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September 14-20, 2018 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVII, Number 37 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK BU Department of Judaic Studies and Center for Israel Studies announce fall programs The Binghamton University Department member of the Israel Academy of Sci- be a question-and-answer session with be a public screening of the recent Israeli of Judaic Studies and Center for Israel Stud- ences and Humanities. On Wednesday, the director. “The Museum” (Israel 2017, horror film “Big Bad Wolves” (Israel ies will hold the following fall programs: October 3, from 3-4:30 pm, in Admis- 74 minutes) is in Hebrew with English 2013, 1 hour 50 minutes directors/writers: On Wednesday-Thursday, October sions Center 189, there will be a public subtitles. According to publicity materi- Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado). The 3-4, Ruth Gavison campus visit and lecture on the New Nationality Law. On al, “It is a film that observes, examines film is in Hebrew with English subtitles. In public lecture on the new nationality law. Thursday, October 4, from noon-1 pm, and ponders Israel’s most important the film, a series of brutal murders puts the Ruth Gavison is an Israeli law professor in Library Tower 1310, there will be a cultural institution, the Israel Museum. lives of three men on a collision course: at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. roundtable with students. The film follows the visitors, observes the father of the latest victim, now out for Her areas of research include ethnic On Sunday, October 16, from 7:30- the observers, listens to the speakers revenge; a vigilante police detective oper- conflict, the protection of minorities, 9:30 pm, Ran Tal will screen his docu- and descends to the storerooms, labs and ating outside the boundaries of law; and human rights, political theory, judiciary mentary film “The Museum,” about the conference rooms.” the main suspect in the killings, a religious law, religion and politics, and Israel as Israel Museum, in Admissions Center On Tuesday, October 30, from 7:30-9:30 studies teacher arrested and released due a Jewish and democratic state. She is a 189. After the public screening, there will pm, in Admissions Center 189, there will to a police blunder. Holocaust memorial service on Sept. 16 By Arieh Ullmann Super Sunday. The club was a social and of the original list of names buried in the to submit names of loved ones who died Area rabbis will lead a memorial service philanthropic group formed in 1948 by 13 copper box at the foot of the monument is during the Holocaust and who have no on Sunday, September 16, at 12:30 pm, at German speaking Jewish women – mainly available online on the Jewish Federation’s grave marker to be added to the list. In- the Holocaust Memorial Monument in the rural women and wives of cattle dealers – website, www.jfgb.org/jfed743/. structions are given on the Federation’s Temple Israel Cemetery on Conklin Avenue who had resettled in the Southern Tier after Community members and Binghamton website. in Conklin. fleeing Nazism. 3G students (third generation descendants Arieh Ullmann is chairman of the Fed- The memorial stone, which was original- The placement of a memorial stone was of Holocaust survivors) have been invited eration Community Relations Committee. ly dedicated on Sunday, November 9, 1952, considered to be the “most ambitious” proj- is one of the earliest acknowledgments in ect of the Get Together Club. The project the United States of the Holocaust. It is also came about in response to a comment of one of the few memorial stones of its kind a member’s husband who bemoaned the Piaker Memorial Lecture in the United States to contain the names fact that his parents, who perished in the of loved ones lost to Nazism. Holocaust, had no grave and thus he had no The service will continue a tradition of place to say Kaddish. More than 250 names on Sept. 16 holding a ceremony at the memorial on the were inscribed and placed in a copper box Sunday between Rosh Hashanah and Yom that was buried at the foot of the monument. The annual Pauline and Philip of this book, as well his four Kippur. After the memorial’s original dedi- It listed the names of individuals who had Piaker Memorial Lecture will be previous titles, after the lecture. cation, the tradition lasted for about 20 years; perished without a marked grave. They held on Sunday, September 16, at According to organizers, it then resumed three years ago, following a were remembered by prayers recited at the 9:30 am, at the Chabad Center, “‘Thou Shalt Innovate’ profiles long hiatus. It was the spontaneous reaction unveiling of the monument by the rabbis, 420 Murray Hill Rd., Vestal. wondrous Israeli innovations that to Professor Rhonda Levine’s talk about followed by one of the survivors reading the The program will feature guest are collectively changing the lives the Get Together Club at the Federation’s names written on the scrolls. A digital copy speaker Avi Jorisch, who will of billions of people around the speak on the topic of his latest world and explores why Israeli book, “Thou Shalt Innovate; innovators of all faiths feel com- How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs pelled to make the world better. JCC to hold Fall Festival the World.” This is the story of how Israelis A brunch and desserts will be are helping to feed the hungry, fund-raiser on Sept.30 served. Jorisch will sign copies Avi Jorisch See “Lecture” on page 3 By Paige Bartholomew The festival is a fund-raiser for the JCC’s The Jewish Community Center of Bing- Early Childhood Center. The event and all hamton will be hold a Fall Festival family proceeds raised will directly benefit the Happy High Holidays event on Sunday, September 30, from 11 JCC’s Early Childhood Center. “The ECC am-2 pm. The festival will feature traditional is place that provides a warm and caring fall-themed activities, with age-appropriate environment where children explore, areas for toddlers, preschoolers and school- experiment, play, grow and learn to ask aged children. There will be a hayride, questions,” said ECC staff. Programming starting at the front circle of the building, is offered for infants through age 5, includ- with other activities spread throughout ing full day daycare and preschool, half the property, such as yard games, sensory day preschool, art and physical education activities. and arts and crafts stations. The classes, and Universal Pre-Kindergarten. festival will also feature a face painting Money raised will be put toward large station for all ages and a concession stand. motor and gym items to be used by day- A basket raffle will also take place care students. throughout the festival. The ECC is cur- For more information about the Fall Fes- rently taking donations of fully assembled tival, the JCC’s Early Childhood Center or baskets or singular items from area busi- the JCC, contact the JCC office at 724-2417. nesses and individuals; interested parties The JCC is a not-for-profit organiza- may contact Marley Vavra at the JCC by tion and partner agency of the United Sunday, September 23. Way and the Jewish Federation of Greater Admission to the festival is $5 per person, Binghamton that serves the community at with a $20 maximum price per family. The large regardless of age, race, religion and entire community is welcome and encour- sexual orientation. Financial assistance Observant Jews performed a Tashlich ceremony in Israel. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia aged to attend; those who come dressed in is available to all who qualify as long as Commons) flannel will receive a free popcorn. funds remain. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Israeli survey says... Holiday round-up Starting a tradition Special Sections A survey in Israel finds Israelis Area shuls’ holiday services; nine The Russian village of Lyubavichi Legal Notices ................................... 4 want American Jewish help in things people may not know about hopes to become a pilgrimage site Health Care Greetings .............. 5, 7-9 promoting religious pluralism. Yom Kippur; and Sukkot recipes. for Chabad-Lubavitch followers. Congregational Notes .................... 10 ........................................Page 5 .............................. Pages 7, 8, 10 ........................................Page 8 Classifieds ..................................... 12 Page 2 - The Reporter September 14-20, 2018 Opinion Social media and the hate-speech slippery slope By Jonathan S. Tobin unwanted responsibilities. We already know that bots and into the national conversation in a way that would have (JNS) – Someone I know once told me that if his elderly fraudulent campaigns were the attempts to influence the once been impossible. That is something those of us who mother ever wound up on Facebook, it would mean one of 2016 election with “fake news.” While the impact of those monitor the rising tide of antisemitism that has spread two possible things had happened: Either the social-media efforts on the election was probably negligible, it still raised across the globe must view with alarm. A world in which giant had become passé or literally everyone on the planet questions about whether social-media companies can or both Holocaust denial and crude antisemitic libels that would have acquired a Facebook account. Several years should police their sites. target Israel is prevalent is one in which violence against later, it’s clear that even if not every human being has an Just as worrisome is the spread of hate speech on the Jews is inevitable. account, those who don’t are clearly out of step with the Internet. That problem came into focus recently when So it was hardly surprising that the organized Jewish rest of society.