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BY LOUISE RACHLIS “It comes down to the fact that the [would have] put the school on a path to a the school in its entirety.” The Ottawa Jewish Community School high school is losing too much money defi cit of signifi cant proportion.” In his letter to parents, Smith also (OJCS) shared the announcement it [which] is putting our entire school at He said the decision to stop operating assured them “the elementary would begin to phase out its high school risk. The status quo is not an option. We the high school “allows time for consulta- school is strong, sustainable and is receiv- division. have to take a fi scally responsible tion and research into alternate options ing continued support.” However, in The announcement was made February approach [and] not making this decision without jeopardizing the fi nancial state of See OJCS on page 2 11 in letters to parents from OJCS Board of Directors President Aaron Smith and to the Jewish community from Jewish Federation of Ottawa President and CEO Andrea Freedman and Chair Steven Kimmel. The decision of the OJCS Board to close the high school division was made regretfully, Smith told the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, “due to lack of enrolment and no current path to fi nancial viability.” The decision follows an extensive examination by OJCS leadership, which included a study by the school’s sustaina- bility committee that determined an additional $250,000 per year was needed to sustain the high school division. OJCS will begin to phase out the high school program in the 2015-2016 school year when Grades 9 and 10 classes will not be offered. The letter to parents assured them that students currently in Grades 10 and 11 will be able to reach their high school graduation at OJCS. The Ottawa Jewish Community School was created in 2009 by the amalgamation of Hillel Academy, a Jewish elementary day school, and Yitzhak Rabin High IVANETTE HARGREAVES/BH PHOTOGRAPHY School. The current head of school is Mitzvah Day: Major Alain Cohen of the Canadian Armed Forces with volunteers Eitan (left) and Ariel Podolsky, veteran educator Marlene Wolinsky. who helped assemble care packages for Canadian soldiers serving overseas, one of the good deeds performed during the “I’m heartbroken for the students that Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s ninth annual Mitzvah Day, February 8, at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. More than this is the direction we have to take,” 500 volunteers, from preschoolers to seniors, participated. See the full report on page 3. Smith said.

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Continued from page 1 OJCS must phase out the program.” the Bulletin. “While a small group of decision has been avoided for as long as explaining the high school situation, he In their letter to the community, exceptionally committed parents have possible, but it is now apparent that there wrote that a minimum enrolment of 50 Freedman and Kimmel said the decision made the decision to send their children is no alternative.” high school students was needed to make to close the high school was “a diffi cult to the high school, the number is too Freedman said Federation hopes “this the high school division sustainable. day for our community,” but reiterated small to be sustainable.” diffi cult decision will in fact galvanize “This year, we have 24 students, and the Federation’s commitment to sustain- The Federation CEO pointed out the committed, well-meaning people to act next year, we expected 20 students total able Jewish education in Ottawa. OJCS high school division has been faced and help create and design a new vision [to be] enrolled. “Thanks to gifts to the Annual with declining enrolment trends over the for Jewish education for our community’s “The decline in participation in Jewish Campaign, Federation provides over long-term and that projections for the teens … day schools is not a phenomenon unique $780,000 every year to organizations future were not encouraging. “This is an opportunity to build to Ottawa; this is the case across North delivering Jewish education in Ottawa,” “Everyone is proud of the high school something that better suits the needs of America. In Ottawa, we have seen a they wrote. program and the accomplishments of its more in the community.” steady decline in participation in day The Ottawa Jewish Community School, students,” Freedman said, adding that the Smith echoed that hope. Noting that schools, with no signifi cant increase in in fact, receives the largest allocation of OJCS high school program had been on the elementary level at OJCS remains participation in supplementary schools,” all Federation benefi ciary agencies in life-support for so long because commun- strong and sustainable, he said “supple- he wrote in the letter. Ottawa. ity leadership believes in its importance. mentary programs for high school age The school’s board of directors, Smith “Enrolment in the high school has “Unfortunately, at this point, to keep students will be explored with consulta- said, is “incredibly disappointed that suffered for many years,” Freedman told doing so will imperil other programs. This tion from the community.” ‘Where will families committed to Jewish education send their kids?’

BY HANNAH SROUR In addition, I joined the school’s drama GRADE 12 program, which especially allowed me to OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL discover myself and build confi dence. If he high school division of the not for OJCS, I would never have directed Ottawa Jewish Community a school play – let alone joined a produc- School (OJCS) was perhaps the tion. I would never have joined Student Tmost underrated aspect of our Council or participated in extracurricular community. I’m referring to the OJCS activities in general. In short, I would high school division in the past tense never have received or taken the chance because it already seems to be in the to develop into myself. past. The high school has been deemed The phasing out of the OJCS high fi nancially unviable and is therefore school program poses another problem being phased out. that is equally sad. There will no longer That is a shame. My four years at the be a Jewish community day high school high school have been some of the in Ottawa. greatest years of my life. The fantastic As a young person in this community, I education aside, the school is unparal- fi nd this especially troubling. With no PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER leled in its community feel and unique Jewish community high school, where Grade 12 student Hannah Srour (left) performs a scene with Ethan Sabourin opportunities. will families committed to Jewish in the OJCS production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Srour says the school’s drama program Coming from the public school system education send their kids? For me, there helped her to discover herself and build confidence. when I entered Grade 9, I was used to a is no question that whenever I have my sense of anonymity. I was never bothered own family, my children will be in Jewish you for the size of a university lecture graduate high school. by being invisible as I was shy and I had day school from kindergarten to Grade 12. hall, but no high school can – that is the As I approach my high school gradua- never the confi dence to explore my own This option, however, is no longer open reality. tion this year, I know I will feel confi dent abilities. However, this all changed once I to me in Ottawa should a Jewish com- However, OJCS has ensured we will going to a university campus because my began at OJCS where I was forced to not munity day high school no longer exist enter university with a strong Jewish precious little high school equipped me only be visible, but to develop a voice. My here. identity and the ability to maintain it with perhaps the most important gift you teachers encouraged me to share my I realize that perhaps a small high when we leave home. This is a useful tool can give to a young Jewish person: a opinions and participate in class. school like OJCS cannot entirely prepare most Jewish teens do not have when they voice and a strong identity.

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As the community came together, a young participant said the experience was like being part of “one big congregation. Everyone just wants to help.” Monique Elliot reports.

More than 500 members of Ottawa’s Jewish community braved the snow to participate in the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s ninth annual Mitzvah Day, February 8, at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre (SJCC) and several off-site locations, resulting in a day of thousands of good deeds rippling across the city and overseas. “People are coming out in spite of the weather, which is amazing,” said Mitzvah Day Co-chair Warren Melamed. “It’s such a giving community, Ottawa.” PHOTO: IVANETTE HARGREAVES/BH PHOTOGRAPHY Something new at Mitzvah Day this (From left) Abbey Murawnik’s ponytail is held high by Ottawa Police Chief year was the Jewish Family One-Stop Info Charles Bordeleau as Mayor Jim Watson prepares to cut Hoodie Greiniman’s during Shop consisting of 19 booths representing the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s Mitzvah Day. The hair will be used in wigs for women who have lost their hair during cancer treatment. community organizations that provide services to families. The Info Shop provided even more opportunities for the emerging generation serving meals at included socks, deodorant and personal young families to get involved and the Shepherds of Good Hope; and letters, among other small comforts. showed how they can benefi t from their university students at Hillel House and Major Ryan Hartman of the Royal community involvement. PHOTO: PAULINE COLWIN members at Agudath Israel Congregation Canadian Regiment and Major Alain “Every year, we try to showcase some Abby Shmorgun participates in making sandwiches for the Ottawa Cohen, deputy commanding offi cer of a Mitzvah Day arts and crafts program. of our Jewish agencies,” said Rena Mission. Les Fusiliers Mount-Royal, oversaw the Garshowitz, event planner for the Event MCs Lianne Laing of CTV creation of the care packages and Federation. Garshowitz said young Community School were among the Morning Live and “Stuntman Stu” emphasized the signifi cance of this families were the focus of the one-stop organizations that set up information Schwartz of MAJIC 100.3 FM introduced mitzvah. shop, as they are the demographic that booths in the SJCC social hall. the fi rst mitzvot of the day, which saw “I think it’s important to show to the tends to visit the SJCC regularly. Many Mitzvah Day activities took place Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Police community and the rest of Canada that “I think it’s a good opportunity for in and around the SJCC, where mostly Chief Charles Bordeleau cut off the long this community does contribute to everybody in the community to promote young families participated in sing-a- ponytails of Hoodie Greiniman and Canada’s defence and security in a direct the programs that they offer,” said Early longs and crafts with residents at Hillel Abbey Murawnik, who donated their fashion,” Cohen said. “It’s important that Beginnings Daycare Centre Director Lodge, wrote letters to patients at the locks to Pantene Beautiful Lengths for the community builds ties with other Sandy Deyo at the centre’s information Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario use in wigs for women with hair loss due institutions, such as the Canadian Armed table. “So far, I’ve seen a lot of our current and Roger’s House, prepared challahs to to cancer treatment. Bordeleau snapped Forces.” families who come to the daycare centre be frozen and donated to the Kosher a selfi e with Murawnik, celebrating her Thinking globally but acting locally and past families too.” Food Bank. There were many opportun- mitzvah on his Twitter account. was a theme echoed throughout the day, Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa, Young ities to donate Kosher food, toys and Among the most popular mitzvot was but especially when putting together the Israel of Ottawa, Congregation Machzikei household supplies for various local and creating care packages to send overseas care packages and writing letters to Hadas, Ganon Preschool, Star of David national charities. to Canadian Armed Forces personnel, a soldiers. Hebrew School, and the Ottawa Jewish Offsite mitzvot included members of new activity this year. Care packages See Mitzvah Day on page 4

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Continued from page 3 younger kids, defi nitely,” Byerley said. “We felt it was important to really “It’s just a good experience. It’s like one honour our local Jewish-Canadian big congregation. Everyone just wants soldiers and to say thank you for pro- to help.” tecting us, and also for representing our The spirit of tikkun olam (repairing community to the broader world,” said the world) created energy and excite- Bram Bregman, Federation vice-presi- ment among many participants, both dent of community building. fi rst-timers and veterans, who encour- Temple Israel Religious School aged still more individuals to get Grade 9 students Isy Burke, Sarah involved with Mitzvah Day to affect McKeague and Sonia Byerley were positive change on an even larger scale. some of the volunteers helping to lead “We help, obviously, a lot of Jewish PHOTO: PAULINE COLWIN the kids through the activity. The girls agencies, but it’s really extended beyond Several Grade 6 students from the Ottawa Jewish Community School and Charles H. Hulse said, while it was their fi rst year in a the boundaries of our own community,” Public School enjoy a moment with Patrick Mascoe, the Hulse teacher who created the annual leadership role, they have participated Melamed said. inter-cultural program for Grade 6 students at the two schools. in Mitzvah Day activities since they Melamed and his wife, Linda, said they were young. got involved so that their sons, Michael co-chairing the event for a second year in underrepresented in the international “We’re setting an example for the and Jacob, who joined their parents in a row, would learn the value of giving bone marrow and stem cell registry, Yan back to their community. added, encouraging others to register The Melameds organized a football online at www.onematch.ca. 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Sephardi Association celebrates and honours a rich and diverse culture Sephardi Association recognizes that we need By Clemy Srour, president This is an important lesson for under- Jews, who passed away last year, recog- to work to build a strong standing our differences and our unity. nized this diversity and sought to remind future in Ottawa. With the help Legend has it that Christopher As Sephardi Jews, we endeavour to walk us of our connections in this diversity. of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, Columbus was a Sephardi Jew escaping along the path that was handed down to we recently launched a strategic and the clutches of the Spanish Inquisition us by our parents and grandparents. Our mission in the Sephardi Association governance review to help get us there. by bringing a boatload of Jewish refugees of Ottawa is to celebrate the diversity of to the new world. While of historic inter- As Sephardi Jews, our commitment to those of Sephardi heritage in Ottawa. Our The community’s input on our future is est, this story ultimately serves to remind our heritage and tradition is paramount. association, created by a dedicated group critical and it is definitely not too late one about the pervasive nature of Jewish of individuals, has been a part of the to give us your views in this regard. You persecution over the centuries. This is For our ancestors, the Sephardi way Ottawa Jewish community for the past 25 can contact us through our email at a Jewish story – both Ashkenazi and of life was simple Judaism with tradition, years. [email protected]. Sephardi. celebration, family, yet a natural affinity If you identify as Sephardi, we also to the spiritual and a strong connection In recent years, a group of us came encourage you to fill in our survey/census: Indeed, as Jews, we are one people, to our rabbis. And as Sephardi Jews, we together to reinvigorate the community https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QZTF9XS. but we do come from different cultures certainly have amazing traditions, includ- and launched an ambitious set of programs Based on the input of the community, and countries and have different spiritual ing our spiritual heritage, languages and and activities. our Board of Directors will build a new customs. of course food! And we are really keen to vision and bring it to the community this keep them and celebrate them. Our High Holiday services are among summer. Recently, we read the story in the Torah the most special in the city. Most recent- about the crossing of the Red Sea. It is told Yet our customs and traditions are not ly, we were proud to host the Inaugural We can only preserve our heritage by by our sages that when God split the sea all the same. Sephardi Jews cover a great Commemoration of Jewish Refugees from growing our community. So please, if you he actually caused 12 paths to be created, swath of geography. From Morocco in the Arab Countries with more than 150 people identify as Sephardi, we invite you to be one for each tribe. One people crossed the west to India in the east, there is amazing in attendance. part of our community. Keep an eye out Red Sea along different paths and came to diversity in our community. Rav Ovadia for our special events and join us for High the same place. Yosef, the great rabbinic leader of Sephardi While we are small community, the Holiday services. 6 February 23, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

This year, CBB celebrates our 80th Camp B’nai Brith marks anniversary of being a proud and strong member of our community, and we are thrilled that we enter the year moving 80th year while celebrating from strength to strength. In fact, in a period that has been trying for Jewish camps, we are on a high. community unity I have previously described the hard work undertaken by the CBB Board to unequivocally that Jewish camping I have previously described rejuvenate our camp, and that hard work supports future affi liation, marriage and success continues. This year, for the within the faith, shul membership and the hard work undertaken by fi rst time ever, we had to close fi rst-half support of the Jewish Federation of the CBB Board to rejuvenate registration in most of our units in Ottawa’s Annual Campaigns. We help November, as we were already full. We

FEDERATION REPORT build the leaders of tomorrow. our camp, and that hard still have the odd space here and there in MICHAEL POLOWIN But camp is not enough. work and success continues. the fi rst half, but we are now concentrat- CAMP B’NAI BRITH We live in a small community, and one ing on second-half registration, which is that might be called “over-organized,” This year, for the fi rst time fi lling up fast, too – we are already ahead any of us remember the with too much competition between ever, we had to close fi rst-half of our July 1 (second half) numbers from Beatles’ song “Come agencies. So, to that end, Federation last year! Together.” One interpreta- Vice-President of Community Building registration in most We are also working hard at physical Mtion of the song is that it Bram Bregman brought together CBB, of our units in November, improvements. This year, we will described how together the Beatles were the Soloway Jewish Community Centre renovate at least four cabins, we have greater than the sum of their parts. In and the Ottawa Jewish Community as we were already full. resurfaced the tennis courts and nearby life this is often true, and it is something School (OJCS) to fi nd ways to work basketball courts, we are adding more we believe at Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa together for the betterment of the community’s rabbis to ask for their signage and have replaced and added to (CBB). community. support of our community initiative. all of our water fountains (including CBB strives to contribute to a “coming CBB is very enthusiastic about this Specifi cally, CBB has a strong fi nancial adding bottle fi llers). There is more great together” in our community. We are initiative. We’ve already found ways to assistance program to help families give news in the pipeline, so stay tuned Ottawa’s Jewish community camp. But work together and hope to fi nd more. their children a needed summer in the because it promises to be a spectacular our community is more than a summer This is an extension of work we already sunshine. I asked the rabbis, if they summer! camp. I could fi ll this entire column with do with Hillel Lodge, Tamir and OJCS, know a family that could use the help, to In the meantime, Happy Birthday information about how Jewish camping and we strongly believe in this send them to us. And I ask the same of CBB! We look forward to many more contributes to Jewish life, but suffi ce it to co-operation. you. To me, helping families is the most years of working together with the say that research demonstrates Recently, I met with a gathering of the important thing CBB does. community!

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Shabbat Zachor: remembering VOLUME 79 | ISSUE 8 Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, K2A 1R9 Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 where we came from Email: [email protected] Published 19 times per year. © Copyright 2015 villain of the Purim tale, was an offspring My handsome winsome Johnny.” PUBLISHER of Amalek, whose cruel behaviour to the My mother was the daughter of Andrea Freedman wandering Israelites is recalled in the Russian-, Polish- and Yiddish-speaking EDITOR maftir, the additional Torah reading on immigrants who arrived in Montreal in Michael Regenstreif Shabbat Zachor. We are asked to remem- 1933, where my mother was born the PRODUCTION MANAGER ber – zachor – that there are ongoing following spring. She liked to say she was Brenda Van Vliet forces that pursue and challenge us as we “Made in Poland, born in Canada.” My BUSINESS MANAGER journey through life. Yet their capacity to father was an American who spoke no Barry Silverman FROM THE PULPIT shape us has limits, which we expose by Yiddish or Hebrew, whose family had left The Bulletin, established in 1937 as “a force RABBI ELIZABETH BOLTON for constructive communal consciousness,” fl ipping zachor on its head. the old country decades before he was communicates the messages of the Jewish OR HANESHAMAH The special Torah reading begins with born. He was a poor bookkeeper, taken Federation of Ottawa and its agencies and, as the word zachor and concludes with the in as a boarder and employee by friends the city’s only Jewish newspaper, welcomes a diversity of opinion as it strives to inform and he Shabbat before Purim is words lo tishkach (do not forget). Our of my grandparents, and a handsome enrich the community. Viewpoints expressed known as Shabbat Zachor, the preparations for Passover are thus prospect, at 30, for their 21-year-old in these pages do not necessarily represent the policies and values of the Federation. Sabbath of Remembering. Reb propelled by remembering where we daughter. Mimi Feigelson teaches how come from and what we have inherited The month of Adar brings both of my The Bulletin cannot vouch for the kashrut T of advertised products or establishments Shabbat Zachor foreshadows Purim, from our past, while instilling in us the parents’ yahrzeits. Though they died unless they are certified by Ottawa Vaad enhancing our understanding of the drive to not forget our innate capacity to decades apart, there is a bitter-sweetness HaKashrut or a rabbinic authority recognized by OVH. essence of that spirited day while create where we are going. in their coming together this way in $36 Local Subscription | $40 Canada marking the time leading to Passover. A traditional ballad from the British memoriam. $60 USA | $179 Overseas | $2 per issue The Zohar (the mystical Book of Isles with a soft, lilting melody begins: The Shabbat before Purim invites us to We acknowledge the financial support of the Splendour) tells us that Purim is the most “I know where I’m going wear the experience of knowing and ack- Government of Canada through the holy day of the year, one that surpasses And I know who’s going with me nowledging where we come from while Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage. even Yom Kippur. Despite its apparent I know who I love we dress up for a great party just ahead. focus on merriment and concealment, it And the dear knows who I’ll marry.” Remembering is our inheritance. Not ISSN: 1196-1929 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40018822 is a day that has the potential to ser- It’s a classic, even archetypal tale of forgetting is our commitment. iously reveal where we came from, who yearning across boundaries: Celebrating is our joy. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Ottawa Jewish Bulletin we are becoming and how we manifest “Some say he’s poor In honour of Irwin ‘Buddy’ Bolton z”l d. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, ourselves in the world. But I say he’s bonnie 7 Adar 5726, and Rebecca ‘Ruth Raby’ Ottawa ON K2A 1R9 Tradition teaches that Haman, the The fairest of them all Bolton z”l d. 12 Adar I 5763. February 23, 2015 7 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

as a strong and viable elementary school, OJCS high school: A diffi cult it is clear the community must create new models for supplementary Jewish education at the high school level, which decision that had to be made will serve a much broader proportion of our community’s teenagers. many articles chronicling the innovative school, enrolment of at least 50 students Problems of declining enrolment and strides OJCS has made in reinforcing its was needed to sustain the high school. fi nancial viability of Jewish day schools credentials as a fi rst-class educational The high school division’s defi cit of are not unique to Ottawa. Many com- institution from kindergarten to Grade $250,000 per year effectively amounted munities throughout North America face 12. We have also covered such major to $1 million for each class as it moved the same problems. But, on one level, issues as declining enrolment, tuition from Grade 9 through Grade 12. those problems are exacerbated for day fees and fi nancial viability. It is estimated there are about 900 schools in Ontario where the province

FROM THE THE FROM EDITOR While enrolment in the elementary high school-aged Jewish students in remains the only jurisdiction on the MICHAEL REGENSTREIF grades is closer to sustainable levels at Ottawa. That means only about two per continent that provides educational OJCS, enrolment at the high school has cent of Jewish families in the city are funding to one faith community to the he front page of this edition of remained too low for too long. It was choosing Jewish day high school for their total exclusion of all others. the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin hoped that, when Hillel Academy children. A number of other Canadian prov- carries the sad news that the amalgamated with Yitzhak Rabin High With efforts in the years since amal- inces, including Quebec, Manitoba, TOttawa Jewish Community School, many more families would gamation to raise enrolment to sustain- Alberta and British Columbia, have School (OJCS) Board of Directors has choose to have their children remain at able levels unsuccessful – even among formulas in place to provide public made the very diffi cult decision to phase the school for their high school years. families who chose Jewish day school funding to faith-based schools that meet out its high school division. But that has not happened. education at the elementary level – the provincial standards in their secular OJCS came into being in 2009 when Over the past two years, only seven of despite the school’s success an institu- education (something that was never in Hillel Academy of Ottawa, the city’s the 51 students who graduated from tion of excellence, the decision to phase question for OJCS). community day school founded in 1949, elementary school went on to high out the high school had to be made. The United Nations Human Rights amalgamated with Yitzhak Rabin High school there. This year, there were just 24 There is probably no greater testament Commission has twice ruled – in 1999 School, founded in 1995. high school students at OJCS and only 20 to the school’s educational success than and in 2005 – that the province’s funding The groundwork for the amalgama- were projected for the 2015-‘16 school the passionate feelings of its students. of Catholic schools but not those of other tion began about two years earlier when year. When the school surveyed parents The day after the announcement was religions was discriminatory and a community and school leaders – under- of current Grade 6, 7 and 8 students made, Grade 12 student Hannah Srour violation of Canada’s obligations under standing various problems faced by both about their high school intentions, it was submitted an article (see page 2) about the International Covenant on Civil and schools, including declining enrolment clear there was no way forward to a what the school means to her, while Political Rights. and fi nancial viability – formed commit- sustainable enrolment number for the Grade 10 student Ella Sabourin launched An effect of Ontario not providing tees tasked with bringing the schools high school. a quixotic grassroots attempt to raise public funding is that tuition rates must together as an institution that would be As OJCS Board President Aaron Smith enough funds to keep the high school be higher than elsewhere, which, of stronger than the sum of its parts. wrote in his letter to parents explaining alive. course, affects both enrolment and In recent years, we have published the decision to phase out the high As the OJCS prepares to move forward fi nancial viability.

from their windows. Pretending everything is fi ne Malmö is Sweden’s third largest city with a population of 300,000 of which 20 per cent are Muslim. There are only 600 is both foolhardy and futile Jews left there. And what about last month’s news people who didn’t like, even hated, Jews. on kippahs to experience what it was like from Argentina? In 1994, 85 Jews were But I thought they were a small minority, to live as a Jew in Sweden? Worse still was killed and hundreds more injured in a not really worth thinking about or losing reading the journalist’s account from the terrorist bomb blast at the AMIA Jewish sleep over. Growing up, I experienced city of Malmö, which has become too community centre in Buenos Aires. Last overt anti-Jewish remarks directed at me well known for its many anti-Semitic month, Albert0 Nisman, a Jewish only twice – and that wasn’t enough to attacks on persons and property. prosecutor investigating the bombing, ring the alarm bells in my head about Patrick Reilly was the fi rst of the was found shot in the head the day

IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS Canada or anywhere else. journalists to put on a kippah in 2013. before he was to present his case impli- JASON MOSCOVITZ Today, approaching old age, I see black “As an Irish person living abroad, I have cating Hezbollah and Iran in the bomb- clouds and a gathering storm. When I never felt remotely threatened, but wear- ing – and the Argentine government in read about a motion at New York City ing the kippah for a few hours was enough covering up the Iranian connection for 20 have been writing about terrorism Council to commemorate the 70th to install feelings of fear. Even when I years. and anti-Semitism in recent col- anniversary of the liberation of didn’t feel afraid, I was made to feel These are bone chilling events, so umns, and it has occurred to me Auschwitz-Birkenau being met by a loud different and unwelcome,” Reilly wrote. terribly raw, jarring and ugly that it is Ithat perhaps I’ve been too depress- protest by anti-Israel activists, I won- Last month, TV reporter Peter hard to read about them without worry- ing and too downcast in my outlook. I do dered what those people who claim Lindgren put on a kippah and a Star of ing – a lot. think about things like that and how I anti-Israel activism has nothing to do David and ventured out into the streets A couple of weeks ago, I went to wish it were different. with anti-Semitism would say about that. of Malmö with a hidden camera and Shabbat services at Agudath Israel. As I Growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, my As a young boy, I read Black Like Me, microphone. walked in, a fellow congregant said he parents told me about anti-Semitism but journalist John Howard Griffi n’s story The video showed one man called him liked reading my column. I thanked him. I always thought I was living another about changing the pigment of his skin a “Jewish s--t.” Another person hit him After the service, he continued the experience. I was a post-war baby to experience what it was like being a and called him “Satan Jew.” As he kept conversation. He said he found my boomer who thought the world had black person in the United States. That walking, he eventually provoked a whole columns well worth reading. But, then, learned its lesson, and I would never see 1961 book was my introduction to the crowd of people who started to threaten hesitating, he added that he’s recently the day when being Jewish would again realities of racial discrimination. him only because he was wearing a Star found them depressing. I made no mean being the target of people who, Could I ever have imagined that, of David and a kippah. apologies and I make none now. plainly, hate Jews. 50-odd years later, I would read about People in the neighbourhood, alerted Pretending everything is fi ne is both To be fair, I did know there were Christian journalists in Sweden putting to the walkabout, started to shout abuse foolhardy and futile. 8 February 23, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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Advertorial Jewish Disability Awareness Month: Rabbi Sherman to discuss his family’s journey

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BY A.M. MATTE success of our endeavour,” said FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL Haltrecht-Matte. “Volunteers try their he Temple Israel quilting group hand at any of the tasks that go into marked a signifi cant milestone making the quilts, such as choosing and last month when they sent their cutting fabrics, ironing seams, designing T800th baby quilt to Israel. quilt tops, sandwiching (pinning two Handmade by a group of volunteers layers of fabric with batting in between), headed by Merle Haltrecht-Matte and hand-stitching bindings and affi xing Patsy Royer, the quilts are sent to Israeli labels.” daycare centres, hospitals, agencies, Some motivated artisans make quilt families and nurseries. tops on their own and send them to the The group has been meeting since quilting group to be completed. Other

2008, when a few people decided to contributions include monetary and PHOTO: DEBBIE ALLEN commemorate Israel’s 60th anniversary fabric donations. (From left) Anne Khazzam (seated), Patsy Royer, Marie Carmen Berlie, Merle Haltrecht-Matte in a special way by making and sending “People contribute in all kinds of and Milena Gibson at Temple Israel working on baby quilts to be sent to Israel. 60 baby quilts to Israel. ways. Warren Kimel, the CEO of “Since then, members and non-mem- Fabricland Canada, generously donated a The quilting group has also made and T-shirts,” said Haltrecht-Matte. “Some bers of Temple Israel and some friends second bolt of lovely warm batting to delivered more than 20 tiny quilts to the clients choose fabrics and design part of have contributed in many ways to the this project last December,” said Royer. Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario the quilt top they are gifting, often for where they are offered to sick children their grandchildren. The proceeds from from preemies to two-year-olds. The these custom-made gifts help to fund the First night community-wide seder families take the quilts home when the baby quilt project.” babies are released from hospital. For information about placing an to be held at Machzikei Hadas “We also take local commissions and order for a custom-made quilt, or to make custom-made gifts. One job was participate in any way in this rewarding, making a full-size quilt for Louise ongoing project, contact the quilting BY ERIC WILNER learning program for women, attracting Rachlis using her many marathon FOR MACHZIKEI HADAS participants from across the city. group at [email protected]. ongregation Machzikei Hadas is The Machzikei Hadas Passover seder delighted to invite everyone to promises to be an uplifting and inspiring attend our community-wide event. It is designed to be both partici- Cseder on the fi rst night of pant-friendly and child-friendly while still Passover. The seder will be led by our being conducted using the time-honoured incoming spiritual leader, Rabbi Idan Passover Haggadah interspersed with the Scher. singing of traditional melodies and Rabbi Scher is quickly becoming nigunnim, and stimulating and contem- known as a dynamic, youthful champion porary commentaries selected by Rabbi of innovative Jewish programming and Scher. The seder meal will be a sumptuous learning, and a dedicated promoter of affair, prepared and catered at Machzikei Jewish connections and engagement. Hadas by Creative Kosher Catering. Since arriving in Ottawa last summer with The Machzikei Hadas community-wide wife Shifra and young son Shlomo, he has Passover seder will take place Friday, introduced a number of exciting initia- April 3, 8 pm, immediately following tives, including family programs and a Ma’ariv services, at Congregation breakfast club for university students to Machzikei Hadas, 2310 Virginia Drive. The discuss Jewish perspectives on contem- cost is $65 (adults) and $32 (children six porary issues. to 12). There is no charge for children fi ve Rabbi Scher’s speeches and sermons and under. Child care will be provided have met with great applause and Reservations should be made by March enthusiasm and his bar and bat mitzvah 13 by contacting Michelle Pulvermacher at classes have been well received by 613-521-9700 or [email protected]. students and parents alike. Meanwhile, You can also enquire about second-night Shifra Scher has launched a biweekly seder opportunities in the Machzikei area.

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BY LOUISE RACHLIS t was truly the end of an era when legendary men’s clothier Joseph Z. (Joe) Feller, 98, died at home in Ottawa on January 15. I Three days later, son Ian Feller, delivering a eulogy at the funeral, recalled telling his father, at age 9, that he didn’t believe in God and asking if he could still attend Hebrew school. “I live the best life I know how,” Feller replied. “I give to charity, take care of my family and contribute to the community. I go to shul; I daven every morning; I try not to hurt people; I eat kosher; I fast on Yom Kippur; I tell the story of the Exodus at Pesach; I try to live an honest and useful life. “Let’s say, there is no God. So what have I done? Lived a good life that gives me comfort and peace. I would live

like this anyway. PHOTO COURTESY OF OTTAWA JEWISH ARCHIVES “Now let’s say it turns out that there is a God. I will Joseph Feller (front row, centre) chairs a meeting of the United Jewish Appeal Men’s Wear Retail Division, April 14, 1961. not need to offer some lame excuse for how come I (From left, front row) Henry Pass, Irving Wolfe, Feller, Joseph Schmeltzer, Jack Labelle, (middle row) Issie Rose, Toby Appel, didn’t put on tefi llin. Charles Slipakoff, Jack Handel, Morris Lang, Sam Wallack, (back row) Mendel Good, David Slover, Elliott Gluck, Bert Krugel, Lawrence Bilsky, Murray Rosman. “Either way, I can only live life as I think is best and in a way that allows me to sleep well at night; a life that is honourable in the eyes of men and God, whether or not ingenuity, and incisiveness.” United Jewish Appeal’s men’s wear retail division, was a there is one.” His store, at one time the largest men’s clothing store patron of the Ottawa Civic Hospital and a founding Referring to the words, “The doorway to a man’s in Canada, catered to entertainers, business leaders and member of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. world,” which were emblazoned on the front of Feller’s politicians such as prime ministers John Diefenbaker He endowed scholarships and facilities at the Hebrew store at 139 Rideau Street, Ian said the words were “more and Lester Pearson, in an era when clothes did truly University of Jerusalem and donated an ambulance to than a business motto. There is more to entering the make the man. Magen David Adom. world of men than retail – there’s wholesale. And JF “His was another era, when men wore hats and rarely Feller and his late wife Betty were married for 71 years. wrought wholesale changes in his business and his left the house without a tie and polished shoes,” wrote They are survived by children Connie-Gail (late family.” Ottawa Citizen columnist Kelly Egan in a January 19 Nathaniel Salomon), Ian (Debby Zweig), and Donna- Feller had standards, said his son, “and standards tribute. Lee (David Kauffman), by six grandchildren and nine weren’t standards if you didn’t live by them. As a Feller supported many charities and institutions in great-grandchildren. Feller was predeceased by siblings businessman and family man, he lived with integrity, the Jewish and broader communities. He chaired the Sarah, Eddy and Henry Feller. 10 DAY JEWISH HERITAGE TOUR OF ISRAEL The Guy Mintus Trio An Evening of Mediterranean Jazz Be part of a small Presented by the Canada Israel Cultural Foundation, the Embassy of Israel and the Vered Israel Cultural and Educational Program customized tour exclusively designed for travelers with special needs limited to 10 passengers. APRIL 15 – 24, 2015 2 nts Tiberias ● 6 nts Jerusalem, ● 1 nt Tel Aviv $3504.00—$4644.00 USD pp sharing* Tour arrangements include transfers, accessible transportation, a certified English speaking tour guide, entrance fees, choice of 4 or 5 star hotels, breakfast and dinner daily

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BY MERLE HALTRECHT AND TOBY BROOKS at fundraisers, private functions and KLEZ 8 COMMITTEE events like the Canadian Tulip Festival he entire community is invited and Westfest. The band focuses on to Klez 8, an evening of Jewish traditional klezmer music including music and dance, on Sunday, songs and dance tunes such as bulgars, TMarch 8, 7:00 pm, at shers, horas and waltzes. The members Congregation Machzikei Hadas, 2310 are Fred Brown (bass), Ernie Brodo A Touch of Klez brings Yiddish songs and traditional Jewish dance tunes to Klez 8. Virginia Drive. (mandolin), Eric Elkin ( fl ute), Jacki Klez is an annual celebration of Jewish Langsner ((keyboard), Shaina Lipsey some surprises. Their music will make Hadas, Or Haneshamah and Temple music in support of the Ottawa Kosher (vocals), Don McVeigh (banjo), Ruth you think of warmer climes and happy Israel. Food Bank featuring klezmer band A Mendell (clarinet), Steve Shapransky times. Admission is by donation to the Touch of Klez, the choir Musica Ebraica, (percussion) and Peter Teitelbaum No one imagined, when the fi rst Klez Ottawa Kosher Food Bank. With notable and Susan Barker of International Folk (clarinet). event was held in 2008, that it would poverty levels in the Jewish community, Dancers of Ottawa leading the dancing. Musica Ebraica, with conductor Gloria become a much-anticipated annual our hope is to swell the shelves at the A Touch of Klez is seen and heard Jean Nagy and accompanist Carol event, becoming more and more popular food bank following Klez 8. frequently around the city entertaining Gurofsky, will present a selection of every year. If you have attended before, Cheques should be made out to residents at Hillel Lodge and performing Yiddish and Hebrew songs, including you know what delights are in store. If Agudath Israel Congregation, noting you’ve missed it in the past, don’t allow it “Ottawa Kosher Food Bank” on the to pass without taking part, don’t miss memo line. Donations of non-perishable out on the joy. food items with kosher labels are more That fi rst year, Klez was co-sponsored than welcome as well. by Adath Shalom Congregation and Kosher refreshments will be served. Agudath Israel Congregation. But Please join us for a lively evening fi lled sponsorship and community support has with music, dancing and delicious treats grown substantially and Klez 8 is to support a very worthy cause. co-sponsored by Adath Shalom, Agudath For further information, or to Israel, Congregation Beth Shalom, the become a sponsor, call Toby Brooks at Musica Ebraica will perform choral songs in Yiddish and Hebrew at Klez 8. Glebe Minyan, Congregation Machzikei 613-234-1649.

Congregation Beth Shalom of Ottawa Serving the Ottawa Community for 60 years Farewell To Chapel Street Weekend │ Schedule of Events Friday, March 27, 2015 Come join us for Kabbalat Shabbat services followed by a traditional Shabbat dinner catered by Creative Kosher Catering. Services begin at 6 pm Cost for dinner: $36/adult; $18/children under 12 Images from our sanctuary Saturday, March 28, 2015 Shabbat Services Shabbat Haggadol, “the Great Shabbat,” which immediately precedes the holiday of Passover, will be celebrated during morning services, which begin at 9:30 am. Join us all as we honour all past presidents, board members and other volunteers who, through their eff orts and perseverance, have contributed so much to what we are today. Sunday, March 29, 2015 Community sponsored Kiddush to follow, Torah Procession to the Soloway Jewish Community Centre catered by Creative Kosher Catering. Services begin at 151 Chapel Street at 8:30 am followed by a light breakfast Saturday Night - Unplugged! Procession route: Eclectic music from the past & present. 10 am Walk begins from Chapel Street to City Hall A casual evening with friends. 11:30 am Torahs delivered to Soloway JCC Evening begins at 8:30 pm Free Admission. 12 pm Affi xing of the Mezuzah at the Soloway JCC For more information and to reserve for Shabbat dinner, call Anita at 613-789-3501, ext 221 or e-mail: [email protected] 16 February 23, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Ambassador Barak meets with Ottawa’s Jewish university students

BY ARIELLE ELLIS mbassador Rafael Barak and Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak (centre) meets with students gathered at Ottawa’s Hillel House, February 2. two staff members from the Embassy of Israel in Ottawa Canada and Israel, the ambassador said Avisited Hillel House, February he’s working on increasing and improv- 2, and spent the evening talking with ing them. Canadian companies, he said, Jewish students from the University of should open research and development Ottawa and Carleton University. facilities in Israel, and Canada should Barak offered a detailed yet brief facilitate more trade with Israel, description of the overall situation in strengthening economic ties. Israel and what this may mean for Jewish Barak and the assembled students also people living in the Diaspora. He stressed had an interesting discussion on what it to us how lucky we are as Canadians to means to be Jewish on today’s university live in a country resting on the ideals of campuses. He addressed the various democracy, freedom and the celebration challenges students may face being of difference. Jewish Canadians, he said, Jewish on campus and asked students are privileged to be part of a society that about how open they are about their accepts our Jewish identity. Jewish and pro-Israel identities on He said the Canadian government is campus. among the world governments most He ended the discussion by inviting supportive of Israel and predicted many students to use the Israeli Embassy as a Canadians will likely consider how resource and to feel free to reach out Canadian foreign policy affects Israel with any concerns or questions that may when voting in the upcoming federal have throughout the school year. election. The ambassador’s friendly and Barak went on to explain how Israeli approachable nature, and the warmth of innovations in such areas as science and his staffers, made for a comfortable technology have had great impact environment for students to ask ques- Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak discusses what it means to be pro-Israel on university throughout the world. Although strong tions and discuss Israel and Jewish campuses with Jewish student activists meeting at Hillel House, February 2. partnerships already exist between student life.

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BY DEANA SCHILDKRAUT increasing greatly and many turn to NA’AMAT CANADA – AVIVA CHAPTER Na’amat for help. Services Na’amat funds viva Chapter of Na’amat include daycare centres, vocational and Canada will help you prepare agricultural high schools, single-parent for Passover with our annual support services, legal aid centres and a Akosher for Passover wine sale. facility for abused women. We have a large selection of wines from Locally, Na’amat Ottawa is involved in such countries as Israel, France, Italy and the School Supply for Kids project. Every the United States. fall, we supply hundreds of backpacks Na’amat Canada is a registered fi lled with supplies to children living Canadian charity and part of a worldwide with their mothers in shelters for abused progressive women’s organization women. The generous support of the dedicated to improving the quality of life Ottawa community over the years has for women, children and families in allowed us to continue funding this Dragon’s Tea Trio performs its eclectic repertoire, March 7, at the SJCC. Israel and other countries. project. The name Na’amat is a Hebrew Again this year, we are collaborating acronym for Nashim Ovdot Umitnadvot with CHW-Ottawa Centre and (Movement of Working Women and Congregation Beit Tikvah in holding our Folkazzical evening at the SJCC Volunteers). Inspired by the founding Passover Fair where you will be able to women of the State of Israel, we believe pick up your wine order and purchase BY ROSLYN WOLLOCK Andrew Mah, singer Rachel Eugster and that every citizen is entitled to respect handcrafted Passover items such as wine SOLOWAY JCC cellist Joan Harrison. and equal opportunity within a just bags, seder matzo covers, matzo-themed ragon’s Tea Trio, one of “Our name refl ects what we experi- society. Generations of Na’amat women aprons and many other items suitable for Ottawa’s best kept musical ence when we play together. Although have been making a difference since Passover gifts. secrets, is bringing its folk- we have not yet sat down with a dragon 1925. The fair will be held Sunday, March 22 Dazzical music to the Soloway to drink tea, we know what we would Na’amat Canada raises money to help at Congregation Beit Tikvah, 15 Chartwell Jewish Community Centre (SJCC). expect to fi nd in the cup: something support our vast network of social and Avenue. The group defi nes its style as folk- warm, unexpected, sweet, and a little educational services in Israel. As a result To receive the list of available wines, azzical because it crosses and blends wild,” they explain on their website. of terrorist acts and a deteriorating or to place an order, contact Deana various musical genres pairing Paul Dragon’s Tea Trio will perform economic situation, the number of Schildkraut at 613-726-9595 or Simon with Bach, Renaissance songs Saturday, March 7, 7:30 pm, at the SJCC. Israelis experiencing hardships is [email protected]. with Brazilian sambas and musical Advance tickets ($20) are available at the theatre with folk. SJCC front desk. Tickets at the door will Dragon’s Tea Trio is itself a blend of be $22. Call 613-798-9818, ext. 254, for exceptional talent with classical guitarist more information. RED TENT WOMEN’S TOUR OF ISRAEL Temple Israel An egalitarian Reform congregation

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I truly believe that opportunities to discover the pride and the joy in being Jewish will help kids grow to be engaged Jews, who are active in their community and connected to Eretz Israel. Who have the courage to stand up for what they believe. That’s the real reason I send my kids to Camp Gan Israel. I challenge every Jewish parent to consider a Jewish sum- mer camp experience for their children. Close your eyes and envision your child, surrounded by friends, the summer sun shining on their bright faces, singing at the top of their voices: “Am Israel Chai”, the millennia old chorus proclaiming the indefatigability of the Jewish spirit. For more information on how to give your kids a great summer experi- ence that just might last a lifetime go to http://www.cgiottawa.org/ February 23, 2015 23 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Is our health system meeting It’s a girl! Jeff Fishbain and Barbara Myers are very proud to announce the arrival of their daughter Maya Lau- the needs of Canadians? ren Samantha, born on January 8th, 2015, weigh- ing 5 pounds 13 ounces. With support from Ontario’s Seniors Community Grant Elated bubbies are Sandy Fishbain of Ottawa and Program, the Jewish Youth Library in collaboration Susan Myers of Toronto. Maya is named in loving memory of Morton My- with AJA 50+ has been presenting a series of four weekly ers, Lawrence Segal, and Samuel Fishbain. workshops on Tuesday afternoons in February at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre aimed at enhancing networking Reading Support and Tutoring Individualized instruction and support and educational opportunities for seniors. The fi rst workshop, for beginning readers and readers who are falling behind. on February 3, was given by Sharon Sholzberg-Gray, Nancy Werk who offers a brief recap of the session. 613 729 1817 worked for many years as CEO of may not have home care or the drugs [email protected] the Canadian Healthcare and supplies you need. You may have https://www.facebook.com/readingottawa Association (now HealthcareCAN) an unaffordable co-payment for http://readingsupportottawa.wordpress.com Iand in that capacity, I was the long-term care. It may depend on which spokesperson for the publicly funded province and region you live in. And health system in this country. I gave you may not even know that Medicare Breaking news at speeches and presented briefs to doesn’t cover these services until you www.ottawajewishbulletin.com government on what was needed: a need them. You can buy them privately, publicly funded health system that but most people can’t afford that. moves beyond in-hospital care and Government cannot pay for 24/7 physician services and provides home care. But it can defi ne a minimum adequate home and community care set of access rules and establish one- Sharon Sholzberg-Gray discussed throughout this country, using many her ideas for national standards stop shopping for health services. It is different health professionals, and and funding options for the not easy to produce a set of standards working in partnership with our Canadian healthcare system that is affordable and meets needs, but hospital and physician-based Medicare at a workshop, February 3, we can do it. Most media articles, health system. at the Soloway Jewish Community advocates and the public (according to I began the workshop by citing recent Centre. polls) are asking the federal government headlines on the health system changes to sit down with the provinces – as the that are needed for our aging society. These headlines all provinces have requested – to devise and support a said essentially the same thing. The federal government national home and long-term care program with equit- must work with the provinces to establish a national able and understandable access rules. home and long-term care program that would keep I have drafted a blueprint for a workable plan with people well and out of hospitals. funding options and national principles that I presented So, why aren’t we there yet? at the workshop on February 3 to positive feedback. 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ell Canada’s Let’s Talk Day 2015 It will not, however, prevent my trying clients to live semi-independently and was January 28. For the past to help others. Janna would want me to various programs for those coping with couple of years, Bell has joined STEPHEN ADLER continue to do just that. mental health issues. Bforces with notable Canadians GUEST COLUMN Bell has done a great service encour- This is just one example of the many encouraging a discussion about mental aging a national discussion, but a single wonderful agencies supported by Jewish health. Indeed, we need to talk about day is not suffi cient. Helping to put an federations in communities across how mental illness impacts us all, given end to the stigma for those suffering from Canada. Without question, ours is a that statistics show one in fi ve of us will return to a semblance of normal life. mental and related illnesses is not a community that cares for the most suffer from mental illness and, fearing Unfortunately, each of these attempts one-day, annual activity. vulnerable among us – including those judgment and rejection, two-thirds of also failed, only exacerbating her depres- In my personal and professional life, I Jewish families affected by mental those will struggle in silence. sive symptoms. Janna said repeatedly have worked with community social illness. I cannot talk about what it is like to that mental health is an invisible illness, service agencies to assist their efforts in You can fi nd your own way to get have a mental illness or the ensuing fears which makes it impossible for others to tackling mental health challenges. involved but, at the very least, I hope of judgment or rejection, but I can talk understand the pain it infl icts. As associate director, Ontario you will not shy away from talking about about what it is like to have loved In fact, it was only after she began to Government Relations, at the Centre mental illness and the impact it has on someone who battled daily with mental suffer from debilitating vertigo, which for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA – the all of us every day. Offer to help, if you illness. struck suddenly and without a discern- advocacy agent of Canada’s Jewish can and – please – get help, if you need it. For many years, my wife, Janna, ible underlying medical cause, that federations), much of my work revolves Contact your family doctor, local social suffered from a complex mental illness. people saw her as ill – because she then around assisting social service agencies, service agency or local mental health But she never let her illness stop her. required the use of a cane. community members, and organizations agency. You are not alone! Janna was a speech and language pathol- Coupled with vertigo, her mental in navigating the maze of provincial Janna died much too soon, leaving a ogist who worked with stroke and head illness robbed Janna of her ability to programs, including those in mental void in the lives of all who knew and trauma patients as well as in a practice work, socialize and live. It robbed her of health. loved her. specializing in treating children with her ability to make a difference in her As a volunteer, I have served on the While mental illness took away her complex diagnoses. patients’ lives and to do what she loved board of the Chai-Tikvah/Life and Hope future, it negated neither Janna’s She was an amazing therapist who, at and what sustained her professional Foundation for eight years. A commun- extraordinary gifts nor their positive the same time, and – to all but her closest satisfaction and personal pride. ity-based organization supported by effect on the lives of countless clients, confi dantes – silently looked for a way to But her illness robbed me of some- UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, friends and loving family – impact stabilize her illness. thing even greater: it took my Janna Chai-Tikvah is a leading healthcare achieved over a lifetime of battling a Unfortunately, for Janna, the usual from me. November 18, 2014 began provider recognized for its excellence in crippling, invisible illness, all while treatments and therapies were un- much as any other day, but it ended like delivering accessible, quality mental continuing to offer remarkable service successful. This led her to attempt no other. The illness that stole Janna’s healthcare and support. Among its to others. experimental therapies in hope of fi nd- life robbed us both of our future services is a group home that provides I miss Janna. And I remain incredibly ing a treatment that would allow her to together. 24-hour support, a triplex that allows proud of her. February 23, 2015 25 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 26 February 23, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Brilliant ad pits the Bibi-Sitter against Tzipi-and-Buji top the presses! Bibi has a sense of humour and and say, “Shalom,” the colloquial Hebrew greeting can be warm and fuzzy. whose literal meaning is “Peace.” But will that be enough to get him re-elected? “Not unconditionally,” Netanyahu whispers. S Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s BARBARA CROOK Slam dunk. In a minute and 15 seconds, we have the Likud party has released a brilliant TV ad – available MY ISRAEL Likud version of the issues and the candidates. with English subtitles at http://tinyurl.com/n6s7qvt Do Israelis trust their future to leaders with an – that presents the PM as the only candidate who can be ever-changing ideology, who might sell out the coun- trusted to safeguard the future of Israel. try’s future in the name of short-term peace? It’s hilarious, but its messages are also clever and Or do they trust the Bibi-Sitter, who paints himself as incisive, and skewer the perceived weaknesses of the Do Israelis trust their future to leaders the only leader who can take a hard and unconditional other leading candidates. It also touches on the key with an ever-changing ideology, line on Iran, ISIS, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority? issues of Israel’s March 17 election. who might sell out the country’s future Well, this is Israel we’re dealing with, so the mood of The ad opens as a harried young couple waits for the the electorate changes with the clock. babysitter to arrive. When the doorbell rings, the in the name of short-term peace? Only weeks ago, it looked like “Anyone but Bibi.” But, babysitter turns out to be a casually dressed and goofi ly Or do they trust the Bibi-Sitter, as I write, the latest Jerusalem Post survey showed Likud grinning Netanyahu, who calls himself a “Bibi-Sitter.” who paints himself as the only leader would win four more seats than the Zionist Union. “But you’re the prime minister,” the mother gasps. The poll also showed that, for the fi rst time since “You’re going to take care of our children?” who can take a hard and unconditional line Netanyahu called the election on December 2, the Netanyahu says it’s either him or “Tzipi-and-Buji.” on Iran, ISIS, Hamas proportion of respondents saying they want him to He’s referring to former Likud mainstay Tzipi Livni, and the Palestinian Authority? remain prime minister was slightly higher than those who jumped ship to join the ideologically confused saying they want him replaced. Kadima (Forward) party in 2005, then started her own destroy the economy, and pursue a policy of peace at all The Likud gains appeared to come at the expense of centrist party, Hatnuah (The Movement) after losing the costs that would cede far too much territory to the Naftali Bennett’s Bait Yehudi (Jewish Home), which Kadima leadership in 2012. Palestinians. As for Livni, the ad suggests that she’s opposes concessions to the Palestinians. She’s now joined forces with “Buji,” the nickname for changed parties and ideologies so much that no one Along with Yair Lapid’s secular Yesh Atid (There is a Labor party leader Isaac Herzog, in a new movement knows what she stands for besides trying to get elected. Future) party, Bait Yehudi formed a coalition with Likud called the Zionist Union. Netanyahu then addresses the camera: “This election, to form the government after the 2013 elections. The two “No, no, no!” the husband exclaims. “Buji? Our you choose who will care for our children. This election, parties were the driving force behind legislation to children will have to take care of him. By the time we get Likud is the only choice.” compel haredi Jews to serve in the military. home, we won’t have a house left. He’ll even give away In other words, the Bibi-Sitter is the security-minded It’s interesting that the babysitter ad spares Bennett. the carpet.” candidate who can be trusted to safeguard the future of In a recent tweet, Netanyahu implied that only a They all shudder. Israel as a Jewish state. strong Likud could prevent “the Left” from being asked And Tzipi? “Stay in one place for two hours?” the wife In a fi nal stroke of cleverness, the ad shows the PM, to form a government. says with a roll of her eyes. snuggled under a blanket, eating popcorn and smiling But Netanyahu knows he would need Bennett as a “By the time we get back, she’ll have moved on to the as he watches a video of himself playing with the coalition partner – Livni calls them “Bibi-Bennett” – so neighbours,” Netanyahu adds. children. It’s clear that the children – the people of Israel perhaps he can’t afford to mock him outright. In less than a minute, the ad has dismissed Likud’s – are safe and sound. Or perhaps even the Bibi-Sitter needs a backup for main rivals. The implication is that Herzog would The happy parents pop their heads through the door those busy nights. One morning, I had an irresistible urge to skate

n Montreal, in 1969, when I was fi ve years old, my Centrepointe library. To my disappointment, the rink mother bundled me up in my snowsuit and we was covered in several inches of fresh snow. Normally, I walked to the skating rink. She strapped twin-blade GLORIA SCHWARTZ would have gone home, but, for some reason, I was Icheese cutters onto my boots. FOCUS ON determined to skate that day. I asked the security guard Not a skater, she held my hand and walked me if I could borrow the shovel next to his desk. He said it around the rink as I took baby steps. Eventually, she let FITNESS was against the rules; a liability issue. When I was a kid, go of my hand. I was proud as she watched me. There there were no such rules! The ice maintenance person- were no helmets in those days, and I fell and bumped nel would come at noon. It was 11 am. my face on the boards. I cried and then sported a black I scoffed, went home, got my own shovel, came back eye for a few days. During the fi rst few years of the new millennium, and spent a half-hour clearing off a portion of the rink. The next year, Mummy signed me up for skating my husband Allan and I spent many a Sunday watching Then I changed into my skates and stepped onto the ice. lessons. I learned how to skate and perform a little twirl. our young sons learn to skate in local arenas. Once I got my balance and set off. Round and round I went for We moved to the north end of Montreal in 1972 and, on they’d mastered the basics, we took the boys skating on quite some time. I was the only one there. It was Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, I’d meet up with the canal. marvellous! friends at the neighbourhood arena. Admission was 25 Each time we went, it was the same ordeal. By the A young woman arrived with her toddler and spent cents. Another quarter got you a box of Cracker Jack. time we got the kids’ skates on and then our own, I was several minutes attaching a modern version of cheese I remember the big day when Mummy took me exhausted. Then the complaints started. “My feet are cutters to her little girl’s boots. The girl whined, fell downtown by metro to Eaton’s where I got a brand new sore.” “My toes are cold.” ‘I’m tired.” Some of those down, cried and crawled around her mother’s feet. The pair of white leather Karen Magnussen skates, named complaints came from me! BeaverTails and hot choco- woman got frustrated and gently informed her daughter for the Canadian and world fi gure skating champion. late made everyone happy. it was time to go home. The skates were a couple of sizes too big. Mummy said Nowadays, our teenage sons don’t want to go skating “They grow up so fast,” I told the young mother. “I I’d grow into them. She was right. with us. It’s not cool to hang out with your parents. remember those days with my sons. And I remember Watching fi gure skating competitions on TV in the One morning in early February, after not skating for a skating as my mother held my hand. Enjoy these 1970s was a family event. We were in awe of Toller couple of years, I had an irresistible urge to skate. It was moments.” Cranston’s incredible Russian splits and other snowing and I was at home by myself. I went down to Alone on the rink once again, I skated to my heart’s ground-breaking moves. Sadly, he recently passed away. the basement to get my skates. At the last minute, I content. Suddenly, I realized that day would have been The years went by. I moved to Ottawa in the late-1980s decided to leave my unblemished skates and take my my mother’s 81st birthday. I looked up at the grey sky as and discovered skating on the canal. I no longer had to beat-up Karen Magnussen oldies but goodies. the snow continued falling. I did a little twirl and smiled. skate in circles! I headed to my neighbourhood rink in front of the I knew Mummy was watching me. February 23, 2015 27 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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of living for ourselves is precisely what motivates a Empathy and duty are important sense of duty. “We revere it precisely because it’s ours; we are the sovereign,” Levine suggested. “We are free because we legislate and judge for ourselves.” elements in building a better society For professor of Jewish philosophy Zachary Braiterman, the cognitive and emotional elements are hen Vancouver philanthropists Rosalie intertwined. “Duty has an affective element, an excite- and Joe Segal announced a lead gift of $12 ment of the senses around a task at hand,” he said. million towards a new centre for mental MIRA SUCHAROV And for Jewish fi lmmaker Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon, “Duty Whealth at the Vancouver General Hospital, VALUES, ETHICS, fl ows from empathy. In that moment when I connect the I felt deeply moved. I had visited a loved one at the old suffering of another to my own experience, [it] touches a facility a few years ago and, by any measure, it was a COMMUNITY kind of primal anger, which motivates action.” depressing, dilapidated and lifeless space. The new In Jewish tradition, philanthropy – tzedakah – is Joseph and Rosalie Segal Family Centre promises to considered a legal imperative. The Hebrew word itself provide the kind of physical atmosphere of compassion shares a root with righteousness and justice. And it does and dignity so necessary to recovery. Empathy in general not contain the affective aspects that the Greek-based The planned $82-million centre is slated to open in seems to be less obviously discussed word philanthropy does, meaning love of humankind. 2017. In a recent Globe and Mail story (“Corporate Empathy in general seems to be less obviously donation means VGH mental health facility can be in Judaism, until one realizes discussed in Judaism, until one realizes that the Torah’s built,” January 26), reporter Andrea Woo asked Joe Segal that the Torah’s golden rule, golden rule, “Love your neighbour as yourself” what bought them to this latest philanthropic decision. “Love your neighbour as yourself” (Leviticus 18:19), is ultimately an empathy imperative. There is a common journalistic convention in which When it comes to mental illness, it’s especially many writers introduce a quote by paraphrasing. In this (Leviticus 18:19), important to consider both duty and empathy. Empathy story, Woo wrote that the Segals’ gift “came from a place is ultimately an empathy imperative. can be extra hard to summon towards those who are in of empathy,” and then followed with the actual quote the throes of the disease. Some forms of mental illness from Joe Segal: “You have an obligation, if you live in institution, divine or otherwise, is not an obvious cause sufferers to refuse treatment. Some victims act the community, to be sure that you do your duty.” standpoint, the moral imperative to give and to help socially or otherwise inappropriately. Sometimes the Are “empathy” and “duty” the same things? others may not resonate. On the other hand, there are sufferer no longer even seems like the actual person. The two vantage points at once seem quite different. those for whom empathy is diffi cult, for whatever Joe Segal is clearly aware of how insidious and Empathy is about actually experiencing the plight of psychological reason. Perhaps, for them, appealing to a invisible mental illness can be, and of the challenges in another. There is clearly an affective component. Duty sense of duty is more effective. recognizing and treating it. somehow feels more legalistic, perhaps even at odds with I turned to colleagues to help me better understand As he told the Globe and Mail, “Mental health was emotion. As philosopher Immanuel Kant famously said, the relationship between the two concepts. For some, a under the rug, and we tried to lift the rug so it can “Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.” viscerally emotional connection between the two is become visible.” If empathy is more about feeling, experience and indeed present inside them. It’s a powerful reminder of how empathy and duty are emotion, and if duty is more cognitive and legal, it International theory scholar Daniel Levine pointed important elements in building a better society – both seems we need to be concerned with how to summon out that, for a sense of duty to function, citizens need to for helping those in personal crisis, and for enabling all both values across society. For those who don’t naturally feel reverence for institutions – even those we ourselves of us to live the values of kindness, generosity and feel duty bound, for those whose reverence to any have created. Or perhaps having created laws and ways compassion.

was happening to us. She said that she didn’t care if she got killed on our account.” ‘We have a responsibility to lead Such allies are created, cultivated and nurtured by others who have had to take on leadership roles, espe- by example and through inclusiveness’ cially in times of great stress, sorrow or fear. I recently spoke with Ben Sherman, an active member n recent weeks, the conversation has, unsurpris- of the emerging generation who – like many of his Jewish ingly, turned towards the question of the safety of peers – has many non-Jewish friends. These are friend- Jews. It manifests as both an individual anxiety and ships built upon common interests and genuine caring, MONIQUE ELLIOT Ifear for the safety of Israelis and Diaspora as is the way with relationships of all kinds. communities. EMERGING GEN “The emerging generation will need to carry the torch It is a conversation that has been repeated in various that will be passed on by their grandparents’ and parents’ forms around the world for generations, and it shows no generations,” he said. “In order for that torch to continue signs of abating in the coming year. Rather, we seem to be to burn as brightly as it has to this point, our generation revisiting concerns that some have said are reminiscent of will have to adapt to new realities and look to new anti-Semitic propaganda leading up to the Second World The book recounts the experiences of the author and opportunities. War. This is 2015. Let’s let that sink in. her family from the time Hungary came under Nazi “The Jewish people have had to deal with the effects There have been terror attacks in France, discrimination occupation to their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. I of exclusivity [for] our entire existence and, now that we on social media, the simmering anti-Semitic protests in felt myself shivering as I read, bracing for what I was are more secure in our freedom, we have a responsibility some European countries, and the world’s reaction to it all. about to learn next. It is raw and powerful, even more so to lead by example and through inclusiveness.” I have found members of Ottawa’s Jewish community since those of us in attendance at the City Hall ceremony I have heard rabbis and community leaders re- to be very global citizens, well aware of the geopolitical received the book on the 70th anniversary of the liber- mark upon the idea that no one is born “good or bad,” tensions across the world, so it is no wonder that concern ation of Auschwitz. that human beings have the capacity for both good is well placed and intensifying. One passage in particular struck me early on in the and evil. At the International Holocaust Remembrance Day memoir: When it becomes clear the family needs an The emerging generation, whether knowingly or not, ceremony at Ottawa City Hall on January 27, I sat in a escape plan, a friend of Molnar Hegedus’ daughter, has been cultivating the future generations of allies, packed room full of Jewish community members and Agnes, gives her a travel document that would allow her those who, like Agnes’s friend, would sacrifi ce anything many non-Jews paying their respects. to escape and become a teacher for young children. for their loved ones. On each seat, and gifted to each attendee, was a copy of Molnar Hegedus’s response is heartbreaking: “I In doing so, the emerging generation carries on the As the Lilacs Bloomed by Hungarian-born Anna Molnar warned this friend, a teacher, that this could lead to grave torch that has been passed on for generations. It is a Hegedus, a volume in the series of Holocaust memoirs consequences for her,” she writes. “Nonetheless, shaking responsibility that Sherman and those like him, do not published by the Azrieli Foundation. It was diffi cult for with sobs, she assured us that did not matter. She was take lightly. me to read through more than half a chapter in one fond of us, having spent months in our house as Agnes’s “This will create a stronger Jewish community for the sitting. Romanian language instructor, and couldn’t stand what generations to come,” he said. 30 February 23, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

wary of any document. Wright cites one Israeli as lamenting that a defeated government was dictating Thirteen days that led to lasting peace terms to the victor. Camp David did not begin well. Wright inserts short biographies and bits of history to Thirteen Days in September: help readers understand why Begin and Sadat are Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David fl exible on some issues and stubborn on others. Many By Lawrence Wright DAVID B. BROOKS of the Israelis had participated in Israel’s War of Alfred A. Knopf Independence, and many of the Egyptians in the 345 pages BOOK REVIEW overthrow of Nasser’s regime. They knew not only about military actions, but also about guerilla tactics t’s hard to believe the Camp David meetings took independent of the army. And they knew how to fake place more than 36 years ago. And equally hard to one position in order to get better terms on another. believe that only now are we getting a book about days, detailing the points of Was Camp David a success or a Ithem as good as Thirteen Days in September: Carter, disagreement and the rather fewer failure? The fi nal agreement Begin and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright, a points of agreement prior to the consisted of two separate docu- staff writer for the New Yorker. initial signing of the Camp David ments. The fi rst was a formal peace As Wright explains, the Camp David meetings were Accords at the White House on treaty between Israel and Egypt. As originally supposed to last only a few days and U.S. September 17, 1978, and the further, a treaty that has held for well over president Jimmy Carter did not intend to play a signifi - sometimes bitter, negotiations three decades without any war, cant role in the discussions. He felt that the rural leading to the signing of the some security co-operation and surroundings of Camp David – the presidential retreat Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty on the modest commercial relations, this in Maryland – away from the press and their own White House lawn on March 26, part of the Camp David Accords is governments, would allow Israeli prime minister 1979. clearly a success. Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat Wright details the numerous The other part is an agreement to reach conclusions and sign agreements that had so times when one or the other of the about resolution of Palestinian far eluded them. leaders was prepared to break off issues, and, just as clearly, this part As it turned out, the meetings lasted 13 days in 1978 talks and go home. He does this not has not been a success, and likely and, although there were moments of friendship, and a just as a reporter but, seemingly, as was never expected to be. After all, handshake when needed for the camera, neither Begin an observer –a politically astute fl y no Palestinian was even invited to nor Sadat found an ally in the other man. How could on the wall. As a result, the book Camp David. As Wright notes, they? They not only had to face fractious governments reads more like an adventure novel “Ambiguity played a double role at on their return, but their own advisory teams were by than a political treatise. Camp David. Careful language was the key to making no means united behind the leaders. If anything, Begin Like any good novel, the book provides background. peace between Egypt and Israel, but vague phrases and Sadat spent more time trying to make an ally of Egypt was still on a high after what it saw as its near about negotiations with the Palestinians opened up Carter than of working with each other. And, against his victory in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which erased much escape clauses that Begin exploited.” inclinations, Carter had to accept that he could not just of the humiliation from the Six Day War in 1967. Israel, There is no better way to learn about those ambigu- sit back as the genial host, but had to intervene directly by contrast, is still in shock over its near disaster in 1973, ities, and how they were designed and argued over until in the talks and, ultimately, help draft the text of fi nal which erased much of the euphoria from its victory in agreement, fl awed as it might be, was achieved than by documents. 1967. As a partial result, Sadat came to Camp David with reading Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Wright provides a day-by-day account of those 13 a full document for agreement, whereas Begin came very Sadat at Camp David.

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