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inside: September 23, 2019 2 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM An ‘impressive array of new leaders’ A number of institutions in Ottawa’s Jewish community have seen the arrival of new professional leaders in recent months. Louise Rachlis reports.

ew leadership brings new ideas, renewed in the coming months and years.” energy and even more opportunities for Rabbi Boruch Perton, the new head of school at positive partnerships,” said Jewish Torah Day School of Ottawa, an Orthodox elementa- Federation of Ottawa President and CEO ry day school, says he has “the unique opportunity ‘NAndrea Freedman, noting that several institutions in to look at Torah Day School from a new and fresh set the community have new leadership in their profes- of eyes.” sional ranks. “The words, ‘we don’t do it like this,’ or ‘that’s never “I firmly believe that as a community we are worked,’ don’t speak to me,” said Rabbi Perton. “Any- strengthened when all organizations are optimally thing and everything is possible. positioned for success,” said Freedman. “A rising tide “There is an excitement at Torah Day School as we raises all ships, and so with the impressive array of welcome four new teachers joining us from around new leaders, it is a wonderful time for Jewish Ottawa.” the globe – two rabbis from the States, one rabbi from Freedman said she is “excited to work with all Israel and a morah (female teacher) from Montreal,” my Jewish communal colleagues and warmly look he said. “They bring with them exciting ideas and sug- forward to forging productive relationships with gestions from other communities and schools that will everyone.” enhance Torah Day. We are not afraid of change, we “It’s an exciting time to be in Ottawa,” said Rabbi embrace it!” Daniel Mikelberg, the new spiritual leader of Temple Avi Marcovitz is the new head of Jewish studies at Israel. “I feel humbled to follow a number of longtime the Ottawa Jewish Community School (OJCS). Sarah Caspi is the new executive director of Jewish Family leaders in the community. Myself, and the cohort of “It is a privilege to work in an institution which cel- Services of Ottawa. leaders under 45 are continuing to walk the path of ebrates a love of being Jewish and a love of Israel,” said Torah, passing our values l’dor v’dor (from generation Marcovitz. “Walking through the halls at OJCS, seeing to generation). We bring renewed energy and appre- the smiles first thing in the morning and listening to ciation for the opportunities and challenges of living the tefilot, is truly priceless.” Jewishly in the 21st century. I’m especially honoured to His colleague, Jon Mitzmacher, beginning his third serve at Temple Israel as a steward of inclusivity and year as head of school at OJCS, said the infusion of tikkun olam.” new leadership at his and other institutions in the Rabbi Gavriel Rudin, the new spiritual leader of community inspires him. Young Israel of Ottawa is also “very excited to be part “Part of my decision-making process that brought of the new leadership in the Ottawa Jewish community me to Ottawa was not only the potential that I saw in at this crucial time.” the school, but the potential I saw in the Jewish com- “There is so much potential for growth,” said Rabbi munity. I am confident that our success at the school Rudin, “and the positive energy from other communi- – in growth, in excellence and in word of mouth – is ty members and leaders creates the ideal atmosphere tightly bound to the renewed commitments between to allow this to happen. Since moving here, I have had our institutions. It is a blessing to work and live in a a number of conversations with my colleagues about Jewish community whose institutions truly view them- how we can help bring the community to the next selves as partners, invested in each other’s successes,” level. I look forward to turning those ideas into actions said Mitzmacher. Rabbi Dov Nimchinsky, the new principal of the Milan Topolovec Orthodox high schools Ottawa Torah Institute (for B.A., TEP, CLU, CHS, RCIS. boys) and Machon Sarah (for girls), had been in Otta- From his two operating companies wa just 10 days when he spoke to the Ottawa Jewish and with over 33 years of Bulletin. He said that much of his career “has been professional experience, Milan spent bringing Jewish education, Torah education, to brings a unique knowledge base, deep contact base, and an smaller communities. unparalleled ability to drive the “What I see in Ottawa is a city that is very warm L’SHANA TOVA! process forward for his clients. and welcoming, filled with a tremendous amount of potential and energy. The city is at a turning point, ready to step forward. It’s a point where it’s coming Rabbi Boruch Perton is the new head of Torah Day School of See Leaders on page 8 Ottawa.

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BY MATTHEW HORWOOD of the Jewish Superhighway. omedian Elon Gold began his Rabbi Bulka acknowledged the three performance at the Jewish Fed- donor families – Barbara Crook and Dan eration of Ottawa’s 2020 Annual Greenberg, Roger and Robert Greenberg, Campaign Kickoff – September and the Stephen Greenberg family – for WELLINGTON IMAGERY C10 at the Algonquin Commons Theatre – once again creating the Challenge Fund, (From left) Jewish Federation of Ottawa President and CEO Andrea Freedman, Annual Campaign by taking a video of the sold-out theatre which is in its second and final year. Co-Chair Karen Palayew, Kickoff Co-Chair Evelyn Silverman, Annual Campaign Co-Chair Rabbi Reuven Bulka, headliner Elon Gold, Kickoff Co-Chair Howard Silverman and Federation Chair filled with Ottawa Jews. “The bar is high,” said Rabbi Bulka, Michael Polowin gather at the dessert reception following Gold’s performance. Gold said he did this to prove a friend following the record success of the 2019 wrong – a friend who’d told him, “There Annual Campaign. He joked that he are no Jews in Ottawa.” hoped Gold’s performance would “trans- branches and a big lemon in every direc- “The area code is 613. It doesn’t get late into money for the Federation’s tion like we won something,” Gold said. more Jewish than that. Every time you Campaign.” Gold said because of kashrut, Jews pick up the phone it’s a mitzvah,” Gold The 2020 Annual Campaign video, are obsessed with “time, food and tim- said. featuring Palayew and Rabbi Bulka and ing our food.” Non-Jews would never Kickoff Co-Chairs Howard and Evelyn individuals impacted by programs from ask each other how long they wait to eat Silverman hosted the evening. along Ottawa’s “Jewish Superhighway,” dairy after eating meat, as the answer When the couple was first asked to was shown before “community comedi- would be, “I’m eating a cheeseburger host the event, Howard said, they “were ans,” representing several Jewish orga- right now, so I guess zero minutes.” surprised and took time to reflect on nizations participated in a joke-off and “I wear two watches. Some people what the community means to us and spoke briefly about the importance of ask, ‘New York and Los Angeles?’ Nope, why we chose Ottawa as our home.” their organizations to Ottawa’s Jewish it’s for meat and dairy,” Gold joked. Evelyn said while Jewish communities community. One of Gold’s funniest routines was around the world are known for welcom- The community comedians includ- a satirical impression of U.S. President ing newcomers, Ottawa’s Jewish commu- ed Ottawa Jewish Community School Donald Trump on fast-forward. Another nity is made special by its humility. graduate Itzy Kamil, who also acted as hilarious routine had Gold simultane- “We have a wonderful, close-knit MC for the comedy show; Irwin Kreis- ously impersonating an Israeli and an and caring community that prides itself man, past-president of the Bess and Italian-American New Yorker as they ask on being modest, yet committed,” she Moe Greenberg Family Hillel Lodge; each other, “You got a problem?” WELLINGTON IMAGERY said. “Chairing Kickoff has deepened Rabbi Boruch Perton, Head of Torah Day Comedian Elon Gold performs at the Jewish Gold said while he has heard many our sense of pride and belonging to this School of Ottawa; Camp B’nai Brith of Federation of Ottawa 2020 Annual Campaign people say, “We live in crazy times,” community.” Ottawa staffer Jill Doctor with campers Kickoff, September 10, at Algonquin modern day problems pale in compari- Annual Campaign Co-Chairs Karen Elliott O’Meara and Georgia Smith; and Commons Theatre. son to biblical problems. Palayew and Rabbi Reuven Bulka Tamir participant Yehuda Coodin. “Things have calmed down consid- encouraged the community to give gen- The brief bits by all of the community and reflecting. Our New Year’s is more erably. I have two brothers, and while erously and to take advantage of the comedians were a hit with the support- like everyone else’s morning after New there may be some underlying sibling $400,000 Challenge Fund, a matching ive audience before Gold’s headlining Year’s,” Gold joked. rivalry, I don’t have to worry that they incentive that will double the value of performance. Gold said he doesn’t like to criticize are going to sell me into slavery,” he all new and increased gifts this year. Much of Gold’s performance centred the traditions of other religions, such as joked. Palayew highlighted several new on “poking fun” at some of the unique Ash Wednesday for Christians, because The Annual Campaign Kickoff Federation initiatives, including Jewish aspects of Judaism. For example, Gold Jews have “all these holidays, rituals and wrapped up with a dessert reception in Experience Microgrants and Jewish said while New Year’s celebrations for traditions with their own sort of weird- the theatre lobby, where audience mem- Jumpstart, and encouraged the audience non-Jews often involves partying and ness… We have a holiday where every bers had the chance to meet and take to support Federation’s ongoing vision drinking, “Jews are in shul repenting day for a week we shake giant palm photos with Gold.

Wishing you a happy New Year filled with good health, peace, and prosperity.

SHANA TOVA! of her earnings to charity

OVER September 23, 2019 4 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Woodstock and its relevancy to our community Jewish Federation of What I take away from this for Jewish highway is resonating and people are Ottawa is two-fold. Firstly, despite our helping to build it, with more and more Ottawa President and differences, we should prioritize finding people beginning or expanding their common ground and focus our efforts in Jewish journeys. CEO Andrea Freedman these areas. Secondly, we have a respon- reflects on lessons we sibility to help others and provide for WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE those who are in need. WOODSTOCK ATTENDEES can learn from the If something is important enough to WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM WOOD- you, then you are willing to endure and legendary rock festival. STOCK’S FOUR JEWISH ORGANIZERS be inconvenienced for it. To be honest, Dream big and don’t let anything stand no showers, sleeping on the ground, and recently watched a documentary in your way. There are always problems having to walk miles and miles to get on Woodstock, produced to com- and there will always be naysayers who to the festival site does not sound like memorate the 50th anniversary, claim it cannot be done. Before the festi- fun to me. But being part of something last month, of the legendary 1969 val, Woodstock’s organizers almost didn’t greater than yourself seemed worth the Imusic festival. While the largest crowd PETER WAISER have a venue. When the festival got sacrifices to a generation of young peo- “When we work collectively to build Jewish estimates were 500,000 attendees, like life… We truly are changing the world,” writes underway, problems included hundreds ple who wanted desperately to believe all seminal events, I suspect that two mil- Federation President and CEO Andrea of thousands more people than they they could change the world. lion people now proudly claim to have Freedman. prepared for, not enough food, too much Jewish life is not always easy. There been there! And many more have a story rain, too many drugs, and the complete are 613 separate mitzvot (command- they tell about personal connections to inability for cars to get in and out of the ments) – and 365 of them are don’ts. the festival; some of these stories might umentary on Woodstock, and begin to festival grounds – to name but a few. But There are expenses. There are disagree- even be true. ponder its relevancy for Ottawa’s Jewish if your vision is strong and clearly articu- ments on how we observe, and we have Max Yasgur, a successful Jewish dairy community. In this case, I believe there lated, the impossible becomes possible. disparate political points of view. farmer who, by most accounts, was a are three fundamental lessons. In terms of Jewish Ottawa, the past But when we work collectively to staunch Republican and supporter of year has been all about building the Jew- build Jewish life. When we engage the Vietnam War, rented his farm, to the WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM MAX YASGUR ish Superhighway. It is a metaphor for newcomers to the community. When chagrin of his friends and neighbours, It is important to dialogue with the meaningful Jewish experiences, where we take care of the vulnerable. When a so that Woodstock could take place after “other” and respect their rights. Yasgur Jewish life is vibrant and no one is left child learns the aleph-bet. When an iso- the festival was not welcomed by other was not a fan of the counterculture. behind. The idea of the Jewish Super- lated senior receives compassionate care. towns in the Catskills. He did not like how hippies dressed or highway has inspired giving at unprec- When we support the Jewish State of I suppose an occupational hazard of wore their hair, but he respected free- edented levels and through strategic Israel. We truly are changing the world mine is to view most things through the dom of expression. He rented his land funding – for example, Jewish Jumpstart … one person at a time. prism of the work I am privileged to do. for money and ended up providing the and Microgrants – it has created tremen- I am truly excited to continue build- When I go to a museum, I spend time “kids” with free food and water, for the dous positivity and momentum in our ing the Jewish Superhighway with all of looking at the donor wall. I watch a doc- simple reason that they were hungry. community. I believe the Jewish Super- you in 5780!13 Take the Foundation Legacy Challenge to help ensure the future of Ottawa’s Jewish community

id you know that specifying a while at the same time, benefiting com- In a 2014 column in the Ottawa Jew- He says the offer of reimbursement gift to an Ottawa Jewish Com- munity,” said Roth in a spotlight posted ish Bulletin, Lynne Oreck-Wener, then for his legal fees “was timely because I munity Foundation fund in on the Foundation website. chair of the Foundation, noted, “Each of was thinking about revising my will for your will reaps great results in “Almost 30 people have taken advan- us has the power to make a difference a number of reasons, including making Densuring the long-term sustainability of tage of this opportunity, pledging an and ensure that we leave a personal leg- a legacy donation to the Sam and Mary our community? estimated $4.3 million dollars,” says acy. Individuals of all means can make Shaffer Memorial Fund.” And did you know that if you leave Foundation Director of Development a tremendous impact [and] by making a Shaffer says he decided to participate a gift to the Foundation in your will Micah Garten, “of which $1.3 million has legacy gift, the causes we support in our in the Legacy Challenge “because upon of $10,000 or more, or one per cent or already been received. lifetime can continue to reap the ben- my death I wanted to make a larger than more of your estate, the Foundation Once these gifts are realized, Garten efits of our philanthropy in perpetuity usual donation to the fund that I set up Legacy Challenge will reimburse your notes, they will generate hundreds of (May 12, 2014).” to honour my parents” so that it con- legal fees (up to $1,000) to create this thousands of dollars for the chosen ben- “I look at the act of establishing a tinues “to give annual donations to the bequest or codicil. eficiaries. legacy in your will through the Foun- fund’s designated beneficiaries.” The Foundation Legacy Challenge Garten explained that gifts to Foun- dation not only as a good deed, a mitz- “I think it’s a great idea,” Shaffer adds. was announced in 2011 by then-incom- dation funds are invested and the spec- vah, enabling you to support the causes “Donors like myself can insert a clause in ing Foundation chair Richard Roth who, ified beneficiary agency will receive a most important to you in perpetuity, their wills, as I have done, to ensure that with his wife Riva, provided the seed dividend of four per cent annually. That but also as a smart financial tool and a the annual donations continue, and to money to be used to pay the legal fees $1.3 million already received resulted in great example of philanthropy for your give their executors the power to make of community members wishing to cre- disbursements last year of $52,000 to children,” wrote Oreck-Wener in a fol- appropriate changes to donations and/or ate their Jewish legacy. beneficiaries including Camp B’nai Brith low-up column in the Bulletin the fol- beneficiaries if circumstances change.” “Riva and I started the Legacy Chal- of Ottawa, Hillel Lodge and the Jewish lowing year. “Legacy giving through the For more information on the Ottawa lenge with the hope of facilitating the Federation of Ottawa Annual Campaign. Foundation is a win-win for you, your Jewish Community Foundation Legacy conversation around legacy giving “I think the important thing about heirs, your estate and your community. Challenge, contact Director of Develop- through estate gifts. These are gifts a this is that anybody can do it. Anybody (April 13, 2015).” ment Micah Garten at mgarten@jew- person makes through their will. With can leave a percentage of their estate,” Bernie Shaffer is one of the commu- ishottawa.com or 613-798-4696, ext. 270, proper tax structuring, a legacy gift can says Garten. “It’s about adding a bequest nity members who has already answered who will be happy to explain the Legacy help families save money in estate taxes to your will.” the Legacy Challenge. Challenge process to you. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 5 2020 Campaign launched with laughter and community spirit

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Get involved – it is our responsibility to preserve, build, enhance our community

the Roman god Janus, whose two heads ensure the future and make it better feeling the ancient wounds of antisem- looked forward and back. and better. Smaller initiatives like Jew- itism more and more, none of us can In the first few months of my term as ish Jumpstart and Federation Micro- stand idly by and not get involved. chair of the Jewish Federation of Otta- grants enhance Jewish engagement at Involvement can take a variety of forms. wa, I have spent some real time looking the micro level. Larger initiatives, like Attend community and agency events; back. I have had meetings with a num- our largest-ever endowment to preserve get involved with our various agencies

FEDERATION FEDERATION REPORT ber of our larger community agencies, and enhance Jewish education in Otta- and Federation as a volunteer; donate MICHAEL POLOWIN, CHAIR, to learn more about who they are and wa, will increase engagement and bene- your time, and yes, your money, to help JEWISH FEDERATION OF OTTAWA what great work they do in our commu- fit our community for years to come. others, and your community. nity. I have learned a great deal, and the All of this, however, is built on the None of us can stand to the side esteem in which I hold our agencies has foundation given us by those who have waiting for community to be given to osh Hashanah and the Days of grown as a result. come before. Our community is a trust, us. It is the responsibility of all of us Awe are a time when we at once Yet I have also spent time looking given to us to hold for a time, and then to preserve, build and enhance. Get look back and forward. Our tra- forward. Over the spring, we finalized passed on, stronger than how we found involved. Like getting into the water, it ditions of looking back include our new five-year strategic plan, which it, to our children and grandchildren. can be intimidating at first, and then Rasking for forgiveness of our fellow man, is looking forward in a significant way. Our forebears, both actual and notional, it’s just wonderful. We have schools, and of Hashem, for wrongs committed We have tried to envision what will were giants. They built a community shuls, camps, and social agencies that in the past year. We visit our departed truly enhance our community over that from nothing, often having not much would love to have you join the effort! loved ones. Yet at the same time, we look period, and set our goals to achieve themselves. Can we, who have person- Melanie, our children, and I wish forward. The formula for the request we that enhancement. Truly, what our ally benefited from their labours, do you and those you love, a Shana Tova make of Hashem at Kol Nidre is expressed community needs is more engagement. anything less? Umetukah, and Gmar Chatimah Tova. in terms of the future, not the past. Engagement can be at the individual Community is our responsibility. Michael Polowin is the chair of the New years are like that. We look for- level, or in larger groups. We all must pitch in to help. In a time board of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. ward and back, at once. Indeed, in the Our community is embarking on a where the pressures of the outside He can be reached at secular calendar, January is named for range of exciting initiatives that will world seem to be growing; where we are [email protected].

Perfecting the world Ottawa Jewish Bulletin VOLUME 83 | ISSUE 19 on ourselves, or, in the language of The bowing of the the Kotzker rebbe, “arbeten af zikh.” Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, K2A 1R9 Yom Tov Aleinu can be Working on oneself and committing Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 like our own personal oneself to participate in perfecting Email: [email protected] the world are thus intrinsically inter- Published 19 times per year. © Copyright 2019 tekiah gedolah. twined through these liturgical rites, PUBLISHER the sounds heard, the songs sung – all Andrea Freedman seems so far away. of our communal and personal acts of EDITOR When we reach the shofarot moment prayer and reflection. Michael Regenstreif at services, we will pronounce the “When we are no longer able to

FROM THE THE FROM PULPIT PRODUCTION CONSULTANT Aleinu, a passage that began its liturgi- change a situation, we are challenged Patti Moran RABBI ELIZABETH BOLTON, cal life here, during Rosh Hashanah ser- to change ourselves,” teaches Victor BUSINESS MANAGER OR HANESHAMAH vices, and then found its way into every Frankl. What matters, he wrote, “is to Eddie Peltzman service, every minyan, every time a bear witness to the uniquely human The Bulletin, established in 1937 as “a force n Rosh Hashanah we reach out group of Jews prays. Each time we recite potential at its best.” for constructive communal consciousness,” for the perfection of the world, it, we bow and invoke its vision of one- Though each of us, individually and communicates the messages of the Jewish because on the first of Tishrei, ness and wholeness, “letaken olam,” to collectively, may have been buffeted Federation of Ottawa and its agencies and, as the city’s only Jewish newspaper, welcomes a we remember the world is like repair the entire world, for all peoples and challenged in a thousand ways, we diversity of opinion as it strives to inform and Oa newborn, crying out with new life and who dwell on this earth. are not powerless. The Days of Awe are enrich the community. Viewpoints expressed hopefulness. The bowing of the Yom Tov Aleinu a tool to root ourselves in the potential in these pages do not necessarily represent A personal way I understand this: I can be like our own personal tekiah for transformation that each year, each the policies and values of the Federation. remember well the moment that I real- gedolah. With our bodies, or the kava- call of the shofar, and each Aleinu can The Bulletin cannot vouch for the kashrut of advertised products or establishments ized that there would not be one day on nah (intention) we pour into the words, bring. unless they are certified by Ottawa Vaad which my newborn first-born would not we can make ourselves hollow, like the Our teruahs and our crying can be HaKashrut or a rabbinic authority recognized cry! It was her rightful, life-given need, ram’s horn. The filling of a vessel – us heard as calls of hope; our shevarims by OVH. for behind whatever might have been – with breath can remind us what we and our silence include sighs of longing, $36 Local Subscription | $40 Canada eliciting the persistent wail, the cries are capable of, and that reminder can our tekiahs and our songs can erupt $60 USA | $179 Overseas | $2 per issue were fundamental sounds of life and echo throughout the year. As the sound with optimism. Funded by the Government of Canada. growth, and therefore, of hopefulness. blows through the curves of shofar, On Rosh Hashanah, we reach out for A cry – something needs to change. as we bend our bodies, we take in the the perfection of the world and of our- ISSN: 1196-1929 Publication Mail Agreement No. 40018822 A cry – I am feeling. A cry – someone truth of the inevitability as well as the selves, knowing that next year, we will hear me, listen! A cry – soon, things will randomness of challenges we are dealt, reach out again, and the following year, Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Ottawa Jewish Bulletin be different, things must be different. and, at the same time, the power we and again and again. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, On Rosh Hashanah, we reach out for embody to rise to those challenges. So may it be, this year, for us all, and Ottawa ON K2A 1R9 the perfection of the world, and we cry, On Rosh Hashanah, we reach out for all who dwell on earth, a year of perfect- as the shofar cries, because perfection the perfection of the world by working ing the world. Shana Tova Umetukah. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 7

Who will form Israel’s next government? ing the April 9 election. The stumbling which is predicted to take 12 seats and EDITOR’S NOTES block was Yisrael Beiteinu party leader Yisrael Beiteinu which is predicted to This Rosh Hashanah edition of the Avigdor Liberman (a former defence win eight seats. If the Joint List and Ottawa Jewish Bulletin is one of the two and foreign minister) who insists that Yisrael Beiteinu join Gantz’s potential community-wide issues of the paper that exemptions from military service for coalition (and that’s a very big if), he we publish each year – the other is at haredi men studying Torah be ended. will be in a position to unseat Netanya- Passover – so the paper has been distrib- With that demand, Yisrael Beiteinu hu and form a government. Such a uted to many in the community beyond members will not serve in a coalition coalition would be precedent-setting as our regular subscribers. We hope you’ll with the haredi Orthodox parties – Israel’s Arab parties have never before want to subscribe and receive all 19 of

FROM THE THE FROM EDITOR whose support is crucial to Netanyahu’s participated in a governing coalition. the issues we publish each year. It’s the MICHAEL REGENSTREIF coalition numbers. Another scenario being discussed best way to stay informed and engage The last Smith Research poll published is Blue and White forming a pow- with Ottawa’s vibrant Jewish commu- before the election suggests Netanyahu’s er-sharing unity government with nity. An annual subscription is still just s a student of politics (my Likud Party could win 33 seats and that Likud. This is a scenario Liberman is $36 per year in the Ottawa-Gatineau BA and MA are in political his potential coalition partners (Yamina, said to favour, as it would mean the region. You can subscribe by calling our science), this is a fascinating Shas, and United Torah Judaism) could haredi parties could be sidelined on business manager, Eddie Peltzman, at time for me with the second win a total of 24 seats for a possible coa- the opposition benches. However, 613-798-4616, ext. 256. AIsraeli election in less than five months lition of 57 seats. If those predictions are there has been speculation that both about to take place on September 17 (after accurate, Netanyahu will again not have Gantz and Liberman would insist that Unfortunately, for technical reasons this issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin enough support to govern. Netanyahu step down from the Likud beyond our control, we have been goes to press but before it comes out), Netanyahu’s rival for the prime min- leadership. And Netanyahu has indi- unable to add or update content to our the October 21 federal election campaign ister’s office is Benny Gantz, a former cated that he’s not interested in such a website since August 9. We hope to here in Canada underway, and a possible chief of the Israel Defense Forces, who unity government. unveil a new version of the site in the election on the horizon in the United leads the Blue and White Party. That In all likelihood, it will be some time coming months. In the meantime, we Kingdom. As well, of course, the battle in last Smith Research poll suggests Blue before we know what’s to be. It typical- have created a blog – www.ojbulletin. the Democratic Party to see who will take and White could win 32 seats, putting ly takes weeks of wheeling and dealing blogspot.com – to post our columns, on Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. presi- them in a neck-and-neck horserace after an Israeli election to form a gov- some local articles and PDF versions of dential election is well underway. with Likud. erning coalition. But if neither block is new print issues. This Israeli election was called The poll suggests Blue and White’s able to form a governing coalition, there because Prime Minister Benjamin likely coalition partners (the Democrat- may be no other choice but a unity On behalf of the Bulletin staff – Patti, Netanyahu could not put together a ic Union and Labor-Gesher) could win government, as it is doubtful the public Eddie and myself – I extend our best governing coalition of at least 61 of the another 11 seats. The wild cards are the would stand for a third election in less wishes for a happy, healthy and sweet Knesset’s 120 seats in the weeks follow- Joint List (an alliance of Arab parties) than a year. New Year. Shana Tova Umetukah.

Trump’s claims of disloyalty are an outrage

and the present can so easily blend into support the Democratic Party although is not another world leader who sup- one. Most thinking Jews never forget there has always been a good number ports what he is doing or saying about that. of Jews who support the Republican Israel. Israel is so alone in the world, But when the proven pro-Israel pres- Party. The stereotype that all Jews sup- and when the United States has a presi- ident, the president who moved the U.S. port the Democratic Party in the United dent who is often over the top on Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem, launched a loy- States is as misguided as the long-held matters, the question for the medium alty grenade into the American election view in Canada that Jews vote Liber- and long term is whether Trump is cycle, it was the act of a crass and politi- al. Increasingly, not all Jews think the causing more harm than good. cally unsophisticated despot. same, pray the same, or vote the same. Since the birth of the State of Israel

IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS Despots don’t measure their words. And on both sides of the border, in 1948, every Rosh Hashanah has seen JASON MOSCOVITZ Despots dispose of subtlety as if it were support for Israel is not the only con- Israel in a state of war with most of poison. Despots laugh at political com- sideration when Jews cast their ballots. its neighbours, and this year, 71 years promise, and sometimes at necessary If that were the case, every Jewish vote later, there is not a glitter of hope that he recent rising intensity in tone political nuance and ambiguity. The would have gone to former prime min- peace is anywhere on the horizon. The and content from the president problem is, if there ever was a coun- ister Stephen Harper’s Conservative difference this year is the unworthy of the United States about the try that needs subtlety, compromise, Party, which we know didn’t happen. spectacle of Trump stirring the pot so State of Israel can’t possibly go nuance and ambiguity, it is the State of What Trump has done fits the ferociously. Tto a good place – even if the words are Israel. So, thank you President Trump pattern of his taking down long held There are those who think Trump supportive. The divisiveness of the presi- for your help. ways of doing politics. This time Israel says what needs to be said. The prob- dent in using Israel for his own domestic In this High Holy Day period you can and Jewish voters are made targets as lem is that so much time has passed political reasons is why nothing good imagine the renewed tension that will the president wings his way through without resolution and, rightly or will come of it. exist in U.S. synagogues when the sub- another outrage to get attention and, he wrongly, the fires of frustration with When President Donald Trump takes ject of Israel comes up, if it comes up. thinks, political advantage. Israel burn around the world. the few visceral anti-Israel voices in the Can you imagine the reluctance of rab- Talking about Jewish voters being The reality is how there is so much Democratic Party to say American Jews bis to mention the state of affairs in the disloyal to Israel, to America, or to both, difficulty for Israel in the world and can’t vote Democratic without being Holy Land? Tension is running high in is such a disgusting outrage that you while Trump may think he is helping, “disloyal,” as so many commentators all Jewish communities across the U.S. have to wonder if it is just a bad dream. there is no evidence of that. have noted, those words conjure up old Bluntly put, not all American Jews sup- But it’s not – not when Trump is the Perhaps, on this Rosh Hashanah, and ugly antisemitic boogiemen and port Israel’s perceived hardline views as most powerful leader in the world. we need to face the sad reality that our women from the past. It proves, how, their president does. Trump’s support of Israel is good to loud and powerful friend is not making when it comes to antisemitism, the past Traditionally, most American Jews have – but it is necessary to note there anyone feel any better. September 23, 2019 8 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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Continued from page 2 leadership is where that effort begins,” into its own,” said Rabbi Nimchinsky. said Michael Polowin, who became Fed- Veteran social worker and adminis- eration chair in June. trator Sarah Caspi is the new executive “I have spent my first two months director of Jewish Family Services of as chair meeting with the leadership of Ottawa. some of our community agencies,” he Caspi said she is “very excited” about said, “and I firmly believe that we are her new role, “as JFS is very special to in good hands as we move forward… Wishing all our friends and me. This year we celebrate our 40th year We are embarking on some of the most customers (and customers-to-be) a and I am proud of all the programs and exciting times in the history of Ottawa’s services that we offer,” she said. “I look Jewish community. The leadership we happy and healthy Rosh Hashanah! forward to continuing our excellent see around our community will encour- work for many years to come.” age all of us to get involved.” Go-Hut Toilet Rentals is the one and only portable restroom business which Caspi is pleased to be part of the new “I am personally, as is Federation, returns dividends to the Jewish community of Ottawa. professional leadership in the communi- committed to helping in every way Since 1988, Go-Hut Toilet Rentals has been assuring Ottawa-area customers of ty and looks forward to getting to know possible,” adds Freedman. “With all the widest range of equipment to serve their portable sanitation needs. From the small- all of the new leaders. “The Ottawa Jew- the strong new leaders and the over- est Porta-Potty to large fully-equipped special-event trailers and shower trailers, we ish community benefits when we work whelming success of recent Federation strive to provide solutions for customers’ needs. And we do it in both English & French together to support our community.” initiatives, the future of Ottawa’s Jewish – and Yiddish and Hebrew if pushed! “Building and preserving our com- Superhighway is very bright. Our com- Our connections to other professional service providers, both in the National Capital munity requires all of us, but energetic munity is in a great place right now.” Area and beyond, assures our customers of the availability of all the equipment and services needed for their events anywhere in Ontario, Quebec and neighboring areas. So next time you have the need to ‘go’ in the field, on the job, at the outdoor chasteneh or simcha, or wherever else, make your ‘contributions’ count for your com- munity. Show your community support: go Go-Hut!! Please support our advertisers and tell them you saw their advertisement See our full equipment range and in the get a quote at: www.Gohut.ca Or call us at Go-Hut Toilet Rentals 613-247-0607 Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. email: [email protected] September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 9 Jewish Experience Microgrants create funding opportunities for unique initiatives in the community

BY MATTHEW HORWOOD hanks to generous dona- tions to the Jewish Federa- tion of Ottawa’s 2019 Annu- al Campaign, organizations Tand individuals in the community have begun benefitting from Fed- eration’s Jewish Experience Micro- grants program. The Jewish Experience Microgrants program is meant to fund events, projects and initia- tives that “connect people, meet a unique need, or fill a gap in our Jewish community.” The new iteration of Microgrants grew out of the Federation’s Emerging Generation Grants program, and was developed to align with Federation’s Jewish Superhighway initiative. Rabbi Idan Scher of Congregation Machzikei Hadas leads the blessings at a Sharon Diamond, chair of the pre-Shabbat dinner, July 12, at the home of Gail and Dan Pfeffer in Gatineau. The Committee for Jewish Experience dinner, for Jews living in Gatineau, was supported by a Jewish Experience Microgrants, said Federation Microgrant from the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. wanted to broaden the EG Grants program to “create more opportun- more affordable for the hosts – Gail the book club grew in size, mem- ities to engage different demo- and Dan Pfeffer – to offer their bers began hosting the gatherings graphics, backgrounds and levels home to host the dinner. at their homes. of connection to Jewish Another Jewish Experience Mallach said the PJ Library Book community.” Microgrants recipient was the Club applied for a microgrant Diamond said Jewish Experience Ottawa Kosher Food Bank (OKFB) because members believed it Microgrants will fund up to 75 per for its Stock the Freezer program, would be a great way to offset the cent of the cost of a project, and in which community members costs associated with hosting the can provide up to $2,500 in fund- prepare dishes to be frozen for gatherings, as well as “ensure the ing, decided on a “case-by-case distribution to OKFB clients. long-term sustainability of the basis.” Dahlia Milech, manager of the club.” Once an application is submit- OKFB, said the first session of Stock Mallach said the microgrant will ted, it is reviewed by the Jewish the Freezer was geared toward bar enable the club to “continue to Experience Microgrants mitzvah-aged students and their thrive and hopefully grow over the Committee. When an application is parents, and the next four sessions next year or two.” approved, a funding agreement is will have different community Other Jewish Experience finalized between Federation and groups preparing foods. Microgrants have funded a Shabbat the microgrant recipient. OKFB received a $1,000 micro- Shopify Dinner held in the ByWard The Gatineau Pre-Shabbat grant, which was spent on ingredi- Market for young professionals, Dinner, organized by Congregation ents and packaging materials. screenings of the films “Monkey Machzikei Hadas on July 12, Milech said she didn’t think the Business” and “Punk Jews,” and a happened in part due to a Jewish program could have been possible community Havdalah potluck Experience Microgrants. without the funding. dinner at Stanley Park. Stacy Goldstein, director of “I think it was initially very Diamond said the Jewish com- community building at important to use Jewish Experience munity’s interest in Jewish Congregation Machzikei Hadas, Microgrants in order to create Experience Microgrants has been said the aim of the pre-Shabbat knowledge of what this program “significantly higher” than she dinner was to serve Jews who are actually is, create interest and work expected it would be. underserviced due to their geo- out the kinks before going further “As somebody who has really graphic distance from the “Jewish with it,” she said. been in the weeds in this commun- superstructure,” specifically those The PJ Library Book Club – which ity, I love seeing the new ideas living in Gatineau and Orleans. was created three years ago to allow coming through and success “We wanted to take down women to discuss books and stories coming out of it,” Diamond barriers and give Gatineau’s Jewish socialize – received an $800 Jewish said. “So reach out to Federation if families the chance to meet and Experience Microgrant to cover you have an idea.” develop their own community expenses associated with hosting Visit https://jewishottawa.com/ identity in Gatineau,” she said. meetings at member’s houses. giving/jewish-experience- Goldstein said the microgrant Emma Mallach said members microgrants for more information offset the costs associated with the would initially meet at the Soloway or to apply for a Jewish Experience dinner, made it inexpensive for Jewish Community Centre. But as Microgrant. families to attend, and made it September 23, 2019 10 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM $400,000 Challenge Fund returns for 2020 Annual Campaign

BY MATTHEW HORWOOD Microgrants; $240,000 for increased n advance of the Jewish Federation care for the vulnerable; and $25,000 to of Ottawa’s 2020 Annual Campaign, a fund for excellence in supplementary three generous donor families came schools. together for a second and final year “The Challenge Fund is a unique Ito create a $400,000 Challenge Fund way of encouraging others to give so to match new and increased gifts to the our Jewish community can continue to Annual Campaign. flourish,” said philanthropists Barbara Through the Challenge Fund, gifts Crook and Dan Greenberg, who created from new donors, and the increase in the $400,000 Challenge Fund in 2018 gifts from previous donors are matched. with Roger and Robert Greenberg, and Thus, new donors’ gifts are effective- the Stephen Greenberg family. ly doubled, as are the amount of any Rabbi Reuven Bulka, co-chair of the increase in the gifts of previous donors. Annual Campaign, said last year’s chal- The 2019 Challenge Fund resulted lenge fund was “successful beyond our in $1 million in new funding available imagination.” Rabbi Bulka said he is for Federation to support four key pri- confident the community can meet the orities: Jewish education, Jewish expe- high bar that was set last year. riences, care for the vulnerable and Rabbi Bulka credited some of the security. success of the Challenge Fund to Aviva Ottawa’s two Jewish day schools – The generosity of the Challenge Fund donors and Ottawa’s Jewish community are helping to Ben-Choreen, co-chair of the 2019 Annu- build and maintain the Jewish Superhighway. the Ottawa Jewish Community School al Campaign, and to Karen Palayew, the (OJCS) and Torah Day School of Ottawa 2020 co-chair, who he said are both “ter- – received a total of $113,500 in strategic rific and hard workers.” funding and $76,000 for special educa- Jewish congregations. nity building at Congregation Machzikei Rabbi Bulka said he hopes the 2020 tion support from the 2019 Challenge For synagogue membership costs, the Hadas, said Jewish Jumpstart has been Challenge Fund will “set the tone for the Fund in addition to other funds. Jewish Jumpstart grant covers up to 75 “really enriching for a lot of people.” next generation to realize that commu- Jon Mitzmacher, head of OJCS, said per cent in the first year and 50 per cent “I spoke to people who have been nity doesn’t get built out of nowhere, the Challenge Fund allowed the school in the second year, while for SJCC mem- coming to our shul for years for ser- and everyone has a part to play.” to “better meet the needs of students bership costs, the grant covers up to 60 vices and never got a membership, but Jewish Federation of Ottawa Presi- with diverse learning needs.” per cent for the first year and 40 per because of this program they decided dent and CEO Andrea Freedman said Mitzmacher said with the extra fund- cent for the second year. Of the over 125 this was the year they would join,” she she feels “ecstatic” that the generosity ing, OJCS was able to purchase new Jewish Jumpstart applicants, 57 per cent said. of the Challenge Fund donors and Otta- furniture and devices for children with are families with children, and nearly 60 Patrice Berdowski, the SJCC member- wa’s Jewish community are allowing the special needs (including voice-to-text per cent recently moved to Ottawa. ship director at the SJCC, said over 30 Jewish Superhighway to be built and devices, sound-cancelling headphones, Jewish Jumpstart has incentivized families have joined the centre thanks maintained. special chairs and desks), to purchase families and individuals to join Kehillat to Jewish Jumpstart, including “many Freedman said Federation aims to a new diagnostic tool for English-lan- Beth Israel, Congregation Machzikei young families, a base we want to reach use the Challenge Fund to make invest- guage reading and train the faculty in Hadas, Temple Israel, Or Haneshamah, out to.” ments that are “strategic, nimble and its operation, and increase resource con- Ottawa Torah Centre Chabad, Young Berdowski said several families have not permanent allocations,” but which tact time for children in both Hebrew Israel of Ottawa, Adath Shalom Congre- told Septemberher they had been wondering Home how are infusions of cash that make a differ- and French. gation, Congregation Beit Tikvah – and to fit the SJCC into their budget, “and ence for community members and the “As a trilingual school, we have the SJCC. 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BY MATTHEW HORWOOD and Alec Mills, while Snir’s are Mira and ttawa’s new shinshinim, Hila Ari Breiner. Beldoch and Snir Dachboach, Hila said she initially felt over- arrived here August 26 to begin whelmed when she arrived in Canada, a year of volunteer service in but her host family has showed her Othe Jewish community. around the community and made her Hila, from Haifa, and Snir, from feel welcome. Snir said his host family Barken, are Ottawa’s fourth pair of has also given him a warm welcome, shinshinim. The Jewish Federation of and he feels “almost like I am at home Ottawa’s Shinshinim Program brings in Israel.” young Israeli emissaries – on a gap year Federation Director of Community between high school graduation and the Collaboration Kara Goodwin said Hila beginning of their military service – to and Snir will be a great asset to Ottawa’s Ottawa for a year of volunteer service. Jewish community. They work with young people in Jewish “Like the rest of the community, schools, congregations, and camps to I look forward to building a strong help enhance their Jewish identities and relationship with them and learning ties to Israel. more about Israel and Jewish life by Hila said that while travelling with being their friend and co-worker,” her high school’s delegation to Uruguay she said. and Argentina, she met shinshinim there Hila said while in Ottawa, she would MATTHEW HORWOOD and was inspired to join the program. Newly arrived Israeli Shinshinim Snir Dachboach (left) and Hila Beldoch enjoy a moment in the like to get to know people in the com- “I never knew about the whole Jew- sun outside the Soloway Jewish Community Centre, August 29. munity and become involved in as many ish world outside Israel, and I got very different projects as possible. interested in it,” she said. Snir said his main goal while in Otta- Snir said he heard about the Shin- airport in Israel, when she was warmly first-hand while in Ottawa. wa is to “represent Israel the best I can,” shinim Program from a friend who was welcomed by Ottawan Nicole Goldstone “We met with the Federation staff and said he also has a “big dream” of doing a year of service in Baltimore. and staff from the Jewish Agency. today, and after having met them I feel bringing all the different Ottawa syn- “What attracted me most is the fact “She came over to us and said every- very confident approaching people to agogues together for an activity. Snir that I can connect with a variety of Jew- one in Ottawa was so excited to meet us. talk with them,” he said. encouraged Ottawa Jews to visit with ish communities here in Ottawa, and I felt like a celebrity,” Hila said. The shinshinim stay with host fami- the shinshinim and “not be afraid to ask connect them to Israel,” Snir said. Snir said his Israeli friends told him lies while they are in Ottawa, becoming things about Israel or about us.” Hila said her first impression of Can- about Canada’s “polite and warm cul- part of the families and their day-to-day “I am sure we will have a good year. ada happened while she was still at the ture,” and he has already witnessed this lives. Hila’s first hosts are Sari Zelenietz I’m very excited,” Snir said. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 13 Federal Election: Help ensure Jewish community issues and priorities are understood and appreciated

including a robust plan to track online should ensure the ethnic origin question ing disabilities currently claim the DTC. GUEST COLUMN hate, prevent online hate through edu- is amended to prevent underreporting of A Senate study noted that people with cation, and make better use of legal Jewish Canadians in the next census. certain disabilities are disadvantaged ALLYSON GRANT tools to stop online hate. The Justice Under the Elections Act, federal elec- by the application criteria. The federal CIJA Committee study was an excellent tions take place every four years on the government should reform the DTC to first step. Now, the federal government third Monday in October. Unfortunately, ensure it is more inclusive, particular- should create a national strategy to this fixed date often overlaps with the ly for those with non-physical and/or tackle this issue using the Justice Com- Jewish High Holy Days, as was the case episodic disabilities that make gaining he federal election campaign is mittee’s report as a foundation, and the in 2008 and this year. On High Holy employment difficult or impossible. now in full throttle in anticipa- effort should include a significant focus Days, observant Jews cannot work, drive, Talking about these issues with your tion of Election Day, October 21. on online antisemitism, referencing the or write – basic activities required of can- candidates will ensure Jewish communi- The preceding weeks will pro- International Holocaust Remembrance didates, volunteers, and voters. Elections ty priorities are understood and appreci- Tvide many opportunities to engage with Alliance definition of antisemitism. Canada provides significant alternatives ated when the next federal government local candidates seeking support at com- From 2011 to 2016, the number of for voters who wish to cast their ballot is formed. So, make sure to take every munity events, townhalls, or front doors Canadians who reported they are Jewish early, including advance polls and spe- opportunity to engage with local can- – and it is important for all candidates to by ethnic origin dropped by more than cial ballots, ensuring all Jewish voters didates this election season, and enjoy hear from the Jewish community. half. This was due not to demographic can participate. However, this requires what is sure to be an exciting race! By combining our voices, we are change but to the removal of “Jewish” as advertising and awareness campaigns – To learn more about this issues and more likely to be heard. After consulta- a specific example in a census question, as well as logistical efforts – to engage the many other on our community’s tion with grassroots community mem- which, in previous census surveys, had Jewish voters. Advance voting options agenda, please refer to CIJA’s Feder- bers, Jewish agencies, organizations been regularly included as an example can also coincide with Jewish High Holy al Election Issus Guide which can be and institutions, the Centre for Israel alongside other ethnic origins. If this Days, and observant candidates and downloaded at www.cija.ca/election43. and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), the advoca- omission is not corrected for 2021, the volunteers face even greater challenges. Allyson Grant is the advocacy adviser cy agency for the Jewish Federation of work of Jewish charities will be drastical- The next federal government can avoid to the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and Ottawa, has identified several key issues ly undermined. Jewish federations and this entirely by moving the fixed election director of government and university for discussion with your local candidate federation-funded social service agen- date to later in the calendar to avoid all relations at the Centre for Israel and Jew- during this election. cies collectively spend tens of millions future scheduling conflicts with the Jew- ish Affairs. Real-world violence – including lethal of dollars annually on charitable work ish High Holy Days. You can learn more The Jewish Federation of Ottawa, CIJA antisemitism – can be fueled by online throughout Canada, including projects to about voting options for this year’s feder- and CJPAC will host “The Federal Election, hate and radicalization, as seen in recent support seniors, alleviate poverty, educate al election at CIJA’s Election Hub. the Jewish Community and You,” an eve- attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and students, and integrate new Canadians. www.cija.ca/election-hub ning of awareness, discussion and educa- San Diego County and on mosques in This vital work requires access to accurate The Disability Tax Credit (DTC) has tion about the upcoming federal election, Christchurch and Quebec City. In 2019, census data providing a clear portrait proven to be a pillar of the financial on Thursday, October 3, 7 pm, at the Solo- the House of Commons Justice Com- of Jewish communities across Canada. health of Canadians with disabilities or way Jewish Community Centre. Admission mittee conducted a study of online hate While Statistics Canada is working to special needs. Unfortunately, fewer than is free but advance registration at https:// and made a series of recommendations, address the issue, the federal government 40 per cent of adults who report qualify- tinyurl.com/y3jcb5sn is required. Remembering Shirley Berman 1930-2019 ation for history, and the importance of began his post-graduate work at Univer- Shirley Berman, founder of the Ottawa community memory, was an inspiration. sity of Toronto. Jewish Archives, died at home in Ottawa on Shirley was born in Toronto in 1930, Shirley arrived in Ottawa in 1957, with the daughter of Baruch (Benjamin) and her husband, when Shier began work at September 2, at age 89, following a courageous Helena (Freedman) Hettler. Shirley and the National Research Council. Shier Berman met in Toronto through While Shirley was not a degree hold- battle with cancer. Two of her successors at their shared Zionist youth interests. ing archivist, she took archival training They married on May 24, 1951 in Toron- courses at Carleton University and the Archives, current archivist Zoe Thrumston to and shortly afterwards spent a year the National Archives of Canada. She and retired archivist , remember in New York to lead a Zionist youth became executive secretary of the Otta- Dawn Logan movement called Dror Habonim. They wa Jewish Historical Society in 1972 and Shirley and the impact she and her work had returned to Toronto in 1953 when Shier See Berman on page 15 on them and on the community.

ZOE THRUMSTON WRITES… how well organized our vault was, by Hulse, Playfair This past summer, an acquisitions officer our metadata, by our online database, by from the Yad Vashem Archives in Jeru- our digitized photographs, and by how & McGarry salem made a visit to the Ottawa Jewish smoothly the archives ran. FUNERAL SERVICES Archives. She was on a cross-Canada While I was of course happy to receive tour, in search of material related to the the compliments, the credit really goes to Holocaust, including scheduled stops our founding archivist, Shirley Berman. Serving your community since 1925 Customer: in Toronto, Montreal, and at our own As the current archivist for the Otta- HULSE, PLAYFAIR Archives here in Ottawa. While she knew wa Jewish Archives, I cannot say enough & MCGARRY she would find some material of inter- about what a force Shirley was. Twenty 613-233-1143 www.hpmcgarry.ca Issue: JUNE 25, 2018 est, she was blown away by the scope years after she retired, Shirley routinely Colour: B&W of our small institution. For an archives stopped in to offer advice and check on Click and stay connected with us Size: 5” x 2.5” as small as ours, she was impressed by how things were running. Her appreci- Proof #: 4 September 23, 2019 14 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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MATTHEW HORWOOD Members of the Jewish community gather, August 25, before marching in the Capital Pride Parade. Jewish community participates in Capital Pride

BY MATTHEW HORWOOD tal support” of her rabbi. n enthusiastic delegation of people from the Lithwick said her role with CIJA involves advocat- Jewish community marched in this year’s ing for inclusivity, as well as working with local Prides Capital Pride Parade in Ottawa on August 25. to ensure that “Jewish spaces are queer friendly, and Marchers included representatives from the queer spaces are Jewish friendly.” AJewish Federation of Ottawa, the Centre for Israel and Lithwick said in the future, she would like to see Jewish Affairs (CIJA), Hillel Ottawa, Jewish Family Ser- broad participation from all the major congregations vices of Ottawa, Kehillat Beth Israel, Temple Israel, and and Jewish organizations in Ottawa. Or Haneshamah. “I think there has been a wonderful evolution over The parade was the culmination of the week-long the past 15 to 20 years, and it’s only going to get better. Capital Pride Festival, which included more than 60 We are all created in God’s image and we have a duty events held across the region. to both love our neighbour, and also love and care for Among the events was a potluck Shabbat dinner at the stranger,” Lithwick said. Temple Israel on August 16 and a Shabbat dinner at Miriam Izbinsky, who marched in the Pride Parade Kehillat Beth Israel, co-sponsored by Federation and for a second year in a row, said she attended to support CIJA, on August 23. her Jewish friends in the LGBTQ community. Jess Burke, who staffs CIJA’s LGBTQ2+ Advisory “I love coming out here and supporting them as Council, said the August 23 Shabbat dinner was attend- much as I can. People who are Jewish and are a part of ed by 170 people, which made it the largest Pride the Pride community need to be supported as much as Happy Rosh Hashanah! Shabbat dinner since CIJA first began hosting the din- possible,” she said. ner three years ago. This year’s Jewish Pride delegation included a home- CIJA received a grant from Federation’s Jewish Expe- made float: a car decorated with balloons and stream- rience Microgrants program to support the dinner, as ers, and topped with a giant inflatable unicorn. The car’s well as a tailgate party that took place before the Pride owner, Sasha Kathron, Jewish student life coordinator at From City Councillor Parade began. Hillel Ottawa, said she was “honoured” to march in the “We are very grateful to the Federation Microgrant parade as an ally of the LGBTQ community. Carol Anne Meehan program for their continued support on meaningful, “Times are changing and I think we are moving in engaging community programs,” Burke said. the right direction. I think we need to lead by example Burke was also enthusiastic about community par- and lead with love, not hate,” Kathron said. Ward 22 ticipation in Capital Pride. Jewish Federation of Ottawa President and CEO “Through this channel and our strong community Andrea Freedman said she makes a point of attending Happy Rosh Hashanah! partnerships with the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, Pride every year because she believes it’s important Temple Israel, Kehillat Beth Israel, Or Haneshamah for Jewish leaders in Ottawa to be allies to the LGBTQ and Hillel, we were able to mobilize a large marching community. Ward 22, Gloucester-South Nepean T: 613-580-2400 x 17022 contingent of both LGBTQ2+ Jewish community mem- “Seeing Ottawa come together to have community E: carolanne.meehan@o�awa.ca bers and allies,” she said. groups and businesses marching – as well as families Address: 110 Laurier Ave W, O�awa, ON Ward Office: 4310 Shoreline Drive, O�awa, ON Dara Lithwick, a member of CIJA’s LGBTQ2+ Advi- bringing their kids – was fantastic,” Freedman said. www.carolannemeehan.com sory Board, is a long-time supporter of Pride, having “It’s such a remarkable message of inclusiveness come out more than 20 years ago with the “instrumen- and care for our fellow citizens.” September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 15 Berman: A unique and dedicated voice Continued from page 13 held that position until 1998. Simultane- inception were saved. Early synagogue ously, Shirley began collecting the histo- records were also accumulated. Shirley ry of the Ottawa Jewish Community and understood the importance of these by the late 1970s, founded the Ottawa early building blocks. She worked close- Jewish Archives. ly with Hugo Levendel, who deposited Shirley’s foresight for the importance his invaluable collection of ByWard of memory keeping was unique. She saw Market photographs from the 1930s. She firsthand what our community needed, also made certain that groups such as and took the correct steps toward mak- the Labour Zionist Council of Ottawa ing it happen. Shirley will be remem- and Dror Habonim were properly repre- bered throughout the community for sented in the Archives. her efforts in creating and moving for- Shirley also maintained an interest in ward the community’s archives. Today, Jewish artifacts – including the Murray any researcher can comb through the Street Synagogue murals which she, along COURTESY OF OTTAWA JEWISH ARCHIVES Shirley Berman on vacation in the Florida Keys in 1996. archives’ holdings and recognize Shir- with art historian Reesa Greenberg and ley’s unique and dedicated voice. architect Martin Weil, saved – and collect- Shirley is survived by her husband ed them in the Archives with the hope of “Shirley Berman’s name was legion researched entry is now part of the Dic- Shier, their three children, Reva, Eli and eventually starting a small museum. in the history of the Ottawa Jewish tionary of Canadian Biography, v. XVI. David, and four grandchildren. When plans were formulated for the Archives,” said Janice Rosen, archivist This past May 23, Shirley attended the new Soloway Jewish Community Centre of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish first lecture in the Ottawa Jewish His- DAWN LOGAN WRITES… in the west end, Shirley made absolutely Archives in Montreal. In the 1970s, torical Society’s Shirley Berman Lecture Last March, Shirley Berman hosted a sure the Ottawa Jewish Archives would archives were not more than a few piles Series and took great delight that the luncheon for some of the former Otta- be part of the plan and the move. It was of documents sitting in a corner. By the lecture was entitled “Lillian Bilsky Frei- wa Jewish Archives archivists including a proud moment for her when the move ‘80s, the new buzz words were ‘sorting’ man: A life of Giving.” myself, Laurie Dougherty and Marcia occurred in 1999 into a space within and ‘classification’ and Shirley was in Shirley’s very last project was the Mordfield. It was a most enjoyable occa- the Greenberg Families Library which the thick of this.” editing, along with Judith Weinman, and sion and although we do not see each includes a large vault, a workroom and When Shirley stepped back from the publishing of Shirley Steinberg’s book, other often, there never was a lull in the an office. day to day operations of the Ottawa Men Darf Lakhn: A Collection of Yiddish conversation as we learned about our With this major move, Shirley Jewish Archives in 1999, she had time Skits, Plays and Monologues. various archival interests since leaving stepped back from day to day archi- to pursue other historical interests. At We are the richer for knowing Shirley 21 Nadolny Sachs Private. val work and Marcia Mordfield and I the top of her list was detailing the life Berman and her life of giving and the None of us will forget that event and became the archivists. of legendary community leader Lillian Ottawa Jewish community is richer for now we are thinking of Shirley, how we As Marcia recalled, “I don’t ever Bilsky Freiman. She reviewed all aspects her archival foresight, perseverance and met and her many accomplishments. remember Shirley coming into the of Freiman’s life and her thoroughly dedication in preserving its history. Shirley and I met through a public Archives to tell us we were not doing relations project for Those Pesky Weeds, things the way she had previously done the diary of Harold Rubin. A team of them. Instead, she embraced the change soon-to-be graduates of an archives and was our biggest supporter. She was technology course at Algonquin College a mentor of Dawn and Dawn became a S hana Tova from the Embassy took up Shirley’s request for posters to mentor to me. I like to think that I men- be used in promoting the book. Shirley tor archival professionals and therefore oversaw all aspects of the book’s pro- Shirley’s teachings are passed on. I will of Israel in Canada duction and reached out to this new miss her kindness, warmth and smile. archival course for assistance. It showed She is, and always will be, the reason how she was forever observant to new the Ottawa Jewish community has a pre- possibilities that would create interest in served history.” Ottawa Jewish history. Laurie Dougherty followed me as Shirley understood the need for archi- archivist. She described Shirley as a val publicity and early in her career, “widely known and respected person curated an important exhibition at the for her pioneering efforts in Ontario’s National Archives entitled “Journey small archival community in the 1980s. into our Heritage.” Lowertown tours She was a dedicated advocate for the and reunions were engineered by Shir- Ottawa Jewish Historical Society and ley and based around the York Street the Ottawa Jewish Archives for many Ambassador Nimrod Barkan and Dr. Shlomit Shulov Barkan School, which so many Jewish children years after her retirement.” wish you and your family a year filled with health and had attended. Shirley was a founding Laurie confided that she “learned a member of the Ottawa Jewish Historical lot about being a community archivist happiness Society and for many years she main- from Shirley. To her, it wasn’t just about tained a seamless thread of management collecting the records – it was about between the society and the Archives. documenting the lives of the people in The major vehicle for preserving the community. I looked forward to her Ottawa’s Jewish history was establishing occasional visits to the Ottawa Jewish the Archives at the Jewish Community Archives and feel privileged to have Centre on Chapel Street. It featured known her.” a temperature controlled vault and a Laurie added that one of Shirley’s bright workroom for researchers and major achievements was the series of staff. It was there that all the early edi- oral history interviews she conducted tions of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin and in the late 1970s, some of which were the Ottawa Jewish Telephone Directory in Yiddish. “She knew that by captur- were compiled, and the minutes from ing the actual voices of members of the meetings of the Jewish Community community, she was preserving more Council of Ottawa/Vaad Ha’ir from its than just stories for the next generation.” September 23, 2019 16 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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September 23, 2019 18 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Ottawa renames park in honour of Rabbi Bulka BY MICHAEL REGENSTREIF EDITOR ‘His commitment to proposal to rename Feath- helping others extends erston Park as “Rabbi Bulka Kindness Park” was approved to our community at by Ottawa City Council on Sep- large and is exemplified Atember 11, following a consultation peri- through his countless od in June and July in which the public was invited to submit comments on the contributions and work proposal to the city. with local and The park is being renamed in honour nationwide groups.’ of Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, rabbi emeri- tus of Congregation Machzikei Hadas. The park, on Virginia Drive in the Alta ness he has shown others and to inspire Vista neighbourhood, is adjacent to the others to do the same.” synagogue, which Rabbi Bulka served as “I am so delighted that the city park spiritual leader from 1967 until 2015. adjacent to the synagogue that Rabbi In addition to his leadership in the Bulka led for 50 years will permanently Jewish community – he is currently bear his name,” added Ron Prehogan, co-chair of the Jewish Federation of the committee’s other co-chair. “There Ottawa Annual Campaign and is a past can be no more deserving honouree co-president of the Canadian Jewish Con- than Rabbi Bulka, who has given so gress – Rabbi Bulka’s leadership in the much for so many years to the eternal broader local and national communities betterment of our community.” is well known. He is the founder of Kind “Beyond the many civic contribu- Canada, an organization committed to tions and his countless volunteer roles, spreading acts of kindness, he has played it is the private, behind-the-scenes man ASHLEY FRASER Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Machzikei Hadas, served as spiritual important leading roles in a number of whose day-to-day acts of compassion leader of the shul from 1967 until 2015. health care organizations, and has long and care that perhaps make the most played a role in national Remembrance impact. Rabbi Bulka is always, always Day ceremonies as honorary chaplain of helping others. From small deeds to the Royal Canadian Legion. big ones, he does everything with kind- “Our local Jewish community is bless- ness and good humour,” said Jewish ed to have a spiritual leader like Rabbi Federation of Ottawa President and Bulka call Ottawa his home. His commit- CEO Andrea Freedman. “Rabbi Bulka ment to helping others extends to our is unique in that he does much public community at large and is exemplified promoting of kindness, and at the same through his countless contributions and time, truly leads by example. Rabbi work with local and nationwide groups. Bulka makes time in his busy schedule The naming of this park is a small way to reach out, check in and offer support. Ottawa can express its gratitude to Rabbi And he does this for countless people. Stephen Bulka and recognize the significant He is an inspiration.” Victor impact he has on our community,” said “I have known Rabbi Bulka for most The Shirley Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson. of my life. I have played softball with Z”L “For over 50 years, Rabbi Dr. Reuven him, and against him. Melanie and I Bulka has worked tirelessly on behalf were married by him. Whatever he does, Berman of our community. His acts of kindness, he does with kindness and compassion, Sol Lecture Series unity and reconciliation continue to and not a little humour and wordplay,” Shinder in Conjunction with the serve as an inspiration to all who seek to added Federation Chair Michael Polow- Soloway JCC Presents: improve their communities. I support this in. “He is a leader in our community, commemorative naming without reserva- both Jewish and the broader city. He is The Jewish Legal tion,” said City Councillor Jean Cloutier, a scholar and a gentleman, in the truest Experience In Ottawa: whose Alta Vista Ward includes the park. senses of both words. Our community Lawrence The proposal to rename the park in and our city are better for his presence, Soloway History, Highlights and Heroes honour of Rabbi Bulka originated in a and we all look forward to that continu- (Series 1 - 1945-1970s) Machzikei Hadas committee organizing ing for many, many years.” a celebration of both the congregation’s Asked to comment on the honour, centennial and Rabbi Bulka’s half-centu- Rabbi Bulka responded with humility Soloway JCC, Salon “A” ry of leadership. and humour. October, 24, 2019, 7:30 PM Leonard “Since coming to Ottawa in 1967, “Thanks to everyone who had a hand Shore Everyone welcome Rabbi Bulka has not stopped helping in making this Kindness Park happen,” people regardless of their faith or back- said Rabbi Bulka. “Although I am too ground,” said the committee co-chair, old for the Monkey Bars, I hope to never No charge, but donations are welcomed Bram Bregman, who initiated the idea get too old to delight in others using the (receipts over $20) and led the process to rename the park entire park, bar none!” Abe contact [email protected] or call after Rabbi Bulka. “Permanently naming The City of Ottawa has not yet set a Feinstein 613-798-9818 x264 for more information a park in honour of Rabbi Bulka is a date for the official dedication of Rabbi most fitting way to recognize the kind- Bulka Kindness Park. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 19 A great summer at Ottawa’s Jewish summer camps

BY MATTHEW HORWOOD JCC Day Camp (ages 2-14) offered ttawa’s Jewish summer camps different themes each week, such as – Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa Digging for Dinosaurs, Summer Superhe- (CBB), JCC of Ottawa Summer roes, Animal Planet and Hollywood/Dis- Camps, and Camp Gan Israel – ney Extravaganza, as well as instruction- Oare all reporting they had strong, success- al swim lessons and a daily free swim. ful seasons. The Travelling Sports camp (Grades This year at CBB was an “absolute 2-9) takes kids to locations around Otta- success,” said Cindy Presser Benedek, wa to partake in a variety of sports, such director of the sleepaway camp located as windsurfing, tubing, go-carting, bowl- in Quyon, Quebec, about a 45-minute ing, zip-lining, gymnastics and swimming. drive from Ottawa. JCC Summer Camps also has more CBB’s mission is to allow children than 20 one-week specialty camps (ages aged seven to 16 opportunities to “expe- 5-15) which allow children to “learn a rience the outdoors, learn new skills new skill and be creative,” with themes and develop life-long friendships while such as JCC/Next Generation Hockey, enhancing Jewish values, traditions, Horseback Riding, Claymation/Anima- affiliation and community.” The camp tion, LEGO Robotics and Coding, and has numerous programs and activities Magical Mysteries. divided into three categories: athletics, Braun credits the success of JCC Sum- waterfront and arts. mer Camps to Ganon Preschool Direc- Benedek notes that CBB had an Israe- Israeli counsellor Liam Afota, one of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s 2018-2019 shinshinim tors Reesa Shinder and Angela Lowe, li flavour this year thanks to a record (second from left), with a group of boys preparing to go boating at Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa. and Soloway Jewish Community Centre number of Israeli staff – 17 in total – Youth Director Gail Lieff. who added to the campers’ experience This year, JCC Summer Camps by immersing them in Israeli culture launched a new Leaders-in-Training and allowing them to further their con- (LIT) program for kids entering Grade nections with Israel. 8, which was created to be separate “I heard many, many campers say from the already established Counsel- they were super excited to tell their lors-in-Training (CIT) program for those parents they had the opportunity to entering Grade 9. Braun said these pro- learn more about Israel, and wanted to grams are meant to teach kids the skills encourage their families to take them on needed to become a JCC camp counsel- a trip to Israel,” Benedek said. lor. “You still get to have the camp expe- CBB also had its largest ever number rience, but with a leadership role at the of counsellors-in-training, and Benedek same time,” he said. said the camp is “looking forward to Aaron Kaiman, associate director of hiring them next summer as part of our JCC Day Camps, said his primary focus junior staff.” was working within the day camps and CBB ended the summer with a collaborating with the CITs and LITs to “colour war,” with campers divided into ensure, “the kids are enjoying them- teams to compete in a series of challeng- selves and the camp counsellors are es to earn points over a three day period. engaging with them professionally.” Benedek said the Jewish summer camp Braun said for next year, JCC Sum- experience is a “valuable gift” that every- mer camps are looking at adding new one should consider giving their child. Ottawa Redblacks players Corey Tindal and Johnathan Rose play a game of touch football with specialty camps, such as a golfing camp. “It’s not just about going and expe- kids from the JCC Travelling Sports Camp during their visit on August 16. “We are always looking to improve and riencing the outdoors, but it’s also con- add features. The beauty here is if you necting with your community and being have an idea for a camp, you can make passionate about being part of a Jewish – which gave young families an opportu- from less than 1,800 in 2018. it happen,” Braun said. community,” she said. “We welcome all nity to visit the camp before camp sea- JCC offers three categories of summer Director Devora Caytak Director of families to come check us out.” son officially began to “experience camp camps, which Braun said allows parents Camp Gan Israel, located at the Jewish In fact, CBB began the summer with Shabbat and programming.” with several children to “put them all Youth Library, said the camp had 120 a family camp weekend – launched with Jon Braun, executive director of JCC over the place, and over the nine weeks registrations, an all-time record. a $2,000 Jewish Experience Microgrant Summer Camps, said there were more they can move them around and still Caytak said “Camp Gan Izzy” focuses on from the Jewish Federation of Ottawa than 2,000 registrations this year, up have them stay under one roof.” See Camps on page 28

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our years ago, the city of Ottawa Baruch has partnered with JCC Summer was without a kosher restaurant Camps to run the ‘Kids in the Kitchen’ serving the Jewish community specialty camp, which gives children and the Soloway Jewish Com- aged 10 to 14 opportunities to learn how Fmunity Centre (SJCC) did not have a to create dishes such as pizza, sushi, food service available for the hundreds challah and pasta from scratch. of people who use the building almost Baruch said he owes the success of every day. Babi’s to his employees and to his loyal But then Israeli chef Shabi Baruch customers. opened Babi’s Restaurant on the second “If my employees didn’t give 110 per floor of the SJCC. cent every day, it would never work. If Babi’s is a kosher dairy restaurant my customers didn’t tell their friends MATTHEW HORWOOD that offers all-day breakfast, a variety of and family and colleagues that we exist- Shabi Baruch enjoys a quiet moment at Babi’s, the kosher restaurant he runs on the second vegetarian dishes, house-made bread, ed, we would never grow,” he said. floor of the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. sandwiches, soups, smoothies and more. Asked about the most rewarding part Its bakery also makes fresh baked goods of his job, Baruch said he enjoys social- every day, such as muffins, scones, cook- izing with customers and seeing the ies and cakes. smiles on their faces. “That makes my Baruch said he’s worked in restau- day, every day.” rants, in “every position imaginable” Babi’s has a loyal cadre of customers, since he was 15, including at locations in among them Cara Kaiserman, who has New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. But frequented Babi’s since it first opened. She none of those big cities appealed to him said she enjoys the restaurant because of in the way Ottawa did. how friendly Baruch is and because the “The smaller city is definitely my food is “kosher and delicious.” thing,” he said. Josh Kumar, a yoga teacher at the In 2015, Baruch moved to Ottawa SJCC, is also a frequent diner at Babi’s –

and opened Babi’s. The name “Babi,” “at least three times a week.” MATTHEW HORWOOD he explained is a term of endearment in Kumar said he enjoys the restaurant Diners enjoy a meal at Babi’s, the kosher restaurant on the second floor of the Soloway Jewish Hebrew, especially in Sephardic families. because “the bread is amazing, Shabi is Community Centre. In addition to the restaurant at the always upbeat, and it’s a nice and quiet SJCC, Babi’s also offers a catering service place to meet and chat with people.” supplying food service to “anything you Meals from Babi’s are also now Babi’s is generally open Mondays to 27, Sunday hours will be 8 am until 4:45 can imagine,” said Baruch, including available for delivery on the Uber Eats Thursdays from 7 am until 6:45 pm, pm. The restaurant is closed on High meetings, bar and bat mitzvahs, brit app. Baruch says the delivery menu is Fridays from 8 am until 1:45 pm, and Holidays and long weekends. milahs, and shivas. expected to change and get bigger in the Sundays (until after the High Holidays) Visit www.babis.ca for menus and As well, for the past two years, coming months. from 9 am until 1:45 pm. As of October more information.

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Does the liturgy He will also return to Adath Shalom of the High Holidays primarily address abbi Shimshon Hamerman is to lead a Shabbaton on: Did God really our humanity or our Jewishness? joining Adath Shalom Congre- write the Bible? What does it mean if • Birth and Rebirth as a High Holi- gation once again as our spiri- yes? And what does it mean if not? days message. Are the High Holidays tual leader for this year’s High Rabbi Hamerman is a consummate about justice and punishment or are RHoliday services. educator. His knowledge of Jewish ethics they about birth and rebirth? Since retiring from his position as the and values is firmly based in an in-depth director of education at the Bronfman Jew- knowledge of biblical and Talmudic Rabbi Hamerman’s classes will address: ish Education Centre in Montreal, Rabbi texts, yet he is able to relate at both a • Hinneni. Abraham’s image as reflect- Hamerman has been working at various cultural and spiritual level with both ed in the narrative of the Akeida (the projects in Montreal which have added to practicing and secular Jews. His down- Binding of Isaac). his diverse teaching experiences. He has to-earth presentation style, peppered • Kaddish. So central; so many ver- been preparing pedagogical methodology with a vast store of practical examples sions; so many musical themes. A for École Maimonide, writing an Israel edu- and humour will inspire everyone. prayer for the living or the dead? cation curriculum for Bialik High School, Rabbi Shimshon Hamerman Universalism Rabbi Hamerman will deliver three and perhaps most interestingly, has been and Particularism during his High Holiday sermons and conduct two classes during Adath Shalom Congregation’s High helping to prepare educational materials sermons at Adath Shalom Congregation. the High Holidays and he will have run- Holiday services are egalitarian and for the Chassidic community. ning comments throughout the services, welcoming and will be held in the social In addition to his career in Jewish vices at Adath Shalom, where he taught helping to provide context and meaning. hall of the Soloway Jewish Community education, Rabbi Hamerman was the new melodies for Shabbat services and His sermons will address: Centre. To join us, please consult the cantor at Congregation Tifereth Beth did an analysis of Naomi Shemer’s • Universalism and Particularlism. Do High Holidays membership information David Jerusalem in Montreal for 21 years. classic song, “Jerusalem of Gold.” His we identify as Jewish first, or as part on the Adath Shalom website at Rabbi Hamerman recently led ser- children’s services are always greatly of humanity? Why be Jewish? www.adath-shalom.ca. Resolve to increase your JQ with JET Café Menorah: Fostering community and nutritious meals for those in need BY DANIELLE ALTONAGA, JET required to follow the conversation. osh Hashanah is traditional- For those living in or near Alta Vista, BY MAYER ALVO by providing a nutritious meal along ly a time of self-reflection, a Rabbi Michael and Danielle Altonaga host CAFÉ MENORAH with an opportunity to engage mem- time to make resolutions for a Shabbat meals, the Chocolate Circle, and e are pleased to bers of our Jewish community and better year. This year, make a Saturday Night Schmooze in their home. announce the launch of foster community connection. Rresolution with lasting impact. Resolve Young adults in their 20s and 30s Café Menorah, a month- The inspiration behind this pilot to increase your JQ (your Jewish IQ) by from all over Canada meet up regularly at ly free meal program for program is came from a similar pro- attending a class or program with JET the Glebe Shul where Rabbi Kasriel and Wthose in our community experienc- gram sponsored by Federation CJA (Jewish Education through Torah)! Pessie Gewirtzman host regular Shabbat ing financial hardship which often in Montreal. The program, estab- JET offers many exciting opportu- dinners, holiday parties, and classes, as compromises healthy eating. This lished 10 years ago, attracted 300 nities for anyone who is interested in well as launching a new program, BLT: collaborative initiative, supported participants, including many recent enriching their Jewish life. Those who Breakfast, Learning and Tefillin. by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa immigrants, experiencing financial attend Wisdom through Talmud or Beis “What the Glebe shul and JET has together with Jewish Family Services hardship, loneliness and isolation. Medrash Nights at Beit Tikvah or Young and continues to provide for us is of Ottawa, and hosted at Hillel Lodge, To be successful, the program Israel will have the chance to fine tune immeasurable. JET and the Glebe Shul is is designed to provide a nutritious will require individual and corporate their analytic skills under the mentor- interwoven into the fabric of our family meal to those in need while fostering funding to offset the cost of the food, ship of Rabbi Michael Altonaga. life,” says Justin Levine. a sense of community. as well as community volunteers to For text study and fascinating dis- This year, resolve to incorporate Jewish In a three-month pilot program, help serve the meals. To learn more cussion of the stories of the Chumash, learning into your life with JET. Feed your monthly meals will be hosted at Hillel about the program or to volunteer, classes like Bible Basics or Dive into soul, ask those big questions, meet new Lodge on October 24, November 14 and contact Mayer Alvo at cafemenorah@ Torah are given by Lauren and Rabbi people, make new friends, and celebrate December 10 between 5:30 and 7 pm. gmail.com or 613-729-8222. Zischa Shaps respectively and held regu- your Jewish heritage. Connect with your As a new collaborative program, Tax deductible donations may be larly at the Soloway Jewish Community Jewish community and with yourself! Café Menorah will complement made at www.tinyurl.com/cafemenorah Centre. Those who attend come from a For more information, visit www. other important support programs or by calling Jewish Family Services of variety of ages and backgrounds. Best jetottawa.com or contact JET at info@ that our community currently offers Ottawa at 613-722-2225. of all, no Hebrew or prior knowledge is jetottawa.com or 613-695-4800.

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BY DANIELLE SCHNEIDERMAN NA’AMAT OTTAWA from providing 15 basic bags to a project allowing 170 children to receive a multi- or many families, back to school is tude of supplies in new backpacks. This an expensive time of year. For oth- growth is thanks to major sponsors who ers, it is financially impossible. have generously provided grants for the School Supplies for Kids has project over the years. The Ottawa Com- Fbeen an annual project run by Na’amat munity Foundation is the major sponsor Ottawa for 20 years. This charitable proj- this year and support has also come from ect provides backpacks filled with school local corporate and individual donors supplies to more than 170 children who which allowed Na’amat Ottawa to contin- are being cared for in Ottawa region ue this important community program. domestic violence shelters. Na’amat volunteers purchase supplies One might ask why there is an and prepare a variety of packs geared urgent need for crayons, pencils, rulers to school age children. This ensures and notebooks at a domestic violence that the supplies for kids from elemen- shelter. tary through to high school will match Typically, battered women and their age-appropriate requirements. On pack- children arrive at shelters with little or ing day in late August, volunteers get to no money and very few possessions. meet representatives from the shelters Many arrive with just the clothes on as they hand off the backpacks. their backs. These moms and kids leave Na’amat, translated as “movement everything behind in the hopes of start- of working women and volunteers,” is a ing a new life and the children have to registered Canadian charity and part of Na’amat Aviva Chapter volunteers (from left) Anna Bilsky, Maria Rubin and Marian Lederman enter new schools for safety reasons. a worldwide progressive Jewish women’s pack school supplies for Na’amat’s School Supplies for Kids project. This experience alone is stressful and organization dedicated to improving the having no school supplies just adds to quality of life for women, children and their anxiety. families in Canada and Israel since 1925. Supply for Kids Project and Na’amat www.naamat.com or contact us at The project in Ottawa has grown For more information on the School Ottawa please visit our website at [email protected]. Federal government will appeal court ruling against West Bank wines

BY DAVID LAZARUS community. that the government’s decision on Sep- David Kattenburg then went to court (JTA) – The federal government said it Calling the wines Israeli products is tember 6 to appeal the Federal Court rul- to press the issue, resulting in the July would appeal a federal court ruling that “false, misleading and deceptive,” the ing was based on the Canadian Charter ruling. wines made in the West Bank cannot be Federal Court said. of Rights and Freedoms and other issues. Jewish groups are confident that the labelled a “Product of Israel.” Canada’s Consumer Packaging and The case goes back to 2017, when federal government’s appeal will suc- A July 29 ruling by the Federal Court Labelling Act requires that food prod- the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ceed. of Canada said that Psagot and Shi- ucts, including wines, which are sold ordered the Liquor Control Board of “It is our expectation that the Federal loh-brand wines made in Jewish-con- in Canada “bear truthful, non-decep- Ontario to pull bottles of wine made in Court of Appeal will overturn the lower trolled parts of the West Bank were not tive and non-misleading country of Psagot and Shiloh off provincial shelves court’s decision,” said Shimon Koffler Israeli since the territory is not consid- origin labels.” but then reversed the decision. Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and ered part of Israel by the international The Canadian Jewish News reported Winnipeg pro-Palestinian activist Jewish Affairs.

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High Holiday Feature Five suggestions for your family’s Rosh Hashanah BY BEATA ABRAHAM (JTA via Kveller) – I can’t help but won- der why Hallmark and the retail world It’s a family holiday, too, at large haven’t co-opted the Jewish New usually celebrated at Year. True, while there may “only” be home with a big family some five million to seven million Jews in North America (depending on who’s dinner. counting), Rosh Hashanah is a partic- ularly important holiday on the Jewish seem like too much effort. Whether you calendar. celebrate with a spherical cake frosted Many Jews spend Rosh Hashanah at to look like planet Earth or a candle on synagogue immersed in prayer, self-re- a single cupcake, or even just a Happy flection, repentance, kicking off 10 days Birthday banner, let it spark a conversa- of “awe.” But it’s a family holiday, too, tion about what each individual’s part usually celebrated at home with a big can be in making the world a better family dinner. place – the ultimate birthday gift. So why aren’t there any light-up sho- fars or tasteful Happy New Year banners MAKE A ROSH HASHANAH TABLESCAPE to be found leading up to the big day? If you are overwhelmed just thinking But fear not. In lieu of tacky, ready- about setting an elaborate table for the made accoutrements, you can design holiday, just remember that you are your own Instagram-worthy Rosh going to want to eat at some point, so Hashanah celebration. Keeping in mind it might as well be at a striking and that the goal is to create joy and lasting impactfully set table. But that doesn’t memories, I have tried and tested a few mean an overwrought one. Small touch- ideas to make your Rosh Hashanah cele- es can go a long way, like an apple-print bration personal and memorable. tablecloth; a few carefully placed honey or bee-themed items; a decorative tray SMITH COLLECTION/GADO/GETTY IMAGES An apples and honey test is one way to make a joyous and lasting Jewish New Year’s CONDUCT AN APPLES AND HONEY filled with apples and pomegranates; celebration. TASTE TEST a shofar as centrepiece. Tip: Use your Not all apples – nor honey – are created imagination, not Google. equal. So here’s a fun way to see which varieties your family really prefers. SPARK MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION Procure as many types of honey as you WITH REFLECTION CARDS can (but remember, this is not a reality Rosh Hashanah is a mini workout for cooking show, so don’t go crazy). Put the soul, so you should probably break out a variety of sliced apples to dip and an existential sweat self-reflecting, create your own voting method, too. For soul-searching and resolution-making. a bit of extra flair, add a blindfold. The Like any good workout, it will transform, honey with the most votes will receive strengthen and fortify you for navigating the honour of the blessing for a sweet your daily life in the year to come. new year. Write some open-ended questions on cardstock, and arrange them on CREATE A ROSH HASHANAH your table for your family or friends to CRAFT MUSEUM select and answer aloud. Some exam- Remember all those New Year’s crafts ples: What were your biggest mistakes your kids brought home over the years over the last year? Greatest achieve- from Sunday school or day school? ments? What brought you the most It’s time to unearth those boxes filled joy? Which moments felt deeply mean- with clay honey pots, handcrafted ingful? What have you resolved to do Happy New Year cards and paper apple differently next year? mobiles. (Bonus points if you can exca- What you write is up to you – just vate the childhood Rosh Hashanah relics make sure that each question can be from your own youth.) And if kids never answered by a responder of any age, made them – or if you tossed them years and keep in mind that Rosh Hashanah ago – you can always make new Rosh is not just about looking backward but Hashanah crafts, like a honey jar or is an opportunity to look forward as shofar. Cluster these items in a special well. museum-style display for all to enjoy. I hope you will use one or all these Heart strings will be tugged, guaranteed. ideas to set the stage for a sweet and meaningful New Year. And, full dis- THROW A BIRTHDAY PARTY closure: While they are undoubtedly FOR THE WORLD fun, none of these ideas will absolutely Rosh Hashanah is not just a Jewish guarantee that you will be written in the holiday. According to the Talmud, it Book of Life – but they may get you fea- is the birthday of humankind and the tured in Martha Stewart Living. world. Considering that the universe is a pretty significant creation, some special Beata Abraham director of education at a treats to commemorate this day hardly Reform temple in Columbus, Ohio. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 27 To Life! AJA 50+ celebrates chai anniversary

BY ERIC VERNON AJA 50+

n anniversaries we reflect on the memories of yesterday, revel in the accomplishments of today and dream the hopes Oof tomorrow. This is particularly appro- priate this year for Active Jewish Adults (AJA) 50+ as we celebrate our “chai” anniversary, an 18-year life of service to the Ottawa Jewish community. In 1999, Ruth Levitan, Cecily Breg- man, Estelle Gunner and the late Teena ANNETTE PAQUIN Hendelman – who had served on Jew- AJA 50+ volunteers gather at the Orchard View Wedding and Event Centre, June 12, for the Annual Celebration of AJA 50+ Volunteers. ish Family Services of Ottawa’s seniors’ task force – canvassed the community’s interest in a grassroots, volunteer-run emerge and the organization was found- Over time, AJA 50+ developed this AJA 50+’s chai anniversary reflects association for Jewish seniors. ed in 2001 with Levitan as founding pres- habit of excellence. the theme of “life”. Its nearly 400 mem- “There was a vacuum in Jewish Otta- ident, working closely with the “three With a board of directors and two bers regard AJA 50+ as a quality-of-life wa for seniors programming but we had brilliant women” from the task force. staff professionals, but operating as a organization that provides a year-round retired community members with great AJA 50+ soon established Creative grassroots association, AJA 50+ has home for making friendships, staying skill sets eager to volunteer,” recalled Connections for cognitively-well, phys- become the address for active retirees to active and working the mind. Levitan. ically-able “senior” seniors. Now part- volunteer, network and apply their skills AJA 50+ is also a lifeline to the com- The women spearheaded commu- nered with the Soloway Jewish Commu- and experience in new ways. munity at-large for seniors to enjoy Jew- nity-wide consultations that generated nity Centre, Creative Connections offers The lifeblood of AJA 50+ has been ish life in a secular setting and connect excitement and resources. Ottawa’s an all-day social, cultural and recreation- outstanding programming. From weekly to the Jewish family of Ottawa. Jewish seniors endorsed an organization al program for mind, body and soul. programs like mah jongg and scrabble AJA 50+ looks forward to building geared toward their demographic for AJA 50+ has gone from strength to to concerts, Jewish movies, art gallery upon our 18-year foundation and working low-cost social, recreational, educational strength, epitomizing the observation of visits, walking tours, nature hikes, and toward future success. AJA 50+ invites and health-related programming. philosopher Will Durant, “We are what lectures on numerous topics, there has you to join and turn the dreams of tomor- By autumn 2000, the formal structure we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is been something for everyone, including row into reality. Visit www.aja50plus.ca for of Active Jewish Adults 50+ began to not an act, but a habit.” two extraordinary trips to Israel. more information. To life!

ומתוקה טובה שנה Shanah tovah u’metuka Sending our warmest greetings for a healthy & happy New Year!

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Ottawa Jewish Community School graduates Abby Shmorgun (left) and Emma Todd are former Camp Gan Israel of Ottawa campers who returned as junior counselors in 2019. Camps have strong, successful season

Continued from page 19 come from all over the world and this “giving the kids a summer of a lifetime.” year included counsellors from Flori- Camp Gan Israel is a part of a group da, Nevada, Colorado, Guatemala and of Chabad summer camps, with branch- Costa Rica. Caytak said the counsellors’ es around the world. involvement with camp “doesn’t just Caytak said the day camp, which runs end at 4:00.” Through the “Goodnight for five weeks, allows children to partic- Gan Izzy” program, counsellors visit ipate in numerous activities in a Jewish different campers’ homes to read them a environment, such as sailing, karate, bedtime story, say an evening prayer or boating, dance, crafts, and – new this participate in crafts with them. year – archery. Caytak said for next year, Gan Israel Caytak said Camp Gan Izzy places a is considering bringing the older kids on strong emphasis on swim lessons, and an overnight camping trip to Algonquin the camp ends every year with swim Park to learn new outdoor skills. show, where kids are able show off the Caytak said Camp Gan Israel gives kids skills they have learned over the summer. a “healthy sense of who they are, and Camp Gan Israel’s camp counsellors allows them to feel proud to be Jewish.”

Thank you to our members, donors and friends for another successful year!

Wishing the entire Jewish community Shana Tova - Happy and Sweet New Year

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BY ALIX WALL But one anecdote about her work with the first lady hen Sarah Hurwitz was working as a senior shows how universal some themes in the Torah can be. speechwriter for U.S. president Barack “One of the key animating insights of the Torah and Obama, and later as head speechwriter for all of Judaism, really, is that we are all created in the Michelle Obama, she often was assumed to image of God,” Hurwitz said. “What this phrase means Wbe a good source of knowledge about Judaism. is that we’re all worthy, totally equal and completely Except Hurwitz wasn’t. unique.” She had grown up nominally Reform. And after her When Hurwitz first came across that concept in bat mitzvah, Hurwitz felt her relationship with Juda- the Torah, it occurred to her that it wasn’t new to her ism was pretty much over. at all, but rather “the animating idea of almost any “I don’t think I’m the only Jew who has viewed speech I’ve written in my life.” Judaism as if it were a distant relative whom I loved She specifically remembered how it figured into a in a vague familial way and was required to see a few speech that Michelle Obama gave about girls’ educa- times a year but had no desire to get to know further,” tion. Hurwitz wrote in her new book, Here All Along: Finding “I wrote about girls in other countries who don’t Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life – have the opportunity to go to school, and that each in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There). one is infinitely worthy and equal to any other girl and Almost on a whim, Hurwitz decided to take an has something amazing to offer,” Hurwitz said. Introduction to Judaism class, supposing there were Quite early in her journey, Hurwitz attended a Jew- worse ways to spend her precious free time. ish meditation retreat, where she had a transforma- Being reintroduced to Judaism as an adult made tional moment about her concept of God. Hurwitz curious to know what else she had missed “Before that retreat, I had assumed that Judaism says out on – so much so that for the next five years she that God is a man in the sky who rewards and punishes embarked on a spiritual journey of sorts. Figuring RANDOM HOUSE us, and with that as my only God option I was an athe- there were many others like her, Hurwitz resolved to For Sarah Hurwitz, an introductory course launched an ist,” she said. “But on this retreat, it was the first time I write a book to explain to her fellow disaffected Jews exploration of Judaism. was exposed to Jewish conceptions of God that were a what they’ve been missing. lot more sophisticated. I was exposed to Chasidic think- “In that class, I was exposed to Jewish ethics and all Schusterman Family Foundation for “highly influential ing, which talks about God not as a being in the sky but of this really profound and insightful and wise think- thinkers and trailblazers” that aims to “ignite their as everything, as the source of all life.” ing about what it means to be a good person,” Hurwitz ambition to change the world.” She also was recently In a section of her book on how to pray, Hurwitz said in an interview. “I was exposed to Jewish spiritual- named a Schusterman Fellow, which Hurwitz describes admits her own discomfort with some of the language ity and theology, which is incredibly sophisticated and as “a phenomenal leadership development program in Jewish liturgy, such as the line in the evening prayer, moving and thoughtful and was so much more reso- for creating Jewish leaders.” Maariv [the prayer is the Maariv Aravim. The whole nant with me than anything I had heard previously.” Most notably, she said, her Jewish learning impacted evening service is Maariv]: “Praised are you, Adonai Being a Jew who didn’t come from a strong Jewish how she treats others. our God, Ruler of the universe, who speaks the eve- background makes her story relatable to readers, Hur- “The mitzvot include not just ritual practices, but ning into being, skillfully opens the gates, thoughtfully witz said. She takes readers through her discovery of also ethical ones,” Hurwitz said. “My Jewish practice alters the time and changes the seasons and arranges canonical Jewish thinkers like Mordecai Kaplan and has very much deepened around those – how I use my the stars in their heavenly courses according to plan.” Martin Buber, along with a wide range of contempo- speech, how I treat others, how I understand my com- It makes “God sound like a cross between an MC, rary figures whose books she read, including Rabbi Jill mitments to those in need. I now see all of that and an experienced doorperson and a professional event Jacobs, director of T’ruah-The Rabbinic Call for Human much more through a Jewish lens, and that affects the planner,” she wrote. Rights, and Jewish ethics expert Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. way I act on a daily basis.” Quoting Hadar Institute CEO Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, “In five years of intensive exploration, I spoke to Because her book is about Judaism and not a mem- Hurwitz advises readers to learn enough about each such a wonderful range of people,” she said. “I love the oir about her time in the White House from 2009 to prayer to wonder what it could possibly mean for them. diversity of those who have mentored me. I got such a 2017, neither politics nor the Obamas get much play. She also advises that scripted communal prayer is not tremendous range of perspectives.” Hurwitz, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard the only way to pray. Concomitantly, Hurwitz’s own Jewish engagement Law School, also worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 “Meditation is a Jewish spiritual practice, as is deepened. She experimented with observing Shabbat. presidential campaign and wrote speeches for candi- unscripted personal prayer,” she said. “We also have a In 2015, she travelled to Israel with REALITY, a week- dates John Kerry and Wesley Clark during the ‘04 pres- beautiful blessing practice, with constant wake-up calls long leadership journey run by the Charles and Lynn idential campaign. to be grateful for the daily blessings we have.” September 23, 2019 30 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Temple Israel announces Sunday afternoon concert series BY ALLAN SILBURT FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL who leaves his home to pursue his dream of becoming a stage actor in Vienna at emple Israel is proud to the turn of the 20th century. announce the lineup for our December 1 – “On Wings of Song” 2019-2020 Sunday afternoon with violinists Yosuke Kawasaki and Jes- concerts. The five concerts range sica Linnebach, violist Jethro Marks and Tfrom an original klezmer-inspired silent cellist Paul Marleyn. film score to classical chamber quartets, We also welcome back this all-star jazz and more. The concerts welcome Ottawa-based chamber ensemble fea- local chamber ensembles as well as visit- turing works by Erwin Schulhoff, Felix ing musicians. Mendelssohn and Samuel Barber. Many of our concerts feature connec- December 15 – “Cellobration – From tions to our Jewish roots through com- Baroque to Rock and Roll” with cellists poser, performer or genre. Music seldom Chloe Dominguez, Paul Marleyn, Daniel heard before in Ottawa will be included. Parker and Raphael Weinroth Brown. Tickets prices start at $20 general admis- This will be a treat for cello lovers. WENFEI YE Cellist Paul Marelyn will perform at Temple Israel concerts on December 1 and 15 with different sion for a single event and include dis- These musicians have put together ensembles. counted series subscription offers with a really fun program of short pieces reserved seats. All concerts will take place arranged for four cellos that span the at Temple Israel on Sundays at 2 pm. spectrum from Bach to Metallica with on these acoustic instruments has a and Pancho Vladigerov. Much of the November 3 – “The Ancient Law” various stops along the way. unique sensibility that is fun, soulful program is derived from the research with violinist Alicia Svigals and pianist March 29 – “Hot Club Jazz” featuring and always accessible to ears less famil- of cellist Nina Gordon, who is on the Donald Sosin. Justin Duhaime’s Gypsy Muse (guitarists iar with jazz. The performance is sure to music faculty at Illinois Wesleyan Uni- After a sell out performance of “The Justin Duhaime and Nabil Yashi, bassist have your foot tapping. versity, and Ottawa-based Dina Namer, Yellow Ticket” in February, we are thrilled Normand Glaude with special guest vio- April 19 – “Music of the Diaspora” who teaches piano at Queens University. to welcome back New York-based Alicia linist William Lamoureux). with cellist Nina Gordon and pianist Both are featured soloists at Temple Svigals, a co-founder of the Klezmatics. Take yourself back to Paris in the Dina Namer. Israel’s High Holiday services. Alicia and Donald will perform her orig- 1930s when the famous Hot Club fea- This program will feature rarely For more information visit inal score to the screening of the 1923 tured the likes of violinist Stéphane performed classical works by Jewish www.templeisraelottawa.ca/concerts or silent film, “The Ancient Law.” The film Grappelli and guitarist Django Rein- composers Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, contact [email protected] tells the story of the son of a shtetl rabbi hardt. That’s the feel of this band. Jazz Paul Ben-Haim, Freidrich Gernsheim or 613-224-1802.

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BY EMILY BURACK from mysterious. You can trace some of differently in Britain and North America? more restive, and as a consequence of (JTA) – Howard Jacobson is a funny these things, and some you can’t. I try not to read my reviews because it’s Brexit – if and when it happens – there’s writer. He has penned several comedic I suppose Shimi began as a more not healthy. But my wife passes a few economic hardship. That’s never a good novels, and many commentators said familiar figure for me. He’s a man who’s good sentences by me. And I’ve just time for Jews, when there’s economic his 2010 Man Booker prize-winning getting older, suffering the sorts of come back from Italy, where they really hardship, because you will always find work The Finkler Question was the first semi-comical ailments that beset men of get it. … Talking to an Italian audience the old tropes of Jews and money are humorous book to win the prestigious that age. Shame, I like writing about, I’m is like talking to a Jewish audience. I still alive and well. They don’t go away. award for decades. very interested in shame. It’s a subject felt that I was back talking to my Jewish The other day, people invoked “Soros But Jacobson, one of the most cele- that’s been dear to my heart. I’ve always audiences in North London or in Man- the banker.” And when people mention brated authors in the United Kingdom thought shame explains why I’m the chester; they smile at you and encour- the word Soros, they don’t even have to and an outspoken liberal Zionist, has kind of writer I am … And then I got age you in the same way. say Jewish, it’s understated. I’m worried trouble finding much humour in the dissatisfied with it precisely because it I’ll be very interested to see what about that. current state of a world dominated by was familiar territory. And I laid Shimi Americans will make of it because Beryl But most of all, and you know about politics and social media. to one side and started to write some does break some rules, which might be all this, we’re worried about the Labour “People don’t get irony,” Jacobson, 77, other things, and then a week or two a bit more sacred in your country than Party, which was once a home for Jews. said in a wide-ranging conversation with later, I don’t know how, the Princess just they are in mine at the moment. the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). appeared. She truly did appear. I don’t think anything is sacred in our So where do British Jews go? “Because of the internet and Trump country anymore. But maybe that’s just It would be nice to be rooting for the and Brexit and all that, we’re living in How does a character just appear? me. opposition, but I can’t root for Jeremy very non-ironical times. The mode of I’ve just come back from talking in Well, I say sacred in the sense of rigid- Corbyn or for Jeremy Corbyn’s party. discourse of the moment is you say Italy at the Mantova literary festival. I ly applied – sacred, no. Nothing’s sacred What’s the more terrible? This is some- something, and I say something back, thought they would understand what anymore … I’ve not been to America thing that all the Jews I know say: and you say something back, and we are I meant if I said she rose up from the since Trump took over, but I bet you can What’s more terrible, Boris Johnson and separate, and we brutally contradict one sea of my imagination like Botticelli’s feel it. I bet you can feel conversation is his cynicism or Jeremy Corbyn and his another.” Venus. Out of the waves, she appeared. different. Here, people just yell at one rigid antisemitic ideology? He doesn’t Nevertheless, conversation is a cen- Botticelli’s Venus appeared naked on the another all the time. It’s come all the think he’s an antisemite. He doesn’t call tral part of his latest novel, Live a Little, seashore, of course. Beryl did not: She way down to the street. People honk himself as an antisemite, but he’s an which was published this month. In appeared swathed in her scarves and their motorcars more, cyclists drive at antisemite. Everything he says, every- this case, it’s conversation between things. She was just there and I can’t you, there’s a real belligerence in the air. thing he does, all these predilections, all Shimi and Beryl (at times called “the account for it. … Well, I suppose my his- It’s a very strange thing – quite fright- the things he doesn’t notice. It’s antisem- Princess”), two 90-year-olds who (sort tory of talking to women, and thinking ening, actually, what’s happening here. itism. So we can’t want him to win. of) fall in love. Shimi remembers every- about women, and thinking about the What’s hard to know is whether Brexit I wouldn’t say it’s a perilous time for thing, while Beryl is losing her memory. women I’ve liked most. I have a taste for caused it or, much more likely, is Brexit Jews, but it’s an anxious time for Jews. Jacobson spoke about the novel, on women with disdainfulness, as I have simply a symptom of something? the anxiety of being a British Jew in been often the object of it. I still like it. I Is the antisemitism people talk about in 2019, his self-definition as the “Jewish like the way women scorn men. What’s it like being Jewish in the U.K. as bad as it seems from the out- Jane Austen” and much more. The Of all my characters, she is now my Britain today? side looking in? interview was condensed and edited for favourite. And I’m never going to write Yeah, we don’t know. Yes, we worry Well, I mean, it’s not as though I go out clarity. about anything else but 90-year-old about whether Brexit will affect Jews. onto the streets and fear for my life. I women. From now on, that’s it. And I know Jews who voted for Brexit and shouldn’t say that because I’m gonna get JTA: What brought you to this story of maybe I’ve always been a 90-year-old who voted against it. … I’m uncomfort- knifed today, but I don’t. I go around, I these elderly folks who develop a surpris- woman. able with Jews who voted for Brexit. But appear in public, I say things and I don’t ing friendship, maybe romance? some did. get attacked for them. I’m not on Twit- Jacobson: It’s quite mysterious, really. Do you think your novels, and maybe There are reasons to worry that if ter, otherwise I might discover that peo- I always do find where a book comes “Live a Little” in particular, are received this goes on, the country becomes even See Jacobson on page 43

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for 7sep15 September 23, 2019 38 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Merivale students produce a Yiddish primer

BY SHEILA HURTIG ROBERTSON FOR CHES

rving Osterer, an accomplished graphic designer and applied design teacher, quietly understates the significance of a project he led with the 22 stu- dents of his 2018-2019 senior graphic design class at IMerivale High School. “I’ve always had fun pushing the envelope and to be able to do a Jewish project is really, really nice,” he said simply. A unique publication, the Merivale Yiddish Primer grew out of Osterer’s infectious passion for the Yiddish language, for Jewish history, and for Jewish culture. It also reflects his upbringing by Yiddish-speaking par- ents and grandparents, seven years at Hillel Academy, and his in-laws, who spoke only Yiddish to each other. To expand his knowledge, Osterer studied Ger- man at Carleton University. That, combined with his working knowledge of Hebrew, instilled a deep appre- ciation for Yiddish literature and culture, which had declined dramatically as a result of the Holocaust. Of the six million Jews who lost their lives, 85 per cent were Yiddish speakers. The decline accelerated after 1945 through assimilation and immigration to Israel although nowadays this trend is reversing. Merivale High School applied design teacher Irving Osterer with Sheila Hurtig Robertson holding a copy of the Merivale Yiddish Osterer, aware of the efforts being made to revive Primer, at the Merivale Art Show, June 7. Yiddish, wanted to be part of it. After 38 years of teach- ing, retirement is not far off and so it was timely to realize his long-held desire to create a Yiddish primer. “Yiddish has crept into the vernacular because of designer, you will likely have to deal with languages “I am always looking for projects that will give my the efforts to keep it alive,” he said, adding that the other than your own,” said Osterer, who has worked on students a competitive advantage when they apply for most recognized word was “tuchus,” apparently used design projects in Hebrew, Arabic, German, and Russian. design programs and I’ve made it a point to assign one regularly by rap artists and on talk shows. “Prior to this project, I had never heard of Yiddish,” project that combines a graphic solution with text in He assigned each student a Yiddish word to illus- said student Parker Stewart. “However, I have heard a language other than English,” he says. “The Merivale trate. They created collograph plates that were inked Yiddish words and phrases my whole life. Words like Yiddish Primer is an extension of that thinking. I want and printed and learned to use the Quark Xpress glyph ‘klutz,’ ‘schpiel,’ ‘schlep’ and ‘schmooze’ are so prom- to foster pride and raise awareness. I think it makes palette to access the characters in the Yiddish font. inent that it is weird Yiddish is not more known. I the students stronger Canadians and encourages a They were also given a short lesson on how Yiddish chose hak mir nit kein chinek (don’t knock a teakettle) belief in inclusion.” is read from right to left and were provided a sample as my expression because I think it’s hilarious. I wish Osterer explains that accessing the internet facilitat- page with the correct Yiddish spelling for their chosen we had a phrase like that in English.” ed the primer’s development. He created an extensive word. Once completed, the illustrations were scanned, Recognition of the importance of Osterer’s dedica- lexicon of Yiddish words, expressions, and idioms retouched, and imported into the layout. Then the stu- tion to diversity and inclusion reaches beyond Merivale – “gelt,” “gey gezunterheyt,” “schvitz,” and “fresser,” dents searched the internet for anecdotes to comple- High School. for example – that could easily be illustrated. To his ment their illustrations. “He is truly a testimony to what good teachers can surprise, some students recognized certain words, not “It was a very practical exercise because, as I told the accomplish,” said Mina Cohn, director of the Centre for realizing they are Yiddish. students, if you’re going to make a living as a graphic Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES), which has often benefitted from his creativity. “Viewing the illustra- tions on display at the school’s annual art show was so Wishing you a moving that we have invited Irv to display the artwork at very healthy and happy the CHES’ Second Generation Symposium to take place on November 17 at Kehillat Beth Israel.” Osterer is gratified that his students “have come Rosh Hashanah! away with a really good learning experience. We have to do more of this; it’s not a task that ends. And every student who contributed to the Merivale Yiddish Primer will show it to at least two other people. As they grow older and travel, they will hear more Yiddish expres- sions, and it will strike an important chord.”

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Rosh Hashanah Recipes Five gorgeous Rosh Hashanah recipes from Israel’s top chefs

BY JESSICA HALFIN

osh Hashanah menus, while traditional and delicious, can also get a little stale year after year. With Israeli food trending across the globe, now is a perfect time to add some Rauthentic Israeli flavours to your holiday. We have gathered five exclusive recipes from some of Israel’s top chefs: from a whole roasted fish to a sweet whiskey cocktail and an apple dessert that is sure to start your year off on a sweet and beautiful note.

SEA BASS WITH ROASTED PEPPERS AND HERB CREAM FILLING From Chef Mor Cohen, Herbert Samuel Restaurant at the Ritz Carlton Herzliya Cohen is a highly respected chef known for his haute kosher cuisine at the Ritz Carlton. While a fish head on the table might be considered off-putting, it is one of the most traditional symbols of the Jewish New Year, so this recipe serves double duty as delicious and symbolic.

Ingredients For the fish 4 whole sea bass, deboned and descaled (each fish should weight about 1 pound) THE EDGE PARTNERS PR 2 lemons Sea Bass with Roasted Peppers and Herb Cream Filling Salt and pepper to flavour For the herb cream 6 garlic cloves peeled 3 tablespoons olive oil desired) until the aromas start rising from the pan. 2 cups of freshly picked herb leaves (oregano, parsley, 1/2 cup of arak, ouzo or other anise-flavoured liquor Add the diced onions and cook until they become basil, celery) 1 teaspoon freshly ground oregano translucent and tender. 1 baguette (just use the inside and not the crust) Salt to taste 4. Add the peppers and tomatoes and stir generously. 5 tablespoons olive oil Add in the arak, bring to a boil and reduce the liquid Salt to taste Directions to about half. For the roasted peppers 1. Preheat oven to 425 F. 5. Add the oregano, reduce to a low heat and cover. 4 medium-sized onions (cut in half and diced) 2. Process the herbs in a food processor together with Keep cooking for about 20 minutes, regularly check- 8 garlic cloves diced the garlic and baguette. The mixture should be light- ing and adjusting the taste with salt. Remove from 1 hot green pepper, cut in rings (optional) ly sprinkled with olive oil until it becomes a consis- heat and set aside until ready for serving. 8 fresh peppers that have been grilled and singed. The tent yet creamy texture. Transfer to a piping bag and 6. With a sharp knife, pierce the sides of the fish ensuring peppers should be sliced in wide strips. refrigerate. the cut reaches the middle. Cuts should be along the 6 tomatoes similarly roasted and singed and sliced in 3. To prepare the peppers: Heat a large saucepan with sides and along the fish’s spine. Sprinkle with salt and strips olive oil. Add the garlic cloves and hot peppers (if See Israeli Recipes on page 40

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Continued from page 39 2 tablespoons chopped almonds 1/2 cup plus 1 1/2 tablespoons honey pepper to taste and set the fish standing (as if swim- 3 tablespoons pomegranate molasses 3/4 cup sugar ming) on a baking dish. Insert a half a lemon in the 1 tablespoon salt 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour fish’s cavity and fill the incisions with the herb cream. Pinch white pepper 2 teaspoons baking powder 7. Bake the fish for about 18 minutes, until the fish is 1 teaspoon baking soda completely cooked and you see the cream begin to For the sauce 1 cup strong fruit tea, brewed and cooled take on a darker golden color. 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 8. Remove and serve the fish over a generous bed of the Half a white onion, sliced 1 teaspoon ground ginger peppers. Garnish with parsley. 8 tomatoes, coarsely chopped 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 clove garlic 1 green apple, peeled and sliced for garnishing the STUFFED CHARD LEAVES WITH 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses unbaked cake POMEGRANATE MOLASSES Pinch cinnamon From Chef Merav Barzilay, Meshek Barzilay Pinch Baharat spice For the streusel topping The Neve Tzedek neighbourhood in Tel Aviv is the 3/4 cup sugar culmination of its artist residents boasting an unmis- Directions 3/4 cup cold butter, cut into cubes takable relaxed bohemian chic vibe, which of course 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour extends to its restaurants and cafés. Right at the heart 2. Blanch whole chard leaves in boiling water for 20-30 Pinch cinnamon of the newly declared “vegan capital of the world” seconds to soften, carefully open up each leaf and set Pinch salt sits Meshek Barzilay, the city’s pioneering vegan down single file on a smooth surface. restaurant, 17 years young, and its newer delicatessen 3. Remove the stem from each chard leaf with a paring Directions (opened in April 2018), that serves the ready-made knife. 1. To make the topping: In a food processor, blend all organic and vegan dishes in high demand. 4. Prepare the filling: Mix all the filling ingredients the ingredients in short pulses until you get a coarse For Rosh Hashanah one of the restaurant’s spe- together in a large bowl, and adjust seasoning to crumb. cialties are these stuffed chard leaves stuffed with taste. 2. Transfer the crumbs to a sealed container and chill grains, dried fruits, nuts and tart pomegranate 5. Fill the centre of each leaf with a bit of filling (about until use. molasses. It is a nod to the pomegranate, a major 1 1/2 tablespoons, but the amount of filling will vary 3. To make the cake: Preheat oven to 350 F. sign of the holiday. according to your leaf size). 4. Whip eggs with the sugar until the mixture becomes 6. Fold the sides of the leaf inwards toward the centre thick and triples in size. Ingredients and roll from the cut portion inward. Tightly pack the 5. Add the oil and mix to combine, then add the honey For the stuffed chard leaves stuffed chard leaves into a baking dish and set aside. and do the same. Large bunch chard leaves (best if you can get it with 7. Prepare the sauce: Sauté the onion and olive oil until 6. In a medium bowl, combine the spices flour, baking large uniform leaves) golden. Add the garlic and tomatoes. Cook until the powder and baking soda. Add to the eggs mixture, 2 cups cooked freekeh or quinoa tomatoes start to fall apart, but not so much that the and add the cooled tea. You can also add fresh peeled Purple onion, cut into small cubes and caramelized tomatoes start to lose their color. and chopped apples or pears, or cherries to the batter 1/2 cup chopped celery 8. Add the spices and a bit of water if needed to get a at this stage if you wish. 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint thin sauce. 7. Pour into 2 loaf pans and top with a light layer of 1/2 cup mixed dried fruits, such as dried cranberries, 9. Taste and adjust seasoning to taste, then pour over streusel and 12-13 apple slices in vertical line down dried figs and dried apples the stuffed chard. the centre. Bake for about 40 minutes. 10. Cover the baking dish and bake for about 20 min- 8. Cake is done when a toothpick comes out dry with a utes, until sauce is bubbly and the chard leaves are few moist crumbs attached. cooked through. Stand with Israel... 11. Serve with a garnish of chopped mint leaves and a APPLE & HONEY WHISKEY COCKTAIL light drizzle of pomegranate molasses. From Milk & Honey Whiskey Distillery, Tel Aviv In Israel It’s definitely the time for Israeli whiskey on the inter- APPLE STREUSEL HONEY CAKE national scene, and Rosh Hashanah is the perfect From Chefs Rossella Jona and Amir Porat, Biscotti Bakery occasion to treat yourself to a bottle of the first official What started out as a very small Tel Aviv business 15 batches of the stuff. With at least five Israeli whiskey years ago is now a booming catering business with a distilleries having popped up in the past few years, staff of 200 and plans to become an Israeli café chain. the race is on to see which one can produce the best Now located in Bnei Brak, just east of the big city, barrels the fastest. The warm climate in Israel actually they are committed to using high-quality ingredients speeds up the distilling process. to make their mark on the Israeli pastry shop scene. Milk & Honey’s whiskey has a smooth taste, which To replicate their famous apple streusel-topped honey just happens to be perfect for blending into a sweet cake at home, just follow this recipe. apple and honey cocktail.

Ingredients Ingredients: For the cake 1/4 Granny Smith apple, diced 4 large eggs 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons honey syrup 3/4 cup vegetable oil Continued on page 41

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1Continued tablespoon from page plus 40 2 teaspoons fresh bring the milk, water, sugar, salt and squeezed lime juice butter to a boil. Immediately take the 1 tablespoon Calvados (apple brandy) pan off the heat and add the full flour 3 tablespoons Milk & Honey whiskey or amount all at once. other “New Make” whiskey 3. Mix with a wooden spoon and put Directions: the pan back on a medium low flame. 1. Make honey syrup: Mix 3 parts honey Cook until the mixture starts to dry with 1 part hot water and stir thor- out and the dough pulls away from the oughly until liquid unifies. For exam- sides of the pan to form a ball around ple: 10 ounces honey and a little more your spoon. Take the mixture off the than 3 ounces of hot water. Bottle and heat and let the mixture cool slightly. keep refrigerated. 4. In a mixer on low speed (or in a medi- 2. In a cocktail shaker, muddle the apple um bowl by hand), add the eggs one with honey syrup. at a time, beating until each egg is 3. Add the rest of the ingredients, fill with thoroughly combined before adding ice and shake vigorously. the next egg. (The mixture will curdle 4. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish initially, but then come back together with an apple slice. as you beat it.) 5. Prep a baking sheet by lining with CREAM PUFFS WITH CANDIED PECAN baking paper and tacking the paper AND DATE HONEY CUSTARD down with a small dot of the choux From Pastry Chefs Itzik and Keren Kadosh pastry mixture on the underside of from Kadosh Café in Jerusalem each corner. Kadosh bakery and café in Jerusalem is 6. Fill a large pastry bag with the mix- practically a city landmark. The estab- ture. Using a 6-inch round cookie lishment got its start back to 1967 and cutter to guide you, pipe a fat 7-inch has been in the Kadosh family ever since. circle. The circle should be a bit raised Now run by a husband-and-wife pastry and not completely flat. chef team, Itzik and Keren Kadosh, the 7. Mix the almonds, egg white and pow- place preserves the European café culture dered sugar and spread it on top of of the family’s Hungarian roots while the piped circles. Bake for 40 minutes, having modernized the menu to include until deep golden brown, take out of Israeli treats, sourdough breads, French the oven and set aside to let cool. pastries and fresh pastas, all handmade. 8. To make the pecan and date honey

Creating variations on their delicacies custard: Dissolve cornstarch in 1/4 MESHEK BARZILAY for the New Year, this is an exclusive cup cold milk. Add the egg yolks and Stuffed Chard Leaves with Pomegranate Molasses recipe we got from the legendary chefs sugar, and lightly beat into a fully for Paris-Brest, a doughnut-shaped combined mixture. cream puff filled with a candied pecan 9. Pour the rest of the milk (3/4 cup and date honey pastry cream. plus+ 1 tablespoon) into a saucepan. Add the vanilla bean and bring to a Ingredients boil. Remove the vanilla bean from the For the choux pastry pot with a slotted spoon, split and with 1/2 cup full-fat milk the help of a spoon scrape the seeds 1/2 cup water into the saucepan. Return the vanilla High Holidays Schedule 8 tablespoons butter pod to the pot and lower the heat. You are invited to the only authentic 1 teaspoon salt 10. Add a third of the hot milk to the egg Sephardi High Holiday experience in Ottawa! 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon sugar yolk mixture and beat well. Pour the 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sifted tempered egg yolk mixture back into all-purpose flour the hot milk mixture and cook over a We wish the Ottawa Sephardi community, 4 large eggs low flame, stirring constantly for about 2 minutes, or until the mixture thick- as well as all of the Ottawa Jewish community, For the garnish ens and can coat the back of a spoon. a happy, healthy and sweet New Year. 2 tablespoons sliced almonds 11. Remove the empty vanilla pod, add 1 teaspoon egg white chopped pecans and date honey, and Rosh Hashanah 1/2 teaspoon powdered sugar mix to combine. Sunday, September 29 6:30 pm 12. Pour the mixture into a bowl and Monday, September 30 9:00 am For the pecan and date honey custard cover with a piece of plastic wrap Tuesday, October 1 9:00 am filling directly covering the surface of the 1/4 cup cornstarch custard. Let cool to room temperature, Yom Kippur 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon full-fat milk then transfer to the fridge to chill for Tuesday, October 9 (Kol Nidrei) 6:00 pm 3 egg yolks 2 hours. Wednesday, October 10 9:00 am Scant 1/4 cup sugar 13. After chilling, whisk the custard for Ne’ila 6:00 pm 1/2 vanilla bean (or 1 1/2 teaspoons about half a minute to get a smooth Rosh Hashanah services take place at Shikun Oz, 57 Bateman vanilla extract) mixture without clumps. Whip cream, Please note that Yom Kippur services will take place 1 cup chopped honey roasted, or can- and fold into the custard mixture and in the social hall of Congregation Beit Tikvah (15 Chartwell Avenue) died pecans transfer to a piping bag fitted with a 1/4 cup date honey large round piping tip. All are welcome to attend! 1/2 cup whipped heavy cream 14. To assemble: Cut the cooled choux As Space is Limited, We Encourage You To RSVP In Advance By Emailing (from 1/4 cup heavy cream) pastries in half lengthwise, pipe a [email protected] fat layer of custard and seal with Directions the other half like a sandwich. Sift Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sephardiottawa 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. powdered sugar over the top as a 2. To make the choux pastry: In a pan, garnish. TIZKU LESHANIM RABOT, NEIMOT, V’TOVOT September 23, 2019 42 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 43

KEKE KEUKELAAR Howard Jacobson’s novel, Live a Little, centres on two 90-year-olds.

Jacobson: Author refers to himself as ‘The Jewish Jane Austen’

Continued from page 36 ly bleak view. Because I do feel now that I loved, and they still are. They were does Shimi. I think that’s a very Jewish ple are abusing me roundly all the time. antisemitism can’t go away. the influences on me. I was much more thing. It can be debilitating; anything And there are places, of course, where influenced by Jane Austen than I was by that’s always with you is debilitating. It’s people are attacked. There are places As a Jewish writer, you’ve been called Philip Roth. beneficent also, there’s a feeling that I’m where if you were an Orthodox-looking the “English Philip Roth,” but you’ve sort always rethinking my childhood. The Jew, and you’ve got a kippah and you’ve of rebuked that and called yourself the Shimi and The Princess talk a lot about serious family ethical obligations that got your tzitzit, then you could be “Jewish Jane Austen.” I just love this idea. their childhoods. I was wondering if your being Jewish determines your whole attacked, and some are attacked. I was wondering, does that quote come Jewish childhood or Jewish upbringing subject matter. To that degree, whether It’s an intellectual tone that’s dis- back to haunt you? I apologize if you’re influences any of your characters. I’m writing about Jews or not, the fact comforting. You never know how these tired of hearing it by now. I suppose it does in the sense that I live that I’m Jewish determines the nature of things move from the opinion makers, No, no, no, it’s fine. People don’t quote permanently with my childhood, as the way that I write. the intellectuals, the politicians, the it back at me, I quote it back at them. universities down into the mob. I think we can call them a mob again; they’re Can you expand on that a little? behaving like a mob. The universities It was something I spoke spontaneously. are hotbeds of that form of antisemitism It was at a literary festival, and some- JEWISHÊFEDERATIONSÊOFÊCANADAÊ-ÊUIA הפדרציות היהודיות בקנדה -which claims it isn’t antisemitism, and body asked that same question, “You’re ÊUIA says it’s anti-Zionism, which is nonethe- often talked about as the English Philip FƒDƒRATIONSÊJUIVESÊDUÊCANADAÊ-ÊUIA less antisemitism. Those who say “I’m Roth, does that phrase haunt you?” an anti-Zionist, I’m not an antisemite,” And I said, when I first started I will not admit that distinction. If they writing, there hadn’t been many male WISHING YOU A NEW YEAR THAT say “I don’t like Israel’s foreign policy, I Jewish novelists in England at that don’t care for Netanyahu,” fine. That’s time, still aren’t many, and they see BRINGS HEALTH, FULFILLMENT, HAPPINESS, not antisemitism. that we’re funny and I reminded the To not see the necessity of Zionism, English of Woody Allen and Philip PEACE AND PROSPERITY. or to refuse to see the necessity of Zion- Roth and Saul Bellow, and then that’s ism, and to think of it as an ideology of what I became. I was called the English ALL OF LIFE’S VERY BEST THINGS. cruelty, you have to be an antisemite, Phillip Roth because he’s a novelist, you have to be uneducated and igno- and I am, and there are similarities. rant. Then once you’ve been shown the And I thought that was fine. I took it truth, to persist in the idea, as Corbyn as a compliment; Philip Roth is a great HANA OVA U ETUKA does, that “Zionism is a racist endeavor” writer. But I had not read Philip Roth S T ’M – that’s the phrase Corbyn likes – I think and Saul Bellow and then made myself שנה טובה ומתוקה -that’s a deeply antisemitic thing to say. a novelist in their image, or even influ enced by them. So as a writer, a Jewish writer, how do you But then I got bored with it because Michael Frankel, Chair process all this? How does it does enter it was said with every novel. And I just Nikki Holland, President & CEO your work? Do you try not to let it into said yeah, I’m fed up with it! So I said, Arié Levy, Interim Director General your work? “I rather think of myself as the Jew- It does enter my work. I mean, some- ish Jane Austen,” cause that’s a good and the entire Jewish Federations of Canada - UIA team times it enters my work overtly. In The joke, and people got it as a joke. But I Finkler Question, it was out there open- meant a few things by it: One is that my ly and talked about. I did write a very education, I was not in the American www.jewishcanada.org bleak novel called J, which did well in Jewish tradition. My education was in America, which took to its logical con- the English novel. When I went on to clusion the non-Jewish longing to rid become a lecturer for seven or eight the world of Jews. Which is sometimes years, it was the English novel I taught. been explicitly stated: [to] imagine the It was Dickens and George Eliot and world without Jews in it. That was a fair- Jane Austen – they were the people that September 23, 2019 44 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Paula Agulnik and Yaffa Greenbaum organize second Israel tour for Ottawa women BY SHIRLEY M. SIEGEL FOR OTTAWA WOMEN’S TOUR TO ISRAEL n 2018, 15 women experienced what many called the trip of a lifetime. Inspired and led by Paula Agulnik and Yaffa Greenbaum, “Seeing Israel through a Fem- inist Lens: Ottawa Women’s Tour to Israel” proved Ito be a wonderful adventure. The program was educa- tional and thought-provoking with lots of opportunities for fun with an exceptional group of women. Based on feedback from participants and those who wished they had gone, organization of the “Ottawa Tour to Israel: Celebrating Women’s Voices” is under- way. This trip is scheduled for May 17-27, 2020 with Paula and Yaffa again leading. An array of opportunities to learn and be inspired are on the agenda. Participants in the 2018 Ottawa Women’s Tour to Israel with Israeli soldiers near the Syrian border in the Golan. Spend three days in and around Tel Aviv with an opening address by Executive Director Sharon Abra- ham Weiss of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel Spend six nights in Jerusalem with a Shabbat cel- brance Centre and have dinner at Shalva, the Associa- (ACRI), visits to Caesarea and Zichron Yaacov, a dia- ebration with Women of the Wall prior to Rosh Cho- tion for Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, logue with Johanna Czamanski-Cohen, a researcher desh at the Kotel, and a Knesset visit highlighted by a an organization dedicated to providing transformative from the Haifa University School of Creative Arts discussion with Arab Israeli MK Aida Touma-Sliman, care for individuals with disabilities where we hope to Therapy and dinner at Nalgaat (Black Out), one of chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of enjoy the music of the award winning Shalva band. 14 restaurants in the world where you say goodbye to Women and Gender Equality. There will also be time for visiting markets, galler- your sight and feel how other senses are sharpened in Hear a panel of experts discuss Palestinian and Jew- ies, shopping and relaxing experiences such as yoga on total darkness. ish-Israeli perspectives on political and social issues the beach and Dead Sea spa treatments. Seven dinners Travel to the Negev to visit the Culinary Queens of moderated by Eetta Prince-Gibson, former editor of plus one lunch are included in the program. Yeroham, a social project where women invite people The Jerusalem Report and visit the Jerusalem Museum For more information about this unique women’s into their homes to enjoy ethnic delicacies, and a visit to of Tolerance with an opportunity to discuss the critical tour of Israel, contact Paula Agulnik at agulnikpaula@ Lakiya Negev Bedouin Weaving, established as an income situation of Ethiopian Jewry in Israel. gmail.com or 613-298-7520, or Yaffa Greenbaum at generation project for Bedouin women in the Negev. Visit Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remem- [email protected] or 613-266-6677. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 45

High Holiday Feature My Rosh Hashanah resolution: Accepting my child with ADD BY BRYAN SCHWARTZMAN (JTA via Kveller) – Why did I get the child who doesn’t work right? What did I do to deserve the child who doesn’t eat when she’s supposed to – if she eats at all – who doesn’t sleep when she’s supposed to sleep, who doesn’t learn what she’s supposed to learn and often doesn’t do what she’s supposed to do? I really hate to admit it, but in some of my most try- ing moments of parenthood, the word “unlucky” plays in my mind like a background song trying to be heard. “I’m unlucky,” I’ll find myself thinking – even though, intellectually, I know that of the 7.4 billion people on the planet, I’m in the top one percent when it comes to luck. I’ve got two healthy children who shower me with affection; a loving spouse; parents who are actively involved in my children’s lives; a fine house in a desirable, safe neighbourhood; a rewarding career. I could go on and on. Yet I can’t shake the sense that within my great- est joy I’ve experienced misfortune. Sometimes I’ll remember that I’m far from alone: My partner is with me in raising a child one could call “challeng- ing,” and there are clearly millions of other parents in similar situations. Undoubtedly, when the word “unlucky” resurfaces in my mind, I’ll feel guilt or shame. But the word remains, ready to reveal itself at the exact moment when I need positive, life-affirm- ing thoughts. You see, my older daughter has been “diagnosed” with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Whether you’d call it a diagnosis – and whether or not this is something to lament – is a question that can fill many “I’ve recently realized that on some level, I’ve failed to empathize with my own child,” writes author Bryan Schwartzman. books and blog posts. But now that she has this label, it’s all too easy to overlook my daughter’s many won- drous qualities, like her creativity and curiosity. But than what I am losing. I don’t think I’ll make it all know it’s a tough one. As I confront the liturgy and you take her ADD, throw in some anxiety and a litany the way to my destination, but I’m optimistic I can life’s frailty and impermanence, I’ll try to focus the of food allergies and eating issues, and you’ve got a cover a lot of ground. mind and spirit on how lucky I am. I’m sure I’ll falter combustible cocktail. I’m being aided by a wonderful book, Superpar- – I’m only human. I’m just a dad, trying to do the best Being a parent of a child with ADD can be so much enting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising he can. Here’s hoping my best gets better. more demanding than I ever realized. And while I truly Your Distracted Child. Both authors – Edward M. Bryan Schwartzman is an award-winning writer living believe being a parent is my most important mission Hallowell and Peter S. Jensen – are leading psy- in Ambler, Pennsylvania. He and his partner, Amy, are in life, there’s so much I want to do: I want to write, be chiatrists who have lived with ADD in their fam- the parents of two daughters. fit, be active in my community, maintain a romantic ilies. They offer a range of parenting techniques relationship with my partner, advance my career. Yes, I and medical advice, but more than anything, they can practically hear you say, “Being pulled in multiple remind us that at its heart, parenting is about love directions is the essence of modern parenthood.” But and empathy. The book provides real hope that so often, attending to my child’s unique needs seems with love, expert advice, passionate teachers and to require skipping a workout, putting off the latest possibly medication, my daughter can fulfil her essay or surrendering any semblance of down time. I potential in school and in life. She can lead a life of know it doesn’t sound like much, but when you look joy, meaning and achievement. forward to small things, missing them feels like a big Over the years, I’ve worked to cultivate empathy for sacrifice. others – those with stark differences in life situations, With the High Holidays upon us, I take solace in the socio-economic backgrounds or political views. But fact that Judaism places a much higher value on what I’ve recently realized that on some level, I’ve failed people do and how we act – and not what we think. I to empathize with my own child. But my book got also know that so many parents lose patience or have me thinking about what it is like to be a seven-year- selfish thoughts. That doesn’t mean we don’t love our old with ADD, to have a brain that works too fasts, children or that we’re ineffective parents. to want to please but to be unable to refrain from At the same time, however, everything from “bad” behaviour – and to therefore face criticism from the Rosh Hashanah liturgy to modern psychology well-meaning adults and, at times, cruelty from other reinforces the notion that what and how we think children. influences how we behave. So as I prepare to sit for Our fractured society suffers from a lack of empathy. hours in shul, I’m pledging to work on my thinking, But maybe a first step toward a broader societal heal- to reframe the narrative from one of burden to one ing might entail parents taking a closer look at their of gratitude, to focus on nourishing my child’s gifts own children. What if we encourage our kids rather rather than lamenting her faults. I hope to use this than find fault with them? What if we comfort them time to focus on what I’m gaining through the joys rather than chasten them? and challenges of raising both my daughters rather This is my assignment for the Jewish New Year. I September 23, 2019 46 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 47 September 23, 2019 HEALTH & WELLNESS 48 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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arlier this year, Weight Watchers rebranded itself involving the family in the lifestyle changes, you’ll all as WW in an attempt to distance itself from its enjoy the health benefits. half-century-long focus on concepts that are GLORIA SCHWARTZ Apps geared for adults (e.g., MyFitnessPal) and falling out of favour: weight loss and dieting. food journaling can be useful tools in the short-term EAll diets have one thing in common – poor long-term FOCUS ON for increasing self-awareness. They can help you iden- success rates. Most diets are not sustainable and the FITNESS tify your eating patterns (e.g., how many calories do majority of people who lose weight while dieting gain it I actually eat daily versus need, what percentage of back once they stop dieting. Then they try another diet. my daily intake is from unhealthy food). However, It’s a vicious cycle. effective long-term weight management requires a Ironically, while WW is trying to give the impression range of behavioral and lifestyle changes. Experts agree that it’s more about health and wellness than dieting, it Model positive behaviours associated that ditching diets and developing positive, sustain- released an app in August called Kurbo that is supposed with a healthy lifestyle. able habits for yourself and your children is a healthy to help children ages eight to 17 “reach a healthier approach. weight” (www.kurbo.com) by logging everything they eat. The app categorizes each food item as green (eat with your children, model positive behaviours associat- anytime), red (limit) or yellow (watch your portions). ed with a healthy lifestyle. Educate yourself about food The app is free but offers services you can purchase and fitness so you can begin to make better choices. such as weekly video chats with a “health coach.” From grocery shopping to meal planning and cooking, None of the nine coaches on the website are registered you can involve your children and employ age-appro- dieticians or therapists, yet their job is to counsel and priate strategies. For example, you can give a young advise children on how to lose weight. Before-and-af- child a couple of snack options so they’re involved in 613-836-8080 Customer: ter photos of kids as young as eight and testimonials the decision-making. You can’t expect children to eat UPPER CANADA about their weight-loss contradict best practices rec- healthy foods if your kitchen is filled with processed [email protected] ELEVATORS ommended by experts. food or if you routinely take your children to fast-food Your local accessibility specialists! Issue: MAY 27/19 Overweight and obesity are prevalent in children restaurants. Other tips include having family dinner Stannah Stairlifts – Home Elevators Colour: PROCESS and teenagers as well as adults. Obesity has been recog- time at the table as often as possible and serving Size: 3.3 X 2 nized by the World Health Organization, the Canadian smaller portions at mealtime and allowing your child Proof #: 2 Medical Association and the American Medical Associa- to ask for more if he’s still tion as a complex chronic disease that requires medical hungry. Limit but don’t attention. Excess body weight (fat) puts children at vilify unhealthy snacks. increased risk of health issues such as joint pain, Type Make healthy ones readily 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol – issues available. Replace sugary that used to be primarily seen in adults. A high body drinks with water. mass index during adolescence puts teens at three Set limits on screen times the risk of developing diabetes and five times the time and replace some risk of developing coronary artery disease in adulthood. daily sedentary time with According to dieticians, healthcare professions physical activities. Partic- and clinicians specializing in eating disorders, put- ipate with your children ting children on weight-loss diets is irresponsible and when possible, such as can result in vulnerable children developing eating going on a bike ride or a disorders (www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5250433). A 2016 study hike. At least one hour by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that per day of active play adolescents who diet, even if they’re not overweight, or sports can improve are more likely to be overweight and develop eating health, weight, energy and disorders within a few years than those who don’t diet sleep for all family mem- (https://tinyurl.com/yymznusb). bers. Don’t single out your What can you do if you think your child is over- overweight child or make weight? A good place to start is with your child’s pedia- negative remarks about trician who can determine if there’s reason for concern. his appearance as this can Sometimes extra weight simply precedes a growth lead to children develop- spurt after which the child slims down naturally. ing negative self-images As a parent, instead of discussing weight and diets that can last a lifetime. By September 23, 2019 50 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

High Holiday Kid Lit Six new children’s books for the Jewish New Year

BY PENNY SCHWARTZ out. But troubles lie ahead when a new take their Grandma Mina’s centuries-old at the end of the High Holidays that (JTA) – Six engaging and fun reads for family opens a restaurant and threatens carpet to be cleaned at the local rug shop. anticipates the start of the new cycle of kids of all ages seize the spirit of the to take over the apple cake business. Engrossed in conversation with their mys- the weekly Torah reading that unfolds Jewish holidays and the excitement When Zayde bumps his head, he terious ride-hailing service driver, Jonah, with Genesis. and anticipation of beginning anew, temporarily forgets the secret to the they forget to take the prized carpet with reflecting on the past, and celebrating cake. Will Saralee rise to the occasion, its aura of magic that their proudly Iran- Jackie and Jesse and Joni and Jae the warmth and joy of Jewish traditions bake the perfect cakes and win a contest born grandmother brought with her as By Chris Barash with family and friends. judged by a famous food critic? More she fled tyranny in her country. Illustrations by Christine Battuz than anything, Saralee wishes that her Suddenly they find themselves trans- Apples & Honey Press, 24 pages Once Upon an Apple Cake: A Rosh grandfather returns home from the hos- ported to Jaffa in ancient Israel amid Ages 3-8 Hashanah Story pital for Rosh Hashanah. carpet sellers in the shouk. They stow On a crisp fall By Elana Rubinstein The cartoon illustrations by Jenni- away on a ship, where they reunite with day, four good Illustrated by Jennifer Naalchigar fer Naalchigar add zest to Rubinstein’s Jonah, who they learn is the biblical friends stroll hand Apples & Honey Press, 112 pages efforts. The recipe is included at the end prophet. The stormy caper shines with in hand toward Ages 7-10 of the book. references to the biblical tale, as the the river clutch- In this humour- kids and Jonah go overboard and are ing small bags of filled, heartwarm- Whale of a Tale swallowed up in the slimy belly of a big sliced bread. The diverse group is follow- ing chapter book, By Eric A. Kimmel fish (is it really a prehistoric shark, they ing their rabbi and neighbours to tash- readers meet Illustrations by Ivica Stevanovic fear?). With fierce determination, the lich, the custom during Rosh Hashanah Saralee, an endear- Kar-Ben, 152 pages clever kids prod the reluctant Jonah to of tossing crumbs or other small objects ing 10-year-old Ages 6-10 travel to Nineveh, to be faithful to God into moving water to symbolically cast Jewish girl whose Travel back in time and justice, and to speak out to the away mistakes from the past year. Kids cute-looking nose in the third install- ruthless Assyrian king. will relate as the friends recall misdeeds, possesses the ment of the Scarlett Ivica Stevanovic’s animated illustra- like when Jae shared Jackie’s secret. unusual super- and Sam Jew- tions embellish the drama. Chris Barash’s lovely rhyming verse power to sniff out ish-themed chapter comes to life in Christine Battuz’s car- scents and flavours. As Rosh Hashanah book series. The Shanah Tovah, Grover! toon-like drawings in warm autumn tones approaches, Saralee, whose family owns a lighthearted adven- By Joni Kibort Sussman of browns, orange and green. On the restaurant, is excited to bake her grandfa- ture begins when Illustrated by Tom Leigh closing page, the friends are seen from ther’s popular apple cake with a mystery the brother and Kar-Ben, 12 pages behind, walking home, again hand in ingredient that even Saralee can’t figure sister twins offer to Ages 1-4 hand – a palpable reminder of the power Join Grover, Big of asking for and extending forgiveness, a Bird and other theme central to the High Holidays. beloved Sesame Street characters The Elephant in the Sukkah as they welcome By Sherri Mandell Rosh Hashanah Illustrated by Ivana Kuman TempleAn egalitarian Israel Reform congregation with honey and Kar-Ben, 32 pages apples, a shofar, Ages 3-8 Jewish roots, contemporary values, egalitarian and a festive meal with songs and bless- Nothing will get ings. Joni Sussman’s simple verse is per- between a young fect for reading aloud to little ones and boy named Ori Friday Kabbalat for preschoolers eager to read on their and Henry, a live- Shabbat Services 6:15 pm own, paired with veteran Sesame Street ly elephant who Torah Study Saturdays 9:00 am artist Tom Leigh’s delightful, colourful once was a circus Saturday Shabbat Services 10:15 am illustrations. star but now is sent to a farm for old elephants where Thursday morning minyanim 7:30 am Creation Colors no one sings or has fun. When Henry Second and fourth Thursdays By Ann D. Koffsky wanders out one evening, he is enchant- Apples & Honey Press, 24 pages ed by the joyful music and singing he For High Holy Day information please contact Temple Israel. Ages 2-5 hears from the Brenner’s family sukkah. Children’s Services with Rabbi Mikelberg and In this gloriously After a few nights, he even learns the Rabbinical Student Dara Lithwick illustrated picture Hebrew words. Sunday September 29 and Tuesday October 8 at 5:30 pm book of papercut Young Ori hears Henry singing along No membership required, all are welcome. art, Koffsky pres- outside the sukkah and is determined to ents young kids find a way to bring the animal inside to with the biblical fulfil the mitzvah of welcoming guests. story of Creation The boy’s surprising solution shines Shana Tova through the prism of colour: from sep- with kid-friendly inventive thinking. President: Stephen Asherman Administrative Officer: Cathy Loves arating light from dark to the bubbling Kids will chuckle at illustrator Ivana Sr. Rabbi: Daniel Mikelberg Religious blues of the water, to the yellows of Kuman’s double-page spread as Henry, Rabbi Emeritus: Steven H. Garten School Principal: the sun, and the stripes and spots of in his red-checkered shirt and small Executive Director: Heather Cohen Sue Potechin the animals. After God created the first black cap, tries every which way to two people, a world full of people of all squeeze into the sukkah. On an author’s 1301 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON K2C 1N2 shades and hues followed. And then, on page, readers discover that the out-of- Tel: 613-224-1802 Fax: 613-224-0707 the seventh day, God rested. the-ordinary idea of elephants in a suk- www.templeisraelottawa.ca This simple, lyrically told story is per- kah crossed the legalistic minds of the fect for Simchat Torah, the joyful festival Talmud’s rabbis. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 51

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The Board of Directors of the Ottawa HOWARD, JEFFREY, ANDREW, RYAN GOLDBERG B’NAI MITZVAH DAVID “THE BEAR” KARDASH Jewish Community Foundation MICHAEL, GREGORY AND FUND CAMP B’NAI BRITH MEMORIAL acknowledges with thanks contributions ZACHARY COGAN Mazel Tov to: FUND to the following funds as of August 15 to SCHOLARSHIP FUND Irwin and Audrey Kreisman on the birth In Memory of: 28, 2019. In Memory of: of their grandson, Logan Parker by Reva Helen Bloom by Marty and Ellen Cardash Stanley Arron by Fred and Lisa Cogan and Ernest Goldberg David and Ethel Malek on the birth of SUSAN AND DAVID KRIGER JOIN US IN BUILDING OUR SID AND BARBARA COHEN their great grandson, Logan Parker by ENDOWMENT FUND COMMUNITY BY SUPPORTING COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Reva and Ernest Goldberg Mazel Tov to: THESE LOCAL FUNDS In Appreciation to: In Memory of: Maria Ain by Susan and David Kriger Dr. Morley and Mrs. Terri Bernstein by Morton Pleet by Reva and Ernest FRANCEEN AND STANLEY AGES Barbara Cohen Goldberg ANNICE AND SYDNEY KRONICK ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: FAMILY FUND Elliott Levitan by Barbara Cohen EVA, DIANE, JACK AND MORLEY In Memory of: In Memory of: GOLDFIELD MEMORIAL FUND Elliott Levitan by Franceen and Elliott Levitan by Debi and Neil Zaret Stanley Ages NATHAN AND REBA DIENER In Memory of: Stanley Arron by Franceen and ENDOWMENT FUND Stanley Arron by Diana, Gary and Rachel NORMAN AND ISABEL LESH Stanley Ages In Memory of: Goldfield ENDOWMENT FUND Morton Pleet by Reba Diener; and by In Memory of: John Diener MENDEL AND VALERIE GOOD Stanley Arron by Isabel Lesh APPOTIVE FAMILY ENDOWMENT HOLOCAUST CONTINUING FUND Elliott Levitan by Isabel Lesh CYNTHIA AND ABE ENGEL EDUCATION FUND Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: David Moskovic on his birthday by Stanley Arron by Howard Appotive Herbert Laks by the Jewish Federation Isabel Lesh and family In Memory of: Stanley Arron by Cynthia Engel of Ottawa Shoah Committee; and by Gaston Lauzon by the Appotive family Morton Pleet by Cynthia Engel and family Sarah Beutel and Steven Morgan RHODA AND JEFFREY MILLER and Howard Fine Jewellers team FAMILY FUND Mazel Tov to: BARBARA AND LEN FARBER HERB AND DENA GOSEWICH Mazel Tov to: David and Sharon Appotive on the birth ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Rhoda and Jeffrey Miller on the birth of of their grandson, Cole by Debi and Neil In Memory of: their grandchild by Josh Engel Zaret and family In Memory of: Ruth Fleisher by Barbara and Trudy Weisman by Cynthia Gosewich In Memory of: Leonard Farber Solomon Cohen by Rhoda and BRAYDEN APPOTIVE Stanley Arron by Barbara and YAFFA GREENBAUM AND Jeffrey Miller ENDWOMENT FUND Leonard Farber JACK SHINDER COMMUNITY Mazel Tov to: ENDOWMENT FUND JERRY NUDELMAN, GILEEN AND Joe and Rhoda Levitan on the birth ELLEN AND RAHAMIM FATHI Birthday Wishes to: LOUIS DUBROVSKY MEMORIAL of their grandson Solly by Sharon and ENDOWMENT FUND Cheryl Goltzman by Yaffa Greenbaum FUND David Appotive In Memory of: and Jack Shinder Mazel Tov to: David and Sharon Appotive on the birth Harvey Smith by Ellen Fathi and family Marion Davis by Yaffa Greenbaum and Claire Bercovitch on the upcoming wed- of their grandson, Cole by Micah and Morton Pleet by Ellen Fathi and family Jack Shinder ding of her granddaughter by Jessica Garten Sam Goldmaker by Ellen Fathi and family Lois Nudelman FRITZI AND MAX (CHIEF) DAPHNE AND STANLEY FLORENCE FAMILY GREENBERG MEMORIAL FUND OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY ARRON FUND MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of: ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Morton Pleet by Debbie, Norman and In Memory of: Stanley Arron by Corinne and Jeffrey Esther Smith by Ann Smith Vicky Ferkin Herbert Laks by Rita Hornstein Berman and family; by Sandra and Eddy Mazel Tov to: Cook; by Marilyn and William Newman; by FRAN AND SID GERSHBERG David and Ethel Malek on the birth of THE OTTAWA LION OF JUDAH Siobhan Stein; by Zeldie Stuart; by Randi FAMILY FUND their great grandson, Logan Parker by ENDOWMENT FUND and Ian Sherman; by Ronald and Marilyn Mazel Tov to: Debbie and Norman Ferkin Mazel Tov to: Greenberg; and by Jeff Greenberg Paula Bennett by Fran and Sid Audrey and Irwin Kreisman on the birth Gershberg LAURA AND MILTON GREENBERG of their new grandson, Logan Parker by FAMILY FOUNDATION CAMP B’NAI BRITH OF OTTAWA In Memory of: Leiba Krantzberg and Michael Metz CAPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND Sam Goldmaker by Fran and Sid In Memory of: Sharon and David Appotive on the birth Morton Pleet by Laura Greenberg In Memory of: Gershberg of their new grandson, Cole by Leiba Herbert Laks by Danny Chazonoff; by Krantzberg and Michael Metz GILBOA/MAOZ/STEINER ZELDA AND JOHN GREENBERG In Memory of: Heidi and Jonathan Pivnick; and by Ian ENDOWMENT FUND and Melissa Shabinsky FAMILY FUND Edith Miller by Leiba Krantzberg and In Appreciation to: In Memory of: Michael Metz Steve Noakes by Tal Gilboa and Rob Morton Pleet by Margot Greenberg Stanley Arron by Leiba Krantzberg and TILLIE AND HARRY CHERM Steiner Michael Metz MEMORIAL FUND HILLEL LODGE LEGACY FUND In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: ANNE AND BEN GLOBERMAN In Memory of: POLESKI KRAKOW MEMORIAL Sylvia Kaiman by Donald Cherm ENDOWMENT FUND Susan Rothman by Siobhan Stein FUND Morton Pleet by Siobhan Stein In Memory of: Mazel Tov to: DONALD AND LEAH CHODIKOFF Ruth Feldman by David Globerman Ryan and Yoni Appotive on the birth of ENDOWMENT FUND JEWISH COMMUNITY CEMETERY their son, Cole by Sandra Pollack and In Memory of: ANN AND LEON GLUZMAN HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FUND Steven Poleski Morris Agulnick by Leah Chodikoff MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of: Sharon and David Appotive on the Elliott Levitan by Leah Chodikoff In Memory of: Herbert Laks by Tom and Polly Varadi, birth of their grandson, Cole by Sandra Harvey Smith by Leah Chodikoff Sam Goldmaker by Ingrid Levitz Bela Guttman and Rosie Tock Pollack and Steven Poleski September 23, 2019 52 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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GERALD AND MARY-BELLE RICKIE AND MARTIN SASLOVE of their grandson, Logan Parker by CASEY AND BESS SWEDLOVE PULVERMACHER FAMILY FAMILY FUND Stanley Goldstein MEMORIAL FUND ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: In Memory of: In Memory of: Solomon Cohen by Martin Saslove HARRY AND SYLVIA SHINDER Morton Pleet by Carol-Sue and Jack Shapiro Stanley Arron by Mary-Belle and Gerald MEMORIAL FUND Pulvermacher ELAYNE AND WESLEY SCHACTER Mazel Tov to: TAMIR ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Irwin and Audrey Kreisman on the birth In Memory of: MOE AND SARAH RESNICK In Memory of: of their grandson, Logan Parker by Stanley Arron by Debbie and Norman MEMORIAL FUND Morton Pleet by Elayne and Lori and Peter Greenberg Ferkin Wesley Schacter In Memory of: LINDA SILVERMAN Mazel Tov to: Herbert Laks by Penny and Gordon Resnick LAYA AND SOL SHABINSKY MEMORIAL FUND Irwin and Audrey Kreisman on the birth FAMILY FUND In Memory of: of their grandson, Logan Parker by FLORENCE AND GDALYAH In Memory of: Debbie, Norman and Vicky Ferkin ROSENFELD ENDOWMENT FUND Elliott Levitan by Phyllis and Morton Pleet by Laya and Sol Shabinsky Marvin Silverman Mazel Tov to: STEPHEN AND GAIL VICTOR Faye Raber on her birthday by DAHLIA AND ZACHARY STELLA AND LOUIS SLACK ENDOWMENT FUND Anita Rosenfeld SHABSOVE B’NAI MITZVAH FUND MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of: In Memory of: In Memory of: Stanley Arron by Gail and Stephen Victor FRANCES AND MORTON ROSS Stanley Arron by Adrienne and Roger Aubrey by Myra and Lester Morton Pleet by Gail and Stephen Victor Chuck Shabsove FAMILY FUND Aronson; and by Bonnie and Paul Bowering Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: Gail Cohen by Adrienne and Chuck Shabsove Sandy and Murray Ages on their new Stanley Arron by Frances and Morton Ross PATRICIA SMOLKIN home by Gail and Stephen Victor Ruth Fleisher by Frances and Morton Ross Morton Pleet by Adrienne and MEMORIAL FUND Chuck Shabsove Refuah Shlema to: Edith Miller by Adrienne and In Memory of: ARIELLE ZELIKOVITZ B’NAI Sharon Sholzberg-Gray by Frances and Chuck Shabsove Morton Pleet by Nikki, Michael, Neilah MITZVAH FUND Morton Ross and Benjamin Shapiro In Appreciation of: ABE AND NELLIE SHAPIRO Mazel Tov to: Lenora Zelikovitz by Sarah Lipski HANNAH SACHS B’NAI MEMORIAL FUND Audrey and Irwin Kreisman on the MITZVAH FUND Mazel Tov to: birth of their grandson, Logan Parker Contributions may be made online at Mazel Tov to: Jack Shapiro on his special birthday by by Nikki, Michael, Neilah and Benjamin www.OJCF.ca or by contacting the Ellen Nadolny and Frank Grimsley on Marilyn and Daniel Kimmel Shapiro office at 613-798-4696 extension 274, the birth of their grandson by Michelle Randy Greenstone and Josh Rose and Monday to Friday or by email at trib- and Richard Sachs JONATHAN, MATTHEW AND family on the birth of Logan Parker by [email protected]. Attractive cards ADAM SHERMAN MITZVAH FUND Nikki, Michael, Neilah and Benjamin are sent to convey the appropriate Mazel Tov to: Shapiro sentiments. All donations are acknowl- Irwin and Audrey Kreisman on the birth edged with a charitable receipt. September 23, 2019 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 53

Rosh Hashanah Recipe This Apple Cake recipe is a perfect dessert for Rosh Hashanah if you’re gluten-free

BY RACHEL PATTISON Directions (JTA via The Nosher) – In recent years, 1. Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease and light- it seems that more and more of my fam- ly flour a 9-inch bundt pan (nonstick, ily members and friends have developed if you have one). food allergies and food intolerances. 2. In a stand mixer, beat together the This can make it difficult to determine sugar and olive oil. Beat in the eggs, what to serve at holidays and family then the honey and vanilla. Turn off events. So a gluten-free, dairy-free apple the stand mixer. cake for Rosh Hashanah is a delicious 3. In a separate large bowl, stir together way to celebrate the holiday while also the gluten-free flour, baking powder, suiting everyone at my table. baking soda, cinnamon, salt and all- Nut allergy? You can absolutely leave spice. out the walnuts here. 4. Turn the stand mixer back on, and My preferred gluten-free flour to use very slowly add the flour mixture is Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free 1-to-1 Bak- to the wet ingredients. Use a spat- ing Flour, which can be used as a direct ula to scrape down the sides of the substitution for all-purpose flour and bowl, ensuring that all the ingredients doesn’t require additional thickeners become well incorporated. such as xanthan gum. 5. Fold in the diced apples and walnuts. If you find that the mixture is too Ingredients thick, you can add some almond milk, 1/4 cup coconut sugar or brown sugar 1 tablespoon at a time, not to surpass 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 cup. 2 large eggs, room temperature 6. Pour the batter into the prepared 2/3 cup honey bundt pan and bake in the oven for 1 1 teaspoon vanilla extract hour. Check the cake at the 50-minute 2 1/2 cups gluten-free baking flour mark. It is done when a toothpick Rachel Pattison is a healthy food blogger pes) and finding ways to make them health- 1 teaspoon baking powder inserted comes out clean. Once done, living in Los Angeles. She loves taking tradi- ier. You can find more of her recipes on her 1 teaspoon baking soda allow the cake to cool in the bundt tional recipes (including Jewish family reci- blog, www.littlechefbigappetite.com. 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon pan for 15 minutes. Then place a cake 1 teaspoon salt plate on top of the bundt pan, and 1/8 teaspoon allspice while holding the pan and the plate 3 apples, peeled, cored, chopped into together, very carefully flip the bundt 1/4-inch pieces (I recommend using pan so the cake lands directly onto the a mixture of green and red apples) cake plate. 2/3 cup walnuts, finely chopped 7. Allow the cake to cool completely and (optional) then dust lightly with confectioners’ Unsweetened plain almond milk sugar. Serves 6-8. (optional)

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the challenges of recalling and retelling incidents in one’s life, which came first, RUBIN FRIEDMAN which ones later, as well as the changing perception of what these actually meant BOOK REVIEW as one gains both experience and per- haps, wisdom. Some of the strongest writing and the most relevant I found in the The Art of Leaving “Home” and “Return” sections of By Ayelet Tsabari book. In the former, Tsabari describes HarperCollins Canada in simple and effective language the 326 pages effects of the death of her father on her attitudes and her life as a 10-year- he Art of Leaving, a memoir by old, as a teen, and as a young woman. Ayelet Tsabari, an Israeli Mizrahi She becomes cynical about everything of Yemenite descent – who has in her life: her own Yemenite Mizrahi also lived and worked in Cana- background, the dominant Israeli cul- Tda – chronicles her personal Odyssey to ture, which she sees as Ashkenazi; and find “home” and to be reconciled with her relations with lovers, friends and her family’s culture and history both as family. Yemenite Jews and as Israelis. I was less satisfied with the middle Unlike Odysseus who leaves based section which seems to be an effort to on a call to duty, Tsabari undertakes her recount her years of hedonistic and travels in response to her ongoing sense alienated search for meaning, drugs, sex, of alienation, a feeling first of being new cultural experiences. This section alone and misunderstood, as well as a sometimes seems too self-pitying, too feeling of not belonging anywhere, and self-absorbed. Perhaps accurate, but less rebellion. interesting. But like the wanderer in the Greek The final section of the book, story, she must undergo many trials “Return,” is a sensitive portrait of an and losses before she can reach some individual who has matured and has semblance of peace with herself, with finally reconciled with her father’s the world around her, and with the death, her mother and her whole back- nature of the multiple components ground. She finally learns the art of of her identity: Mizrahi, Yemenite, “Coming Home.” Israeli, Canadian, woman, mother, and Tsabari conveys with great delicacy wife. the sense of being divided both from The arc of the story is a strong one, one’s ancestors who grew up in anoth- Introducing a new but some might find some of the steps er country, and from one’s children she takes along the way troublesome who are growing up in a whole new member of our family and to some extent repetitive. environment, each generation dom- The memoir is divided into sections inated by another language: Arabic, relating to periods of Tsabari’s life and Hebrew, English. Her writing here had Serving the Jewish what she identifies as the predominant the power to move a reader like me to Community since 1954. theme of each: “Home”, “Leaving” and tears. “Return.” Each section is further divided Both Tsabari and her parents were We are proud to welcome into episodes. born in Israel. Her alienation came in Perry Medicoff to our team As in real life, such divisions are part from her perception of how Miz- of caring professionals. not clean and definite. There is some rahi in general and Yemenite women When planning ahead, rely overlap and reappearance of events at a in particular were portrayed in the point later than the time frame in which dominant Israeli culture and its stereo- on Perry to help your family. they occurred. So an uncomfortable and types. frightening experience with a friend’s Tsabari is able nevertheless to por- Get started now! father are not told in the time when she tray, some of the experience and suf- Call for a FREE planning kit! and the friend were in the army, but fering of the Yemenites who had to 613-462-1906 many years later when they meet by walk across a desert to reach the port of chance in Vancouver. Oman in the early 20th century in order Kelly Funeral Homes This tendency is especially notice- to reach Haifa by ships via Egypt. For by Arbor Memorial able in the section, “Leaving.” The this brief glimpse of a different culture publication history of the various parts and its challenges, especially for women, Ottawa, ON • kellyfh.ca of the memoir show the reason for this we should be grateful and motivated to tendency, namely that they were not hear more of this from her and other published chronologically but appeared Jewish voices. separately in the years they were appar- ently written. It was only later that Rubin Friedman is the author of Our Arbor Memorial Inc. these were organized into The Art of Family Holocaust Chronicle – Part I: Leaving. Running for Their Lives and Part II: I am familiar with this difficulty and Fitting into Toronto.

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(JTA) – Since 2006, the only occu- Education & Scho larship (CHES) pants of the United Kingdom’s spec- thank their supporters tacular Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue have been bats, as it crumbled away into and wish the community disrepair. Now, preservation activists in London A Happy New Year have bought the unique building in Mer- r r שנה טובה ומבורכת thyr Tydfil in Wales that used to house a once-vibrant synagogue with plans to open there the first major museum of We look forward to another year of meaningful the history of the Jews of Wales. The Foundation for Jewish Heritage 400 members in the first half of the Holocaust Education Month programs, including: announced on September 12 that it had 20th century. purchased for an undisclosed amount But it fell into disuse as the popu- • An illustrated talk by Yuri Dojc, renowned art photographer, about the the Victorian stone structure, which lation of the Jewish communities of “ Last Folio: Memories of Jewish Life in Slovakia” (Nov. 3rd) was built in 1872 in Gothic Revival the U.K. gradually reconsolidated itself style. around the three main cities of London, The building, which last functioned Manchester and Newcastle. • Launch Event: A lecture in memory of Kristallnacht with as a synagogue in 1983, is considered It was sold in 2006 and has not been Professor Deborah Lipstadt world-renowned American Holocaust historian one of the United Kingdom’s most used since. The Foundation for Jewish important and has been awarded Grade Heritage snapped it up after it went on on “Antisemitism: Old Wine in New Bottles” (Nov.10th) II listed status out of three distinctions sale again recently, Michael Mail, the ranked in ascending order of signifi- Foundation’s chief executive, said in a Max and Tessie Zelikovitz A symposium for descendants of Holocaust survivors: Centre for Jewish Studies cance. statement. • The tall and narrow building, whose His organization is now looking for “Learning from the Past for the Future”(Nov.17th) imposing double spires form a vestibule funding to renovate the building with of sorts in front of the main hall, used to help from the Merthyr Borough Council, be the heart of a community with some the local municipality, he wrote.

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BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — For “Borat,” his 2006 film, Sacha Baron Cohen went undercover as a made-up Kazakh journalist who travels America and gets unwitting targets to share his boorish and sometimes bigoted opinions. In “Who Is America,” the Jewish actor creates a variety of charac- ters who manage to get prominent Americans to say shockingly offensive things. In “The Spy,” he once again goes undercover, but in a very different way. The Jewish actor and filmmaker portrays the real-life Eli Cohen, a daring Israeli agent who embedded himself in the upper echelons of Syr- ian society in the 1960s and provided crucial intelli- gence to the Jewish state. Released this month on Netflix, the espionage thrill- er is already getting plenty of buzz. Here’s a look at the wild and true story that it is based on. According to My Jewish Learning, Eli Cohen was born in 1924 in a Jewish family in Alexandria, Egypt. Like many Jews in Arab countries, his family left Egypt after the establishment of the State of Israel, as they faced increased antisemitism. But Cohen stayed behind to finish his degree in electronics. He also participated in Zionist activities in Egypt, for which he was at one point arrested, and took part in Israeli spy missions there. In 1956, Cohen was expelled from his native country along with many other Jews. He then immigrated to Israel, where he joined military intelligence the follow- ing year. He attempted to join the Mossad but was ini- tially rejected. He married Nadia Majald, an immigrant from Iraq, and settled in the coastal city of Bat Yam. In 1960, he was recruited to join the Mossad for a special mission in which he was to pretend to be a Syrian businessman returning to the country after having lived AFP/GETTY IMAGES Israeli spy Eli Cohen, left, and two other unidentified co-defendants, during their trial in Damascus, ten days before his in Argentina. The goal was to gather intelligence from execution, May 9, 1965. high-ranking Syrian politicians and military officials. Cohen wasn’t allowed tell anyone of the plans and told his wife that he was working abroad for Israel’s their work to Cohen, who was sober but would pretend delegation had removed his remains from Syria in an Defense Ministry. to be intoxicated. He made friends with many of the attempt to bring them to Israel. Last year, Israel was Ahead of the mission, Cohen had learn to speak guests and ended up receiving classified military brief- able to retrieve Cohen’s wristwatch from Syria and Arabic in a Syrian accent rather than his native Egyp- ings and coming along visit Syrian military sites. return it to his family. tian. He took on the name Kamel Amin Thaabet and Cohen would then send intelligence back to Israel Information provided by Cohen is thought to have went to live in Argentina for a period of time to build using a hidden radio transmitter. been crucial to Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. a name for himself in the Syrian expat community. He returned home to his family only a few times For example, on a trip to the Golan Heights, Cohen There he gained the trust of Amin al-Hafez, who would during his mission. On his last visit, in 1964, he told suggested to an army officer that he should plant trees later become Syria’s president. intelligence officers he wanted to come in from the to provide shade for troops stationed there. Those trees In February 1962, Cohen moved to Damascus. He cold because he was concerned a new Syrian intelli- helped Israel identify where Syrian troops were locat- was quickly able to infiltrate the highest levels of Syri- gence commander did not like him. But the intelli- ed. Levi Eshkol, the late Israeli prime minister, credited an society. He would entertain high-ranking politicians gence officers convinced him to go back one last time. Cohen’s intelligence with saving countless Israeli lives and military officials at extravagant parties where The following year, Syria was able to find out about and “having a great deal to do” with Israel’s victory in there would be many women and lots of booze. The Cohen by tracing his intelligence transmissions to Israel. the Six-Day War. drunk guests would often end up blabbering about He was convicted in a trial without a defence and Cohen wasn’t the only Israeli who went on such a sentenced to death. Israel desperately tried to com- mission, though he’s perhaps the best known. mute his sentence, and despite requests from world Israel “took a lot of ideas from the Soviet-style of leaders and Pope Paul VI for clemency, Cohen was playing the spy game,” in sending out citizens on long- hanged publicly in May of that year. term spy missions where they had to adopt false iden- His remains have yet to be returned, despite pleas tities, said Dan Raviv, a correspondent for i24News and from his family. 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Continued frompage 58 Israeli intelligence. “The Israelis were softer about this than the Soviets were because the Israelis generally allowed their long duration agents to come home on family visits,” Raviv told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Though these types of missions were a part of Sovi- et intelligence work – as dramatized in the FX series “The Americans” – it differed from strategies used by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Raviv. “American spies go to foreign countries using false identities for very short missions, but it’s just not in America’s nature to expect employees to give up their normal life to that extent,” he said. “In Israel, from the very beginning, that’s what Israeli intelligence looked for.” One thing that helped Israel with such missions was that its citizens came from many countries and spoke those languages fluently. NETFLIX “In the case of Eli Cohen, the mission was even Sacha Baron Cohen as Eli Cohen in “The Spy.” more ambitious,” Raviv said. “To set him up as really rich man who flamboyantly and visibly would climb up the ladder of influence in Syria, it was a very bold like Cohen’s took place, Raviv said that they were at new identities without being detected. mission but the Israeli intelligence chiefs thought Eli their height in the 1960s. As immigration and border “Israel in the 1960s was just a master at taking Cohen was up to it.” technology became more sophisticated with each com- advantage of these loose systems in so many coun- Though it is impossible to say how many missions ing decade, it got harder and harder for spies to adopt tries,” he said.

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n August 20, the Republican president of the gogues and temples. Individuals not only prayed within United States stated that Jews who support the four walls, they found community and friendship. Democrats are “disloyal.” RABBI STEVEN H. GARTEN Alas, synagogues and temples no longer are the The response was predictable. Those who focus of our individual loyalties. We see fewer and Osupport the president noted that what he was doing A VIEW FROM fewer seats filled on Shabbat and chagim. Friendship was calling out Jews who vote Democratic as disloyal THE BLEACHERS groups are easily formed outside the synagogues. to their own people. Not to the United States. Those While some direct their loyalties to individual insti- who are less enamored with the 45th U.S. president tutions and Jewish charities, it is interesting that many charged that this was a classic antisemitic canard. who do so are responding to the perceived needs that It is never simple to unpack the musings of the In 1917, when Lord Balfour was struggling to craft the institutions fulfil in their personal lives, such as president. He is not given to precision, even when a document that would appease both Zionists in the supporting an old age home because a parent needs a speaking from a prepared text. If, as some suggested, British cabinet and those opposed to agitating Arab secure, warm, friendly, kosher venue, or fundraising for he was calling upon Jews to be loyal to Israel, it is not leaders who might support British war efforts, a third a program that supports emotionally and educationally really the point. We Jews have an obligation to protect voice was noticeable. Anglo Jews pressured Balfour challenged adults because their own child fits the profile. and defend Israel because it is the ingathering of the and Churchill to write nothing that could be construed These are all worthy causes deserving of our com- exiles after two millennia. We Jews are not disloyal as hinting at dual loyalty among British Jewry. mitment, but there can never be enough individuals when we offer alternative opinions about the political That is why the phrase, “it being clearly understood with direct needs to support these places eternally. path chosen by Israeli political leaders. We are not that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the Loyalty is more than just an acknowledgement of disloyal if we disagree with those who call themselves civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish com- individual needs. Loyalty sees beyond the immediate. friends of Israel, but whose politics do not jibe with munities in Palestine or the rights and political status Loyalty is faithfulness in the face of adversity. Loyalty our personal values. enjoyed by Jews in any other country,” became part of requires honesty about thoughts and emotions. Loyal- Yet, we have always been anxious about the charge the Balfour Declaration. ty demands an everlasting commitment to something of disloyalty. In 1806, when Napoleon convened an We are a people whose loyalty is often challenged and or someone beyond ourselves. Loyalty demands assembly of Jewish notables to respond to 11 questions and somewhat tenuous at times. But, in spite of our strong feelings of support and allegiance. designed to clarify the Jewish community’s relation- history and our discomfort when the issue is raised, The loyalty which supersedes our personal procliv- ship to France, he specifically asked if “Jews acknowl- few serious political leaders in the post-Second World ities and opinions is loyalty to the Jewish community. edge France as their country.” War era have given us much cause for concern. It is through that loyalty that many of our personal In 1841, when Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charles- What should be more concerning to us is where our causes and interests are made real. As individuals, we ton, South Carolina dedicated its first permanent home loyalties lie within the Jewish community. There was a cannot insure the survival of our people, community (it was founded in 1749), the president of the congre- time when we galvanized around the slogan “We are one.” and institutions. As a united community we can. gation proclaimed, “This city is our Jerusalem. This However, some thought the slogan was too narrow and This year divide your loyalties if you must, but country is our Palestine.” There was to be no ambigui- not reflective of our growing diversity. There was a time commit to your community, who will preserve all our ty about loyalty. when our loyalties were to religious institutions: syna- divided loyalties.

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osh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are two of my a chance to process the reasons for their actions does favourite holidays. I love the spirit of intro- them a disservice. Some of my most sacred parenting spection and renewal as we reflect on the past, JEN PERZOW moments have come when, without any intervention make amends, and make our supplications from me, I overhear my kids saying to one another R(in whatever form they make take) for a peaceful and MODERN “I’m sorry – do you want to regroup?” Regret trans- healthy year. Apples, honey, challah and grape juice (or MISHPOCHA formed into changed behaviour is true teshuva and wine) don’t hurt either! you can’t always rush that. Teshuva (repentance) is a central theme at this The inherent purpose of a time out is to allow the point in our Jewish year yet it is a core value that is person – child or grown up, we all need them from not always easy to teach or model for our children. time to time – a chance to calm down, consider both Teshuva is about accepting responsibility for our Kids know when an apology is the reason for and impact of an action, and identify actions and seeing our faults or mistakes without genuine and they certainly know some ways to make amends. I prefer to think of it as shame but with an intention to always grow and “taking space” because it leaves behind the punitive improve. The literal translation is ‘return.’ Returning when it’s not. Forcing kids to connotations that so many of us and our children asso- to our true selves, our true belief systems and to being apologize immediately and before ciate with time outs. Whatever you call it, the more we the best people we can be. they’ve had a chance to process the are in the habit of stepping away to regroup and reflect I am a firm believer in the power of person- in or after a tense moment, the more our kids will learn al growth. It is one of the many amazing abilities reasons for their actions does them to do the same. Focus shifts from shame and punish- bestowed upon human beings. Granted, we are not a disservice. ment to understanding, restitution and connection. always open and ready to change. Sometimes we lack It is equally important to remind ourselves and the desire, insight or tools to be able to do so. Teshu- teach our kids how to forgive. Forgiveness is not an va is a productive and positive ritual that takes us central to both the act of teshuva and the process of endorsement of unacceptable behaviour. Forgiveness through the process of change and personal growth personal growth for children and adults alike. is a release of anger, hostility and expectation. Some- allowing us to understand ourselves and others, rectify Should kids be forced to apologize when they’ve times kids will need to forgive and forget. Sometimes mistakes, and propel us to greater heights and abilities. done something wrong or hurtful? While I certainly they will need to forgive and remember. Either way, Some years ago, a PJ Library book entitled Sorry is have been known to request (um, demand) an apology forgiving oneself and others is an essential component the Hardest Word arrived at our home. Perhaps you’ve from my kids, the most meaningful apologies come of teshuva and personal growth. got a copy of it as well. The story follows a bird who without any coercion. Kids know when an apology is Shana Tova Umetukah. Gmar Chatima Tova. Have a comes to learn both the challenge and importance of genuine and they certainly know when it’s not. Forcing Sweet and Happy New Year. May You be Inscribed for apologies. Few people enjoy apologizing but it is a skill kids to apologize immediately and before they’ve had Good.

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Who Will Remember? inspire teachers and students to recognize and deal with hate and — Dr. Art Leader, CHES Today, in the face of much violence, we face increasing indifference. antisemitism. The workshops bring together survivors, students, In 1999, Elie Wiesel warned against the perils of indifference. Hidden educators and community leaders “to discuss the dangers of “There are events of such overbearing magnitude that one or even visible anguish becomes of no interest. Indifference reduces forgetting and the imperative of remembrance, the danger of ought to not remember them all the time, but one must not the other to an abstraction and renders us inhuman. We are left forget them either. Such an event is the Holocaust.” indifference and the responsibility to act,” said the Honourable with the need to re-double our efforts to honour our parents and Irwin Cotler. The Rabbi of Bluzhov, Rabbi Israel Spira grandparents and those who perished, but how? We promise, “Never Again”, but how do we keep the promise? Sadly, hate works 24/7 and is everywhere. Educators from across Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust Eastern Ontario have requested more frequent and local workshops With the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship For Holocaust survivors, there is no forgetting. For everyone else, we as they deal with hate in their communities. Resources and (CHES) at Carleton University, Canada’s capital now has a need to capture survivor testimonies so we can remember. However, volunteers are needed to train teachers and to provide anti-hate permanent organization to promote a deeper with each day, another survivor and another eyewitness to the evils education year-round. While national Holocaust remembrance understanding of the legacy and lessons of the Holocaust. of the Holocaust disappears. Today, the children of survivors (Second occurs annually, we lack the resources to develop a smart phone- Generation or G2) and their children (Third Generation or G3) must based application that would enrich the understanding of the CHES is based on three pillars: continue to remind society what the Holocaust meant to Jewish Holocaust for visitors to the Holocaust Monument. Involving G2 and • HOLOCAUST EDUCATION MONTH: Each November CHES families and mankind, and to combat the antisemitic merchants of G3 has been a challenge, but we must redouble our efforts to make organizes Holocaust-related programs for the community, hate who deny the Holocaust. Holocaust education our cause and the cause of our children. launched by a commemoration of Kristallnacht.

The children of survivors face their own personal challenges. For those • OUTREACH to SCHOOLS and TEACHERS: CHES organizes teacher Almost 75 years ago our parents and surviving family members raised in homes where Holocaust experiences were discussed in too workshops and sends survivor speakers or testimonial films to emerged from their personal hell. They were “carried by profound much detail, too soon, or too often, there can be secondary reach students at schools across the region. fear and extraordinary hope” to Canada. “Indifference always means traumatization, shame, and PTSD symptoms. Others raised in homes of coming down on the side of the aggressor, never on the side of the silence and hidden mystery may have experienced a culture of • PROGRAMS FOR G2 and G3: CHES develops programs to help victim. It is this teaching which makes the Centre’s work so crucial,” repression. On the other hand, those resilient traits that enabled parents and prepare descendants of survivors to understand their said Professor Cotler. to survive may be passed on to their children. Given the diverse trauma and to speak out on behalf of families that were/are experiences, it is not surprising that some G2 and G3 children come to victims of antisemitic hate. It is our duty to speak up and stand up against hatred — every day. September 23, 2019 62 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM A klezmer musical and songs from under the Ontario moon

implicitly to the plays narrative. Some of Shelley Posen enced guitarists Christian Flores and the latter serve as modern day Talmudic Ontario Moon Andrew Tesolin, bassist Mike Mopasi, MICHAEL interpretations as imagined through Well Done Music clarinetist Martin van de Ven of the REGENSTREIF lenses of the period (early 20th century) www.borealisrecords.com klezmer band Beyond the Pale, and vio- or of today. Shelley Posen is well known throughout linist Mika Posen, the artist’s daughter. MUSIC As well as original material written or the folk music world as a member of One of the songs I relate to most on co-written by Caplan, Finest Kind, a mostly-re- the album is “Night Nurse,” a blues fea- Moscovitch and Barry tired Ottawa vocal trio turing the bottleneck guitar virtuosity of Ben Caplan for the play, Old Stock known for its glorious Michael Jerome Browne. The song is a Old Stock includes two well-cho- harmonies, and as a tribute to the care Posen received sever- Rhyme & Reason Records sen songs written versatile singer and al years ago when he underwent surgery www.bencaplan.ca by Geoff Berner, an songwriter whose work at the University of Ottawa Heart Insti- One of the most magnificent produc- instrumental by Danny touches many genres. tute. The song mirrors my own experi- tions I’ve seen in recent years was “Old Rubenstein and a pas- Ontario Moon is his fifth ences with the night nurses when I had Stock: A Refugee Love Story,” a play sage from Jeremiah solo album and while my own surgery at the Heart Institute a co-created by playwright Hannah Mos- set to music by Rabbi two of his previous CDs few years after Posen. covitch, who grew up in Ottawa, sing- Shlomo Carlebach. were on specifically Jew- Other favourites include “The Best er-songwriter Ben Caplan and director Warning: Some of ish themes, the dozen Song Ever Written,” a fun country song Christian Barry, which tells the story of the songs on Old Stock songs here are purely about songwriting; “Back at Bub’s,” a rock Moscovitch’s great-grandparents who have mature themes secular in nature. ‘n’ roller about a favourite barbecue joint; fled antisemitism in Romania in 1908 for and are not suitable One of the things “Sugar Bush Breakfast,” a very sweet duet Canada. for young children that’s really nice about with Montreal singer Linda Morrison; Caplan plays The Wanderer, the play’s or those offended by this album is that “Tea Time,” a clever paean to afternoon narrator who moves the story forward profane language and/ each track is uniquely tea at the Royal York featuring a classical with a series of monologues and songs – or frank references to arranged with musi- string quartet; and “Walking in the Rain,” most of them klezmer influenced – that sexuality. cians specifically a delightful little piece that sounds like it he performs with a theatricality that is “Old Stock: A recruited for the song in could have come from a 1940s musical. equal parts Tevye and Tom Waits. The Refugee Love Story,” question. For example, While I’ve mentioned about half the Old Stock CD collects the songs that starring Ben Caplan, the title track, a jazzy, songs on the album, all of the others are Caplan performs in the show along with returns to the Babs romantic tune that just as good. a couple of his monologues, and while it Asper Theatre at the National Arts Cen- recalls the Tin Pan Alley songs that song- helps to be familiar with the play, these tre from October 17-27. Visit https:// writers like Irving Berlin were writing in Michael Regenstreif’s music blog, pieces stand on their own and include nac-cna.ca/en/event/21514 for more infor- the 1930s, features a swinging quintet Folk Roots/Folk Branches, is at songs that relate both explicitly and mation. that includes Django Reinhardt-influ- https://frfb.blogspot.com/.

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ONGOING EVENTS meal and snacks throughout)! RSVP: sarah beutel THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 – training and support will be provided [email protected] Bible Basics with Lauren Shaps – the atmosphere is fun – we are High school students in Grades 10 - 12, are Sisters on Board 9:15 - 10:15 am, Thursdays until working toward a common goal! invited to learn about the 10-day trip to 7:30 - 9:30 pm December 13, 2019 – participation will count as volunteer Poland and Israel that takes place in Contact: Solange Ashe Contact: Lauren Shaps hours for high school credit April/May 2020 (dates to be announced). [email protected] [email protected] – 3 shifts are available to choose from This info session will provide details Cost: $36. The Ottawa Jewish Community See how the events of the Exodus This will be a meaningful and about the trip, and the opportunity to Foundation is proud to host Sisters on (Shmot) speak to the challenges you face much-appreciated way of giving back to hear about the impact of the MOL Board, a new, innovative Jewish women’s today. the community – thank you! experience from trip alumni and parents event that aims to promote the benefits of If you are interested in canvassing of past participants. leaning into leadership roles by partici- Foundations of Jewish Living Classes with us, please contact Lindsay at pating on community boards. Sisters on for Parents – Fall session [email protected] or (613) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 Board seeks to be inclusive to women of 7:30 - 9 pm, Thursdays until 798-4696 x 272. Please invite your friends all professional and philanthropic November 21, 2019 – all are welcome to join! The Federal Election, the Jewish experience levels. 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Topics to be MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 physics and Distinguished Research covered include CIJA - the public policy SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 Professor at Carleton University and issues that matter to the Jewish commun- Jewish Federation of Ottawa Telethon Peter Black, former Assistant Director of ity, and CJPAC- why and how you should Tammy Bottner A True Story of How a for the 2020 Annual Campaign Policy Analysis in the Federal Office of get involved in an election campaign. 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