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BY HANNAH BERDOWSKI BY HANNAH BERDOWSKI abbi Rob Morais has only been in abbi Idan Scher will be formally Ottawa for a few weeks, but he’s Rabbi Rob Morais says he plans to embrace installed, September 1, as spiritual After serving the congregation for one year as the openness and creativity of Temple Israel jumped right into his role at leader of Congregation Machzikei associate rabbi, Rabbi Idan Scher looks “and to advance that.” Temple Israel of Ottawa as the Hadas. He will succeed Rabbi forward to his installation as spiritual leader of R R Congregation Machzikei Hadas, September 1. Reform congregation’s new spiritual Reuven P. Bulka, who has led the modern leader. the fi rst in Temple Israel’s history. Orthodox congregation since 1967, and will A Toronto native, Rabbi Morais has Rabbi Morais said Rabbi Garten will become the congregation’s rabbi emeritus Although Rabbi Scher was born and returned to Canada from Michigan where maintain an active role in congregational (see From the Pulpit, page 6). raised in Chicago, he has a number of he served as spiritual leader of Temple Beth life, continuing to teach and being a great Rabbi Scher arrived in Ottawa from relatives in Ottawa – both his parents and Israel in Jackson and as director of the source of information. Rabbi Morais said Baltimore last summer, with his wife grandparents were married at Machzikei Jewish children’s museum in Detroit. the two have been working closely together Shifra and their son Shlomo, and has spent Hadas – and he visited Ottawa often over “This is the kind of city I want to live in. and revealed their relationship began the past year working with Rabbi Bulka as the years. He said the warm welcome he This city has lots of potential; the syna- many years ago. associate rabbi while getting to know the has received from the congregation makes gogue is in a good healthy place,” Rabbi As a young boy, Rabbi Morais was a congregation and Ottawa’s Jewish him feel “like I have a huge extended Morais said during an interview with the student at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto community. family.” Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. where Rabbi Garten was the director. After In Baltimore, Rabbi Scher served as Asked about the transitional period at “It’s a huge transition for the congrega- earning his rabbinic ordination at Hebrew campus rabbi at the University of Machzikei Hadas over the past year, Rabbi tion. Number one, we have a transition of Union College – Jewish Institute of Maryland and was a rabbinic intern at an Scher said he’s been lucky to have been rabbis after 20 years.” Religion, Rabbi Morais worked with Rabbi Orthodox synagogue. mentored by Rabbi Bulka. Rabbi Morais succeeds Rabbi Norman Garten through Camp George, the Reform After growing up in Chicago and “Many people thought [the transition] Klein, who served as interim rabbi for one movement camp in . working in Baltimore, large American wouldn’t be the easiest for me … but it’s year following the June 2014 retirement of “This has been a very carefully planned cities with large Jewish communities, been beyond my expectations. Rabbi Rabbi Steven Garten, who served as transition. There have been many, many, Rabbi Scher said he’s been enjoying living Bulka has been so supportive throughout spiritual leader of Temple Israel since 1995. wonderful and dedicated people who and working in Ottawa over the past year. this past year … people take direction Rabbi Garten continues to be involved worked on the transition,” said Rabbi “I love it. I love the people, the way they from him, and the confi dence he has had with the congregation as rabbi emeritus, See Rabbi Morais on page 2 live their lives,” he said. See Rabbi Scher on page 2

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Continued from page 1 enhancement to our education program,” forever, but we haven’t talked much about Morais. He was particularly appreciative of said Rabbi Morais. what we do,” said Rabbi Morais, whose goal the work done over the past year by Rabbi “I think that there’s enormous potential is to get the word out about “the warmth Klein. to develop Jewish programing and Jewish and the excitement that is Temple Israel. “The role of the interim is to bridge activities and Jewish experiences for “Nothing radical is going to change between old and new, and to be able to people across the age spectrum. I think tomorrow, but we’ll make sure that the navigate for the congregation. [Rabbi there is an amazing dedication to Jewish changes we do make are done in a thought- Klein’s] job was preparing them for a new life, that I’ve seen here, that doesn’t exist in fully planned way.” leader, and that was done exceptionally other places.” His strategy, he said, is to re-evaluate and well. They’re poised, they’re ready, they’re Rabbi Morais spoke excitedly about his refl ect on all areas of the synagogue by hungry. I’m hungry, and so we’re going to new congregation and the values Temple asking, ‘Is this our best, and what the get started.” Israel instils. synagogue needs?’ A second transition is taking place at the “[They are] poised to understand that we “The plans are to embrace the openness Temple Israel Religious School where Sue need to do it differently than we’ve done it and creativity that the synagogue has Potechin, a former teacher and youth in the past,” said Rabbi Morais, who spoke always shown and to advance that. … I adviser for the congregation, has been about learning to embrace people with think the synagogue sees itself as an hired as the new director of Education. different ideas, and families of different extended family and [I hope] to embrace “I come with a lot of programmatic and backgrounds, including those centred on and nurture that and be the one to help education experience. So, together, we will same sex couples. guide the vision … we create together,” Rabbi Steven Garten became rabbi emeritus of Temple Israel in June 2014. be providing a signifi cant change and “This synagogue has been doing [that] said Rabbi Morais. Rabbi Scher: ‘Judaism is constantly evolving’

Continued from page 1 “I had no idea what I got myself into,” in me made it easier for them to accept me. recalled Rabbi Scher as he described his Rabbi Bulka has done a lot of the diffi cult nervousness about speaking on the work on my behalf.” second day of Rosh Hashanah to such a Rabbi Scher said what made his fi rst large congregation. “I put thought into it year in Ottawa so special was that it wasn’t and I think I said it pretty well. Afterward, only the Machzikei Hadas community that Rabbi Bulka was very kind, saying, ‘Now was so welcoming; it was the entire Ottawa you all got to see why Rabbi Scher has my Jewish community. vote, and I’m sure he has all your votes as “It shows how passionately the entire well.’” community cares for the vibrancy and Rabbi Scher noted that congregations continuity of Jewish life,” he said. “[It] today must continue to change to meet makes me wake up knowing I love what the needs of its congregants and the I’m doing and gives me the confi dence to community. do what I envision for Ottawa.” “Judaism is constantly evolving,” he The specifi c moment that made him said. “What spoke to people 10 years ago certain his move to Ottawa was the best does not speak to them today, and what decision he’s ever made took place last speaks to people today will not speak to September during his fi rst Rosh Hashanah them in 10 years.” here. The installation of Rabbi Scher, and the appointment of Rabbi Bulka as rabbi CORRECTION emeritus, is on Tuesday, September 1, at Congregation Machzikei Hadas. The In an interview for the Bulletin article, evening begins with a reception at 6:30 “Inspiring ‘Fed Talks’ and humour to be pm to be followed by the ceremony at 7:30. featured at Annual Campaign Kickoff (June 27),” Allison Josephs incorrectly Rabbi Scher said he plans to use the identifi ed the topic of the talk she will opportunity – in addition to expressing his give at the Jewish Federation of Ottawa gratitude – as a platform to give a “state of Annual Campaign Kickoff, September 9, union address” and share his vision and at Centrepointe Theatre. plans for the congregation. In her talk, Josephs will discuss how For more information, contact ASHLEY FRASER Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka will become rabbi emeritus of Congregation Machzikei Hadas to make Jewish values relevant for Michael Goldstein at 613-521-9700 or on September 1. He led the congregation for 48 years. today’s generation. [email protected].

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hile Noy Rosenberg, a They met on the ice and are best of 15-year-old girl from friends. Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, may Noy was only 12 years old in the Wnot be an offi cial member documentary. Since then, she has of Israel’s diplomatic core, she does travelled with CIHS with groups of represent Israel and Israeli youth Israeli hockey players to Washington, whenever she travels abroad to play D.C., and Pittsburgh, where she’s been hockey. interviewed on network TV and in major This year, Noy has been spending newspapers. The Embassy of Israel in her summer in the Ottawa area: fi rst, Washington was very impressed with as a participant in the Ottawa Senators how she handled each interview and Summer Hockey Camp in July, then represented Israel. as a camper at Camp B’nai Brith of This summer’s trip to Ottawa – thanks Ottawa. to the Partnership2Gether program of As a member of the Canada Israel the Jewish Federation of Ottawa – was Israeli hockey player Noy Rosenberg (second from left) poses with some of her Ottawa friends Hockey School (CIHS), headquartered at Noy’s fi rst hockey trip without her at the Ottawa Senators Summer Hockey Camp, July 16. the Canada Centre in Metula (in the Israeli hockey teammates. She travelled Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s partner- solo to improve her hockey skills and to who shares a passion for the same sport. friends – they plan to keep in touch via ship region in northern Israel in the meet Canadian youth. They all worked hard on the ice and – and her new Ottawa Partnership2Gether program), Noy is one From the day Noy arrived in Ottawa, smiled and laughed. At the end of each hockey buddies now have a real connec- of the few female hockey players in the it was time to improve on her already day, there were hugs, and Noy gave every tion to Israel. State of Israel. She began playing four solid hockey skills. She participated in player and coach she met a Canada/ In Ottawa, Noy also met Israeli years ago and instantly fell in love with the Ottawa Senators Summer Hockey Israel friendship pin with the fl ags of Ambassador Rafael Barak and was Canada’s number one sport. Camp by day, and in Next Generation both countries. interviewed on TSN 1200 radio and CTV. Canadians fi rst met Noy three years HKY on-ice sessions in the evenings. Partnership2Gether builds and She went on to have a great time at ago when she was featured in The Neutral As with any 15-year-old hockey player strengthens bridges between Israel and Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa, once Zone, a TSN documentary about the CIHS entering a new program, Noy was the Diaspora. It was incredible to learn again representing her kibbutz and and the challenges and successes of nervous at fi rst. She questioned how her that many youths and their parents at our partnership region in Israel’s operating a hockey program in Israel, skills would match up to the Canadians. the local arenas didn’t really know much north. which welcomes boys and girls, Jews Would she be playing with boys and/or about Israel, beyond what they see in the Noy hasn’t decided yet if she should and Arabs, Christians, Druze and girls? Did she have the right equipment, evening news. They had no idea that enter Israel’s diplomatic core or be a Muslims. skates and sticks? some Israelis play hockey, that they speak professional hockey player. In the documentary, Noy and her From her fi rst practice in Ottawa, Noy English, and that there are so many more Mitch Miller, chair of the Soloway Jewish friend, Bisan, a Druze girl from Majdal had new hockey friends. Her Ottawa common bonds with Canadians. Community Centre, is an organizer and Shams in the Golan Heights, show us peers learned about Israel through By the time the week of hockey had volunteer coach for the Canada Israel how sports can break down barriers. friendship with someone their own age ended, Noy had grown her circle of Hockey School.

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n the morning of July 14, of heavy oil, didn’t fi nd its way to the Canadians woke up to breaking people who needed it the most, nor did it news from Vienna of a deal AMBASSADOR RAFAEL BARAK stop it to think twice in breaking its Oreached over Iran’s nuclear GUEST COLUMN commitments and going nuclear. program. To understand why Israel sees this WILL THE DEAL SUCCEED agreement as a threat to global peace IN MAKING IRAN A REGIONAL and security, let me share with you fi ve while leaving most of Iran’s nuclear PARTNER FOR PEACE? key questions: infrastructure in place. Absolutely not. Now Iran is all but guaranteed a Iran is playing a direct role in the DOES THE AGREEMENT STOP IRAN nuclear bomb. instability raging across the Middle East: FROM ATTAINING A NUCLEAR BOMB? Assuming it doesn’t cheat, it can President Rouhani – propping up the No, plain and simple. simply wait 10 years – continuing to embattled Assad regime in Syria, build- Over the years, the international advance its nuclear capabilities – and ing up Hezbollah’s arsenal of over community constructed a robust system then quickly become a nuclear super- 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel, sup- of sanctions, squeezing the Iranian power with full international legitimacy. porting the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and economy and bringing the regime to the playing dangerous games in Iraq and negotiating table. The aim was to dis- DOES THE DEAL STOP IRAN Rafael Barak is the ambassador of Israel to Afghanistan. mantle Iran’s military nuclear program. FROM CHEATING? Canada. A version of this article was Those who live under this shadow, not Just as this objective was fi nally within Again, the answer is no. originally published in the Toronto Star. just Israel but many Arab countries, reach, the negotiators changed their The negotiators were initially guided stand united against this bad deal that approach. They handed the Iranian by a strong awareness of Iran’s long underground enrichment facilities at gives international legitimacy and regime a dream deal that will quickly end history of deceiving the international Fordow and Arak. transforms Iran – the region’s main the sanctions, the one form of leverage, community – including its clandestine What was supposed to be “anywhere, source of instability – from the problem anytime” inspections with just 24-hours’ to being a wishful part of the solution. notice, became a bureaucratic process For Israel, this is a signifi cant game Allan Taylor that can last at least 24 days. 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The alternative has always been a and together, along with the support so-called “reformer,” these dissidents better deal – one that rolls back Iran’s of some of the outstanding health care know that the regime has only upped its military nuclear program and links the experts in the Ottawa Jewish oppression of women, political activists, easing of sanctions to a total change in community, they convinced the religious minorities, and members of the Iran’s behaviour vis-à-vis Israel, its Arab Provincial bureaucrats LGBT community. neighbours, and its own population. to allocate 17 additional beds Moreover, the world’s experience with from the closed Bronson Home North Korea shows that a generous MORE NEWS INSIDE: as part of the Lodge’s bed complement. economic package to feed and help the What can Iran hide in 24 days? See population, including half million tons story on page 25.

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their innovative ideas and approaches Ottawa’s Ben-Gurion Society based on one theme, “L’dor v’dor, from generation to generation: inspiring and empowering future generations.” to chair 2016 Annual We were thrilled to get renowned social entrepreneur, and co-founder of Free the Children, Marc Kielburger, and Campaign kickoff Jew in the City blogger and outreach maven, Allison Josephs. Plus, a little of this donor group because we the footsteps of those who came before levity will be added to the program with staunchly believe in the principles upon us – the dedicated donors and commun- the help of comedian and Ottawa native which BGS was founded with the goal to ity leaders who have led by example and Jon Steinberg. build a strong and responsible Jewish inspired our involvement. We main- Although our generation is often

FEDERATION REPORT community at home, in Israel, and tained the goal of helping to shape our perceived as the “What’s in it for me?” STACY GOLDSTEIN around the world. BGS and its 31 mem- Ottawa Jewish community of the future, generation, we want the community AND TAMARA FATHI bers in Ottawa now have this wonderful by being the next generation of young to know that we, and all of BGS, are BEN-GURION SOCIETY opportunity to fl ex our young leadership Jewish leaders and philanthropists. With committed and engaged young Jewish muscles and plan one of the largest this in mind, we have planned a program adults with a strong desire to make a hat a great way to community events – launching that includes a variety of featured difference, to lead by example and to spotlight the next Federation’s Annual Campaign – the speakers who refl ect both a traditional inspire others to get involved to ensure generation of Jewish engine that drives our community. and novel approach to community our community continues to thrive ‘Wleadership!’ we both As engaged and driven leaders in the engagement. L’dor v’dor, from generation to thought when Ottawa’s Ben-Gurion young adult community, and as a current We are hosting what we are fondly generation. Society (BGS) was asked to collectively (Stacy) and past (Tamara) member of calling FED Talks, which is based on the We are thrilled by the initial positive chair the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s the Federation’s board, it seemed right well-known TED Talks format devoted to response to FED Talks and hope to see 2016 Annual Campaign kickoff event. that the two of us step forward to spreading ideas via short powerful talks you there! The BGS is a donor recognition represent BGS in co-chairing this year’s by some of the most engaging speakers The Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s program and networking forum for Kickoff event on Wednesday, September around the world sharing innovative and 2016 Annual Campaign Kickoff is those under the age of 45 who make an 9 at Centrepointe Theatre. inspiring ideas. We wanted to engage Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 pm, at annual gift of at least $1,000 to the When planning the program, it was young, dynamic and philanthropic Centrepointe Theatre, 101 Centrepointe Annual Campaign. We choose to be part very important to us that we follow in trailblazers in today’s world to share Drive. Tickets are $20 and are available at www.centrepointetheatre.com. For more information, contact Rena Garshowitz at 613-798-4696, ext. 241 or I’m not saying goodbye [email protected].

emeritus you may wonder? In truth, no available, when and if needed, both for Ottawa Jewish Bulletin one really knows. If you ask a group of Machzikei Hadas as well for the Jewish and VOLUME 79 | ISSUE 17 rabbis emeritus, each of them will give you general community. Leah and I are also Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, K2A 1R9 a different view of what that is for them. looking forward to spending more time Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 What I can share with you is that, for with the children, grandchildren and Email: [email protected] Published 19 times per year. me, it defi nitely does not mean great-grandchildren. © Copyright 2015 “retirement.” I am also way behind on a number of PUBLISHER Retirement, I never tire of repeating, is books I have started, which are currently Andrea Freedman not a Jewish concept. There is too much to in permanent stall. Finally, I am happy to EDITOR do, not enough time to do it, and never an share with you that I am the president and Michael Regenstreif

FROM THE PULPIT excuse for removing oneself from being CEO of a new and ambitious not-for-profi t PRODUCTION MANAGER RABBI REUVEN P. BULKA Brenda Van Vliet involved. It means recalculating, but not in called Kind Canada Généreux. It is the fi rst BUSINESS MANAGER MACHZIKEI HADAS a GPS sense. The GPS recalculates when of its kind, a truly national endeavour to Barry Silverman you’ve made a wrong turn, or missed an advance the implementation of a kind- INTERN he From the Pulpit column is a exit, or took too early an exit, etc. The ness-imbued culture at home, in the Hannah Berdowski wonderful years we have spent together in workplace, in schools, indeed everywhere. The Bulletin, established in 1937 as “a force welcome opportunity for the for constructive communal consciousness,” city’s congregational rabbis to Ottawa have been anything but a wrong Thanks to Michael Regenstreif and all communicates the messages of the Jewish connect with the city as a whole. turn. My years here have transcended the his predecessors at the Ottawa Jewish Federation of Ottawa and its agencies and, as T the city’s only Jewish newspaper, welcomes a This is my fi nal contribution to the wildest dreams anyone can legitimately Bulletin for always being a pleasure to diversity of opinion as it strives to inform and column. The next time that Congregation entertain when entering the rabbinate. work together. Thanks to Andrea enrich the community. Viewpoints expressed in these pages do not necessarily represent Machzikei Hadas will be represented in I enter the next chapter full of gratitude Freedman and all her predecessors at the the policies and values of the Federation. this space, the author will be Rabbi Idan for all the previous chapters. Many of you Jewish Federation of Ottawa for their The Bulletin cannot vouch for the kashrut Scher, a young, dynamic, energetic, have suggested I put all these chapters into leadership and dedication, and to of advertised products or establishments unless they are certified by Ottawa Vaad engaging, personable, and immensely a book. I am somewhat hesitant about Federation Chair Linda Kerzner and those HaKashrut or a rabbinic authority recognized capable rabbi. For the past year, he has that, even though such a volume would who preceded her. Thanks, too, to my by OVH. been the shul’s associate rabbi, during contain many warm recollections of the colleagues with whom it has been a $36 Local Subscription | $40 Canada $60 USA | $179 Overseas | $2 per issue which time he and his wife, Shifra, have wonderful people who built this commun- pleasure to interact. We acknowledge the financial support of the connected on so many levels with our ity and of their successors who have We have a great community, and great Government of Canada through the congregational family and with many further built upon the foundation. Maybe challenges. I am full of confi dence that, Canada Periodical Fund of the Department members of the broader community. one day my arm will be twisted enough with the vision, resolve and commitment of Canadian Heritage. Leah joins me in wishing the Schers well that I capitulate. of our leaders and volunteers, we will ISSN: 1196-1929 as they embark on this exciting challenge, For now, the recalculating is more along successfully meet these challenges. Publication Mail Agreement No. 40018822 or more accurately, the challenges that the lines of what next? In the as-yet-not- Warmest wishes, but not goodbye, Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Ottawa Jewish Bulletin defi ne the modern day rabbinate. At the fully-defi ned response to this question, a Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, same time, I will become the synagogue’s few things are clear. Ottawa will hopefully (Soon-to-be) Rabbi Emeritus, Ottawa ON K2A 1R9 rabbi emeritus. Exactly what is a rabbi be part of “what’s next?” I hope to be Congregation Machzikei Hadas August 17, 2015 7 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

have come and gone from our pages. Rabbi Bulka’s remarkable, Of all our regular columnists, Mira has, by far, had her space in our paper the longest. In fact, our next longest unprecedented tenure serving columnist has been with us only half as long. And, as Mira notes in her is well known for his many books and columnist I recruited for the Bulletin column this issue, she now contributes newspaper columns, for his weekly radio after becoming editor. I’d inherited all of regular columns and blogs to the print program, as honorary chaplain of the our other columnists at the time from and/or online versions of several other , and as a leader my predecessor, the late Barry Fishman. Jewish and mainstream newspapers. who has launched so many important Over the years, Mira often challenged So, when we decided this year that it was initiatives, from encouraging organ us by taking on controversial issues and time to bring a fresh voice into the donations to creating Kindness Week. by being unafraid to take controversial Bulletin, all of those factors were con-

FROM THE THE FROM EDITOR Although Rabbi Bulka and his wife positions. She wrote about diffi cult sidered. We knew that Mira’s voice MICHAEL REGENSTREIF Leah will be taking more time to spend topics in the community, in Israel, and in would continue to be heard in forums with their children and grandchildren, the wider Jewish world. Speaking far and wide. his issue of the Ottawa Jewish he will continue to be an important personally, I sometimes agreed with Mira, thank you, again, for your Bulletin marks the fi nal appear- leader in the community. Mira’s take on a particular issue and contributions to the Ottawa Jewish ance of Rabbi Reuven Bulka as Thank you, Rabbi, for so many sometimes disagreed. But that’s the Bulletin these past seven years. We’re all Tone of our From the Pulpit insightful Pulpit columns in the Bulletin. nature of opinion columns and, as both the richer for the eloquence and passion columnists. The Pulpit column rotates You’re always welcome to contribute an editor and a reader, I want to be you brought to so many issues of among the pulpit rabbis of Ottawa’s guest columns to our pages whenever challenged – and Mira certainly did concern. different congregations – each of them you have commentaries to share with challenge her readers. writing two or three times per year. the community. Newspapers are always evolving and NEW COLUMN TO DEBUT In about two weeks, Rabbi Bulka will columnists come and go – for a variety of I’m also thrilled to announce that our become rabbi emeritus of Congregation THANK YOU MIRA SUCHAROV reasons. Sometimes a columnist decides new column, Dispatches from the Machzikei Hadas after serving 48 years This issue also includes the fi nal to wind down his or her column and Diaspora by Sarah Waisvisz, will debut in – nearly half a century – as spiritual instalment of Mira Sucharov’s Values, sometimes it’s the newspaper that the September 7 issue. Sarah is a young leader of the congregation. His tenure in Ethics, Community column, and I also decides it’s time. And both scenarios Ottawa-based playwright, actor and the Machzikei pulpit is unprecedented in take this opportunity to thank Mira for have played out at the Bulletin over the academic – she received her PhD this Ottawa – and very rare anywhere else. sharing her challenging thoughts with us years. That’s the way it works at all year – interested in many issues in the The impact of Rabbi Bulka’s leader- in every edition of the paper over the newspapers – from the largest dailies to Jewish world. ship has been felt far beyond his congre- past seven years. In fact, it’s been exactly community papers like ours. None of the From my discussions with her, I’m gation: in Ottawa’s Jewish community, seven years, as her fi rst column appeared columnists who were with us in 2008 are sure that Sarah’s column will be and in the national Jewish community; in the August edition in 2008. still writing their columns now. And, in insightful, thought-provoking and and in the broader community, where he Mira was actually the fi rst new regular the interim, a number of other columns exciting.

looking at it. If traditional approaches are Politicians discovering old and stale, then traditional voting patterns may also be part of the past. In May, we saw that in Canada, when the just how peeved voters are NDP took power in Alberta. Albertans acted out the kind of the deeper he got, like when he said U.S. lated, politically correct scene that thinking that brought Trump to the Senator John McCain was not a war hero Trump so willingly, forcibly and effect- forefront this summer. Who cares about because he had been taken prisoner by ively attacks with almost every utterance, the rules and who thinks about the way it the North Vietnamese. Cries for an every gesture. is supposed to be when you are really fed apology were cast aside by Trump. He Regardless of where Trump stands up with traditional politics? As well, in chose to keep shooting as he defi antly when this column is published, voter Alberta, there was a horrendously run pushed his opponents in the Republican anger is real, and no one ever ripped up Progressive Conservative Party

IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS race to engage him – which just made for the rule book like Trump. No one has campaign. JASON MOSCOVITZ more Trump headlines and more done it because no one thought being But, consider this. The NDP won in airtime. outrageous could be politically advanta- Alberta and the lights suddenly went on With chutzpah galore, he didn’t fl inch geous. No one in recent memory ever for Thomas Mulcair and the federal NDP. t is so out of whack for a politician to when he proclaimed he had played the said things like “I don’t need a debate The momentum hasn’t stopped since. If do almost everything Donald Trump political game as a businessman, giving coach, I am who I am.” you are really upset with the political does that it really makes you many politicians money for their cam- Virtually no one thinks Trump will system and how things are and have Iwonder. Is the man a genius or a paigns. And he unabashedly added that ultimately go very far in politics. But he been, then why not do the unthinkable lunatic? they all loved him for it, making it clear has already gone a good distance by and elect a party that has never been Trump took off in the earliest of days he gave money to buy favours. He waking people up to how being a even distantly close to winning a federal of a very long U.S. presidential campaign, claimed his opponents are still selling non-conformist can work in a political election. Talk about shockers and and he accomplished it by being his favours because that is how they fund environment perceived to be so terribly rewriting the rule book. bombastic self. Without any fi lters, he their campaigns, something he doesn’t fl awed, disliked and distrusted. Donald Trump entertains people on said what he thought, and it appeared he have to do because he has so much Our federal election in Canada is just TV because he thinks out loud and he would say just about anything. When he money. two months away, and you can bet the does it with no attempt to soften the launched his campaign calling illegal As shocking as this is, it speaks to Trump approach is being watched and edges. While it is unthinkable that a Mexican immigrants drug dealers and people. Lots of people in western democ- evaluated here for what it is: a game Canadian political leader would be so out rapists, heads spun and most experts racies who have had it with politicians changer in the world of waking up and there, there is the thought that voters thought he had blown himself up. and the whole political process, includ- seeing how peeved voters are. may actually do the talking. Instead, he took the headlines and he ing political media, communication While it is hard to imagine Trump’s For many Canadians, the temptation to used the many media opportunities to gurus, controlled messaging, pollsters, brash and bombastic approach working actually do the unthinkable is very much say more not less. And the more he said, lobbyists – the whole carefully calcu- in Canada, there is another way of part of our present election campaign. 8 August 17, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Pride Parade murder sparks calls for change to laws – and pushback, too

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(JTA) – In the aftermath of a deadly among the and bring down fi rebombing in a West Bank Palestinian the Israeli government. village believed to have been perpetrated Shin Bet sought to put Ettinger under by Jewish terrorists, Israel’s Shin Bet in 2014, accord- arrested its most wanted Jewish terrorist ing to , but state prosecutor Shai suspect. Nitzan denied the request, instead barring Meir Ettinger, 24, a grandson of the late Ettinger from Jerusalem and the West extremist far-right leader Rabbi Meir Bank. Kahane, was arrested, August 3, in the Last week, Haaretz reported that the northern Israeli town of Safed. Shin Bet Shin Bet accused Ettinger of leading an offi cials told the French news agency AFP underground group responsible for the that it was interrogating Ettinger arson attack on the Church of the “because of his activities in a Jewish Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in extremist organization.” June, a charge Ettinger denied on his blog. It was not clear whether he is a suspect In his post, Ettinger denied the exist- Save, in the July 31 fi rebombing, which killed a ence of a , but wrote Palestinian toddler and severely injured there are “lots and lots of Jews, many and Simplify his family. However, offi cials said Ettinger more than one might think, whose value Your Life was being interrogated for information system is very different than that of the with Our that could help fi nd the perpetrator of the High Court of Justice or the Shin Bet, and bombing in Duma. the laws that bind them are not the laws One Stop Haaretz reported that Ettinger topped of the state … but rather laws that are Whole Home the Shin Bet’s list of most wanted Jewish much more eternal.” Residential & Commercial suspects. He was believed to have been Kahane, who was assassinated in 1990, Asaf Raz Solutions … planning a series of attacks against inspired the creation of Israel’s outlawed Palestinians intended to stir up unrest Kahane Chai () party. OUR SERVICES: Shelving & Storage Bath, Basement, Kitchen Remodelling Pressure Washing Attic & Garage Finishing Boarding Windows & Cleaning Carpentry Blinds & Winterization Furniture Assembly Parging Painting Demolition Cubicle Assembly Gutter Cleaning The Orthodox Community Ohev Yisroel Ceramic Tiling Roof Cleaning 516 Rideau Street (between Cobourg and Augusta) Hardwood & Laminate Flooring Property Preservation Welcomes everyone to High Holiday services in Stone Flooring Lock Change Decks, Deck Staining & Washing Posting Signs Why come to Ohev Yisroel? Drywall Installation & Insulation Flat Roof Repair ❖ Path Replacement Railing Traditional and inspirational services All Concrete Jobs Plumbing ❖ Warm and friendly atmosphere Building Fences Garden Maintenance Molding Interlock, Paving & Driveways ❖ Affordable high holiday seats General Home Maintenance Excavation and membership © Jeremy Melnick, Melnick Studios Inc. © Jeremy Painting & Wall Treatments All electrical Jobs Chazzan Yoni Jakubovic ❖ Students attend for free Call Today: 613.700.3315 FREE ESTIMATES For information or prayer schedule go to: www.ohevyisroel.ca www.moas.ca Email: [email protected] or call: 613-565-6194 August 17, 2015 13 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Jewish groups call on Israel to rein in Jewish extremists

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Continued from page 15 Department spokesman Marc Raimondi life in prison in 1987 for spying for Israel. said in an email to JTA. Another spokes- October 15-25, 2015 The hope is that he would move immedi- man later clarifi ed that under the law at Heighten your senses with one-of-a-kind experiences! ately to Israel. the time Pollard was prosecuted, “an ACTIVITIES A number of Israeli offi cials rushed to individual would be presumed eligible for Be part of a Dragon Boat team on the Kineret express the hope that they would greet mandatory parole once they had served Ride blindfolded on the back of a tandem bicycle him on his arrival in Israel, but Prime two-thirds of their sentence. Thirty years Have lunch with Bedouins at Chan Hashayarot Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was is two-thirds of 45.” Experience a unique dinner show cautious, stopping short of looking Obama administration offi cials have Visit the Israel Guide Dog Center and pet some really forward to Pollard’s arrival in a short been at pains to distinguish between the cute puppies! statement he released after he spoke with November 20 parole and the earlier “Dialogue in the Dark” a humbling exhibit in total darkness Pollard’s wife, Esther. denied requests. Ein Avdat – walk on the ancient Nabateans’ ruins “After decades of effort, Jonathan A number of media reports and critics Pollard will fi nally be released,” of the Obama administration have said UNIQUE SIGHT VISITS Netanyahu said. “Throughout his time in that Pollard’s release is compensation to Meet student puppy raisers at Ben Gurion University prison, I consistently raised the issue of Israel for the Iran nuclear deal reached Learn about techniques teaching children who are visually impaired his release in my meetings and conversa- between the major powers and Iran on How was life at the Atlit Detention Camp tions with the leadership of successive July 14. Israel’s government rejects the U.S. administrations. We are looking deal and is urging the U.S. Congress to OK, WE THREW IN SOME “REGULAR” THINGS TOO! Explore the Old City of Jerusalem forward to his release.” use its power to kill it. Light and Sound show at the Tower of David In 1995, Pollard was granted Israeli “Mr. Pollard’s status was determined Go back in time while exploring the ancient city of Acre citizenship, in part because he hoped to by the United States Parole Commission travel to Israel as soon as he was released. according to standard procedures, and SHOPPING Mandatory parole did not guarantee the Parole Commission’s decision was in Tachana Train Station – unique crafts and special gifts Pollard’s release. However, as opposed to no way linked to foreign policy considera- Haggle with the vendors on Shenkin Street and Shuk HaCarmel previous requests, where the burden was tions,” Baskey said. Haggle everywhere else too! on Pollard to show why he should be The Conference of Presidents of Major released, in the case of mandatory parole, American Jewish Organizations, the …and much more!! the burden was on the government to umbrella foreign policy body for the show why he should not be freed. Justice community, in welcoming the paroled For those wishing to extend their stay in Israel additional arrangements can be provided Department offi cials declined to raise release announcement also emphasized Due to unforeseen circumstances the itinerary as quoted may be subject to adjustment objections. that Iran was not a factor. “The Department of Justice has always “We do not believe that there is any maintained that Jonathan Pollard should connection to the nuclear agreement serve his full sentence for the serious with Iran,” its statement said. “The parole 7851 Dufferin Street, Suite 204, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 3M4 Phone: 905-771-7800 * 1-800-789-7117 * Fax: 905-771-7804 crimes he committed, which in this case date was set at the time of his sentencing E-mail: [email protected] is a 30-year sentence, as mandated by and the current parole process preceded statute, ending Nov. 21, 2015,” Justice the negotiations with Iran.” August 17, 2015 17 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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Palestinians, the nuclear deal with Iran COURTESY OF KEN BANDLER and the preservation of Egyptian Jewish Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi (centre) meeting with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee, July 2015. heritage, according to the AJC’s director of government and international affairs, historical TV drama Jewish Quarter was a referring to the period since Sisi came to Haroun, last month opened the heavily Jason Isaacson, who co-ordinated the breakout hit during Ramadan. The series power in 2013. “I fi nd more respect for guarded and rarely used Shaar delegation. cast the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood as Israel and more feeling of commonality Hashamayim synagogue in downtown The AJC meeting at the presidential a greater threat to Egypt’s unity and between Egyptian and Israeli strategic Cairo for an interfaith Ramadan Iftar palace came at a time when Egyptian security than the Jews and, sometimes, concerns with common attitudes towards event, the daily break-fast meal during attitudes about Jews are changing. even the Zionists. (Past TV series during Hamas, especially toward the connec- the holy month. (There were some Egyptians are reassessing 1950s-era Ramadan have traded in negative tropes tions between Hamas and other extrem- 75,000 Jews in Egypt before 1948, but, in nationalization policies that squeezed and stereotypes about Jewish “treachery” ist groups.” the 1950s, the Jewish population was out the Jewish community and other and hostility, so Jewish Quarter repre- Offi cially, fewer than eight Jews remain largely stripped of citizenship and assets ethnic minorities. The word “Jew” is used sented a major departure.) in this capital city – all of them elderly by then-president Gamal Abdel Nasser.) less frequently as a curse word, and the “I fi nd more tolerance,” said Isaacson, women. The community’s leader, Magda See Egypt on page 24

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BY ANNETTE PAQUIN AJA 50+ or 15 years, AJA (Active Jewish Adults) 50+ has offered year- round programming for retirees in FOttawa. The philosophy of AJA 50+ is “by members, for members.” More than 100 programs are suggested and organized by the membership each year. Fall 2015 will feature a wide variety of programming. For the amateur astronomer, Howard Simkover will kick off the fall session with “Rocks from the Sky: Meteors and Meteorites.” Other interesting sci- ence-based programming will include “Hey, What Happened to You? My Victory over Leukemia,” with Bernard Gotleib, Canada’s longest surviving bone marrow transplant recipient and “The AJA 50+ is a membership and volunteer-driven organization. A volunteer appreciation tea was held, June 3, at the Billings Estate. Transgendered Brain” with neuroscientist Elaine spanning fi ve centuries. and Chess for Fun. The popular Jewish ming and healthy snacks, and will be able Waddington Lamont. Art lovers will not be disappointed. Film Series, in partnership with the to ensure transportation is available for For history buffs, participants can There will be tours of the National Greenberg Families Library, will again all participants. An intensive music explore life during the 1800s on a visit to Gallery and visits to studios of local offer an outstanding lineup of contem- program of both performance and Upper Canada Village or experience the artists Ozzie Silverman and Lynn porary fi lms from Israel and around the participation is new this session. tragedy of life behind bars with an Dubinsky. Back by popular demand is world. The AJA 50+ fall activity guide will be historic tour of Hawkesbury Prison. A Leonard Shore who always brings us Creative Connections, a day program available by the third week of August, special behind-the-scenes tour of the interesting current criminal cases that for seniors over age 75 who wish to have a and registration for fall programs will architecture of the Supreme Court of participants, as jurors, have to adjudicate. full day of programming in a Jewish take place Monday, August 24, 9:30-11:30 Canada is also being offered. A know- In addition to many other fascinating environment with their peers, will return am at the Soloway Jewish Community ledgeable historian will take us through topics, regular weekly programming will in October with a very special program- Centre. Information on membership and the Jacob M. Lowy Collection, Canada’s continue, including Drop-in Bridge, ming lineup. This season, Creative registration for programs is also available national treasure of old and rare Judaica mah-jongg, Sharing the Music, Scrabble Connections will have enriched program- at www.aja50plus.ca.

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Jewish roots, contemporary values, egalitarian Friday Kabbalat Shabbat Services, 6:15 pm. Bon Appetit Weddings Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Saturday Shabbat Services, 10:15 am. Welcome to Ottawa’s Holiday Meals Second Friday of the month: Newest Kosher Caterer! Bring your own dinner following Kabbalat Shabbat. For family celebrations, Corporate Catering business presentations Thursday morning minyanim: or a Shabbat meal at home, Shiva Meals second and fourth Thursdays, 7:30 am. you will get much more than flavourful food – Bris and Baby Naming with a Middle Eastern flair. Party and Event Catering Rabbi Robert Morais Choose from a wide variety of appetizers, main courses Rabbi Emeritus Steven H. Garten Catering for Synagogues Executive Director Heather Cohen and desserts prepared by our Cordon Bleu-trained chef. Temple Israel Religious School Principal Sue Potechin Personal Home Catering Administration Officer Cathy Loves JOSH & SAM FREEDMAN Kiddishes 1301 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON K2C 1N2 Tel: 613-224-1802 Fax: 613-224-0707 www.templeisraelottawa.ca Sam 613.697.2707 under supervision [email protected] 24 August 17, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Egypt: Israeli and Egyptian armies sharing intelligence

Continued from page 20 ingly sharing intelligence on the move- The meeting also coincided with a ment of for-profi t weapons smugglers warming trend between Sisi, the strong- and ideologically motivated militants. man who leads the world’s most popu- Sisi’s administration has also been lous Arab country, and Israel. In June, widely criticized in the West for clamping Egypt appointed Hazem Khairat as its down on free speech and press freedoms, new ambassador to Tel Aviv. Sisi’s and for jailing political opponents. predecessor, Mohamed Morsi, long Washington withheld funds and equip- affi liated with the Muslim Brotherhood, ment from Egypt after a particularly had recalled the previous ambassador in violent confrontation in August 2013 November 2012 after the Israeli Air Force between government troops and sup- struck and killed a top Hamas military porters of Morsi, a clash that left more commander and launched an eight-day than 600 dead on the streets of Cairo. offensive in the Gaza Strip. In March, U.S. President Barack Obama Israel’s war last summer in Gaza threw restored most of the $1.3 billion in annual The historical TV drama Jewish Quarter was a hit in Egypt during Ramadan. in sharp relief just how far from favour military funding, and the Pentagon Hamas, founded as an offshoot of the resumed shipments of new Harpoon two-part documentary project The Jews up a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Yet, Muslim Brotherhood, has fallen in missiles, F-16 fi ghter jets and replace- of Egypt and End of a Journey explores the last year, Ramses’ fi lms were screened in offi cial Cairo since Sisi’s ascent to power. ment kits for Abrams tanks. The Egyptian rise and demise of the Jewish commun- Egypt to critical acclaim. (Morsi was removed in a 2013 military Air Force’s ability to deploy F-16s allowed ities of Cairo and Alexandria between the Ramses said he was intrigued by takeover orchestrated by Sisi, who government troops to beat back the late-19th and middle-20th centuries. stories from his grandparents about became president the following year.) As assault against Sheik Zuweid by Ansar Ramses, a middle-class Muslim from Jewish, Greek and Italian neighbours Israel’s Operation Protective Edge Beit Al Maqdis, an ISIS-affi liated group. Cairo, battled offi cial censors here under whose different foods and folkways unfolded, Egypt’s state-sanctioned TV U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was the administrations of both Morsi and added an international fl air to the stations specifi cally deployed the term in Cairo August 3, where he co-chaired a Hosni Mubarak, and Islamists were metropolis – a fl air that is now decidedly “terrorist” to describe Hamas-launched “Strategic Dialogue” meeting with particularly rankled by the documen- absent. missile attacks on Israel. And, in the wake Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs, Sameh tary’s revisiting of the “Balfour Day” riots “The big picture I am trying to draw,” of increased activity in the Sinai by Shoukry. instigated by the Muslim Brotherhood in he said, “is an image of the pre-1952 affi liates of the Islamic State, the Israel If anyone in Egypt deserves credit for 1945. They coincided with the anniver- society through the window of the Defense Forces’ Southern Command and the contemporary shift in attitudes, sary of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 diversity of a cosmopolitan way of living the Egyptian Army in Sinai are increas- perhaps it is Amir Ramses, whose recent letter declaring Britain’s intention to set in Cairo.”

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Continued from page 25 the United States to avoid sabotage testing and the building of nuclear operations like Stuxnet, the computer warheads, said Mark Dubowitz, director virus believed to have been designed by of the Foundation of Defense of Israel and the United States that wrecked Democracies. Iran’s centrifuges in 2010. “That kind of activity may not involve But Dubowitz says the wording may actual enrichment where there would be give Iran legal cover to solicit assistance traces of uranium to detect,” he told JTA. from other countries, such as China, in Additionally, a small centrifuge plant stopping cyber-attacks. with advanced centrifuges in a contain- “It’s not clear from the agreement,” he ment system could be rapidly moved said. without leaving traces, according to U.S. Senate testimony given August 4 by David GHASAN SOLEYMANI Albright, a former U.S. nuclear inspector Soleymani, the general in the Iranian who is now president of the Institute for Revolutionary Guard Corps whose Quds Science and International Security. force is believed to have trained Deal proponents say the mining and Hezbollah and helped carry out some of transportation of the uranium needed for the worst Assad regime atrocities during a contained enrichment site would be the ongoing Syrian civil war, has impossible to hide, given the numerous appeared on a broad array of sanctions monitoring and verifi cation choke points. lists since 2007. In the agreement, he

Additionally, Iran has little to gain from IIPA VIA GETTY IMAGES appears on a long list of entities and such small-scale cheating like testing A view of the reactor at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern individuals to be removed from “nucle- explosives, said Alireza Nader, an Iran Iran as the first fuel is loaded, Aug. 21, 2010. ar-related” sanctions lists. analyst with the Rand Corp. Critics say that this and other de-list- nuclear security and physical protection Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other U.S. ings open up the fl oodgates to global PREVENTING SABOTAGE systems.” allies in the region. fi nancial activity by the Revolutionary Among the agreement’s provisions U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a But Daryl Kimball, president of the Guard. aimed at ensuring nuclear safety is Republican candidate for the 2016 Arms Control Association, says that is Deal defenders note that Soleymani “co-operation through training and presidential nomination, argues that this not the intention of the provision. Rather still appears on multiple lists, in the workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to provision sets the United States and its it’s meant to maintain security at civilian United States and elsewhere, sanctioning protect against, and respond to nuclear traditional allies in the Middle East on a nuclear sites so terrorists can’t access him for terrorist activity. security threats, including sabotage, as collision course by requiring the United them or steal equipment for other “The United States has a lot of leverage well as to enable effective and sustainable States to help Iran defend itself against countries. The provision does not oblige on that person,” Kimball said. August 17, 2015 27 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Camp Gan Izzy enjoys ‘exceptional summer’

BY LOUISE RACHLIS the Jewish Youth Library building at 192 FOR CAMP GAN ISRAEL Switzer Avenue, using the beautiful ast year, Ariel Wilbur was still outdoor pool for group and private singing summer day camp songs swimming lessons. long into the fall. The 2015 theme at Camp Gan Izzy was L This summer, six-year-old “Floating Towards a Better World” and Ariel, his brother, Jonah, 9, and sister, there was a full calendar of special Lilly, 3, all loved their experiences at activities like “Jump Rope” with the Camp Gan Israel of Ottawa. It was Ariel’s Ottawa Acro Ropers, “Spiderman second year and Lilly’s fi rst. Jonah has Magnetic Climbing Wall” with attended the Chabad-affi liated day camp Funatorium Explorium, “Wooden Rod – nicknamed “Camp Gan Izzy” and part Puppetry” with the Rag and Bone Puppet of an international network of Gan Israel Theatre, “Animal Adventures” to day camps – for four years. Barnyard Zoo, Lego Day, and more. “I sent them there because I was There was swimming, with swim familiar with the facility, because they instruction, every day except went to the [Westboro Jewish Montessori] Wednesdays. preschool,” said the Wilbur children’s “Our campers look forward to Camp mother, Dina Schneider. “I knew the Gan Izzy all year round,” said Devora programming would be top notch, and Caytak, director of the camp, and of my kids would be safe and included.” Westboro Jewish Montessori Preschool. Jonah has life-threatening allergies, “This summer was an exceptional year. and his mother felt secure that the camp Our registration increased over 10 per knew how to deal with food issues. cent, with families sending their children “We’ve always felt welcome there,” said from all over the city. We are looking Schneider, who grew up Reform and Three-year-old Lilly Wilbur is a happy camper in the pool at Camp Gan Israel of Ottawa. forward to an even larger registration attends Temple Israel. “The kids go to next year.” Temple school, but they love the daven- “This has been a really wonderful camp – but they really wanted to go.” Visit www.cgiottawa.org or call Devora ing. It reinforces their Jewish identity. experience to open her up to that. I’m a Camp Gan Izzy has been run by Yosef Caytak at 613-729-7712 for more informa- There is so much spirit in the camp! They teacher and don’t have to send my kids to and Devora Caytak since the 1990s, out of tion about Camp Gan Israel of Ottawa. come home singing.” She said Lilly couldn’t wait to get to Breaking news updated daily at www.ottawajewishbulletin.com camp.

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BY JON BRAUN SOLOWAY JCC ocal athletes, winning teams and volunteers were recognized for their achievements, June 14, at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre’s 14th Lannual Breakfast of Champions featuring keynote speaker Osvaldo Jeanty, the former Carleton Ravens basketball all-Canadian. The Noah Cantor Middle School Athletes of the year were Samantha Tanner and Jonah Cantor. Jonah is the nephew of Noah Cantor, a four-time Grey Cup champion. The Jack Goldfi eld High School Athletes of the Year were Rachel Feldberg and Daniel Novick. The Parliament Lodge Graduating Student Athletes of Jack Goldfield High School Athletes of the Year Daniel Novick the Year were Nepean High School graduate Zachary (left) and Rachel Feldberg (right) with Morley Goldfield. Shabinsky and Glebe Collegiate graduate Samantha Cogan. Zach will be attending the University of Miami this fall where he will be studying business, while Sam will be attending the University of Wisconsin where she will be a student athlete playing varsity hockey for the NCAA Lady Badgers. The Sharon Koffman Memorial Award, given to the Noah Cantor Middle School Athletes of the year Jonah Cantor top university varsity athlete, was won by Elie Vered (left) and Samantha Tanner (right) with four-time Grey Cup who led Liberty College of Hartford Connecticut in champion Noah Cantor. winning the NCAA Division 3 Hockey Championship. Manny Olszynko was awarded the Irving ‘Shap’ Shapero Award for his longtime commitment to JCC over a lengthy period of time,” was posthumously Athletics as a volunteer in the JCC Men’s Basketball awarded to Arnie Vered, Mark Kerzner and Howard League. Osterer. Arnie, Mark and Howard not only participated The Lou Honigman Award, which is awarded to “a in community athletics for many years, they all were local Jewish athlete who, on account of his persever- community volunteers who were committed to making Parliament Lodge Graduating Student Athletes of the Year Zachary Shabinsky (left) and Samantha Cogan (right) with ance, courage, ability and strength of character, distin- Ottawa’s Jewish community a special place to live and keynote speaker Osvaldo Jeanty. guishes himself or herself in a local sporting activity raise families.

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s the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin has asked me to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) commun- step down from my columnist’s post, I’d like ity, much play. In my estimation, neither of those to take this opportunity to thank one person MIRA SUCHAROV positions – full BDS or tacit acceptance of the status quo Ain particular, and to refl ect on my time writing VALUES, ETHICS, – will lead to the kind of endgame necessary for both the Values, Ethics, Community column. Israelis and Palestinians to maintain collective and Thanks go to my editor, Michael Regenstreif, who COMMUNITY individual needs, desires and dignity. I also sought to gave me the opportunity to fi nd my public writing voice. inject an analytical overlay to issues I felt were being After requesting a couple of book reviews in 2008, misunderstood in the fog of parochial loyalties, such as Michael offered me a regular column. I will forever be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand grateful for the opportunity. As an academic, it has been As an opinion writer leaving one perch, that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a particularly gratifying to be offered a platform in which it’s tempting to ask whether Jewish state. to share my ideas more broadly, beyond the audience of As an opinion writer leaving one perch, it’s tempting my peers alone. Indeed, since fi nding my feet at the I changed any minds. I doubt it. to ask whether I changed any minds. I doubt it. Judging Bulletin, I’ve had regular columns or been a frequent Judging from the letters-to-the-editor from the letters-to-the-editor I read, I know I raised blogger at Haaretz, , the Jewish I read, I know I raised blood pressure levels blood pressure levels among some readers. I also know Independent (Vancouver), the Forward, the Canadian from casual conversation that I pleased the sensibilities Jewish News and the Globe and Mail. Michael tipped the among some readers. I also know of others, though they were probably less likely to write ball into the court for me. from casual conversation that I pleased to the paper. What I’ve tried to do in the Bulletin is fi ve-fold. I’ve the sensibilities of others, And I know that my political perspective – squarely tried to share some of my own vulnerabilities and within the Zionist tent, but not right wing enough to challenges around issues such as parenting in general, though they were probably less likely suit the tastes of some of the establishment voices in Jewish parenting in particular, marriage and mortality. to write to the paper. Jewish Ottawa – cost me a leadership position at a I’ve tried to transfer parking-lot chatter into informed Jewish community institution I had believed in, and had and balanced commentary surrounding emotional how we treat domestic workers, disability inclusion, faithfully served for several years. This is something I issues such as day school decisions, synagogue rules responding to Islamophobia and pursuing social justice wrote about in my blog at Haaretz, and it was a jarring around Hebrew school attendance for obtaining bar and more generally. realization that critical wrestling is not good enough bat mitzvah privileges, and community kashrut require- And I’ve tried to shed light to offset the polarized heat when it comes to the tone and tenor of our donor-driven ments and negotiations. generated by the red-hot issue of Israeli policy, and how community. Sadly, the problem is not unique to Ottawa. I’ve tried to strengthen commitment toward Jewish these ideas get played out in the Diaspora. While, to the What I have tried to do more than anything else in my literacy, including education, knowledge of Israeli best of my recollection, party affi liation in Canada – or seven years at the Bulletin is to encourage people to politics and culture and, especially, Hebrew language. party preference in Israel – never came up, I made no think about things from a new perspective, even if for a I’ve tried to suggest more ethical ways of conducting secret of my distress over the ongoing Israeli occupation moment; and to model what I believe is the tenor of ourselves individually and in our community, including and the need to have serious and sustained discussion discourse essential to a productive exchange of ideas in issues around environmentalism, LGBTQ inclusion, about what can be done. Neither did I give those, like any society or community. In that, I hope I succeeded.

Grabbing cookies from the cupboard was no longer an How I cracked my sugar addiction option, nor was my morning bowl of Cheerios. One of the secrets to success is to put some effort into planning. I t home or on the go, I try to keep healthy made hard-boiled eggs and kept them in the fridge along snacks on hand. I’m far from perfect. There are with a fruit bowl and cut up veggies and hummus. If it’s days when I give in to mindless, unhealthy GLORIA SCHWARTZ easily accessible and visually appealing, you’re more Asnacking. There’s always room for improve- FOCUS ON likely to eat it. Don’t keep all fruits and vegetables in the ment. I periodically make a conscious decision to crisper drawers; out of sight is out of mind. improve my habits. Over the past eight years, my FITNESS After my initial shell shock I was, surprisingly, no lifestyle changes have included adding regular exercise longer craving sweets. I also wasn’t feeling tempted at and eliminating fast food, fried food and soft drinks from restaurants when people ate dessert in front of me. I my diet, as well as reducing my sodium intake. This actually enjoyed watching them indulge and I was OK spring, I made a commitment to myself to stop eating A number of people – those who also struggle with with it because I knew I was doing something healthy for foods containing added sugar. Given my sweet tooth, I unhealthy habits, are diabetic or are just curious – have myself. I do the grocery shopping, so I didn’t buy cookies knew this would be very diffi cult, which is why I set my asked me for the parameters of my self-imposed sug- or other sweets because I still wasn’t sure I’d have the goal as a one-month trial. ar-free challenge. (See your doctor or dietician, if you willpower when I was home alone with my old nemeses. I chose sugar because: have health issues). I decided not to eat any desserts or What was the outcome of this experiment? I lost fi ve 1. I’m addicted to it. When I don’t have it, I feel snacks containing sugar or other sweeteners such as pounds. Not a whole lot, but enough for my tummy to irritable or tired. honey or aspartame. Cake, cookies, candy, ice cream and look fl atter. You can lose weight with any type of caloric 2. I educated myself on the recent scientifi c associ- my beloved chocolate were off limits. I also cut out most reduction. In my case, the key was replacing sugary ations between sugar and a host of chronic health issues. processed foods containing added sugar; for example, snacks with lower-calorie, more nutritionally dense 3. I was inspired by Eat Clean author Tosca Reno whom canned pasta sauce, ketchup, sweet pickles, crackers and snacks, as well as cutting out desserts and miscellaneous I interviewed. Her one-month Strike Sugar Challenge breakfast cereals. I continued to eat whole grain bread items containing sugars. I estimate I reduced my daily doesn’t permit sugar, grains and most dairy and fruit. See even though it contains some sugar because I’ve been on sugar consumption by 90 per cent. my recent column, “There’s no sugar coating from Tosca a doctor-advised protein-restricted diet for many years. If When the month was over, I was proud of myself. But Reno,” in the June 22 issue. you have no reason to limit your protein, eat lean protein short-lived change doesn’t have much impact. It has to Some mid-20th century doctors recommended as it’s a more nutritious and satiating choice, as are be a lifestyle change. The potential long-term preventa- cigarettes, and sugar companies touted their products as healthy fats. I’ve been asked if I cut out fruit because it tive health benefi ts of sugar reduction are real and healthy – low in calories, high in energy and helpful for contains a lot of natural sugar. I did not. Fruit is full of signifi cant. I decided to keep up this routine. It’s been curbing your appetite. These days, we know smoking is fi bre and nutrients. three months so far with two “cheats.” I’m always honest dangerous, but we’re not as informed about sugar. Sugar The fi rst couple of days without my sweet treats were with you. I was in New Orleans this summer and allowed is no longer promoted in ads or on packaging, but it’s not easy. I felt a bit of psychological withdrawal. I also myself to indulge in beignets. And, yes, they were more prevalent than ever. had to think more about what I was going to eat. delicious! 30 August 17, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM PJ Library program goes ‘beyond the books,’ parents say hy were almost 200 kids and their parents lead-time to co-ordinate the family for events. enjoying a kosher barbecue and playtime 2. Flexibility. The events and activities are low-com- in Centrepointe Park on June 14? mitment. The parent organizers know that sometimes W Books. MONIQUE ELLIOT things come up after a family or parent has sent their PJ Library in the Park was the largest and most EMERGING GEN RSVP and that there will be some no-shows. That’s OK. successful gathering yet of Jewish families in Ottawa who Life happens. subscribe to PJ Library. 3. Variety. There were different activities for children Every month, PJ Library sends free Jewish-content at PJ Library in the Park, from Monkey Rock music to a books to families with children ages six months to splash pad, to games, crafts and story time. For the six-and-a-half years. For Chanukah, a CD of Jewish music they wouldn’t necessarily overlap, otherwise.” Mom’s and Dad’s Night Out events, the venues and is sent. Parents in the emerging generation range in age from formats evolve according to attendee feedback. With parents and their kids building a special bond by their early-20s to their mid-40s, so it was natural that 4. Inclusivity. This critical aspect spans everything reading the Jewish books together at bedtime, families some friend groups or networks simply never crossed, from religious affi liation to gender, and the organizers are now reaching out to each other through PJ Library until a common interest and purpose brought them said they plan for everyone. At the park event, Polowin events. Mom’s and Dad’s Night Out events also comple- together. Lesser said there were two mashgiachs ensuring the food ment the kids’ activities so that the parents can network Jordana Polowin Lesser, 33, who was born and raised was kosher, a concern for some families. She also praised and make friends in an adult setting. in Ottawa, can attest to that. Most of her lifelong, Jewish Fainer for meticulously going through ingredient lists of “I think, in the programming sense from all the friendships are a result of her time spent at Camp B’nai the food cooked at the barbecue. “There are not a lot of activities that we run, parents are getting a chance to Brith of Ottawa. But, her husband, Ari Lesser, 36, only barriers to getting involved,” Polowin Lesser said. “It’s meet each other, and to connect with other Jewish moved to Ottawa after they married. He said the Dad’s not religiously affi liated, so you can be anybody and parents and build their own Jewish community and have Night Out events have helped to include the fathers who come and just be culturally religious and show up and be their own Jewish network,” said Ariel Fainer, director of don’t have the traditional support systems that many comfortable. There’s no Jewish component to it except the Emerging Generation Division at the Jewish mothers do. that we’re Jewish and we live in Ottawa.” Federation of Ottawa, who co-ordinates PJ Library While PJ Library in the Park wasn’t the fi rst event to “Give it a try, and meet new people, and enjoy it for locally. draw out dozens of Ottawa families, it is being recog- what it is,” Jessica Shulman said. “It’s such a rich, That has been very true for the four co-chairs of PJ nized as a benchmark of success for anticipating both important program in our community. It’s such a Library in the Park, Jessica and Justin Shulman, and parents’ and kids’ needs. blessing to have this at our fi ngertips.” Jordana Polowin Lesser and Ari Lesser, who said that The Shulmans and the Lessers highlighted four main Ottawa is one of 200 communities in North America while it is all about the kids, the parents get so much out areas where both the children’s events and parents’ that participates in PJ Library. More than fi ve million of the programming, too. events succeed. books have been mailed out since its inception and there Family and togetherness is the “common thread that 1. Time to plan. Just about every parent will tell you are currently 125,000 active subscribers. links people,” said Jessica Shulman, 35. “Different people that last-minute plans are out of the question when it For more information about PJ Library and its events, have different levels of observance and belong to comes to young children with routines. They said contact Ariel Fainer at [email protected] or different denominations within the Jewish religion. So parents told them they appreciated having enough 613-798-4696 ext. 240. August 17, 2015 31 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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The Board of Directors of the Abraham Bookman by Joel and Barbara Our future is in your hands Ottawa Jewish Community Founda- Diener and family. tion acknowledges with thanks con- Elaine Singer by Joel and Barbara Diener and To make a donation tributions to the following funds as family; and by John and Dayra Diener. Mazel Tov to: of July 27, 2015. and/or send a tribute card, Barbara Levinson and family on the birth of her grandson, Tyler by Joel, Barbara, Jessica, call the Foundation office ABELSON FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND Josh, Michelle and Michael Diener. (613-798-4696 ext. 274) Mazel Tov to: Alan Abelson and family on the marriage of DOLANSKY FAMILY FUND e-mail: [email protected] his granddaughter, Jesse to Adam Shaked by Lois Condolences to: and Bob Abelson. Arthur Greenspoon and family on the loss of website: www.OJCF.ca Joan and Bill Lopatin on the marriage of their his dear sister by Bernard and Donna Dolansky. daughter, Jesse to Adam Shaked by Lois and Bob Abelson. ELLEN AND RAHAMIM FATHI ENDOWMENT FUND Join us in building our community MARY AND ISRAEL (AL) ALLICE In Memory of: MEMORIAL FUND David Ben-Reuven by Ellen, Tamara and In Memory of: Michael Fathi. by supporting these local agencies Anna Froimovitch by Beverly and Irving Norman Lesh by Ellen Fathi. Swedko. AJA 50+ ENDOWMENT FUND JEWISH YOUTH LIBRARY OF OTTAWA MOSHE AND LILY FEIG In Memory of: ENDOWMENT FUND APPOTIVE FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND Elaine Singer by Flo and Joel Morgan; and DAVID “THE BEAR” KARDASH ENDOWMENT FUND Mazel Tov to: by Sheila and Steve Senman. CAMP B’NAI BRITH MEMORIAL FUND Birthday Wishes to: Ned and Golda Steinman on Noam and OTTAWA JEWISH CEMETERIES Howard Appotive by Sharon Appotive; and by Yona’s graduations by Stephanie Loomer and OTTAWA JEWISH ZICHARON FUND Jeff Appotive. Steven Dain and families. HISTORICAL SOCIETY FUND OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY ANNE AND LOUIS ARRON Mazel Tov to: ENDOWMENT FUND MARJORIE AND MICHAEL FELDMAN Bill and Joan Lopatin on Jesse’s marriage MEMORIAL FUND OTTAWA JEWISH FAMILY FUND to Adam by Stephanie Loomer, Rebecca and In Memory of: COMMUNITY SCHOOL Good Wishes to: Seth Abelson. Norman Lesh by Daphne and Stanley Arron. PARENT FUND Marjorie and Michael Feldman on their new Mazel Tov to: OTTAWA JEWISH home by David and Josie Finestone; by Rick SARA AND ZEEV VERED Barbara and Len Farber on their son, Michael’s and Helen Zipes; by Roz and Steve Fremeth; ISRAEL CULTURAL PROGRAM FUND COMMUNITY SCHOOL engagement to Leah by Daphne and Stanley AGENCY FUND by Debbie and Steve Caron; by Sherri and Jack In Memory of: Arron; and by Jen Arron and Shawn Stevens. Torjman; by Chuck and Bonnie Merovitz; by David Ben-Reuven by Jackie, David, OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL Sandy and Andy Siggner; and by Rhoda and Joe Rachel and Zev Lyman. CAYLA AND MICHAEL BAYLIN Levitan. CHILDREN OF THE BOOK ENDOWMENT FUND AWARD FUND SHIRLEY AND SHIER BERMAN FUND Birthday Wishes to: SAM AND SUSAN FIRESTONE OTTAWA JEWISH FOR OTTAWA JEWISH ARCHIVES Evelyn Rivers by Cayla Baylin. ENDOWMENT FUND COMMUNITY SCHOOL In Memory of: David Smith by Cayla Baylin. In Memory of: ENDOWMENT FUND Charlotte Singer Cheifetz by Shirley and In Memory of: Norman Lesh by Sam, Susan, Lindsay, Shier Berman. OTTAWA JEWISH Jack Feldman by Cayla Baylin. Jessica and Daniel Firestone. COMMUNITY SCHOOL FUND Elaine Singer by Cayla Baylin. AJA 50+ DAVID SMITH IN MEMORY OF EVA WINTROB Mazel Tov to: FLORENCE FAMILY OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY OTTAWA LODGE B’NAI BRITH #885 Linda Slotin and Jonathan Fisher on their MEMORIAL FUND SCHOOL PAST PRESIDENTS FUND upcoming marriage by Cayla Baylin. In Memory of: SCHOLARSHIP FUND OTTAWA LODGE B’NAI BRITH #885 Mary Dubinsky by A.L. and Ann Smith. AKIVA EVENING HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENTS SCHOLARSHIP FUND SAM AND ANN BROZOVSKY ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND OTTAWA MODERN LAWRENCE AND AUDREY FREIMAN Birthday Wishes to: ADINA BEN PORAT MACHON SARAH JEWISH SCHOOL FUND FUND FOR CHILDREN Ellie Kardish-Kamil by Ann Brozovsky. TORAH EDUCATION FUND OTTAWA POST WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES DORIS BRONSTEIN TALMUD TORAH In Memory of: JEWISH WAR VETERANS FUND BARRY AND MARCIA CANTOR AFTERNOON SCHOOL FUND Mary Dubinsky by Charles and Linda Swartz. OTTAWA TORAH INSTITUTE COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND BARRY FISHMAN TORAH EDUCATION FUND Anniversary Wishes to: OTTAWA JEWISH BULLETIN ALFRED AND KAYSA FRIEDMAN PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Carolyn and Sid Katz by Barry and Marcia SCHOLARSHIP FUND ENDOWMENT FUND MUSIC EDUCATION FUND Cantor. MARTIN GLATT PARLIAMENT LODGE In Appreciation to: RAMBAM MAIMONIDES Leon Kozliner by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman. B’NAI BRITH PAST PRESIDENTS’ FUND JEWISH CONTINUITY FUND SANDI AND EDDY COOK MENDEL AND VALERIE GOOD In Memory of: SOLOWAY JEWISH ENDOWMENT FUND Elaine Singer by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman. HOLOCAUST CONTINUING COMMUNITY CENTRE In Memory of: EDUCATION FUND EARLY CHILDHOOD David Ben-Reuven by Sandi and Eddy Cook ROBERT AND LEAH GENCHER GREENBERG FAMILIES EDUCATION FUND and family. FAMILY FUND LIBRARY FUND SOLOWAY JEWISH COMMUNITY Norman Lesh by Sandi and Eddy Cook and In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: FUND FOR THE NEXT GENERATION SUMMER CAMP SCHOLARSHIP FUND family. Robert Gencher, a loving husband, father, HILLEL LODGE LEGACY FUND SOLOWAY JEWISH Mazel Tov to: father-in-law and grandfather by Leah Gencher. JEWISH COMMUNITY CEMETERY COMMUNITY CENTRE Cindi and Mark Resnick on the birth of their HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FUND ENDOWMENT FUND granddaughter, Sloan Hannah Resnick by Sandi JACK AND GERT GOLDSTEIN and Eddy Cook and family. JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES SOLOWAY JEWISH MEMORIAL FUND AGENCY FUND COMMUNITY CENTRE Mazel Tov to: NATHAN AND REBA DIENER YOUTH SERVICES FUND Judith Robertson and Allan Kathnelson on JEWISH MEN’S ENDOWMENT FUND SOFTBALL LEAGUE FUND TAMIR ENDOWMENT FUND their son, Zach’s marriage to Sarah by Diane and In Memory of: Allen Abramson. JEWISH STUDENTS ASSOCIATION - TORAH ACADEMY OF OTTAWA Norman Beck by Joel and Barbara Diener and HILLEL FUND TORAH EDUCATION FUND family. Continued on page 32 32 August 17, 2015 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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R’fuah Sh’leimah to: Board of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa by SUSAN AND DAVID KRIGER NORMAN AND ANNE MIRSKY Judith Robertson by Diane and Allen Pauline Hochberg; and by Brian Hochberg. ENDOWMENT FUND MEMORIAL FUND Abramson. In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Anniversary Wishes to: Murray Schwartz by Diane and Allen SAMUEL AND TILLIE KARDISH Judith Ain, a dear mother by Susan and David Morton and Sheila Baslaw by Millie and Abramson. MEMORIAL FUND Kriger. Steve Mirsky. Birthday Wishes to: In Appreciation to: FRITZI AND MAX (CHIEF) GREENBERG Joy Kardish by Cheryl Kardish-Levitan, JOAN AND RUSSELL KRONICK Jerry Brail by Millie Mirsky. MEMORIAL FUND Brian, Elana, Jenna, Tyler and Ian Levitan. FAMILY FUND In Memory of: In Memory of: Anniversary Wishes to: Elaine Singer by Millie and Steve Mirsky. David Ben-Reuven by Linda and Murray ARTHUR AND SARAH KIMMEL Joan and Russell Kronick by Marilyn and Will Greenberg and family. MEMORIAL FUND Newman; and by by Fran and Mort Ross. ABRAM AND EDITH MOLOT In Memory of: MEMORIAL FUND GROSSMAN KLEIN FAMILIES FUND Norman Lesh by Carol-Sue and Jack Shapiro. NORMAN AND ISABEL LESH Anniversary Wishes to: In Memory of: ENDOWMENT FUND Maureen and Henry Molot by Carol and Arnell Goldberg by Vera and Leslie Klein. MORRIS AND LILLIAN KIMMEL In Memory of: Stuart Levine. Don Timmins by Vera and Leslie Klein. MEMORIAL FUND Norman Lesh by Ingrid Levitz; by Barry and R’fuah Sh’leimah to: R’fuah Sh’leimah to: Marcia Cantor; by Lynne Oreck-Wener and Bob TANYA AND SAMUEL MOSES MORIN Yanda Max by Vera and Leslie Klein. Daniel Levine by Rhoda and Jeff Miller. Wener; by Ian and Melissa Shabinsky; by Milton MEMORIAL FUND and Joyce Kimmel; by Evelyn Greenberg; by In Appreciation to: TEENA AND WALTER HENDELMAN SHARON KOFFMAN Morley Goldfield and Gary Goldfield and family; Rabbi Elie Benzaquen by Harvey Morin. FAMILY FUND ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND by Joe and Sheila Nadrich; by Stan Kimmel; by Simon Morin by Harvey Morin. In Memory of: In Memory of: Ethel and David Malek; and by Linda and Alan Bonna Haberman Browns by Teena and Mary Dubinsky by Sandra Zagon. Gilbert. ALTI AND BEREL RODAL Walter Hendelman. FAMILY FUND Jack Feldman by Teena and Walter KRANTZBERG KRANE SANDRA AND JACIE LEVINSON In Memory of: Hendelman. FAMILY FUND ENDOWMENT FUND David Ben-Reuven by Alti and Berel Rodal. Stanley Winthrop by Teena and Walter In Memory of: Anniversary Wishes to: Arthur Klein by Alti and Berel Rodal. Hendelman. Anna Froimovitch by Susan and Charles Sandra and Jacie Levinson by Marilyn and Mazel Tov to: Schwartzman and family; by Evelyn Krane; and Will Newman. Fraidy and Hersh Loshak on the birth and bris HY AND PAULINE HOCHBERG by Myra and Sam Krane and family. of Yosef Yehuda by Alti and Berel Rodal. ENDOWMENT FUND R’fuah Sh’leimah to: SALLY AND ELLIOTT LEVITAN Chana Raizel and Sender Kagan on the birth In Memory of: Evelyn Krane by Susan and Charles Schwartz- ENDOWMENT FUND and bris of Yosef Yehuda by Alti and Berel Norman Lesh by Pauline Hochberg. man and family. In Memory of: Rodal. Mazel Tov to: Sheldon Shaffer by Susan and Charles Joan Levine by Sally and Elliott Levitan. Linda Kerzner on becoming Chair of the Schwartzman and family. FLORENCE AND GDALYAH ROSENFELD JOSEPH AND EVELYN LIEFF ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND In Appreciation to: Birthday Wishes to: Pat Fejes by Anita Rosenfeld. Ruth Soloway by Evelyn Lieff. In Memory of: FRANCES AND MORTON ROSS Mary Dubinsky by Evelyn Lieff. FAMLY FUND Arnell Goldberg by Evelyn Lieff. Birthday Wishes to: Russell Kronick by Fran and Mort Ross. ARNOLD AND ROSE LITHWICK MEMORIAL FUND SAMUEL AND RUTH ROTHMAN Birthday Wishes to: MEMORIAL FUND Robert Myers by Yvonne and Harvey In Memory of: Lithwick and family. David Ben-Reuven by Sheldon and Corinne Graida Victor by Yvonne and Harvey Taylor. Lithwick and family. Mazel Tov to: Shirley and Cliff Yumansky on the birth of JACOB MALOMET MEMORIAL FUND their granddaughter, Zoe Ruby by Sheldon and Birthday Wishes to: Corinne Taylor. Melane Hotz by Diana and Alvin Malomet. In Memory of: ELAYNE AND WESLEY SCHACTER Arthur Klein by Diana and Alvin Malomet. ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: ANNE (BLAIR) Elaine Singer by Elayne and Wesley Schacter AND HYMAN MAYBERGER and family. ENDOWMENT FUND Mazel Tov to: AL AND BETTY SEGAL Bruce and Bonnie Engel and family on the MEMORIAL FUND marriage of their son, Matt to Carli by Shelley In Memory of: and Morris Schachnow. Elaine Singer by Ned and Gail Segal and R’fuah Sh’leimah to: family. Paula Silver by Shelley and Morris Mazel Tov to: Schachnow. Ellie and Max Segal on Jordana and Matt’s upcoming wedding by Shelley and Martin RHODA AND JEFFREY MILLER Goldenberg. 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killed when the gun went off accidentally during a scuffl e, Halpern, as she notes very early in the book (so A murder case that shocked this is not a spoiler), attributes Edelson’s acquittal to the all-male jury’s embrace of the “unwritten law – accord- Ottawa’s Jewish community in 1931 ing to which betrayed men are entitled to avenge their wife’s seducer.” Ultimately, the Edelson marriage endured despite Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn Alice’s long affair, the killing of her lover and the in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case criminal trial of her husband. They remained married By Monda Halpern another 40 years until Alice’s death at age 76 in 1972. By McGill-Queen’s University Press MICHAEL REGENSTREIF the 1960s, the couple revelled in their roles as grandpar- 276 pages BOOK REVIEW ents, and Alice was an active volunteer for several community organizations rising to the presidency of her rom all accounts, it was an extramarital affair Hadassah-WIZO chapter. and a killing that shocked the small, close-knit Ben Edelson continued to run his store well into his Jewish community centred in the Lowertown Western University, uses newspaper accounts from the senior years before passing it on to his daughter Dina. He and Sandy Hill neighbourhoods of Ottawa 84 F time, court records, material from the died at age 98 in 1988, spending his fi nal years ago. Ottawa Jewish Archives, and interviews eight years as a resident of Hillel Lodge In 1931, jewelry store owner Ben Edelson and his wife, with community members – including on Wurtemburg Street in Lowertown. Alice, had been married for two decades – she was just helpful members of the Edelson and Edelson Jewellers remained a family 15 when they wed – and they had seven children. But, for Horwitz families – to recreate the business until fi nally closing in 2005. eight years, Alice had been having an affair with Jack circumstances of the case and examine Soon after the trial, Horwitz’s widow, Horwitz, also a jewelry store owner. There were suspi- its consequences. Yetta, moved away from Ottawa with their cions that one or two of the Edelson children had been Halpern effectively sets the scene with daughter. She soon remarried and lived, fathered by Horwitz. detailed biographical sketches of the fi rst in Montreal,then in Los Angeles, On the night of November 24, 1931, Edelson followed principal players in this tragic drama, until her own death at age 98 in 1998. his wife to Myrand Avenue in Lowertown and confronted vivid descriptions of the events that The main events discussed in Alice in her and Horwitz there. After a brief argument, the three unfolded, analysis of the court case that Shandehland took place fi ve and six agreed to adjourn to Edelson’s jewelry store at 24 Rideau ensued, and of how the scandal affected years before the founding of the Ottawa Street to discuss the affair and what to do about it. the Jewish community and the stand- Jewish Bulletin in 1937. In the ensuing At the store, an argument ensued when Edelson ings of the principals, and of their decades, it seems the case was only wanted to call Horwitz’s wife, Yetta, to the meeting. families, in the community. discussed in whispers in Ottawa’s Jewish Horwitz was shot and killed with the gun Edelson kept Readers will fi nd themselves gripped by the unfolding community – so this book review is probably the fi rst in the store (apparently, a common practice at Ottawa events of that cold November night in 1931 when the time the Edelson/Horwitz case has been discussed in jewelry stores at the time). shooting occurred and of the events that followed, from this newspaper. I wonder how my predecessors would In the thoroughly researched Alice in Shandehland: Edelson’s arrest, to the court case and his ultimate have covered this case had it happened just a few short Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case, acquittal on the murder charge. years later, or how I might approach a case like this if it Monda Halpern, an associate professor of history at Although Edelson’s lawyer argued that Horwitz was happened today. I hope we never have to fi nd out. August 17, 2015 35 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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