPPY AND and vanilla. Puree until com­ a cake tester inserted in the center pletely smooth. Set aside. comes out clean. (The loaves will crack during baking.) Don't open HEALTHY In a double boiler, melt the the oven doors until the cakes chocolate chips. Use a rubber have domed, as this could cause spatula to mix the chocolate as it them to collapse. melts. Once melted, remove from heat and let cool for 5 minutes, Cool the loaves in their pans stirring occasionally. Add the on racks for 1 hour. Unmold Rosh Hashanah chocolate to the tofu and blend the loaves onto racks and wrap until combined. Use the spatula tightly in plastic wrap while they are still slightly warm to preserve to scrape down the sides of the blender every so often. Transfer moistness, until ready to serve. mousse to an airtight container. At room temperature, cakes will remain fresh for 3 days, or freeze Chill for 1 hour before frosting them for 1 month. Serve with cupcakes. lemon sorbet. Yield: 10 slices per cake or 20 slices in all. September 7, 2007 Jewish Voice & Herald 45 FOOD/DINNG POMEGRANATE Fun facts about pomegranates From page 40 Unique - Affordable - Collectible By Sue Fishkoff The pomegranate sup­ SAN FRANCISCO posedly has 613 seeds · CTTA) Pomegran- ates have existed for - the same number 50 million to 70 mil­ of commandments, or lion years. They were domesticated about mitzvot - and thus is 5,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent eaten on Rosh Hasha­ and 2,500 years ago nah. in Armenia and the Crimea. ENO FINE WINE Pomegran­ BREws &·sP1R11slI' Others have unusual flavors, ates were first carried while still others are being eyed beyond those areas by CHOICE KOSHERWINES & BEERS for their hardiness or pharma­ military conquerors who ceutical uses. brought them home as booty. Each fall, Moersfelder Silk Road traders brought the fruit to Egypt, and then to Car­ Weekly Events holds a private tasting of Levin's thage in the ninth century BCE. They arrived in Italy in the Deli\·ery Anilable pomegranates for research­ second century BCE. The Phoenicians and later the Moors ers, growers and other industry brought pomegranates to Spain, and the early Conquistadors insiders. brought them to the Americas. 225 \\'ESnl INSTER ST. "The opportunity to taste About 1 million pomegranate bushes grow wild today in PRO\'IDE!\CE RI 02903 all these different varieties is Eurasia, from the Balkans to the Himalayas. About 100,000 are very exciting," he said. on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Along with "Pomegran­ Pomegranate plants live 100 to 150 years in the wild, 300 ate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's years or more in cultivated gardens. They bear fruit in their Exile from Eden," Levin wrote second or third year, and can produce 440 to 660 pounds of fruit another book about his work annually. - a highly technical botanical The world's largest pomegranates grow in Afghanistan's study published in 2006. Kandahar oasis. "Pomegranate Roads," Pomegranates were prized by many ancient cultures as sym­ intelligent and highly readable, bols of beauty and fertility. King Solomon had a pomegranate HOME OF THE WIMPY SKIPPY is filled with historical and lit­ orchard, and pomegranate flowers and fruit were embroidered on A Rhode Island Tradition for Over 50 Years! erary references, pomegranate the robes of the Temple priests. The Torah mentions it as one of lore and inspiring adventures. the "seven fruits" of the Land oflsrael, and its Semitic root was From early tragedies, including fo und in many city names in ancient Canaan by the conquering Eatln ~ /(You're his father's death as a soldier in Israelites, such as Rimmon, Gaf-Rimmon and En-Rimmon. Or ~ake @) Not Eating World War II, his childhood Today it is traditional to have pomegranates on the table survival of the German siege of out. '' ~))CASERTA'S at Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot and Tu B'Shvat, the New Year of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, trees. and his refused admission to _ 1 You're Not academic institutions because of (Information taken from "Pomegranate Roads" by Gregory M. Eating Pizza! his Jewish background, Levin's Levin). life soared once he arrived at the Garrigala station. His stories of following peasants through treacherous popular interest in the fruit has skyrocketed among backyard mountain passes in search of a growers and the scientific community. A DELICIOUS single thicket ofwild pomegran­ At a conference in Turkey last year, where Baer delivered 12 PIECE PIZZA ates are riveting. His description Levin's keynote address because he was too ill to travel, she said CASERTA PIZZERIA of Stalin's destruction of Soviet Israeli researchers told her "the pomegranate is not a trend, it's a science, its eventual rebuilding tsunami." and final dismantling in the Israel leads the world "in everything pomegranate," Baer said, 1990s is heartbreaking. from horticultural methods to pharmaceutical research. The book was written for The pomegranate supposedly has 613 seeds - the sa me a lay audience at the request number of commandments, or mitzvot - and thus is eaten on of Barbara Baer of Floreant Rosh Hashanah as Jews at the New Year figuratively show their Press, an editor and amateur hope to fulfill the commandments. fruit enthusiast who had been Levin is glad his work is living on, although at 74 he makes enthralled with Levin's story only nominal contributions to it. For a few years he maintained since hearing him on public a test site in Bet Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, and published 1:Vlkn {2_uality 'Matter

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It was not until any other day of the year - this it went MIA- and was suddenly was Rosh Hashanah. replaced with a swankier roast­ "What's up with the bris­ that my kids came to appreciate ket, Grandma?" my preteen son its significance in their lives. asked, echoing my suspicions Of course, if you asked Sharon Duke Estroff RF/Mtte· that bubbe's famous brisket-the Tevyeh the Milkman of Fiddler Flagship eternal pillar of my family's High on the Roof fame, the power of New Year ~® Holiday feasts-had undergone tradition is not breaking news. To help ensure your family an unprecedented facelift. Yet, in our rocket-paced, tech­ enjoys all the sweet rewards "I thought I' cl try some­ nology-based, achievement­ of the Jewish New Year (while thing a little different this year," driven, media-ridden society, simultaneously taking advantage answered my mother (who the presence of family rituals in of the bountiful benefits of family had recently been possessed by our children's lives may be more rituals), here are some outside-of­ Rachael Ray of the Food Net­ integral to their emotional well­ the-box, ripe-for- the-picking work). being than ever before. Rosh Hashanah traditions: ML5#73S90S - NARRAGANSETT - Beau· tifully appointed 1895' Colonial, built '06, "But I like the old brisket," Fortunately, Jewish life is 1. 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Cranston for many years before Society, the Brandeis Women's of Cassadaga, N .Y.; a daughter, or Gillette Center for Gyneco­ He was the husband of the late retiring 15 years ago. Association, The Women's Aux­ Sheila Greenstein and her hus­ logic Oncolog, c/o Dr. Richard Sylvia (Kaufman) Belilove. Born Besides her husband, she iliary of the Charlton Memorial band, Edward Biondi of North Penson, 55 Fruit St., Yawkey in Providence, a son of the late leaves a son, Stuart Einhorn and Hospital, the Women's Club of Haven, Conn.; and six grand­ Center, Boston, MA 02114. David and Lena Belilove, he was his wife Carol of Providence; a Fall River and the Friendship children; Moriah, Caitlin, Kyle, Charles Parness, 82 a lifelong resident of the city. daughter, Judith Picciotto and Club. She earned an honorary 50 Jonas, Naomi and Nora. She was EAST GREENWICH years at the Fall River Country the sister of the late Moishe Fish He was a graduate of Brown her husband Daniel of Arnold, - Charles "Danny" Parness, 82, Club, and also belonged to the and Ruth Zatz. University and Boston Univer­ Md.; and three grandchildren; died Aug. 29. He was the hus­ Qy.equechanClub. sity School of Law, where he Ellis, Matthew and Jaime. She Burial was in Lincoln Park band of the late Shirley (Glantz) graduated Summa cum Laude. was the mother of the late Morey A member of the Museum of Cemetery, Warwick. Parness. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., He had been an attorney for Einhorn. Fine Arts in Boston, she funded Contributions may be made a son of the late Frank and Becky 65 years and was principle in Contributions may be made art scholarships for students at to Home and Hospice Care of (Silverman) Parness, he had lived the firm of Arcaro Belilove & to the Jewish Family Service Bristol Community College. She R.I.; Kent Hospital Fdn., or a in East Greenwich for 24 years, Kolodney. He was a member of Kosher Mealsite, 229 Waterman also traveled extensively. charity of choice. previously residing in Cranston. the Rhode Island, Massachu- Street, Providence, RI 02906. Mrs. Feldman leaves a son, Dr. Henrietta Leonard, 53 Mr. Parness was the owner setts and American Bar Mildred Feldman, 85 Kenneth Feldman and his fian­ CHEBEAGUE ISLAND, of Ace Refrigeration for 25 years, ~ Associations. FALL RIVER - Mildred cee Sharlene Best, both of Rhode Maine - Dr. Henrietta Leon· retiring 17 years ago. ~ He served in the (Faryniarz) Feldman, 85, died Island; a brother, Theodore ard, 53, an internationally He was a volunteer at Kent U.S. Army during Aug. 27. She was the wife of the Faryniarz of Virginia; a sister, esteemed researcher in child psy­ Hospital with over 10,500 hours World War II. He was a member late Richard Feldman. Born in Alyce Barnes of New Jersey; chiatry, died on Aug. 15. She was of service time. and several nieces, nephews and of Temple Beth-El, and a former Fall River, she was the daugh­ the wife of Dr. Kenneth Rickler. He leaves a son, Floyd Par­ numerous relatives from her late president of B'nai B'rith. He was ter of the late Walter and Sew­ Dr. Leonard came to Brown ness of Northford, Conn. and a husband's family. She was the a lover of books. erya (Zibrowska) Faryniarz. She University in 1995 as a professor daughter, Tina Fain and her hus­ mother of the late Richard Feld­ He is survived by his chil­ graduated from BMC Durfee of psychiatry and human behav­ band, Richard of Cranston; four man, and the sister of the late dren; Karen Gesmondi of North High School and attended the ior. While here, she received grandchildren; Bethany, David, Stephen, Edward, Stanley, Jose­ Providence and Holly Silverman Rhode Island School of Design, more than a dozen grants for Todd and Jennifer; a brother-and phine and Stephanie Faryniarz. and her husband, Marvin, of studying photography and por­ investigation of childhood psy­ sister-in-law, David and Arlene Providence; three grandchildren, trait painting. She held the Burial was in Hebrew Cem­ chiatric disorders. During her Calderon of Cranston; a nephew, Elyse, Lori and David, and three positions of manager and pho­ etery, Fall River. career as researcher, educator, Bob Calderone; and a friend, great-grandchildren; Ben, Grace tographer at several area studios Contributions may be made mentor a,nd clinician she was Twila. He was the brother of the and Derek. He was the brother of and out-of-state branches. She to a favorite charity. awarded numerous honors. late Mack and Clare Parness and the late Saul Belilove and Esther was briefly in the antique busi­ Pola Greenstein, 87 Besides her husband, she Ethel Markowitz. Burial was in Specter. ness in Fall River. WEST WARWICK leaves two sons, Alexander and Lincoln Park Cemetery, War- Contributions may be made Mrs. Feldman was known Pola Greenstein, 87, died Aug. Nathaniel. wick. to the ALS Association, RI for two portraits she painted of 26. She was the wife of the late A memorial service was held Contributions may be made Chapter, 2915 Post Rd., War­ Charles Braga, the first Fall River Norman Greenstein. Born in at Temple Beth-El in Providence to Kent Hospital Foundation, wick, RI 02886. native to be killed in World War Romania, a daughter of the late on August 21. Emergency Room Memorial, II during the Japanese attack on Andrea B. Cook , 59 Mendel and Shandel Fish, she Contributions may be made 455 Tollgate Road, Warwick, RI Pearl Harbor. One portrait was 02886. EAST PROVIDENCE had lived in West Warwick for to Chebeague Island Recre- presented to the City of Fall - Andrea B. Cook, 59, of Riv­ 14 years, previously residing in See page 50 River following the dedication erside, died Aug. 31. She was the Cranston for 27 years. of the Braga Bridge and was dis­ .. .. wife of Robert Cook. They were She was a clerk in the CCRI . . played on the USS Massachusetts married for 34 years. Born in Library for 20 years before retir­ docked nearby, and the other was Happy, Healthy Providence, a daughter of the late ing. given to the Braga family. Arthur and Lucille (Abramson) ·Mrs. Greenstein was a & Prosperous New Year Morse, she had lived in Riverside She was a member of numer­ member of Temple Torat Yisrael for 34 years. She was the owner ous organizations: Temple Beth and also a literacy volunteer. El and Adas Israel synagogues To All Of Our of Video Plus in Smithfield for She leaves two sons, Malcolm and their Sisterhoods, the Fall 10 years, owner of ARC Produc­ Greenstein and his partner, Stan Friends, Relatives tions for 15 years and worked as a waitress for five years. & Staff Mrs. Cook was a volunteer for the Muscular Dystrophy NOTICE! From the Smith Family Association for many years. Michael • Marilyn • Jeremy Besides her husband, she Lincoln Park Cemetery and its offices Joel • Adam • Matthew leaves a daughter, Nadine Chay will be closed in observance of the and her husband Samnang of Riverside; and two grand­ following holidays: children, Paul and Sarah. She was the sister of the late Gary Thursday, Sept. 13: First day of Movsovitz. Contributions may be made Rosh Hashanah 1100 New London Avenue to the Muscular Dystrophy Friday, Sept. 14: Second day of Cranston, RI 02920 Association, 501 Centerville Rosh Hashanah Te l. :46J-7771 Road , Warwick, RI 02886. Out of State Thursday, Sept. 27: First day of Sukkot Toll -free: 1-877-463-777 J Ronnie Einhorn, 82 WARWICK Ronnie Friday, Sept. 28: Second day of Sukkot Michncl 0 . Smith Pre•Need Progr·u m s r\t..-aila blc ,\cLm1 G. Smith Einhorn, 82, died Aug. 26. She Thursday, Oct. 4: Shemini Atzeret /)irccro-,- l\lhcd chair A<.'C..>essiblc Director was the wife of Ernest Einhorn. Friday, Oct. 5: Simchat Torah Born in New York City, a daugh­ ...... Cmifitd l1y th< ter of the late M orris and Anna il 11'iliiJ') R.I. 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WASHINGTON OTA) same year Vanik took on a p~pu- - Charles Vanik, the congress- Jar incumbent Republican in the man whose name graces legisla- neighboring district - and won. tion that helped free thousands of "He was one of the real lib­ Soviet Jews, brought liberal civil erals in the Congr~ss, a leader rights luster to the hard-edged in passage of social legislation," Cold War b.attle for human Stokes, now retired, told the rights. Asspciated Press. A Democratic member ·of His l!-beral ethos was key to the Ohio delegation to the U.S. · understanding· his commitment House of Representatives from to Soviet Jewry, said Malcolm 1955-1981, Vanik died August Hoenlein, the executive vice- 29 in Florida. He was 94. chairman of the Conference of Vanik joined U.S. Sen. Henry Presidents of Major American "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) in Jew.ish Organizations. "For him it authoring the historic 1974Jack- was a matter of principle, values, son-Vanik amendment to the a commttment to justice and Trade Reform bill that s\ipulated . freedqm," said Hoenlein, who as free emigration markers in order ·head of the New York Council on for the Soviet Union to qualify SovietJewryworkedwith Vanik. for favored trade status. Leaders "It wasn't a Cold War strategy." Source: Congressional Briefs by Congressman MorTis Udall of the movement to free SovJ'Cleveland's Jewish encountered Jewish protesters support for civil rights. His other how the United _States confronted Sen. Jackson, who together cre­ community just out of col­ who were just beginning to feel famous act was quitting his safe, the forces of oppression," Robin ated legislation that required lege in the 1930s when his first the brunt of discriminatory taxes heavily Democratic seat in 1968 said. the United States to link human job as a lawyer was working to aimed at squelching the emerg­ so Louis Stokes could run and "We . are blessed to have rights records with special trade settle Jewish refugees from Nazi ing Jewish free emigration move­ win to become the first black con- known him and worked with privileges." Europe. ment. gressman elected from Ohio. The him over the years to make both Ira Forman, the executive The stories he encountered "He came back and wanted director of the National Jewish in that role, the friendships he a solution for this terrible thing," Democratic Council, called forged and his deep Roman recalled Talisman, who is also Vanik "a strong friend to the Catholic faith guided him for the a founding vice-chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Vanik and Talisman worked closely with Jackson and Richard Perle, then a staffer for the sena­ You are invited to attend tor and later one of the architects of Bush's Iraq war policy. The quartet immediately faced resistance, chiefly from the business community seeking to make inroads into the USSR's vast markets, but also from the Nixon administration and even from some in the Jewish commu­ 5!Jfh Annual Memorial Service nity who feared using trade as a Sunday, September 16, 2007 • 10:00 A.M. weapon. President Nixon and his sec­ Sharon's Outdoor retary of state, Henry Kissinger, Wishing you a sweet new year. already disli ked Vanik- he was among the first Democrats to Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel wishes you the best this introduce articles of impeach­ Rosh Hashanah. The staff of Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel ment. Talisman said he felt the reafflnns our oommibnent of service to the Jewish oommunity. pressure close to home, where leading members of the Cleve­ We are locally operated to meet your personal needs land Jewish community - under with compassion and sensitivity pressure, he believes from Kiss­ inger, asked him to influence Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel Officiating: Rabbi Jonathan Hausman Vanik to suspend the vote. 458 Hope St., Providence, RI 02906 Cantor: Marilyn Becker In the end, the measure ~ 401-331-8094 • 800--447-1267 passed overwhelmingly and was ~ JI/J E. Sugerman, Funeral Dlr&Ctor Organist: SylviA Pitnof signed into law by President D,gMyM.....,,..i _,, Ira J11y F~sher, Funeral Director Ford. -

September 7, 2007 Jewish Voice & Herald 51 Stfi~ ,.., Pawtucket resident shares story of cancer survival PAWTUCKET - Janice Newman, a resident of Pawtucket and member of Temple Emanu-El was the featured speaker recently at the American Cancer Soci­ t'e.~ JV'\r1 , Ne ,n J.,, ety's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Corporate Kickoff Breakfast. The invitation-only breakfast for 500 participants was held August 16 at the Crowne Plaza ~op yocJ~~t f~ Hotel in Warwick. Its purpose was to recruit teams and provide awareness about the importance of the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer W alk, which will be held Sunday, Oct. 14, at Roger Williams Park in Providence. Newman was diagnosed with breast cancer two and a half years ago. "At that time, everything seemed so out of my control. So I asked a lot of questions. I read every­ thing I could. I'm a teacher. I believe that knowledge is power. I took stacks of books out of the library. The American Cancer Society's website was a great resource for me. I wanted to understand everything that was hap­ pening, and what was to come. "My husband and children were there for me from the start - they were truly my pillars of strength and I knew I had to be brave for them - but we all had the same question in our hearts. Was I going to make it?" Despite all that was happening, Newman got through it with her inspirational spirit and sense of humor. "I tried to maintain a positive attitude. Tried not to complain. I Janice Newman, above, at right, cards sent to - ,. "' took daily walks which kept getting longer and longer. her from her students. ~( °ti\\'~ ,\.>eb,)w, can It was spring and it was so beautiful out. I smiled and laughed as much as possible." of this disease. In the coming weeks, hun­ Newman is an art teacher in the Attleboro public dreds of people will be raising money to fight schools. She projected messages and drawings from her breast cancer. Area businesses, schools and &;~ J.~ "° students' get well cards to illustrate both funny and poi­ other organizations are forming teams. Since ~e A•~e!.Sf gnant messages throughout her speech. "I received thou­ its inception 12 years ago, the walk has helped ~ u sands of get well cards over the course of that year. The to raise millions of dollars for breast cancer ! .. ones from my youngest students were sometimes gram­ research, early detection and patient support matically challenged and contained misspelled words. programs. Many walkers are motivated by One first grader's card read "I hop you fel god". He family members, friends and coworkers bat­ was probably wishing me "I hope you are feeling good" tling the disease, or by their own experience but when he wrote "god" - {as in) "I hope you are feel­ with breast cancer. ing God"... it touched my heart and made me realize The American Cancer Society helps that I did feel God throughout the whole ordeal. I felt patients and their families with free infor­ God through others, through my Jewish community - mation, support, and local resources. Cancer through every card, every smile, every bouquet of flow­ information specialists are available by phone ers, every little gift, every phone call, every visit, every 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -to help with diagnosis insurance questions. If you or someone you know needs homemade meal delivered to our door. So many acts of and treatment options, find rides to treatment, or answer help, call 1-800-227-2345 or visit www.cancer.org. kindness, I can't begin to thank everyone enough. So I try to pay it forward . "My first walk was in Octo­ Handing Over Dream ber 2005 , just ten days after my fi nal surgery. I was still ban­ daged and sore, but there was Homes For 50 Years nothing wrong with my legs! So I walked in one of the most Spitz -Weiss Realtors movi ng experiences of my li fe." Newman invites everyo ne to An Intensive Jewish Learning Experience Soul Spitz Howard Weiss Jon Weiss .. Aleen Weiss 'walk the walk', and if you don't Second Year Me'ah Class Claire Sennott Poul·Levitt Judi Blau• have a team to join, she invites Open to a limited number of new students 785 Hope St reet! Provid ence. RI • 401-272-6161 you to walk with her. If you'd www~spitzweissrealtors.com like to join the walk or contrib­ ute to Newman's fund-raising, Medieval and Modern Jewish History and Philosophy log on to www.cancer.org/ Meets stridesonline, click on Rhode Wednesdays, 7-9:30 p.m. at Temple Emanu-EI Island, and then "Walker Dona­ tion" and type in her name. "It's Open to the Community great fun, and so very mean­ Under the auspices of Hebrew College ingful to everyone who partici­ pates; but more importantly, it's for every one, every man, every Information: woman, and every child, who Contact benefits from all that the Amer- Rabbi Alvan Kaunfer ican Cancer Society offers." 401-331-1616 [email protected] This year's four-mile walk or will begin at the Temple of Rabbi Sarah Mack Music at 8:30 a.m. Registra­ tion will be from 7. - 8:30 a.m. 401 -331-6070 [email protected] Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is a noncompetitive walk I ,·,r·:•''-1 ir I,:,. • ,,-,1 , F·•·, rr1 entol \P,JG h-:'o.·h" (\1~~ designed to heighten awareness 52 Jewish Voice & Herald September 7, 2007

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dtnlost her belooed husband two years ago. Now 88, she longs to remain independent. But, over the last few months, her children began to notice she was forgetting things and skipping meals. They knew she needed help if she were going to stay safe at home. Thanks to the JFS Home Care program, a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) now spends 20 hours with Helen each week. helping with meal preparation, personal care and light housekeep­ ing. Now Helen has the support and the companionship she needs to lead an independent life ... in her own home.

Your Federation is here to help Helen and others like her. Working together, we can perform the sacred act of tikkun olam - healing the world. We can give dignity and opportunities where none existed before. We can provide comfort and meet critical needs. We can transmit our traditions to a new generation. No gift will ever touch so many and travel so far.

We are part of a proud community with a long history of being there for our people in good times and bad. Now we have an opportunity to create healing, hope and miracles, one our children and grandchildren can be proud to inherit. But to accomplish this, each of us needs to step up to the challenge and play our part. Live Generously. And it's never been easier to make a difference in so many lives. You can give your gift to th e tt does o wor1d of good 2008 Jewish Federation of Rhode Island Annual Community Ca mpaign:

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