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BY MICHAEL REGENSTREIF late last year, after Rabbi Bulka Congregation Machzikei Hadas has announced his plan to retire in 2015. announced the appointment of Rabbi “We are very excited to welcome Rabbi Idan Scher as the modern Orthodox Idan Scher, his wife, Shifra, and their son, synagogue’s next spiritual leader. Shlomo, to Congregation Machzikei The congregation expects Rabbi Scher Hadas,” said Machzikei Hadas President and his family will move to Ottawa this Jonah Rabinovitch in announcing the summer to begin a year-long transition appointment. period ahead of being installed as “Rabbi Scher brings a lot of youth, spiritual leader before the High Holidays energy and enthusiasm to the congrega- in September 2015. During his fi rst year, tion. He made an excellent impression he will serve as associate rabbi, working during his trial Shabbat, generating a lot closely with Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, of interest and excitement across all Machzikei Hadas’ spiritual leader since demographic groups. We’re confi dent he 1967. can effectively reach out and bring new Rabbi Idan Scher, seen here with wife Shira and son Shlomo, will work with Rabbi Reuven The search for a successor to the members into our wonderful shul. I know Bulka as associate rabbi for one year before becoming spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in 2015. congregation’s long-serving rabbi began See Rabbi Scher on page 2 March of the Living: Experience ‘will be life-changing’

BY MONIQUE ELLIOT have on them. consequences. evil have been willing to dig deep back into Ottawa high school students currently in “If you’re a person of faith, you believe The fi rst March of the Living was held in those experiences to share them over and Poland on the March of the Living in providence, that sometimes things 1988 and, to date, more than 150,000 youth over again, as some survivors have, and how program left with well wishes from happen [that] can trigger a chain of events, from around the world have participated in painful that must be for them,” Kenney said. Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney. [which will] in time, produce good,” the program. This year also marks the 70th anniver- Kenney – who is also minister of Kenney said. The students, accompanied by Holo- sary of the deportation and devastation of Employment and Social Development – The March of the Living educational caust survivors, march from Auschwitz to Hungary’s Jews during the Holocaust, and spoke to the students April 1 at the Soloway program allows students from around the Birkenau, on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust there will be special emphasis on the Jewish Community Centre sharing his world to travel to Poland to study the Remembrance Day). stories of Hungarian Jewry during this enthusiasm and encouragement about the history of the Holocaust and to examine “It always amazes me that people who year’s March of the Living program. deep emotional impact the program will underlying causes of prejudice and its lived through this unspeakable mystery of See March on page 2

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Continued from page 1 greeted by the Machzikei Hadas com- the congregation will welcome the Schers munity during our Shabbos in Ottawa with open arms.” was unlike anything we might have The congregation’s Rabbi Search imagined,” he said. Committee screened 29 applicants for the “We were humbled not only by the position, and Rabbi Scher was one of renowned scholarship of Rabbi Bulka, three candidates they recommended to but also by the obvious achievements of spend a trial Shabbat with the congrega- the community as a whole. This is a shul tion. Following the three trial Shabbats, a where Jews of diverse backgrounds and vote was held among the Machzikei paths come together with mutual Hadas membership, and Rabbi Scher respect, warmth and delight. Their received “an overwhelming majority” of commitment to the shul is evident votes, according to an email sent April 8 everywhere. to congregants announcing the “We are deeply honoured and very appointment. excited to become part of the journey as Although he was born in Chicago and we grow together into the future. We grew up in the United States, Rabbi Scher couldn’t be happier.” has familial connections to Ottawa and to Rabbi Bulka expressed great enthusi- Congregation Machzikei Hadas, where asm about the choice of his successor. both his parents and grandparents were “Rabbi Scher brings to us abundant married. He has spent signifi cant time in energy, great ideas, a genuine desire to Ottawa over the years on family visits. serve, an engaging personality, an equally Rabbi Scher is currently working in committed and dedicated wife, a range of Baltimore, where he is campus rabbi at knowledge and ability well beyond his the University of Maryland and rabbinic years – in other words, all the makings of intern at an Orthodox synagogue, Bnai a great rabbi,” wrote Rabbi Bulka in a Jacob Shaarei Zion. letter to congregants attached to the

In accepting the position, Rabbi Scher email announcing the appointment. PHOTO: ASHLEY FRASER Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas since 1967, thanked the Machzikei Hadas commun- “As associate rabbi for the fi rst year, he will become rabbi emeritus in 2015. ity for the welcome he and his wife will be able to ease into becoming rabbi received during his trial Shabbat and said with less pressure, and ample opportun- he’s looking forward to serving the ity to learn about the shul, which means called upon, but respectful of the new The Ottawa Jewish Bulletin will sit congregation. to learn about you. After the Schers’ fi rst reality. The future for our shul looks down with Rabbi Scher for a feature “The genuine and enthusiastic year, I will assume the role of rabbi more than promising with the Schers interview when he arrives in Ottawa this welcome with which Shifra and I were emeritus, hopefully available when and if joining us,” added Rabbi Bulka. summer. March: ‘Nothing matters more,’ says multiculturism minister

Continued from page 1 After Yom HaShoah, the students will travel to Israel and end their journey on exciting, optimistic terms as they celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut. Josh Kofsky, a Grade 10 student at Colonel By Secondary School, expects March of the Living will be “overwhelming.” “Just the stories and seeing the places where they went through such harsh life will be life-changing,” he said. PHOTO: MONIQUE ELLIOT “I’m jealous. I wish I could join you,” Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney at the SJCC, April 1, with Ottawa’s 2014 March of the Living participants. Kenney told the students and their parents and chaperons. “It’s a lot of walking and it is long hours, students and his own family. future generations, beginning with all Evan Zelikovitz, chair of the March of this trip. But it’s unbelievable,” he added. Kenney said he is proud to work with the students who continue to participate in the Living Digital Archive Project, said he Zelikovitz said he hopes to capture the March of the Living Digital Archive Project. the March. and his fi lm crew will accompany the profound impact by hearing the survivors “I can’t think of anything I’ve been “They are our next generation of students while documenting the personal tell their stories “in the very places where involved in, in public life, that matters witnesses.” testimonies of about 20 Canadian surviv- it happened: in the camps.” more than this,” he said. “I only wish you ors reliving the past as they participate in The project is in its second year, and had begun this kind of work a few decades Correction the March. students watched a video Zelikovitz and ago to capture all the testimonies of the The article on Agudath Israel’s Boutique “We just want to capture their stories his team produced during the 2013 March survivors.” Judaica in the April 7 issue included an before it’s too late. There are only a few of survivor Joe Mandel telling his Zelikovitz said he believes these incorrect email address for manager years left to go,” he said of the globally Holocaust survival and camp liberation recorded stories will have a “huge Marie Levine. The correct address is [email protected]. dwindling numbers of survivors. stories for the fi rst time ever to both impact” that will connect survivors with

BULLETIN INDEX CANDLE LIGHTING BEFORE BULLETIN DEADLINES BOOK REVIEW 20 EMERGING GEN 19 MY ISRAEL 19 MAY 2 7:50 PM MAY30 8:21 PM MAY 7 FOR MAY 26 CIJA 4 FOCUS ON FITNESS 21 TRIBEFEST 5 MAY 9 7:59 PM JUNE 3 8:25 PM JUNE 11 FOR JUNE 30 COMMENTARIES 6, 7 FOUNDATION 25, 26 VALUES, ETHICS 21 MAY 16 8:07 PM JUNE 4 AFTER 9:29 PM JULY 9 FOR JULY 28 CONCERTS 8, 12 ISRAELI REFORM RABBI 11 WHAT’S GOING ON 27 MAY 23 8:15 PM JUNE 6 8:27 PM AUGUST 6 FOR AUGUST 25 April 28, 2014 3 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Volunteering with Sar-El is a unique way to experience Israel Ian Sadinsky enthusiastically discusses his fulfi lling experiences, and those of other Ottawa-based volunteers, with Sar-El, an organization that provides support to military bases in Israel.

aving visited many times, I am women, many of them recent immigrants always on the lookout for new to Israel from countries like Ukraine and ways to experience and learn Ethiopia. Habout the modern miracle that The Sar-El program saves the IDF is Israel. In January, while we were living approximately $12 million U.S. annually in Israel for a month, our friends Janet through the work of volunteers. This frees and Jonathan Isserlin came back to Tel up regular soldiers and reservists to do Aviv from a two-week stint with the Sar-El other priority work. Between 60 and 70 program raving about their experiences. I per cent of the Sar-Elniks are repeat knew immediately this was something I volunteers and some, like former Sar-El wanted to try. Canada president Jack Bordan and his Sar-El – a Hebrew acronym for sherut wife Sylvia of Montreal, have served more l-Yisrael (service to Israel) – is an than 30 times! international organization founded in Dale Fyman, a retired Ottawa dentist, 1982 by the late Aharon Davidi, an Israeli has volunteered three times with Sar-El, Sar-El volunteers from Ottawa Ian Sadinsky (right) and Jonathan Isserlin with IDF madrichot general. From modest beginnings, it now which operates weekly from Sunday to Elizabeth and Baillie. provides over 4,000 volunteers a year to Thursday, freeing volunteers from their the Israeli military, including 150 to 180 duties over Shabbat. Canadians annually. Of the 24 Sar-El “I usually go for two or three weeks in pants, belt and bomber jacket (the nights experiences and stay in touch during the source countries, Canada ranks third in October. My wife, Ruthie, visits with a in Israel can get quite cool), topped off rest of the year. participation after France and the United school friend, and we meet up from with a special Sar-El cap and epaulettes. Dale Fyman tells a particularly moving States. Thursday evenings until Sunday,” said We wore the uniform while at work and story about this sense of family: Reasons for volunteering for Sar-El vary Dale. around the base. The uniform is an “We had one full-time IDF soldier who from person to person. For some, it is a “The fi rst two years, I was one of the excellent way to make people feel part of a was in a wheelchair due to spina bifi da. way to meet new people and see a youngest in my group. But, last year, there team – and we did – especially at lunch, When we heard that he had received a different side of Israel. Others volunteer were more younger people,” he added. when we were in the same mess hall with promotion, our group threw a party for out of a deeply personal wish to I noticed the same thing. The 33 the regular and reserve soldiers. him. We were so impressed by the equality contribute something more than dollars volunteers on our base included three At our base, we had our own Sar-El within the army.” to the protection and development of the young men who were using Sar-El as a compound, separate quarters for women I kept a detailed log and brought home State of Israel. Whatever the reason, Sar-El way to seek permanent service in the IDF, and men, separate latrines, a small room many of my own stories, some of which provides a unique opportunity to do as well as an 18-year-old woman from New with a television and refrigerator (The are mentioned in an article, “Sar-El: A something a little different in your life. York City who was contemplating her Club) and an outdoor lounging area. The Personal Refl ection,” I wrote for the Sar-El The work of a Sar-El volunteer is age- options before college. accommodations were Spartan with four website (www.sar-el.org). Some of my appropriate, consisting of labour- Each Sar-El unit is led by full-time IDF to eight volunteers per room. colleagues are already planning to intensive, repetitive tasks of a non-combat personnel. Our madrichot, Elizabeth and But work is the central objective of the combine future Sar-El service with visits nature. Jonathan Isserlin and I worked at a Baillie, were 19 and 20 and extremely program, not comfort. to family and friends in Israel, medical base where we sorted medical capable, knowledgeable, personable and “About a third of the volunteers in participation in the Jerusalem or Tel Aviv equipment identifying expired items and organized. Before our work day, they my group were in their 80s, recalled Dale marathons, educational activities or resorting, counting and packaging still would lead our fl ag-raising ceremony, Fyman. “They worked just as hard as the simchas. Whatever your plan, whatever current items. Other Sar-El volunteers, after which they would give us the news of younger people and complained loudly if your purpose – consider Sar-El as a like Janet Isserlin, then packed the various day – military, Israel and world – and our there wasn’t enough work to keep them different way to connect with Israel. pieces into full medical kits, which were work assignments. In the evenings, they busy.” For more information on the Canadian sent to military and fi eld hospitals, would present special programs where we The bonding that takes place between program, visit www.sarelcanada.org or disaster relief programs and even refugee learned about Israel, the military and even the Sar-Elniks and the civilian and military contact Sar-El Canada at montreal@ camps. some Hebrew. staff is quite noticeable. Often, I would sarelcanada.org or 514-735-0272. Our volunteer service with Sar-El was in Another Ottawa Sar-El participant, speak to offi cers and reservists who Ian Sadinsky is an Ottawa-based late-February and early-March and, one retired translator Yehuda Azuelos, speaks expressed their appreciation for the communications consultant. He is day, we were bused to another base where highly of the madrichot. assistance Sar-El provides to the IDF. The president, Sadinsky and Associates; we helped package Passover rations for “They were so good with people, so fact that we actually paid to come and vice-president, Éclair Communications lone soldiers, the Israel Defense Force accommodating. I used to love going into work blew them away and confi rmed to (www.eclaircommunications.com); (IDF) members without family in Israel or the refectory to see all the young soldiers them that the people of Israel were not president, Ottawa Jewish Historical Society; far removed from them. This was a in their uniforms. It was a beautiful alone. and a member of the Jewish Federation of particularly memorable experience, as we image,” he said. Many Sar-Elniks make lifelong personal Ottawa Communications and Community worked alongside an IDF unit of young Sar-Elniks are issued uniforms: shirt, connections from their volunteer Relations Committee. 4 April 28, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Advocacy is ‘intrinsic to being Jewish’ In this guest column, Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) discusses some of CIJA’s advocacy initiatives in Ottawa and invites the Jewish community to review and comment on its Impact Report.

efi ned as “the act or process of stakeholders. Simply put, we owe the becoming involved in the federal govern- supporting a cause or proposal,” Jewish community a transparent report of ment’s anti-bullying strategy, there are advocacy is in many ways our work and an opportunity for the countless opportunities for Jewish Dintrinsic to being Jewish – grassroots to rate our performance and let Canadians to make a difference for the whether one identifi es as secular, trad- us know their priorities – which is why we benefi t of all Canadians. itional or somewhere in between. From recently launched our Impact Report. The National Holocaust Monument is an generation to generation, Jews have While many organizations and busi- example of an initiative here in Ottawa Shimon Koffler Fogel refused to accept the status quo and, in nesses publish annual reports, the Impact that has important implications for our turn, have helped lead some of the most Report is designed to be an entirely new entire country. As host to hundreds of 10 minutes and drawing an audience of important advances in human rights, way of communicating with stakeholders. thousands of tourists annually, including fewer than a dozen people. In response, a freedom and social justice. Just as Jewish In its online version (www.cija.ca/impact), many students on fi eld trips, Ottawa is university spokesperson rejected the activists worked to secure recognition of the Impact Report enables readers to uniquely suited for a downtown memorial boycott and noted the purchasing policy our national freedom in Israel and our review, on an issue-by-issue basis, the that stands as a permanent reminder of the of the school’s supplier is “apolitical.” own rights to equality in the Diaspora, we actions we have taken over the past two dangers of anti-Semitism and hatred in all This academic year, CIJA launched a always advocated for the vulnerable – years, the outcomes achieved and our its forms. Last year, the federal government series of local internships on campuses whether African-Americans in the intended next steps. Readers are then announced the monument will be located across the country, providing resources to Southern U.S., refugees from Vietnam or invited to use an online survey platform next to the Canadian War Museum. With pro-Israel students looking to create their the people of Darfur. to evaluate and offer comments on each construction slated to begin this summer own impactful programs to promote Israel As the non-partisan advocacy agent of issue. We have strived to use technology culminating in a dedication ceremony in as a vibrant, multicultural, liberal democ- the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and its as a means to raise the bar on community fall 2015, Ottawa’s Jewish community can racy. Our intern at Carleton has put partner federations across Canada, the accountability and motivate community be proud of its role in helping secure together an innovative outreach project in Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) members to get involved in whatever area all-party support for the monument from the form of pre-exam “recharge” stations, is engaged in a range of initiatives in of advocacy speaks to them. Whether its very inception on Parliament Hill. inviting students of all backgrounds to keeping with our communal legacy of advocating for stronger Canada-Israel Ottawa is also an important focal point enjoy a bite of falafel, a drink of advocacy. But our work is entirely economic ties, countering proposed on another advocacy fi le: campus SodaStream carbonated water and dependent on the engagement of our restrictions to freedom of religion or activism. 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can I possibly suggest that membership is The Soloway Jewish a well-kept secret? It’s simple. Many of the people I’ve spoken to would say they are JCC mem- Community Centre: bers simply because they enter the building and attend an event. Or they where active membership identify as JCC members because they contribute to the Federation’s Annual Campaign. But, in reality, to ensure the is rewarding JCC remains as vibrant as it is today, members of the community need to Camps. Our JCC is also home to the Jewish community centre and additional pages continue walking into the building and Federation of Ottawa, a supplementary to be added to share the community take that one extra step to become a JCC

FEDERATION REPORT school, the Ottawa Jewish Community programs held off campus – such as the member. There are different levels of MITCH MILLER Foundation, the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin annual Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel’s membership and opportunities to SOLOWAY JCC newspaper, BBYO and NCSY to name but Independence Day) celebration – which contribute so that every member of a few of the community agencies and are planned by the Soloway Jewish Ottawa’s Jewish community can proudly ur home away from home, organizations that call 21 Nadolny Sachs Community Centre for the benefi t of the identify as a member of the Soloway where some Jewish journeys Private their home. greater Ottawa community. Jewish Community Centre. begin and others are strength- Our JCC is much more than just one of Yet, SJCC membership is still one of the I look forward to seeing you at the SJCC Oened: our Soloway Jewish Ottawa’s leading fi tness facilities or best kept secrets in Ottawa and, in some and at upcoming SJCC events, including Community Centre (JCC). swimming pools (indoor and outdoor). In ways, in our Jewish community. I am our annual Ottawa Celebrity Sports During my travels, I have been fortun- recent surveys, members tell us that they certain that many people reading this Dinner where this year’s featured athlete ate to visit other JCCs in North America chose the Soloway JCC because the facility column are active members of Ottawa’s will be six-time Stanley Cup Champion and on returning home to Ottawa, I am feels like home. The staff is knowledge- Jewish community who make their and Hall of Famer Mark Messier. always impressed and proud to see how able and friendly, the fi tness equipment is annual donation to the Jewish Federation There was a well-known advertising vibrant our JCC is. Twelve months of the always up-to-date, and our saline pool is of Ottawa (which we all should do), and slogan that said “Membership has its year, Jewish community leaders are at the the perfect place for swimmers of all ages attend events that take place at our rewards.” If I may borrow from that Soloway JCC attending various board and abilities to do laps all year. It would Soloway Jewish Community Centre. theme, I would suggest the Soloway meetings and future leaders are attending take an entire edition of the Bulletin to list So, with so many people walking Jewish Community Centre is the place Ganon Preschool and JCC Summer all of the programs offered within the through the front door of the SJCC, how where active membership is rewarding.

Moving on with hope Ottawa Jewish Bulletin VOLUME 78 | ISSUE 14 and promise Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, State of Israel has grown. Many will was the fi rst time a Reform rabbi and an Ottawa, K2A 1R9 remember when Ottawa sent three buses Orthodox rabbi publicly participated in Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 of pilgrims to Israel during the Second affi rming a mitzvah in Ottawa. I do not Email: [email protected] Intifada with rabbis and cantors of all know whether her statement was true – Published 19 times per year. denominations travelling as part of a but it has not happened again. united Jewish community. Programs such That Chanukah evening, our commun- © Copyright 2014 as Partnership 2Gether led to a powerful ity dedicated itself to the fulfi lment of our PUBLISHER relationship with Etzbah HaGalil, the far people’s highest values. We set an Andrea Freedman northern fi nger of Israel. And there are example for future generations and made EDITOR FROM THE PULPIT many more community initiatives worthy a very public statement to those not Michael Regenstreif RABBI STEVEN GARTEN of praise. affi liated with the community that there PRODUCTION MANAGER TEMPLE ISRAEL Yet, there is one memory I cherish and was something special about the Ottawa Brenda Van Vliet which reminds me of what we could have Jewish community, which superseded the BUSINESS MANAGER n 1995, I was invited to begin a achieved and what we could have become. normative divisions that plague Jewish Barry Silverman relationship with Temple Israel and In 1999, the new director of Jewish communities. The Bulletin, established in 1937 as “a force for Ottawa’s Jewish community. In July, I Perhaps time has magnifi ed the constructive communal consciousness,” Family Services urged the community to communicates the messages of the Jewish will transition from my role of pulpit respond to the needs of the Jewish poor. importance of that evening and the Federation of Ottawa and its agencies and, as I the city’s only Jewish newspaper, welcomes a rabbi to that of rabbi emeritus. So this There was an initial reluctance on the part subsequent actions that resulted from it. diversity of opinion as it strives to inform and marks my fi nal From the Pulpit column. of the organized community to respond to And perhaps others in attendance may enrich the community. Viewpoints expressed These two decades have brought many new initiatives, but the director was remember the evening differently. But it in these pages do not necessarily represent the policies and values of the Federation. wonderful changes to Jewish Ottawa. A insistent. So, committees were struck, was the seminal moment that helped me new Jewish community centre and a new research was commissioned and, after a understand what great potential could be The Bulletin cannot vouch for the kashrut of advertised products or establishments unless home for the Jewish aged were built and period of contemplation and considera- realized, if only the protective barriers they are certified by Ottawa Vaad HaKashrut or our community school was expanded to tion, every benefi ciary agency of the Vaad separating us are let down. a rabbinic authority recognized by OVH. include high school. New congregations (now the Federation) gathered at Agudath This week, we observe Yom HaShoah. $36 Local Subscription | $40 Canada offering individuals unique perspectives Israel to consider recommendations. The day has many connotations, but $60 International | $2 per issue on Jewish religious life were established so Following an evening of discussion, two certainly one of its most powerful implica- We acknowledge the financial support of the that diverse Jewish souls could be remarkable events occurred. The various tions is that we, as a people, remember the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department nurtured. agencies voted unanimously to act with a past only so that we can march forward of Canadian Heritage. The number of institutions of Jewish united sense of urgency and commitment. with hope and promise. ISSN: 1196-1929 religious learning has increased. The And, more symbolically, the two rabbis in I look forward, as I move on to the next Publication Mail Agreement No. 40018822 Kosher Food Bank and Jewish Family attendance led the gathering in kindling stage of my rabbinic career with hope and Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Services’ Tikvah program were begun and and blessing the Chanukah menorah. As promise, to watching how this unique 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa ON K2A 1R9 have fl ourished. one of the rabbis, I clearly remember a Jewish community responds to the Our community’s relationship with the participant saying under her breath this challenges of the next two decades. April 28, 2014 7 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

commission for several months. The Jewish Federation of Ottawa New Quebec government established a fund to assist CSN with its Passover programming.

should just let go of BUSY TIME This is a very busy time on the Jewish the secular charter issue calendar. Although this issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin comes out after Pierre Karl Péladeau declared his candi- public sector offi cials in “positions of Passover, we went to press a week earlier dacy for the PQ and, with a now-famously authority.” While the range of those than usual because of the holiday raised fi st, he made Quebec separation positions was not defi ned, it would closures. the ballot box question. apparently not include most bureaucrats, By the time you read this column,

FROM THE THE FROM EDITOR Everything changed in that moment. doctors, nurses, teachers and daycare Passover will have passed (pardon the MICHAEL REGENSTREIF Clearly, the vast majority of the Quebec workers. pun) and two solemn days – Yom electorate had no interest in holding But, still, the question must be asked. HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) n my March 17 column, I argued that another divisive referendum on separa- Why is there a need for a solution to a on April 27-28 and Yom Hazikaron the Parti Québécois (PQ) govern- tion. While the charter remained an issue problem that does not exist? Couillard’s (Israel’s Remembrance Day) on May 4-5 ment’s proposed Charter of Quebec – and the PQ tried in vain to re-establish it new government should take the same – will be upon us. The eves of both days IValues, which sought to ban public as the main issue, thinking it was the key position as the federal government and will be marked by solemn ceremonies sector workers – from government to their potential victory – it was Quebec the other nine provinces and just let the and programs at the Soloway Jewish bureaucrats to police and from daycare separation that ruled the election. Marois issue go. Community Centre at 7 pm. workers to doctors – from wearing called the election because polls indicated And then, the sadness of Yom clothing or symbols that signify their she could use the charter to turn her CHABAD STUDENT NETWORK Hazikaron will change to the joyousness religious beliefs (including headgear such minority government into a majority. A fi re, April 2, caused extensive of Yom Ha’Atzmaut on May 5-6 as we as kippot, hijabs and turbans, and jewelry Instead, Quebecers, in their wisdom, damage to the home of Rabbi Chaim and celebrate the 66th anniversary of Israel’s such as necklaces with a noticeable handed the PQ a most humiliating defeat. Yocheved Boyarsky and their fi ve Declaration of Independence and the Magen David or cross) was perhaps the Watching the election results come in children. The Boyarskys are co-directors birth of the modern state. main issue of Quebec’s provincial on April 7, one could almost hear all of of the Rohr Chabad Student Network The community will celebrate Yom election on April 7. Canada breathe a collective sigh of relief. (CSN), whose programs for students at Ha’Atzmaut with two major events on The election was “very much about And, with their defeat, the PQ’s Charter the University of Ottawa and Carleton May 6. A fl ag-raising ceremony at Marion values,” I wrote, “and it remains to be of Quebec Values was dead in the water. University complement those of Hillel Dewar Square in front of Ottawa City Hall seen which values Quebecers will But, the day after the election, Philippe Ottawa: The Foundation for Jewish at 12:30 pm and a huge community choose.” Couillard, the Quebec Liberal leader and Campus Life. celebration at the Hellenic Meeting & I wrote that column on March 7. A premier-designate, said his government Thankfully, no one was injured in the Reception Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales couple of days later – with then-premier would bring in its own charter of secular electrical fi re, but the building, which also Drive, next to Temple Israel, beginning at Pauline Marois at his side – media baron values, affecting a more limited range of serves as CSN headquarters, will be out of 5 pm. I’ll see you all there.

many years have gone by. It was strange to see people and remember their faces Remembering a very and their voices, but, aside from hello, there was so little to say. It was like so many lifetimes had gone by since special young woman childhood that you wouldn’t know where to start – even if you wanted to. minutes of each other leaving messages Apart from infrequent weekend visits at It was also that a sad funeral is an that Jacqui Gold had died in hospital of home, she lived in a hospital cancer ward. abrupt meeting place that is not condu- pneumonia. It was a week before her Jacqui’s funeral in Montreal was the cive to personal conversations about birthday party. This wasn’t about being biggest I had ever attended with people where you’ve been and what you’ve shocked or surprised. It was just about standing four deep along the back and done. Being fi ve years old again for a few being sad for such a young life gone and side walls. Because I brought my elderly fl eeting seconds was about as much as

IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS for a family that had been through so parents, we arrived an hour early to anyone wanted to handle. JASON MOSCOVITZ much. ensure parking and seating and many In addition to being the biggest Jacqui was diagnosed with leukemia in others had the same idea. The chapel funeral I am sure most people there had her early 20s. She battled through the was already a quarter-full when we ever attended, it would also qualify as was in Israel when I received an long process of chemotherapy and she arrived. one of the most dignifi ed. There was an email invitation to a masquerade courageously recovered. In remission, The funeral was packed because overwhelming quiet in the room as ball celebrating a young woman’s she completed her education, fi nishing Jacqui had touched so many people from everyone was deep in thought and I30th birthday. It was a two-fold at the top of her class at the University of three generations. Jacqui’s 87-year-old focused on Jacqui and her family. event: the birthday and a fundraiser for Ottawa. Jacqui became a teacher at the grandmother Selma, a friend of my There were eulogies from Jacqui’s leukemia research. I’ve known the Hebrew Foundation School in Montreal. parents and countless others, had her friends, her boyfriend and her siblings. young woman’s mother since I was fi ve. While in good health, Jacqui’s friends friends supporting her. I was there for To the surprise of many, her mother, We grew up across the street from each and family say she did everything to take Caryl, along with what seemed to be at Caryl, was the fi nal speaker. other. in and enjoy the pleasures of life, which least a thousand other baby boomers. The eulogies spoke about the heart I wrote back saying it would be great most healthy people take for granted. And then there were Jacqui’s and her and soul of a very special young woman to attend the special birthday party and Jacqui met the love of her young life and siblings’ friends from Montreal, Toronto, who left a positive vibe everywhere she noting how much my old friend Caryl they had just moved in together when Ottawa, Los Angeles and points beyond. went and with everyone she came into must be looking forward to having this the cruel news struck almost two years Watching the room fi ll up with three contact with. She was described as a meaningful celebration for her daughter. ago. The cancer was back. generations of Jewish Montrealers, I person who fought cancer with all the Her reply was fi lled with optimism, hope The second round was much more thought I saw my life fl ashing in front of dignity she could muster. and happiness. diffi cult than the fi rst. The second round me. Seeing children I grew up with now Jacqui’s dignity in death is the dignity Three days after I returned to Canada, involved a bone marrow transplant and in their 60s and their parents in their with which the rest of her family carries my brother and sister called within fi ve hospitalization for more than a year. 90s, I couldn’t help but think of how on. 8 April 28, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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And, if you don’t have Committee hosted WordSwap and a group of Arab and not be a surprise. Your second thought might be water and, soup, students will gladly accept a cup of coffee. Muslim student leaders for a special lunch. For some of the again, there are hundreds of water reservoirs that JNF has Y On March 12, a group of Israeli students visited students in attendance, this lunch was their fi rst oppor- built to facilitate flood water harvesting and recycling, so, Ottawa’s university campuses offering free coffee and the tunity to chat with Israelis – a process I believe was largely again, you would be correct. In fact, JNF’s water reservoirs opportunity to engage in friendly conversation about Israel. facilitated by the fact that the conversations were not are a key driver in Israel’s ability to recycle 80 per cent of The students, visiting with the innovative Israeli limited to English. Through this program, we have been its water for agricultural purposes. But JNF also supports WordSwap program, came from all walks of life: Jewish able to open doors to dialogue with key students and many communities such as farmers, high-tech entrepre- sabras and olim, as well as Druze and Israeli Arabs. groups on campus – and this new dialogue is already neurs, Bedouins, and at-risk civilians in a variety of ways WordSwap and the Israeli students who visited us are a showing encouraging signs for continued engagement. that might surprise you. refl ection of Israel’s multicultural and multi-ethnic There will always be individuals who seek to delegitim- ize and condemn Israel on campus. But, through our Supporting Israeli farmers diversity. efforts to promote positive dialogue, we are ensuring that On the recent JNF Staff Mission, staff visited the Arava The WordSwap team visited Carleton University in the Research and Development Station, where we learned about morning and the University of Ottawa in the afternoon malicious activity on campus is met with educated and new and existing projects coupled with a tour of hothouses and facilitated an amazing exercise of drawing in students informed students who see past the misinformation. This and a sampling of local produce. 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BY LOUISE RACHLIS abbi Miri Gold, the fi rst non-Orthodox rabbi to receive a government salary in Israel, was in Ottawa last month speaking about her preced- Rent-setting court case and promoting the Reform movement in Israel. Rabbi Gold began to receive the government salary well after an Israeli Supreme Court ruling in May 2012 that she should be paid. Rabbi Gold’s test case at the Supreme Court paved the way for Reform and Conservative rabbis in Israel to earn salaries. Her case was fi led in 2005. In January, JTA reported that four Reform rabbis were now receiving a salary, but that the funding was fi ltered PHOTO: LOUISE RACHLIS Rabbi Steven Garten of Temple Israel and Rabbi Miri Gold of Kehilat Birkat Shalom in Israel, at Temple Israel, March 17, through the Culture and Sports Ministry rather than the hold the ladle symbolizing the Temple Israel soup project, which raised funds for an Israeli food bank. Religious Services Ministry, which funds Orthodox rabbis. Under the terms of the ruling, only Reform and Deciding to become a rabbi, she entered the Reform Conservative rabbis serving in Israel’s regional councils movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Join Margo & Alan Blostein – and not in major cities – are recognized as “rabbis of Religion in 1994, and was ordained in 1999. Jewish Heritage non-Orthodox” communities. “It took from 2005 to 2013,” said Rabbi Gold, 64, of the Rabbi Gold was in Ottawa, March 17 and 18, during a time it took for her case to be fi led, ruled on and imple- River Cruise visit to Canada – which also included stops in Toronto mented. “I didn’t actively do anything but hang in there. July 29 to and Montreal – sponsored by ARZA Canada, the But I learned valuable lessons. You have to look at the August 10, 2015 Canadian arm of Reform Judaism. While here, she spoke bright side. You have to be acting and doing.” at Temple Israel and to students at the Ottawa Jewish She said there were times when she “never thought it Now Open for Deposit Community School. would happen. I thought I would retire fi rst.” Don’t be disappointed “Every Reform congregation in Israel needs multiple Rabbi Gold said she sees progress in the growth of partners in North America,” said Rabbi Gold, who spoke Reform Judaism movement in Israel. with the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin prior to her presentation “The youth movement has a summer camp for a at Temple Israel, adding that face-to-face interaction is couple of weeks, and campers go into the world with a vital for promotion of Reform Judaism in Israel. strong sense of who they are. In the Israeli textbooks, Looking around Temple Israel, Rabbi Gold said she now there is mention of Reform Judaism,” she said. admired the community here and recalled the Temple “That’s brand new.” Quilt Project, which sends baby quilts to Israel, and Temple Israel’s soup project, which raised $16,000 after Anat Hoffman of the Israel Religious Action Centre Budapest Heidi challenged Reform congregations to raise $10,000 each for an Israeli food bank by making and selling soup. to Prague Pivnick At her sessions, Rabbi Gold spoke generally about her Luxury court case, the situation in Israel, and about what it’s 2 nights Budapest Travel like to be a Reform Jew and Reform rabbi in Israel. 7-night Danube Cruise & Cruise Born in Detroit, she made aliyah in 1977 and settled at Specialist Kibbutz Gezer along with other North Americans. When 3 nights Prague the founder of Kehilat Birkat Shalom, the kibbutz 613-314-6953 congregation, left, she began leading High Holidays Agency Voyages Anne Travel services and preparing children for bat and bar mitzvahs. TICO 50008970 [email protected] Anniversary Sale! Buy 1 window covering and get 1 half off!* Buy 1 window covering and get 1 half off!* <000-000-0000>613.224.8900 BUDGETBLINDS.COM

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BY MORTIMER BERCOVITCH Queen’s University, when he switched FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL to the music department under the Temple Israel’s Music at the Temple will tutelage of voice teacher Bruce Kelly. feature baritone Matthew Zadow and Now based in Brussels, Zadow has pianist Dina Namer in Mid-Atlantic: A steadily expanded his opera, oratorio European and Canadian Voyage in Art and concert repertoire and enjoys an Song, on Thursday, May 8, 7:30 pm. active performing career in Belgium, the The program will include European Netherlands and Ireland, with occasional works by Gustav Mahler, Hector Berlioz, tours back to his Canada. Robert Schumann and John Ireland and Born in New York City, Namer received Pianist Dina Namer and baritone Matthew Zadow will perform at Temple Israel, May 8. Canadian compositions by Pierre her musical education at the Eastman Mercure, Oskar Morawetz, Jean and Manhattan Schools of Music. She Coulthard and Gena Branscombe. lives in Ottawa, where she is active as a harpsichord works to contemporary (students) and will be available at the Zadow comes from a musical family in soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Canadian compositions. She also teaches door or by advance reservation. For more Kingston, but didn’t seriously consider She has performed and recorded a wide piano performance at Queen’s University. information, or to reserve tickets, call music as a career until his fi nal year at range of repertoire, from baroque Tickets are $20 (adults) and $15 Temple Israel at 613-224-1802.

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BY ELLA SABOURIN, GRADE 9 able to befriend Jews from all walks of OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL life. For example, I was in the same room ast month, I participated in Moot as an Orthodox girl who was an incred- Beit Din, a life-changing Jewish ibly kindhearted, intelligent and compas- learning experience. sionate person. Although she lives a L Moot Beit Din is a program lifestyle that is very different from mine sponsored by RAVSAK: The Jewish as a Reform Jew, we still had so much in Community Day School Network, in common. which a legal case is given to students of Although I’m aware of tension Jewish schools. between different denominations and The issue this year was whether have experienced it myself, participating industrially raised meat is a violation of in the Moot Beit Din gave me hope for Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim, the Jewish princi- the future of the Jewish people. It made ple that bans infl icting unnecessary pain me believe that Orthodox, Conservative, on animals. We had to choose a position Reform, unaffi liated, secular, and any using halachic sources and other resour- other kind of Jews can become friends. ces to support our argument. We all came to the event to make Participants travel to the Moot Beit Din friends and have fun and that’s what we host city for the competition. This year, it did. was Kansas City from March 27 to 30. Working on our case with my team- The Moot Beit Din team from the mates was enjoyable and I learned a lot. Ottawa Jewish Community School But the most important lesson I took included Ethan Sabourin, Shmuel from the Moot Beit Din was not whether Prizant, Gabriel Hamburg and me. We industrially raised meat is permissible – it searched for sources and wrote our was that we need to unite the Jewish opinion as well as created and people of all denominations. (From left) Rabbi Howard Finkelstein and students Shmuel Prizant, Ella Sabourin, Ethan completed an oral presentation on We don’t all follow Halachah to the Sabourin and Gabriel Hamburg with the Ottawa Jewish Community School’s second place this issue. same extent, but we all share the Jewish award (Group B) at the Moot Beit Din competition, March 27-30, in Kansas City. In Kansas City, I met Jewish teenagers value of being a good person, of being a from all over North America who came mensch. That is what I learned on this from all kinds of Jewish backgrounds. trip. learning events, and to attend a Jewish readers to go out into the Jewish com- There were kids who were unaffi liated, I encourage readers to meet and community school in order to break the munity with tolerance and acceptance of kids who were Orthodox and kids who befriend someone from a different archaic and fl awed denominational all denominations. That is what I learned were somewhere in between, and I was denomination, to participate in Jewish stereotypes of the past. I encourage at the Moot Beit Din.

“They are remembered always, in our hearts, in our prayers, The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem is one of the largest and most prominent societies among Yad Vashem’s 28 and, most importantly, in our resolve. Never again.” representative bodies worldwide. The Society supports Yad — PRIME MINISTER HARPER Vashem’s initiatives and implements its important vision across WRITTEN IN THE YAD VASHEM GUEST BOOK DURING THE PRIME MINISTER'S HISTORIC VISIT TO ISRAEL, JANUARY 21, 2014 Canada. Through its educational and commemorative activities, the Society carries out Yad Vashem’s mission of ensuring that the Holocaust and its lessons are forever engraved in the memory of humankind. The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem CORDIALLY INVITES THE COMMUNITY TO Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, in Jerusalem, is the universal guardian The 2014 National Holocaust and imparter of the Shoah’s (Holocaust’s) legacy and the protector of human values. Visited by more than one million Remembrance Day Ceremony people annually, Yad Vashem is internationally recognized as being at the forefront of Holocaust commemoration, education, documentation, and research. www.yadvashem.org Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 3:30 P.M. CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM - 1 VIMY PLACE, OTTAWA With the enactment of the Holocaust Memorial Day Act S.C. - Featuring addresses by the leaders or representatives 2003, C.24, and the establishment of a National of Canada’s Conservative, NDP, Liberal, and Green parties Holocaust Remembrance Day by the Parliament of Canada, the Government of Canada signalled once more its - YAD VASHEM’S 2014 THEME: Jews “On the Edge” longstanding commitment to ensuring that the lessons of the 1944: Between Annihilation and Liberation Holocaust are enshrined in the hearts and minds of Canadians. Since that time, the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem has had the To reserve a seat on our sponsored privilege of leading a Zachor (Remembrance) coalition, a group buses or to RSVP your attendance, of organizations committed to Holocaust commemoration and PRIME MINISTER HARPER education, in coordinating a National Holocaust Remembrance 2012 NATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY please contact us by May 8, 2014 [email protected] / 416.785.1333 Day Ceremony on behalf of the Government of Canada. LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE TOLEARNMORE,VISITUSONLINEAT YadVashem.ca 14 April 28, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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ONLY Bonus: 45 Stainless steel fridge, AJA 50+ Trivia Night returns, May 25 dishwasher and stove UNITS BY FRED TABACHNICK (reserve bids for the scripts can be made AVAILABLE! with range hood FOR AJA 50+ by email to [email protected]). mintochapmanmills.com Don’t put your fun in jeopardy with Space is limited. Last year, we enter- trivial pursuits. Put your team together tained 120 people. To reserve your table, for this year’s Trivia Night fundraiser contact Flo Morgan at 613-224-8286. The for AJA 50+, on Sunday, May 25, 7 pm, cost is $25 and tasty desserts will be at Temple Israel, 1301 Prince of Wales served. Drive. The entire community is invited to Once again our quizmasters are Rabbi participate in Trivia Night, and the Steven Garten and Lisa Hans. questions are designed to bring out the In addition to the usual round of trivia competitive spirit in all. questions, the evening will feature an With more than 400 members, AJA auction of donated items, including the 50+ provides a wide range of cultural, special prize of two original scripts from health, fi tness, recreational, social and The Simpsons signed by the writers educational programs for retirees. Holocaust survivors targeted by scam

(JTA) – A scam targeting Jewish Holocaust address on his letters are associated with survivors in Canada claims they are complaints about telephone frauds, the entitled to a share of a $75 million pot newspaper noted. and asks for a large fee in return. “It’s so clear that this is a scam,” said Letters delivered to survivors in Alberta Sara Saber-Freedman, executive and Ontario claim they are entitled to vice-president of the Centre for Israel and funds from the “Holocaust Claims Jewish Affairs, which notifi ed police, Processing Offi ce” and request personal phone companies and Internet providers banking information. about the scheme. “It’s just vile. This is The letters promise the funds will be just odious.” transferred to a “secure numbered The Canadian Jewish Holocaust account” and asks for 60 per cent of the Survivors and Descendants organization sum as a fee, the National Post reported. sent letters to rabbis and community The letter was signed by Larry Dubali, leaders warning about the scam. VISIT THE SALES CENTRE TODAY! identifi ed as a senior partner of Tenure “This is an obvious attempt to defraud 102 Southam Way, Nepean Consulting in New York. members of the Jewish community and Monday-Thursday 12-8 pm | Closed Fridays Reached by the National Post, Dubali, should be ignored,” the letter said. Weekends & Holidays 12-5:30 pm who seemed to speak with an African “It’s obscene as far as I’m concerned,” 613.823.1900 accent, hung up without answering said the organization’s president, Sidney *Prices and specifi cations are subject to change without notice. Rendering is artist’s concept. E.&O.E. questions. The phone number and Zoltak. April 28, 2014 15 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

PHOTO: IRV OSTERER Rabbi Bulka portrait: Merivale High School student Isaaca Rosenberg holds her portrait of Rabbi Reuven Bulka. The artwork was featured at Ottawa FACE2FACE, an exhibit held April 4-21 at Gallery 112 in the James Bartleman Centre. The exhibit celebrated Archives Awareness Week in Ottawa. Israeli-Palestinian fi lm offers glimmers of hope

BY GABRIELLA GOLIGER include bereaved families, Orthodox CANADIAN FRIENDS OF PEACE NOW Jews, religious Muslims, settlers, former What happens when ordinary people on Israeli soldiers, former security prisoners, both sides of a seemingly intractable Gaza residents, kibbutzniks, second confl ict meet face-to-face and really try to generation Holocaust survivors, and listen to one another? others. This is the theme of Two Sided Story, a All hold their own historical truth and moving documentary about a group of carry their own emotional baggage. They Israelis and Palestinians from many talk about the touchstones of their walks of life who confront one another in confl icting narratives: the nakba, the dialogue and achieve some surprising Holocaust, the occupation, suicide breakthroughs. bombings, the separation wall, etc. The fi lm will be shown Sunday, May 11, As they talk and listen, they gain a 7 pm, at Temple Israel. clearer understanding of the other’s The screening is co-sponsored by perspective. And they get to know one Canadian Friends of Peace Now and another as human beings. The project Temple Israel’s Social Action Committee. does not offer grand political solutions, A short facilitated discussion will follow but it does show that people can work the 75-minute fi lm. through pain and anger to take steps Directed by Emmy Award-winner Tor towards reconciliation. In doing so, they Ben Mayor, the fi lm tracks 27 Israelis and can achieve results that elude politicians Palestinians who meet through a unique and offer glimmers of hope. project led by the Parents Circle Families Admission to the event is free, but Forum (PCFF), an Israeli-Palestinian there will be an appeal for donations to organization of over 600 families, all of help cover expenses. whom have lost a family member as a The trailer for Two Sided Story can result of the prolonged confl ict. be seen on the PCFF website at Participants in the dialogue project www.theparentscircle.com. 16 April 28, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM April 28, 2014 17 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Canada Israel Hockey School spends 10 incredible days in Washington

BY MITCH MILLER CANADA ISRAEL HOCKEY SCHOOL Christian, a Druze and a Jew walk into an arena. Sounds like the opening to a joke, but it is actually part of the foundation for the ACanada Israel Hockey School (CIHS), the only hockey program in Israel dedicated to teaching the passion for hockey to young Israelis. Two years ago, the CIHS – which is based at the Canada Centre in Metulla, in Ottawa’s Partnership 2Gether region in Israel’s Northern Galilee – visited Ottawa on its fi rst ever “road trip.” Last year, it visited Winnipeg and Los Angeles, and an all-girls group visited Finland. This year, in March, 24 young hockey players from Israel visited Washington, D.C. The JCC of Greater Washington (JCCGW) and the National Hockey League’s Washington Capitals hosted an incredible 10 days of hockey in the American capital. The Jewish community of Greater Washington opened their homes and each host family welcomed one Jewish and one Arab child. The visiting children were bonding both on and off the ice. Young players from the Canada Israel Hockey School in Metula, Israel, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. with Of course, no hockey road trip is complete without Ambassador Gary Doer; MPs James Rajotte, Andrew Saxton, Gerald Keddy, Dave Van Kestern and Mike Allen; and Women’s Olympic athletes, and the CIHS was honoured to have Olympic Hockey medalists Tessa Bonhomme and Lisa Chesson. the company of Tessa Bonhomme of Canada’s gold medal team and Lisa Chesson of the United States’ silver net and a few sticks. The Israelis laughed as they tried to Tessa Bonhomme and NHL alumni Laurie Boschman medal team from the 2010 Olympic Games in imagine a member of the Knesset with a hockey net in of Ottawa will visit Israel this summer to help lead a Vancouver. The two are best friends and were room- his or her offi ce. camp to improve the skills of young Israeli hockey mates as members of the Ohio State Buckeyes, but A defi nite highlight was a special “alumni” game with players. described themselves as “mortal enemies in inter- fundraisers from D.C. Imagine, young Jewish and Arab Mitch Miller, chair of the Soloway Jewish Community national competition.” After their fi rst practice with the hockey players from Israel on the ice with Olympic Centre, is an organizer and volunteer coach for the Canada CIHS, both female hockey legends were instant stars medalists, NHL (Washington Capitals) alumni – includ- Israel Hockey School. with the young Israeli hockey players. ing Stanley Cup Champion Rod Langway – and the chair While in Washington, the CIHS played two games. of Ottawa’s Soloway Jewish Community Centre. It was First, they faced off against the JCCGW’s Maccabi hockey worth the price of admission to see the smile on CIHS team and then played against the Charles E. Smith captain Noy Rosenberg’s face when she scored the fi rst Jewish Day School. They practised every weekday at the of her two goals and her line mate was Lisa Chesson. Kettler Iceplex – the practice facility of the Washington Female hockey players in Israel hadn’t had women Capitals – and skated with a group of inspiring young role models until then. But Tessa Bonhomme and Lisa people from the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club program Chesson inspired them to reach for their own Olympic for inner-city youth who are changing their lives dreams. through this unique hockey program. Off the ice, the young hockey players from Israel were E-mail: [email protected] Elaine & Frank Goldstein guests of Ambassador Gary Doer at the Canadian www.cactustzimmer.com Embassy in Washington. The ambassador and four members of Parliament on a visit to Washington Barrhaven Councillor presented each of the children with a pair of Team Chair, Ottawa Public Library Board Canada mittens. Would you like to advertise Following their visit to the Canadian Embassy, they 613-580-2473 in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin? wore their CIHS hockey jerseys and red Team Canada [email protected] mitts to Capitol Hill, where Congressman Mike Quigley @BarrhavenJan Contact Barry Silverman | 613 798-4696, ext. 256 of Illinois greeted and amazed the youngsters as his facebook.com/BarrhavenJanHarder | [email protected] offi ce, with its big desk and many papers, had photos of www. .com the Chicago Blackhawks with the Stanley Cup, a hockey JanHarder 18 April 28, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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For additional information, please call Jean Myers at 613-688-3530, ext. 3 www.jewishmemorialgardens.org April 28, 2014 19 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM What kind of society ignores the poverty BARBARA CROOK of its ordinary citizens to reward killers? MY ISRAEL n the real world, a man who bashed in the head of an 32 years, and he served 20 years before his release as part elderly security guard in cold blood would receive far of the peace talks. more punishment than reward. But, unlike his fellow murderers in the real world, Salah I He would spend years in prison, but might get a faces neither poverty nor stigma. He received $100,000 but pays them salaries 38 per cent higher than the min- university degree or learn a trade. In a Canadian federal U.S. upon his release, thanks to the monthly salary his imum wage and calculates their release bonuses based on prison, he would be paid an average of $3 a day. family received from the Palestinian Authority (PA) on his the length of sentence? Given that his prison wage would have to cover such behalf during his incarceration and a release bonus of According to Palestinian Media Watch extras as stamps, stationery, soap, deodorant and other $50,000 U.S. (www.tinyurl.com/kmcwqxc), the PA announced in toiletries, his savings upon release from prison would be Now 47, Salah has been welcomed as a hero, started a February that it was allocating an additional $46 million paltry at best. business, found a younger bride – who is soon to start U.S. to released prisoners. Depending on his level of remorse and his behaviour fertility treatments, also paid by the PA – and was given Ordinary car thieves or burglars receive no benefi ts. during his sentence, he would eventually be paroled. But, the honorary rank of brigadier general. Under Palestinian Authority law, the big bucks go only to upon release, he would likely have a hard time getting Surprisingly, Tenenbaum’s daughter, Esti Harris, “anyone imprisoned in the occupation’s [Israel’s] prisons hired, starting a new relationship or fi nding a productive supports such prisoner releases if they advance the peace as a result of his participation in the struggle against the and valued place in society. process. occupation” (www.tinyurl.com/n9p55n2). Now consider the world of Muqdad Salah, a Palestinian Not so Frimet Roth, whose 15-year-old daughter Malki Given that the PA economy is not exactly booming, terrorist – or “freedom fi ghter,” according to friends and was murdered along with her best friend in the 2001 these salary increases for terrorist murderers are subsid- family in his native village near Nablus – who was released Sbarro Restaurant bombing in Jerusalem. The female ized by foreign aid. And many of the released terrorists from an Israeli prison last summer as part of the U.S.- terrorist, who drove the suicide bomber to the restaurant, actually went on strike last fall because they felt they brokered peace talks. showed him where to sit for maximum carnage and later deserved higher salaries and better prospects for advance- He’s the subject of a creepy New York Times article, rejoiced at the number of children killed in ment within the PA bureaucracy. “Remaking a Life, After Years in an Israeli Prison the attack was released in October 2011 as part of the What kind of “partner for peace” saves its highest (www.tinyurl.com/pj2z6ca)” in which reporter Jodi exchange to release captive Israeli soldier Gilad honours for the murderers of children and Holocaust Rudoren bends over backwards to generate sympathy for Schalit. survivors? What kind of society ignores the poverty of its Salah and his fellow released murderers. “There is really only one constant, immutable, irrefut- ordinary citizens to reward killers? In June 1993, Salah and a friend went to the Hotel Sironit able fl aw in these releases,” Roth wrote in Front Page Unlike Ahlam Tamimi, the released terrorist behind the in Netanya, where 72-year-old Holocaust survivor Israel magazine (www.tinyurl.com/lu7oztr) earlier this month. Sbarro murders, Salah claims to regret his actions. But he’s Tenenbaum worked nights as a security guard. “They are unjust. Plain and simple: undeniably unjust. chafi ng at the restrictions of his new life. They failed to fi nd their original target, an alleged They isolate one category of murders from the rest and “I want to travel,” he told the New York Times. “I want to Palestinian collaborator with Israel, so decided to kill the declare them less signifi cant, less tragic, less criminal, less see people. I want to breathe the air, I want to walk.” sleeping Tenenbaum “as a protest against the occupation.” intolerable.” So did Israel Tenenbaum – before Salah snuffed out his Salah’s original life sentence for murder was reduced to What of the society that not only glorifi es these killers, life for the crime of being an Israeli Jew. Style-conscious youth fi nds an H&M fashion faux pas inally, after a long winter, it is almost T-shirt “It is at minimum an extremely unfortunate oversight season in Ottawa. in the H&M department, which has displayed an Spring fashions are typically known for bright egregious failure of cultural awareness and sensitivity,” Fpatterns, sweeter hues and light-hearted MONIQUE ELLIOT Aslan-Levy wrote. “There is a long history of associating messages. EMERGING GEN Jewish symbols with satanic imagery, and this product Edgy designs are also often popular among young inadvertently falls within this tradition.” people, but international fashion retailer H&M was This is not the fi rst time H&M has had to apologize for forced to pull a T-shirt off its racks in stores worldwide one of their designs. The company removed a headdress last month after customers complained that the dark from its shelves last summer, after First Nations groups design was anti-Semitic. the clothing company’s decision to take it off its racks, deemed the headpiece to be insensitive cultural The offending item, a sleeveless white T-shirt, which it originally refused to do, as H&M’s customer appropriation. depicted a skull superimposed on two triangles that service initially told Aslan-Levy that the print was not Many minority groups have had to contend with strongly resembled a Star of David. The design was intended to represent a religious symbol. accusations of oversensitivity when an issue arises that reported to have sold globally, including in Israel where H&M was quick to issue a public apology after falls within a grey area where arguments could be made H&M has 14 locations. management learned of the issue: “We are sincerely for and against each side. Even Aslan-Levy said via email Eylon Aslan-Levy, a post-graduate student at the sorry if the T-shirt print has offended anyone, it was not that he considers it surprising how much attention this University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, fi rst our intention to provoke such a reaction,” the Swedish “non-story” has received globally. publicly exposed the design in an op-ed article for the company said in a statement. “Jewish history has been so replete with tragedy, that Times of Israel. Provocative, thought-provoking, or offensive fashion we have developed a fi ne radar for picking up anti-Sem- “At fi rst I was taken aback; then I was slightly statements have become commonplace in an industry itism, and I wonder whether we have become primed to amused, because this design was obviously a horrible that is always seeking to push limits, creativity and see threats where none exist,” wrote Aslan-Levy in the mistake,” wrote Aslan-Levy, who also serves as the social norms. email from the UK. National Council chair for the Union of Jewish Dark imagery like skulls and religious symbols have “I think we should be extremely cautious about Students. become a common sight in fashion, particularly involv- making such accusations, because in most cases no “Then I began to wonder whether I was simply being ing the Christian cross, a symbol that, in and of itself, offence is intended, and we are probably the only ones paranoid – perhaps only Jews immediately think of a has been a strong fashion trend in the past year. who make these connections,” he added. Jewish symbol when they see two overlapping triangles, True faith will always transcend the materialism of In this case, Aslan-Levy’s sobering self-refl ection and perhaps worrying about a symbol of death embla- fashion and capitalism, and it will also continue to helps to put the situation in perspective, considering the zoned above the iconic Jewish hexagram was simply my inspire contemporary trends. context and response of the company. Jewish anxiety in overdrive.” While religion and clothing have been strongly A measured response to a perceived threat ultimately It has also been widely reported that Moshe Kantor, intertwined for centuries, companies who push the can be the best method to address an issue and stimu- president of the European Jewish Congress, called the limits of fashion should know their customers and how late dialogue. design “thoughtless and insensitive,” and approved of their clothing could be interpreted. And that way of thinking should always be in fashion. 20 April 28, 2014 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Nobel winner Kertész delights in contradictions

Dossier K. By Imre Kertész Translated by Tim Wilkinson Melville House MURRAY CITRON 216 pages. BOOK REVIEW mre Kertész – the 2002 Nobel laureate for literature – is a Hungarian Jew born in 1929. As a child and young man, he survived the break-up of his Iparents’ marriage, Auschwitz and Buchenwald outside the Budapest city limits, when they were seized during the Holocaust, and the Communist dictatorship and sent to Auschwitz. in postwar Hungary. He has written fi ve novels, two of Kertész, the only one of the group to survive, recalls which are available in English translation. One of them, the guards vanishing from Buchenwald when American Fatelessness, based on Kertész’s experiences during the General George Patton’s tanks arrived. In the 1990s, he Holocaust, was made into a motion picture. visited the Buchenwald memorial and found a record Dossier K. is a memoir based on a series of conversa- that said he died on February 18, 1945. He believes tions between Kertész and his “friend and editor, Zoltan someone forged the record to protect him from being Hafner,” recorded during 2003 and 2004. Kertész began murdered in the Nazi genocide. writing the book after he received the transcripts. Later, he used those events in Fatelessness, and the The book takes the form of a dialogue. Generally, the protagonist in the novel attributes his survival to an conversations consist of questions – sometimes lengthy “incomprehensible absurdity.” Kertész distances – posed by Hafner and answers – usually lengthier – himself from the boy in the novel, but it is clear he from Kertész. Sometimes, though, it is Kertész who asks thinks the same of his own survival. the questions. Kertész’s cast of mind is absurdist throughout Dossier The book, writes Kertész, is a “veritable autobiog- K. “Where Auschwitz starts, logic stops,” he writes. He is raphy.” Then he refers to a dictum of Friedrich Nietzsche referring to the whole Nazi process in which survival is that Platonic dialogues were the prototype of the novel “really the result of an industrial accident in the as an art form, and thus Dossier K. may be a novel. machinery of death.” Perhaps an Auschwitz survivor is entitled to thusly Having survived the Holocaust, Kertész found himself tease his readers. Later he writes, “A book is either an out of work in Communist Hungary. autobiography or a novel,” and explains the difference “The world order has not changed, even after in detail. For those who have read Kertész’s novels, this Auschwitz,” he writes. book may illuminate the fi ction. For me, Dossier K. was When he was referred to a comrade in the Ministry for There is no evidence that Hafner, after conducting interesting on its own terms, and I will read his novels Metallurgical and Engineering Industries, who gave him the interviews, took part in writing the book. It may be when I get the chance. a job and protected him, he identifi ed the comrade as a that, as in the Platonic dialogues, a lot of the words Kertész relates his family history, beginning with his fellow Jew on the basis of “the only thing two Jews have attributed to the interlocutor were actually crafted by grandparents, and the arguments between his parents in common is their fears.” Kertész, so he is answering the questions he chooses to when he was a child and in his early teens, as he navi- When the interlocutor asks, “What are you, according answer. gated Budapest between the homes of his parents, both to your conviction?” Kertész responds: “Jewish – but a In the fi nal exchange in the book, which follows a of whom remarried. Jew who has nothing in common with any of the Jewish quote from one of his novels, Kertész, is asked, “Don’t The deportation of Jews from Hungary, which was an modes of life that were known before Auschwitz, neither you think there is a contradiction here?” ally of Nazi Germany, took place in 1944. Kertész was in a archaic Jews, nor assimilated Jews, nor Zionist Jews. Or “Of course I do! I see contradictions at every hand, forced labour group of Jewish teenagers who worked with Israel. That may be the hardest thing of all to say.” but then I take delight in contradictions.”

OBITUARY Canadian Friends of Peace Now Helen (Altow) Better and Temple Israel’s 1933-2014 Social Action Committee present On March 3, 2014, Helen (Altow) Better, a former resident of Ottawa, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Montreal at the age of 81. Wife of the late Dr. Ned Better, she was the daughter of Two Sided Story the late Morris and Anne Altow. She was the older A powerful fi lm about reaching out to your enemy sister of Bill Altow (known as Billy), sister-in-law to Debby Altow (née Schwartz) and was a graduate of the fi rst class of the nursing school at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. She is survived by Sunday, May 11, 7:00 pm her three sons and their families: Robert and Judy, Howard and Bobbi, Mark and Lynda and their Temple Israel, 1301 Prince of Wales Drive children. Th e Altow family had strong roots in the Ottawa Sometimes ordinary people can achieve results that elude politicians. community; the family attended the Rideau Street This moving documentary follows a group of Palestinians and Israelis as shul and subsequently the Beth Shalom synagogue. they talk through their differences and take steps towards reconciliation. Helen’s time in Montreal was characterized by a zest for life, a dedication to her profession and her A short facilitated discussion after the 75-minute fi lm. family and a wide range of volunteer and community Admission free. Donations to cover expenses welcome. activities. She remained an active member of the Hadassah nursing group long aft er retirement. April 28, 2014 21 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

The relationship between MIRA SUCHAROV VALUES, ETHICS, bar and bat mitzvah COMMUNITY simchas and synagogue life

n a From the Bimah column in the Canadian Jewish today’s practice of Jewish life. The second is the chicken- makes at about.com where he is the Reform movement News, Rabbi Yael Splansky of Toronto’s Holy Blossom and-egg dynamic of values and standards at play here. representative for the website’s Ask the Rabbi column. The Temple expressed concern over the state of bar and Even without lavish food and entertainment choices, logic of holding a Saturday night event, of course, is that Ibat mitzvah celebrations today (“Worrisome bar and there is no doubt that having a large, local celebration – one saves several thousand dollars from not hosting both a bat mitzvah trends,” March 27). the kind that accommodates one’s ordinary local network luncheon and a night party – the typical duo of celebration Of less concern to Rabbi Splansky in that piece is the of family, friends, congregants and community contacts, that has become the modern bar and bat mitzvah weekend. lavishness all too often seen at many bar and bat mitzvah can be very costly. Going away – where the guest list will Fair enough. Rabbis and other synagogue offi cials can celebrations – a point that has been debated in this automatically be much smaller – can seem a cost-effective insist that bar and bat mitzvahs remain a symbol of column and on the website of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. and meaningful way of marking the occasion. Rabbi communal engagement, and that a certain number of Rather, her point was to chip away at various additional Splansky acknowledges that it might feel meaningful. But years and weekly hours of Hebrew school study have been emerging trends. Among these are DIY (do-it-yourself) she ignores the fi nancial factor in her piece. obtained by the bar or bat mitzvah celebrant (as some and destination bar and bat mitzvah events. Similarly, and depending on one’s synagogue denomin- Ottawa synagogues currently do), and that only certain Like most pulpit rabbis, she has an inherent interest in ation, if one does not normally keep strictly kosher, DIY times of day are appropriate for marking this milestone in promoting strong synagogue attachment. Synagogues affairs can help bypass the additional costs for catering a Jewish young person’s life. depend on their members seeing their home bimah as the under kosher supervision. But the problem remaining is this: standards are only place to have a bar mitzvah. Renting a separate space in The second point involves the circular reasoning meaningful if the values they are seeking to protect are town, or going abroad – whether to Israel or elsewhere inherent in this debate more generally. I have heard rabbis actually held by the audience in question. Standards in – naturally undermines what used to be the unquestioned talk about “standards.” The question goes like this: what higher education, for example, are maintained because the place of the synagogue in community life. are the standards we want our community members to employment marketplace rewards the achievement of I admit that I understand her sentiment both from what uphold, when it comes to the relationship between offi cial university and college accreditation. Is Jewish life must be her personal standpoint (what pulpit rabbi wants simchas and synagogue and educational life? akin to the professional marketplace? My fear is that to see the erosion of synagogue life?) and from a com- According to this logic, some shuls insist that bar and Jewish families may come to view these synagogues’ munal perspective (synagogues have historically formed bat mitzvah celebrations happen only on Shabbat mor- so-called standards as initiation rites to clubs they don’t the bedrock of Diaspora Jewish communities). ning, so as to avoid having these events become private ultimately care enough to want to join. And if that, sadly, Nevertheless, her points are worth scrutinizing on two affairs. Google “Saturday night bar mitzvah” and you’ll see should become the case, then the call for standards will levels. One is the fi nancial pressures all too prevalent in that this is a point Rabbi Jeffrey Wolfson Goldwasser become little more than whistles in the wind. Life doesn’t come with a guarantee GLORIA SCHWARTZ eorge Burns smoked 10 to 15 cigars every day of successful fi tness business. He was in peak shape, three his adult life; yet, he lived to be 100. Burns may years ago, when he was diagnosed in his late-40s with FOCUS ON have had genetic protective factors such as stage 4 cancer. What does he now believe about the role FITNESS Gcellular repair mechanisms. Or maybe he was of lifestyle after going through diffi cult cancer treatment just lucky. and facing the uncertainty of his prognosis? In 2011, Live Science – www.tinyurl.com/livescience-100 In an interview with the Vancouver Sun – reported on a study of 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the (“Conditioning coach Peter Twist shares battle with block or up a fl ight of stairs without being out of breath. ages of 95 and 112, conducted at the Albert Einstein cancer,” March 5), he said his battle has “shifted my Maybe you’d like to run a 5-km race to raise money for College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, which showed compass a little bit from helping people to build a body your favourite cause. genes are more responsible than lifestyle for longevity. that works but also understanding they need to be their Next you must come up with a plan to achieve your The elderly subjects had just as many bad habits (smok- best when their best is needed. That is the purpose of desired outcome. What specifi c actions will you take? ing, drinking, poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise) as training and eating healthy. We all have a big challenge Working with a plan and taking steps in the right the subjects in the control group whom they outlived. coming down the chute at some point.” direction will improve your odds of success for a healthy Still, the head of the research team, Nir Barzilai, said it I agree with Twist that if we get ourselves lean, fi t and and happier life, perhaps even a longer one. Stop would be wrong to ignore health advice and assume our strong when we are well, it puts us in a better position making excuses and start taking action. genes fully determine how long we will live. He reaffi rms should a medical crisis arise. This is not to say we should When I see people exercising in walkers, wheelchairs, that diet and exercise can postpone or ward off chronic exercise solely to prepare ourselves for an illness that or with a white cane, or I see my ailing friend smile and disease and extend life. Bad genes don’t always get may or may not strike us at some point. When we take keep going forward, I am reminded that optimism and expressed. They are infl uenced by many factors, includ- good care of ourselves, we can enjoy a better quality of determination are essential ingredients for a life well ing the environment and our lifestyle. life in the present and reduce our risks of negative lived. Unfortunately, we all know people who develop health outcomes down the road – perhaps overriding Gloria Schwartz is a personal trainer at the Soloway cancer or other life-threatening diseases despite a genetic predisposition. We need to make smart choices, JCC. lifestyle replete with physical activity and exemplary even though there are no guarantees. No one ever said dietary habits. What triggers disease has been on my life is fair. Bad things happen to good people and to mind lately, because someone I know who’s always people who do all the right things. Would you like taken excellent care of herself has been dealing with No matter what condition you’re in, you can help advanced cancer. yourself. You may not be able to do everything on your to advertise in the Yet, I also wholeheartedly believe in the benefi ts of own. You may not have all the tools. It’s not necessary to exercise and eating right. Paradoxical cases like Burns, have all of the answers. What’s more important is Ottawa Jewish Bulletin? or non-smokers who develop lung or other cancers, are starting with the right questions. outliers. Unfortunately, they’re the ones we tend to Begin by listing something that would improve the notice. quality of your life. I don’t mean unrealistic fantasies Contact Barry Silverman | Rather than proselytize, I’ll quote Peter Twist, a like winning the lottery. I’m referring to aspects of your 613 798-4696, ext. 256 | well-known fi gure in the Canadian fi tness industry. 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Dessert Reception to follow proceedings Arnie Vered on being the recipient of the Community Leader (Ontario) Award by Brent, Contributions may be made online Zelikovitz Family Social Hall of The Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building Risa and Shira Taylor. at www.OJCF.ca or by contacting 21 Nadolny Sachs Private Sara Vered on receiving the Order of Canada the office at 613-798-4696 extension by Brent, Risa and Shira Taylor. 274, Monday to Friday or by email at At this time, the community is invited to nominate candidates Roger Greenberg on receiving the Order of [email protected]. Attractive cards for the Board of Directors. Canada by Brent, Risa and Shira Taylor. are sent to convey the appropriate R’fuah Sh’leimah to: sentiments. All donations are acknowl- All nominations from members must be submitted in writing Carol-Sue Shapiro by Brent, Risa and Shira edged with a charitable receipt. to [email protected] up to seven days Taylor. (no later than June 03, 2014) prior to the election of the Directors Stanley Arron by Brent, Risa and Shira Taylor. at the Annual General Meeting. Successful candidates will serve Donating made easy at MICHAEL WALSH AND LISA a three-year term from June 2014 to June 2017. Nominations will not be ROSENKRANTZ ENDOWMENT FUND www.OJCF.ca accepted from the floor at the Annual General Meeting. In Appreciation to: Lisa Rosenkrantz by Josh and Jen Zaret. Donations can be made Please send your RSVP prior to June 03, 2014 for all occasions and life-cycle events. to [email protected] MILDRED AND PERCY WEINSTEIN ENDOWMENT FUND Use our online donation form to send or 613-798-4696 ext. 252 R’fuah Sh’leimah to: one or multiple tribute cards Millie Weinstein by Shirley Strean-Hartman. A copy of the meeting materials will be available to your friends and loved ones in one secure transaction. on our website prior to the AGM. ZIPES KARANOFSKY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND Charitable receipts are issued and www.OJCF.ca Mazal Tov to: sent directly to your email account. Steven and Elizabeth Rubin on the birth of “Our Future is in Your Hands” their granddaughter, Lia Rose, by Rick and Helen Try it TODAY! Zipes. April 28, 2014 27 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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MONDAY, APRIL 28 Malca Pass Library Book Discussion Group: Info: Penni Namer, 613-798-9818, ext. 243, Ottawa Conference Centre, Panel Discussion on Genocide: Duty to book review and discussion Agudath Israel [email protected] 55 Colonel By Drive, 7 to 9 pm. Synagogue, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, 7:30 to 9 pm. Info: Rachel Abenhaim, 613-798-4696, ext. 236, Remember and the Rebuilding of Nations TUESDAY, MAY 6 A thought-provoking discussion on genocide, Info: Maureen Kaell, 613-224-8649, [email protected] Yom Ha’Atzmaut exploring how tolerance, understanding and a [email protected] community celebration: TUESDAY, MAY 13 duty to remember are essential ingredients in WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 TO SATURDAY, MAY 10 Celebrate with family friendly fun, preventing such evil. Limited seating. OJCS Community Open House: Counterpoint Players present Corpus by including buskers, balloon artists, music, St. Paul University Amphitheatre, Stop by and visit your community school. Darrah Teitel, directed by Bronwyn Steinberg. Israeli dancing and more, plus Israeli food 223 Main Street, 5:30 pm. Ottawa Jewish Community School, A young genocide scholar stumbles across the from Creative Kosher Catering (available Info: Benita Siemiatycki, 613-798-4696, ext. 227, 31 Nadolny Sachs Private, 9 to 11 am. mysterious relationship between the wife of a for purchase). Hellenic Meeting & Reception [email protected] Info: Sara-Lynne Levine, 613-722-0020, Nazi offi cer and a Polish Jewish prisoner in Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales Drive, 5 to 9 pm. [email protected] Healthy Living Fair: More than 25 exhibitors Auschwitz. (No show May 5.) Info: Penni Namer, 613-798-9818, ext. 243, provide information regarding healthy living Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, 8 to 10 pm. [email protected] THURSDAY, MAY 15 and aging, with demos, door prizes and snacks Info: www.counterpointplayers.com Professional Development Workshop SUNDAY, MAY 11 available all day. A kosher light lunch available for local Jewish agencies and organizations SUNDAY, MAY 4 for sale. AJA 50+ summer program registration Books and Bagels: Rabbi Garten reviews on the subject of Governance, presented will also take place. Congregation Agudath Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy by Debi Zaret of Capacity Building Consulting. Israel, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, 9:30 am to 3 pm. 30th Anniversary Dinner: of Israel by Ari Shavit. Temple Israel, All organizations and agency professionals Info: Annette Paquin, 613-526-2968, featuring world-renowned a cappella group 1301 Prince of Wales Drive, 9:30 to 11 am. and volunteers welcome, 6:45 to 9 pm. [email protected] The MACCABEATS. Fairmont Château Laurier, Info: Shayla Mindell, 613-594-4556, Info: Sarah Beutel, 613-798-4696, ext. 253 1 Rideau Street, 5:30 to 8 pm. [email protected] [email protected] TUESDAY, APRIL 29 Info: Devora Caytak, 613-729-7712, OJCS Community Open House: [email protected] COMING SOON WEDNESDAY, MAY 21 Stop by and visit your community school. Yom Hazikaron ceremony: Israel’s National Jewish Federation of Ottawa Ottawa Jewish Community School, Memorial Day ceremony for fallen soldiers and MONDAY, MAY 12 Members Meeting: Everyone welcome 31 Nadolny Sachs Private, 9 to 11 am. victims of terror, followed by a screening of A Federation L’Chaim of Apreciation to attend, 7 to 9 pm. Info: Sara-Lynne Levine, 613-722-0020, Green Kippah, which chronicles the lives and to thank all donors to the Jewish Federation Info: Rachel Abenhaim, 613-798-4696, ext. 236 [email protected] deaths of three American Jews , 7 to 9 pm. of Ottawa’s 2014 Annual Campaign: [email protected]

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