The National Jewish Post&Opinion Volume 76, Number 3 • October 21, 2009 • 3 Heshvan 5770 Two Dollars
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The National Jewish Post&Opinion Volume 76, Number 3 • October 21, 2009 • 3 Heshvan 5770 Two Dollars www.jewishpostopinion.com NAT 2 October 21, 2009 Jewish values, this fit right in with his life- long service to the Jewish community. About the Cover Editorial As I looked through the bound Shabbat Shalom volumes of this newspaper, I found Photographs by Steve Schuster In honor of this seventh annual that Maurer has served on the board of BY RABBI JON ADLAND Appreciation Day editorial, I will give a different local Jewish organizations (as Clockwise from top October 16, 2009, Bereisheet brief explanation of what that means and well as organizations such as United Way) left corner: (1) Megillat (Genesis 1:1–6:8), 28 Tishri 5770 then show my appreciation for a local and has served as president of the Jewish Ha’esh monument, businessman who has given so much of Community Relations Council. In 2005, the “Scroll of Fire” by The first 5 1/2 chapters of the book of his time, energy and financial support to he was named president of the Indiana Natan Rapoport near Genesis, Bereisheet, make up the first por- the city of Indianapolis, the state of Economic Development Corporation and Jerusalem. The two tion in the Torah. Most of this portion Indiana and beyond. in 2006 was named Indiana’s secretary of columns bear bas-relief consists of stories with which we are all Also without my asking him, one our commerce by Governor Mitch Daniels. images that depict familiar. Have you ever stopped to really writers has written a column of appreciation Now his children are following in his Jewish history from take a look at these first chapters? They Steve Schuster to me. See below starting with“Dear Jennie.” footsteps. Lately his outreach has biblical times through move from a precise order of creation to I am humbled by praise in this letter expanded to include much more. exile, shtetls, death camps, resistance in the first murder in just a few verses. almost to embarrassment, but he worked For example in the Sept. 23, 2009 issue the Warsaw ghetto, and finally the Genesis, chapter 1 gives us an orderly hard on it and wants to see it printed. of The Indiana Jewish Post & Opinion, we creation of modern-day Zion in the 1948 seven-day unfolding of creation. Whether For the past seven years, I have written published a news story about the Arthur war. (2) The first rays of the morning sun it is precise, accurate, or problematic, the about setting aside a day once a year to M. Glick JCC’s live talk show where light the ruins at Belmont Castle built by writers of this chapter had a vision of thank those who have done something to Maurer interviews notable Hoosiers. For Crusaders around 1160 at Tel Tzuba just order at the beginning of time. Not so in help us at a time when we were too busy, too the Nov. 5, 2008 episode of Mickey’s West of Jerusalem. (3) Grapes in the Genesis, chapter 2 which is a second young, or too preoccupied to thank them. Corner featuring Sylvia McNair, famed Tzuba vineyard near Jerusalem. (4) A creation story. There is a more frenetic I called it Appreciation Day and suggested soprano, the show received an Emmy panel on Megillat Ha’esh. (5) Close-up of and chaotic sense to this creation story. it be Nov. 2, because that is during the Award. This story can be viewed on our a panel on Megillat Ha’esh. (6) Entrance It is much more focused on Adam, the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, which has website at the following address: to Ein Sataf (Sataf Spring) – a natural animals, and the eventual creation of no holidays and it is in between the www.jewishpostopinion.com/9_23IN.pdf spring cave near the ancient agricultural Eve from Adam’s rib, than it is on the Canadian and American Thanksgiving and the show may be viewed at settlement of Sataf, first settled around seven-day orderly creation story. Days. This year they fall on Oct. 12 and www.JCCindy.org. 6,000 years ago, on the Eastern slope of Chapter 3 focuses on the story of Adam Nov. 26 respectively. Also it turns out that All this is only the tip of the iceberg; it’s Mt. Eitan near Jerusalem. (7) Sunrise view and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the the very middle of Cheshvan – the 15th hard to believe one man has been able to through the ruins at the Belmont deception by the serpent to get Eve, then day of that month – is Nov. 2. accomplish so much. I don’t think all of Crusader castle (circa 1160) just west of Adam, to eat of the forbidden fruit of the The example I gave was meeting my this would have been possible without Jerusalem at Tel Tzuba. Tree of Knowledge in the center of the father’s cousin Milton Rosenbaum, z”l, and the loving support of his beautiful wife, Steve Schuster is a past-president of Garden. By disobeying God, Adam and his wife, Jean, z”l, at the King David Hotel Janie Maurer, who also has served on the Temple Sinai in Worcester, Mass. He and Eve are banished from the Garden. Adam in Jerusalem on my first trip to Israel when board and as president of some local his wife, Julie, have four children and six and Eve had no rules to follow except not I was 18. As I was introduced to them in Jewish organizations. She is a kind and pets who were rescued from the streets in eating that fruit and they break that the lobby of the hotel, we shook hands. generous woman in her own right, but Israel. A writer and engineer, Steve is CEO command. As a result, they face the Jean took me aside and whispered to together they truly make up one unit. I and founder of Rainier, a leading PR agency consequences of their actions. Finally, in me that my extended hand was like a can’t imagine what this world would be for technology companies, including more than Genesis chapter 4, the first crime occurs, limp fish, and she showed me how to give like without them. 20 Israeli firms. Steve travels to Israel every which is the murder of Abel by Cain. In a firm, confident handshake. I thought it three months on business and is deeply four chapters we move from a perfect was rude of her to tell me this, until I Dear Jennie, committed to providing a voice in North world to the first recorded murder. started having job interviews. Then I The true meaning of your name is America for Israel’s innovation economy. Our lives can feel this swing as well. became grateful that she had taken the graciousness.Your spirit and involvement Steve has BSEE and MBA degrees from There are days when we feel the calm of a time to share that information with me. in Jewish causes have certainly in Northeastern University and is an avid “perfect life” with work, family, friends, By the time I was mature enough to gratiated you to many. After reading your musician, hiker, photographer, gardener, and extracurricular activities all going acknowledge her guidance, she had editorial of July 29, 2009 (a reprint and fitness enthusiast. Steve’s wrote and well. We feel at one and at peace with the passed away. originally published July 3, 2003), I am published The Liberation Haggadah for world around us. The plan we have laid convinced that you personify the values Passover in 2009. out for our lives seems to be moving Since last December and for more than and teachings of your late father, Gabriel a year before that, I have been meaning to Cohen, of blessed memory. The National Jewish write or call and say thank you to Michael The Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 30b (Mickey) S. Maurer of Indianapolis. For relates that there are three partners in man starters, he owns and publishes the (woman), God, father, and mother. When Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ), and he a man (woman) honors his (her) father Post &Opinion founded and is chairman of the board of and mother, God says, “I regard it as The National Bank of Indianapolis, which though I had dwelt among them and they www.jewishpostopinion.com now has eleven branches. honored Me.”The manner in which you He also runs a nice big advertisement succeeded your father not only glorifies Editorial and sales offices located at The Jewish Post & Opinion in our local edition, The Indiana Jewish his memory but ensures that his legacy 238 S. Meridian St., Suite 502, Indianapolis, IN 46225 Published biweekly by office: (317) 972-7800 • fax: (317) 972-7807 The Spokesman Co., Inc. Post & Opinion, for all of our holiday of involvement in the cause of Jewish (USPS 275-580) (ISSN 0888-0379) issues. Ads like this are what pay for the survival will be perpetuated for all time. [email protected] Periodicals postage paid at National edition. 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