July 21-27, 2017 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVI, Number 29 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK Family Field Days at the Israeli Scouts at JCC on JCC on August 6 on July 27 The Jewish Community Center of Nichole Fuller at the JCC at 724-2417. By Lynette Errante Binghamton will hold a Family Field Days The event and all proceeds raised The Israel Scouts will perform on event on Sunday, August 6, from 11 am-2 will directly benefit the JCC’s Early Thursday, July 27, at 7 pm, at the Jewish pm. The cost of attendance will be $5 per Childhood Center. The ECC seeks to Community Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., person, with a $20 maximum for families. provide a warm and caring environment Vestal. Their performance will be followed The entire community is welcome and where children explore, experiment, by refreshments and a meet-and-greet with encouraged to attend. play, grow and learn to ask questions. the Scouts. The Scouts will spend the day Among the program’s offerings will Programming is offered for infants-5- with the campers at Camp JCC playing be carnival games, a watermelon eating years-old, including full-day daycare and traditional Israeli games. The evening contest and a water slide. DJ Johnny preschool, half-day preschool, art and performance will be free to the commu- Only will also be present at the event. physical education classes and Universal nity, but RSVPs will be appreciated and For families with younger children, the Pre-Kindergarten. Money raised from can be made by calling the JCC office at Field Days will have an area with activ- the Field Days will be used to provide 724-2417, ext. 110. ities specifically for toddlers. There will classrooms with needed items. “Camp JCC campers and counselors be snacks for sale and a basket raffle. For more information about the Family look forward to this event every year,” said The JCC is currently taking donations Field Days program, the Early Childhood camp counselor Jil Foster. “The Scouts get for baskets from area businesses and Center or the JCC, contact the JCC office the crowd dancing and singing along with individuals. Those interested can contact at 724-2417. them; it’s so much fun!” The 2017 Israeli Scouts. Six reasons why Macron’s speech about the Holocaust in France was groundbreaking to be French and Jewish,” she said. organized the event, did not object publicly ANALYSIS Here are six significant ways that the to Netanyahu’s attendance and facilitated it. address differed from those of previous The arrival of Netanyahu and his wife, French presidents, including in scope; the Sara, in a motorcade whose limousines By Cnaan Liphshiz unusual role played at the event by Israeli sported gold-fringed Israeli flags electrified PARIS (JTA) – It wasn’t the first time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; its the predominantly Jewish audience of 1,200 that a French president acknowledged his references to present realities; and Macron’s people. Holocaust survivors in their 80s nation’s Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel emotional delivery. and 90s approached the monument railing Macron’s speech on July 16 was nonetheless It was the first time that an Israeli head to catch a glimpse of the Israelis as others groundbreaking in format, content and style. of state attended the annual commemora- reacted with thunderous applause. They oo- Delivered during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv tion for the Vel d’Hiv deportations of July hed and applauded as Netanyahu delivered Holocaust memorial monument exactly 75 Emmanuel Macron spoke at a July 16-17, 1942, named after the Velodrome the first part of his speech in French, which years after French police officers rounded 16 ceremony commemorating the 75th d’Hiver stadium that used to stand near the he speaks with a thick accent and some up 13,152 Jews there for deportation to Nazi anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust monument. Netanyahu was invited despite errors, but understands without requiring death camps, the 35-minute address was roundup in Paris. (Photo by Kamil objections on Muslim websites, by the translation. And they nodded as he urged Macron’s first about the Holocaust since the ZihnIoglu/AFP/Getty Images) Communist Party and the party of the far-left Macron to stand with Israel and fight “the centrist won the presidency in May. leader Jean-Luc Melenchon – although the cancerous spread of militant Islam” and Evocative and more forthright than any by many Jews due to antisemitism today, invitation came from the CRIF federation “hate that starts with the Jews, but never of the speeches on the subject delivered according to Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, of French Jewish communities and not by ends there,” as Netanyahu defined it. But by Macron’s predecessors, his address “re- who leads the Liberal Jewish movement in the Elysee Presidential Palace, as reported their enthusiasm for Netanyahu was dwarfed lieved the feeling of isolation” experienced France. Macron’s speech “made me proud by some French media. The Elysee, which See “Macron” on page 3 Poconos bound with Camp JCC TI Sisterhood Program Committee held meeting

Temple Israel’s Sisterhood Program Committee met recently with Rabbi Geoffrey Brown to make plans for the coming year. The committee is working on a variety of programs. Committee members noted feeling a “renewed energy” in the reformation of the Sisterhood in the synagogue’s new building. Back row (l-r): Maxine Rosenberg, Wendy Wolff, Julie Camp JCC’s Eliter and Galgalimer campers were ready for their overnight trip to Camel Piaker, Marcia Hofstein, Arlene Osber, Brown, Beverly Rozen and Betty Warner. Front Beach in the Poconos. See more camp photos on page 7. row: Barbara Zelter, Lois Levitt, Bobbi Markowitz and Barbara Gilbert. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Intersectionality Start your engines... News in brief... Special Sections A writer believes Jews must learn A look at NASCAR’s first Israeli Tensions are rising between Legal Notices...... 4 the difference between inclusive driver, Alon Day, and his road to Israeli Druze and Muslims; Hamas Book Review...... 4 and exclusive intersectionality. success on the circuit. wants to set up its HQ in Algeria. Beat the Heat-Ice Cream Scoops..... 5 ...... Page 2 ...... Page 3 ...... Page 8 Classifieds...... 8 Page 2 - The Reporter July 21-27, 2017 Opinion From the Desk of the Federation Executive Director

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The lyric “could it be, yes it could, something’s coming, September, when you will get the chance to see the worries about how and what to teach my new grandchild something good” comes from a musical I saw as a teenager. movie “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” at our Edythe Jean. Communication is so different today. The “West Side Story” was a musical that was not a comedy, very own Film Fest. world seems to move in nano seconds – whatever that is. but rather a drama with music that spoke about prejudice. Besides the fabulous music you’ll hear, you will learn How do you get across values and ethics in a text message It was eye-opening for me. that these talented Jewish composers and lyricists added a or a tweet? That music from “West Side Story” was written Jewish ethos to all that they wrote. In addition to “Bloody But Edy does love when I sing to her – perhaps soon by two Jews: Leonard Bernstein (music) and Stephen Mary” and “Some Enchanted Evening,” Rodgers and I will forgo “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” and start singing the Sondheim (lyrics). Jews were involved in most of Hammerstein wrote a song about prejudice: “You’ve Got folk songs of my teenage years or meaningful songs of the musicals from the Golden Age of Broadway. But to Be Carefully Taught” tells how people are taught to hate. Broadway. Could songs help inspire a lifelong dedication there was more meaning to many of these works than It makes you feel proud! to tikkum olam – repair of the world? Who knows? “Could you might expect. You can learn more about this in This means a lot to me since I’ve shared with you my it be. Yes it could.” Intersectionality excludes and includes – Jews must learn the difference By David Bernstein yet another manifestation of anti-Israelism. could be considered a form of inclusionary intersectionality. (JTA) – Last year, I wrote an opinion piece for JTA Since that time, I’ve delved deeper into the doctrine and Increasingly, however, a more exclusionary discourse about a term and a trend few Jews over the age of 30 had observed its various manifestations. In its original form, has been used to divide people and target, in particular, ever heard of: intersectionality. Coined in the late 1980s, intersectionality is a perfectly legitimate way to understand Jews and supporters of Israel. The detractors use the same intersectionality posits that various forms of oppression – discrimination and power, and can bring people together. I call framework of interconnected identities to limit, not expand, racism, sexism, classism, ableism and homophobia – are this “inclusionary intersectionality.” In its more malevolent the scope of human empathy. all interconnected. According to the theory, a black female form, however, it is used to purge social justice causes of anyone In June, for example, three Jewish women were ejected is doubly marginalized by racism and sexism, for example. who doesn’t agree with the entire package of ideologically from the Chicago Dyke March because they were carrying As a result, it is necessary for activists to connect these extreme views. I call this “exclusionary intersectionality.” a rainbow flag with a Jewish star on it. One of the women multiple forms of oppression in their advocacy. It’s critical that we know the difference. said she was told by a march organizer “your flag looks Rising in popularity in the wake of the protests in Fergu- Many college students, including young Jews, embrace too much like Israeli flags because of the star, and that it son, MO, over the fatal shooting of a black man by a white inclusionary intersectionality. Think not of a raucous is triggering to people and it makes them feel unsafe.” officer, intersectionality, I pointed out, made it easier for rally, but of a dorm room discussion. The intersectional Organizers of the Chicago Dyke March themselves Israel’s detractors to connect the dots between their cause conversation allows students to map themselves with tweeted, “QUEER AND TRANS ANTI-ZIONIST JEW- and other causes – to blame, somehow, the behavior of other students onto a Venn diagram reflecting their mul- ISH FOLKS ARE WELCOME HERE,” a clear example Missouri police on the example of the Israeli military, or tiple identities. In their discussions, they recognize both of exclusionary intersectionality. The tweet makes it ex- to reduce the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a clash between overlapping and divergent experiences. A college student plicit that you can only be part of the cause if you agree whites and “people of color.” intern in my office told me that “thinking intersectionally with the organizers on every issue. Those with a different I argued that to counter this growing problem, supporters means appreciating our association with diverse identities. perspective need not apply. of Israel must do more to join the conversation and engage It allows us to recognize the potential for empathy beneath On too many college campuses, political activists em- other groups susceptible to outreach from anti-Israel groups. surface-level differences and develop greater opportunities brace exclusionary intersectionality. Jewish students have The op-ed generated a firestorm. Numerous proponents for cooperation.” reported feeling unwelcome in certain social justice coali- of intersectionality spoke out against the article, arguing These concepts should not be all that alien to us. The tions. In such instances, anti-Israel students have become that I simplified an important theoretical framework for Jewish community relations field, which for decades has gatekeepers for campus coalitions, citing intersectionality understanding prejudice and exploited it for advocacy been building bridges to other minority communities in in excluding Jewish students. For example, Students for purposes. Others were shocked by what they considered order to create a more just society, operates under what See “Learn” on page 5 In My Own Words Cultural assumptions RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Sometimes what is not mentioned is as important as I then thought about the Bible and what it doesn’t say. are kosher, so we can drink cow’s milk. Camels are not what is. I’m talking about the cultural assumptions we Although there are lists of which types of animals Jews kosher, so we can’t drink camel’s milk. Does that mean make in our daily lives. This thought came about in an are allowed or not allowed to eat, one mammal is not men- that human breast milk is not kosher? The answer is usual way. When discussing Jewish dietary customs during tioned in either list: humans. The Torah never specifically that it’s fine to breast feed, but there are some complex a chaplaincy visit, I mentioned my reaction when I visited forbids the eating of humans. Now, our cultural assumptions reasons allowing this exception. In fact, the answer is so a house where bacon was being cooked. Even though it are such that no one would think a fellow human should complicated, I’m not certain I actually understand all the smelled heavenly, I refused an offer to taste a piece. This be eaten, although that’s not true of all cultures, at least reasoning, but it really doesn’t matter. I’m not looking to thought about kashrut returned later that day when I was according to Schutt. (There are debates about whether or consume humans or human milk. reading “Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History” by not cannibalism actually occurred except during times of What I am interested in is being forced to recognize that Bill Schutt.* starvation, but there is some evidence to suggest ritual not everyone makes the same cultural assumptions I do. Why would a book about cannibalism make me think cannibalism has occurred.) The Torah assumes that humans That doesn’t mean I’m looking to adopt their assumptions about kashrut? Throughout history, non-Jews have sug- are off limits without having to mention it. or change how I live. What this does is give me a better gested that Jewish dietary laws make no sense. They ask, That doesn’t mean the issue hasn’t been discussed. understanding of how other people and cultures think and “Why won’t you eat such perfectly fine foods as pork and Google the phrase “does Judaism allow people to eat live, and what that might mean for our society and the shellfish?” What the people asking this question don’t humans” and a wide variety of articles pop up. Many larger world. These cultures might have important lessons realize is that they also restrict their diets, although the re- of these focus on vegetarianism, but others look at the to teach us. Well, maybe not in the case of cannibalism, strictions are so ingrained people don’t even realize they’re question and quote Jewish commentators from rabbinic but understanding our blind spots and recognizing them following them. For example, suppose we continued this and medieval times. One article raised an interesting is always helpful – even when it complicates our lives. conversation by asking them in return, “Well, if we aren’t idea: We can only eat mammals with cloven hooves who *Schutt’s book was great fun to read because it focused supposed to restrict our diets, why don’t you eat cats, dogs also chew their cud. Humans clearly don’t fit into that on scientific research – about human and nonhuman exam- or guinea pigs? What about rats and mice? Those animals category. However, we are also only allowed to drink the ples of cannibalism – rather than the more sensationalistic are eaten in other countries, so why limit yourself?” milk of animals that fit this category. For example, cows aspects found in many books and articles about the subject.

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Macron Continued from page 1 by the deafening applause they gave Macron when he replied: “Despite the denials of the murderer, the judiciary responded to Netanyahu. must as soon as possible provide maximum clarity on the Addressing Netanyahu, Macron assured the Israeli death of Sarah Halimi.” Klarsfeld said it was a strong message leader and listeners that “we will continue our fight against that will “probably induce change” in how Traore is tried. terrorism and the worst kinds of fanaticism,” adding: “So A rational and analytical thinker with a background in yes, we will never surrender to the expressions of hatred; banking and economics, Macron surprised many of his we will not surrender to anti-Zionism because it is a rein- listeners with the apparent intensity of his intonation and vention of antisemitism.” body language during the speech. “Above all, the speech Articulated in recent years by Emmanuel Valls, a former was special for his palpable emotion,” Horvilleur said. prime minister of France, Macron’s statement was the first Like many others, Horvilleur, a Liberal rabbi, was time an incumbent president in France equated anti-Zionism “deeply moved” by Macron’s remarks at the end of his – a fairly popular sentiment in France – with antisemitism. speech about how the children deported from Vel d’Hiv It triggered several emotional yelps from the audience and informs how he views his role as president. Children “who applause so vigorous, it caused the tarp strung up over the Members of the audience listened to French President wanted to go to school, graduate, find work, start a family, monument plaza for security reasons to vibrate. Emmanuel Macron near the Vel d’Hiv memorial in Paris read, watch a show, learn and travel,” he said. “I want to There was another wave of applause when, unusually, on July 16. (Photo by Cnaan Liphshiz) tell those children that France has not forgotten them. That Macron and Netanyahu hugged publicly after Netanya- she loves them. That their tragic fate demands of us never hu’s speech. from all of France’s presidents after Francois Mitterrand. to give up to hate, rancor or despair.” Much of Macron’s speech was devoted to establishing Klarsfeld praised Macron for pointing out how Mitterrand France’s complicity in the murder of 25 percent of its Jewish and post-war leader Charles de Gaulle “remained silent The Jewish Community wishes to express its population during the Holocaust and deconstructing apologist on the historical truth” about collaboration “in favor of views on the subject. Speaking plainly and avoiding meta- appeasement and reconciliation.” Macron said he “does not sympathy to Rabbi Michele Medwin on phors, Macron sounded less like a politician than a historian judge” his predecessors who remained silent on the issue. the death of her mother, or a prosecutor who is committed to factual accuracy. 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Readers of summer fiction come in several categories. takes desperate steps to change her own life. her from the many prisoners who hate Jews. Her crime still Some people want light, airy, easy-to-read novels – ones “Leaving Lucy Pear” is beautifully and realistically had a certain element of notoriety, so the extra protection that don’t tax their brains or too deeply affect their moods. written. Solomon shows just how complex life becomes would have been welcomed if Ester wasn’t in shock about Others – especially those who don’t have the time or energy when people are forced to make difficult decisions that the arrest. A famous child prodigy whose artwork still sells to read during the winter months – are looking for meatier affect more than one person. She also notes that what even after she’s in prison, her college-age pranks had turned works – novels that will engage their minds and emotions. I is not discussed by members of a family can have as serious and Ester/Carleen settled in for a life without parole. find all of these types of books appealing, although I admit great an effect on their lives as what is freely expressed. Totally unprepared for life outside of prison, Carleen, that not every novel is perfect material for a vacation. For I came to care about all the characters, even the unpleas- as she still calls herself, takes a job as a dog walker, since example, when reading “Regeneration” by Pat Barker, each ant ones, because the author so lovingly delineates their she relates to animals far better than she does to humans. time I looked up from the pages, I was surprised to find faults and strengths. She also tries to reconnect with her daughter, Pony, who myself on the beach rather than in a World War II trench. “Fat Chance” now calls herself Batya Shulamite. Batya Shulamite lives (For those interested, “Regeneration” is the first book in At first glance, “Fat Chance” by Aviva Orenstein (Quid with her observant father and stepmother, and is preparing wonderful trilogy. The third novel, “The Ghost Road,” was Pro Books) looked to be a simple and predictable rom-com. for her bat mitzvah. Whether or not the two can spend so good it won a Man Booker award, beating out Salmon While I’ve enjoyed reading books that fit that category, I time together depends as much on the courts as it does her Rushdie’s “The Moor’s Last Sigh.”) A friend mentioned that was pleased to discover the Orenstein is trying for some- daughter, since Batya Shulamite’s father tries to prevent during one summer vacation she read “Room” by Emma thing a bit different – showing how a 40-year-old divorced, Carleen from participating in any part of their daughter’s life. Donoghue. Although she liked the book, its disturbing story overweight woman realizes that people and life are far more “Walking the Dog” moves backward and forward in time did not make for easy, pleasant vacation reading. However, complex than she expects. Although most of the characters as readers learn exactly what Ester did to be sentenced to being ambitious in the summer is not necessarily a bad in “Fat Chance” seem to fit particular stereotypes, Oren- life in prison and her difficulty in adjusting to life outside. thing, unless you’re like the character in Philip Roth’s story stein shows how first – and even second – impressions The sections that occurred in prison are brutal: beatings “Goodbye, Columbus,” who sits by the pool every summer are not always accurate. It’s a lesson Claire, who narrates and rapes – done by both guards and other prisoners – are trying to read “War and Peace,” but never finishing. the novel, needs to learn. For example, she sees her son common. Carleen is not a pleasant person – it’s clear she “Leaving Lucy Pear” Sam as a sullen, miserable teenager, especially after he had mental issues even before entering prison – but I found “Leaving Lucy Pear” by Anna Solomon (Viking) has gets into trouble at school. She denigrates her ex-husband, myself hoping that she would be able to navigate the outside one of the most emotional openings of any novel I’ve who is missing in action after his remarriage and seldom world and remain free. That doesn’t mean I grew to like her, read in years. One summer night in 1917, young, unmar- finds time to spend with Sam. Her friend and next-door something I had in common with many of the people she ried Beatrice Haven places her newborn baby under one neighbor, who seems to have a perfect life, suffers a loss encounters during the course of the novel. Yet, that didn’t of the pear trees in her Uncle Ira’s orchard and watches that leaves her whole family grieving. And even though prevent the book from grabbing, and keeping, my interest. as the child is carried away by an Irish family that visits the man Claire meets at the gym seems a perfect match, “Nine Women, One Dress” the orchard every summer to steal its pears. Bea knows she soon discovers that relationships are also not always Does the order we read books affect the way we view her family won’t allow her to keep the her daughter, but as simple and easy as they may seem. them? I pondered that question while reading “Nine Wom- she can’t bear to give the child to the cold, unemotional What is intriguing about “Fat Chance” is that all the en, One Dress” by Jane L. Rosen (Doubleday), a lovely, woman from the Orphanage for Jewish Children. The next characters have hidden depth, and Claire realizes she’s been charming novel that’s perfect for beach reading. My concern chapter begins 10 years later and follows not only Bea’s too quick to judge everyone, including herself. Although was that perhaps I just needed a break after reading the life, but that of Lucy Pear Murphy (Bea’s daughter) and many of the characters are members of the same synagogue, horrifying prison tales featured in “Walking the Dog.” In Emma Murphy, the Irish woman who became her mother. Claire resists joining, even when she has to admit that being Rosen’s novel, I just knew that everything was going to The years have not been kind to Bea: unable to cope, she a member has had a positive effect on many people she work out perfectly, but still had a great deal of fun seeing dropped out of school and then married a man who is her knows. Parts of the plot were predictable – I managed to exactly how that was accomplished. Even considering the husband only in the legal sense. Bea spends as much time as guess several things before Claire did – but others went in fact that I needed a break from heavy, emotional fiction, I possible in her uncle’s home because it is the only place she a different direction than I expected. The novel’s prose is think I would have found Rosen’s book delightful, if only truly feels welcome. When Emma is hired to care for the aging not exciting, but it was a pleasure to watch Claire realize because the author made me accept the idea that wearing Ira, she immediately realizes Bea is Lucy Pear’s birth mother, the importance of looking below the surface to understand one special dress can change your life. but keeps that secret close to her heart. Bea is completely the true worth of a person. The novel posits that, in every fashion season, there is unaware of the connection, which makes for awkward con- “Walking the Dog” one dress that is the “it dress.” It appears on the cover of versations on both sides. Bea also has an uneasy relationship Elizabeth Swados picked a difficult and serious subject to numerous fashion magazines and becomes the one dress with both her parents and Ira’s adult children who visit that write about in her last novel “Walking the Dog” (The Feminist everyone wants. Rosen uses this dress to link a wide variety summer. Emma, in the meantime, looks for ways to solve her Press at the City University of New York). The work, which of characters, including Morris Siegel, an almost 90-year- financial difficulties, at least until her husband returns from was published after her death, begins when Carleen Keeper old Jewish pattern-maker, who tells of his journey from his latest fishing expedition. Secrets are suddenly revealed is unexpectedly released from prison after 25 years. 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Learn Continued from page 2 Justice in Palestine at Brown University managed to get to celebrate our diversity and our pride. This is not right.” transgender activist Janet Mock to cancel her scheduled Indeed, the LGBTQ rights group took aim at the march speech at Hillel. Drawing on the intersectional vocabu- organizers for excluding the Jewish marchers, thereby lary, they argued that “Brown/RISD Hillel, through its practicing inclusionary intersectionality. association with Hillel International, has a clear policy of Diaspora Jews must learn, not shun, intersectional Lodz Ghetto exhibit supporting... Israel’s racist and colonial policies.... Indeed, discourse in all its forms and be part of the discussion The exhibit “Memory Unearthed – The Lodz queerness does not lie in isolation from other forms of while not being afraid to challenge instances of ex- Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross” is on identity; rather, it explicitly interacts with other identities clusionary intersectionality. Condemning all intersec- display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, including race, gender, class and ability.” tionality won’t make it go away. We – and the larger MA, through July 30. It offers a glimpse of life inside the Faced with such hostile exclusion, some in the Jewish society – have a major stake in the more inclusionary Lodz Ghetto from 1940-44 through the lens of Polish Jewish community would just as soon condemn all intersectionality form winning out. photojournalist Henryk Ross (1910-91), who was confined and be done with it. But not all uses of intersectionality are David Bernstein is president and CEO of the Jewish to the ghetto in 1940 and put to work by the Nazi regime as equal: The Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ Council for Public Affairs, the representative voice of the a bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration’s rights organization, responded to the incident at the Chicago Jewish community relations movement. Follow him on Statistics department. For further information on the MFA Dyke March by tweeting, “Marches should be safe spaces Twitter @DavidLBernstein. and the exhibit, visit www.mfa.org or call 617-267-9300.

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Weekly Parasha Finding your place RABBI SUZANNE BRODY, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING, TEMPLE Matot-Masei, Numbers 30:2-36:13 BETH-EL, ITHACA, NY

My family just moved into a new house, and we are out on a much broader scale in the story of our people. to yet another delay, with more punishment from God busy making it into our home. My daughter was thrilled In this week’s Torah reading, parashat Mattot-Masei, and more wandering in the desert. But, Moses’ fears were to discover that she could go into her closet and find a the Israelites have finally (again) reached the borders unfounded. The tribes of Reuben and Gad understood small hidden space perfect for setting up a lamp and a of the Promised Land of Israel. The land of Israel is the that having your own private refuge doesn’t absolve private reading nook. My son ran under the porch and place where we are all expected to make our homes. you of communal responsibilities. My daughter needs found a whole area perfect for storing bikes and hiding. But, the tribes of Reuben and Gad find their own ref- to come out of her reading nook to help with the dishes We love each other’s company, and there are lots of uge, a spot where they feel they can raise cattle and live and other chores, and the tribes of Reuben and Gad left times when we find ourselves calling the kids to come comfortably, on the “wrong” side of the Jordan River. their refuge to help the rest of the tribes conquer and out of their private, separate areas to join in communal, When they first ask Moses about staying on this side of settle the land of Israel. family activities. But sometimes we each also need our the Jordan, our sages gathered from his response that Even the cities of refuge that are established in this week’s own private refuge. If our new house hadn’t already had he was (understandably) angry and felt betrayed. It was Torah reading are not places to retreat to forever. They are these spaces, we would have found other ways to create as if the same situation with the spies (from parashat places where those who unintentionally kill another could them for ourselves. Shelach Lecha) was starting all over again. There were live safe from fear of retribution by others, but only until This tension between our communal selves and our people who didn’t want to go into the Promised Land, the current high priest died. We are all entitled and need to private selves and how to make ourselves at home plays and that could set off a whole cascade of events leading See “Place” on page 7 Congregational Notes Beth David Synagogue Temple Concord Temple Israel Affiliation: Orthodox Union Union for Reform Judaism Orientation: Conservative Rabbi: Zev Silber Rabbi: Barbara Goldman-Wartell Rabbi: Geoffrey Brown Address: 39 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 9 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 4737 Deerfield Pl., Vestal, NY 13850 Phone: 607-722-1793 Office hours: Tues.-Fri., 10 am-2 pm Phone: 723-7461 and 231-3746 Rabbi’s Office: 607-722-7514 Phone: 723-7355 Office hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30 am-4 pm; Fri. 8 am-3 pm. Fax: 607-722-7121 Fax: 723-0785 E-mail: [email protected] Office hours: Mon. closed; Tues. 10 am-1 pm; Wed. closed; Office e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.templeisraelvestal.org Thurs. 9 am-1 pm; Fri. 10 am-1 pm Website: www.templeconcord.com Service Schedule: Friday, 5:30 pm; Saturday, 9:30 am. Beth David e-mail address: [email protected] Regular service times: Friday, 8 pm; Saturday, 10:35 am, when On Saturday, July 22, at 9:30 am, there will be Shab- Rabbi’s e-mail: [email protected] religious school is in session. bat services led by Rabbi Geoffrey Brown. The Torah Website: www.bethdavid.org On Friday, July 21, at 8 pm, there will be Shabbat evening portion will be Numbers 30:2-36:13. The haftarah will Shabbat Services: services led by Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell. Friday, July 21...... 7:15 pm be Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4. Bima guest will be Nellie Roth. Shabbat, July 22...... 9 am On Saturday, July 22, at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study. On Friday, July 21, at 5 pm, there will be happy hour, ...... Mincha/Maariv 8 pm On Wednesday, July 26, at 6 pm, there will be an adult Kabalat Shabbat and an event commemorating the open- Weekday Services: b’not mitzvah class. ing of the new building. The event will be sponsored by Mornings: On Friday, July 28, at 6:30 pm, there will be a bring- Steve and Barbara Gilbert. Sun., July 23...... 8:30 am your-own picnic. At 8 pm, there will be Shabbat evening On Friday, July 28, at 6 pm, there will be Shabbat Mon., July 24...... 6:50 am services led by Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell. on the Road at Castle Gardens, 1715 Castle Gardens Tues.-Fri., July 25-28...... 7 am On Saturday, July 29, at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study. Evenings: Rd., Vestal. Sun.-Thurs., July 23-27...... 8:10 pm On Saturday, August 19, at 9:30 am, there will be the Classes: Rabbi Zev Silber will hold his weekly Talmud class bar mitzvah of Jacob Weinstein. every Tuesday evening after services. Rohr Chabad Center Affiliation: Chabad-Lubavitch Those who wish to recite the Mourner’s Kaddish Rabbi: Aaron Slonim, E-mail: [email protected] during a weekday service can contact Howard Schwartz Temple Beth El of Oneonta Address: 420 Murray Hill Rd., Vestal, NY 13850 at [email protected] or call the temple office one-and- Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Phone: 797-0015, Fax: 797-0095 a-half weeks or more before the date to provide enough Rabbi: Molly Karp Website: www.Chabadofbinghamton.com time to send out an e-mail notice to the congregation Address: 83 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820 Chabad on the West Side encouraging attendance in order to make up a minyan. Mailing address: P.O. Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 Rabbi: Zalman Chein, E-mail: [email protected] Temple Israel holds weekday minyan services on Tues- Phone: 607-432-5522 Address: 27 Bennet Ave., Binghamton, NY 13905 Website: www.templebetheloneonta.org Phone: 722-3252 days and Fridays at 5:30 pm. For those who prefer a E-mail: [email protected] Regular service times: Daily 7:30 am, Friday evening 6 pm, different day to coincide with a Yahrzeit date, contact Regular service times: visit the temple website for days of Shabbat morning 9:30 am, Maariv and Havdalah one hour after the temple to work on making arrangements. To see services and times candle-lighting time, Sundays 9:30 am. a video on how to recite the Mourner’s Kaddish, visit Religious School/Education: Religious School, for grades Linking Hearts for youngsters with special needs: This program http://templeisraelvestal.org and look under “Worship.” kindergarten through bar/bat mitzvah, meets Sunday connects Jewish special-needs children and teenagers, ages mornings. Rabbi Karp conducts services and holds classes 5-14, who have mental, physical and/or functional disabilities, in Torah, beginning Hebrew and Maimonides. with student volunteers who will visit participating youngsters For the schedule of services, classes and events, see the weekly in their homes. Temple Brith Sholom website. To join the mailing list, for up-to-date information on adult Affiliation: Unaffiliated education offerings or to arrange for a private tutorial, for Address: P.O. Box 572, 117 Madison St., Cortland, NY 13045 details concerning the Judaica shop and resource center, or Phone: 607-756-7181 Penn-York Jewish Community for assistance through the Piaker Free Loan Society or Raff President: Louis Wilson, [email protected] President and Treasurer-Secretary: Harvey Chernosky, Maasim Tovim Foundation, call Chabad’s office at 797-0015. Service leaders: Lay leadership 570-265-3869 Shabbat services: Either Friday evening at 7:30 pm or Saturday B’nai B’rith: William H. Seigel Lodge at 10 am from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot. Holiday services Purpose: To promote Jewish identity through religious, Temple Beth-El of Ithaca are also held. Check the weekly e-mail for upcoming services. cultural, educational and social activities in the Southern Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Contact the president to get on the e-mail list. Tier of New York and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, Rabbi: Scott L. Glass Religious School: Students are educated on an individual including Waverly, NY; Sayre, Athens and Towanda, PA, and Address: 402 North Tioga St. (the corner of Court and Tioga basis. surrounding communities. streets), Ithaca, NY 14850-4292 Temple Brith Sholom is a small equalitarian congregation Phone: 273-5775 serving the greater Cortland community. Congregants span E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] the gamut of observance and services are largely dependent Norwich Jewish Center Website: www.tbeithaca.org on the service leader. The Friday night siddur is “Likrat Orientation: Inclusive President: Jerry Davis Shabbat,” while the Saturday morning siddur is “Gates of Rabbi: Dena Bodian Sisterhood President: Julie Paige Prayer.” The community extends a warm welcome to the Address: 72 South Broad St., Norwich, NY 13815 Director of Education: Rabbi Suzanne Brody Jewish student population of SUNY Cortland, as well as the Contact: Guilia Greenberg, 373-5087 Administrative Assistant: Jane Griffith residents of local adult residences. Purpose: To maintain a Jewish identity and meet the needs Services: Friday 8 pm; Saturday 10 am, unless otherwise of the Jewish community in the area. announced. Weekday morning minyan 7:30 am (9 am on Sundays Adult Ed.: Saturday morning study is held at 10 am. Call for and legal holidays). Kol Haverim more information and to confirm. Religious School/Education: September-May: Classes meet on Affiliation: Society for Humanistic Judaism Sunday, 9 am-12:30 pm and Wednesday afternoons, 3:45-5:45 Address: P.O. Box 4972, Ithaca, NY 14852-4972 pm. The Midrashah (eighth-grade and high school) classes will Phone: 607-277-3345 Congregation Tikkun v’Or meet at times designated by their respective teachers. E-mail: [email protected] Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism Adult Ed.: Numerous weekly courses, several semester-long Website: www.kolhaverim.net Address: PO Box 3981, Ithaca, NY 14852; 2550 Triphammer courses and a variety of mini-courses and lectures are offered Chairman: Jonathan Joseph Rd. (corner of Triphammer and Burdick Hill), Lansing, NY throughout the year. Call the temple office for more details. Kol Haverim: The Finger Lakes Community for Humanistic Phone: 607-256-1471 On Friday-Saturday, July 21-22, the bar mitzvah of Eli Judaism, is an Ithaca-based organization that brings people Website: www.tikkunvor.org Simons, son of Aleza and Michael Simons, will be celebrated. together to explore and celebrate Jewish identity, history, E-mail: [email protected] culture and ethics within a secular, humanistic framework. Presidents: Dorothy Debbie and Nina Cummings On Monday, July 31, an Eve of Tisha B’Av service will KH is part of an international movement for Secular Rabbi: Brian Walt be held at 9 pm. Michael Faber will chant Eichah. Humanistic Judaism and is affiliated with the Society for Religious School Director/Admin. Coordinator: Naomi Wilensky On Friday-Saturday, August 18-19, the bat mitzvah of Humanistic Judaism, a national association with over 30 Services: Fridays at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Family Isabel Kaltman, daughter of Lara Kaltman and Lee Kaltman, member communities and congregations around the country. services and Tot Shabbat once a month at 6:30 pm. Call for will be celebrated. Established in the spring of 1999, it offers celebrations of weekly schedules. Jewish holidays, monthly Shabbat pot-lucks, adult education, Religious School: Preschool through seventh-grade classes a twice-monthly Cultural School for children, and a bar and meet on Sunday mornings. Sixth-grade Hebrew and seventh- bat mitzvah program. grade b’nai mitzvah classes meet on Wednesday afternoons. Friday, July 21, light candles...... 8:15 pm KH welcomes all individuals and families, including those Adult Ed.: Special classes and discussion groups held Shabbat ends Saturday, July 22...... 9:14 pm from mixed religious backgrounds, who wish to strengthen regularly. Essential Judaism classes offered in the fall and Friday, July 28, light candles...... 8:08 pm the Jewish experience in their lives and provide their children spring. Call the office for details. Shabbat ends Saturday, July 29...... 9:08 pm with a Jewish identity and experience. July 21-27, 2017 Page 7 - The Reporter Jewish Community Center FUN IN THE SUn AT CAMP jcc

Eliter and Galgalimer campers relaxed at Camel Beach Osem campers prepared to spend the day at Chuckster’s. in the Poconos.

Place Continued from page 6 find the places where we are able to recharge, to feel safe Eliter and Galgalimer campers set up camp at a Mount and to be alone with ourselves. But we also need to leave Pocono campground on their overnight trip during the these refuges to work together with our communities to second week of Camp JCC. achieve bigger goals. Whether you have your own version of a reading nook or plot of land along the Jordan River or not, you are able to live the lessons taught by the tribes of Reuben and Gad. Shabbat is our refuge in time. It is when we are granted the time and space to re-soul, to experience the sense of being home. But, as we make Havdalah, it is time to join L-r: Jack Godleski, Isabel Goncalves and Carly Grill with the rest of the tribes of Israel in an attempt to carve checked out one of the water hazards on Chuckster’s mini out a just society and a better world. golf course.

NASCAR Continued from page 3 of his story – one that involves Israeli go- eyebrow-raising speech before a NASCAR karts, plenty of computer games and a Florida race in Forth Worth, TX. “All right Texas, attorney eager to get a Jewish driver into the we got here via Bibles and guns, I’m fixin’ NASCAR mainstream. “I’m going to make to pray to the one who made that possible,” history for myself and for my country, Israel,” Robertson said. “I pray Father that we put a the Tel Aviv resident said. Jesus-man in the White House.” Day grew up in Ashdod, where he learned Robertson’s pre-race prayer didn’t sit well about NASCAR from playing video games with David Levin, a Jewish lawyer from such as Grand Prix Legends. Motor sports Florida and longtime NASCAR fan. Levin have never been popular in Israel, in part had just waded into the world of NASCAR L-r: Marshall Clement, Tomas Testani, Ashton Cwynar because an old British Mandate law (dating to Alon Day at the qualifier for sponsoring, and the reality star’s rhetoric and Anton Sminoff enjoyed at messy project at Camp JCC. the days when the British ruled Palestine) that a NASCAR race at the Mid- gave him extra motivation to do something banned any cars that could be used for more Ohio Sports Car Course in he had long wished for: He would find and than commuting was only recently scrapped. Lexington on August 12, help promote a Jewish driver into NASCAR’s In his early teens, Day became champion 2016. (Photo by Jonathan top circuit. Day called it perfect timing. “It’s Hopler & Eschbach Happy Chanukah from of the country’s only semi-professional motor Moore/Getty Images) just kind of karma,” he said. sport league: go-karting. His father, realizing Since then, Levin has raised “significant Funeral Home Hopler & Eschbach his son’s potential, sent him to compete in Europe. He began sums” of money to support Day – he’s even enlisted a “A new family tradition” Funeral Home racing in Formula Three and was on a trajectory toward former NFL player as a backer. Drivers need sponsors to “A new family tradition” Formula One, among the top racing leagues in the world. cover the costs of fuel, a pit crew and its tools, as well as Personal Service But a couple of years ago, Day decided to switch gears salaries for the driver and his or her manager. In return, Professionalism Personal Service (pun intended). He shifted from driving the Formula One sponsors get stickers of their brand logo on their drivers’ Experience You Can Trust Professionalism open cockpit style of car to stock cars, the ordinary cars that car. Over the course of a full season, one sticker can cost Experience You Can Trust have been modified to be raced in NASCAR. It was mostly more than $1 million. “I don’t really know how he does it, COMPARE OUR PRICES COMPARE OUR PRICES a business decision, because the world of motor racing is he makes magic,” Day said. “And somehow I’m driving We charge far less than other area funeral homes driven by sponsorships. Since Israel’s business ties with in the car.” We charge far less than other area funeral homes the U.S. are much stronger than those with Europe, Day Depending on the results of the Sonoma race – and if Kurt M. Eschbach, Funeral Director Kurt M. Eschbach, Funeral Director recognized he had a greater likelihood of being sponsored Levin can continue to work his “magic” – Day said his goal 483 Chenango Street Binghamton 483 Chenango Street Binghamton to drive for NASCAR. “It’s definitely much easier for me to is to race in the next Cup Series race at Watkins Glen in get sponsorship here in the states than in Europe,” he said. western New York in August. Meanwhile, Day is gaining 607-722-4023 607-722-4023 Based on his strong start in Europe and the U.S. – he recognition in Israel, where he was named Athlete of the www.HEfuneralhome.com www.HEfuneralhome.com raced a full season in a sub-league of the Indy 500, the U.S. Year in 2016 by the Sports and Culture Ministry. He points version of Formula One – Day was selected early last year to the newly opened race track in Arad and an article about to be a part of the 2016-17 NASCAR Next program, which him in Yediot Achranot, one of Israel’s biggest newspapers, WE REMEMBER YOU 2017 highlights young, up-and-coming racers. That happened to as signs that motor sports are on the rise in the Jewish state. A Project of Jewish Family Service be right around the time that Phil Robertson, the contro- Day himself is contributing to car racing’s increased versial member of the “Duck Dynasty” clan, delivered an visibility in Israel. Alongside his fledgling celebrity, he DuringPassover the High Blessings Holidays from 5778, L’Shanah Tovah from opened a racing “gym” in Tel Aviv with an old go-karting JFS will be distributing fresh food buddy. The gym houses several driving simulators, which Hopler & Eschbach Summer Continued from page 4 are basically higher-tech versions of arcade games. The Hoplerbaskets and funds & Eschbach to the recipients trying to fight the negative PR generated by his girlfriend’s building has turned into an all-ages school where Day of yourFuneral generosity whoHome always say, Funeral Home affair with her trainer; Natalie, who works as a saleswoman teaches pupils about racing, as well as about difficult sit- “Thank“A newyou forfamily remembering tradition” me.” “A new family tradition” at Bloomingdale’s and agrees to date Tab only because she uations a driver encounters on normal roads. thinks he’s gay; Arthur Winters, a 60-year-old widower When he’s not abroad racing, Day typically spends three Personal ServiceSupported by: Personal Service and attorney who is dating a woman far younger than him; to four hours a day practicing on the race track simulations. 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From JNS.org percent of anything constructed on the land, according to Calcalist. The revelation follows Pence promises U.S. will move embassy to Jerusalem a report on July 17 that the patriarchate secretly sold off 700 dunams (172 acres) of land in Caesarea in June, including the ancient Roman amphitheater and hippodrome there, Vice President Mike Pence said on July 17 that relocating the U.S. Embassy in Is- for an undisclosed sum to a Caribbean-based holding company called Saint Ventures rael to Jerusalem is only a matter of time. “I promise you that the day will come when Limited. The Caesarea deal included large portions of land designated as a national park, President Donald Trump moves the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It is Israel’s Channel 2 reported on July 16. Further, in early July, the patriarchate secretly not a question of if, it is only when,” Pence told the 12th annual Christians United for sold 500 dunams (123 acres) of property in some of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Israel summit in Washington, DC. Pence said he and Trump “stand without apology for Jerusalem to private real estate companies, placing homeowners at risk of needing to pay Israel today,” and touted the president’s trip to Israel in May. “Standing in Jerusalem, in large sums to renew their leaseholds or to sell their property and relocate. that ancient and holy city, our president declared for all the world to hear that under his leadership, the United States of America ‘will always stand with Israel,’” said Pence. Hamas purportedly seeking to set up headquarters in Algeria Trump signed a waiver on June 1 to keep the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, avoiding a move Hamas is purportedly seeking to establish its foreign base in Algeria following the to Jerusalem for an additional six months. Since Congress passed legislation in 1995 Palestinian terror group’s ouster from Qatar in June. According to a report in the Lon- authorizing the relocation of the embassy to Jerusalem, every sitting president has signed don-based Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat, senior Hamas officials have made a formal successive six-month waivers delaying the move, citing national security concerns. request to Algeria to set up a foreign base there. The North African country has yet to Germany suspends Israel submarine deal due to scandal respond to the request. “On a personal level I applied for a stay in Algeria. The Algerian authorities promised to study the request and consider it,” Asharq Al-Awsat quoted Hamas Germany announced on July 18 that it will postpone the signing of a memorandum of spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri as saying. Hamas officials are currently scattered among understanding with Israel for the sale of three submarines from the German manufacturer several Middle East and Asian countries following the terror group’s ouster from Qatar. ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, due to an ongoing criminal investigation into the $1.5 The Gaza-ruling organization has become increasingly isolated in recent months amid a billion deal. Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman was scheduled dispute between the Saudi-led Gulf alliance and Qatar. Saudi Arabia has criticized Qatar to sign the agreement the week of July 24. The Israel Police recently detained a former over its support for terror groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. IDF general for questioning as part of the probe, dubbed “Case 3,000.” Investigators suspect the crimes include bribery and money laundering. The fact that Israeli Prime Shots fired at mosque amid rising tension between Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal attorney, David Shomron, represents TKMS Druze and Muslims in Israel led to a media firestorm in January, despite denials by the prime minister and Unidentified assailants fired gunshots and threw a stun grenade at a mosque in the northern Shomron of any improper decision-making or undue influence during the acquisition. Israeli town of Maghar early July 17, in the second time in three days that a stun grenade was Adding to the controversy, Iran holds a 4.5-percent stake in the German manufacturer. thrown at the mosque. The mosque is situated in a Muslim neighborhood in the hometown of Israel’s Greek Orthodox church secretly sells land in Jaffa Israeli Druze policeman Staff Sgt. Maj. Haiel Sitawe, who was killed by Arab terrorists in an The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, which is the second-largest landowner in Israel, has attack near the Temple Mount on July 14. The Maghar mosque incurred slight damage to one of sold prime real estate near the iconic clock tower in Jaffa to private investors, the Israeli its windows on July 17, and no injuries were reported in the incident. Residents of Maghar have financial news outlet Calcalist reported on July 18. The clock tower deal was initiated reported increased tensions between Muslims and Druze following the Temple Mount terror in 1998 when the patriarchate sold a 99-year lease for $1.5 million to a company called attack, with several attempts to incite violence between the two communities. The spiritual leader “Clock Quarter,” conditional upon a pledge that the company would give the church 35 of the Israeli Druze community, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, condemned the attack on the mosque.

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