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Torah Covers, Kislev: a Month of Faith & Miracles The Jewish National Edition Post &Opinion Presenting a broad spectrum of Jewish News and Opinions since 1935. Volume 82, Number 1 • November 18, 2015 • 6 Kislev 5776 www.jewishpostopinion.com • www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/JPO The Bureau of Jewish Education Dalet Class of 2015 Photo by: Scott Romer Cover art by Suzy Friedman (see About the Cover, p. 3). 2 The Jewish Post & Opinion – NAT November 18, 2015 November 18, 2015 The Jewish Post & Opinion – NAT 3 Editorial About the Cover Inside this Issue Decorative Dreidels By Suzy Friedman Editorial.....................................................3 At this time of year for the past 12 About the Cover ......................................3 years, I have written about establishing a Suzy Friedman creates distinctive, Rabbi Benzion Cohen: (Chassidic Rabbi) special day, annually, for the purpose of special occasion art using Judaic themes. Hard Times..............................................4 remembering those who, in some way, Each piece reflects Suzy’s love of Judaism Rabbi Irwin Wiener: (Wiener’s Wisdom) have helped us but whom we never and its traditions. Thankfulness is not just once a year ....4 thanked. It could be because we were too For many years Suzy Amy Lederman: (Jewish Educator) young to realize how much their help has been using her artistic Chanukah: bring yur light ......................5 meant or we were simply too preoccupied talent in media as diverse Rabbi Herbert Horowitz: at the time. I suggested that we make as mosaics, hand-dyed From ancient to modern Maccabees....5 Nov. 2 Appreciation Day. and painted silk atarot for Melinda Ribner: (Kabbalah of the Month) I chose this day because it is between talitot and torah covers, Kislev: a month of faith & miracles ......6 the Canadian and American Thanksgiving cards and invitations, and S. Friedman Rabbis Dennis & Sandy Sasso: Days.This year they fall on Oct. 12 (second hand-painted ketubot. Lately she has been World must respond to refugee crisis......7 Monday of the month) and Nov. 26 working in pastels and oils focusing on Rabbi Sandy E. Sasso: (fourth Thursday) respectively. landscape and still life. She also creates Real smoking gun behind violence .........7 Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a time three-dimensional Giclee-process ketubot Sybil Kaplan: (Seen on the Israel Scene) set aside once a year to tell someone what and other Judaic themed prints. Attending the World Zionist Congress a difference they made in our lives? What Suzy’s commissioned artwork can be An extraordinary Israeli artist................8 they did was valuable to us even if they found in synagogues and homes throughout Ted Roberts: (Spoonful of Humor) were simply doing the job they were paid the country. She has taught art to secular Mixed marriage ....................................10 to do. and religious school students. She now Susan Lerner (Book Review) ..................10 This, of course, could and should be teaches mosaic classes in her home studio. Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage done every day, but sometimes it helps to Her training includes a BA in Fine Art Rabbi Reuven Goldfarb: have a specific time when others are also from Indiana University and a Masters in The way to Chanukah...........................11 doing this. Advice columnist Ann Landers, Art Education from IUPUI at Herron. Dr. Miriam Zimmerman: of blessed memory, proclaimed April 2 as To contact Suzy Friedman visit her website (Holocaust Educator) Celebrating 50 Reconciliation Day. This day is for people at www.suzyfriedmanarts.com, email her years of Nostra Aetate ..........................12 who had been close but had a falling out at [email protected], or call 317- Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel: (Media Watch) and stopped communicating. It is a time 501-3107. Notes on the new TV season ..............14 for them to contact each other and Morton Gold: (As I Heard It) rekindle their relationship. j i Cherished Moments and Yontef! ..........15 This year I was not thinking about This unswerving drive for careful Rabbi Israel Zoberman: (Book Review) Appreciation Day until Oct. 17 when I experimentation without cutting corners Gospel of Judas ......................................16 received the following email: has stuck with me for over 35 years as this Sybil Kaplan: (My Kosher Kitchen) I was looking up teachers from when I simulacrum in the back of my mind: “Would Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking .......17 went to Northview Junior High School Mrs. Gelb accept these results?” The mental Rabbi Jon Adland: (now Middle School) in the late 1970s and act of running things that I produced (Shabbat Shalom)...................................18 found your article on Martha Gelb. I was through this “check” has helped me be an Rose Kleiner: The Jewish calendar.......19 pleased to see that she was celebrating her objective defender of finding the kernel of Rabin Remembered ..............................20 100th birthday last year and to read the truth as much as I have been able. I thank story in your publication. [See page 2 of the Mrs. Gelb for passing along this scientific The Jewish following link: http://jewishpostopinion passion that I’ve described above to me. Post &Opinion .com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IN_5- ~ Jeff Groves, former student of Mrs. Jewish News and Opinion since 1935. 14-14FFF.pdf] Gelb’s 8th grade advanced science class at After reading the article, I felt that I Northview Junior High School, Indianapolis. 1427 W. 86th St. #228 wanted to share with you the impact that Indianapolis, IN 46260 she, as a teacher, had on me in her science I printed this letter and took it to the email: [email protected] class. Mrs. Gelb helped instill in me the nursing home where Mrs. Gelb has been phone and fax: (317) 405-8084 importance of rigorous scientific methodology. residing for the past several years. Even website: www.jewishpostopinion.com Her unswerving drive to insure that our though I printed it in large, bold letters publisher & editor: Jennie Cohen experiments were conducted with the most she still had trouble reading it so I read the graphic designer: Charlie Bunes precision possible and that our write-ups letter to her. She was all smiles after that were top-notch have stuck with me to and I could tell it meant a great deal to her, See Historical Digtial Issues of this day. but she was curious what this student The Jewish Post & Opinion since 1930 at Her primary objective seemed to be to does now for a living. I replied to his email www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/ collections/JPO make us understand that completing the and posed that question. He responded: work was not the goal, but doing the work Read recent digital issue online at: with integrity was of the utmost importance. I’ve just left a position with Verizon where www.jewishpostopinion.com If the class results varied too much on an I was doing computer systems analyst work Follow us on Facebook at: experiment, we would discuss why this for the past 15 years in order to take a job Jewish Post & Opinion, newspaper might happen, how we might control with a Silicon Valley company called Follow us on Twitter at: variables better, and then perform the Hortonworks where I will continue to do #JewishPostOpin experiment again. (see Editorial, page 4) 4 The Jewish Post & Opinion – NAT November 18, 2015 EDITORIAL Chassidic Rabbi (continued from page 3) Wiener’s BY RABBI BENZION COHEN troubleshooting and problem resolution work. The troubleshooting is where I use most Wisdom Hard Times of the analytical skills that require data collection, investigation of that data and BY RABBI IRWIN WIENER, D.D. In the past two month, we have been often a bunch of experimentation in order to suffering from a wave of terror. Many come up with a solution. Thankfulness is not innocent people were murdered, and It’s not rocket science, but it still uses many more were injured. I asked myself: the scientific principles in order to resolve just once a year “What can I do to help?”I can’t patrol the computer systems issues as quickly as possible. streets. I am 65 years old, and haven’t held I graduated from Georgia Tech in 1989 Each year, at this time, we pause for a gun for over 25 years, since I last served with a BS in Information and Computer two major events in our lives as in the Israeli army. Here are some ideas Science…I wasn’t a star student…I credit Americans: Thanksgiving and Veteran’s that came to my mind. my [success to] excellent teachers that I’ve Day.These two holidays, each in their own We can pray to Hashem (G-d) to protect had that included Mrs. Gelb. Thanks for way, offer the same expressions of grate- us. We can pray for our complete and passing along my thanks. fulness and appreciation. And, each year, I final redemption. At that time, in the era draw special attention to them because, all of Moshiach (Messiah), there will be no This gentleman was fortunate that with too often, we neglect to remember how more terror, no more war, no more evil modern computer technology and Mrs. these holidays impact our lives. in any form. Gelb’s longevity, he was able to reach her When we lose someone who has devoted We believe that the Lubavitcher Rebbe while she was still able to receive his his or her energy to the safety and survival is Moshiach. We are now in the beginning “thank you”. of our American way of life, or see the list of the final redemption. It is really Besides teachers, these helpers could of wounded increase with each passing day, happening! However, though many good be counselors, firemen, clergy, nurses, we pause to thank them for their partici- things have already happened, there is still librarians and so forth, or simply relatives pation in ensuring our safety and survival.
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