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Dates to Remember Poverty Statistics Alarm Community Leadership

UJA Federation of Hamilton The document has been the Social Service client base that our client base has been has recently come into possession shared with the leadership has been growing over time. growing dramatically over the Join Co-Chairs of a highly scientific analysis of both UJA Federation and According to Roth, last few years, we don’t feel the Amy Katz Martin of Canadian 2001 census data. Jewish Social Services. Susan “Although the professional Jewish community is aware of & Tom Martin The results are very disturbing. Roth, president of Jewish staff and Board of Directors of these dire needs. Our relief on The analysis was conducted Social Services, recognizes that Jewish Social Services recognize cont’d on p4 by a team of demographers led by UJA Federation of Hamilton’s Dr. Charles Shahar of Montreal. Teen Telethon Makes Community Proud! The study was commissioned by United Appeal of (UIAFC). UIAFC commissions studies such as this to assist Canadian federations in social Leadership services planning. Here are a few Mission of the findings: • The number of poor in the to Hamilton Jewish community is steadily increasing. • 795 live below the Israel poverty line in Hamilton. The Sunday, poor comprise 17% of a total November 20 population of 4,675 Jews. The to national poverty average for Jews Tuesday, is 13.4%. • More than one in five Jewish November 29, 2005 children (22%) in Hamilton are poor. Children in single parent families are especially at risk (50%). • There are 190 poor Community teens recently raised a record $5,287 in one night at a youth telethon. Thanks to Lynne Jewish families in Hamilton. Czutrin (far right) and Vivienne Epstein (far left) for chairing the program and to the teens. Pictured Call Wendy Schneider at When unattached individuals here are (from l to ri) Natalie Epstein, Tanya Schneider, Sari Meyerson, Aaron Friedman, Macie Mandel, 905-628-0058 for more are included, a total of 575 Arielle Strub, Jason Hossiasohn, Joel Meyerson, Jared Mark, Josh Strub, Max Mandel, Aily Leibtag and disadvantaged households are information Emily Schneider. Missing from the photograph is Ilana Klinghoffer. identified. UJA Campaign Results Promising Campaign 2005 Goal “THE UJA 2005 Campaign for at least one more Hamilton goal of $1,000,000 is within reach woman joining this prestigious New applications and will be achieved, provided group. (“The Lion of Judah” is $1,000,000 to the UJA that volunteer canvassers fulfill an international affinity group for Federation the commitments they made at donors of $5,000 or more to the Budget & the campaign launch.” UJA Women’s annual campaign. Allocations This was the view recently Qualifying donors are invited to shared by Dr. Larry Levin, participate in a wide range of Pledges to date Committee chair of this years UJA Men’s seminars and conferences with Campaign. Jewish leaders from all over the $824,000 Speaking to the February world. ) The community is hereby meeting of the UJA Federation UJA Federation executive notified that new beneficiary of Hamilton Board of Directors, director, Gerald Fisher, was applications for funding Levin reported that at January optimistic about the campaign’s must first come to the UJA 30th 2005, pledges received final result. Federation executive for totaled $812,000. “The potential for meeting or approval. If so deemed “On this date last year, pledge exceeding the campaign goal is totals were $675,000. This larger within reach. What will make this worthy, the application pledge total may be explained year more successful is volunteer will be brought before the by some donors making their canvassers staying focused until board for approval. If the commitments earlier than last they complete their jobs and new beneficiary agency is year. However, the important donors being more responsible approved by the board of statistic is the card for card in the face of growing needs increase of 13% on an overall locally, nationally and around the directors, the Budget and basis. This suggests real growth; world.” Allocations Committee will the growth we require in order On a final note, the be so notified to hear a to recover from last campaign’s campaign chairs mentioned submission for funds. For downturn and meet urgent their plans to hold a volunteer the fiscal year July 1, 2005 to community needs in the coming canvasser appreciation evening year.” on Wednesday, March 30th. June 30, 2006, applications The UJA women’s campaign Among other highlights of the must be submitted by has continued with its tradition evening, volunteers will have February 25, 2005 to of good organization and good an opportunity to meet with the UJA Federation office results. Women’s Division IDF Air Squadron Commander to the attention of Gerry co-chairs Louise Klinghoffer and Amnon Ron. Details of the event Jo-Ann Pomerantz were delighted will be available within the next Fisher at 905-648-0605. Help us meet our commitments to our local agencies to report that the UJA Women’s few weeks. and to Israel. Call the UJA Federation office at campaign has produced three new “Lions of Judah,” with high hopes 905-648-0605, ext 306 to make your campaign pledge Page 2 The Hamilton Jewish News February 2005 - Shvat/Adar 5765

UJA Federation Programs

Hamilton Jewish News POB 7258 Editorial UJA FEDERATION TRIBUTE CARDS 1030 Lower Lions Club Rd., 648-0605 EXT. 306 Ancaster, Ontario L9G 3N6 UJA Federation of Hamilton is launching a campaign to encourage the community to support local vendors of kosher Jewish social services The Hamilton Jewish News products. is published 5 times a year by Federation president, Leslie Lasky, remarked that & THE KOSHER FOOD BANK Hamilton Jewish News Inc. and “We are all aware that the opening of the kosher food In Memory Of Shadowpress section at the new Fortino’s presents significant challenges to NANCY KATZ – Dolly & Ralph Cohen, Jeff & Gilda Ennis and family, Carol & Lester Krames, Sam & Odette Brownstone. IRWIN LYONS – our existing vendors of kosher meats and foods. We appreciate Helen & Paul Hanover, Publisher: all that Fortino’s has done to service the Jewish community. ELLARD EPPEL – Paul & Susan Roth. Father of Siggy Rajzman – Wendy Schneider However, there is a value to having vendors you know by memory of father – Heather & Len Ritter and family. MEL DULBERG – Editor: name, vendors who will do something special ‘just for you’. Carol & Lester Krames Wendy Schneider Starting this month, UJA Federation will be sending letters Brother of Harry Kelman – Paul & Helen Hanover. AL OSSEA – Managing Editor: Dolly & Ralph Cohen, Gail & Les Wolfe. Grandson of Millie Cowan to all congregations and organizations, calling on them to – Ida Shuman, Goldie Robbins. – Dolly & Ralph Gerald Fisher HANNAH FELDMAN encourage their constituencies to shop at Hamilton Kosher Cohen. EMILLYA LAVINOVA – Jacklyn Strohl & family. JACK ROSEN Telephone: and Westdale Deli. According to UJA Federation executive – Sharon & Lawrence Hart and family, Ida Shuman, JSS Chai Choir, Sam (905) 628-0058 director, Gerald Fisher, & Odette Brownstone. Father of Ian Katz – – Helen & Paul Hanover. Fax: “This initiative is not an action against Fortino’s. It’s a bit of MICHAEL LEVINSON – Natalie Sobel, Rafael Kleiman. LARRY SEGAL (905) 627-7099 – Carol & Lester Krames. AARON LAX – Sam & Odette Brownstone. a ‘wake-up call’ to our own community to appreciate the value – Carol & Lester Krames, Louise, Oded, Tamar, email: NATE SHERMAN of vendors who have served our community well over such a Naomi, Ilana Klinghoffer, Moura Wolpert , Dolly & Ralph Cohen. [email protected] long period of time. Special Occasion The situation has been described as a challenge very similar BARRY YELLIN & ALMA ARGUELLO – birth of son - JSS Board Circulation to the experience of any small community when a box store of Directors. FRAN SIMMS – New Home – Jack & Barbara Katz and family. 2,000 opens down the street from a local hardware store or children’s LENA & MURRAY ROTHBERG – birth of great grand- children – Gloria Silverman. SAUL COHEN – birth of grandson – Paul shop. These kinds of changes can challenge the nature of & Helen Hanover. DANNA & DAVID HORWOOD – birth of daughter Canadian Publications community life. The purpose of the UJA Federation initiative – Carol & Lester Krames, JSS Board of Directors Mail Product Sales is to encourage the community to demonstrate its appreciation BEV SOBEL – Happy Birthday – Goldie Robbins. GEOFFREY Agreement #0463922 for what it has in hand. ZALTER – Bar Mitzvah – Glogauer Family. DANIEL HOSIASSOHN – Bar Mitzvah – Glogauer Family. SYD MANDEL – Special Birthday – Didi Dulberg. CISSIE MORRIS – Special Birthday – Dorothy McMaster Jewish Student Writes Rosenthal, Annabelle Laskin. PAUL & SUSAN ROTH – Engagement Editorial Policy of Jay to Vered – JSS Board of Directors, Brenda & Sol Sandberg and a Letter to the Editor of the Spectator family, Suki, Mark & Danielle Berman, Vender Family. ADA & ELMER The HJN invites members FARKAS – Anniversary – Helen Yellin. RABBI & MRS. DANIEL of the community to Two weeks ago, UJA Federation sent out an E-newsletter GREEN – birth of daughter – Michael & Adalia Schweitzer and family. contribute letters, articles broadcast to the community asking recipients to write to ELAINE SORKIN –Birthday wishes – Lester & Carol Krames Speedy Recovery or guest editorials. Hamilton Spectator editor, Dana Robbins, expressing their MARI WAISGLAS – Dolly & Ralph Cohen. HELEN GERTSACOV Written submissions and concern regarding the media’s publishing opinion pieces without & ZETY FIDLER – Ruth & Manny Fine. ELLIOTT RAPHAEL – Ruth advertisements must be verifying whether the expressed opinions are based on fact, nor & Manny Fine, Zians Family, Carol & Lester Krames. SAM SILBERG forwarded by the deadline with any regard to the inflammatory effect they have in cultivating – Louise Klinghoffer. LEAH GLOGAUER – Selevan Family. REESA indicated in each issue. This a climate of increased antisemitism. The email prompted Brandon ROSEN – Shirley Yaffe. HELEN YELLIN – Ralph & Dolly Cohen. newspaper reserves the right deSilva, president of the McMaster Jewish Students Association to write the following letter: the ralph travis israel experience to edit, condense or reject any contribution for brevity or In Memory Of “When repeated malicious and inaccurate anti-Israeli items – Corinne Travis. – Gladys Dubo, legal purposes. NANCY KATZ MEL DULBERG are publicized, the risk of antisemitic acts based on anti-Israeli Corinne Travis, Glen & Gwen. Liz Cyna – memory of father – Corinne sentiments increases”. Travis Deadline for Special Occasion submissions Dear Dana, BARBARA LASKIN – engagement of granddaughter – Corinne Travis. My name is Brandon deSilva and I am president of the Jewish DALE & ABE COHEN – engagement of daughter, Sara for the next – Corinne Travis. SHELDON & SUE GUREVITZ – New Home Students Association (JSA) at McMaster. This is my fifth year edition of – Corinne Travis. SHELDON ROSENFELD – Special Birthday – being actively involved with the JSA. From my experience, the Corinne Travis. TOM & SASHA WEISZ – birth of grand-daughter the HJN is above statement is 100% true and is a constant worry for me – Phil & Daphne Leon. GERRY & ROCHELLE SWAYE – birth of wednesday, and many Jewish students on campus. Over the years many grandson – Phil & Daphne Leon. DAVE WATTS – 80th Birthday – Corinne Travis. LEAH & RON TATTUN – birth of daughter- Avery March 14, 2005 individuals as well as an anti-Israel group on campus have been spreading hateful material about Israel using highly offensive and Summer – Corinne Travis. RACHEL & HARVIN PITCH – birth of – Corinne Travis loaded words. As of now, the administration has refused to do granddaughter UJa/Federation Refuah Shlayma anything, bowing to the principle of freedom of speech. I fear MAX NATHAN – Corinne Travis. CELE STEINBERG – Corinne of Hamilton that the constant barrage of anti-Israel information being spread Travis. DAVID ROSENFELD – Corinne Travis. SHELLI EISENBERG through my campus is leading to an increase in antisemitic acts. – Corinne Travis. – Corinne Travis. President MARILYN WASSERMAN Just this year, the student group, Zionists@McMaster received a Lesley Lasky hate email including a picture of a Nazi and the JSA itself received antisemitic phone messages. McMaster Jewish Students Association Past President Since September, the anti-Israel group has been spreading the In Memory Of Bonnie Loewith inaccurate and disturbing statement that Israel is an apartheid ANN FELDMAN – Amy Freedman & JonArno Lawson state. I am on constant guard because I worry that since for the UJA campaign chair average student Israel is synonymous with Jews, it is not hard to the education endowment fund imagine a possible antisemitic incident. Dr. Larry Levin Overall, I become increasingly worried as time passes. Just In Memory Of yesterday the JSA brought four Israeli soldiers who had participated John Fingret – memory of mother – Flora & Allen Rams Special Occasion UJA women’s division in Birthright trips and who ranged from 21-23 years of age to ARNOLD & JEAN VERTLIEB – Alana’s engagement – Allen & co-Chairs speak about life in Israel. This was met with the anti-Israel group Flora Rams. HEATHER & LEN RITTER – Mitchell’s graduation – Louise Klinghoffer & protesting the event and handing out material that called the Allen & Flora Rams. JOANNE & HOWARD BERNSTEIN – Adam’s Jo-Ann Pomerantz Israelis “war criminals”, “murderers” and calling for their arrest. graduation – Allen & Flora Rams Believe it or not I even overheard them telling students that in Board Members World War II, the Zionists and Jews were helping the Nazis! holocaust education fund Howard Brown, Janis Criger, I have met many Jewish students who no longer wear their In Memory Of Judah Denburg, Vivienne Magen David necklaces or any other identifiable Jewish items. JACK ROSEN – Moura & Bernard Wolpert Epstein, Mark Gould, Cheryl Some of these students are worried about the way Israel is being Greenbaum, Lawrence Hart, Special Occasion depicted and are actively disassociating themselves with Israel and – Hilda Nicholas Kates, Benjy Katz, SHIRLEY YAFFE – marriage of granddaughter, Chani Judaism. When Jewish students in Canada are afraid to be who Rosen and Reesa & Ira Louise Klinghoffer, Larry Levin, they are it’s a very scary thing. I don’t think any student, Jewish Lester Krames, Liora Malka, or not, should have to hide who they are. Jason Morris, Sandy Morris, The hatred for Israel is being pushed on students all the time Harold Pomerantz, Jo-Ann uja federation general fund and this can only lead to greater tension and antisemitism on Pomerantz, Paul Roth, Louise In Memory Of campus. Rotman, Mark Scholes, Molly ELLARD EPPEL – Moura & Bernard Wolpert Ann Schwarcz, David Somer, Speedy Recovery Jay State, William Steen, David Brandon deSilva DAVID STEINBERG – Abe & Gina Szpirglas Streinger, Marty Strub, Harvey 4th Year Honours Commerce, McMaster University Thank You – Bernice Crangle Waxman, Janet Weisz-Asa, Alan SEYMOUR EPSTEIN February 2005 - Shvat/Adar 5765 The Hamilton Jewish News Page 3

UJA Federation UJA Federation Extends Messages of Good Will Federation launches School Transportation Initiative UJA Federation leaders president of UJA Federation of UJA Federation has recently Committee, “Families with Executive Director Gerald have played prominent roles in Hamilton to speak publicly at the conducted a meeting with young children are the life blood Fisher, “this program is attractive several recent major community event that had several hundred families from the Hamilton of any community and ours is to Federation because it directly events. On January 16th, UJA attendees, including the mayor. Hebrew Academy. The purpose no different. Our community is addresses two priority issues: Federation President Leslie Lasky The UJA Federation President of the meeting was to discuss not going to have a very bright our fundamental commitment delivered the invocation at the was very graciously received. the possibility of providing future unless it takes steps to to Jewish education and our annual Martin Luther King Madeleine also represents daily transportation between attract young families to live deep interest in attracting and Day observance at the Stewart the Jewish community at the Hamilton and Toronto Jewish here and provide the necessary retaining young families in Memorial Church. On February “Hamilton Interfaith Group.” Day Schools. The idea was met services so that they choose to Hamilton.” 2nd, Dr. Lester Krames delivered This group, in co-sponsorship with genuine enthusiasm. stay here. Ensuring access to Cost for the transportation a d’var Torah at an inter-faith with the “Strengthening The intent is to provide quality Jewish education can be service are still being negotiated memorial service for Tsunami Hamilton Community Initiative fully licensed and insured, a very valuable tool in growing and will depend on numbers victims at City Hall. (SHCI), organized the recent professional limousine service. our community.” of children involved. As well, Federation President Leslie Inter-Faith Memorial Service for Vehicles will be comfortable The initiative has been driven steps will be taken to attempt Lasky believes these events Tsunami victims. As a result of enough for children to do by Dr. Jason Ohayon, a member to negotiate tuition subvention are important and positive her involvement the community homework, or even nap while of the Community Planning for those who are incurring reinforcement for Federation’s was asked to participate in the on their way to and from school. committee and a father of young transportation costs from initiatives in playing a more visible service. Currently, there are two children. Jason believes that this Hamilton. role in the larger community. Approximately 200 people common options for families initiative can be a success even if A follow-up meeting is “Two years ago, the Jewish gathered in City Hall to pay who are committed to providing it has only two or three children scheduled for March 7th, community would not have even homage to the Tsunami victims. day school education for their in the first year. “It’s like any 7:30PM at Adas Israel. All been invited to these events. This ecumenical gathering children. They can billet their other new thing. Some people interested parents from all Now, we are not only expected; reflected the full multi-faith children with Toronto families are hestitant to be first, but once schools are welcome to attend. we are expected to provide our character of Hamilton. First during the week while they its up and running the long term leadership and our expertise as Nations People, Buddhists, attend Toronto schools, or just prognosis is really very good.” well. This is a good thing.” Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, pick up and move to Toronto According to UJA Federation UJA Federation’s sponsorship Christians, Bahais and others so that it will stop being such of the Joshua Nelson Concert offered their prayers and wisdom a problem. Both options are put it in direct contact with the in helping to cope with the extremely disruptive as well as We Want to get you leadership of Hamilton’s Black aftermath of the disaster. Dr. expensive. community. As a result of that Lester Krames very appropriately Unfortunately for Hamilton, to israel this year! offered our Jewish voice. positive interaction, Federation a number of families choose to UJA Federation is pleased to announce the was invited to sit on the planning According to UJA Federation move to Toronto every year. availability of Israel Experience scholarship committee of the Martin Luther executive director, Gerald Fisher, This has lead to a steady loss of King Day Observances. One of “It was important that families with young children. funds for recognized high school and university the key players in this initiative is Lester’s message was delivered Analysis of recent census data level programs. These funds have been made Madeleine Levy. and important that it was heard. reveals that the Hamilton Jewish available through The Ralph Travis Israel Experience Madeleine was a co-chair of The more often we are visible community is slowly dropping Fund and UJA Federation. Scholarships are available and involved, the more likely the Joshua Nelson event. When in overall numbers. More up to a maximum of $500 and are subject to a UJA Federation was invited to it is that others will come to disturbing is the age distribution sit on the Martin Luther King understand and appreciate our number of criteria, outlilned on the application form. of our community, which shows • All candidates will be interviewed planning committee, Madeleine own uniqueness. This has been a significant increase in numbers a strategic goal of the Federation was asked to represent the Jewish over 65 and a drop of almost • Applications will be considered only from families Public Affairs Committee since community. Norma Jack was 50% in numbers of school age who have met their commitment for the 2005 UJA its inception. It is gratifying also recruited to help. The result children over the past ten years. campaign. For application forms call Christine Nusca to see that objective being was an event that was triple the According to Howard Brown, at 905-648-0605 ext 306 or email at cnuscauja@ size from the year before, as accomplished. Chair of the UJA Federation on.aibn.com. Deadline for submission is April 15, well as an opportunity for the Community Planning Page 4 The Hamilton Jewish News February 2005 - Shvat/Adar 5765

Community Focus

Poverty Statistics Alarming cont’d from pg1 program and food bank are that can begin to address this already stretched thin so we are urgent matter. looking for new ways to educate Lasky further commented the community of this very that the community’s ability to troubling situation.” address the issue is very much Young Leaders Step Up To The Plate UJA Federation President a function of the success of the What makes a leader? Sometimes, it’s as simple as noticing where there is a need and Leslie Lasky shares Ms UJA campaign. stepping in to fill a void. Such is the case with the following young women in the Roth’s sense of urgency and “We raise money to provide acknowledged that the results services for people who truly community who have recently stepped into leadership roles, simply because they felt a are alarming. need them. I couldn’t think of a personal sense of responsibility to take action. “UJA Federation’s work is more urgent reason for people to framed by three overarching give more generously in support Cindy Kam spent many happy summers attending JCC camps in her hometown, Toronto. themes: Rescue and Relief, of United Jewish Appeal.” When her children reached the appropriate age she looked forward to Strengthening Jewish Identity sending them to Camp Kadimah with the hope that their experiences and Assisting the Vulnerable. (For more details about there would mirror her own. But when the camp experienced staffing Our commitment to serving poverty in Hamilton, see Jewish problems last summer, as a camp committee member, Cindy felt she Jews in need is profound. With Social Services article, page 5) had to step up. “My kids love camp Kadimah”, she said. “When I drop this information in hand we will off them off in the morning and the counsellors come up to the car go forward with Jewish Social with a smile on their faces, saying ‘Good morning Jacob and Ezra’, Services in developing strategies you know it’s a warm loving environment. JCC camps, she added, “are about relationships and friendships and creating memories every single day.” When Ginny Levine asked Cindy to succeed her “The journey of 1000 miles as chair of the camp committee, she could not refuse. As a result begins with a single step.” of her efforts, the enrolment of this year’s Winter Camp program Cindy Kam increasedPassing to a remarkable 69 campers in thecomparison toTorch... last year’s 17. Amy Katz Martin and her And, with a little help from her friends, including Trudy Shore, who contributed to the cause husband, Tom Martin, have by designing a colourful and upbeat camp newsletter, she knows that this summer’s Camp stepped up to community Kadimah program will be a big success. Chairing the JCC camp programs is like having a full leadership in a big way: They time job, Cindy says, but she’s not complaining. The rewards are in seeing the happy faces of have taken on the role of her children and their fellow campers and knowing that she’s making a difference. co-chairs of the next Hamilton community mission to Israel, Like many good friends, Debbie Sheinbaum and Jill Gaffe can finish each other’s sentences. scheduled to take place The two joined forces last year to bring back the November 20 to 27, 2005. Hadassah WIZO bazaar to Hamilton after a 10-year Amy Katz Martin hiatus. The moment of decision came during a & Tom Martin “We want our children to see us Hadassah meeting last year, when they both made a doing the things we value”, Amy verbal commitment to revive the bazaar. Although said in a recent interview with the HJN. The Katz Martins both women already have huge demands on had hoped to participate in last fall’s mission but the timing their time – Sheinbaum is a psychiatrist with four wasn’t right. This year, they are determined not to put it off children, while Gaffe is very busy raising two active any longer. little boys with a full schedule of carpooling and volunteer work – bringing the Hadassah Bazaar “You can always find a way to put off important things like back to Hamilton felt like an important thing to going to Israel because life is too busy here”, she said, “and do. No small project, the bazaar took around 10 Jill Gaffe & Debbie Sheinbaum months to plan. “We were very focused, we had although it might be nice to lie on a beach somewhere, I a job to do and we got it done.” And the response hope to show my children how important it is to support from both within and outside the Jewish community was extremely positive. “The community Israel and demonstrate a commitment to Jewish values.” businesses were generous, happy to give us donations of product or auction items. We got a lot of support from our friends and women who had worked on the bazaar years ago came Amy, who spent a summer volunteering with Sarel in the out to help. It was truly a multi-generational community event and we ended up raising late 1980s and a year studying in the graduate Middle $30,000.” The most rewarding aspect of all, however, was knowing that they were setting an Eastern Studies Program at University, is thrilled example for their children. “Our kids were really proud and wanted to be part of the whole that Tom will be making his first trip. “Tom is, politically, thing,” they said, adding, “If you want something to be important to your children you have very astute and feels it’s important to see first-hand where to lead by example.” our donation dollars are going and where our heart is”, she said. Susan Waxman felt “a big emptiness” when she called the JCC The Katz Martins hope that their leadership will inspire last May and learned that there wasn’t going to be a Lag Ba’Omer friends and other community members to join them on the picnic. The annual picnic, conceived and organized by former Hamilton Hebrew Academy principal, Frank Samuels, was doomed, mission. “The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single it appeared, the moment Samuels and his family moved to Toronto step”, Amy said, and this journey is one they hope will be a year and a half ago. Waxman hung up the phone, stunned and shared by many of their peers. disappointed. But ten minutes later she called back and told Joy Foster that next year, the program was going to happen and that she would chair it. Like so many others before her, Waxman was not Yoga prepared to let a great program die because of a lack of volunteers. “We’re a volunteer-driven community”, she said, “and people who complain that there’s ‘nothing’ going on in the community, don’t realize that events can’t run without them.” The challenge of Susan Waxman organizing a multi-generational, community-wide event that includes a huge barbeque, bonfire and fireworks is, she admits, somewhat daunting, but she is hopeful that her enthusiasm will inspire others to get involved.

The Chaimovitz family has chaired the JCC’s Yom Ha’atzmaut program for over ten years and Racheli, 25, has been involved as long as she can remember. Last year, for the first time, she co-chaired the program along with her father, Moishe. Following in her father’s footsteps is clearly an important value to her. “Because Israel is so close to my heart”, she said, “it is important to me to be a part of this program and to learn from my father.” This year, Racheli is chairing the event on her own, which will involve coordinating a broad-based committee Gentle, all levels and intermediate and overseeing an event that is expected to attract over 400 people. classes taught in the Iyengar Tradition The rewards for her are built in: spending quality time with family members and helping the community to celebrate Israel. But, as Ashtanga Classes taught on Racheli Chaimovitz with anyone taking on a leadership position, the biggest challenge Thursday evenings & Sunday Mornings is inspiring others. “We really appreciate our volunteers and I hope that this year younger people will come out so they can be more involved in the events Call Wendy Schneider at 905.628.0058 that are so important to all of us.” February 2005 - Shvat/Adar 5765 The Hamilton Jewish News Page 5

Beneficiary Agencies Poverty in the Jewish Community Jewish Social Services by Carol Krames Jewish children in Hamilton live send an item for the food bank. director, jewish Social Services JSS Workshop Goes High Tech below the poverty line. The Every item helps. Anyone dropping in to see the Jewish Social Services “workshop” There are enough people “poverty line” refers to the cut 4. drop off food at the at the JCC any Monday or Thursday morning will have a very living in poverty in Hamilton off when people need to spend JCC front desk or leave your pleasant surprise. The former workshop has evolved into highly to fill Copps coliseum five times more than half of their income donation on the lower level technical training. With the recent purchase of two computers – 20% or 93,370 of Hamilton on basic necessities such as where the Food Bank is located. workshop participants are now learning computer skills by Suzanne residents live below the poverty food, shelter and clothing. It is 5. at holiday times, buy Goldflus, a trained and dedicated teacher. The JSS computer line. obvious then that any extra costs some extra food and leave it program is open to any adult who would like to learn or upgrade Over the past ten years income such as medication, education for us to pick up at Hamilton their computer skills.JSS has also acquired a big screen television levels in Hamilton, among low or kosher food put put extreme Kosher or Westdale Deli, or that has 150 channels, enabling Russian speaking members of our and middle income groups have strain on these families. make a financial donation to community to see the latest programming from Israel, Russia and not kept up with the increased Without the help of Jewish Jewish Social Services. other countries. cost of housing taxes, utilizes, Social Services and the Kosher 6. Purchase Jewish Social In another classroom, in our English as a Second Language and food and other basics of life. Food Bank, our Jewish poor Service tribute cards for both literacy classes, the walls are decorated with complicated jigsaw Over these years the poorest could not afford to eat. The happy and sad occasions by puzzles that our members have been working on together. We also 60% of the population have following is a list of creative calling 905-648-0605, ext 325. offer knitting, refreshments, and holiday celebrations. seen a decrease in their already ways to donate to the Kosher With everyone’s help we can Our workshop participants look forward to spending their meager incomes. Food Bank: help our vulnerable population mornings with Jewish Social Services. If you or someone you know What many people do not 1. at your child’s birthday put food on the table. are interested in participating call us at 905-648-0605, ext 325 or recognize is that our Jewish parties ask your guests to bring send an email to [email protected]. community in Hamilton food instead of toys. Popular shares the same percentage of choices are breakfast cereals, Personalized Tribute cards for Purim economically disadvantaged juices,peanut butter, jam, tuna As hard as it is to believe, with the New Year barely upon us, people as the population at large. fish, crackers, grape juice, gefilte Hamilton Jewish Purim lurks around the corner! And with Purim, Hamilton Jewish What this means in practical fish, chicken soup mixes, and Social Services Social Services is again offering for sale Purim cards and make it terms is that many people have matza ball mixes. One mother easy for you and your family to observe the custom of Mishloach to skimp on basic necessities had her children’s friends is looking for a Manot, by making a contribution to the Kosher Food Bank, which such as food so that they can bring toiletries, shampoo and television in good is currently in great need. By fulfilling your Purim Mitzvah, you pay their rent. toothpaste. will directly be helping to feed those in need in Hamilton. Perhaps, the most devastating 2. When celebrating working condition. The personalized and attractive tribute cards may be purchased aspect of the growing poverty a bar or bat mitzvah, make Please call Carol Krames at for $3 or 18 for $36. Tribute cards can also be sent for any dilemma in Hamilton is centrepieces of kosher food for 905.648.0605 to donate. occasion: birthdays, congratulations condolences, celebrations, its impact on our children. the Food Bank. anniversaries, or even to just say hello. To order cards call Carol According to analysis of the 2001 3. When having a meeting Krames at 905-648-0605, ext 325 or send us an email at Carol_ census, approximately 22% of or sending your child to school [email protected]. Visa is accepted.

Author dedicates profits from novel to Kosher Food Bank Dr. Michael Schweitzer’ recently published book, “The Ashes of Alladag” (Manor House Publishing, Dec. 2004) is the second in his trilogy adventure series, the first of which was “The Curse of Garnel Ironheart”. The Ashes of Alladag begins ten years after fowler & associates the end of the first book, its plot filled with mystery, betrayal and war. The Talmud tells us that “Lust, honour and glory drive a person from this world.” Our old friends from the first Private Client Financial Services book – Khazav, Arian, Ritchar Oa-neth and Don-zee, embark on a quest for the truth of this proverb. Follow our heroes as Complete Investment & Estate Planning circumstances beyond their control and the plotting of a powerful evil bring them back together again to fight for survival. Copies of the book are available at the Hamilton Kosher Butcher Shop, Scott Thomson Dwight A. Fowler Shane Fowler with all proceeds going to the Kosher Food Bank. Over the years Investment Executive Director Investment Executive the Hamilton Kosher Food Bank has evolved into a permanent structure on which many families depend on to survive. Keeping it well-stocked is a challenge and funds raised are used to stock our Tel: (905) 570-7965 shelves. Enjoy a great book and support a worthy cause! Toll Free: 1-800-461-5842 Fax: (905) 570-7989 Midrasha High School Proud Sponsor of www.jewishhamilton.org TM Trademark used under authorization and control of The Bank of Nova Scotia. ScotiaMcLeod is a division of Scotia Capital Inc., Member CIPF. The following Midrasha students were asked the following two questions:1) What are the benefits to taking a Midrasha course? 2) What do you like about the course you are taking this year? Sari Richter (Grade 12 Comparative Philosophy): It’s really interesting to continue your Jewish education. (About Comparative Philosophy Grade 12) The people who teach are really qualified for the job and are really personable as well. Josh Goldberg (Grade 12 Hebrew, and Grade 12 Comparative Philosophy): One of the major benefits for me is that I can still stay connected to the Jewish community and Modern Jewish thought. My mind has developed a lot from the philosophy and my Hebrew as well. Daniel Ennis (Topics 4 Teens) It increases political awareness and open mindedness to other people. (Benefits of Midrasha): We’re able to get back together with our friends. Another benefit of Midrasha is furthering Jewish learning. Jennifer Waxman (Grade 10 Hebrew): I feel it is an opportunity to see other Jewish kids and associate with them. It’s a time to focus upon your culture. It ties me back to Judaism and back to the community. (What I like about taking the Hebrew course): I feel that I am getting the language back, especially because I haven’t taken it in a few years. I am also getting the (Israeli/Jewish) culture and it makes me feel good to know that I am doing something once a week associated with my culture. Page 6 The Hamilton Jewish News February 2005 - Shvat/Adar 5765

Jewish Life 2005 Likely To Be the Biggest and Best Ever By Lawrence Hart attracted more interest than ever opportunity that they will never The second Maccabiah terrorist threats of any kind. In July of this year, about before, with 11 athletes having forget. There is something in the Games, in 1935, attracted larger For the delegations that 6,000 Jewish athletes from met extremely tough qualifying spirit of Maccabi that goes to the numbers than the first, with 1700 attended the Games of 2001, over 50 countries will arrive in standards. All in all, we’ve selected very core of Jewish experience athletes competing. The third Canada among them, those ten Israel for the Games of the 17th six basketball teams across the and Jewish identity. Maccabiah was planned for 1938 days of competition will long Maccabiah. And Team Canada various age categories. We also The Maccabi Movement, and but with war clouds looming in be remembered. The sense of will again be among the larger have accomplished athletes on our the Games that carry its banner, Europe, a decision was made to kinship, of Am Israel, was both contingents at the Games. Almost soccer, rugby, volleyball, softball, have been an integral part of the postpone them. powerful and energizing. Each all of our athletes and coaches golf, swimming, waterpolo and Zionist vision for almost 100 The third Games eventually of us left with a pledge to return have now been selected and, karate teams. years. The concept of the Games took place in 1950 - and were a in 2005 with the biggest and funds permitting, we will likely Of our total numbers, 117 began, in fact, with the fantasies bittersweet testament to both the best teams we could possibly have more than 375 participants are juniors (under 18) and for of a Jewish teenager. Yosef tragedy and the resilience of the muster - to again demonstrate in Israel this summer. Add to many of them this will be their Yekutieli, a 15 year old, was so Jewish people. On the one hand, our solidarity with Israel and its this an unprecedented level of first trip to Israel. What an inspired by news of the 1912 there was cause for celebration. people. Times would be better interest from among families of amazing experience it promises to Olympic Games in Stockholm These were, after all, the first by then, we all hoped, and so the athletes and other supporters be. Who knows whether among that he began obsessing on the Games held in an independent they are. and our numbers will likely them will be the next Mark Spitz notion of a worldwide Olympics State of Israel. Lawrence Hart is National increase to 500 or more. or Lenny Krayzelberg or Kerry for Jewish athletes in Eretz Israel. But on the other hand, how President of Maccabi Canada. This might well be the biggest Strug, all international sports For 10 years he grappled with could there be any celebration He was chief physician to the team that we’ve ever sent to the stars who started off as Maccabi what was then considered a crazy in the wake of the catastrophe Canadian team that attended Maccabiah Games. It might athletes. idea, working out all kinds of that had just so recently befallen the 1997 and 2001 Maccabiah also turn out to be the best. Ask anyone what it was like to details, plans, and formulas on European Jewry? Only 800 Games. This year he plans to We have in our ranks Alexandra march in the opening ceremonies how to make his seemingly wild athletes, from 17 countries, compete in the (masters) half- Wosniak and Sharon Fichman, of any previous Maccabiah dream a reality. among them the first delegation marathon. Other participants for example, both of them Games and you’ll see in their eyes By sheer perseverance, from Canada, were in attendance. from the Hamilton area who have ranked among the top women a glint of nostalgia that reflects Yekutieli was able to eventually Gone was any representation been selected to the Canadian tennis players in Canada today. their warm memories of what persuade the Zionist leaders of from the previously huge Jewish team include Shauna Eisenberg Our track and field team has was for them a once in a lifetime the day that his proposal had communities of Central and (women’s basketball), David merit and, in 1932, the very first Eastern Europe. Bender (junior baseball), Stephen B’nai Brith Sports Dinner Gift Maccabiah Games took place in Because accommodations Raphael (men’s basketball) and to purchase treadmill for JCC Tel Aviv. 390 athletes from and resources were in such short Larry Kahn (triathlon). David 14 countries took part in the supply at the time, athletes were Bromstein, a member of the inaugural Games. housed in a tented recreation National Athletics Committee Communications in those park – previously a British Army of Maccabi Canada will also be days were obviously nothing camp -- on the Tel Aviv seashore. accompanying the team, as chief like what we have today so, to The Games of the fourth chaperone for the juniors. Also promote the Games, Jewish Maccabiah were held in 1953 selected to the men’s basketball motorcyclists set out from Tel and since then competitions team is Ben Katz, a McMaster Aviv and, after ferrying their bikes have taken place at four yearly student and southwest Ontario to Greece, they then drove almost intervals, always scheduled one universities’ MVP in 2004. 10,000 kilometres across Europe, year after the summer Olympics. Sending our team to Israel visiting all of the larger Jewish With each successive Maccabiah, is a very costly, but enormously communities and spreading the up until 2001, the number of worthwhile, undertaking. message of the ‘Jewish Olympics’. participants has increased. Anyone wishing to contribute to And while bringing athletes to However, the Games of 2001 the sponsorship of our Canadian Israel was one thing, providing reversed the trend - and regrettably national team can contact Dr. them with facilities was quite so. With the Palestinian uprising Hart at [email protected] or call another. But nothing would deter at its height, the Maccabiah that the Maccabi Canada office in these devoted sports pioneers. was gearing up to set registration Toronto at 416.398.0515 They ran the shorter running and attendance records almost distances on a makeshift track didn’t take place at all. But take of crushed coal cinders provided place it did, even with drastically by railwaymen, competed over reduced numbers. Dubbed the longer distances through the “guts and glory games”, the 2001 streets of Tel Aviv and along Maccabiah served as a showcase B’nai Brith sports night committee representatives Kyle Foster (far left) and Brent Clifford (far right) are seen here presenting a $3000 the beach, and swam and played to the world. It sent a resounding contribution toward a treadmill for the JCC fitness room. Accepting waterpolo in the port waters of message that Jews, regardless of the donation is JCC president, Howard Eisenberg. Haifa in an area demarcated by where they come from, will not rowboats and buoys. bow to anti-Zionist incitement or

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Community Triage Mengele: Black Humour in the Emergency Ward The Jewish National Fund of Hamilton This month the HJN presents nurse‚s uniform, since surgery, sufficient to stem the panic and is proud to announce that the an essay by London, Ontario radiation, chemotherapy haven’t the cough. I am thoughtfully Keynote Speaker for the resident Vic Elias, whose even begun for this hacking provided with a short lesson how poetry and prose have been spitting overweight fool with a to fight such panic in the future. leaky fluid nerfball sticking from Because it was panic after all; 2005 Negev Dinner published in literary journals his lung. Here’s a receptacle for the triage nurse is not fooled will be and anthologies in Canada the sputum sir, please keep it off by acting talent, only prayer. and the US. This particular the floor if you can and have a She is clearly aggravated at Alan M. Dershowitz essay appears in the collection, seat by the TV. my discharge. The discharged Drinking with Old Men, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Coughs are both fakeable patient walks out the emergency Law at Harvard Law School. published by SouthWetern and panic-driven, no blood is room doors embarrassingly yet evident, just indisputable robust, to embrace the sounds The Dinner will be held on Of course necessary, this untreated lung cancer on the of a summer night in place of May 16, 2005. sorting between treatment and chart. Poor fellow, this panicker. the drones and beeps within the the waiting room. A few get We’ll wait for serious bright emergency room doors. A highlight for the evening in through acting talent... so blood to flow before letting So the prayer I said for will be a 60th Anniversary the triage nurse is something him in. Code - what colour is truth was an evident falsehood, Tribute to the of a reverse talent scout. Some that? Red (ha ha). Too close an irresponsible ploy to flim- Survivors of the Shoah. stay out through despair, and to shift’s end to really care. No flam an overtired triage nurse, she knows there is little point announcement really necessary an unethical deceit that kept Watch for more information wasting time on those who have for this guy. someone else outside under the or call 905 527-5516 given up already. Musselmen At the check-in desk, the one oversized television longer than staring at late night television for the plastic health cards and necessary, maybe too much with monotonous sound, waiting the wrist bands, Hebrew words longer. sullenly for their names until come rapidly to my lips with But it was my prayer, and it Quartet from Israel Coming in February they slump over in their chairs false fluency but honest daily was an answered one. One of the most exciting in Hamilton are Beethoven, in unnatural poses. They are familiarity. Distress in another So you choose - better you quartets to emerge in the musical Prokofiev, MacMillan, and obviously in the right place after language (French of course than triage Mengele. A prayer firmament to-day is the AVIV Tchaikovsky. all, candidates for half-hearted excepted) by an ordinary white against falsehood beguiled my QUARTET from Israel. The concert on Saturday, revivals on the other side, for Canadian in a t-shirt and jeans is way to competent reassurance. I The AVIV is being brought February 26th, 2005 at 8:00 pm colour code announcements over not easily triagable. The security came home with the same lung to Hamilton as part of Chamber is at the Hamilton Conservatory the ER public address system cop is uneasy. The sputum is cancer I had at my entry, but Music Hamilton’s 2004-05 for the Arts Recital Hall, 126 that fool absolutely no one. rolling precariously over the otherwise healed. My lips spoke Concert Series. James Street South, Hamilton. Ambulances line up, it’s a edge of the bowl I grip shakily. guile they prayed not to speak. The Aviv Quartet was founded Tickets are $27 regular, $22 for busy night, and frightened cargo The waiting room denizens To a God who saved me. in 1997 in Israel. Since that seniors, and $13 for students. are admitted one by one, the are perking up and interest For one more night. If the time they have been the winners For further information, contact fixable quick to be fixed, the in the television has vanished cough comes again, I’ll choose of countless international Molly Ann Schwarcz at 905- bleeding quick to be passed completely. I mean, this guy, another emergency room. Triage Music Competitions in Europe 521-8803 or schwarcz @ from sight. Beeps, buzzers, me, is erupting in bursts of Mengele does the night shift at and . The featured sympatico.ca. electronic hums, fill the room, strange words and fluid. St. Joe’s, and she is on to me. In composers to be performed these mechanical sounds of The Hebrew works - I’m in bad dreams I hear the emergency life‚s absence. It is bright, never - saved for one more night - by room TV drone endlessly, real Hamilton Hebrew Academy and Juvenile night here, but never really alive. a strangled prayer of one who and hard as soap. Diabetes co-sponsor Fred Penner fundraiser Airport lounges always seemed says it on a daily basis. Funny, Stone soap. to me to be a bit like this, with though, what the words actually Children’s musical artist children with diabetes. Families their vapid oversized televisions, mean that pass my panic cough Vic Elias is a Professor of FRED PENNER will be with children who have diabetes though in airports death is past triage Mengele: “My God, Applied Mathematics at appearing at Sir John A. will be provided with free tickets necessarily believed to be much keep my lips from speaking guile. the University of Western Macdonald Secondary School to the concert and the special more remote. Dante understood Which, of course, is exactly what Ontario. A native Chicagoan, Theater, Hamilton, Ontario story time. Ticket prices general waiting rooms; he was the first to my lips have done, at least for Vic immigrated to Canada in 130 York Boulevard Hamilton, for admission are $18 for adults write about one. her. The words admit me to 1979 and has lived in London, Ontario on Sunday, April 10th and $15 for children. Then there is me, the big wet the other side where the cooling Ontario since 1985 with his 2005. The Fred Penner Concert Proceeds will support The cougher, the lung cancer guy, words of a nurse who used to wife, poet/theatre person/singer for Children is sponsored by Hamilton Hebrew Academy. panic symptoms all between his do oncology, the comfort of a D’vorah Elias. the Hamilton Hebrew Academy, Funds will also support the ears, not a good bet for the long careful and professional throat with part of the proceeds to Juvenile Diabetes Research haul, thinks the triage Mengele and chest examination, the all- support the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Canada. Call Anne in her less than well pressed clear of a convincing expert prove Research Foundation. Martin at JDRF (905) 333-4660 Fred Penner will be or Andrea Zians (905) 308 7647 performing 2 concerts at 1:00 to reserve free tickets for the pm, and 4:00 pm, and will concert and the private story also be providing two special session. story time shows exclusively for Legendary Platters & Friends to perform at Benefit Concert The Legendary Platters, one The man behind this concert is of the most beloved singing the remarkable Andy McDonald, groups of the 1960s, will be who inherited his mitochondrial thrilling the audience with disease from his mother. He their glorious rhythms and worships at Temple Anshe harmonies, on Saturday, April Sholom, and sees this fund-raiser 2nd at Hamilton Place at 8:00 as an act of Tzedakah in honour pm, with all proceeds going to of his upcoming conversion to help patients at the McMaster Judaism. University Medical Centre’s The host for the evening is fledgling Mitochondrial Disease Allan Gould, the Toronto-based Clinic. humourist and author (www. Okay, okay, you know allangould.com), whose books and love the fabulous tunes of include The Unorthodox Book the 60s, but what on earth is of Jewish Records and Lists (a Mitochondrial Disease? May loving, ethnic parody of the you never know it personally: it Guinness Books of Records) does to the human body what Tickets for the show are the Great Blackout of August, $37.50 (seniors 60+ $27.00) 2003 did to Hamilton: it can and can be purchased by call shut down up to half of one’s ing Andy McDonald at 905- energy-producing facilities, 524-1951 or email csaoandy@ impairing the brain, dimming yahoo.ca. vision,, weakening the heart. February 2005 - Shvat/Adar 5765 The Hamilton Jewish News Page 9

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Beating the Winter Blahs at the HHA Lives Remembered by have to do laundry every night so function as a unit with students aaron lax Andrea Zians that my children can wear their ranging in age from 5-13. I awoke to the chanting of team colors to school every day. Maccabiah is also about good Born, February 13, 1950 in Hamilton. “Think Pink, Think Pink”. My If you venture into the sportsmanship. My children told Died on November 12, 2004 in Hamilton. house was in an uproar. My son Academy this week you will not me the rules. You can say your team in grade 6 was looking for any hear the sounds of winter. You is the best. You can even say your Aaron was best known in the item of clothing that was red. My will think that you have been team will win, but DON’T EVER community as the bearer of the Israeli 9 year old was looking through transported to a summer camp. SAY SOMEONE ELSE’S TEAM flag at the annual UJA Walkathon. her brother’s things for something You will notice and become IS BAD!!!!! Bad sportsmanship He loved sports, especially basketball green. amazed by the amount of kids all might cost your team points. Fair “What is going on?” asked my color coordinated to match their play, and sportsmanlike behavior which he played regularly at the JCC incredulous husband. teammates. You will hear loud is developed and fostered during and the YMCA. He could whip “It’s Maccabiah!” came the cheering and, sing song. You will Maccabiah. most of us at free throws or twenty- resounding reply. see kids playing sports, matching Maccabiah at the HHA is about one and one of the highlights of his It has been absolutely freezing wits during relay races and joining creativity. Songs, cheers, and skits career was a Cable 14 televised game outside. The days have been together in team meetings. Step are created and performed by each of our Old-timer’s game where he short, gray, and cold. All of us into the HHA and you might get team. Each team is given a color was featured driving for a lay-up and breaking the ice for his have been dragging just to get knocked over by the ruach, and and a specific Jewish theme. The team. through the day. I can barely get excitement. teams generate ideas and perform The JCC was an important part of his life and for over twenty my kids of out bed in the morning But don’t think Maccabiah throughout the week for each five years he proudly attended the annual Max Rotman Youth to face another day of knee high is just about screaming, singing other. Award Ceremony to hand out thprograms. He was equally snow in –25 degree weather. My and running. At the Hamilton I remember my days at proud of his connection with the Adas Israel Shul where he kids are sick of math tests and Hebrew Academy, Maccabiah is the HHA when I was young. book reports. so much more. I heard my son in Maccabiah was my favorite time regularly attended and many times walked over in foul weather This week it will be different. grade 6 tell my other children that of year. I can relate to my kids’ when called upon to make a minyan. Even when his eyesight This week the winter blues will he was helping the grade 1 students excitement. I don’t mind washing deteriorated he somehow managed to walk on his own to be banished. My kids will rush to on his team learn the words of the their pink, or green, or red t-shirt synagogue. get up so they can get to school on team song. My daughter in grade each and every night of this week. As with the rest of his family he was a very strong supporter time for Maccabiah. There will 1 told me that her team captain After all how often does the dead of the State of Israel and would pass on to his friends the news be constant singing of team songs from grade 8 was the best captain, of winter get to seem so summery? events of the day. It is befitting that upon his death Aaron was at the breakfast table and on the and now her friend. Maccabiah buried beside his parents on a hill overlooking . trip to school. Their voices will brings the entire school together in As a young man Aaron worked with his father, the late Morris be hoarse from cheering, and I will a fun, organized manner. Teams Lax, at his scrap yard and took pride in his role in assisting with Chazak v’ematz, an outreach Jewish deliveries where he could use his fine strength. When his health Jewish Genealogical Society support group has been established for amputees to receive chizuk and deteriorated he continued to work at a workshop at Allan Candy to help potential amputees adjust and would proudly call us to report on his daily production. He The Jewish Genealogical questions a go. Perhaps they’ll be to life. We meet twice a year at had a terrific sense of humour and enjoyed kibitzing with his Society – Hamilton and Area able to help you!! Meetings are Baycrest cafeteria for a light meal friends. He loved playing the lottery and had uncanny luck with is starting 2005 with a new held at Temple Anshe Sholom and discuss new products and his tickets. website. It can be seen at www. and begin at 7:30 with a Meet prosthetic dvices that come to the He worked hard every year to raise money for the UJA jgsh.org. Not even a year old, & Greet which is followed by market. For confidential support, Walkathon. Each spring he would start calling early, looking this group is working hard to announcements and then the call Ruth Eva Strauss in the for the sponsor sheets and would take great pleasure in reporting grow in ways that will assist their speaker. For more information evenings at 416-783-3717 or email on his total pledges as the day of the walkathon drew near, members to pursue their family call Hazel at 905-524-3345. [email protected]. and almost always raised the most funds. On the day of the history research. It seems they walkathon he proudly led the way, carrying the Israeli flag, rarely are doing something right as the membership has grown to resting, even in recent years when we wondered how he could the current 32 members. The complete the walk let alone carry the flag. At this past year’s plan is for the website to grow as walk he was extremely tired and was finally forced to take a ride well and links and information when he neared the end. He was so upset; however, that he was will be added throughout the allowed to get back out of the van in order to finish on foot. year. The group’s membership Aaron taught us much about courage, determination and in The International Association pride and his memory should be an inspiration for us to carry on of Jewish Genealogical Societies when we don’t think we can go any further. (IAJGS) gives them access to additional resources worldwide. The March 9th meeting will feature speaker Barry Rosen who Sari Richter will give us a multi-media review of one of the key books of Jewish Genealogical research, Jewish Roots in Poland by Miriam Weiner. At each meeting, and at the McCann Professional Dog Trainers conclusion of each speaker’s presentation, the group’s “panel of experts” will give any research 1-888-681-7877 There’s No Business Like More Than 40,000 Shul Business Family Pet Owners Trained! 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Community HHA Raises Funds for Tsunami Relief

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Yashar Koach to Hamilton Hebrew Academy students, who raised approximately $700 for the UJA Federation Tsunami relief fund. Pictured above (left to right) are: Rafi Zians, Samara Strub, Melissa Woolfson, Josh Friedland, Chava Starkman, Tova Lavin, Ariel Lavin and Reid Waxman.

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In Memory Of HELEN CHEESEMAN: Bill Forester. HILDA BLUESTEIN: Gerry Quitt. MEL DULBERG: Mrs. Troy Liser; Joe & Anne Scardonnajilia; Harold & Jo-Anne Pomerantz and Family; Ida Shuman; Lorraine & Alan Kudlats; Sidra Rosen. MALKA RATNOFF: Anita Smurlick. CARROL WASSERMAN: Harold & Jo-Anne Pomerantz. DR. ELLARD EPPEL: Brenda & Sol Sandberg. AL OSSEA: Shelia & David Burman; Ida Shuman; Dorothy Rosenthal; Minna Loewith; Bessie Goldblatt; Jack & Barbara Katz; Myrle Cwitco; Joan Silverman; Didi Dulberg; Ernie Tarr; Lily Buchalter; Frances Minden; Esther Orsey; Molly Aron & Sam Yanover; Ethel Levy; Jerome & Maureen Bergart; Myrna & Gordie Goldberg; Ida & Ben Sussman; Mel & Dorothy Cohen; Marcia & Gord Brandes; Gloria & Les Roefe; Gary & Ieta Waxman; Anna Taylor, JERRY COOPER: Staff & Board of Directors at Shalom Village; Pat Morden; Joan Silverman. GRANDMOTHER OF JEANETTE O’LEARY: Staff & Board of Directors at Shalom Village. LOTTE CONLON: Staff & Board of Directors at Shalom Village; Pat Morden; William & Denise Mason; Carmen Gocante; Prof. Brian Merrilees; Norman & Doris Lane; Nils & Ursula Hawssmann; June Edith Johnson; Lind & Suzanne Crosta; Karl & Jolanda Dinner; Elaine Couper; Marlene & Bernie Gelber; Ruth Blumstock; Rosalind Homer; Eva Foster; Geoffrey & Judith Briggs; Dr. Paul F. Botheroyd. BEATRICE LANDGARTEN: Staff & Board of Directors at Shalom Village; Pat Morden; Oded & Louise Klinghoffer; Jo-Anne & Harold Pomerantz; Harry & Malka Rosenbaum. MOTHER OF MARY MCCONNELL: Sally Lax, NAT LIEBERMAN: Anita Smurlick. FATHER OF KATHY AUSSEM: Helen Goldstein & Liz Lesser; Miriam Lebow; Abe Latner; Vicky Bach; Marsha & Bill Halpren; Joan Silverman; Barbara Katz; Ruebe & Mary Levy; Frances Silver; Edie Rochkin; Yetta Krakower; Dorothy Adler; Aaron Shiffman; Lou & Sophie Berenbaum. NANCY KATZ: Harvey & Shelley Waxman; Tanya Mayer; Marcia & Gord Brandes. HENRY WEINBERG: Ethel Levy and Family. MOTHER OF ROD RODERICK: Pat & Doug Morden and Family; Residents & Staff of Shalom Village. MOLLY EPPEL: Gloria & Les Roefe, FATHER OF ROY THORNE: Shelley, Tammy & Lisa – Goldie’s Place; Staff & Residents of Shalom Village. MOTHER OF HENRY & PAULA SHEDLASKY: Marlene Ziser; Marcia & Stephen Barrs. MOTHER OF DR. ALEX & MARGIE KROENWALD: Marcia & Stephen Barrs. SONNY WACHMAN: Edie Rochkin; Barbara Katz; Rose Fleischer; Dorothy Adler; Yetta Krakower; Lil & Harry Silverstein. ARNOLD SANDLER: Friends and Colleagues of Dr. Samantha Sandler at the Department of Medicine, Scarborough General Hospital. KEN KELMAN: Lotti & Dave Redner; Joan Epstein, AARON LAX: Lily Silverstein; Board of Directors & Staff of Shalom Village; Staff & Members of Goldie’s Place; Pat Morden; Jack & Barbara Katz and Family; Michael & Pam Taylor; Marcia & Gord Brandes. MOTHER OF GAIL & STEPHEN VICTER: Jacki Wasserman. IRWIN LYONS: Evelyn & Lew Ross. HILDA JESSEL: Evelyn & Lew Ross, MICHAEL LEVINSON: Pat Morden; Staff & Residents of Shalom Village; Board of Directors of Shalom Village; Soula; Joe & Joy Rochwerg; Molly Beube Schweid; Abe Latner; Lorraine & Alan Kudlats; David & Norma Wright; Jerry Quitt, JACK ROSEN: Paul & Helen Hanover; Yetta & Zollie Freeman; Fanny & Ben Davine; Jack & Barbara Katz and Family; Didi Dulberg; Edie Rochkin; Ruby & Al Berns; Board of Directors & Staff of Shalom Village; Gert Goldblatt; Yaffe & Fisch Families; Jo-Anne & Harold Pomerantz; Lore Jacobs; Alan & Lorraine Kudlats; Emil Black; Frank Lebow; Norman & Blanche Levitt; Charlie Eber; Susanne Slansky; Shirley Weddum; Sam Yanover; Ruth & Sam Rosenblatt; Natalie Strub. ROBIN HERMAN: Jack & Barbara Katz and Family. DOROTHY BECKHAM: The Benjamin Foundation, GORDON DOYLE: Cathy McDowell; Ray Rosenberg; Lee Cohen; Didi Dulberg; Jack & Barbara Katz and Family; Dorothy Rosenthal; Merle Cwitco; Bess Goldblatt; Dorothy Adler; Gert Goldblatt; Colleen Clementi; Claire Bloom; Anita Smurlick, ROSE KAY: Harry & Anne Kwitco. MOTHER OF SONIA JACOBS: Ron & Ann Barrs. HANNAH FELDMAN: Donna & Henry Vine; Sheila Katz & Hart Katz; Lexie & Bob Rego; Annette Wunder & Gloria Wunder; Ann & Richard Seymour; Lois Levy & Nancy Levy; Honey & Gary Chertkoff; Al & Ruby Berns; Yetta Krakower; Irma & Philip Perelgut; Gwen & Harvey Schwab; Anna Taylor; Board of Directors & Staff of Shalom Village; Shirley & Hilton Silberg; Roz & Jerry Zikman; Mark & Patricia Morgenstein; Regency Travel; Ron Berenbaum; Aaron Shiffman; Rose Fleischer; Anne & Richard Seymour; Rose Halpren; Hynda & Murray Halpren. SAM CHERNS: Frank Lebow; Honey & Gary Chertkoff. NORMAN ANKER: Rose Fleischer; Rita Parent; Bernice Astrum; Sophie Berenbaum; Esther Alexander; Mary & Reube Levy. RACHEL NADOLNY: Susan & Judah Denburg. SALLY LEES: Miriam Lebow; Jack & Barbara Katz and Family. ALAN FRANK: The Benjamin Foundation. RELATIVE OF LARRY SONNENBERG: Joan & Shelley Silverman. FLORENCE YAFFE: Lil Cohen. Congratulations ARTHUR WEISZ- INDUCTION TO GALLARY OF DISTINCTION: Board of Directors & Staff of Shalom Village; Eric & Marsha Slavens; Michael & Pam Taylor; Joe & Joy Rochwerg; Pat & Doug Morden; Dr. Chris Bart; Judy Rosen; Molly (Beube) Schweid; Herbert & Marti Marcus. BEN SUSSMAN – FOR GOOD WORK IN VOLUNTEERING: Marlene & Bernie Gelber; Minna Loewith, TOM & SASHA WEISZ, DAVID & DANNA HORWOOD – BIRTH OF GRANDCHILD: ROCHELLE WAXMAN – JAY’S ENGAGEMENT TO SHEILA: Jo-Anne & Harold Pomerantz, EDIE ROCHKIN, SHELLEY & HARVEY WAXMAN – JAY’S ENGAGEMENT TO SHEILA: Jo-Anne & Harold Pomerantz. CORRAINE & HARRY GLANZ – BIRTH OF TWIN GRANDSONS: Yetta Krakower DR. IAN SPENSER – HONORARY DOCTORATE AT MCMASTER: Pat Morden; Board of Directors of Shalom Village, LORI SCHINDEL MARTIN – DOCTORATE: Aaron Shiffman, RALPH & BEV ORMAN – MARCI’S ENGAGEMENT: Jo-Anne & Harold Pomerantz, DENNIS & JUDY SCHWARTZ – ORA’S ENGAGEMENT: Jo-Anne & Harold Pomerantz. PHYLIS BAKER: Gert Price. HENRY & MARY SELDON – 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Richard & Doris Popper. AARON & BECKY STIGLICK – 60TH ANNIVERSARY: Hanna Popper; Frank Lebow. RUTH & HERB TOBIS – 50TH ANNIVERSARY: Edie Rochkin. DOROTHY & NATE SHERMAN – 60TH ANNIVERSARY: Didi Dulberg; Jack & Barbara Katz and Family; Frances Silver, MICHAEL EPSTEIN – BECOMING A JUDGE: Joan & Shelley Silverman. BETTY ANN COHEN: Jack & Barbara Katz and Family, ADELINE COHEN: Bev Sobel & Goldie Robbins, JEREMY GOLDBERG & KAREN SAPERSON AND FAMILY: Ron & Ann Barrs. Thank You BARBARA KATZ: Sonny Caplan, DIDI DULBERG: Sonny Caplan, MINNA LOEWITH: Ida & Ben Sussman. Birthday DR. FRANK SEGER: Hanna Faulkner, ANITA SMURLICK: Dorothy Rosenthal; Molly (Beube) Schwab, GERRY GOLDBLATT: Anita Smurlick; Bessie Goldblatt, MARVIN NEKRICH: Freda & Seymour Rosenfeld, SYLVIA KAIMAN: Harold & Chava Segaloweitz, MINNA LOEWITH: Anita Smurlick. Get Well MARYANNE SEGER: Hanna Faulkner; Minna Loewith, MOLLY BEUBE: Lotti & David Redner; Joan Epstein, ELLIOT RAPHAEL: Howard & Jo-Anne Bernstein; Didi Dulberg; Bess Goldblatt; Sharon Levy; Jo-Anne & Howard Pomerantz, HARRY MAIDEN: Minna Loewith, ANNA SZPIRGLAS: Jo-Anne & Harold Pomerantz, DR. MAX NATHAN: Len & Elaine Miller; Hynda & Murray Halpren; Anna Taylor, RUTH ROSENBLATT: Margaret & Arthur Weisz; Dorothy Rosenthal; Joan Epstein; Sally Lax; Minna Goodman; Dave & Lotti Redner; Norman & Blanche Levitt, ROSYLN TAKEFMAN: Sally Lax; Lotti & Dave Redner, HELEN YELLIN: Sadi Feldman; Natalie Strub; Fanny & February 2005 - Shvat/Adar 5765 The Hamilton Jewish News Page 11

Community Kehila Jewish Community Day School Temple Fundraiser Features Norene Gilletz Temple Anshe Sholom’s Faculty, staff and of course count the number of camcorders February 23. We will also have a Deborah Sisterhood is hosting students at Kehila have been and cameras to see that extended presentation by the JNF on the Norene Gilletz for a cooking very busy for the past couple families were out in full force! Negev and students will present demonstration on Sunday, of months. Tradition carried We were especially happy that their Avigail Projects at the same April 3rd, from 1:00 - 3:00 on when we held our annual so many residents from Shalom event. Please join us! pm. Fast, Fabulous & Healthy Hanukkah party in December Village and representatives from Kehila, in coordination with and invited many from the larger the UJA Federation were able Yves Apel and the T.D. Bank, Cooking with Norene Gilletz, Hamilton Jewish community to to attend. Afterward everyone recently donated 20 computers will include an opportunity to celebrate with us. Our students really enjoyed the delicious to the Jewish community at large. taste Norene’s cooking, many put on a fantastic show involving Hanukkah treats including The recipients of the computers cooking-related door prizes all many songs, skits and interactive authentic Sufganiyot imported included the Hamilton Hebrew donated by local businesses, a questions for the audience. from Toronto! Academy, Shalom Village, the delicious dessert reception, and The students integrated the On a more somber note, in JCC and Federation. Kehila an opportunity to buy Norene’s English, Hebrew, French and response to the recent Tsunami will continue to work together cookbooks, including her latest Art curriculum into a fabulous tragedy in South Asia, Kehila with all community agencies to program thanks to the dedicated students launched a campaign enhance a united Hamilton Jewish cookbook “Healthy Helpings: 800 Fast and Fabulous Recipes teachers and staff of the school. to collect clothing, food and community. Norene Gilletz Everyone was very impressed toys for the children affected Mark your calendars now, as for the Kosher (or not) Cook”. with the amount of hard work by this enormous tragedy. The preparations are well under way Norene is a food consultant, organizations. and dedication that went into Tsunami Disaster was covered in for Kehila’s 5th Annual Movie food writer and columnist, Because of her love ‘a-fare’ making this event a huge success. the classroom and students have Night to be held on May 15th. cooking teacher and lecturer. with food, Norene can usually We were pleased to have so many learned about the scope of this For tickets, advertising and She is the leading author be found within close range of parents, grandparents, brothers, disaster and the responsibility to sponsorship information please of Kosher cookbooks in a kitchen (not always her own)! sisters, aunts and uncles and help those in need. call 529-7725 or visit Kehila’s Canada. Her books include: cousins present to cheer on the Kehila students will open an website at www.kehilaschool.com She will be giving a cooking students. All one had to do was Israeli street at the school on The Food Processor Bible, demonstration entitled: MealLeaniYumm! (published as Norene’s motto is “Food Tu Bi’Shevat and Greening the Negev Healthy Helpings in the USA), that’s good for you should MicroWays, Second Helpings taste good!” Visit her website Tu Bi’Shevat is a celebration volunteers received commitments of the community’s students, Please and the Pleasures of your at http://www.gourmania.com that coincides with the 15th to plant almost 300 trees. Callers including David Kravetsky and Food Processor. Dog-eared and for more information about her day of Shevat. Symbolically, the were warmly greeted by many EllieSheva Selevan from the food-stained, Norene’s books cooking classes, recipes, articles 15th of Shevat corresponds to in the community who were Hamilton Hebrew Academy, can be found in kitchens around and cooking tips. “ the end of the rain season and expectingtheir annual call. On Yael Hart from CHAT and the globe, including Australia, The event is a fundraiser the beginning of the growth the phones were our regulars … Carmel Jacob from Midrasha, Hong Kong,the United Arab for children’s programs at the season. . As Jews in the Diaspora, Archie Lieberman, Sharon Hart, and Brandon DeSilva and Harriet Emirites, Israel, , Temple, including the Grade 9 to celebrate Tu Bi’Shevat, we Shirley Zucker and Jeaninne Dreezer from the Jewish Students Nunavut, Mexico, New Mexico, trip to explore Jewish Montreal have taken to purchasing trees Sternberg. Others chose to make Association at McMaster added a which are then planted by calls from their homes, including new dimension to the telethons. New Zealand...and of course, this spring. Tickets are on sale school children in Israel on Tu Sara Agulnik, Tishelle Adelman, Many thanks go to all the Hamilton! She strongly believes now at the Temple office, and Bi’Shevat. On January 16th, a Rhonda Ingroff, Hilton and volunteers who have contributed in people helping people, cost $20 in advance, or $25 at number of volunteers came out Shirley Silberg, and Kathy to making this year’s Tu Bi’Shevat using her cookbooks and the door. For more information for our annual JNF Telethon. Adelman. campaign so successful. demonstrations as fundraising call 905-528-0121. Led by Jonathan Fleisch, the However, the enthusiasm tools for many charitable

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