Adar / Nisan 5774 Vol. 24. No. 4 March / April 2014 Website: www.agudasisrael.org

THE BULLETIN

Congregation Agudas Israel 715 McKinnon Ave, Saskatoon S7H 2G2 (306) 343-7023 Fax: (306) 343-1244 Rabbi Claudio Jodorkovsky President: Marsha Scharfstein Congregation Agudas Israel Receives Largest Ever Donation From The Estate of Dr. Elizabeth Brewster - $102,000 See page 6 Come and share a wonderful evening of Pesach tradition. Be part of our Seder that will include songs, participatory readings and delicious Kosher for Passover food catered by The Griffin Takeaway. 2nd Passover Night Holocaust Tuesday, April 15th, 7:15 pm Memorial 2014 Cost: Adult $20 -Children up to 17 $10 - Students $18 (No individual or family will be excluded due to inability to pay) Sunday, May 4, - 1:30 pm If you are interested in participating contact: Rabbi Claudio at [email protected] Jewish Community Center Yuval and Daniella at [email protected] Speaker: Robbie Waisman Guest: Elias Luf - Deputy Head of Missions, Embassy of Israel See page 9

Congregation Agudas Israel, Hillel Saskatoon in associa- tion with B’nai Brith, USSU and CIJA Present:

th Monday, May 5 , 2014 TCU Place 715 Mckinnon Ave. With Celebrity Guest Speaker 15$ for CAI members and for prepaid tickets/ 20$ at the door. JANN ARDEN Call: Daniella & Yuval: 280-6977

This page is sponsored by Gladys Rose of Toronto Deadline for the next Bulletin is April 10, 2014 It’s Now 68 Years Later ( A Memorial ) From: Bill Narvey Though Holocaust Memorial Day is April 27-28, every day is a good day to recall the Holocaust and its critical significance in both the lessons and dire warnings it imparts to not only each and every Jew, but to each and every one of our world’s people. This photo and cartoon are often circulated. I reflect on it every time I see it which helps keep the lessons, the warnings and the message, NEVER AGAIN alive in the forefront of my mind. I urge all of you to do the same.

In MEMORIAM - 68 YEARS LATER Please read the little cartoon carefully, it’s powerful. I’m doing my small part by sharing this message. I hope you’ll consider doing the same. It is now 68 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. The e-mail this comes from is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 Million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated . Now, more than ever, it’s imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again. Thanks!

This page is sponsored by Dr. Syd z'l & Miriam z’l Gelmon of Vancouver 2 Editorial FROM OUR CONGREGATIONAL FAMILY by Steven Goluboff The Mission Statement of Congregation Agudas Israel Congregation Agudas Israel is a spiritual, religious, educational and social home committed to deepening the quality of Jewish life in Saskatoon and district. We are an evolving link in the Rabbi Claudio has historical traditions of the Jewish people. We are a progressive, democratic and sensitive con- chosen to write in this is- gregation responding to the widest spectrum of Jewish thought and practice. sue of The Bulletin about Written at the 2002 Kallah by the members of Congregation Agudas Israel Tzedakah, its meaning and implications for all CONDOLENCES TO: of us. He goes beyond Mark and Wendy Ditlove and family on the death of Wendy’s father Harry Bondar. Tzedakah directed to Jewish needs but extends its commitment to the broader community in Bob Stromberg, David, Jeff, and Allison Stromberg and all their family on the death of Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. In his short time their mother and grandmother Rhoda Stromberg recently in Vancouver. in Saskatoon he has become aware of the cost of poverty in our province and has brought MAZEL TOV AND CONGRATULATONS TO: to our attention a new campaign – “Poverty Costs”. He is seeking our own members to join Nicky Gitlin on her induction into the Saskatoon Sports Hall Fame. our congregation’s Social Justice Committee Jamie ( Scharfstein) and Brent Holderness on the birth of a baby boy Charlie in January. which will work on this campaign. It is not to Jamie is the daughter of Briane and Lenny Scharfstein and the niece of President Marsha suggest that our community has not always and Grant Scharfstein and Jim and Jan Scharfstein and Granddaughter of Jean Scharfstein. been proactive in supporting non-Jewish Elaine Sharfe, who has replaced Steven Goluboff as the Mercaz Board representative from needs. Both B’nai Brith’s Silver Plate Dinner Saskatoon. and CAI/Hadassah’s Silver Spoon Dinner are well recognized and respected for the contribu- tions made to general community needs in the WELCOME NEW MEMBERS: city. In that theme of Tzedakah, we are thrilled as a congregation to be the recipients of the Willow Allan and Trevor Lunga and their daughter Thandiwe Lunga. largest gift ever to our Foundation from the Moe Bloom • Matthew Ditlove • Akosiererem (Ose) Sokaribo • Leonardo Husid (Bios estate of Dr. Elizabeth Brewster. Elizabeth, to follow in next issue) known to only a small number of our members was a woman of great integrity, a poet of dis- Jamie and Brent Holderness and their family tinguished accomplishment, a well-respected Jamie grew up as a Scharfstein in the Jewish community in Saskatoon. She moved to University English Professor and someone Toronto after high school and studied jazz performance who found Judaism in her eighth decade of for 2 years, before completing her degree in nursing. life. She was inspired by Rabbi Roger Pavey Brett Holderness grew up in Saskatoon, and completed and found great comfort in her new faith. She his degree in mechanical engineering. Brett and was a regular member of our Saturday morn- Jamie went to high school together, and after years ing Minyan until poor health precluded her of friendship, began dating and were married in June attendance. We must challenge the Board of 2011 at Greenwater Lake. The past 2 and a half Trustees to insure that a gift of this magnitude years have been busy. Their first child was born in is properly recognized in perpetuity. I think September 2012; a little girl named Bailey. Their that Elizabeth would have wanted her gift to second child was just born in January 2014; a little provide a message to others. As President Mar- boy named Charlie. They are looking forward to becoming active members of the Jewish sha says in her column, we should all consider community for years to come! donating to the many funds in our Foundation and hopefully, many will consider leaving even small bequests to the Congregation in March 22nd, to celebrate Purim. Adults of all time we will have emerged from the long and their wills. We also thank those who made ages are welcome and it is certain to be another cold winter and be ready for the emergence of our 2013 UIA Campaign a great success and I Purim party to remember. Hopefully by that longer days, green grass and spring. know that Linda Shaw will be thanking those who contributed Hadassah’s Youth Aliyah Campaign in the next Bulletin. On a final note on the theme of Tzedakah, UIA has responded The Bulletin Editor-in-Chief...... Steven Goluboff Page Sponsorship...... $25/issue or $130/year to the crisis in Ukraine, where there are still Youth Editor...... Abbey Holtslander Issues Published...... 142 several hundred thousand Jews by forging Advertising Manager...... Ron Gitlin Issues/Year...... 6 Circulation Manager...... Myla Deptuch If you are happy with the Bulletin and enjoy reading it, please another campaign for this cause alone. Layout & Graphic Design...... Janet Eklund consider sponsoring a page ($25/issue or $130/year). Contact On a less serious note, our Shlichim are Proof Reading...... Bruce Cameron Steven Goluboff or Ron Gitlin. Cost of this issue with mailing...... $1200 E-Mail Address: [email protected], planning the premier adult party of the year on Advertisements...... $30/issue [email protected], [email protected] website: http://agudasisrael.org This page is sponsored by Grace, Steven, Leila, Sarah & Shaina Goluboff 3 Person to Person by Marsha Scharfstein, President, CAI “I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.” - Rosalynn Carter

It is funny how thoughts flow in and out of Well, if he is going to be going to school must do it in the Jew- your mind... and connect to other thoughts... here, I have to make sure that the Hebrew ish community as well and carry you to a completely different place School is strong and vibrant and a place for to ensure that there is than you started... exciting Jewish learning... a community available I have just enjoyed two weeks watching my If the School is going to be great, I have to to provide whatever they will need. three month old grandson discover the world. make sure that the community is strong and This month, our editor, Steven, is acknowl- It is fascinating! They left yesterday and I was vibrant too... edging an incredible donation given to our sitting here thinking about how excited he For that to happen, we must make sure that community by the late Elizabeth Brewster. was when he figured out that his hands could there are dedicated, committed members and Elizabeth understood the importance of pro- actually grab something he wanted them to. a strong financial foundation.. viding for the future needs of this community He was in fact in control of them...something Speaking about foundations,... well, you and made provisions in her will for this to we take for granted, but an amazing accom- see how my thoughts move. In the blink of happen. On behalf of the community, I can plishment for him. Everyday he discovers an eye I went from admiring my grandson only express our thanks. This is something I something new, and it was wonderful to be to concern for the future of our community. would like to suggest that many of us think part of that for a few days. Gerry Rose taught me many lessons, but the about doing...certainly not in the amount of That thought got me thinking about how one I am thinking about right now is that we Elizabeth’s bequest, but something... much he has yet to learn...and that I want to be have an obligation to build now for our chil- There are numerous avenues available to a part of that learning...maybe they will move dren and grandchildren’s future. We do this in us for making donations, most of which are back to Saskatoon and he could go to Hebrew our personal lives by having life insurance, or tax deductible. The possibility of having a School!! That would be fun... retirement funds, or education savings. But we continued on page 16 Divrei Harav – Rabbi Claudio’s Message What Tzedakah really means: Making a difference for our province by Rabbi Claudio Jodorkovsky

Although the con- suffering that comes with poverty, it has also I was even more shocked when I learnt that cept of Tzedakah is to be connected to a higher goal of doing poverty in Saskatchewan costs the province widely known for “Tzedek”: Understanding that poverty is 3.8 billion dollars in assistance, heightened many of us, its real meaning and implica- injustice and more than “patching” its effects service use, social and health implications and tions are most times unknown for many Jews. we should work to eradicate it. missed economic opportunities. 3.8 billion We know what charity is and also what our In his “Laws about Tzedakah” Maimonides dollars! In comparison to provinces of other responsibilities are in alleviating the hardship explains that there are different ways of giv- countries in the world we could be proud that of so many people living in poverty. We may ing Tzedakah, being the most important of all we have the capacity of helping people who also know that this responsibility is a com- helping the poor with a loan or job so he can are in need. But, can you imagine how things mandment from God and not a mere invita- overcome poverty and become economically would change if we could use those resources tion to help. But while the concept of charity independent. The Torah limits the terrible not only to fight the consequences of poverty is considered a virtue related to the capacity consequences of a life-long debt declaring but its causes as well? for loving, the Jewish concept of Tzedakah is, that it should be annulled in the Sabbatical A campaign called “Poverty Costs” has be- on the other hand, a Mitzvah, which means Year, and it does the same regulating the gun in our province in order to raise awareness a systematic obligation that we should fulfill length of slavery, which in those days was about the necessity of creating a plan to reduce regardless of our feelings, kindness or per- a consequence of poverty. Even if we con- poverty in Saskatchewan in an effective and sonality. It is a law that we have to follow sider that these laws are very difficult to be efficient way, giving emphasis to the causes regularly and unconditionally, because those put in practice in our times, they convey an of poverty. The campaign has been developed in need cannot wait for us to be emotionally important lesson for any generation: Poverty successfully in others provinces and now ready to give. cannot be considered a chronic condition and several local organizations and faith com- But the meaning of Tzedakah has another we should try to fight against it not only with munities are sponsoring it in Saskatchewan. component that cannot go unnoticed and a mere appeal to kindness but also with laws. During the week of March 10th – 15th 2014 which makes it to be unique. Tzedakah comes I was shocked last month when I learnt that there will be various community events in our from the Hebrew root “Tzedek” which means in Saskatchewan there are more than 100.000 province as well as online activities designed “Justice”. For Jews the act of giving not only people who live in poverty, which represents has the purpose of helping to alleviate the approximately 10% of the population. But continued on page 16 This page is sponsored by Dr. Alan Rosenberg & Dr. Lesley-Ann Crone and family 4 Reflections From 39,000 Feet by Heather Fenyes

If you want a tren- a new and different vantage point from your But we talked – many of us – and I always chant analysis of the usual perspective. I do that all the time. opened myself up to the possibility and the political nuance of I’m not naive. I know this was a political promise of each conversation. The business- Harper’s trip to Israel, opportunity and I shared it with many strongly man who sat down with my new Reconstruc- you’ve come to the partisan players. I know that, if I had a chance tionist Rabbi friend and me intended to talk wrong place. There to talk to each of the 200 delegates assembled about business (he misjudged his audience). are many Three people likely not sharing all the same other worthy contributors who political ideologies instead shared a powerful will scrutinize and dissect this and poignant talk about democracy, politics, trip, tell you why it was a whop- religion and social justice. We may not cast ping success, and how it was a the same ballot at every election, but we left shameful failure. I always had profoundly touched by a deep, resonant con- a different perspective. versation. We won’t do business together but, Thirty-thousand feet in the who knows? Maybe we will do good. air, I have 12 hours and 37 While others will continue to focus on minutes to contemplate. In the details of the politics and the nuances two small blogs I barely gave of the successes and failures of this visit, I you a taste. I didn’t tell you will tell you that, again, for me it was about about the new and unexpected the experience, the opportunity and the mo- friendships, or the inordinately ment. I shared in a piece of history. I sat in long waiting times, or how I felt the Knesset and heard the leader of my home while singing Oh Canada and country embrace the country that lives in my Hatikva at a state dinner – let soul. I met people I would never come across alone how it felt to be a guest in my own world and, together, we may find at a state dinner. opportunities to engage one another in the You don’t know that I met process of repair. a Reconstructionist, Reform, There is much that needs repair. While what Conservative and Chabbad needs fixing in Israel appears more obvious, Rabbi and had four meaningful there is more than enough to fix at home. and valuable conversations. I We need politics and politicians to define the didn’t talk about the lack of conversations, but we can’t let the partisan- food, the 10-hour waits between ship get in the way of the work. meals, or the bites of exploding For the past few days, I was so proud to be Israeli flavours when we finally did eat. and really engage in a substantive discus- Canadian. When I land, (my safety assured by I told you that I was proud to be here, and sion, some of us would share fundamentally the air marshal who keeps checking the bath- I asked you to consider this experience from disparate views. room beside me) and all my friends tell me what was good and bad and wrong and right about this historic visit, I will know that, for Think Good - Do Good me, it was another piece. A great, great piece. by Heather Fenyes The international Day for the Elimination Olam. They each decorated cut out footsteps CUELENAERE, KENDALL of Racial Discrimination is March 21. This with their personal message of peace. year, we have created a special event to take On March 21, 100 of these young students KATZMAN place at the University of Saskatchewan. A will meet at the University of Saskatch- local teacher at Brunskill School was inspired ewan. They will receive welcome from the RICHARDS by the March for Change launched last spring President, Dr. Ilene Busch-Vischniac, student & with our Holocaust program. To follow-up, leadership, and Judge David Arnot, Chief Barristers, Solicitors and Mediators she invited students that participated in the Commissioner of Saskatchewan Human RANDY KATZMAN March from a Catholic, Public and Misbah Rights Commission. The students will be B.Comm., LL.B. school, to meet at Brunskill and participate dispersed throughout the campus to hand out in a Think Good. Do Good afternoon that she (306) 653-5000 buttons to university students. Each recipient Fax: (306) 652-4171 called “100 steps to peace”. These 200 stu- will be given two buttons - one to keep, and dents, along with volunteers from Congrega- one to pay forward. The day promises to be tion Agudas Israel, met to talk about citizen- fun and inspiring. 5th Floor, Atrium Place, #510, 128 - 4th Avenue S., ship, community, responsibility and Tikkun Saskatoon, S7K 1M8 This page is sponsored by the Saskatchewan Jewish Council 5 Elizabeth Brewster August 24, 1922 - December 26, 2012 by Cantor Neil Schwartz (Reprinted from March April 2013 Bulletin)

Dr. Elizabeth pavilion and our annual Holocaust Memorial in Canaan and settle in the Nile Delta. At the Brewster Service. In the Fall of 2010 she had the end of his life, Jacob gives a blessing to each was a regular pleasure of a formal “book launch” for her last of his sons, who will become the ancestors of participant in our book of poetry at McNally Robinson, and the the future Twelve Tribes of Israel. Jacob then Sabbath worship room was full of her friends and colleagues. dies, and he is buried in Canaan, and at the services each There is a type of Biblical commentary very end of Genesis, his son Joseph also dies. week. Elizabeth was introduced to the “Lunch called “Midrash” that has been written by The parallel that I see is this: While and Learn” program in our community by various scholars for over 2000 years, and Elizabeth did not have her own biological the late Martha Blum near the end of the every time someone adds a new view on children, she was a beloved faculty member 1990’s, and my predecessor Rabbi Roger a particular Biblical passage, that person who befriended and mentored many young Pavey worked with Elizabeth and made her continues to add to this body of commentary. poets and other writers. Through her feel welcome here. As I got to know her, I I discovered that several of Elizabeth’s poems influences in their lives, and through her own also began to read some of the poetry that she were about various Biblical people or events, writings, Elizabeth passed on her legacy to wrote in the years since she became a “Jew and with her permission, I quoted some of these future colleagues, just as surely as our by Choice”, one who finds meaning in joining these poems over the past several years as ancient Patriarch Jacob passed his blessings the Jewish community. examples of “modern poetic Midrash” in on to his biological family. Elizabeth became active in her own way some of my sermons. We are all better people for having known in our Jewish community. She was a strong The Torah Portion that we chant is this quiet, gentle person who could move us supporter of Hadassah, Sisterhood, and United particularly appropriate for this stage of so deeply with her words. Israel Appeal. One of our Shlichim, Keren Elizabeth’s long journey. We are at the end Or Wilcek, taught Elizabeth Hebrew in 2002, of the Book of Genesis, and Jacob has come and she was also a supporter of our FolkFest to Egypt with his children to escape famine

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by Linda Shaw, Even though we Susanne Forstey and her friends later in the that will enable it to guarantee sustainability haven’t held any chap- year. We raised more than $1200 – a new of CHW projects – CHW SUSTAINERS. ter meetings in the past record. Thank you everyone. Since its inception, more than 270 Sustainers few chilly months, behind the scenes activities Silver Spoon Dinner 2014 plans are well across Canada have joined the program. Sus- have been on-going to keep CHW warm in our underway. Jann Arden is our guest speaker tainers pledge an annual gift of $1000 ($83.50 minds and hearts. (Hokey, huh?) We wound so it will be fantastic. Our tickets sold out per month – less than $3 per day) to support up our 2013 Annual Campaign in December in less than 4 weeks!!! We can still use your Children, Healthcare and Women projects in and once again it was a great success. Saska- help with sponsorships, prizes, set up, clean Israel and Canada. toon members and friends, thank you so much up and helping at the Dinner itself. Please Jennifer Hesselson and I are pleased to an- for your generous support. I will include a email Rebecca Simpson at rebeccasimpson@ nounce that we are Sustainers. I’m proud that list of all the contributors in the next Bulletin. sasktel.net to volunteer. I did mine in memory of my mother, Clarice We did the draw for the 2014 “Jewish Din- Watch for news about our annual CHW Buckwold. The following is a short article that ner for 8” raffle project at the Shabbat Family Pesach Tea/ Spring Tea sometime in April. will appear in the next CHW Orah magazine Dinner on January 17th. The delicious brisket Several years ago Canadian Hadassah- about Jennifer’s commitment to CHW: there will be duplicated for our lucky winner: WIZO established a new category for giving Join us. Become a Sustainer today!

Chw Sustainers Hadassah Cards I have been an ac- totally believe in. A Sustainer plan is valuable • Marilyn Weisbart, with sympathy tive member of CHW for the organization as CHW can count on from Linda and Arnie Shaw, Jennifer and for 30 years. CHW the funds and use it more efficiently for our Jeffrey Hesselson and Janet Erikson is an organization projects. that I totally believe I have been on a few missions to Israel • Cheryl Singer with sympathy from in. Living in a small with CHW and visited our many projects Linda and Arnie Shaw, and Barry Singer community, it has with pride and this has strengthened my belief and Janice Gingell given me my Jewish that it is an honour to become a SUSTAINER identity and helped and continue the excellent work CHW does me to connect with in changing the lives of so many woman and other Jewish people all over the country and children in Israel. in Israel. It is the centre of my Jewish life. I was at a National Meeting when I first Jennifer Hesselson heard about the Sustainer Program. It really Sustainer, CHW Saskatoon appealed to me and I thought what a wonder- ful way to give an ongoing gift to a cause I

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This page is sponsored by Jeffrey and Sherril Stein. 8 Notes from Sisterhood and More by Lisa Shiffman, President, Agudas Israel Sisterhood

Sisterhood Notes to come as we have toys, games and coloring Parent and Tot Group Thank you to every- activities ready at a nearby table for them. A new parent and tot drop-in group has one who came out to the Though this group is not structured to be a begun on Friday mornings in the preschool Family Shabbat Dinner “class”, but rather an hour of free talking, Lisa room. This event is from 9:30-11:30am and in January. The Hebrew and Hanna hold their CERTESL (Certificate has a drop in fee of $1.00 per family - to sup- School did a phenomenal in Teaching English as a Second Language). port the parents “coffee fund”. Everyone is job leading the service. All of the other volunteers bring their own life welcome to bring non-meat snacks for their Sisterhood ladies and their families did a great experiences to the table, and everyone always kids, but children must not share food items job leading the blessings and poetry readings has a great time talking about life and relax- with each other. Come out with your kids as part of the service. Thank you to Linda and ing together. The hour flies by very quickly and we’ll supply the coffee and conversa- her kitchen crew for the amazing supper, to and the discussions often run well into the tion! If you have any questions please email the B’nai Brith for supplying the wine, and to hour and a half mark. Any Jewish speakers [email protected]. Lesley Ann for providing the challot. It truly of English as a second or additional language takes a team to make this event come together. are welcome to join the conversation circle at Did you know….. the bulletin board just As someone who loves flowers, I wish to any time as it is a drop in program and does not inside the main entrance has been re-vamped share some information on a “beautiful” fund require commitment or registration. Please and now shows upcoming events and fun ac- in our community. This fund is called the spread the word! Any questions/comments tivities that take place within our community. “Flower Fund” and is used to purchase the can be directed to: [email protected] Be sure to check it out regularly! gorgeous floral arrangements that adorn the bimah during the high holiday services. Every year there are many oooooh’s and ahhhhhh’s regarding these beautiful arrangements as they are quite spectacular. The flowers are always Robbie Waisman... from page 1 purchased from florists who support the Ha- dassah Silver Spoon Dinner. If you would Robbie Waisman in telling his own story Robbi Waisman emigrated to Canada to like to support the “Flower Fund” please write says: “I was born in 1931 in Skarszysko, re-build his life. He lived for some years in your cheque to “Agudas Israel Sisterhood” Poland, a very tight-knit community. I was Saskatoon, and later moved to Vancouver with “Flower Fund” in the memo line, and the youngest of six children, with four older where he and his wife Gloria still reside. mail it to CAI Sisterhood, 715 McKinnon Ave. brothers and one sister. My parents were Robbie has spoken twice before to our com- S, Saskatoon, SK, S7H 2G2. A tax receipt religious. I remember the Sabbath as a very munity and each time his story has moved and will be issued for any donation to this fund. special time when my father would tell us re-aligned the audience. stories of the grey Rabbis and the stories of On Friday, May 2 at 9:30 am Robbie will Conversation Circle Sholom Aleichem. I was very pampered and lead 500 students in a March for Change along The Agudas Israel English Conversation felt that everything revolved around me. My with Eliaz Luf, Deputy head of Missions, Circle runs every Wednesday night until April early memoires are full of warmth and love. Embassy of Israel. 9th. This is an opportunity for Jewish non-na- All that changed for Robbie as if overnight; Our annual Holocaust Memorial event takes tive speakers of English to come out and talk and when he was liberated on April 11, 1945 at place Sunday, May 4th at 1:30 pm. Don’t miss with native speakers in a relaxed atmosphere 3:15 from the notorious Buchenwald, he soon this opportunity to listen, and be directed by over tea and cookies. Children are welcome learned his entire family had been murdered. the power of Robbie’s message.

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Prime Minister than good old-fashioned partisanship. “new antisemitism”) to denounce those who Harper’s recent trip As someone who has experienced it first- discriminate against Israelis and single out to Israel was an ex- hand, I’m acutely aware that partisanship is Israel for mistreatment on the world stage. traordinary moment an important element of politics. But if we’re He was right to recognize and publicly con- for the Jewish com- striving for objectivity, we must recognize that demn this odious new form of hatred – just munity of Canada. fighting the new antisemitism is an intrinsi- as Prime Minister Harper was right to do so CIJA Chair David Koschitzky captured the cally non-partisan cause – even if it happens in the Knesset. feeling among those Canadians who traveled to find expression among partisan politicians. One can come to the above conclusion and to Jerusalem: “…after years of consistently Just as it is principled to applaud those who remain a stalwart supporter of one’s party of expressing empathy for Israel at times when condemn hatred of Israel regardless of their preference, particularly given the range of is- many Western states failed to do so, the Prime party, it is in our strategic interest to ensure sues that shape voting choices across Jewish Minister’s delegation has been met with the that those voices remain strong across the Canada. Giving credit where credit is due isn’t warmth that signifies a reunion of old friends political spectrum. a sign of partisan weakness; it’s a recognition rather than diplomats.” Within our community, I’ve heard Liberals that support for Israel’s fundamental right to Unfortunately, controversy can inject itself slam Stephen Harper and Conservatives slam be treated as any other sovereign democracy into the best of events. Critics of Israel and Justin Trudeau over the same issue: Israel. is a moral – not political – position. Prime Minister Harper alike – even within Liberal and Conservative elements of our Full disclosure: Before I worked for the our community – decried his strong Jewish community, refutation of the “new antisemitism.” I spent years as a The term, of course, is what scholars political staffer have used to describe the manifestation Indeed, those who criticized the trip widely for a Conservative of antisemitic attitudes, comments, and ignored Prime Minister Harper’s comment MP – first at the tactics directed against the Jewish state constituency level under the guise of legitimate criticism. to the Knesset that “firm support doesn’t and then on Parlia- This is entirely distinct from sup- ment Hill. While I port for or opposition to any particular mean that allies and friends will agree on am now in a non- Israeli policy decision. Indeed, those partisan capacity who criticized the trip widely ignored all issues all of the time. (and there is a wide Prime Minister Harper’s comment to spectrum of po- the Knesset that “firm support doesn’t litical viewpoints mean that allies and friends will agree on community should recognize that we have among CIJA’s staff), I feel an added degree of all issues all of the time. No state is beyond allies on both sides of the aisle when it comes credibility in complimenting Justin Trudeau legitimate questioning or criticism.” to this issue. I’ll face some criticism for saying for taking a stand against the new antisemi- What the Prime Minister’s critics failed to this, but if we’re being intellectually honest, tism. At the same time, I acknowledge that appreciate was that the purpose of this trip Stephen Harper deserves credit from Liberal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has likewise was not to single out particular policy differ- elements of the Jewish community, just as denounced those who question Israel’s le- ences. Rather, it was to expand already strong Justin Trudeau deserves credit from Conserva- gitimacy. I don’t betray my personal political bilateral ties and celebrate Canada’s steadfast tive elements of the community. leanings by recognizing that, when it comes to rejection of efforts to delegitimize Israel on I say this because, when speaking at my Israel, we need allies in all parties on the Hill. the world stage. 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Over 130,000 was raised in 2013 to support the work of UIA in Israel and around the less fortunate Jewish world, as well as ensuring that the Shlichim progam may continue in Saskatoon, as 50% of the funds raised come back to our community. Yasher Koach. Steven Goluboff - Campaign Chairman June Avivi Zara Gurstein Grant and Marsha Scharfstein Mel Bernbaum Gordon and Franci Holtslander Michael Scharfstein Saskatoon B’nai Brith Simone Horwitz Daniel Shapiro and Marie Lanoo Eli Bornstein Perry and Jordana Jacobsen Elaine and Sherwood Sharfe Bruce and Tamara Buckwold Claudio and Rosie Jordokovsky Kevin Sharfe Rich and Carole Buckwold David and Susan Kaplan Linda and Arnie Shaw Bruce Cameron David and Susan Katzman Michael Shaw Cindy Cohen Ralph Katzman Ann Schectman Joe and Karen Dawson Randy and Shirley Katzman Harold and Lisa Shiffman Mark and Wendy Ditlove Cam and Sherry King Jack and Bev Shiffman Matthew Ditlove David Kohll Barry Singer Janet Erikson Pauline Laimon Barry Slawsky Heather and Les Fenyes Michael Levine Jeffrey Stein Josh and Nicole Gitlin Terry Levitt Allison Stromberg Ron and Jan Gitlin Zoe Litman Rebecca and Steven Simpson Grace Goluboff Patricia Pavey David Stromberg Sarah Goluboff Mirka Pollak Jeff Stromberg Shaina Goluboff Burna Purkin Robert and Sandra Stromberg Steven and Leila Goluboff Gladys Rose Daphne Taras and Alan Ponak Saul Gonor Alan and Lesley Ann Rosenberg Shannon and Ron Waldman Diane and Gerald Greenblatt Jack Sandbrand Vaughn Wyant

The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts by Daniel Stern, Campaign Director and Director of Regional Community Services, Jewish Federations Canada – UIA Congratulations children Jewish, particularly in younger Taglit-Birthright Israel, the government hopes to Saskatoon for an- adults, the ’ Millenial Generation’. While to use connections with Israel to counter some other successful year these trends may not yet be present here in of the trends seen in youth and young adults of fundraising for the United Jewish Appeal Canada or in Saskatoon, there is growing in modern Jewish communities. Partnered campaign. Under the steadfast and tireless evidence that our open society and global out- with this commitment is financial support. leadership of Dr. Steven Goluboff, the cam- look is shaping the Jewish people and Jewish Israel is looking to invest $30 million this paign will provide funds for social service future in new ways. Specifically, significant year, rising to $300 million annually within support in Israel, aid to the needy in the FSU, numbers of Jews are not engaging with their five years. The Government is working with resources for Jewish Identity programs in Jewishness, sometimes forgoing it altogether. major worldwide Jewish organizations to ac- Canada and operational costs for the Shlichim This phenomenon has inspired the Govern- complish this task, including Keren Hayesod, program in your community. ment of Israel (GOI) to change its approach to Jewish Federations of North America and While this year’s campaign is fiscally world Jewry. For the 65 years since Israel’s Jewish Federations of Canada-UIA. While healthy, there is always concern over how existence – 100 years if you go back as far more details will be revealed as the initiative strong it will be in future. The same can be as the foundation of what would become progresses, it is an exciting time to think and said for our local Jewish institutions. More Israel- Diaspora Jewry has supported the implement new forms of engagement. than a few thinkers have also posed the ques- country with money, supplies and people. But Rather than struggle as individual commu- tion about the Jewish people as whole. We that street is no longer one-way, it is adding nities, as a cohesive Jewish people - whether may be fine today, but how will we be in the another lane of traffic. Israel’s new approach we live in Israel, North or South America, immediate, near and distant future? to the Diaspora will be to formulate and Europe or the FSU - we will unite to leverage In October 2013, the PewResearch “Portrait fund programs collaboratively with Jewish our strength. The whole is greater than the of Jewish Americans” caused quite a splash communities abroad. This is a major shift sum of our parts. when its survey revealed very high rates of in policy. intermarriage and very low rates of raising Following the success of programs such as This Page is Sponsored by the United Israel Appeal of Canada 11 Psalm 24: Prayer For The First Day Of The Week by Dale Sands

David composed Temple was in operation. Psalm 24 was read whole world belongs to Hashem. this mizmor to be on Sunday the first day of the week. It may read upon inaugu- be read even if there is no minyan. Part Two is talking about Bet Hamikdash. ration of the Bet The commentaries break this prayer down The Bet Hamikdash was supposed to be Hamikdash. It was into three parts. the place for man’s most intense experience supposed to be sung of God’s presence. It was supposed to be on as the Ark of the Cov- Part One Mount Moriah that all men could experience enant entered the Holy of Holies. The Bet 1) A Psalm of David. The earth belongs to the Shechinah. It would have been the most Hamikdash was supposed to symbolize God’s Hashem, and all it contains; the world worthy with the following traits who could presence in this world even though His pres- and all its inhabitants. 2) He founded it serve in the Bet Hamikdash. ence is throughout the entire universe. upon the seas, and set it firm upon flow- 3) Who may ascend the mountain of the According to tradition the Levites would ing waters. Lord? Who may rise in His sanctuary? read one psalm each day of the week when the This section is establishing the fact that the 4) One who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not used God’s name in false oaths, who has not sworn deceit- fully. The Saskatoon Jewish Foundation 5) He shall receive a blessing from the gratefully acknowledges the following contributions: Lord, a just reward from the God of his deliverance. TO GREETING FROM Saskatoon Jewish Foundation 6) Such are the people who seek Him, who Singer Family In memory of David Singer the Bernbaum Family long for the Presence of Jacob’s God. Wendy & Mark Ditlove & Family In memory of Harry Bondar Lesley-Ann Crone & Alan Rosenberg Part Three is describing the entrance of the Gladys & Gerry Rose Fund Ark. David Kaplan In honour of your 90th birthday Glady Rose & Family David uses ceremonial dialogue to de- Cheryl Singer & Family In memory of David Singer Glady Rose & Family scribe the entrance of the Ark into the Bet Laimon Family In memory of Libby Lee Glady Rose Hamikdash. The ceremony visualizes the Ark as being accompanied by the Shechinah Nate & Grace Goluboff Fund and therefore is describing the King of Glory Cheryl Singer & Family In memory of David Singer The Goluboff Family coming to take residence in his earthly home. Mark & Wendy Ditlove & Family In memory of Harry Bondar The Goluboff Family The dialogue also describes the way a Barry Singer & Family In memory of David Singer The Goluboff Family powerful earthly king would be treated upon Pauline Laimon In memory of Libby Lee The Goluboff Family request to open the gates. The big difference is that Hashem Himself is returning. Therefore Elaine & Sherwood Sharfe Cantorial fund the gates themselves are requested to rise up David Kaplan On the occasion of this special birthday Elaine & Sherry Sharfe in awe of Hashem. The request is made twice. Eve & Harry Vickar On the occasion of your 60th wedding Elaine & Sherry Sharfe Hashem is described as a victorious warrior anniversary in the first request since the Ark was used in Lorne Sharfe Mazel Tov on receiving an honour from Elaine & Sherry Sharfe battle and was coming back to Jerusalem. the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee The second description says that Hashem is Mary-Ellen Buckwold In memory of your husband, Ian Elaine & Sherry Sharfe more powerful than we can imagine. David Miller In memory of your mother, Eva Miller Elaine & Sherry Sharfe 7) Lift high your lintels, O you gates: open Sandy Slotin In memory of your mother, Sadie Elaine & Sherry Sharfe wide you ancient doors! Welcome the Cheryl Singer & Family In memory of our dear friend, David Elaine & Sherry Sharfe glorious King. Wendy Ditlove & Family In memory of Harry Bondar Elaine & Sherry Sharfe 8) Who is the glorious King? The Lord, Pauline Laimon In memory of Libby Lee Elaine & Sherry Sharfe with triumph and might. The Lord tri- Richard Farber With condolences on the death Elaine & Sherry Sharfe umphant in battle. of your mother 9) Who is the glorious King? Adonai As my father planted for me before I was born, tzeva’ot, He is the glorious King. I will be looking forward to providing you So do I plant for those who will come after me. these commentaries on the daily prayers. from the Talmud Your contribution, sent to: Saskatoon Jewish Foundation Congregation Agudas Israel, 715 McKinnon Avenue, Saskatoon S7H 2G2 will be gratefully received and faithfully applied.

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The following is system for scholars and lawyers, with no gion of intellectuals. Judaism is not a religion another essay from place for simple faith. Simple faith was now of faith but of examined faith lived in action. Moral and Spiritual identified completely with the syncretistic It could not survive as a religious system Values, the unpub- paganised Judaism of the rural masses, outside without an integral link with that examination. lished work of the the boundaries of a Judaism inextricably tied It is based on a source, a sacred tradition, the same title by the into intense study of the Torah text. text of Torah, that purports to be the will of late Rabbi Roger This is the background to the hostility of God for human life, a will that is to be lived Pavey. the Pharisees to what they came to know as in detail. That will has to be understood, that the am ha arets, the country folk. As Juda- text has to be studied in order to understand. Am ha arets means “people of the land”, the ism developed into a halakhah derived from If Judaism is, in the last resort, the search for peasantry, the ordinary folk, unlearned both rigorous study and meticulous interpretation the answer to the Prophetic question,. ``Mah secularly and religiously. It is the traditional of a written text, it was inevitably going to Adonai shoel imak?” – “What does God Hebrew version of Marx’s “rural idiocy”. become a religion for the urban intelligentsia, want from you?” then the text that answers From the very outset, it appears to have as it has remained. This explains the attitude the question has to be analyzed with honesty a pejorative flavour. The most famous (or of the urban intellectuals who created Juda- and total intellectual rigor. One has to know, notorious) use of the phrase occurs in the ism as the Rabbinic-halakhic system, a highly in detail, exactly and accurately. Guesswork Pirke Avot, 2:6, where we read: “Lo am ha intellectual system molded in their own im- will not do; neither will sloppy approxima- arets Hasid,” or “An ignorant person cannot age, a religion of, by, and for scholars. The tion, however well-intended. The mental be religious.” This concludes a sentence that unsophisticated faith and life of the ordinary training of traditional Rabbinic scholarship begins, “en bor yere het,” or “a clod cannot country folk was despised. There was an on- has proved its value, even in modern times. be sensitive to sin.” The parallelism of the going fear that without the intellectual rigor It has shown itself to be transferable to other two terms, bor and am ha arets, underlines of the Rabbis, Judaism would lapse back into intellectual areas. Hence, the prominence the pejorative intent. Just as a crass fool a syncretistic paganism with a Judaic tinge. of so many Jews who come from traditional must be morally insensitive, so also one who Am ha arets is the opposite of the Rabbinic backgrounds in all areas of academic scholar- is not a religious scholar must be incapable scholar. Every world religion has its image ship. Today, the application of human reason of true religion. of the ideal to which the faithful should as- and scholarship has to encompass Judaism The phrase arises from a specific histori- pire. For Christianity, the role model is the itself, and its premises and presuppositions. cal situation. On the return of the elite from saint who transcends the physical world and It remains highly likely that Judaism is of its Babylonian exile, there was an inevitable denies its ultimate validity in the quest for very essence not a religion of mass appeal. confrontation with the majority who had the holy. For Buddhism, the role model is Every Jew is personally responsible for his or remained in the Land of Israel. Without the the Boddhisatva who himself attains nirvana her religious life. Any Jew can refer questions socio-religious elite that had been exiled in but returns to the world out of compassion to a competent expert for advice, but that does the sophisticated environment of Babylonia for suffering humanity bound to the wheel of not release the individual from studying – at where they had codified the Torah tradition samsara. For Judaism, the role model is the least to gain sufficient knowledge to judge the and begun the creation of the theological and scholar – not the academic scholar seeking quality and authenticity of that advice. The moral system that would become Judaism, truth for its own sake – but the practical schol- ultimate responsibility for action rests with then the syncretism of Yahwism and paganism ar who lives in the real world and transforms the individual and can not be discharged by that had existed during the earlier period con- it by living the will of God, revealed in the the advisor, however eminent. The buck stops tinued, and indeed became the norm. Those sacred text, and through teaching others. The with the individual. who had stayed in the Land would therefore result is eminently practical and pragmatic, Jews are to be a gadfly minority in the be deeply suspect in the eyes of the returnees. every aspect of ordinary life becoming sacred, world. The power of Judaism can only be The growth of Pharisaism produced a de- a system of “normative holiness”. The Pirke through the influence of its ideas and values. mocratization of the religious system. The Avot expresses this when it says, “To what can In a world all too often stricken by religious stringent requirements for the priests came to we compare someone whose wisdom exceeds fanaticism and the proclamation of irrational be seen as binding on the whole community. his deeds? To a tree, with many branches but certainties of faith, the cooler rationality Judaism was beginning to create the halakhic few roots, so when a wind blows it uproots of Judaism and its stringent discipline of system that would be a religious way for it and throws it over... On the other hand, to intellect, should be welcomed. Judaism is a scholars who were able and willing to study what can we compare one whose deeds exceed tradition that argues and discusses and seeks the Biblical text intensively and apply it in a his wisdom? To a tree with few branches but to persuade, because it has never had the raw growing consensus of what Judaism was to many roots, so that all the winds in the world power to bully. By the same token, of course, be. On the one hand, such a development can blow but can’t knock it down.” Jews must resist bigotry and fanaticism and was intensely democratic, in that it opened It is intriguing that the denigrating comment irrationality in religion within their own com- religious leadership to anyone who had the about the am ha arets is recorded in the name munity. A Judaism in which simple faith, the intellectual capacity to study and interpret the of Hillel, whose reputation as a broad-minded am ha arets, can come to be seen as religious sacred text and therefore removed religious and generous-spirited liberal is well founded and the use of the human mind as somehow leadership from a hereditary priestly caste. in Rabbinic literature. So deeply based in irreligious, even anti-religious, has become, But on the other hand, it also worked in the Rabbinic thought was the ideal of scholarship, as the Rabbis saw and feared, a paganised opposite direction by restricting religion to that it transcends even the tolerant attitudes as- “Judaism”. precisely those people with the capacity for sociated with Hillel. Even he can not conceive scholarship. Judaism was to be a religious of Judaism as being anything other than a reli- This page is sponsored by Arnold z’l & Claire Golumbia of Vancouver 13 The Bedouin And Me by Yuval Elmaliach

The Bedouin are a principles that on some occasions ends in a Imagine that you could drive just a few nomadic, Semite tribe blood-fueds. There is growing concern about hours out of town and meet a group of first who are said to be chil- some of these issues and also about the high nations people who live a traditional way dren of Islam. They percentage of unemployment and poverty and of life, very much as they did before settler originated in the Ara- the resulting high crime rates among these contact. Without judging if this is good or bian Peninsula. From populations. Yet there is also a great deal of bad you would know that you are witnessing here they moved north respect for many of the sons of the Bedouin a very different and special way of life. I had in order to find land who volunteer in the IDF, are skilled soldiers this kind of experience in Israel. on which to live and grazing land for their and who donate a great deal to the security of Shortly after I was discharged from the herds. They are divided into two groups: Israel. I cannot give a comprehensive discus- military I finally had the opportunity to spend the descendents of Shem the some time living with a Bedouin family. Al- son of Noah and the children though it was only for a short period, it was of Ishmael the descendants an experience that I will never forget and of Abraham and Hagar. They from which I learned so much. Someone had originally reached the land of Israel in the 200 BCE but there was major in-migration during the 18th and 19th centu- ries. The ideal area for them to live would have been in the rich lands of the north with its plantations, good climate and extensive grazing land. Yet, different historical regimes banished them to remote, virtu- ally uninhabitable areas which were extremely difficult to live in. They stayed in these areas to avoid conflict. This explains why today a majority of the Bedouin live in the Negev. A 2013 study reports that there were 220 000 Bedouin in the Negev. The relationship between the Bedouin and recommended that if a friend the Israeli state is multifaceted, but while and I wanted to stay with a Israel has a number of social, political, eco- Bedouin family we should nomic and security issues to deal with there go into the desert and meet a are also many important challenges surround- certain family. After a drive ing its’ relationship with minority populations. of an hour south of Bersheva One of the challenges is the clash of cultures we asked the bus driver to between the Bedouin and Israelis. While the stop at the next stop, he said state claims that moving Bedouin off their de- he had been driving the line sert land is part of a process of modernization, for 30 years and he said he Bedouin communities see this as the state tak- had never stopped at this stop ing away their land and culture. The Bedouin before. It was rather isolated way of life is based on ancient tradition. This and from the bus stop we had way of life is rare and special and they are to walk for three hours until proud of their heritage and many would like sion of all things Bedouin but I would like to we reached the tented camp that we were to maintain this way of life. They maintain a share my story… looking for. We shook hands with the head nomadic life and base their economy on the I grew up on Kibbutz Snir in the North of of the family. In the desert the ice melts very seasonal herding of livestock. At the same Israel. For as long as I remember I liked the fast. We explained that we wanted to live time they continue to live in tribes with a outdoors. I used to hike with family, friends with them and study their ways and to learn traditional family structure. This structure or student groups and as such I grew to admire Arabic and in return we would work for him includes polygamy – according to statistics the Bedouin culture. Just as a hockey player and help him in any way he wanted. They from 2009 38% of children are from polyga- will look up to better hockey player and ad- accepted us in the custom of hospitality for mous families, although polygamy is illegal mire the one he thinks is the best, so too this which they are known. in Israel. They have a rising birth-rate and it was with me. As a person who loves nature In and around the homestead, everyday fol- is estimated that their population numbers and who believes that coexisting with nature is lows similar routines but whoever knows the double every 13 years. The Bedouin have a complex art, it is the Bedouin who I admire desert knows that there are no two days that an internal legal system based on traditional for being at the top of this game. continued on page 16 This page is sponsored by the late Dr. Lou and Mrs. Ruth Horlick 14 Biography of the Month: George Gershwin by Stan Schroeder George Gershwin was named Jacob Ger- Secunda didn’t want to work with a young, and Funny Face in1927. With Strike Up the shvin when born in Brooklyn, New York, on musically untrained, publishing house pianist. Band in 1927 Gershwin gifted a version of the September 26, 1898. His parents were Jew- Gershwin’s first big national hit was in title song to UCLA to be used as a football ish and from Odessa. His father, 1919 with his song fight song. [I played alto sax in the UCLA Morris (Moishe) Gershowitz, Swanee. Al Jolson, Bruin football band from 1948 to 1951.] changed his family name to ‘Ger- a famous broadway Gershwin made two trips to Paris in 1926 shvin’ some time after immigrating singer of the day, and 1928. Following his second trip, the New to the U.S. from St. Petersburg, heard Gershwin play York Philharmonic commisisoned him to Russia, in the early 1890s. Gersh- the song at a party write An American in Paris for full orchestra win’s mother Rosa Bruskin had and decided to sing it that premiered at Carnegie Hall December 13. already emigrated from Russia. in one of his shows. Gershwin’s idiom was the American They met in New York and mar- In the early 1920s scene and its music. Beginning with jazz ried in 1895. George changed the Gershwin frequently and popular songs, he broadened his talents spelling of the family name to worked with the lyri- thematically and musically, until they culmi- ‘Gershwin’ after he became a pro- cist Buddy DeSylva. nated in his greatest work, the opera Porgy fessional musician; other members Together they creat- and Bess in 1935. It was based on DuBose of his family followed suit. At the ed the experimental Heyward’s novel Porgy and subsequent play time he was a great admirer of one-act jazz opera of the same title, which he co-wrote with his comedian Ed Wynn. Blue Monday set in wife Dorothy Heyward. Heyward wrote the Jacob was the second of four children; Harlem. It was performed as an act for George libretto and he and Ira Gershwin wrote the his brother Ira was two years older. He first White’s Scandals, a Broadway lytics. With an entire cast of displayed interest in music at the age of ten, musical revue. It is regarded as a African-American singers, it when he was intrigued by what he heard at his forerunner to the groundbreaking was a daring artistic choice at friend Maxie Rosenzweig’s (became famous Porgy and Bess. the time. as Max Rosen) violin recital. The sound and In 1924 bandleader Paul White- Perhaps the Gershwins’ the way his friend played captured him. His man commissioned Gershwin to most Jewish song was an un- parents had bought a piano for lessons for Ira, write Rhapsody in Blue, premiered published diddy about five fa- but to his parents’ surprise and Ira’s relief, it at the Aeolian Hall in New York mous European-born Jewish was Jacob who played it. with Gershwin at the piano. The violinists (Elman, Heifetz, After two years of trying several piano February 12 concert was called Seidel, Kreisler and Jacob- teachers, he settled on Charles Hambitzer. Experiment in Modern Music and the audience sen) that George played and Ira sang at parties. Hambitzer taught him conventional piano included such influential composers asJohn George Gershwin died of a brain tumor in technique, introduced him to music of the Philip Sousa and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Ger- Los Angeles July 11, 1937 at the age of 38. European classical tradition, and encouraged shwin visualized the composition while riding him to attend orchestra concerts. At home, on a train and completed it in five weeks. It Editor’s Note: Stan Schroeder is the Editor following such concerts, he would attempt became his most popular work. That same year George and his brother Ira of Congregation Shir Ami’s “Shir Notes” in to reproduce at the piano the music that he Los Angeles which also won a Gold Medal had heard. collaborated on a stage musical comedy Lady for “Bulletins.” He writes biographies of Given his lack of interest in the academic Be Good, which included such future stand- famous Jews and has offered to share them fields, his parents made a last ditch attempt to ards as Fascinating Rhythm and Oh, Lady Be with us. This article was first published in give him a stable career and arranged for him Good! This was followed by Oh, Kay! in 1926 the Shir Notes. to go to an accountancy school. On leaving school at the age of 15, Jacob found his first job as a “song plugger” for Jerome H. Remick PROFESSIONAL ADVICE and Company, a publishing firm on New York FROM A QUALIFIED City’s Tin Pan Alley, where he earned $15 a C H A R T E R E D A C C O U N T A NTS FINANCIAL ADVISOR week. 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Boris proposed to Gershwin 200 - 261 1st Ave. East and Sholem Secunda that they collaborate on 244-4414 Fax: 244-1545 Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 1X2 400 - 15 23rd St. East - Saskatoon a Yiddish opera. Gershwin was willing, but Bus: 665-3377 Res: 933-4123 This page is sponsored by Naomi Rose and Stan Sinai of Toronto. 15 The Bedouin And Me... from page x look the same. Every day we awoke before and could not understand where you could sun sets we walk back to the tent camp, boil sunrise. The water held in the few Jerry cans find fire wood in the area but in two minutes tea, bake bread, and eat supper chatting by the were not enough to wash our face and brush she came back with fire wood. With great camp fire. There is no electricity of course. our teeth so we started the day chasing the efficiency she started a fire and boiled a small The day ends when we throw a dusty blanket goats and milking them. The milk is used to pot of tea. The other sister came back with on the desert floor and go to sleep. make a sour cheese to feed us. Meanwhile fresh milk that she “borrowed” from one of I lived this life with them for two weeks. the father of the family boils water in a tradi- the goats. We sat in the shade. In the desert The family I stayed with live like this every tional pot, grinding fresh coffee with a millet time does not really matter as we take sips day for the six months of winter. In the and just before we leave for the grazing land from the rich strong tea with fresh milk. summer there is no grazing land in the Ne- we sit around the campfire for a few minutes Meanwhile the flames are dying down which gev and they live in informal settlements. and in small cups we drink the best coffee is the signal to put a large pile of dough on the From discussions that I had with the family I’ve ever tasted. At this point we left with coals and to cover it with more coals. After a I understood that they have never seen the the herd, trying to make sure the animals go while fresh and warm bread appears from the sea even though they do have a car and live slowly so as not to become dehydrated. After ashes. Everyone takes a piece and dips it in to only two hours away from it. They have no all it is a desert and we only took the animals the sour cheese made a day earlier. At many idea what the north of the country looks like to the water hole once every few days. In points during the day I studied with the father and it is difficult for them to imagine green this way we would amble through the wide of the family. He showed me how to look at mountains and forests – and, I am not even desert. At noon the herd would be stopped tracks, how to see the little details of the desert talking about snow! They did not know who for a nap under the shade of the bushes to which supplies important information such as the Prime Minister was and they had never avoid the heat. One of the daughters would if there are wolves in the area, what to do if heard of him. They told me that this is the go off to collect fire wood. I looked around it rains, how to track water and so on. As the life they want to live and if they would get money from somewhere they would use it to buy more goats. Person to Person... from page 4 Although underneath the positive is a sad life insurance policy naming Agudas Israel story of poverty I feel very lucky to have I thank everyone who uses the Foundation spent time with this family and to have lived as the beneficiary is a method used by many as a way of acknowledging an anniversary, organizations. The Saskatoon Jewish Foun- in a country with a diversity of people. In a birthday, special occasion for yourself or short distance of an hour from where I lived dation is another way. Donations made to someone else. We do send out acknowledg- the Foundation are invested and the interest as a student I found a place where I could go ment cards for all donations over $18. I thank thousands of years back in time. I observed earned is used for the purpose designated by Elizabeth for her generous bequest. I thank the specific fund. We have many funds within and learned how my ancestors would have all of you for considering doing something survived in the desert and I witnessed how the foundation such as the Avivi Shlichim similar. fund (money is designated for the shichim once human beings knew how to live as part The future, for our children, really is in of the ecological system, sensitive to the program if needed), the Sharfe Cantorial Fund our hands. (to help pay for the Cantor for High Holy environment and living in a sustainable way. Days), the Scharfstein Education Fund (build- Israel is a special country, with a great ing towards scholarships for Jewish children), As my father planted for me before I variety of views and culture on a small land. the Seymour Buckwold Cultural Fund (used was born, So do I plant for those who While this often creates a lot of problems and for cultural events in the community)...and will come after me. challenges, most of the time but it’s amazing. many more. If you would like to know more from the Talmud about the funds available, please let me know.

Divrei Harav... from page 4 to help Saskatchewan to understand that to builder.com) and to look for the different pro- reduce poverty is a necessity and a worthwhile grams during the week of March 10th to 15th. investment. Additionally, if you want to join the group of A group of members of our community community members who will be participat- has decided to actively take part of this cam- ing, or if you want to receive more informa- paign and we have created a Social Justice tion, please don’t hesitate to contact me. committee who will be actively participating Together we can make a difference and in the Poverty Costs initiative. As Jews we to build a world with more justice. As it is היהי אל יכ“ :(have been commanded to make a difference written in our Torah (Deut 15:4 There should not be any”“ – ”ןויבא ךב in the world and for that reason we think our community has to join the efforts of other poor among you”. Rebecca Simpson faith groups and organizations who share the Coordinator of Awesome same values. B’birkat Shalom, I want to encourage everyone to follow With blessings of peace, 306.665.5380 Ext. 396 the Poverty Costs campaign through their [email protected] Facebook page (facebook.com/povertycosts) Rabbi Claudio and website (povertycosts-upstream.nation- Web: www.centennial360.com This page is spsonored by Effie (Brook) & Harry Gordon of Vancouver 16 Sharing My Taglit (Birthright) Experience by Akosiererem (Oseh) Sokaribo How do you describe crying and cleaning it. Going close to him we Question 1: Should the government of Israel one of the best experi- found that he lost his son ten years ago. I was be responsible for the security of Jews all ences of your life in a dumbfounded, at that moment I realized how over the world? Personally I am somewhere few words? My trip to much parents really love their children. I mean between strongly agree and disagree. I do not Israel was fun, educa- I know my parents love me, but up to that mo- strongly disagree, because in my opinion, if tive and sad. We went ment I don’t think I realized how much. After the state of Israel was in existence during the dancing with soldiers, ten years he still mourns his son with so much period of the holocaust, not only would six who are very good dancers, we had lots of grief, maybe some of his friends have gotten million Jews have had a place to migrate to, delicious food to eat and went shopping in the used to the fact he is no more, but his family they would have had people to fight for them. very busy Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusa- still grieves like it was yesterday. This experi- And I am in-between the remaining three, be- lem on a Friday (lots of fun). I cannot even ence made me have so much respect for those cause I think it depends on why one’s security start to put in writing what we were taught, young brave and courageous soldiers, and for is being questioned. If the security of a group from learning about Judaism to Israeli his- parents as well, because every good parent of people is being threatened, because they are tory and conflicts, which I still do not under- will willingly sacrifice themselves for their Jews, then I think the government of Israel is stand. On day eight, we visited Yad Vashem children. Everyday in Israel was memorable, responsible for their safety. On the other hand (holocaust museum), which has a triangular and came with the visit to a unique place, with if their security is been questioned for reasons structure, and was constructed in this manner a very interesting history. We went to Masada, that have nothing to do with their Jewish to remember the 6 million Jews out of the 12 Maresha, Gamla, Ben Gurion National Park, identity, then I do not think the government million Jews worldwide, who lost their lives the Golan heights, salad trail, Independence of Israel may decide to help them, but I do not during the Holocaust. The children section is hall in Tel-Aviv, prayed in the Kotel, and slept think they are responsible. just heart breaking, but looking at the view of in the Judean desert in Bedouin tents. Every Question 2: Is the survival of the Jewish modern Jerusalem at the end of Yad Vashem, one of these places has an amazing and inter- people dependent on the existence of the all I could say amidst tears, was, “ we won”. esting story, which I wish I could tell, but I state of Israel? I agree but not strongly agree From Yad Vashem we went to Mount Herzl, cannot tell them like Yoav Bruck (our amazing because, in my opinion, the thousands of years the burial place for people who died during tour guide), and I do not really have that much the Jewish people have survived without the their service to the state of Israel. We saw space as well. So I thought I should share two existence of a Jewish state has to be taken into young people who should be in school or very interesting topics, we debated. You can consideration. I agree because we are in a con- somewhere having fun, lying on the ground, strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly stantly evolving society and to some extent, I and a parent sitting in front of his son’s grave disagree to each question. think we are increasingly assimilating other cultures. So I think the state of Israel allows us to preserve and maintain our traditions in a constantly evolving society, and gives us a Hillel Saskatoon Update place to connect with our Jewish heritage. I am by Akosiererem (Oseh) Sokaribo sure everyone has different opinions and I am looking forward to hearing them. I really had a This year has been an exciting and busy the Jungle Purim party. We would like to say wonderful time in Israel and wish I had time to year for Hillel Saskatoon; we have had fun thank you to Kahl, Anna, Yuval and Daniella tell you about the 40 amazing people I met, but I will probably need the whole magazine for bowling and playing mini golf together. We for planning and organizing all the wonderful that. I just want to say thank you to Birthright, enjoyed Friday night service with lots of programs we have enjoyed so far, and to B’nai delicious food with our amazing shlichim. Canada Israel Experience and everyone who Brith men for their continuous support. Hillel made this trip possible. You have given me a And the Screaming Chickens are playing Saskatoon is inviting everyone to come, cheer gift that I really appreciate and an experience so well, watch out we might be at the World the Screaming Chickens to the World Cup, that I will never forget. Thank you. Cup. We have started preparing for Purim have fun in the jungle and come eat with us and will greatly appreciate any help we can at Lunch and Learn. get in planning and organizing Rumble in

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