February 23-March 1, 2018 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVII, Number 8 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK Annual Purim Carnival at JCC on Feb. 25 The Jewish Community Center will character or in any costume of their choice. host its annual Purim Carnival on Sunday, The JCC Kids Connection staff members, February 25. The event will run from 1-3 who run the event, create different themed pm and costs $5 per child and $1 per adult, At left: The costumes each year. with a $20 maximum per family. The entire Jewish Comm- There will be a number of activities community is welcome and encouraged to unity Center geared toward children, including carnival attend. All proceeds will go to benefit the will host its games, inflatable play areas, crafts and face JCC Youth Department. annual Purim painting. All games earn children points The event is held in celebration of the Carnival that can be traded in at the prize table. Jewish holiday of Purim. The Festival of on Sunday, Traditional Purim treats, like hamantashen, Purim commemorates the salvation of the February 25. which are fruit-filled triangular cookies, Jewish people from the evil Haman. On will be available for purchase along with Purim, children and adults dress up and cel- other food items. ebrate by giving gifts and tzedakah (charity). For more information about the Purim Everyone, young and old, is encouraged Carnival, JCC Youth Programming, or the to come dressed as their favorite Purim JCC, contact the JCC office at 724-2417. JCC to present Chabad’s community “Cabaret” in March Purim Feast on March 1 “Willkommen! Bienvenue! and the citizens of Berlin as they Last minute reservations are still being and dancing. The cost for the program is Welcome!” The Jewish Commu- are caught up in the “swirling accepted for the annual Chabad Purim Feast $15 per person, $12 for students and se- nity Center will present the Jan maelstrom” of a changing society. to be held on Purim day, Thursday, March 1, niors (over 65), and $6 for children under DeAngelo and Company produc- Led by the “enigmatic and at 5:30 pm, at the Chabad Center in Vestal. 12 (children aged 2 and under are free). tion of “Cabaret” by John Kander, dazzling” emcee (Joshua Wal- Dinner will be preceded by a “last chance” Participants are urged to come in costume Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff on lenstein), “Cabaret” has been said megillah reading at 4:30 pm for those who and will automatically be entered into a Thursday, March 8, and Satur- to be “an intoxicating theatrical did not hear the megillah read earlier. raffle. There will be a parade of children day, March 10, at 7:30 pm, and experience,” featuring classics of The program will include dinner catered in costume. Sunday, March 11, at 3 pm. (No the musical stage such as “Don’t by Dougie’s BBQ and Grill from Teaneck, To make reservations, call the Chabad performance will be held on Friday, Tell Mama,” “Maybe This Time” NJ (vegetarian options and a kiddie menu Center office at 797-0015 or online at www. March 9.) The event is a fund-raiser and “Cabaret.” will be available), l’chaim, desserts, music Jewishbu.com/PurimFeast. for the JCC, which is located at 500 Shannon DeAngleo The plot features the “Toast of Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. will star as Sally Mayfield” Sally Bowles (Shan- All seating will be at cabaret Bowles in “Cabaret” non DeAngelo), who falls for a style tables and tickets are $15 for at the JCC. (Photo struggling novelist from Amer- BD luncheon to present general admission. For reserved provided by Studio ica, Clifford Bradshaw (Shan seating, the cost for one table of 271 Productions) Towns). They carry out their love eight is $200 or one table of six affair at a boarding house run by Flo Balin on March 10 is $150. Drinks and refreshments will be Fraulein Schneider (Kate Murray), who On Saturday, March 10, Flor- hospitals. “I was always interest- available for purchase. also rents rooms to the proprietor of a fruit ence (Flo) Balin will be Beth ed in learning more and more,” “Cabaret,” the Tony-winning musical market, Herr Schultz (Joe Bardales), and a David’s luncheon series speaker. Balin says, “and, to prevent about “following your heart while the world lady of loose morals, Fraulein Kost (Julia Born and raised in Binghamton, being bored, I held quite a few loses its way,” directed by Jan DeAngelo Adams). The atmosphere in Berlin and the she will share her experiences of interesting jobs.” In the 1960s, and choreographed by Katie Barlow, takes show changes from exciting to ominous as what Binghamton and the Jewish she started a business school that audiences into the seedy nightlife of the Clifford’s friend Herr Ludwig (Ciano Briga) community were like when she she ran for eight years. Kit Kat Klub on the eve of Hitler’s rise turns out to be an up and coming member was growing up. “It is a pleasure to listen to to power in Weimar Germany. Based on of the Nazi party and Herr Schultz suffers “It is exciting to find a nonage- Flo relate her many experiences Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories,” as a victim of an antisemitic hate crime. narian with such a clear and vivid Florence (Flo) Balin growing up in Binghamton,” “Cabaret” follows the interlocking stories For tickets or information, call 724-2417 recall of the details of daily life (Photo by Dora E. organizers say. “Anyone who of a cabaret singer, a writer from America or visit the JCC front desk. in Binghamton,” organizers say. Polachek) has wondered what it was like to “Flo is a dynamic speaker with grow up in Binghamton during lots of surprising information to share. She the Depression, what the community was Austria to help Israel join is in the process of writing a book on Jewish like and what kinds of Jewish activities were life in Binghamton as it evolved from the available for a young girl, will definitely time she was born until more recent times. want to be there for this very special Beth U.N. Security Council Her talk will include aspects of this work David luncheon.” in progress.” Beth David’s luncheon speaker series By Eldad Beck We agreed to support #Israel if it should Born in Binghamton to immigrant takes place the second Saturday of the (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS via decide to be a candidate for the #UNSC. parents, Flo remembers her grandfather’s month, after Shabbat morning services, JNS) – Austria has pledged to help Israel be- We will also continue our determined fight bakery, located on Exchange Street behind and is open to the community. There is no come a nonpermanent member of the U.N. against #antisemitism!” the Orthodox synagogue. She will relate charge for the luncheon, but Beth David Security Council, that country’s chancellor, He also retweeted a statement from Aus- the role her grandfather played in the welcomes donations to the Luncheon Fund Sebastian Kurz, announced on February 17 trian spokesman Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, synagogue that was the precursor to what in order to keep the program going, since on Twitter. Kurz made the announcement who wrote, “Federal Chancellor @sebas- would become Beth David Synagogue. its continuation depends on the generosity following a meeting with Israeli Prime Min- tiankurz also met Israeli Prime Minister @ One of three children, she attended local of contributors. Donations can be made in ister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines netanyahu for bilateral talks at # MSC2018. schools. Always interested in music, as a honor of or in memory of someone, or to of the Munich Security Conference. Both have reaffirmed their commitment 7-year-old she sang every week at WNBF, mark a special occasion. Those wishing an Kurz tweeted a picture in which he and to further develop bilateral relations and Binghamton’s only radio station at the time, acknowledgment to be sent to the person Netanyahu are seen shaking hands at the multilateral cooperation.” located in the basement of the Arlington being honored or to the family of someone conference and wrote, “Excellent meeting In a statement following their meeting, Hotel, which was at Chenango and Lewis being remembered can indicate that, along with Prime Minister of #Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Kurz promised me that streets. In her 20s, her involvement with with the necessary information. Donations @netanyahu during @MunSecConf. We Austria would change the voting pattern the Jewish community included being the can be sent to Beth David Synagogue, 39 want to continue to strengthen our bilateral at the U.N. when it comes to Israel and vocalist in a band at the JCC, which also Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905, relations and our multilateral cooperation. See “Austria” on page 6 performed at movie houses and veterans’ Attention: Luncheon Fund. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Melting pot in Harlem Vienna’s kosher scene Art mecca in NJ Special Sections An Israeli-Ethiopian woman A visitor to Vienna believes its An Israeli entrepreneur based in Legal Notices...... 4 brings the food of her cultures to growing kosher scene is a case New York City wants to make New Book Review...... 4 Harlem. study of Jewish life in Europe. Jersey an artists’ mecca. Health and Wellness...... 6-9 ...... Page 6 ...... Page 7 ...... Page 9 Classifieds...... 12 Page 2 - The Reporter February 23-March 1, 2018 Opinion What we talk about when we talk about Jerusalem By Andrew Silow-Carroll international community considered – and still considers that hides ugly truths about occupation and disenfranchisement. (JTA) – E.B. White famously wrote that there are – these as illegal settlements, although the Israelis insist “Fifty years on, Jerusalem is more binational, more “roughly three New Yorks”: the one of the native New their claims to Jerusalem and its environs are longstanding contested and more divided that at any point since 1967,” Yorker, the one of the commuter and the New York of the and you can’t “occupy” territory that wasn’t under the says attorney Daniel Seidemann, who heads the Israeli “person who was born somewhere else and came to New legitimate sovereignty of any state in the first place. advocacy group Terrestrial Jerusalem. “There are two York in quest of something.” By 1993, Jerusalem’s municipal limits had been national collectives in Jerusalem, one endowed with po- To which a resident of Jerusalem might respond, “Only expanded to nearly as far south as Bethlehem, west to litical rights and the other permanently disenfranchised three? Lucky you.” include majority Arab neighborhoods like Abu Dis and as and disempowered.” Jerusalem is messy, in the best and worst sense of far north as the Atarot, or Qalandia, airport, now an army And certainly some ideologues use it that way, drawing the word. It’s a city of secular intellectuals and insular base. The Jerusalem municipality, now 77 square miles, their own lines in the sand (and borders on a map) and haredim. It’s the seat of Israel’s government and flypaper has a Palestinian population of 293,000, or 37 percent of daring anyone to cross them. for the dreamers, fanatics, seekers and tourists from three the city’s total. The vast majority of this population does Is it possible to imagine an “undivided Jerusalem” that major religion and dozens of cults, sects, denominations not vote in municipal and national elections because they also accommodates Palestinian aspirations for a state and and movements. never accepted Israeli citizenship. capital of their own? It is, but it will take an honest discussion And of course it’s a city of Jews and Arabs, roughly and In October, the Knesset set aside a bill – reportedly under of what “Jerusalem” is and isn’t. Like Trump, no Israeli unmistakably divided into west and east, with the Old City pressure from the United States – that would have redrawn and no Jew elsewhere wants to go back to the pre-1967 as a sort of (forgive the imagery) bathtub drain into which the borders to make the Jerusalem municipality even larger, reality, when Jordan blocked Jews from the Western Wall both sides swirl, mix and boil. absorbing the Jewish communities of Maale Adumim, Beitar and limited Christian and even Muslim access to holy sites. Anyone who likes to talk about Jerusalem as “undivided” Illit and Efrat along with the Etzion bloc of settlements. And no one expects Israel to unilaterally give back all is either being delusional or hopelessly optimistic. And Declarations that Jerusalem should remain the “undi- that it won and consolidated in war and built in peace – not that’s not just because the city is diverse, or incoherent, vided capital of Israel,” like a unanimous Senate resolution just the current government, which promotes a Greater Je- or less a typical city than a sprawl of boroughs or villages passed earlier this year marking the 50th anniversary of rusalem and is indulgent of plans to build housing units in that somehow share a city hall. You could say the same the reunification of Jerusalem, rarely specify what they areas that Palestinians and their international backers consider thing about New York. mean by Jerusalem. In his announcement recognizing disputed, and not any government one could foresee. That’s “Undivided” is little more than a slogan because no Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, President Donald Trump why credible peace plans have called for a consolidation of one, least of all the Israelis who run the place, can agree did not use the phrase “undivided Jerusalem,” and indeed surrounding Jewish neighborhoods within Israel, with various what Jerusalem is. From the 1948-49 War of Independence insisted that the United States is “not taking a position of land swaps to accommodate the Palestinians. until the Six-Day War in 1967, Jerusalem was indeed di- any final status issues, including the specific boundaries Meanwhile, as long as the Palestinians insist that no vided: Jordan occupied the Old City and areas to the north of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem or the resolution of part of Jerusalem is Israeli, peace is impossible. If the and south, and Israel made its capital in the western and contested borders.” Palestinians are to achieve their own state, they, too, will southern parts of the city, with a narrow road acting like That makes sense because Israel’s sovereignty and the have to accept the reality of what Jerusalem is and isn’t. an umbilical cord between the Israeli side and the Jewish borders of any future Palestinians state are what the peace But even short of a comprehensive peace plan, it is worth enclave on Mount Scopus. process is supposed to be about. asking what is meant by “Jerusalem.” In the biblical and The wall dividing east and west was torn down after Arguments for keeping Jerusalem “undivided” are both rabbinic imagination, the city has always been as much the Six-Day War, and Israel celebrated the city’s “reuni- emotional and practical. The idea of a city cleaved in two an idea as a reality – an earthly Jerusalem (Yerushalayim fication” by annexing the Old City and eastern Jerusalem is both aesthetically and pragmatically troubling. shel matah) and a heavenly Jerusalem (Yerushalayim and taking responsibility for the 66,000 or so Arabs living “Without fail, divided cities suffer either intense economic shel maalah). Hopes for peace rest on wise leaders who there. The new boundaries added some 40 square miles to stagnation or general atrophy,” Nathan Diament, executive di- understand the difference. the municipality, including familiar Jerusalem neighbor- rector for the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, has written. Andrew Silow-Carroll is the editor-in-chief of the Jewish hoods like Pisgat Zeev, Gilo and Ramat Alon. Much of the Critics of the term “undivided Jerusalem” say it is a slogan Telegraphic Agency. In My Own Words Miscellaneous silly things to ponder RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Sometimes the best way to reduce stress is to think in your body being a major one. Fortunately, while I enjoy on my office computer. (Stop by The Reporter and I’ll be seriously about something silly. A friend and I do this pondering this dilemma, I don’t think I have to worry about happy to show you.) As to why looking at her does this: regularly – that is, treating a discussion about nonsense that either scenario coming true in the near future. well, I’ve given up worrying about that. No point in fighting will never happen as though it were very important. We *For those of you curious about what we were reading, what works. On the other hand, I think some friends are usually focus on themes raised in books, television shows the strip is “Phoebe and Her Unicorn” and, while it’s getting sick of hearing me talk about her (or is it to her?), or movies. However, sometimes we look at topics that are aimed at the younger crowd, it’s still fun for older folks if so I do try to be a bit more cautious about sharing the fun. slightly more serious. Since the three items listed below you like unicorns. You can see an example at http://www. What would you do..... popped into my mind over the same weekend, I figured gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn. The last thing I contemplated during a recent weekend they were worth exploring in print – if only as a break from Still hooked was a bit more serious. A friend’s daughter lent me the columns about serious social and political issues. Almost a year has passed and I’m still hooked on my young adult novel “They Both Die at the End” by Adam Wings vs. dragons favorite computer generated creature, Mary in “Imaginary Silvera. It takes place in a future version of our society The question of whether I would rather have wings or Mary.” Yes, I know the show was cancelled last May and its where they’ve learned how to predict who will die on any a dragon really was the subject of a recent e-mail discus- final episode ran in June. However, at least once a week, I particular day. Those people receive a phone call shortly sion. The conversation began over a comic strip: one of try to watch an episode on Amazon video – well, at least, a after midnight from an organization called Death-Cast, the characters was happy that her unicorn had given her good parts version, meaning watching the same scene with which tells them that this is their final day. The book is a tail.* That led to me saying that, while a tail was nice, Mary over and over and over again. I’ve also rewatched very well done – interesting characters, absorbing plot and if given a choice, I’d rather have wings. My friend wrote scenes on the TV show’s Facebook page and Youtube; a good message about learning how to live – but it also back saying she’d rather have a dragon, since if she had a that’s for when I need a Mary fix and don’t have time for made me think about what I would want to do if I was dragon, she wouldn’t need her own wings. a whole show. (By the way, if anyone with connections informed that today was my last day. That made me stop and think. I’m also quite fond of to the entertainment industry is reading this, please try to My first thought was, “I wouldn’t go into work.” My dragons, particularly those found in the “Dragonriders of get the series released on DVD so I can buy a copy – well, second was, “I would want to spend the last day with close Pern” series by Anne McCaffrey. All I remember of the books, several copies – in addition to owning it online.) family and friends.” My third thought was, “I should cele- which I read in junior high and high school, is that the riders’ During a recent weekend, I was wondering when I first brate my time with them as a party – well, at least, we should brains melded with their dragons’ so the two could talk to fell in love with the CGI character. So, I went online to have a lot of good things to eat and drink.” I did contemplate each other and act with one mind. Yet, I always thought it see when the second episode aired. (I missed the first one, spending part of the day reading, but how could I ever decide would be wonderful to soar through the air using my own but quickly watched it several times online.) I learned that which book to read? (Hmm, maybe if I was really absorbed wings. Of course, in my imagination, that would take place April 4 will be my Mary-versary and I’m debating what to in my current book, I would want to see how it ends.) The effortlessly. In reality, I’m betting my wing muscles would do to celebrate. Why am I even considering this? Because real lesson of this exercise, though, is that since we’ll never ache and get tired. There might also be problems with riding thinking about and/or watching Mary serves as one of the know which day will be our last, we should try to live life dragons – the sheer discomfort of the seat being a minor fastest stress relievers I’ve ever had. Just looking at a photo to the fullest. In my mind, that also means making certain one, with falling off the dragon and breaking every bone of her makes me feel calmer, which explains the wall paper all the people we care about know exactly how we feel.

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Editorial/News Regular weekly deadline is noon, Wednesday, for the following week’s newspaper. www.thereportergroup.org February 23-March 1, 2018 Page 3 - The Reporter TI/TC Adult Ed. to hold brunch on March 11 The Temple Israel/Temple Concord Adult Education cases of contested Jewish identity in Israel and the Diaspora, a House of Lords court case in the United Kingdom. The Group will hold a brunch program on Sunday, March 11, at and how it is portrayed in film. McCabe will speak about film was shown at the International Jewish Film Festival 10 am, at Temple Israel, 47737 Deerfield Pl., Vestal. Blake her research, including an exploration about how Jewish in Binghamton in 2014 and portrays the complexities of McCabe, a Ph.D. student in anthropology at Binghamton identity contrasts between religious law, government law Jewish identity in religious law and Israeli social policy. University, will speak on “Jewish Identity in Law and the and individual beliefs. It addresses the impacts the resulting contradictions can Film ‘The Other Son.’” “The quintessential questions of ‘who is Jewish?’ and have on an individual’s identity and even civil rights both McCabe holds a master’s degree in anthropology from ‘what does it mean to be Jewish?’ are still two of the most in Israel and Diaspora.” Binghamton. She is an alumna of Hillel Academy and cur- salient questions among the global Jewish community,” The cost of the brunch is $5 per person. To make a rently teaches at Temple Israel’s Hebrew School. For her said organizers of the brunch. “We will see how Jewish- reservation, contact the Temple Israel office at titammy@ graduate research in anthropology, McCabe has looked at ness is portrayed in the film ‘The Other Son’ and through stny.twcbc.com or 723-7461. Binghamton University students win $10,000 grant in third annual Campus Pitch Competition NEW YORK – World Jewish Congress and Israel’s at $5,000. World Jewish Congress CEO/Executive Vice conversation about Israel and antisemitism on campus.” Consulate in New York recently awarded a $10,000 President Robert Singer surprised the students by raising Israel’s Consul General Dani Dayan said, “They say we grant to Binghamton University students Talia Chasen, the first prize to $10,000 and awarding the other four finalist are the start-up nation, but I believe we are the innovation Gabriel Gang and Hannah Werner, first place winners groups $5,000 each to carry out their initiatives as well. nation. When it comes to public diplomacy, however, it of the third annual Campus Pitch Competition aimed at “College campuses have become one of the strongest can be difficult for us to come up with new ideas. We need encouraging students to propose creative ways to change frontlines in the fight for Israel’s legitimacy. It is a fight more innovative, out of the box thinking and we believe the discourse about Israel and antisemitism at colleges that we shouldn’t have to have, but it is one that we must that students and the next generation can give us ideas that and universities. have, as Jewish and pro-Israel students feel silenced may be overlooked. The other reason this competition is The winning team from Binghamton proposed orga- and threatened by the dangerous initiatives of those so important is because the battle for Israel’s legitimacy, nizing a campus-wide “Water Gala” to help raise funds to seeking to boycott and delegitimize Israel and Jewish for justice, is mainly fought on campuses, and you are our bring Israeli innovation to African villages to help alleviate communities,” Singer said. “The groups presenting young ambassadors.” the ongoing water crisis. The team vied against four other today have proven their courage and determination in Other finalists in the 2018 Campus Pitch Competition student groups from New York University, Baruch Col- striving for a more balanced dialogue and a safer space. included Cornell University students Adam Shapiro and lege, the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University The World Jewish Congress stands fully behind their Emily Klimberg, who plan to organize a mentorship pro- for a chance to win the grant, which had initially been set advocacy efforts. Together, we can and will change the gram pairing Israeli mentors with non-Jewish students. TC volunteers made hamantashen

At left: Temple Concord religious school parents, with the help of one teenager, made hamantashen as part of an annual fund- raiser on February 3.

At right: Teenager Sophie Coker rolled her dough. Lauren Epstein (on left) and (front to back) Claudia Stallman, Lisa Blackwell and Sophie Coker worked with the hamantashen dough. Epstein helped organize the Beth David Sisterhood held fund-raiser. genealogy program

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Most headlines about Israel focus on the difficult issues recounts the details of their joint past. He also explores left me feeling stunned because I was not yet ready to part the country faces, one example of which is the ongoing his own history: the antisemitism he faced at school in the with Jonathan. “Sadness is a White Bird” is a beautifully Arab-Israeli conflict. More recently, there have been dis- U.S.; his love and admiration for his grandfather, the only written, heart-rending work of art. cussions about the reactions of young Israelis who have member of his generation to escape the Holocaust because “All the Rivers” spent their army service in the territories. For several of the he had immigrated to Israel; and Jonathan’s own dream of Romeo and Juliet: that’s the love story that came to novels featured in this review, the line between political becoming a different type of Jew than he was in the United mind when reading “All the Rivers” by Dorit Rabinyan and personal is hard to define, especially when the desires States. Jonathan notes, “I was tired of being People of the (Random House). There are some major differences: not of the heart and the mind can’t be reconciled. Word. I wanted to be People of the Sword. I wanted tanned only are the characters older and living in New York City, “Sadness is a White Bird” arms and campfires, braided folk songs and righteous rifles. the Juliet – Jewish, Israeli Liat – sees her romance to Hilmi, Life can be extremely difficult when you can see both I wanted to be like Saba [Grandfather] Yehuda, teeth bared a Palestinian artist, as temporary. No matter how much sides of an issue so clearly it’s almost impossible to choose a like tiny shields against the stabbing world.” As much as she loves him, she can’t envision any way for them to be side. Yet, in Israel, when Israeli-American Jonathan receives he knows how badly the world has treated Jews and how together once she must return to Israel. The only possible his draft notice, he feels he must join the IDF. His Zionism precarious life is in Israel, Jonathan also learns the mistakes option would be to leave her homeland forever – something and the destruction of his grandfather’s Greek family in the Israel has made and how Arabs are not always treated as that feels unthinkable. Yet, she is unable to break off their Holocaust made that seem inevitable. However, by refusing equal citizens or even equally human. Jonathan believes relationship, even as she tries to prevent her Israeli friends to avoid Army service, Jonathan faces losing two of his he can balance his desires when he’s in the Army. This in New York and her parents in Tel Aviv from learning closest friends – Nimreen and Laith – who have shown proves far more difficult than expected; seeing the enemy about the affair. him a different side of Israel, one far less perfect than the as human makes it difficult to act or causes one to regret The novel takes place in 2002 when anyone Middle East- Zion of his dreams. In Moriel Rothman-Zecher’s moving a decision once made. ern risked being suspected a terrorist. When the story opens, “Sadness is a White Bird” (Atria Books), Jonathan’s hopes Rothman-Zecher does a remarkable job making readers Liat finds two FBI agents at her door because someone from and desires are called into question when his unit is sent feel for all his characters. They are human and their actions, a café she visits reported her as a suspicious character. This to the territories. thoughts and desires ring true. Each side is well portrayed leads to her first meeting with Hilmi, when he brings her Jonathan’s first person narrative is addressed to Laith, and that makes the novel both compelling and frustrating a message from a mutual friend who was unable to reach to whom he not only explains his current situation, but because it provides no easy answers. Turning the last page See “Israelis” on page 5

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Office location: Broome County. purpose allowed by law. www.thereportergroup.org LLC. Solutions Advisers LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC February 23-March 1, 2018 Page 5 - The Reporter Hillel Academy students visited Binghamton court house After Hillel Academy students in grades also happens in reality. of our lives, and very much hope that this three-five discussed and studied some of The students were interested, asked visit added to their learning experience,” the issues in parashat Mishpatim and were questions and listened to Tait’s answers and said Rabbi Moshe Shmaryahu. “I would not taught about citizenship by Sarah Thomas, explanations. Toward the end, they saw a mind if some of them will study law and they went on a field trip to the court house video about the legal system then and now, become lawyers and judges. Shira Green in Binghamton. They went through security as well as an explanation of juries and the is already on her way to being a judge (see and then proceeded to the courtroom. way they are chosen. photo). We are proud and believe in our Judge Jeffrey Tait welcomed the - stu “I hope that the students have learned students for their exemplary behavior of dents and then explained the legal system and been exposed to this important subject cooperation and striving for excellence.” practiced in the United States. He divided the students into groups: jurors, witnesses, lawyers, prosecutors and defendants, and simulated a discussion about a car accident. The children did not prepare a statement of L-r: Shira Green was appointed to be a defense or claim. The judge noted that this judge by Judge Jeffrey Tait.

L-r: Aron Sambursky, Sarah Goldin, Mendel Slonim, Isaac Sambursky, Judge Jeffrey Tait, Shira Green, Berke Chein, Rabbi Shmaryahu, Mendel Chein, Mika Friedman, Max Titus, Ezra Weiss. At the trial in Binghamton court. L-r: Mika Friedman, Sarah Goldin, Mendel Chein, Max Titus, Rabbi Moshe Shmaryahu, Sarah Thomas, Isaac Sambursky, Mendel Slonim, Aron Sambursky, Berke Chein, Shira Green and Ezra Weiss.

Israelis Continued from page 4 her. The two feel an immediate connection, Jew, looking to make connections in order even though Liat can’t help remembering keep his moving and removal business a all the negative comments she’s heard in going concern. Some parts of his business Israel about Israeli women who marry Arab are less pleasant than others, particularly men. When the two argue about politics, when his staff has to force delinquent tenants Liat finds herself on a different side of the to move. Yoav begins working for David discussion than normal: while a liberal when and is soon joined by his Army buddy, Uri L-r: Mendel Slonim and Sarah Goldin watched as Isaac Sambursky, the defense witness, talking about Arab-Israeli relations with Dugri, who’s having difficulty adjusting to was sworn in by Carol Fabrizio to “tell the truth and only the truth.” her parents, she finds herself constantly civilian life. Unfortunately, their paths cross defending her country. But knowing Hilmi with someone unwilling to surrender his does lead her to a different understanding home to Kings Moving Inc., which creates of the relationship between the two groups, a problem for these former soldiers. particularly how Tel Aviv appears from a The most interesting sections of the novel Palestinian point of view. When watching focus on Yoav and Uri’s time in the IDF a video Hilmi’s brother made in Ramallah, and their adjustment to post-army life. The Liat notes, “My eyes are fixed firmly on the soldier’s desire to leave Israel is described bottom of the screen, scanning the outline as having “come to feel as compulsory as of the increasingly gray rooftops in Tel the service itself, as if vacationing were Aviv... I cannot avoid seeing my home in merely war’s covert continuation, an under- the crosshairs of a missile, from an artillery cover mission camouflaged in sportsgear.” launchpad, through the telescopic lenses of Unfortunately, too much of the writing is God knows what. I cannot avoid realizing not as clear: Cohen writes long, meandering how exposed and vulnerable everything is, sentences in sections that felt like stream of how short and intimate the distance... How consciousness and were difficult to follow. enviable, how infuriating, how hateful we That was particularly true in the chapters look to them from this vantage point.” featuring David. By the third section, I “All the Rivers” is far more about ro- wondered how Cohen would manage to mance than it is about politics. Still, the two connect the disparate characters, something are sometimes impossible to separate. It’s that he actually managed to do very well. It’s difficult to write about the ending without possible to question some of his narrative spoiling the plot. However, for me, although choices, but one made it easier to absorb a the conclusion was moving at first, upon more tragic event with less emotion. thought, it felt manipulative, as though the “Moving Kings” didn’t feel like a com- author was refusing to make a firm choice. pletely successful novel, although, looking Still, the work does offer an interesting look back, it offers a great deal to ponder, including at what happens when love and politics clash. an Israeli rabbi’s comments to Uri: “You can’t “Moving Kings” stop being a soldier, just like you can’t stop Traveling the world after finishing army being a Jew. They are permanent conditions service has become a right of passage for for life. This is the position of the State of many Israelis. Some visit exotic Asian or Israel. You were born a soldier, because you Your African countries; others spend time in the were born a Jew, and if you weren’t given Name(s) U.S. That’s the case for 21-year-old Uri an Uzi at your bris it was only because the Matzav, who travels to New York City to government won’t issue them to anyone not work for his distant cousin, David King, in old enough to handle the commitment.” That “Moving Kings” by Joshua Cohen (Random statement and others like it will challenge House). David’s story opens the novel: he readers, which, in retrospect, makes “Moving attends political gatherings as the “tamed” Kings” worth reading. Wedding and engagement photos wanted The Reporter is looking for photos of couples who became engaged or married in 2017 for the annual Wedding, Prom and Party Guide issue (coming March 16). Please mail or drop off these photos with identification – not written on the photos, but on a separate piece of paper – including the names of all those in the photo, date and place of the prom by Tuesday, March 6. They can also be e-mailed, in TIF or JPG format, to [email protected]; please note in the subject line that a wedding/engagement photo for The Reporter is attached and include the necessary information in the message. Or they can be mailed to The Reporter, 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal, NY 13850. ÊVisit us on the web at www.thereportergroup.org Page 6 - The Reporter February 23-March 1, 2018 An Israeli-Ethiopian woman brings the food of her cultures to Harlem By Josefin Dolsten Barhany, 42, also wants Barhany disputes what she sees as a NEW YORK (JTA) – At Tsion Café the restaurant to serve as a common, but distorted, narrative: that Ethi- in Harlem, visitors can order a vegetable cultural center of sorts. On the opian Jews were poor and suffering prior to injera, an Ethopian sourdough flatbread wall hang paintings by local moving to Israel. She said her family chose topped with vegetable, lentil and chickpea artists, and on the weekends to leave Ethiopia because of a longstanding stews. There is traditional shakshuka, a bands play jazz, a nod to the wish to return to the Jewish homeland. dish common in Israel and the Middle East neighborhood’s role during “[W]e voluntarily left Ethiopia because we where eggs are cooked in a tomato sauce. the Harlem Renaissance, wanted to be in Israel,” she said. “We had And then there’s the scrambled eggs with when African-American art- our land, we had our properties, we didn’t caramelized onions and lox. ists, musicians and writers starve or anything like it. We were doing The assortment of menu items – random converged in Harlem. very well.” as it may seem – tells the story of the eatery’s The restaurant’s venue is Beejhy Barhany opened Tsion Cafe in 2014 with her Barhany opened Tsion Café in 2014 with owner, Beejhy Barhany, an Ethiopian Jew historic in itself. It previously husband. Photo by (Josefin Dolsten) her husband, Padmore John, a native of the who moved here by way of Israel. was the home of Jimmy’s Caribbean island republic Dominica. The Tsion Café, which is located in the his- Chicken Shack, an eatery and jazz spot fre- that by playing music and celebrating the pair wanted to start a restaurant that offered toric Sugar Hill district of the Manhattan quented by Malcolm X and comedian John diversity within Harlem,” Barhany said. both healthy food and culture. “I think it’s neighborhood, represents all of Barhany’s Elroy Sanford, also known as Redd Foxx, Barhany came to New York in 2000: She important that you eat healthy food, good identities. “It’s a celebration of the Ethio- and where jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker was enamored with the city on a trip here products, and I wanted to have a venue where pian, Israeli and American [cultures], so Jr. washed dishes before his big break. after completing her Israeli army service. In I can encompass everything – a little bit of we are encompassing and celebrating all “A lot of inspirational people passed this city, she feels less defined by her race or culture, a little bit of food and in a place of these together,” she told JTA in January. through, and we’re very happy to continue status as an immigrant than she did in Israel. where nobody did it before,” Barhany said. “Here you could be whomever you are She wants Tsion Café to serve as a and nobody knows who I am. I’m Ethio- venue for people to connect. “My bigger Continued from page 1 Austria pian, I’m a New Yorker, I’m here, but I’m vision is for people from all backgrounds would support the candidacy of Israel for not categorized as Ethiopian, Russian, [to] come and talk and have a discussion, nonpermanent membership in the U.N. Yemenite,” she said, referring to immigrant a dialogue, and to be more open minded, Security Council.” groups to Israel that have faced various despite the political situation that we are in, The meeting, which Netanyahu noted types of discrimination. to be more embracing and welcoming one was held at Kurz’s request, was the first Barhany was 4 years old when her family another,” she said. between the two leaders since Kurz’s con- left Ethiopia for Israel. The journey took Barhany is also the founder of Beta servative Austrian People’s Party formed three years, passing through Sudan, Kenya, Israel of North America, a group for a right-wing government with the far-right Uganda and Europe. They arrived in the Ethiopian Jews. She founded the group Freedom Party of Austria. Founded by Jewish state in 1983, in the early days of in 2000, so she could come together with former Nazis six decades ago, the Freedom the Ethiopian migration to Israel. others who shared her background. She Party long ago left the political fringes In Israel, the family initially lived in an estimates that some 1,000 Ethiopian Jews to establish itself as a mainstream party, immigrant absorption center in Pardes Hana, live in the New York area. “I had nobody gaining approximately a quarter of votes in the country’s north, later moving to the to reach out to, so I said, ‘Let me create in the October 15 parliamentary elections. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz met city of Ashkelon. At 13, Barhany decided that, so whoever comes at least can be In December, Netanyahu announced he with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move to a kibbutz, where she lived until assisted,’” she said. would boycott Freedom Party ministers. on February 17. (Photo from Twitter) joining the Army at 18. See “Harlem” on page 11

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Vienna Continued from page 7 and excellent array of kosher foods and who survived the war and settled in Vienna. baked goods to organize, pack and embark While many Jews took the opportunity to on their tours. leave Europe for America or Israel, some The permanent Jewish community in Vi- of the individuals who stayed were able to enna is comprised of three parts, which also build profitable businesses in the post-war have subgroups. The community is made up years, many of which focused on Vienna’s of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews from textile and fur industries. Central Asia, Georgia, Russia, Poland, Hun- The second wave of Jews are primarily gary, Slovakia, Romania and Israel. Sephardic, Bukharian Jews from Ukraine The first is the community of Jewish and the former Soviet Union, who moved survivors (and their descendants) of the to Vienna during the late 1970s and 1980s. Holocaust and specifically from European Vienna’s first Bukharian synagogue was ghettos, most often from Budapest. The opened in 1990. Mea Shearim Restaurant is a new restaurant A view of the pastry display case at Bakerie Budapest Ghetto was created later than A third wave of Jews are from Israel and serving Asian fusion cuisine. (Photo by Ohel Moshe. (Photo by Elizabeth Kratz) the others, in 1944, and the Jews were not America, who have come together to join Elizabeth Kratz) fully deported from there by the time the Kollels (institutes for advanced Talmud war ended in 1945. Many young female sur- study) and to staff yeshivas created to edu- food and noodle bowls. The restaurant was rants within just a few blocks in the historic vivors from Budapest married Jewish men cate the Jews coming from the former Soviet recently written up as “koscher, cool und Leopoldstadt, it is with cautious optimism Union communities. As this community Asiatisch” (kosher, cool and Asian) in Wina that the community continues to grow and has grown, it has brought with it a taste of Magazin, an independent Jewish magazine support itself. The community is still heavily modern Israel. published in German. The restaurant’s clean guarded both by private security forces and Without a unified authority in Vienna lines, ultra-modern design and unique table- the Austrian government, as the Stadttempel like America’s Orthodox Union to provide ware contribute to the hotspot’s modish appeal. was the site of a horrific Palestinian terror kosher certification, the Israelitische Kul- “It was my dream to open a restaurant attack in 1981 that injured 21 and killed tusgemeinde Wien (Jewish community of here where I grew up,” Janet Faiziev told two. Like all Viennese synagogues, the Vienna), like its counterparts in Britain, me. She explained that the name of Mea Stadttempel, yeshivas and many institutions Germany and France, provides a hefty list of Shearim comes not from the name of the are protected by round-the-clock security. branded food items available in Austria that haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem, but from Otherwise, the community is as welcoming are kosher without markings on packages. a verse in the Torah (Genesis 26:12) about to its visitors as any other, and kosher food For their growing number of restaurants the patriarch Isaac (her husband’s namesake) is plentiful and is served to the city’s many and bakeries, Vienna’s kosher-keeping that states, “Yitzchak sowed in that land, and visitors with a smile. communities have several certifying rabbis. in that year he reaped a hundredfold (mea Elizabeth Kratz is the associate publisher The Chabad House in Vienna offers coffee A young couple, Janet and Izhak Faiziev, shearim); God had blessed him.” and editor of The Jewish Link of New Jersey and hot chocolate to visitors. (Photo by own a 3-month-old Asian fusion restaurant As this young couple joins a vibrant and The Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester Elizabeth Kratz) called Mea Shearim, serving sushi, Chinese landscape with at least five kosher restau- and Connecticut.

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Within Baitel, Mana Contemporary’s senior vice president of But step inside this massive complex a few years he had expanded to a fleet strategy. “The difference between us and the rest is we of nearly two million square feet and of trucks and broken into the heavily will not allow for the real estate appreciation to push out the postindustrial vibe gives way to unionized moving industry. At one the artists.” what might be called a chic, artsy aura. point, he says, he received a call from In addition to introducing Jersey City to the art world, The first floor of this former tobacco mob boss John Gotti, who threatened to Mana Contemporary hopes to introduce the art world to factory features a broad wooden art kill him for infringing on his business. Jersey City. The complex’s management has dubbed the installation slightly off the ground. Mana, unfazed, gave Gotti his address, space “Tribeca West,” named after the Manhattan neigh- Nearby, art in an exhibit titled “Occu- Moishe Mana at a party in Miami but the Gambino family don never made borhood, and hopes to draw the New York art scene elite py Mana” criticizes President Donald on December 6. (Photo by Romain good on the threat. outside the boundaries of the big city. Trump. Other floors house an art acad- Maurice/Getty Images for InList) “Some people succeed out of desper- Yigal Ozeri, an Israeli artist who co-founded Mana Con- emy, museums, a dance company, a ation, some out of inspiration,” Mana temporary, said the location gives artists a community of photography center and studio spaces for artists. Another said. “In my case, inspiration and desperation worked as fellow creators, as well as far more space and natural light building on the property contains a foundry for metal one. It’s easier to succeed when you come from the outside than they would get in, say, Tribeca. “A guy gets a studio, sculpture. More than 400 artists work in studio spaces in because you have a better overview [of the landscape]. You he has light, he has galleries and it’s much cheaper than the complex, which also features apartment buildings that have a better drive.” New York,” Ozeri told JTA. “The pitch is the community. are currently being renovated for occupancy. More recently, Mana added storage to his business, The moment the artist gets here, there’s a symbiosis with The complex, called Mana Contemporary, is the latest including art – a specialty that requires controlling rooms young and old artists.” project of Moishe Mana, an Israeli immigrant whose moving for temperature, humidity and dust. His company now As in Mana’s other businesses, several Mana Contem- trucks bearing his first name are a staple on the streets of handles some 1,200 collections. The art storage business porary employees are Israelis, as are many of the artists Manhattan. Now he hopes this sprawling space across the led him to purchase the grounds of abandoned canning who rent studios there. But Mana is quick to note that he Hudson River, founded in 2011, will revolutionize both and tobacco factories in Jersey City, and dedicate them to doesn’t recruit only his co-nationalists. The complex’s the contemporary arts scene and Jersey City, a once-gritty contemporary art. He’s also opened similar complexes in Middle East Center for the Arts, for example, brings in manufacturing town that appears to be on the rebound. “Art Chicago and Miami. artists from far beyond the borders of the Jewish state. connects between people, and I was very lucky enough to Mana sees the arts complex as a way to lift up Jersey And despite his rags-to-riches story, Mana thinks Israelis be invested in building the art community, which we’re City, which is minutes away from downtown Manhattan who follow his path today will have a harder time than going to extend,” Mana told JTA. “Investing in the talent, by public transit, but with much cheaper real estate. He he did. He says the Trump administration, which he has investing in the technologies and the facilities and creating acknowledges that part of the reason he brought contem- criticized in op-eds, has created an anti-immigrant feeling community, this is the future of the world.” porary artists to Jersey City is because he believes an arts in the United States that makes it less inviting. Mana came to New York City in 1983 as a 25-year-old scene will lift real estate prices in the area. See “Artists” on page 11

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Weekly Parasha Moshe’s distinctive nature Tetzaveh, Exodus 27:20-30:10 RIVKAH SLONIM, EDUCATION DIRECTOR, CHABAD CENTER Parashat Tetzaveh is always read in close proximity to attachment. Simply speaking, the way in which a Jew It is not happenstance that Moshe, the leader of the Jews the seventh day in the month of Adar, the day that marks connects with his or her Creator is through keeping the at their most formative stage and the single most influential both the birth and death of Moshe rabeinu, Moses. It is commandments of God. Moses is traditionally referred to teacher of all time, suffered from a speech impediment. curious that this parasha is the only one in the entire Torah as Moshe rabeinu, Moshe our teacher. Thousands of years Here was a man with no oratory skills, who is bereft of from after the birth of Moshe in which Moshe’s name is later, we speak of his role in present tense for it is Moshe eloquence and the gift of commanding presence. And yet not mentioned. However, the entire parasha is comprised who gave us the Torah thus allowing us to connect with it was Moshe that God chose for this role. It was not about of God’s word to Moshe, beginning with “And you shall our Creator eternally. form, is the subtle, but indisputable, message; with Moshe, command…” Therefore, Moshe is implicitly present while While Moshe’s name is not mentioned within it, the very it was all about substance. It was simply God’s word that seemingly absent. name of our parasha reveals this essential characteristic of flowed through him. Herein lies a profound lesson about the distinctive nature Moshe. Moshe’s role was not to serve as an intermediary As we take time to remember Moshe on his yahrzeit of Moshe, in particular, and Jewish leadership, in general. between God and man, but to facilitate their connection. and to reflect upon his great role in Jewish history and The parasha is called Tetzaveh, which is conventionally A Jewish leader might best be compared to a clear glass his continuous presence in our lives, it behooves us to defined as command, just as the Hebrew word mitzvah that serves to showcase that which is poured into it without remember the hallmark of a truly great leader in Israel: is rendered commandment. A look at the etymology of tinting it at all. To serve as an effective connector means humility. In a poignant directive through His prophet the word, however, reveals its deeper meaning. Mitzvah to withdraw the self and simply act as a conduit for a flow Malachi (3:22), God exhorts, “Remember the Torah of is rooted in the notion of tzavta v’chibur, which means of energy. my servant Moshe.” Congregational Notes Beth David Synagogue Temple Israel Temple Concord Affiliation: Orthodox Union Orientation: Conservative Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi: Zev Silber Rabbi: Geoffrey Brown Rabbi: Barbara Goldman-Wartell Address: 39 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 4737 Deerfield Pl., Vestal, NY 13850 Address: 9 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Phone: 607-722-1793, Rabbi’s Office: 607-722-7514 Phone: 723-7461 and 231-3746 Office hours: Tues.-Fri., 10 am-2 pm Fax: 607-722-7121 Office hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30 am-4 pm; Fri. 8 am-3 pm. Phone: 723-7355, Fax: 723-0785 Office hours: Mon. closed; Tues. 10 am-1 pm; Wed. closed; E-mail: [email protected] Office e-mail: [email protected] Thurs. 9 am-1 pm; Fri. 10 am-1 pm Website: www.templeisraelvestal.org Website: www.templeconcord.com Beth David e-mail address: [email protected] Service Schedule: Tuesday, 6 pm, Friday, 5:30 pm; Saturday, 9:30 am. Regular service times: Friday, 8 pm; Saturday, 10:35 am, Rabbi’s e-mail: [email protected] On Saturday, February 24, at 9:30 am, services will be when religious school is in session. Website: www.bethdavid.org led by Rabbi Geoffrey Brown. The Torah portion will be On Friday, February 23, at 6 pm, there will be a Shabbat Facebook: www.facebook.com/bethdavidbinghamton picnic dinner and at 8 pm, Shabbat services with visual tefillah Shabbat Services: Exodus 27:20-30:10. The haftarah will be I Samuel 15:2-34. Friday, Feb. 23...... 5:30 pm On Saturday, February 24, at 10 am, there will be a creative will be led by Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell and Jason Flatt. Shabbat, Feb. 24...... 9 am service and pot luck lunch. At 7 pm, there will be Minyan On Saturday, February 24, at 9 am there will be re- ...... Mincha after the kiddush Martini Mania at the home of Alan and Julie Piaker. Those ligious school; at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study; at ...... Maariv 6:50 pm planning to attend should RSVP to the office and indicate 9:30 am there will be Tot Shabbat; and at 10:35 am, there Weekday Services: what dish they will bring. will be Shabbat family services led by Rabbi Barbara Mornings: On Wednesday, February 28, at 7 pm, there will be a Goldman-Wartell and Jason Flatt. Sun., Feb. 25...... 8:30 am On Tuesday, February 27, at 5:15 pm, there will be Mon.-Wed., Feb. 26-Feb. 28...... 7 am Purim service and celebration. Thurs. March 1...... 6:50 am On Tuesday, March 6, at 7 pm, there will be an executive religious school. Fri. March 2...... 7 am board meeting. On Wednesday, February 28, at 6 pm, there will be Evenings: On Saturday, March 10, at 10 am, there will be a creative a Purim dinner and at 6:45 pm, there will be a Purim Sun., Feb. 25...... 5:35 pm service, kids’ Shabbat and pot luck lunch. service and Beatles-themed Purim spiel. Mon.-Tues., Feb. 26-Feb. 27...... 7 pm On Friday, March 2, at 8 pm, Shabbat services with Wed., Feb. 28...... 6:35 pm the Loews’ anniversary celebration will be led by Rabbi Thurs., March 1...... 4:45 pm Penn-York Jewish Community Fri., March 2...... 5:40 pm President and Treasurer-Secretary: Harvey Chernosky, 570- Barbara Goldman-Wartell and Shari Neuberger. Classes: Rabbi Zev Silber will hold his weekly Talmud class 265-3869 On Saturday, March 3, at 9 am, there will be religious every Tuesday evening after services. B’nai B’rith: William H. Seigel Lodge school; at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study; and at 10:35 Purpose: To promote Jewish identity through religious, am, there will be Shabbat family services. Rohr Chabad Center cultural, educational and social activities in the Southern On Sunday, March 4, from 10 am-2 pm. there will Tier of New York and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, Affiliation: Chabad-Lubavitch including Waverly, NY; Sayre, Athens and Towanda, PA, and be a Sisterhood rummage sale. Buy one pair of slacks, Rabbi: Aaron Slonim, E-mail: [email protected] surrounding communities. get one free. Address: 420 Murray Hill Rd., Vestal, NY 13850 Phone: 797-0015, Fax: 797-0095 Website: www.Chabadofbinghamton.com Kol Haverim Temple Beth-El of Ithaca Chabad on the West Side Affiliation: Society for Humanistic Judaism Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Rabbi: Zalman Chein, E-mail: [email protected] Address: P.O. Box 4972, Ithaca, NY 14852-4972 Rabbi: Scott L. Glass Address: 27 Bennet Ave., Binghamton, NY 13905 Phone: 607-277-3345 Address: 402 North Tioga St. (the corner of Court and Tioga Phone: 722-3252 E-mail: [email protected] streets), Ithaca, NY 14850-4292 Regular service times: Daily 7:30 am, Friday evening 6 pm, Website: www.kolhaverim.net Phone: 273-5775 Shabbat morning 9:30 am, Maariv and Havdalah one hour Chairwoman: Abby Cohn E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] after candle-lighting time, Sundays 9:30 am. Kol Haverim: The Finger Lakes Community for Humanistic Website: www.tbeithaca.org Linking Hearts for youngsters with special needs: This program Judaism, is an Ithaca-based organization that brings people President: Jerry Davis connects Jewish special-needs children and teenagers, ages together to explore and celebrate Jewish identity, history, culture Sisterhood President: Julie Paige 5-14, who have mental, physical and/or functional disabilities, and ethics within a secular, humanistic framework. KH is part Director of Education: Rabbi Suzanne Brody with student volunteers who will visit participating youngsters of an international movement for Secular Humanistic Judaism Administrative Assistant: Jane Griffith weekly in their homes. and is affiliated with the Society for Humanistic Judaism, a Services: Friday 8 pm; Saturday 10 am, unless otherwise To join the mailing list, for up-to-date information on adult national association with over 30 member communities and announced. Weekday morning minyan 7:30 am (9 am on education offerings or to arrange for a private tutorial, for congregations around the country. Established in the spring of Sundays and legal holidays). details concerning the Judaica shop and resource center, or 1999, it offers celebrations of Jewish holidays, monthly Shabbat Religious School/Education: September-May: Classes meet on for assistance through the Piaker Free Loan Society or Raff pot-lucks, adult education, a twice-monthly Cultural School for Sunday, 9 am-12:30 pm and Wednesday afternoons, 3:45-5:45 Maasim Tovim Foundation, call Chabad’s office at 797-0015. children, and a bar and bat mitzvah program. pm. The Midrashah (eighth-grade and high school) classes KH welcomes all individuals and families, including those from will meet at times designated by their respective teachers. Norwich Jewish Center mixed religious backgrounds, who wish to strengthen the Jewish Adult Ed.: Numerous weekly courses, several semester-long experience in their lives and provide their children with a Jewish courses and a variety of mini-courses and lectures are offered Orientation: Inclusive identity and experience. throughout the year. Call the temple office for more details. Rabbi: Dena Bodian Address: 72 South Broad St., Norwich, NY 13815 On Wednesday, February 28, the Purim Carnival will Contact: Guilia Greenberg, 373-5087 Temple Brith Sholom be held at 5:30 pm, a light dinner at 6:30 pm (RSVP Purpose: To maintain a Jewish identity and meet the needs Affiliation: Unaffiliated required) and the eve of Purim megillah reading at 7 pm. of the Jewish community in the area. Address: P.O. Box 572, 117 Madison St., Cortland, NY 13045 On Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 am, a Purim service Adult Ed.: Saturday morning study is held at 10 am. Call for Phone: 607-756-7181 will be held. more information and to confirm. President: Louis Wilson, [email protected] Service leaders: Lay leadership On Thursdays, March 1, 8 and 15, at 7 pm, “Origins Congregation Tikkun v’Or Shabbat services: Either Friday evening at 7:30 pm or Saturday of the Passover Seder and Haggadah” will be taught by Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism at 10 am from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot. Holiday services Ross Brann in the Hecht Library. Address: PO Box 3981, Ithaca, NY 14852; 2550 Triphammer are also held. Check the weekly e-mail for upcoming services. Rd. (corner of Triphammer and Burdick Hill), Lansing, NY Contact the president to get on the e-mail list. Phone: 607-256-1471 Religious School: Students are educated on an individual basis. Temple Beth El of Oneonta Website: www.tikkunvor.org Temple Brith Sholom is a small equalitarian congregation Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism E-mail: [email protected] serving the greater Cortland community. Congregants span the Rabbi: Molly Karp Presidents: Miranda Phillips and Shawn Murphy gamut of observance and services are largely dependent on Address: 83 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820 Rabbi: Brian Walt the service leader. The Friday night siddur is “Likrat Shabbat,” Mailing address: P.O. Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 Religious School Director/Admin. Coordinator: Naomi while the Saturday morning siddur is “Gates of Prayer.” The Phone: 607-432-5522 Wilensky community extends a warm welcome to the Jewish student Website: www.templebetheloneonta.org Services: Fridays at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Family population of SUNY Cortland, as well as the residents of local E-mail: [email protected] services and Tot Shabbat once a month at 6:30 pm. Call for adult residences. Regular service times: visit the temple website for days of weekly schedules. services and times Religious School/Education: Religious School, for grades Religious School: Preschool through seventh-grade classes Friday, February 23, light candles...... 5:28 pm meet on Sunday mornings. Sixth-grade Hebrew and seventh- kindergarten through bar/bat mitzvah, meets Sunday grade b’nai mitzvah classes meet on Wednesday afternoons. Shabbat ends Saturday, February 24...... 6:30 pm mornings. Rabbi Karp conducts services and holds classes Adult Ed: Mini courses throughout the year. Adult Hebrew Friday, March 2, light candles...... 5:36 pm in Torah, beginning Hebrew and Maimonides. offered regularly. Call the office for details. Shabbat ends Saturday, March 3...... 6:38 pm For schedules of services, classes and events, see the website. February 23-March 1, 2018 Page 11 - The Reporter Saudi-based Muslim body rejects Holocaust denial By Ron Kampeas Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Al Issa suggest- with Saudi Arabia’s pivot westward under its new crown WASHINGTON (JTA) – A Saudi-based Muslim group ed the letter was prompted in part by his friendship with prince, Muhammad bin Sultan, Satloff said. rejected Holocaust denial in a letter to the U.S. Holocaust the think tank’s director, Robert Satloff, who has written “Taking his lead from Muhammad bin Salman, the Memorial Museum. extensively about North African Muslims who protected current crown prince who has vowed to cleanse his country “History is indeed impartial no matter how hard forgers Jews during the Holocaust. of extremism and return it to ‘moderate Islam,’ Al Issa tried to tamper with or manipulate it,” said the letter sent Writing separately, Satloff described meeting Al Issa seems to have a specific mandate to transform the MWL on January 22 to the museum by Mohammad Al Issa, the in December when he led a delegation of lay leaders from an organization synonymous with extremism to one secretary general of the Muslim World League, five days of his think tank to Saudi Arabia. A former justice that preaches tolerance,” he said. before International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Hence, minister, Al Issa had taken over the Saudi-funded Al Issa did not specify Jews as victims of the Holocaust we consider any denial of the Holocaust or minimizing Muslim World League in 2016. Satloff wrote that the in his letter to the museum director, Sara Bloomfield, of its effect a crime to distort history and an insult to the league had been a linchpin in propagating “a radical, but instead spoke of “this human tragedy perpetrated by dignity of those innocent souls who have perished. It is hate-filled, anti-West, antisemitic version of Islam.” evil Nazism” and “our great sympathy with the victims also an affront to us all since we share the same human Al Issa expressed a willingness to visit the Holocaust of the Holocaust, an incident that shook humanity to the soul and spiritual bonds.” museum the next time he was in Washington. core, and created an event whose horrors could not be The letter was posted on January 25 on the site of the The appointment of Al Issa appears to be of a piece denied or underrated by any fair-minded or peace-lov- ing person.” The Muslim World League, which was founded in Deciphering the past 1962, is funded principally by Saudi Arabia’s government. President Donald Trump, visiting Saudi Arabia in June, encouraged it and other Sunni Arab countries to combat A 1,500-year-old church and monastery radical Islam. Holocaust denial has proliferated for decades in the Arab and Muslim worlds, sometimes encouraged by of- unearthed in Israel ficial government bodies, including in the past by Saudi By JNS staff Arabia. President Barack Obama in his 2009 speech to (JNS) – The ruins of a 1,500-year-old church and monas- the Muslim world delivered in Cairo said the perpetuation tery have been unearthed near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh of Holocaust denial was an obstruction to better relations in an excavation led by the Israel Antiquities Authority. with the West. More than 1,000 Israeli students assisted the effort, which uncovered Byzantine-era buildings with full mo- saic floors and marble items. Several walls discovered in the excavation were made of “expensive smooth stones” Jewish Community imported from Turkey. “We were surprised by how well the findings were pre- served, as well as by the wealth and beauty we discovered,” Center said Benyamin Storchan, director of the excavation for the IAA. “This wealth may prove that the large building, which served as a monastery, was an important center, and JCC Friendship Club it could be that it was one of the main pilgrimage centers in the Judean plain.” According to the IAA, the monastery was abandoned in the seventh century A.D. and only a small portion of the entire compound has been unearthed. The archaeological dig was initiated ahead of the Israeli students participated in excavations that uncovered construction of a new residential neighborhood in Ramat a 1,500-year-old church and monastery near Beit Shemesh. Beit Shemesh. (Photo by Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority) Ritual baths excavated at destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna By Israel Hayom staff/Exclusive to JNS.org The Israeli-Lithuanian-American team discovered the On February 15, the Friendship Club members A team of Israeli, Lithuanian and American archaeolo- mikvahs last summer. The sections of the ritual baths that prepared almost 40 shalach manot gifts for those who gists has unearthed the remains of two mikvahs (ritual baths) the archaeologists uncovered date to the early 20th century, are homebound or living in nursing homes. L-r: Ann used by congregants at the Great Synagogue in Vilna, which and feature tiled walls and floors, steps leading to a pool, and Brillant, Sylvia Diamond, JFS Director Roz Antoun is the modern-day capital of Lithuania. The synagogue, an auxiliary pool in which water is collected for the mikvah. and Renee Fromer. which was at heart of Vilna’s large Jewish community “These discoveries add a new dimension to the under- for hundreds of years, was completely destroyed in the standing of the daily lives of the Jews of Vilna, and will Holocaust, but evidence of underground spaces discovered certainly provide a new focus for understanding the lost Moving any time soon? in a study carried out last year led to the excavation of the cultural heritage of the Jewish community of Vilna, the Or just leaving town for a few months? site and the exposure of the ritual baths. ‘Jerusalem of Lithuania,’” the researchers explained. The Great Synagogue of Vilna, built in the 17th century Whether you’re moving across town or in Renaissance-Baroque style, was a large community across the country, please let The Reporter center and a hub for Torah study. 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From JNS.org Israel a major energy exporter in the region. “The agreement will strengthen the relationships Syrian civilians targeted by Assad, 20 children killed between Israel and its neighbors, and increase economic cooperation between them,” he said. At least 100 civilians, including 20 children, were killed in fighting in Syria’s reb- Israel tests state-of-the-art Arrow 3 missile system el-held Eastern Ghouta the week of Feb. 19, evidence of “major escalations” on the part Israel’s new long-range Arrow 3 missile defense system was tested successfully the of dictator Bashar Assad’s regime. The area has been held by rebels for the last five years. morning of Feb. 19, in a joint trial carried out in partnership with the United States. The The United Nations issued a warning that Assad’s targeting of civilians with airstrikes, Arrow 3 system, which joins the missile defense arsenal comprised of the Iron Dome, missile fire and artillery in the area “must stop now.” The town of Douma also experienced David’s Sling, and Arrows 1 and 2, is designed to protect Israel from short-, medium- and shelling, with journalists reporting young children being rushed to the hospital. As few as long-range missiles and is among the world’s highest-level multi-tiered missile defense 340,000 people have been killed in the civil war to Israel’s north since 2011, following network. Arrow 3 is designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles, while protests against Assad’s government which ended in arrests and killings. Over the past incapacitating nuclear, chemical, biological, or conventional warheads. five years, Israel has admitted 4,071 Syrians affected by the war to Israeli hospitals for Israel advances bill to offset P.A. terror salary payments free treatment. In the last year, Israel has treated more than 1,000 Syrian children. Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation advanced a bill on Feb. 18 to withhold Israeli natural gas to be sold to Egypt in $15 billion deal funds from tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to offset The operators of Israel’s Tamar and Leviathan offshore natural gas fields have announced payments made by the P.A. to the families of terrorists. Incarcerated and released terrorists a landmark $15 billion, 10-year deal to sell the gas to Egypt. Israeli-based Delek Drilling and received 550 million shekels ($155.6 million) from the P.A., while families of killed and U.S.-based Noble Energy announced that it has signed two agreements with Egypt’s Dolphin injured terrorists received 687 million shekels ($194.3 million). These payments account Energy worth an estimated $15 billion. According to the terms of the deal, Delek and Noble will for approximately 7 percent of the P.A.’s total annual budget. Payments for terrorists are supply Egypt with about seven billion cubic meters of gas annually, with half coming from the issued monthly, with those receiving sentences of three to five years being allocated 2,000 already operating Tamar field and the other half from the Leviathan field, which plans to begin shekels ($566) a month and those receiving 20- to 35-year sentences earning 10,000 shekels operations next year. The companies are looking at various options to transfer the gas, including ($2829) per month for life. Married terrorists get a bonus of 300 shekels ($85) per month, an eastern Mediterranean pipeline or a Pan-Arabian pipeline via Jordan. Commenting on the with an additional 50 shekels ($14) monthly per child. The bill requires the Security Cabinet agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the deal as “historic,” adding to decide monthly whether to dock the taxes and tariffs Israel collects for the Authority. “many people did not believe in the gas outline. We led it knowing that it would strengthen our The Cabinet could also opt to freeze the funds and pay later, or not to deduct any funds at security, economy and regional relations, but, above all, that it would strengthen Israel’s citi- all. Funds that are withheld from the P.A. would instead be paid into a fund for families of zens. This is a joyous day.” Yitzhak Tshuva, the controlling shareholder of Delek Group, which victims of terror. The P.A. issued a statement blasting the law as “yet another crime added controls Delek Drilling, called the deal an “important milestone” in the road toward making to the Israeli occupations’ ongoing crimes committed against the Palestinian people.”

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