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OJCS announces new Passover features and columns Cantor David Wisnia to speak inside: head of school > p. 2 > p. 9, 16, 18, 21, 28, 29, 38, 39, 40 and sing on Yom HaShoah > p. 25

The Perfect Mover Since 1947 Customized service to meet your specifi c needs 613.244.4444 www.boydmoving.com 2 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Ottawa Jewish Community School names new head of school ver the past six months, we have been executing an AARON SMITH extensive national and Ointernational search for a new GUEST COLUMN permanent head of school for the Ottawa Jewish Community School (OJCS). This process saw over 15 qualifi ed EdD. Jon is a proven Jewish day school applicants show interest in our school. A leader and educational professional. Jon rigorous screening and vetting process is joining us from PRIZMAH, the U.S. was undertaken with current adminis- centre for day school education, where tration, Board members and community he is vice-president of innovation. Jon members to identify our top candidates. will be coming to Ottawa from sunny Tours of the school for fi nal candidates Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife were conducted to see our students and Jaimee and their two daughters who are teachers in action. looking forward to being students at Heading into this process, we deter- OJCS in the next school year. Jon is mined that we must fi nd a leader that excited about our community. Jon Mitzmacher, EdD, becomes head of school at the Ottawa Jewish Community met our criteria related to academic “We are thrilled to join such a warm, Aaron Smith is president of the Board of the School on July 3. excellence, educational leadership, rooted, close-knit and committed Jewish Ottawa Jewish Community School. community involvement, and fundrais- community. We look forward to being ing skills. We also set out to fi nd a leader active members of the Ottawa Jewish the opportunity we have ahead of us to The Board would like to thank looking to make a signifi cant commit- community; we are coming to Ottawa have Jon work together with our Board, Sheldon Friedman, who, in collabora- ment to our school and our community. not only for a job, but to make a home,” our administrative team and our teach- tion with our administrative team and The children that attend our school are he said. ers to drive us forward. teacher group, has provided effective the future leaders of our community and The Ottawa Jewish Community School In Jon’s words, “I am looking forward leadership this year. Sheldon will begin we need to ensure our school continues is a core pillar of our community and, for to working with the dedicated faculty, to work with Jon on transition and will on a path to achieve our vision of me and my family, an organization that staff, lay leaders and stakeholders of the fi nish the school year with us here at Respect. Responsibility. Reaching for provides us with a lot of love. I love the Ottawa Jewish Community School to OJCS. Excellence. community that we have built within the build on the solid foundation of aca- Jon will formally begin in his new role We are pleased to announce that, school and the success of the children demic excellence and Jewish engage- on July 3. We are looking forward to through this process, we have signed a who leave our school and go on to do ment as we prepare to take the school everyone welcoming him and his family fi ve-year contract with Jon Mitzmacher, amazing things. I am truly excited about from strength to strength.” to our community.

some of the threats in the name of a Teen arrested in Israel for JCC bomb threats former romantic partner he had been cyberstalking and some in his own in an (JTA – A teen with dual Israeli and other countries. During the cyber unit’s raid on the attempt to portray himself as being American citizenship who lives in The army refused to draft the teen, teen’s home, police found a computer lab framed. He was charged with cyberstalk- Ashkelon in southern Israel was arrested who has lived in Israel for many years, with sophisticated equipment, encryp- ing, which carries a maximum sentence on suspicion of carrying out more than after fi nding him unfi t for service, tion and transmission systems, and a of fi ve years in prison. 100 bomb threats on Jewish institutions Haaretz reported. powerful antenna, according to reports. Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad in the United States and Canada. His father was also detained, on While he was indicted in Israel, it is Erdan commented on the arrest. The suspect, 19, was arrested, March 23, suspicion that he knew about his son’s likely the U.S. will request his extradition “I congratulate the Israeli Police on by Israel’s anti-fraud squad and his home activities, according to the Jerusalem to be tried in court there. leading a complex international investi- searched. He also is accused of a series of Post. He also is accused of making a threat- gation, together with law enforcement threats made in Europe, Australia and His motives are unknown so far, ening call to Delta Airlines, leading to the agencies from around the world, which New Zealand in the past six months, according to reports. emergency landing of one of its planes. led to the arrest of the suspect,” said according to reports in Israel. The teen reportedly used advanced Earlier in March, St. Louis resident and Erdan. “We hope that this investigation Israeli Police said the teen has been the technology and voice-altering equipment former journalist Juan Thompson was will help shed light on some of the recent subject of months-long undercover to call in the threats to more than 100 arrested and charged for making at least threats against Jewish institutions, which investigation by police’s Lahav 433 JCCs, Jewish day schools and other Jewish eight bomb threats against Jewish have caused great concern both among anti-fraud unit, as well as the FBI in the institutions in North America, according community centres and the Anti- Jewish communities and the Israeli United States, and law enforcement in to the Times of Israel. Defamation League. Thompson, 31, made government.”

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Gradus said the congregation was Louise Rachlis reports. looking forward to “formally welcoming” Rabbi Kenter, who was joined in Ottawa lthough Rabbi Eytan Kenter The centrepieces at the Friday night by his wife, Staci Zemlak-Kenter, and has been in place since last Shabbat dinner on April 21 will be little their young son, Boaz. summer as senior rabbi at pails and shovels with bedding herbs. On “The installation takes us beyond the AKehillat Beth Israel, he will be Sunday, April 23, congregants, especially idea of negotiated contracts and the rabbi formally installed in the position over the the young, will plant seedlings, paint as an employee, which all too often weekend of April 21 to 23. rocks and decorate the big planter boxes diminishes the respect and recognition of Rabbi Eytan Kenter “The weekend itself represents our of the Installation Garden. the role of the rabbi,” said Stuart excitement with both Rabbi Kenter and “It will be an ongoing project to McCarthy, co-president of Kehillat Beth ordination in 2009. the birth of our new shul,” said installa- enhance Kehillat Beth Israel into the Israel. “A new rabbi for a new synagogue is a tion committee co-chair Faye Goldman. future,” said Carol Gradus, co-chair of the “The installation becomes our affi rma- time of great enthusiasm and possibility,” “It’s an offi cial marking; it’s an exciting installation committee, who had the tion of the congregation as a kehillat said Rabbi Kenter. “And the installation crossroad for the shul.” garden idea in February and is thrilled to (community); that we recognize the is a nice opportunity for us to come spiritual authority of the rabbi as mara together to celebrate what has already d’atra (master of the place), and also as happened, and all the wonderful things the unquestioned religious authority and we have in store.” religious leader of the congregation,” said Rabbi Kenter said that, since his arrival McCarthy. “At the same time, it is a in Ottawa, he has made a strong effort to moment where the rabbi is going to make meet with three to fi ve people a week to his commitment to the longer term get to know his congregants. leadership of the kehillat. This becomes a “I see myself as the ‘chief relationship really special moment in our history and offi cer’ of the synagogue, and this a moment we’re all looking forward to.” installation weekend will give people a Weekend events include a Gala Spring chance to get to know me better,” he said. Celebration Shabbat Dinner during “We have between 1,100 and 1,200 which Rabbi Kenter will be released and congregants,” said McCarthy. “We’re the blessed by representatives of B’nai Torah, largest synagogue in Ottawa now. We’re a his former congregation in Atlanta, both Conservative, egalitarian, fully inclusive in person and by video. congregation, with a rich history of Rabbi Kenter will be installed and multiple congregations coming together blessed by his father, Rabbi Barry Kenter, over the years, now to form a single and welcomed by Kehillat Beth Israel’s kehillat. When we hired Rabbi Kenter, co-presidents, McCarthy and Lorne our fi rst senior rabbi, it was a monu- Goldstein, followed by Kabbalat Shabbat mental occasion for our new congrega- services and a dessert reception. tion because he came with no “Our Rabbi Kenter will speak, and we preconceived biases and his focus is on will welcome his family as well,” said leading us forward.” Gradus. “It’s a very spiritual activity.” For more information, or to reserve A native of Westchester, New York, places at the special Shabbat dinner, Rabbi Eytan Kenter, Staci Zemlak-Kenter, and their son Boaz enjoy a winter’s day family outing Rabbi Kenter joined Congregation B’nai contact Susan Grossner at 613-789-3501 or at Parc Omega in Montebello, Quebec. Torah in Atlanta, Georgia, following his [email protected]. 4 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM JET to celebrate 25th anniversary at Jewish Unity Live

BY LAUREN SHAPS whose connection to Jewish community, the Jewish experiences that make the JET Jewish literacy and Jewish practice has most difference are those that touch one n Sunday, May 14, JET (Jewish been enhanced by their involvement person or family at a time. They are done Education through Torah) will with JET. quietly, under the radar, without fanfare celebrate our 25th anniversary, When evaluating the impact of Jewish or attention. Oat our annual Jewish Unity Live organizations, success is often measured The Talmud says that “to save a life is event, by highlighting 25 members of our by numbers. More participants are as if you saved the whole world.” The community as examples of the hundreds equated with greater impact. Yet, often, rabbis understood this idea as applying both in real terms and as a metaphor for making a difference in someone’s life. Sometimes, making a difference means connecting with another and sharing a path that they did not know existed, or, perhaps, thought wasn’t for them. For the past 25 years, JET has developed mean- ingful connections that have changed the lives of hundreds of Ottawans, through hosting countless Shabbat dinners for singles, couples, and families; and providing classes and small group or Keynote speaker Judy Feld Carr, who brought individual learning opportunities. JET thousands of Syrian Jews to freedom over a has created or participated in unique and period of 28 years, will tell her story at JET’s transformative Jewish experiences, such Jewish Unity Live event, May 14. as the inspiring JET Shabbaton, held in a downtown hotel, Yarchei Kallah Study she received the Presidential Award of Week, and the exciting Momentum Trips Distinction created by Shimon Peres, the for Moms and Dads, run by the Jewish late Israeli president, to “recognize Women’s Renaissance Project. outstanding contribution to the Jewish JET’s mission, to show that added people and the State of Israel.” Jewish knowledge and practice brings Jewish Unity Live, JET’s signature meaning and value to our lives, has event, is an opportunity for the commun- slowly but surely made a substantive ity to support and celebrate the work of The Kimmel, Kaiman and Levine Families difference in the fabric of the Ottawa JET. It will be held on Sunday, May 14 at Jewish community. Centrepointe Studio Theatre. The It is fi tting that the keynote speaker at program, at 7:15 pm, will be preceded by this year’s Jewish Unity Live event will be a hot dinner buffet reception at 6 pm and Judy Feld Carr, a modern day heroine. followed by dessert catered by B’Tavon “What are we? Over the span of 28 years, Feld Carr Kosher Catering. quietly brought 3,228 Jews, prohibited Tickets are $100 (including dinner) from leaving Syria, to lives of safety and and $36 (main event and dessert recep- Chopped Liver? freedom. Among a long list of awards and tion only). recognition for her lifesaving acts, she Sponsorship opportunities, Journal Well, we are more was appointed a member of the Order of advertisements, and tickets are available Canada, one of the highest awards by contacting JET at [email protected] than just that!” bestowed upon Canadian citizens, and or 613-695-4800.

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A series of profi les throughout 2017 spotlighting the contributions of historically important Jewish Canadians to our country. Lawrence “Lorry” Greenberg 1933 - 1999 of provincial jurisdiction (like Wash- Ottawa’s first Jewish mayor ington, D.C. in the United States). awrence “Lorry” Greenberg treasurer of the Elizabeth Fry Soci- Greenberg suffered his first heart grew up in Lowertown, the ety of Ottawa, an organization that attack in 1977 and did not seek Ottawa neighbourhood east works on issues affecting women in re-election in 1978. of Parliament Hill that was the the justice system. Greenberg was an active member of Lcentre of Jewish life in the city Greenberg entered municipal poli- Ottawa’s Jewish community through- through much of the 20th century. In tics in 1968 when he was appointed out his life and was honoured with 1955, he joined with his brothers – to represent Wellington Ward on a testimonial dinner at the Jewish Irving, Gilbert and Louis – to found Ottawa City Council to complete the Community Centre in 1975 in celebra- Minto Construction Company term of the late councillor Lionel tion of his election as mayor. Limited, which became one of the O’Connor. city’s most successful construction Greenberg remained active in the and real estate companies. As a city councillor, Greenberg was community following his retirement elected to the Board of Control in from politics and served as chair of Greenberg left Minto in 1962 and 1969 and became senior controller the 1981 United Jewish Appeal (now devoted himself to community ser- famous stunt as mayor took place at and deputy mayor in 1972. the Jewish Federation of Ottawa vice. Between 1962 and 1969, Green- the rededication of the Colonel By Annual Campaign). As United Jewish berg’s leadership activities in the Greenberg was elected mayor of fountain in downtown Ottawa when Appeal chair, Greenberg wrote a reg- greater Ottawa community included Ottawa on December 2, 1974, becom- he jumped into the fountain and ular column, “Lorry’s Corner,” in the serving as chair of the Youth Services ing the first Jew to head Canada’s took a swim. Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. Bureau, the Home for Delinquent capital city. As mayor, Greenberg advocated Boys, Workshops – Canadian Mental According to the Globe and Mail, for several controversial measures, Greenberg died of heart failure in Health Association, and the Steering Greenberg was “an unconventional including work for welfare recipi- 1999 at the Ottawa Heart Institute Committee studying existing and mayor known for his stunts as well ents, the abolition of City Council at age 65. His funeral service at Agu- needed facilities and resources for as his achievements” for which “the and its replacement with a regional dath Israel Congregation was attend- rehabilitation of female alcoholic citizens of Ottawa elected him and government, and the establishment ed by more than 800 people. offenders. He was also director of appreciated him.” Perhaps his most of Ottawa as capital district outside Greenberg was survived by his wife, Serenity Home, a treatment centre Carol, five children and (at the time) and home for alcoholic men, and six grandchildren.

Next in the series Bora Laskin 1912 –1984 Bora Laskin, who grew up in Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) was a justice on the Supreme Court of Canada for 14 years, including a decade as chief justice, the first – and, to date, only – Jew to serve as chief justice of Canada.

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Archives and future generations could What you can’t research the names from there. After the Second World War, the names of Jewish orphans were published in the Bulletin fi nd on Google with the hope of fi nding relatives and homes for these children. Ethel Kot Jewish Bulletin from 1937 to the present. First, because friends and family Kerzner was one of those children whose The value of this project for our Jewish members who choose to make a charit- family found her because of such community is immense. This paper able donation to mark the occasion publications. holds our collective histories and aligns with our desire for a philanthropic We are soon approaching that time of connects us. Now this information is component. year when we attend the annual general there, protected and easily accessible. Second, because it would create a meetings and school year-ends of many The value of this project immediately permanent archival history in our of our organizations. Often, volunteers

FEDERATION REPORT highlighted what I hear from so many of community that cannot be found in any are recognized and awards are given. We LINDA KERZNER you. As volunteers, you do what you do books or answered by Google. How get to celebrate the vast array of talent CHAIR in our community to ensure an essential fi tting that the date of the wedding is the and dedication at all levels in our connection to our history, continuity and 80th anniversary of the fi rst issue of the community. All of this is recorded now s I sat down to write my fi nal foundation for the future. Bulletin! in perpetuity in the pages of the Bulletin. column as Chair of the Jewish A series of events then conspired to We are a family that has signifi cantly And each and every volunteer circles Federation of Ottawa, I was solidify that inspiration for the theme of benefi ted from tracing our roots. My back to these similar thoughts. What did inspired by a radio interview this article. One of those was the recent mother-in-law is a Holocaust survivor I accomplish, what difference did I help A make, and did I lay a foundation for the on CBC. engagement of our daughter, Jessica. who lost her entire immediate family. The “All in a Day” show on March 14 With the wedding date this fall, we are Ultimately, our research resulted in future upon which others can build? showcased the work of Ottawa Jewish happily and busily working to bring fi nding more than 60 relatives of hers in We are incredibly fortunate that we Archivist Saara Mortensen. She was everything together. When we talked Argentina. We have learned the essential now have free, universal access to the discussing the completion of the about putting an announcement in the importance of being able to trace one’s digitized social history of our community. digitization project providing online Bulletin, we decided it would be a good family history. I knew that all Bulletin The Bulletin continues to be an essential access to the complete run of the Ottawa idea for two important reasons. issues went into the Ottawa Jewish publication that allows us to share interests, goals, and to work together to achieve them. We are uniquely positioned to provide generations the tools to contribute to the vibrant and vital growth of our community. I am truly proud and Rabbi Yehuda Simes, humbly grateful to have been able to be a morenu verabbenu, part of that effort. Ottawa Jewish Bulletin our teacher and rabbi VOLUME 81 | ISSUE 11 Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, K2A 1R9 engineer of the Mishkan, the portable It is diffi cult to put down in writing Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 sanctuary project in the desert, was one’s thoughts about Rabbi Simes, Email: [email protected] Published 19 times per year. granted a God-given talent to not only husband and father par excellence, © Copyright 2017 develop and execute God’s plans for the teacher of thousands, and a great PUBLISHER

FROM THE PULPIT Mishkan’s construction, he was willing to religious infl uence not only to his Andrea Freedman RABBI HOWARD FINKELSTEIN teach others, guide and inspire them in students in Hillel Academy/Ottawa EDITOR BEIT TIKVAH participating in the mitzvah of building a Jewish Community School (OJCS), Torah Michael Regenstreif structure to refl ect on God’s presence High and elsewhere, but to Jews of all PRODUCTION MANAGER he Talmud, at the end of the among the people of Israel. The Or levels of observance and affi liations. Brenda Van Vliet third chapter of tractate Yoma, Hachaim comments that Bezalel was After his catastrophic accident, he BUSINESS MANAGER relates that there were families worthy of the appellation of Tzaddik continued to inspire others by his Eddie Peltzman associated with the Temple (righteous person) because he was example, his speeches and his blogs. The Bulletin, established in 1937 as “a force T for constructive communal consciousness,” ritual that refused to share with others willing to share his wisdom with others. After he lost his ability to communicate communicates the messages of the Jewish their secrets in providing necessary “Zecher Tzaddik Livracha” was by voice and later by computer, he Federation of Ottawa and its agencies and, as the city’s only Jewish newspaper, welcomes a services. attached to Bezalel’s name, and so, too, transmitted his messages through his diversity of opinion as it strives to inform and The family of Beit Gormo did not teach it is connected to the name of Rabbi smile and warmth. enrich the community. Viewpoints expressed in these pages do not necessarily represent others how to bake the showbread that Yehuda Simes, a beloved teacher and His eyes taught pearls of wisdom to the policies and values of the Federation. was displayed on the table in the sanctu- rabbi to many of us here in Ottawa and those around him. When he came to The Bulletin cannot vouch for the kashrut ary. The members of the Beit Avtinas elsewhere. On the morrow of the shul on Shabbat in his wheelchair, the of advertised products or establishments clan kept to themselves the recipe for conclusion of the Shloshim (30-day atmosphere in the sanctuary was unless they are certified by Ottawa Vaad HaKashrut or a rabbinic authority recognized preparing the incense. Hagros ben Levi observance) service held at Beit Tikvah enhanced by his presence. I remember by OVH. produced beautiful melodic sounds by Congregation – livestreamed with that when he had his fi rst aliyah to the $36 Local Subscription | $40 Canada tapping his mouth with his fi ngers, but Yeshivat Chafetz Chaim in Queens, New Torah after his tragic accident and was $60 USA | $179 Overseas | $2 per issue did not tell others how he was able to York – numerous rabbis refl ected on his wheeled to the bimah, there was a hush We acknowledge the financial support of the produce those sounds. Finally, Ben life of Torah and Judaism. in the crowd yearning to hear each word Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department Kamtzar did not reveal how he was able The Ottawa contingent was repre- of the brachot of the Torah coming from of Canadian Heritage. to hold four quills in his hand and write sented by Rabbi Reuven Bulka, Rabbi him. We had removed the elevated step ISSN: 1196-1929 the Tetragrammaton, the name of God, Baruch Perton, former principal of Hillel to the shulchan to allow him to ascend. Publication Mail Agreement No. 40018822 simultaneously. Academy and spiritual leader of Beth It was a great honour for this writer Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: On the other hand, there were those Zion Congregation in Montreal, and this to tilt the Torah in his direction so he Ottawa Jewish Bulletin who were willing to show and instruct writer. Roshei Yeshiva, friends and family could see the holy words of God during 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, others in their skill sets. spoke of Rabbi Simes’ life of Torah and his aliyah. Ottawa ON K2A 1R9 The Torah relates that Bezalel, the mitzvah observance. See Pulpit on page 8 April 3, 2017 7 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

So, when someone seeks to instil fear in specifi cally Jewish communities, large ‘We are connected in ways and small, by making bomb threats, the acts are most certainly acts of anti-Sem- both painful and powerful’ itism – even if the person making the threats is Jewish. threats: a Jewish, 19-year-old dual since January – will now stop. But the The revelation that the suspect in Israeli-U.S. citizen who lives in Ashkelon fact that the suspect in this case is Jewish so many bomb threat hoaxes against in southern Israel. does not change the anti-Semitic intent Jewish institutions – against Jewish We have not yet heard from the behind the crimes. communities – is himself Jewish is very suspect about his motives. Early reports As Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the sad and very troubling. After the arrest, in the Israeli media said he was not Anti-Defamation League – an organiza- the Forward posted an article by Hinda answering questions or co-operating in tion in the United States that combats Mandell, a professor in Rochester, New

FROM THE THE FROM EDITOR any way with police investigators. At his anti-Semitism – said in a statement after York, whose daughter attends a pre- MICHAEL REGENSTREIF fi rst court hearing, his lawyer said that the suspect’s arrest, “While the details of school in the Rochester JCC that received he has a non-malignant brain tumour this crime remain unclear, the impact of two bomb threats (the Jewish cemetery ast issue (March 20), I wrote that leads to behavioural issues. The this individual’s actions is crystal clear: in Rochester was also recently dese- about the waves of bomb threats Israel Defense Forces, apparently, had These were acts of anti-Semitism. These crated). http://tinyurl.com/kwdhf68 that have plagued Jewish previously found him to be unfi t for threats targeting Jewish institutions Mandell wrote that she was heart- Linstitutions – mostly Jewish military service. were calculated to sow fear and anxiety, broken that the suspect was Jewish. community centres, but also Jewish The suspect, evidently, was highly and put the entire Jewish community on “From an emotional perspective, I feel schools and offi ces of Jewish organiza- sophisticated in his use of computer high alert.” like I’ve just been sucker punched … My tions – over the past three months. I equipment and software with which he It is a sad fact of recent history – here, gut reaction upon reading the news alert wrote that the bomb threats, all of perpetrated the bomb threat hoaxes in the U.S., Europe and so many other about today’s arrest was straight out of which turned out to be hoaxes, were while disguising his identity and where- places – that we have been witnessing Jewish central casting, a version of ‘What “anti-Semitic in their intent.” abouts. But he did make a mistake while increased incidents of anti-Semitism. will the goyim think of us now?’” http://tinyurl.com/muhrdp9 making one of the bomb threats and did From Jewish reporters receiving thou- Last issue, I said that an unintended Then, on March 23 – the day before not hide his IP (Internet protocol) sands of anti-Semitic tweets after writing consequence of the bomb threats and this issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin address, which enabled authorities to critically about the president of the other anti-Semitic acts was that com- went to press – there was a shocking trace the threat to him. This triggered a United States, to graffi ti incidents last munities were coming together in development in the case. Police in Israel lengthy investigation, ultimately leading November in Ottawa, to recent Jewish solidarity. By the end of her article, – working in co-operation with law to his arrest. cemetery desecrations in the U.S., to an Mandell reached the same conclusion. enforcement offi cials in several coun- The entire Jewish world, to be sure, imam at a mosque in Montreal referring “So what will the goyim think? They’ll tries, including the United States and was relieved that a suspect was caught. to Jews as “human demons” and “the think we’re all in this together. We are Canada – arrested a suspect they had Hopefully, these waves of bomb threat most evil of mankind,” the stories come connected in unexpected ways that are determined was responsible for the hoaxes – there have been nearly 150 in almost daily. both painful and powerful.”

tangled in webs of historic ambiguity. Yasser Arafat talked peace, but, somehow, Hope is all we have left lost his tongue and conviction the moment he arrived home. Israeli govern- ments supported a two-state solution, in the search for peace but, for decades, kept building settle- ments. Language, on both sides, was His outpouring of emotion alerted me photos of Egyptian tanks abandoned in never clear and precise. Clear and precise to the importance of what was unfolding. the Sinai. Globally, Jews took pride in a language could always lead to true For a sheltered, pampered baby boomer, it shellacking of monumental proportions. feelings and true intent. was an awakening to understand that The Six-Day War seems like it was a Of interest and concern is how the 1967 Jewish blood was on the line again, and lifetime ago. Since then, there have been war milestone in June will be marked in that, as a Jew, the war in Israel was my so many other Israeli wars, skirmishes and Israel and in the occupied territories. It IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS war, too. I didn’t learn that in Hebrew terrorist attacks that those heady days of will probably be just like 1967. The Israelis JASON MOSCOVITZ school. I literally learned it on the street the 1960s serve as a glaring reminder that will celebrate a ‘great victory,’ while the experiencing my friend’s tears. the military victory only brought Israel so Palestinians will wallow in the ongoing assover seders this year will be In the normal and anticipated twinning far – because peace cannot be imposed, ‘disaster’ of defeat. For Jews outside Israel, held as the 50th anniversary of of David-and-Goliath syndrome journal- peace cannot be bought, and, despite the it sadly means wondering how many the Six-Day War approaches. The ism and public opinion, Israel was seen by peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, more cemetery desecrations, or worse, Pstunning, lightning-speed victory some in 1967 as the heroic David, whose Israel and the Palestinians have so far might be triggered by an Israeli of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in June courage was to be lauded, against the proven unable to negotiate a peace celebration. 1967 made history. But, a half-century amassing Arab armies. Israel was at fi rst agreement. I remember going to South Africa in the later, the only thing remaining clear is the cheered in some parts of the world. Israel We know that, 50 years later, the David 1990s to report on a Commonwealth decisiveness of the victory. appeared to be the victim and citizens of and Goliath roles are dramatically meeting just after Nelson Mandela I was 16, in high school, and I remember the world, then and now, almost always reversed, and Jewish communities around became president. I was struck by black when I realized an extraordinary moment feel an instinctive human obligation to the world have to live with the conse- and white people sharing simple conver- in Jewish history was approaching. I was support the victimized. quences of Israel being one of the most sations. I looked at black and white outside an older friend’s house and was The western media of the day told the vilifi ed countries in the world. It is so hard policemen working together and recalled bewildered about why he was red-faced stories and showed the moving pictures of to say that, and so hard to hear that, but it that not so long ago those white police- and crying. He told me Israel was on the the IDF fi rst defending and then marching is today’s reality. The visceral backlash men were beating and killing those black verge of war against the armies of six Arab on to take the Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank, against Israel now touches Jews every- guys. countries, and he feared Israel was badly East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. where in the world. I found myself hoping that, one day, out-soldiered and out-gunned. He talked Full-page photos in Life Magazine showed Fifty years after the Six-Day War, the Israelis and Palestinians, as a fi rst step, defeat and the end of the eternal Jewish Israeli soldiers praying at the Western Wall principles of the moribund and dis- would also put hate behind them. dream. for the fi rst time, and there were endless credited peace process remain hopelessly Hope is all we have left. 8 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Warm wishes to you and mailbag | [email protected] your family for a COMMUNITY Sarsour, a key organizer of the 2017 Women’s March Happy Passover Both Stephanie Shefrin’s “Modern Mishpocha” and on Washington, made the outrageous claim that one Sara Waisvisz’s “Dispatches from the Diaspora” col- cannot be a Zionist and a feminist. Paradoxically, she’s Andrea umns in the March 6 issue of the Ottawa Jewish made dismissive remarks about the oppressive treat- Bulletin address a desire that is basic to most people: ment of women in Saudi Arabia. Freedman the search to fi nd a sense of community. In 2011, Sarsour directed a vulgar and incredibly Shefrin’s insightful description of a recent Ottawa insensitive [and now deleted] tweet at pro-Israel Jewish community event could well have described activists Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the latter BENITA SIEMIATYCKI, BA, MA Ottawa in 1980 when my husband and I moved here. of whom is a victim of female genital mutilation. Sales Representative Why is it so diffi cult for a roomful of adults to interact Sarsour wrote, “Brigitte Gabriel=Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She’s 613-236-9551 BUSINESS with each other? Has everyone forgotten the basics – asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take their 1-888-335-6565 TOLL FREE which Waisvisz describes in her encounters in Guinea? vaginas away – they don’t deserve to be women.” 613-612-6779 CELL She portrays situations in which people recognize each If Sarsour cares about Jews, why would she align [email protected] other in the most natural way – with mutual respect herself with convicted terrorist Rasmeah Odeh? Odeh 100 ARGYLE AVENUE and courtesy. served 10 years of a life sentence – she was released by OTTAWA, ON K2P 1B6 Israel in a prisoner exchange – for planting bombs in www.cbrhodes.com Is Jewish Ottawa more concerned with transactions rather than interactions, relating only to those who Jerusalem in 1969 that killed two Hebrew University offer some promise of personal gain or mutual benefi t? students and injured many others, and also planted Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated. Knowledge and Service You CanKnowledge Trust andEach OfficeService Is Independently You Owned Can and TrustOperated. Is it more important that the person mirror you in every bombs at the British Consulate. In April, Sarsour will be respect? And, if people don’t seem to be able to fulfi l speaking on a panel with Odeh at a meeting of a those expectations again and again, are they dispensed well-known anti-Israel organization in the U.S. Mazel Tov with? This is a recipe for alienation. There are many red fl ags with regards to Sarsour. We It may be true that almost everything we need to can only speculate about Sarsour’s true motivation for know we learned in kindergarten. Healthy communities her role in the Jewish cemetery fundraising. As far as understand that diversity of thought and action play a I’m concerned, her lengthy and consistent pattern of necessary part in thriving, not just surviving. promoting a hateful anti-Zionist agenda precludes her Acceptance (which is quite different from mere toler- from being someone I’d consider a bridge builder or a ance) leads to a stronger, more resilient society. If we do friend of the Jews. not recognize this amongst our fellow Jews, we will also Gloria Schwartz fail in society as a whole. Barbara Okun

LINDA SARSOUR LETTERS WELCOME In her “My Israel” column (“Here is some good news for a change,” March 20), Barbara Crook wrote about Letters to the Editor are welcome if they are two Muslim Americans, Linda Sarsour and Tarek brief, signed, timely, and of interest to our El-Messidi, who started a crowdfunding campaign to readership. The Bulletin reserves the right With joy in our hearts, Steven & Linda Kerzner pay for repairs at vandalized Jewish cemeteries in the to refuse, edit or condense letters. The are thrilled to announce the engagement United States. Mailbag column will be published as space of their daughter Jess ica to Myles Kraut, Sarsour is a vocal anti-Israel activist and pro-Palestin- permits. son of the late Ike & Marlene Kraut z”l of Winnipeg. ian. She is against the existence of the Jewish state of An October wedding is planned in Ott awa. Israel. One of her infamous quotes is “Nothing is Send your letters to. creepier than Zionism,” and she is a proponent of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against [email protected] Israel.

Councillor Pulpit: Rabbi Simes Shad Qadri is wishing you and your family was a tzaddik a safe and happy Passover 2017 Continued from page 6 When Rabbi Simes came to the OJCS for the fi rst time City Councillor after his accident, his visit was a happy surprise for his Ward 6, Stittsville students and the faculty. His words about his unshaken 613-580-2476 faith in God were memorable. He could only ask what [email protected] God wanted him to do. And he did. www.shadqadri.com He spread the word of Torah to Jews locally and internationally. He and his beloved Shaindel and their nine children, Yibadlu Lechaim, represented all that is beautiful in Judaism. The rabbis in Yoma also tell us that God saw that there Happy Passover was a limited number of tzaddikim and placed them strategically in different generations. Rabbi Yehuda Chag Pesach Sameach Simes was one of them, and we were fortunate to know him, to learn from him, and to be inspired by him. Yehi Zichro Baruch (May his memory be a blessing). April 3, 2017 9 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Advertorial Passover Feature With our freedom from slavery, what are Jews free to do? Dan More than trees Lynda BY RABBI RACHAEL BREGMAN Mader Taller-Wakter 613.798.2411 (Rabbis Without Borders via JTA) – At Passover, Jews all Board Executive over the world gather to celebrate zman cheirutenu (the Chair [email protected] Director season of our freedom). We will read all about freedom from slavery. We drink four cups of wine to rejoice in the JEWISH NATIONAL FUND four freedoms given to our ancestors by God. We eat charoset, a mixture of fruits, nuts, juice or wine that A Happy and Healthy Passover represents the mortar used with the bricks we no longer from JNF Ottawa have to place as slaves. Freedom from bondage, from Egypt, from Pharaoh. Meet our JNF Ottawa 2017 Negev Dinner Honouree The idea of being freed from slavery by God is a central Lawrence Greenspon tenet of Judaism. We say, remember God freed you from For over 35 years, Lawrence Greenspon has represented dis- slavery and took you out of Egypt every Friday night in advantaged and diverse individuals and groups against govern- the blessing of the wine and throughout the Torah even ments, institutions, insurance companies and corporations. As a criminal defence lawyer, he has fought to protect the rights of when speaking about seemingly unrelated things. people from all walks of life. It is no wonder that for the Dinner, But what, I wonder, upon fi nding freedom from slavery Lawrence has chosen to raise funds for ALEH, an organization are we now free to do? in Israel that cares for severely disabled children from its two Primarily, we are free to serve God and not Pharaoh. facilities in Jerusalem and the Negev. Spiritually speaking, the seder gives us the opportunity to He has been honoured by the Advocates Society with the check in with ourselves to see if we have become enslaved Award of Justice and by the Carleton County Law Association to Pharaohs of modernity like power, money and ego. God Rabbi Rachael Bregman is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth with the Gordon Henderson Award. didn’t work so hard to bring us out of one Egypt just to Tefilloh in Brunswick, Georgia. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa Law School replace it with another. The seder asks us, now that you and a member of its Honour Society. He has taught at the law school, universities, conferences and continuing legal education have your freedom, what have you done with it? Our service to God is our service to humanity. Our service programs. If the Exodus is a story of a three-part journey – Egypt, to humanity is God’s work in action. In 1981, International Year of the Disabled Person, Lawrence the wilderness-desert, and Israel – serving God is the So, when you sit down to your seder, I hope you ponder Greenspon co-founded REACH, the Resource Education wilderness-desert, a stop on the way, the means to an end, not just your freedom from slavery but relish also your Advocacy Center for the Handicapped and was a Chair and but not the fi nal place on the journey. freedom to free others. Happy Passover. Board member of the organization for over 10 years. REACH has Author and psychologist David Arnow writes in over 100 lawyers in Ottawa who volunteer their legal services to Creating Lively Passover Seders: “Paradoxically, as we individuals who are disabled. celebrate our liberation during Passover, we sharpen our Lawrence was on the board of the Snowsuit Fund for 25 years awareness of the enslavement that reigns within and and is a past-chair. He initiated the establishment of the Snowsuit Foundation. around us. At the moment we taste freedom, we remem- He has also chaired the United Way Community Services ber the hungry … From the heights of deliverance, we cabinet, CAYFO (Child and Youth Friendly Ottawa), the survey a shattered world crying out for healing.” Wishing You All a Happy Multicultural Center and the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. Arnow adds later: “What is the source of the stagger- Passover Holiday Fifteen years ago, he approached the Ottawa Dragon Boat ingly audacious conviction that the present, the status Festival on behalf of the Friends in Sportfishing and CNIB quo, cannot be the end of the road? That’s where God 613-580-2473 @BarrhavenJan and insisted that the festival have a charitable component. The comes in. God speaks in a small voice within each of us facebook.com/BarrhavenJanHarder Dragon Boat Festival paddlers have since raised millions of dol- saying, ‘Never forget that yours is not a normal but a lars for local charities. broken world, one that we can surely help fi x.’At the He chaired the Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation, the fund- www.JanHarder.com ing side of the Motorcycle Ride for Dad during the time that the seder, that voice calls a little bit more audibly because ride became a national ride in 27 cities across Canada. Lawrence with Passover we confront the reality of our freedom and brought the Ottawa Hospital and charities together to start the we have used it, for good or ill.” Annual Free PSA Testing Clinic. God did not bring us out of Egypt to serve God (Dayenu, Chag Sameach! Lawrence co-founded the highly successful Maharajah’s Ball it would have been enough). Rather, through our service six years ago. The ball has helped to fund the city’s defibrillator to God we are meant to eternally bring freedom to others. program, children’s literacy programs, palliative care at the Wishing you a Happy Bruyère Hospital and the Sens Foundation Rink of Dreams (ice hockey rinks in beacon neighbourhoods). and Healthy Pesach. In 2011, Lawrence inspired and created the Nordic Pole Walk for Cancer Survivor Care to support the programs and services of Life’s brighter under the sun 384 Rideau 1666 Bank the new MapleSoft Centre in Ottawa. Over four years, the walk raised half a million dollars. 613-789-1019 613-737-3355 In 2015, Lawrence and his wife Angela established the I can help with: RiverGreen Foundation to support organizations that work with • Life insurance • RRSPs/RRIFs • Mutual funds* RIDEAU BAKERY will be closed • Personal health insurance • TFSAs • Employee benefits youth and mental health and the disabled. for the Passover holiday He is currently the chair of the Montfort Hospital Campaign ® to raise $2.5 million to establish the first cardiac CT scan in the Diane Koven BA (Hons) CFP CHS™ as of Monday, April 10 region. 613-728-1223 ext 2235 Stay tuned for more details! [email protected] and will re-open 1525 Carling Avenue, Suite 600 Sunday, April 23 205-11 Nadolny Sachs Pvt Celebrate all occasions Ottawa, ON Ottawa, K2A 1R9 Israel experiences See you at our Like us on Facebook Legacy projects lunch counter jnfottawa.ca 100% Israel Mutual funds distributed by Sun Life Financial Investment Services (Canada) Inc. after the holiday! www.JNFOttawa.ca Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada is a member of the Sun Life Financial group of companies. © Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, 2016. 10 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Temple Israel to highlight members’ talents

BY LOUISE RACHLIS media, sculpture, and fabric art on FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL display, as well as some demonstrations. emple Israel members of all ages Two writers of children’s stories, David have a lot of imagination and Handelman and Sheila Baslaw, have been skill, and their creativity will be invited to read from their work to pupils Ton display – and for sale – at of Temple Israel Religious School. “Temple’s Got Talent!” on Sunday, April Author Max Sternthal will be launch- 30, 9:30 am to 3 pm, at Temple Israel, ing two books he recently completed, My 1301 Prince of Wales Drive. Cousin Danny, a gentle story of the “Both our older and younger Temple Holocaust for children and young adults members are participating,” said Joyce (see page 30 for an excerpt), and a Pagurek, who is organizing the event memoir, My Journey: Beyond St. Urbain with Roz Tabachnick and Anne Alper. Street. “Something unexpected is that we have Other authors presenting and/or had some examples where two genera- displaying their works will include tions in a family are participating, each Gabriella Goliger, Debbie Gorham, Renie showcasing his, or her, own work!” Grosser, David Handelman, Tonya The community is invited and Pomerantz, Louise Rachlis, Allan Silburt admission is free of charge. The event is and Anne Shmelzer. part of Temple Israel’s 50th Anniversary Among the visual artists will be Jean Celebration, which includes many Brody, Hyman Cooper, Susan Fisher, different events throughout the year. Cheryl Pagurek, Diane Parkin, Michael “Temple members have a great deal of Parkin, Louise Rachlis, Margo Rosen, talent, and many of us weren’t even Patsy Royer and Roz Tabachnick. aware of the scope of it,” said Pagurek. Pottery will be on display from Susan “We thought this anniversary year was a Gold, Shaina Lipsey, and Joyce Pagurek, good opportunity for Temple members, and fabric art from Ellen Asherman, family, friends and community to get to Bonnie Cooper, Merle Haltrecht Matte, know about each other’s work in a “Temple’s Got Talent!” participants will include potter Lisa Rosen (left) and her mother, artist Jordana McIlhinney, Patsy Royer and Lisa relaxed, friendly atmosphere and enjoy Margo Rosen. Rosen. the creativity among us.” For more information, contact She said the plan for the day began as a artisans, but soon expanded to also performances, and a tea room. There will Temple Israel 613-224-1802 or display of works by Temple artists and include authors’ readings, musical be photography, jewelry, pottery, mixed [email protected].

The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem CORDIALLY INVITES THE COMMUNITY TO The 2017 National Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony Ceremony Featuring Speeches by Leaders of Canada’s Political Parties and Special Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors Monday, May 8, 2017 3:30 PM - CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM - 1 VIMY PLACE, OTTAWA

THE 2017 THEME: Survivor’s Testimonies: The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem’s The Fate of the (CSYV) mission is to educate Canadians Individual during about the Holocaust through educational the Holocaust and commemorative programs. To confi rm your attendance or reserve a seat TO LEARN MORE, PLEASE VISIT US ONLINE AT PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU AT THE 2016 NATIONAL on our sponsored buses, please register at: www.YadVashem.ca HOLOCAUST REMEBRANCE DAY CEREMONY LIGHTING A CANDLE IN MEMORY OF 6 MILLION JEWISH VICTIMS OF THE SHOAH http://csyv.eventbrite.ca 1-888-494-7999 April 3, 2017 11 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Michael Polowin steps down as chair of Camp B’nai Brith

BY PAMELA ROSENBERG FOR CAMP B’NAI BRITH OF OTTAWA ichael Polowin stepped down, February 27, after 11 years as chair of the board of MCamp B’nai Brith of Ottawa (CBB). Polowin saw the camp through its darkest time and was instrumental in bringing the summer hot spot back to its glory days. CBB has been an important part of the Ottawa Jewish landscape for more than 70 years. But, for a period of time in the early-2000s, the camp was in serious fi nancial trouble with an all-time low of only 175 kids enrolled in the fi rst half of the summer. After two years of trying to get on the board, and being refused, Polowin took matters into his own hands and started planning a reunion that would bring together alumni from a large age range and remind them what was so special Michael Polowin, then-chair of the board of Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa, enjoys a day at the camp with members of his family. (From left) Melanie, about the camp. Jacob, Michael and Laya Polowin. Following the success of the reunion, and a pre-Facebook online message infrastructure. enrolment continues to grow, and we’ve has been paramount at every turn; his board that had close to 600 alumni In 2008, CBB brought back veteran started to transform our facility for the passion and dedication are truly chatting about the good old days and camp director Jonathan Pivnick (a.k.a. next generation. Michael’s involvement immeasurable.” posting pictures, Polowin was invited to Piv) which, said Polowin, gave the camp join the board and quickly got to work instant credibility with parents and on the rescue. alumni. COUNCILLOR PROUDLY SERVING “Recognizing that we are not a And now that he has accomplished WARD 9 business, we became more business-like what he set out to do, and the camp is WARD 9 in how we ran the organization,” said bursting at the seams with 425 campers KNOXDALE-MERIVALE Polowin. registered for the fi rst four weeks, While CBB is an Ottawa camp, it has Polowin was ready to step down and always relied on its Montreal contin- hand over the reins to new Chair Adam gency, a group the camp had been Tanner. Wishing you ignoring. They began marketing efforts Tanner spent 17 summers at CBB and to Montreal’s Jewish community and has been an active member of the board happiness and peace brought on its fi rst non-Ottawa board since 2010. He said he welcomes the member from Montreal, followed by its challenge and feels a huge sense of pride at Passover fi rst woman board member. following in his father Stephen’s foot- “When I got on the board, there were steps, who also served as CBB chair. only me and one other alumnus” said “As a board, our accomplishments Visit www.keithegli.ca for Polowin. “We have put together a board over the past decade have been incred- information on issues and upcoming of great people.” ible. Although an uphill battle since With Polowin at the helm, the board 2006-2007, our success can be linked to events at City Hall and in the ward changed how the camp charged fees, Michael’s consummate leadership and worked with the Foundation for Jewish the professionalization of our volunteer [email protected] Camping to help restructure, changed board,” said Tanner. Tel: 613.580.2479 the culture of the camp, and addressed “Michael was able to ‘right the ship.’ Fax: 613.580.2519 the issue of the camp’s aging Our fi nancial books are now in order, 12 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM ‘Colliding Dreams’: Probing fi lm on Zionism to be screened in Ottawa, May 7

BY GABRIELLA GOLIGER The ambitious documentary is a CANADIAN FRIENDS OF PEACE NOW collaborative effort of award-winning he story of Zionism has been fi lmmakers Joseph Dorman and Oren told many times, usually from Rudavsky. Both have made groundbreak- the perspective of either its fans ing fi lms on Jewish subjects. Dorman’s Tor its foes. “Colliding Dreams,” a fi lms include “Sholem Aleichem: new feature-length documentary fi lm, Laughing in the Darkness” and “Arguing reaches for a more nuanced exploration the World,” a documentary about four of the subject through a long-range look Jewish intellectuals from New York City, at Zionism’s evolution and the presenta- while Rudavsky’s fi lms include “A Life tion of many points of view. Apart,” a documentary for PBS on Using fascinating historical fi lm Chasidic Judaism in America, and footage and interviews with a broad “Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance range of Israelis and Palestinians, After the Holocaust.” Acclaimed documentary film directors Joseph Dorman (left) and Oren Rudavsky have “Colliding Dreams” delves into the “At once compassionate and rueful, collaborated on “Colliding Dreams,” a new film about the evolution of Zionism. complexities of Israel’s creation and its ‘Colliding Dreams’ is recommended future. As the title suggests, the fi lm viewing for open minds, and essential hand, Israel’s legitimacy has never been “Colliding Dreams” will be screened brings to the fore the collision between viewing for those that remain snapped questioned so strongly or so widely. As in Ottawa on Sunday, May 7, 3:30 pm, Jewish ambitions and Palestinian shut,” wrote Ella Taylor in Variety. supporters of a Jewish state, we felt it was at St. Paul University Auditorium, 223 realities, but also between different In an interview with Jewish Currents, time for a re-examination of the history Main Street. The event sponsors are conceptions of Zionism. We hear from Dorman spoke about why he and of Zionism, of the idea behind a Jewish Canadian Friends of Peace Now and such prominent individuals as historian Rudavsky made the fi lm. state, and its importance – a history that JSpaceCanada. Advance tickets are $15 Benny Morris, novelist A.B. Yehoshua, “We undertook the fi lm because of a would look beyond the present political (general admission) and $10 (students), philosopher Avishai Margalit, Palestinian paradox that exists regarding Zionism controversies to why Zionism and Israel and they may be purchased at scholar Sari Nusseibah, PLO member and Israel today. On the one hand, Israel are important. We also wanted to include https://collidingdreams2017.eventbrite.ca. Hanan Ashrawi, and right-wing politician – Zionism’s creation – is a remarkable a Palestinian viewpoint in our fi lm. And Tickets at the door will be $20. Geula Cohen – and also from ordinary success story. Culturally, in high-tech, it is we did not want to shirk from looking at For more information: 613-222-3838 or people on all sides of the issues. blossoming as never before. On the other Zionism’s fl aws.” [email protected].

Chag Sameach!

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purim in ottawa | More Purim photos on pages 14 and 15

HOWARD SANDLER Sephardi Association of Ottawa: Rabbi Yair Mordechai Tanger reads Ottawa Modern Jewish School: Ottawa Modern Jewish School celebrates Purim with some song and the Megillah and makes noise with a grogger at the Sephardi Association of Ottawa dance led by Joni Feldman (playing guitar) and Erin Engelhardt. Purim Party and Casino Night at Shikun Oz.

Machzikei Hadas: Two Queen Esthers and a Ninja Turtle celebrate at the Congregation Machzikei Hadas Purim party. KBI Kids: Kehillat Beth Israel’s USYers in costumes at the KBI Kids Purim Party.

Temple Israel: Children and adults in costume gather for a group photo at the Temple Israel Purim party. 14 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

purim in ottawa | More Purim photos on pages 13 and 15

Jewish Education through Torah: JET volunteers assemble Mishloach Manot packages, March 5 at Torah Day School of Ottawa, to be delivered on Purim.

Kehillat Beth Israel: (From left) Rabbis Deborah Zuker and Eytan Kenter and Ottawa Torah Centre: “Purim in New York” was the theme at the Ottawa Torah Centre Purim party. Cantor Daniel Benlolo celebrate at Kehillat Beth Israel’s ‘70s-themed Purim party. April 3, 2017 15 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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The candidate will have proven skills in newspaper pagination with the additional ability to create, design and lay out ads and Soloway JCC: Teens in costume gather in the SJCC during the Purim carnival. copy; edit for style and grammar, write headlines and cutlines. In off-production weeks, the candidate will assist in the news- gathering process and must be able to report on community events and generate compelling news content. In addition, in off-production weeks, this position will assists in designing marketing collateral for the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation.

The candidate will work with the editor, and the business manager, creating a team of three. With such a small group, the candidate must be multi-skilled and willing to wear many hats. In sum, the skill-set required is that of a well-rounded jour- nalist, but with an emphasis on pagination and design.

Necessary skills • Pagination skills – expertise in InDesign, Photoshop and Chabad Student Network: “Purim in the ‘60s” was the theme as university students gathered at Acrobat Pro and demonstrated ability to layout a newspaper the Sandy Hill Community Centre for the Rohr Chabad Student Network of Ottawa Purim party. or similar publication on a Macintosh platform (MAC OS). (Standing, from left) Eyal Podolsky, Adam Baruchel, Johnny Abenaim and Charlie Moatti with Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky. • Graphic design ability with a demonstrated capability in creating appealing visual designs and ads. Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite an asset. • Production knowledge – Ability to place ads, design editorial layouts, track pages, send to printer • Copy editing skills – Knowledge of Canadian Press Style, excellent grammar, competent and clear headline and cutline writing skills, with a strong attention to detail. • Competent reporting skills with writing samples that show clear and compelling writing.

Experience and education • Post-secondary education in Journalism, Communications, or a related field is an asset. • Past newspaper experience is an asset, however, proven and demonstrable skills will be taken into consideration. • Excellent computer and technical skills; knowledge of WordPress and social media is also an asset.

Visit https://jewishottawa.com/careers to see full job posting details.

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KBI young families: Young Families make hamantaschen at Kehillat Beth Israel’s annual Deadline for application is April 10, 2017. hamantaschen-baking party. 16 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Please join us for our Passover Feature Community Commemoration of For kids with reading

YOM HASHOAH disabilities, the seder could From Generation to Generation be a recipe for anxiety Remembering the Holocaust through Story and Song How to prevent uncomfortable situations during the seder when your child has dyslexia Sunday, April 23 at 7 pm or another reading disability. BY YAEL KLEIN robin? here’s a lot of reading involved in By the way, she adds, if your dyslexic Avi Wisnia David S. Wisnia a Passover seder, and that can be child wants to read aloud, and you / exhausting for the average child. anticipate that he or she may have Grandson, Composer Survivor, Liberator, Cantor TFor the child with reading diffi culty, let him or her read anyway. disabilities, it can also be “If the other kids start fi dgeting or anxiety-provoking. correcting him or her, don’t worry. 21 NADOLNY SACHS PVT. FREE EVENT “It’s a tricky situation,” said Rinat R. Dyslexic kids are used to other people Information: 613-798-4644 or Photo ID required Green, founder and executive director of getting antsy while they’re reading. If Kol Koreh, an organization that helps your child has enough confi dence and [email protected] at entrance children with dyslexia in Israel. (Note: doesn’t care about others’ reactions, then dyslexia is more common than you might kol hakavod! With support from think. As one of the most under-diag- Also, keep in mind that going through nosed learning disabilities, it affects one the Haggadah in the way that your in fi ve children.) “Sometimes you can’t parents, or grandparents, used to do it prevent certain things from happening, doesn’t mean it’s right for your family. but you can certainly try to anticipate “Some people have the custom of the what the issues might be and plan youngest child reading “Mah Nishtana” accordingly.” aloud. But this is just a custom. If it For example, if your family is invited to means your dyslexic child becomes another family’s home for a seder and embarrassed at his or her substandard you’re nervous that your child will be reading level, don’t do it. It’s not our right asked to read aloud (a situation that, to hurt our kids, even if it comes at the Green explains, can cause a tremendous expense of a Passover tradition.” amount of shame for some dyslexic The key is to have your child walk away children), talk to the host beforehand to from the seder in a positive spirit. discuss the situation. “You need to do whatever you can to “Call a few days before to fi nd out how ensure that your child is happy and they normally run the seder. Does the enjoying the time. That should be the head of the household read through the overall emphasis,” said Green. entire Haggadah? Does everyone take And regarding the mitzvah of sharing turns? Do they ask for volunteers? If they the story of the Exodus from Egypt with usually read in a round-robin style, you one’s children, Green refers to the Four can politely ask if they would consider Sons of the Haggadah. not running the seder that way, or, if they “Notice how each son is different – one do, would they not ask your dyslexic wise, one wicked, one simple, and one child to read aloud. It’s up to you how who does not even know how to ask much you want to share,” she said. questions – and we are told, by the “It also depends on who the host Haggadah, to teach them about the story family is. If they’re grandparents or close of Passover in four very distinct ways, family, it might be easier to request that each according to their style of learning your child not be asked to read aloud. and personality. In the same vein, we They probably already know your family need to remember that it’s our obligation Cantor David Wisnia is both a survivor and a liberator. situation, so ask if they wouldn’t mind to teach our children in the way that He survived Auschwitz by singing to entertain the Nazi SS. doing the seder differently this year, or they’ll learn best. He was rescued and then fought with the 506th Parachute just skipping over your child’s turn.” “On Passover, that means inculcating Infantry and engaged actively in combat during the closing days of Also, Green reminds parents, remem- the message of the Exodus through the war. In 2015, his grandson Avi, an award-winning singer song- ber to ask yourself: Which way would whatever way they’ll absorb it – whether your child feel less upset or embarrassed it’s by storytelling, reading, visual writer travelled with David to Poland to mark the 70th anniversary – if he’s singled out to read aloud and has pictures, toys, sounds, etc. That should be of the Liberation of Auschwitz and David sang again, accompanied a hard time pronouncing the words, or if the goal, not just for Passover, but all year by his grandson. On April 23, they will remember the Holocaust they simply skip over him in the round round.” through story and song. Breaking news updated daily at www.ottawajewishbulletin.com April 3, 2017 17 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 18 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

Passover Feature Ten tips for a less stressful Passover

BY DUBY LITVIN helpers can do peeling, juicing, cracking (My Jewish Learning via JTA) – Passover nuts or other introductory jobs. Know requires a great deal of preparation, what your child can or can’t handle and especially if you are making your home let him or her feel important. kosher for Passover. 3. Passover cleaning vs. spring These 10 tips will help you organize cleaning. Imagine sitting down to a and prioritize, so you can enjoy the beautiful Passover seder – the house is holiday. sparkling clean, the chandeliers are 1. Don’t wing it, plan it. Planning is glistening, the windows are sparkling – imperative. Think of your house as your and you’re falling asleep. While it’s lovely corporation and you are its CEO. You are to have them sparkle and shine, chande- in charge. Just like a big company would liers and windows are not imperative to plan out its functions, you also want to making your home kosher for Passover. work on “Project Passover.” When you Passover cleaning is any place that there’s have a plan in place, things will go much a very good chance that food was brought smoother. in. If you know there was no food brought 2. Delegate to your team, including there, then it doesn’t have to be cleaned. children. As CEO, it is your job to dele- Even food that’s been stuck on the wall, if gate and supervise all the tasks. The more it’s more dirt than food, it doesn’t have to you delegate, the better off you will be. If be scrubbed. For something to be con- you can afford it, hire a cleaning person to sidered chametz, it needs to be edible and help. Have your spouse or a teenage son accessible. or daughter take care of the shopping. 4. Poor man’s bread or bread that Even if you think the job is small and makes us poor. For those buying only easy, the less on your plate the better. foods certifi ed kosher for Passover, the The best thing with children under six holiday can be very expensive. But you is to have someone else take them out of don’t have to make matzo or other the house, so you can clean without them processed foods mainstays of your meals. underfoot. Older children can handle Instead, focus on in-season fruits and LAMBERT/GETTY IMAGES For Passover, Jews celebrate the Exodus of the enslaved Israelites from Egypt vegetables. Before heading to the super- small jobs, such as wiping down toys and to freedom by scouring the house of every speck of leavened food. Good times! surfaces. In the kitchen, these little See Lists on page 19 April 3, 2017 19 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM ‘Lists will save your life’

Continued from page 18 holiday preparations, then something market, create a menu and shopping list, needs to change ASAP. Try to shift your then stick to it. thinking from “yet another thing I have to 5. Don’t buy an entire kitchen your do” to a place of “we have an opportunity fi rst year. If you are making your house here.” Focus on what’s most important strictly kosher for Passover, you will need about Passover: the seders, time with to pack away your year-round dishes and family and loved ones. cookware and replace them with Passover 9. Have fun and create new trad- ones. However, you can build up your itions. My mother-in-law makes a special Passover collection gradually. Start with orange soup for Passover, and all her just the few crucial items the fi rst year grown children now make it as well, and each year buy a few more things. because it’s a beloved tradition. You may URGENT NOTICE 6. Your best friend is your list. From think, who cares, it’s just soup … or it’s a cleaning to-do list to detailed shopping just the annual Passover week trip to the lists, from last-minute reminders to park. But these are exactly the things that Jewish Memorial Gardens is embarking menus, lists will save your life. Don’t let make Passover special. Here are some the mental to-do list overwhelm you – get ideas to make holiday prep more fun: on an ambitious project, it all down on paper and rest assured putting music on when cleaning, giving nothing will be forgotten. Keep every- out prizes (to yourself as well as others) which requires your assistance. thing in one place (or on your for accomplishing specifi c tasks, special smartphone). new toys for the holiday, create photo 7. Passover doesn’t have to be contests with friends or family members We wish to mark our graves with flags Pinterest worthy. While many people of “funniest items found while cleaning to commemorate the following days: believe everything has to be picture-per- for Passover.” fect, simplifying can make your life much 10. When all is said and done, get it in easier. Plan a new and fancy dish here and writing! Passover is over, and the last there if it gives you pleasure, but don’t thing you want to do is look at one more feel like you must. Where possible, cook list, let alone go through it. But hang in things in advance and freeze them. there and jot down what worked, what 8. Leave the bitterness to the maror. didn’t, if you bought too much matzo or The last thing you want is to have a chip not enough. Write down that new trick Holocaust survivors on Holocaust Memorial Day on your shoulder when it comes to you came up with to help the kids enjoy holiday traditions. If you do feel resentful the seder. You will thank yourself next about the amount of work that goes into year.

Veterans of the IDF on Yom Hazikaron

Veterans of the Allied Forces on Remembrance Day

We are preparing lists of people who fall into these categories, and require your assistance identifying these people. Please contact [email protected] if you know of someone in our cemeteries who should be included. Those whom we are notified about by Friday, April 14th, 2017 will be honoured this year. These lists will continue to be updated as we are informed. As this will be a large undertaking, we apologize if we miss anyone in the first year. 20 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

CFHU hockey: Canadian Friends of Hebrew University (CFHU) held its first Hockey Madness on Ice game on March 19 at the Barbara Ann Scott Arena in Ottawa. The game introduced the Hebrew University Alumni Association to Ottawa. Hockey players, including Hebrew University alumni, played a fun game of hockey wearing CFHU Madness Jerseys. Proceeds from the initiative support scholarships at Hebrew University. After the game, the ice was open for family skate time and members of the community enjoyed Israeli snacks and fun music. For more information on CFHU activities visit www.cfhu.org or contact Daniel Tor at [email protected].

Members of the Provincial Government’s Ottawa Caucus wish you a Happy Passover! Chag Sameach!

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Passover Feature Ten easy tips to avoid Temple Israel a boring seder An egalitarian Reform congregation

BY RABBI REBECCA ROSENTHAL them to dip the parsley in the salt water. Jewish roots, contemporary values, egalitarian Another friend chops up lots of fruits (Kveller via JTA) – If your Passover seder Friday Kabbalat Shabbat Services, 6:15 pm. is anything like mine, it can resemble the and nuts (and even some chocolate) and world’s most diffi cult classroom: differ- allows the guests to make their own Saturday Shabbat Services, 10:15 am. ent ages, ranging from three to 93, and charoset, as long as it resembles the Thursday morning minyanim: varying levels of interest. Some want to mortar. second and fourth Thursdays, 7:30 am. read and discuss every word in the When it comes time to remember the Haggadah, some just want to get to the plague of hail, I have heard of families Sunday, April 30, 2017: food – and everything in between. throwing mini-marshmallows at one Come visit us at TEMPLE’S GOT TALENT Designing a seder that can work for another. Finally, there is a Persian custom Arts, crafts, books, author presentations, music, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm everyone can feel like a challenge for of lightly (or not so lightly) slapping your even the most seasoned educator, let neighbour with scallions during the song Sunday, May 7, 2017: alone a busy parent. “Dayenu” as a reminder of slavery. “The Gender Inclusive Community with a Jewish Perspective,” But there is magic in the seder. Having 3. Use the table. Put something presentation by Anne Lowthian, an educator and parent of Charlie, loved ones around a table together can interesting on the table, either in the a very infl uential trans kid. Rabbi Garten will also give a short talk feel like a luxury in this day and age, so middle or at each individual plate. on trans within Jewish law and its modern implications. here are some tips for making the most of We have used different kinds of frogs, Question period to follow,” 10 am. Everyone welcome. the festive meal. I hope these ideas will puppets and masks. Perhaps it will inspire you to be creative in a way that inspire a guest to ask a question about President Patsy Royer Temple Israel Religious School feels authentic to your seder. Passover, the story or the traditions of Rabbi Robert Morais Principal Sue Potechin The seder’s purpose is to get people to your family. Rabbi Emeritus Steven H. Garten Administration Officer ask questions, so the more you break the At the very least, it will entertain those Executive Director Heather Cohen Cathy Loves mould of the way you have always done at the table when they need a break. it, the more likely you and your guests 4. Don’t be a slave to the Haggadah. 1301 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON K2C 1N2 will be able to access the true meaning of The Haggadah is meant as a guide, and the holiday. you don’t have to read every word to fulfi l Tel: 613-224-1802 Fax: 613-224-0707 Here are 10 tips to perk up your seder your obligation to tell the story. www.templeisraelottawa.ca this year. Get many different Haggadahs and 1. Put out some food earlier. Food is look for readings and retellings that always important in Jewish events and speak to you and share those at the seder. never more so than in the seder. It can Or get the kids to write a play about the feel like a long time until you get to Passover story and perform it. dinner, but after karpas (the green Or ask your guests to bring something vegetable that comes right at the begin- that represents freedom and tell the story ning), you can serve appetizers. of why. Veggies and dip or fruit are good As long as your guests are engaged in healthy options, but my family also puts the story of slavery to freedom, you have out candy, which keeps the kids busy for done your job. a little while. If you want to be thematic, 5. Move around. This is the story of a there is fair-trade, slavery-free chocolate wandering people. If you have the space, that is kosher for Passover. then wander! 2. Play with your food. Along the Do one piece of the seder in the living HAPPY same theme, there are fun ways you can room, one in the dining room, or even go incorporate food into the heart of the outside if the weather is nice. PASSOVER seder. One friend of ours attaches the Turn a few bed sheets into the sea and parsley to mini fi shing rods and uses See Tips on page 22

Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) wishes all our members and friends a joyous Passover Holiday!

We are deeply grateful for your generosity, Chag Sameach! which helps us fulfill our mission of passionately HELPING CHILDREN supporting projects & services for Children, And a Healthy Passover to all our Healthcare, & Women in Israel & Canada. Donors, Supporters and Friends Debbie Eisenberg CHW National President

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Continued from page 6 decorations for the seder table. Your guests will be happy to help, and and matzo covers. walk through it on your way to the Guests, bring a reading or an object you will be happier if you come out of If your kids don’t make them in school Promised Land. Give your guests a that speaks to you. I guarantee your host the seder not feeling enslaved. or Hebrew school, these are easy crafts to chance to be in the story, not just talk will appreciate not having to carry the 8. Sing. There are tons of songs for make at home. about it. weight of the entire evening. kids and adults alike for Passover. Use 10. Let loose. The point of the seder is 6. Assign homework. People always 7. Give everyone a job. Before the Google to fi nd songs that you like and to engage people in the questions, both do better if they are prepared, so ask seder, make a list of everything that has teach them at your seder. ancient and contemporary, of slavery your guests to participate in the seder. to be done during the evening, from Providing song sheets helps everyone and freedom. The way you do that is up Send a question in advance, ask them pouring the wine to serving the soup to sing along. to you. to bring something or even make clearing the table. Then, assign away. 9. Make something. When I was Try to fi nd a balance between prepar- about 10 years old, I spent hours creating ing for the seder and obsessing about a chart that outlined the order of the every detail. And, if your kids run seder. I made a small arrow that could be screaming circles around the table while used to show where we were in the everyone else is trying to talk, as mine progression of the evening, and, since have done on more than one occasion, then, it has been used every year. those are memories, too. Don’t beat My mother still brings out Elijah’s yourself up about it. cups that my sisters and I made in Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal is director of Hebrew school, and my kids proudly youth and family education at Central show off their seder plates, kiddush cups Synagogue in New York City.

BARBARA DAVIDSON/LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA GETTY IMAGES A family re-enacts the oppression that Jewish slaves felt as part of their Passover seder.

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Breaking news updated daily at www.ottawajewishbulletin.com April 3, 2017 23 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Temple Israel to host seminar on building a gender inclusive community

BY DAR BLUE a newly transitioning person, I attended a FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL seminar presented by Anne Lowthian, a elevision shows like teacher and an advocate for gender “Transparent,” “Orange is the education. In her one-hour presentation, New Black” and “Sense8” are she shared her family’s story, current Tmaking transgender people and research, best practices, and what she their issues more apparent to the wider and her partner learned from their young world. As a result, many people have daughter, Charlie, during their family’s become curious and have questions. ongoing journey in understanding Two years ago, at a Jewish book club, I gender identity and expression. reviewed a book whose main character I was very impressed by her presenta- was intersex and was taken aback by the tion, her manner and openness in number of questions on anything to do answering questions. Charlie, 10, was with gender. As the sole LGBTQ member present to answer questions about her of the club, I chose to answer the ques- political advocacy work particularly with tions as best I could. I cannot over Bill C-16, an Act to Protect Gender emphasize the interest this topic gener- Identity and Expression in Canada, which Anne Lowthian and daughter Charlie Lowthian-Rickert will present their Gender Inclusive ated – I was deeply moved and excited by was put forward in Parliament in May Community seminar at Temple Israel, May 7. the interest. 2016. I recently came out as transgender and I asked Anne and Charlie to present seminar, Rabbi Steven Garten, rabbi safe place for those questions. Everyone was asked by Rabbi Robert Morais of their Gender Inclusive Community emeritus of Temple Israel, will speak on in the community is invited to attend and Temple Israel to present a talk on seminar to the Jewish community, and Jewish aspects of being transgender and to participate on Sunday, May 7, 10 am, at transgender issues. they said they would be honoured to do what that means in today’s Jewish world. Temple Israel in an open and welcoming Feeling this was too overwhelming for so. To add a Jewish perspective to the We all have questions and this will be a morning of learning. 24 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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ottawa jewish bulletin | Section 2 Holocaust survivor and liberator and grandson to speak – and perform – at Yom HaShoah presentation, April 23 Cantor David Wisnia escaped Nazi captivity during the Holocaust and joined the American Army. He will tell his story and be joined by his grandson, pianist Avi Wisnia, for a musical performance at Ottawa’s Yom HaShoah commemoration on April 23. Louise Rachlis reports.

s a teenager, Cantor David S. “Ninety per cent of Polish Jews eked Wisnia was able to stay alive in out a living, but my father was a car- Auschwitz by singing to penter and he employed other people Aentertain the Nazi SS and cell in his shop,” Cantor Wisnia told the block leaders. Ottawa Jewish Bulletin in a telephone Transferred to Dachau in December interview. “I went to a private school 1944, he managed to escape and join the that cost a lot of money. Everything I 506th Parachute Infantry of the United learned was in Polish and Hebrew in States Army’s 101st Airborne Division. grade school.” He engaged actively in combat during Then, with his excellent ear for the closing days of the war, becoming languages, he learned French and both a Holocaust survivor and a liberator German as well. – “and an interpreter as well,” added the He said that when his American native of Warsaw, Poland, who is fl uent rescuer stepped out of his tank, he didn’t in six languages. recognize the southern accent and Cantor Wisnia, and his grandson, Avi thought he was Russian. “English Wisnia, a composer and singer himself, became my language because the boys will present “From Generation to didn’t speak anything else.” Generation: Remembering the Holocaust Cantor Wisnia sings the national through Story and Song,” at Ottawa’s anthem every year at the gathering of Yom HaShoah commemoration on the 101st Airborne Division in Tampa, Sunday, April 23, 7 pm, at the Soloway Florida and is introduced as “Our Little Jewish Community Centre, 21 Nadolny Davey.” Sachs Private. “The majority of the boys fi ghting Admission is free of charge (photo ID then were six years older than I was, so is required to enter the building). The there are only a few left, and I’m the event is organized by the Shoah baby,” he said. Committee of the Jewish Federation of While it will be special for the Ottawa Cantor David Wisnia (right) and his grandson, pianist Avi Wisnia, at the entrance to Birkenau. Ottawa. See Yom HaShoah on page 26 26 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Yom HaShoah: Cantor Wisnia and grandson performed at Auschwitz on 70th anniversary of camp’s liberation

Continued from page 25 audience to hear Cantor Wisnia and his grandson sing together, “it’s pretty normal for us now,” said Avi, 34. “Our performing together started when I went to college to pursue a degree in music, and my grandfather continued to perform at weddings and bar mitzvahs and to take me along as his accompanist. “When he was invited to perform at the commemoration of the 70th anniver- sary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2015, he brought me along and we led services together in Poland. Since returning from that trip, we’ve been performing more and talking about that experience.” The Ottawa program will include the cantor speaking about his experiences during the Holocaust and the two will perform together with Avi at the piano accompanying his grandfather. Among the songs to be performed is “Oswiecim (Auschwitz),” a song Cantor Wisnia wrote in Polish while in Auschwitz. That song and one that Cantor Wisnia wrote in Yiddish, “Dos Vaise Haizele (The Little White House in the Woods),” are now on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. For many years, Cantor Wisnia didn’t talk about his experiences during the Holocaust. “My kids never knew. They thought I Cantor David Wisnia (left) and his grandson, pianist Avi Wisnia, at Auschwitz. was a veteran of the war and came home, because my English is quite good,” he grandfather as “90 years young.” “What a pianist!” Cantor Wisnia says Holocaust open people’s eyes to the ways said. Avi says his own music is inspired by of his grandson. “He’s a graduate of NYU in which other people are scapegoated He married in 1948, and he and his wife Brazilian bossa nova, American folk, music school. Ottawa is in for quite a and victimized. It makes us more human. Hope, a psychologist, had four children 1950s West Coast jazz, and contemporary treat.” It’s an honour for me to be part of that.” and six grandchildren. pop. His latest single, “Sky Blue Sky,” “I feel very fortunate not only to be For more information about Cantor He served as cantor of Temple Shalom was recorded via satellite between able to travel with my grandfather, but to Wisnia or his memoir, One Voice, in Levittown, Pennsylvania for 28 years, Philadelphia and Brazil, winning recogni- know his story better,” said Avi. “Until Two Lives: From Auschwitz Prisoner and recently retired after 23 years as tion from the Philadelphia Songwriters recently, it wasn’t something he talked to 101st Airborne Trooper, visit cantor at Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation Project and Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. about. He never talked about it with his www.onevoicetwolives.com. in Trenton, New Jersey. He continues to “I actually met a girl from Ipanema,” children. I feel very fortunate to experi- For more information about Avi Wisnia be an active vocalist, educator, and he said, “and it spoke to me for some ence that, and that he is able and willing or his music, visit www.aviwisnia.com. congregational community leader. reason. I started writing music on my to share it with the rest of the world so For more information about the Yom Cantor Wisnia still sings at High Holy own, and then I ended up meeting that they can hear what happened. As HaShoah commemoration, email Elana Days services in Jackson, New Jersey for Brazilian musicians and learned Primo Levi said, ‘It happened and so it Moscoe at [email protected] more than 1,000 people. Avi describes his Portuguese. It has really stuck with me.” can happen again.’ These stories of the or call call 613-798-4644. April 3, 2017 27 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 28 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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for two or three weeks Designed by Aviva Shur Passover Scavenger Hunt BSD on an Israeli army supply base By Shanna Silva All ages Illustrated by Miki Sakamoto 148 pages Kar-Ben Fans of Harry Potter Ages 4-8 will be in Hogwarts 24 pages heaven this Passover. Every year at the Moshe Rosenberg’s seder, Rachel’s Uncle Haggadah draws on Harry hides the the parallels between afi koman. The kids the wizardry of the have fun hunting for best-selling “Harry the special piece of Potter” books and the matzo and get a prize seder guide. for fi nding it. But “From the concepts of slavery and freedom, to the there’s one problem: focus on education, to the number four, Harry Potter Uncle Harry always and Passover share almost everything,” Rosenberg makes it too easy! In Shanna Silva’s lively story, Rachel writes in the introduction. takes over the job. She grabs her markers, scissors and a This is the second Jewish Harry Potter-themed book big piece of cardboard and creates a clever scavenger by Rosenberg, a rabbi and Judaic studies educator in hunt with six rhyming clues to stump her cousins. Each New York. (The fi rst was Morality for Muggles: Ethics in clue reveals something related to the seder, from the Free: accommodations, kosher meals, trips, events. the Bible and the World of Harry Potter.) Traditionalists, charoset to the shank bone. In the end, the kids are left Cost: air fare, $100 registration, weekend expenses. take note: Rosenberg assures readers that every word of with a puzzle to solve that will lead them to Rachel’s traditional Haggadah text, in Hebrew and in English [email protected] perfect afi koman hiding place. Miki Sakamoto’s illustra- translation, is included. Interspersed throughout is 514-735-0272 or [email protected] tions are bright and colourful and capture the fun as commentary, via the lens of J.K. Rowling’s characters, kids move picture frames, race around the house and that takes on questions of freedom, evil and the Four www.sarelcanada.org crawl around closets looking for clues. Children. There’s even a Harry Potter-themed version of Programs start approximately every 3 weeks. the popular seder song “Had Gadya.” See Kid Lit on page 31

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BY RABBI JOSHUA RATNER section of the Haggadah, that remem- (My Jewish Learning via JTA) – What is brance is but a means to a larger end. the essence of Passover? The end of the Maggid section reveals On the one hand, it seems obvious: why. It says: “In each and every genera- Passover is about gathering together with tion people must regard themselves as loved ones to recall, through sumptuous though they personally left Egypt, as it home rituals, the Exodus from Egypt. We says, ‘Tell your child on that vesry day: gather round our seder tables and quickly This is what God did for me when I left become engulfed in the warmth of family Egypt.’ and friends, the culinary delights of a “The Holy One of Blessing did not delicious meal, and the comforting, redeem only our ancestors, but God even vaguely familiar words and songs we redeemed us with them, as it says, ‘God recite year after year. brought us out of there in order to bring Passover is, indeed, a beautiful oppor- us to and gave us the land that God swore tunity for rejoicing and celebrating. But it to our ancestors.’” also can be much, much more. The seder specifi cally, and Passover Looking closely at the Passover more broadly, is about remembering Haggadah, we can see that the rabbis who God’s deliverance of the Israelites not as a crafted the seder did not choose to make one-time, historical event, but as some- Passover a holiday solely focused on thing that is perpetually happening in celebrating the past. Like Chanukah, the present. Redemption from slavery to Passover could have been a day to recall freedom is intended to be an experience passively our independence from an that we, too, can and should have during oppressive regime as a historical remem- our seders. But why? brance; to commemorate the past and Rabbi Joshua Ratner is director of the salute leaders like the Maccabees. Jewish Community Relations Council of Instead, Moses (as leader of the New Haven, Connecticut. Israelites in their Exodus from Egypt and sojourn in the desert) is largely shut out of the Haggadah – he appears but once. While remembrance of the Exodus – from the enslavement of the Israelites to the 10 plagues to the crossing of the Red Sea – forms a major portion of the content of the Maggid (retelling) 30 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM My Cousin Danny – an excerpt “My Cousin Danny” by Ottawa Holocaust educator Max Sternthal, is the story of a Jewish boy who survived the Holocaust thanks to a Christian family who hid him during the Second World War. In this excerpt, Danny proves his Jewish identity by reciting the beginning of the “Four Questions” asked by the youngest child at the Passover seder. Max is donating copies of the full-length version of “My Cousin Danny” to the Greenberg Families Library at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre and to each of Ottawa’s Jewish day schools

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Continued from page 28 heartwarming intergenerational story, and Benito also surprise him with a lasso Kids get an up-close look at how matzo Jessica comes up with a plan for how and clothing he needs for an upcoming is made in this fascinating new book Grandpa can still lead the seder, continu- rodeo. Artist Gina Capaldi puts readers overfl owing with stunning colour photo- ing the family tradition. Jeremy Tugeau’s right in the action; kids will feel as if they graphs that bring to life small-batch, large, expressive illustrations capture are riding along on horseback with Jacob handmade matzo-making to factories that Jessica’s emotions of joy, disappointment and Benito, and they’ll feel part of the bake 35,000 pieces of matzo every day. and love she shares her with grandfather. family’s seder. An author’s note explains Kids see the spiked rolling tool used to that in the 1880s, Jewish immigrants from make the tiny holes in the matzo and get a The Passover Cowboy Eastern Europe arrived in Argentina. peek inside the very hot ovens required for By Barbara Diamond Goldin Goldin also poses a timely discussion baking. Captions and explanatory text are Illustrated by Gina Capaldi question that asks families to imagine informative but simple, making the Apples and Honey Press what it would be like to move to a new photographs the stars of a wonderful book Ages 4-7 country. that will appeal both to kids and 32 pages grownups. There are several do-it-yourself A Different Kind of Passover Acclaimed Jewish children’s book writer recipes and craft projects, including By Linda Leopold-Strauss Barbara Diamond Goldin offers an unlikely baking matzo, making a matzo cover and Illustrated by Jeremy Tugeau Passover story set in the Argentine growing the greens for karpas, the sym- Kar-Ben countryside in the late 1800s. Jacob is a bolic vegetable eaten during the seder. Ages 4-7 young Jewish boy whose Russian family 32 pages immigrated to Argentina, but he doesn’t Sammy Spider’s Passover Shapes On the way to her grandparents’ house quite fi t in. He makes a new friend, Benito, By Sylvia A. Rouss for the seder, a young girl named Jessica is who helps him learn to ride a horse. Jacob Illustrated by Katherine Janus Kahn busy practicing “The Four Questions.” works up the courage to invite his Kar-Ben Jessica loves spending Passover with her non-Jewish pal to his family’s seder, but Ages 2-5 grandparents, where everything is the Benito says he has farm chores to do. 12 pages same year after year – running up the However, Benito ends up coming after all, The ever-popular Sammy Spider – now stairs at their apartment, fi nding piles of at just the right moment: when Jacob in his 24th year – is back! Passover Shapes blankets and pillows for the sleepover with opens the door to welcome Elijah, just as a How It’s Made: Matzah is the second Sammy Spider board book her cousins, and enjoying the good smells fl ock of chickens arrive, too. Benito helps By Allison Ofanansky that is geared for toddlers. In this brightly emanating from the kitchen. But this year round up the chickens and joins the seder. Photographs by Aliyahu Alpern illustrated tale, the young spider cele- will be different because her grandfather As the family welcomes its new friend, Apples & Honey Press brates the holiday with his human friend, just got home from the hospital and is too they learn from each other about the Ages3-7 Josh Shapiro. Little ones will learn about weak to come to the seder table. In this meaning of freedom – and Jacob’s mother 32 pages Passover as well as basic shapes.

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Jessica Chastain as Antonina Zabinski in “The Zookeeper’s Wife.” ANNE MARIE FOX/FOCUS FEATURES Chastain: Auschwitz visit was profoundly moving

Continued from page 32 the atrocities. And` when we look where “The Zookeeper’s Wife” is adapted we are now, we have to ask, ‘Are we going from the book of the same name by Diane to follow in those footsteps, are we going Ackerman that had relied upon to create another atrocity, or are we going Antonina’s diaries. It’s a tale of bravery to create a world where we protect and selfl essness, especially since once Jan everyone regardless of their ethnicity?’” went off to war, Antonina was left to Chastain’s compassion for the under- handle all the duties by herself. dog is well rooted. Though she doesn’t The Zabinskis are enshrined in Yad talk about it much, she was born to a Vashem’s Righteous Among the Nations. single mom who at times had to shoplift While Chastain did not visit the food to feed a young Jessica and her sister. Holocaust centre in Jerusalem, she still I gingerly broach the topic and ask how it managed extensive research for the role. impacted her career and life. “I read the book, of course, and visited “I think growing up in a situation the Warsaw Zoo,” she said. “I met with her where money wasn’t necessary for daughter [Teresa], who was a baby in the happiness actually helped me,” she said. fi lm, and learned about the family from a “I realized when pursuing an acting personal point of view. I also went to career, it’s not something you pursue for Auschwitz. I’d read about it, of course, but money. I pursued it realizing I could live had never been to a concentration camp.” without. I grew up without. Chastain said the Auschwitz visit was “I grew up without many things, and profoundly moving. because of that, I have compassion for Her experiences made her realize how those who have less. I’m very happy contemporary the fi lm’s message is. paying taxes so people can go to school “We learn by looking at history, and and have health care because I know what when we look we see Hitler, Mussolini – it’s like to have little.” one of the fi rst things they did was “The Zookeeper’s Wife” opened in manage the press,” she said. “That led to wide release on March 31.

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OTC conference: Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod organized a daylong conference on diversity, inclusion and acceptance, March 20, at Ottawa Torah Centre that included participation by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious leaders as well as members of the Yezidi, Armenian, Rwandan, and Darfur communities. Among the speakers was Holocaust survivor Vera Gara.

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FUDGE CAKE Alyce’s 2017 Passover recipes 200 grams (7/8 cup) margarine 1/4 cup cocoa powder (good quality – yes, assover is a diffi cult holiday. Lots of shopping it makes a difference!) plus lots of preparation plus lots of courses 6 eggs equals lots of work! ALYCE BAKER 1 1/4 cups brown sugar P So anything you can do to make things ahead HOLIDAY COOKER 1 cup ground almonds or hazelnuts of time will relieve stress. Preheat oven to 325 F. The chicken can be prepared earlier in the day. The AND BAKER kugel and cake can be made ahead and frozen. Lightly grease a 9-inch springform pan and line The bark can be stored in a cool dry place well ahead with parchment paper. of the seders. Place the margarine and cocoa in a saucepan and There are several essential items that should be apricot jam. The crackers and soup nuts are replace- stir over low heat until smooth. staples in everyone’s Passover pantry. These include ments for fl our/bread crumbs. The jam and duck sauce Beat eggs and sugar in an electric stand mixer matzo crackers, soup nuts (mandelen), duck sauce and are the basis for any type of sauce. until double in volume. Fold in the cocoa mixture and the ground nuts. SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN POTATO CARROT AND ZUCCHINI KUGEL Pour into the pan and bake 40 minutes until set. Cool and then turn out onto platter. Dust with 5 whole chicken breasts split in half (bone-in) 5 large eggs additional cocoa Salt and pepper to taste 3 medium onions, cut into 1-inch pieces Serves 10-12. 1 teaspoon fresh ginger 14 green onions, coarsely chopped 1 box ground soup nuts 6 russet potatoes, peeled 2 eggs and cut into 1-inch pieces PASSOVER BARK 1 teaspoon lime juice 2 medium carrots, peeled 6 ounces apricot jam and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 pound chopped kosher-for-Passover chocolate 1/2 cup white wine 1 large zucchini, cut into 1-inch pieces 3 cups kosher-for-Passover mini-marshmallows 2 tablespoons margarine 1/2 cup matzo meal 1/2 cup kosher-for-Passover crushed potato chips 2 teaspoons salt 8 ounces chopped macaroons Season chicken with salt, pepper and ginger. 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon sea salt Beat eggs and lime juice in a pie plate. 1/2 teaspoon pepper Place ground soup nuts in another plate. 1/2 cup vegetable oil Melt chocolate in double boiler and cool. Dip chicken in egg mixture and then in ground Combine remaining ingredients and stir in soup nuts. Combine 3 eggs, half of the onions, and half of chocolate. Place chicken pieces in a greased roasting pan. the green onions in processor. Blend until the Spread in a 9x13-inch pan lined with parchment In a saucepan, melt margarine and add jam and mixture is smooth and fl uffy. paper. white wine. Heat 3 minutes. Add half the potatoes, half the carrots and half Refrigerate until set. Pour over chicken and bake at 350 F. for 70 the zucchini. Blend until vegetables are fi nely Break into chunks. minutes. chopped. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Sweet and sour sauce Repeat with remaining 2 eggs and all the vege- In a saucepan heat together the following tables. Add to mixture in bowl. ingredients: Whisk in the matzo meal, salt, pepper and 1/4 1 cup apricot jam cup oil. 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger Brush remaining 1/4 cup oil over bottom and 1 cup Gold’s duck sauce sides of 9x13-inch Pyrex dish. 2 tablespoons honey Place dish in 400 F. oven for 7 minutes until hot. Pour batter into hot dish and bake for one hour Serve warm with the chicken. until brown and crisp.

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r. Abbas goes to Washington. Mr. Trump terrorists and their families. has a new idea that’s really an old idea. The Taylor Force Act, named after the U.S. veteran And the U.S. Congress is once again threat- and West Point graduate who was stabbed by a Mening to cancel all aid to the Palestinian BARBARA CROOK Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa last year, is not a new Authority (PA). MY ISRAEL concept. Welcome to the next episode of that endless, popular Congress has frozen aid to the PA in the past, often and – so far – futile game show, “Let’s Make a Peace prompted by reports by Israel’s Palestinian Media Watch Deal.” No, it’s not a rerun – it just feels like it because (PMW) that exposed continued hate education and nothing has really changed. incitement to terror by the allegedly moderate Abbas One week, it’s “Move the embassy to Jerusalem!” out, this idea isn’t new. It was the basis of the 2002 regime. “Build more settlements!” “Make friends with Bibi!” Arab Peace Initiative, which was soon rejected by both Those freezes, however, were ultimately vetoed by The next week, it’s “Let’s study the embassy issue!” sides. U.S. presidents who feared that withholding aid would “Let’s slow down on those settlements!” “Let’s make Israel wasn’t prepared to withdraw from as much destabilize the PA and empower Hamas. friends with Abbas!” territory as the deal envisioned, and other Arab coun- The PA’s policy of paying salaries to terrorists and Less than three months into the job, Trump has tries weren’t – and aren’t – prepared to negotiate the their families, also exposed by PMW, appears to have yielded to the irresistible temptation that confounded, terms of a deal that the Palestinians would immediately prompted more international outrage than other frustrated and damaged the legacies of his presidential reject. http://tinyurl.com/hz8abtz Palestinian misuses of foreign aid. And, if Trump goes predecessors: The belief that he’s going to be the Now Trump has invited PA President Mahmoud through with plans to cut the foreign assistance budget president who can do the impossible and make a Middle Abbas to Washington, and has dispatched Middle by 38 per cent, the Palestinian aid could be an easy East peace deal. East envoy Jason Greenblatt to Ramallah to discuss target. But, because this is Trump talking, it’s not just any resuming U.S.-brokered peace talks that broke down But this would deprive Trump of the opportunity to deal. in 2014. try for the “ultimate deal” that would feed his ego and “It might be a bigger and better deal than people in According to the London-based Arabic newspaper, cement his legacy. this room even understand,” he proclaimed at a news Asharq al-Awsat, the PA is ready to resume negotiations Given that his broad pronouncements are usually conference during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin if Israel halts settlement building, releases long-serving followed by backtracking once he talks to people Netanyahu’s visit to Washington in February. prisoners, guarantees a Palestinian state within 1967 he trusts and who actually have some knowledge The latest plan could theoretically be bigger, because borders and determines a timeframe for the end of of the situation, Trump will likely have to give up on it would involve strengthening Israel’s relationship with negotiations. the “big deal” based on the ill-fated Arab Peace Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia and focusing on such In other words, the PA’s idea of negotiations hasn’t Initiative. common interests as containing Iran’s expansionism changed: Give us everything we want, and then we’ll He’ll embrace the idea of fi nancial tough love for the and defeating Islamic jihadists. negotiate. Palestinians – until Abbas comes to Washington and Then, with the help of the U.S., these frenemies might Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress pretends to be a statesman, and/or his advisers convince agree on the framework for a peace deal under which does not appear to be in any hurry to make nice with the him that it’s too risky to pull the plug on Palestinian Israeli concessions to the Palestinians would be Palestinians. In fact, Republicans in both the House of foreign aid. rewarded by these Sunni Muslim regimes’ recognition of Representatives and the Senate are pushing hard to cut In other words, he’ll continue to be all talk and no Israel. off all aid to the PA – which amounted to $300 million action – a role that suits him far better than his current But, as Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post points US in 2016 – until the PA stops paying salaries to job.

On questions and journeys asylum-seekers as they try to cross into Canada from the U.S., traversing isolated prairie and forest in life-threat- ach year at the Passover seder, we recount the ening winter conditions; and the human traffi ckers who Exodus of the Israelites from Mitzrayim (the SARAH WAISVISZ prey on youth trying to fl ee the gang-ridden cities of El narrow place) to freedom in the Land of Milk Salvador and Mexico. The unsettling goals of the Trump Eand Honey. And, every year, I ask myself if it DISPATCHES administration in the U.S. and the rise of populist and really happened, and I decide it doesn’t matter. What FROM THE xenophobic political leaders in Europe and elsewhere matters instead is the retelling of the story, year after are motivating many of these perilous journeys. year, generation after generation. With the act of DIASPORA My heart is full of worry. We are approaching Passover retelling we remember, we reimagine, and we try to and, whether or not the story we recount at the seder is empathize and feel in our bodies and hearts what might myth or truth, we retell it in order to try to imagine what have happened. itself: “Mah nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol haleilot it was like to be a slave in Egypt. This year, can we also Since the story might not be true, the deep structure (Why is this night different from all other nights)?” try to imagine what the perilous journey was like? of the Passover seder emphasizes a paradox between The ritual of “mah nishtanah” thus seems to be about I asked Patti Lenard, professor of political philosophy myth and questioning. On Passover, we are not meant to questioning even the questions. Maybe the ritual is at the University of Ottawa, what concerned Canadian prioritize fact or outcome but, rather, to consider the actually a microcosm for the entire seder. It draws our citizens can do about the worldwide refugee crisis. She importance of the process and the journey. Each year, attention to what makes the Passover seder so distinct- said ordinary Canadians can put pressure on our federal we contemplate the signifi cance of the effort it takes to ive, namely because that night we recount the story of government to raise the cap on privately sponsored resist oppression and the hard realization that not slavery, the resistance and the journey to freedom, and it refugees. Lenard is adamant that Canadian Immigration everyone is free. urges seder participants to ask questions in order to Services has the infrastructure to support raising the Perhaps what matters most, then, is consciously understand, and imagine for themselves, what it might cap, especially since much of the burden of helping the recognizing the privilege of our freedom and also asking have been like to be slaves in Egypt. new arrivals falls on whatever private group has spon- ourselves tough questions about who doesn’t enjoy that I recently returned from a four-week dance residency sored their application. She said the second action we same freedom. To put it another way, what if question- in Guinea, West Africa, where I lived with local people can take is to join or found a group that is actively ing is as important to Passover as the action of retelling? who struggled just to survive from day to day and who engaged in privately sponsoring an individual or family. Many of us can remember being obligated, as the dreamed of a new life in Europe or North America. Visit www.refugee613.ca/pages/sponsor for more youngest person at the Passover table, to ask or sing the While Guinea is not war-torn, life there is fragile and information. “Four Questions.” The “Four Questions” highlight what diffi cult. After having lived there for a month, I can At this time of the year, when the wisdom of our makes Passover distinct. Possibly, as a nod to the attest to the precariousness of my friends’ futures. Jewish calendar reminds us to think deeply of struggle, tradition of good Jewish humour, the Haggadah implies Since my return, I have been reading article after servitude, resistance and liberty, I hope we can ask that there are, in fact, fi ve questions, not four. The fi fth article about the ongoing refugee crisis in the Middle ourselves diffi cult questions about what we can do, as question, or rather the overall question, is the chorus East and Europe; the perils facing mostly Muslim individuals, to help repair our troubled world. 40 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM The Passover story is only half the tale we tell at the seder

he other night, I was reading my daughter a ago, we now all have children of our own. story by British author Julia Donaldson, most It’s up to us to fi gure out which rhythms of the famous for her book The Gruffalo. STEPHANIE SHEFRIN Passover seders from our childhood we wish to repeat T We were reading The Highway Rat, and, in the MODERN and which we will choose to discard, in favour of fi nding story, the rat steals from people along the road until he our own. gets his comeuppance from a clever duck. MISHPOCHA Speaking personally, I’m quite happy to jettison the Like all of Donaldson’s books, it’s the rhythm more part about the rabbis sitting all night in B’nei Brak until than the story that appeals to me. It’s just fun to read. their students come to tell them it’s time for morning And, when you’re going to be asked to read a book a prayers. half-dozen times in a row, having fun helps. Much like I can only hope my daughter But what to replace it with? But it took a read or two before I realized why I was will one day love Anne as much I do, Each year, the Forward, a New York-based Jewish enjoying this one so much. The rhythm reminds me of publication, runs a roundup of the latest Haggadahs. how Anne Shirley recites the poem “The Highwayman” I can only hope she’ll come to have the The Forward’s list for 2017 wasn’t out yet as I was in the 1985 movie “Anne of Green Gables.” same warm, happy memories of Passover. writing this column, but, in recent years, it has included That book was one of my childhood favourites, and As parents, we worry often about making mobile phone applications and an interactive website one day I’ll introduce it to my daughter. where you can essentially write your own Haggadah. Sharing the stories that inspired me as a kid is one of the right choices for our kids. That there New this year, I’ve read elsewhere, is a Haggadah based the true delights of motherhood. are so many versions of the Haggadah on the Harry Potter children’s books. The fact I love storytelling is why I’ve also always is a lesson to us that, sometimes, there is Maybe I could write a Haggadah based on “Anne of enjoyed Passover – telling the story of the Exodus is the Green Gables.” After all, she does get her braids dipped whole point. no right way. The more important thing in ink, and surely I could tie that in with dipping leafy But, like the Donaldson books, what I enjoy isn’t just is that we are together doing it at all. vegetables in salt water, somehow. the story. Much like I can only hope my daughter will one day It’s about the rhythm of how my family has always son, the annual banging on the table for the dayenus, love Anne as much I do, I can only hope she’ll come to told it – my parents and aunts and uncles and cousins the race to see who could fi nd the afi komen fi rst, and have the same warm, happy memories of Passover. going paragraph by paragraph through the Haggadah, whether our uncle would ever actually pay up. As parents, we worry often about making the right paragraphs marked to denote who was responsible for Yet, while the Passover story itself remains the same, choices for our kids. That there are so many versions of which section year after year. the story of our family is changing. the Haggadah is a lesson to us that, sometimes, there is The way the particular Haggadah we used laid out the The responsibility for getting us all together on the no right way. The more important thing is that we are story of Passover, well, that wasn’t so engaging. holidays is beginning to fall more upon my generation together doing it at all. The fun came not from its words, but how my family – not that of my parents – and it’s bittersweet. The For, in telling the story of Passover, we also get to chose to say them – the ritual jokes about the simple cousins I hunted for the afi komen with three decades write a new story – our own. Celebrating a special Focus on Fitness anniversary

started this column just over fi ve years ago because discussed the pros and cons of processed foods; the I wanted to inform, educate and motivate you to roles and misconceptions regarding carbohydrates, fats make fi tness and health a priority. Through a GLORIA SCHWARTZ and protein; hidden sugar and its health implications; Icombination of research and storytelling – with the demonization of certain foods; the concept of passion and an occasional injection of humour – I’ve FOCUS ON moderation; the importance of quality and not just curated the most current and practical information to FITNESS quantity of calories; and tips to eating healthily on a help you succeed. One hundred articles later, let’s take a budget. look back at some of the themes and topics I’ve covered I’ve shared my own health struggles and triumphs. so far. I’ve admitted my setbacks with my dietary habits. I’ve I’ve presented different types of exercise to enhance I’ve relied on reputable studies and reliable sources to shared my experiences training for and running your cardiorespiratory system, strength, fl exibility and support claims and dispel myths. I’ve examined fi tness half-marathon races, and the thrill of personal victory functional fi tness and covered a broad range of physical fads, superfoods, weight-loss scams, detoxifi cation, that each of us can achieve when we push our limits. I’ve activities including walking, hiking, running, cycling, nutritional supplements, and why some of these been honest at all times, because I believe it’s important gardening, golf, yoga, dancing, swimming, boxing, ice products and practices pose health risks and are a waste for everyone to understand that, despite working in the skating, high-intensity interval training, seated exercise, of your money. I’ve also gleaned valuable insights about fi tness industry, I, like everyone else, am far from snow shovelling and its health risks, and even unusual healthy living from the writings of experts who’ve stood perfect. activities such as dragon boat racing and tire-pulling. the test of time and from more contemporary gurus. I shared my pride and excitement when I published I’ve provided step-by-step instructions for exercises to I’ve looked at habits associated with longevity and my autobiographical, self-help book Personal Best: Train safely strengthen your muscles, and explained how to some alarming trends: sitting is considered the new Your Brain and Transform Your Body for Life. As for boost your metabolism, set realistic goals, identify and smoking, and that many lifestyle-related diseases and training your brain, I’ve written articles on attitudes, overcome obstacles, eat better, lose weight, and use deaths could be prevented by making changes to how internal dialogue, redefi ning success (not just as the tools such as a heart-rate calculator, a body-mass index we move and what we eat. number on the scale), stages of mental readiness, the calculator, fi tness-monitoring devices, and a food and I’ve examined the obesity epidemic in adults and notion of persistence and perseverance even with exercise journal. children, its complexity, known causes and associated advanced age or physical impediments, adopting fi tness I’ve explained how to differentiate between normal health risks (e.g., Type 2 diabetes, certain cancers), the as a lifestyle, dysfunctional beliefs and how to replace muscle soreness and pain, use exercise to deal with concept of “skinny fat,” and the role of hormones in excuses with solutions. I’ve brought awareness to constipation, and exercise with a chronic health condi- weight gain. fi nding inspiration in others –everyday people – who are tion; why experts consider exercise as a form of medi- I’ve looked at disordered eating habits, unrealistic all around us, and how to be open and receptive to cine, and how doctors can improve the manner in which body images portrayed by the media, how the media change. they prescribe exercise; the fascinating role of exercise infl uences our self-perception, and I’ve proposed the With so many topics covered, what’s next? As a writer in disease prevention, and its potential to delay the notion of accepting our natural body shapes, cellulite and personal trainer, I feel I’ve just scratched the onset and slow the progression of many diseases; the and other genetic aspects of our bodies that we cannot surface. benefi ts of working with a personal trainer; and the change and that have no negative health consequences. Thank you for the positive feedback over the years. many evidence-based physical, cognitive and mental I’ve exposed the reality that diets have a high long- Let’s continue our journey together towards our health benefi ts of exercise. term failure rate – regardless of the type of diet. I’ve personal best in fi tness and health. April 3, 2017 41 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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of resignation, that she was “a nameless wife and mother” in the Bible legend, “that no one hears her voice.” And, in two songs, “Jerusalem (Yerushalayim)” and “Land of Milk and Honey,” Goldman sings of her compli- cated relationship with Israel – a loving relationship rooted in ideals, but tarnished by contemporary realities. Goldman’s songs – with their lovely melodies – are arranged in traditional folk styles. A couple of songs have There are also songs of class struggle, including “Der Sharon Goldman a distinctly Middle Eastern feel in the arrangements yokh (L’estaca),” a Yiddish translation of a Catalan song, Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice) thanks to oud player Brian Punka and percussionist “Kermeshl in Ades (Party in Odessa),” whose joyous sharongoldmanmusic.com Cheryl Prashker. music is in contrast to the bitter subtext in the lyrics, and haron Goldman, a New Jersey-based singer-song- Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice) is a very special collection. “Vi lang? (How Long?),” which challenges workers to rise writer, who was raised in an Orthodox Jewish up and overcome their chains of oppression. home and followed an Orthodox lifestyle until The Klezmatics Among the most poignant songs are “Tayer Yankele Sthe end of her fi rst marriage, has created in Kol Apikorsim/Heretics (Dear Little Yankl),” a traditional Yiddish song about an Isha (A Woman’s Voice), a remarkable song-cycle in World Village economic migrant or refugee who went to Istanbul which she writes eloquently and sings beautifully, from klezmatics.com looking for a better life, only to be murdered, and “Der a liberal and feminist perspective, about being a The most recent albums by the Klezmatics was the mames shpigl (My Mother’s Mirror),” about the realiza- questioning Jewish woman. superb in-concert set, Live At Town Hall, released in 2011 tion so many of us have as we age about how much there Goldman’s role as a questioning Jewish woman is but recorded in 2006, and the Grammy-winning Wonder is of our parents in ourselves. established in “The Tribe,” the album’s opening song, in Wheel, featuring the Klezmatics’ wonderful settings of One of the most infectious songs on the album is which she explains who she is, the traditions she was newly discovered Woody Guthrie lyrics on Jewish “Shushan Purim,” which celebrates the tradition, born to and feels bound to, and the lines and limits “I themes, in 2006. So, it’s been much too long since we’ve practised by some, of getting so drunk on the holiday of knew which I could not cross/For the survival of a had a new album from perhaps my all-time favourite Purim that you can’t tell the difference between people,” until she meets the man who would become her klezmer band. Mordechai and Haman – but, then, waking up the next second husband – and asks, “Could I meet him as a In many ways Apikorsim/Heretics is a return to the kind day, Shushan Purim, with a horrible hangover. The music woman/Not as a member of the tribe?” of progressive Jewish cultural albums the Klezmatics to the song was composed by Klezmatics’ trumpeter Later, in “Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice),” the album’s were making in the fi rst half of their now 30-year history: Frank London, while the lyrics were written by Canadian title song, she reveals that her questioning began to superb material drawn from both traditional sources and author, humourist and Yiddish scholar Michael Wex. formulate as a 12-year-old girl, seated silently behind her their own imaginations, matched by brilliant singing and While all the songs are sung in Yiddish, the CD booklet shul’s mechitzah because only men’s voices were allowed playing. includes English translations of the lyrics, so there is no to be heard in the synagogue. As someone who wanted to Apikorsim/Heretics is an album of contrasts. On the language gap for non-Yiddish speakers. sing, and who knew the melodies, she longed, in vain, to one hand, there are songs like “Zol shoyn kumen di geule As always, the lead singing of Lorin Sklamberg is a lift her voice during the service. (May Redemption Come),” a joyous longing for the delight throughout the album, as is the playing of each of One of the most telling songs is “The Sabbath Queen” coming of the Messiah, and “Ver fi rt di ale shifn? (Who the Klezmatics. As well as on the arrangements to the in which the perfect image of the Sabbath queen hides Guides the Ships?),” a contemplative song about God songs, their playing is featured on several great instru- the reality of the hard life experienced by an Orthodox expressing religious concepts that could be embraced by mentals, including violinist Lisa Gutkin’s “Der geler fi nk Jewish wife and mother in a rigidly traditional household. the most fervently Orthodox Jews. On the other hand, (The Yellow Finch),” clarinetist Matt Darriau’s “Three- Goldman draws on biblical imagery in a couple of there are songs like the equally joyous title track celebrat- Ring Sirba,” and Frank London’s “Green Violin.” songs, most notably “Pillar of Salt,” which is based on the ing a completely secular lifestyle that rejects all of the An earlier version of this review was posted on the Folk story of Lot’s wife. Goldman notes, with more than a hint restrictions of an Orthodox lifestyle. Roots/Folk Branches blog. https://frfb.blogspot.com

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rowing up in Ottawa, “the people about kidney donation, many Gennises were raised on the question whether they themselves would premise that if someone needs do it. Ghelp, you help.” “I’ve used the opportunity to educate So, when Michael Gennis’ brother people about kidney disease, living organ Philip needed a kidney, it was a no brainer. donation and the fi ne work the Trillium The most common living organ Foundation does. The program at St. donation is the kidney. In 2015, there Michael’s [Hospital in Toronto] is won- were 221 Ontario residents who received derful, as is Renewal. Renewal is a a living kidney transplant. [Jewish] organization dedicated to On December 13, Philip Gennis assisting people suffering from various received a kidney from his brother. forms of kidney disease and helping “I’d been dealing with decreased kidney connect donors with recipients.” function for 15 years, and it got progres- http://tinyurl.com/hbvrqat sively worse over time,” said Philip, 66, a As the kidney donor, Michael said his Contact: licensed insolvency trustee who lives in health is now fi ne. Toronto. “About 18 months ago, it got to “My kidney function deteriorated the point where my brother, Michael, and initially, but then the remaining kidney Michael (left) and Philip Gennis encourage all who can to become organ donors. my wife, Sandy, did blood matching picked up the slack. You end up with testing and they both qualifi ed.” kidney function at about the 87 per cent had the surgery at St. Michael’s Hospital. feel great. I am on a regimen of anti-rejec- “Once a transplant became a possibil- level, and live as a normal person … It The surgery was a complete success, as tion medications, which I will be taking ity, a whole bunch of people in the family just went beautifully,” he said. it is for most kidney recipients. One year for life. These medications suppress the put their hands up,” said Michael, 59, a Two months before the surgery, Philip after surgery, 90 to 97 per cent of trans- immune system of the recipient, but this real estate broker. “I thought that no was told his skin colour was somewhat planted kidneys are working at a level a small price to pay for a renewed quality EDDIE PELTZMAN JEAN MYERS young people should do it. I’m extremely pallid, although he was asymptomatic that makes dialysis unnecessary. of life. I’m only taking Tylenol for pain. healthy, and my partner, Robert and wasn’t lacking in energy. The Philip is happy with his recovery. I’m well on the road to recovery.” Birnbaum, is a physician and could look decision was made in November to “My kidney is functioning marvel- The Gennis brothers now encourage after me. I never lost a minute’s sleep proceed with the transplant in an effort lously, and I’m back to work part-time … others to become organ donors. over it. We had a lot of people cheering to pre-empt dialysis, something that is The process is very organized. You’re “Everyone should sign that donor for us. I never once hesitated.” taxing on the body and on the patient’s monitored [regularly] for fi ve years at card,” said Philip. “Let your family know 613-798-4696, ext. 242 | Michael says that, when he talks to quality of life. They booked a date and least, and annually thereafter,” he said. “I See Gennis on page 2 613-798-4696, ext. 256 | Jewish heritage trip from Ottawa Rabbi Eytan Kenter Barbara Crook onTrump and inside: to Spain and Morocco > p. 3 on young leadership > p. 6 the real obstacles to peace > p. 21

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The Board of Directors of the BRAYDEN APPOTIVE Sandra Levinson by Cayla, Maxwell, ANN AND LEON GLUZMAN Ottawa Jewish Community ENDOWMENT FUND Gregory and Lisa Baylin. MEMORIAL FUND Foundation acknowledges with In Memory of: In Memory of: Nelly Shifferer by Sharon and David SANDI AND EDDY COOK George Karlin by Cally and Sid Kardash. thanks contributions to the fol- Appotive. ENDOWMENT FUND Sharlene Day by Cally and Sid Kardash. lowing funds as of March 9, 2017. Mazel Tov to: In Memory of: Sandra Levinson by Cally and Sid Sharon Rosentzveig on the birth of her Sandra Levinson by Sandi and Eddy Cook. Kardash. JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES new grandson by Sharon and David AGENCY FUND Appotive. NATHAN AND REBA DIENER HY AND PAULINE HOCHBERG In Memory of: ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Sandra Levinson by Sandra and Norman ANNE AND LOUIS ARRON Anniversary Wishes to: In Memory of: Slover. MEMORIAL FUND Ruth and Lenny Skolnick by Dayra, Sandra Levinson by Pauline Hochberg. In Memory of: John, Brian and Erica Diener; and by SARA AND ZEEV VERED ISRAEL Sandra Levinson by Daphne and Reba Diener. SANDRA AND JACIE LEVINSON CULTURAL PROGRAM FUND Stanley Arron. In Memory of: ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: Sandra Levinson by Joel and Barbara In Memory of: Sandra Levinson by Sara Vered. NORMAN AND MYRNA BARWIN Diener and family. Sandra Levinson by Bernard and Donna FOUNDATION Mazel Tov to: Dolansky; by Sally and Elliott Levitan; ABELSON FAMILY OF THE PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Steven and Linda Kerzner on their by Marilyn and Dan Kimmel; by Neil and ENDOWMENT FUND MUSICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND daughter Jessica’s engagement to Myles Debi Zaret; by Zelaine and Sol Shinder; In Memory of: In Memory of: by Joel and Barbara Diener and family. and by Rhoda and Jeff Miller. Gita Aptowitzer by Lois and Bob Sharlene Day by Norman and Myrna Seymour and Joy Mender on their Abelson. Barwin. daughter Jessica’s engagement to Sean RON AND RUTH LEVITAN Sid Cohen by Lois and Bob Abelson. Sandra Levinson by Norman and Myrna by Joel and Barbara Diener and family. ENDOWMENT FUND Edgar Saslove by Lois and Bob Abelson. Barwin. Jeff and Felice Pleet on their daughter In Memory of: Erin’s marriage to Chris by Joel and George Karlin by Ron and Ruth Levitan. APPOTIVE FAMILY CAYLA AND MICHAEL BAYLIN Barbara Diener and family. ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND DOROTHY AND HERBERT In Memory of: Refuah Shlemah to: SAM AND SUSAN FIRESTONE NADOLNY ENDOWMENT FUND Eddie Goldberg by Jeffrey and Sharon Dan Wolfish by Cayla Baylin. ENDOWMENT FUND Mazel Tov to: Appotive. In Memory of: In Memory of: Dorothy Nadolny on her granddaughter Sandra Levinson by Sharon and David Dr. Irving Soloway by Cayla Baylin. Sandra Levinson by Susan, Sam, Continued on page 44 Appotive. Gita Aptowitzer by Cayla Baylin. Lindsay, Jessica and Daniel Firestone. 44 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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Carolyn’s recent marriage to Spencer BRENT AND RISA TAYLOR THE SAUL AND EDNA GOLDFARB online at www.OJCF.ca or by Joan Bloom. ENDOWMENT FUND B’NAI MITZVAH PROGRAM by contacting the office at Birthday Wishes to: PINKAS AND YEHUDIT NEWMAN Irving Slone by Brent, Risa and Shira LIEFF FAMILY 613-798-4696 extension 274, MEMORIAL FUND Taylor. B’NAI MITZVAH FUND Monday to Friday or by email Birthday Wishes to: In Memory of: Mazel Tov to: at [email protected]. Laz Newman by Marilyn and Will Sandra Levinson by Brent, Risa and Ellen Nadolny and Frank Grimsley on Attractive cards are sent to Newman. Shira Taylor. the marriage of their daughter Caroline Mazel Tov to: by Francie Greenspoon and Norman convey the appropriate sen- OR HANESHAMAH Lieff. ENDOWMENT FUND Steven and Linda Kerzner on their timents. All donations are daughter Jessica’s engagement to acknowledged with a charita- Mazel Tov to: Myles by Brent, Risa and Shira Taylor. Hannah Beiles in honour of her Bat Contributions may be made ble receipt. Mitzvah by Mike Shahin and family. STEPHEN AND GAIL VICTOR ENDOWMENT FUND SAMUEL AND RUTH ROTHMAN MEMORIAL FUND In Memory of: Sharlene Day by Stephen and Gail In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Victor. · Building Trust Jerry Taylor by Barbara Taylor. Sandra Levinson by Stephen and Gail Victor. ELAYNE AND · Serving the Community WESLEY SCHACTER IRVING AND DIANE WEXLER ENDOWMENT FUND FAMILY FUND In Memory of: In Memory of: · Growing Our Collective Legacy Sandra Levinson by Elayne and Wesley Sid Cohen by Carol Wexler-Segal and Schacter. Diane Wexler. The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation SHEKEL HAKODESH ZIPES KARANOFSKY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND follows a strong investment policy guiding In Appreciation of: Refuah Shlemah to: successful portfolio managers with oversight from Connie and Gary Duck by Steve and Deborah Krebs by Rick and Helen Laurie Gordon. Zipes. our investment committee Rhonda Vossberg Goodman by Rick FAY AND JOSEPH SHULMAN and Helen Zipes. and Board. The committee ENDOWMENT FUND Debra Caron by Rick and Helen Zipes. is made up of financial and Birthday Wishes to: Mazel Tov to: Lori Loeb-Taller by Brian and Lynn Charles and Susan Schwartzman on business experts who lead Mordfield. the recent birth of their grandson Rory 10.7% the Foundation’s growth Jason by Rick and Helen Zipes. LORNE AND with results that allow you LAURIE SHUSTERMAN THE WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE Return FAMILY FUND PHILANTHROPY PROGRAM to donate with confidence. In Memory of: Providing support for services and pro- Low George Karlin by Lorne and Laurie grams that directly benefit women and Management 3-year annualized return (net of fees) as of Shusterman. children. Dec. 31, 2015. * Please note that past Sandra Levinson by Lorne and Laurie Fees Shusterman. WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE performance is not an assurance of future ENDOWMENT FUND Foundation growth. CLAIRE AND SAM TANNER Mazel Tov to: MEMORIAL FUND Yaffa Greenbaum and Jack Shinder Contact: Arieh Rosenblum, Director of In Memory of: on Jonah and Kayla’s engagement by Development at 613-798-4696 x 270 or Sid Cohen by Stephen and Lana Lynne Oreck-Wener and Bob Wener [email protected] Tanner. and family. April 3, 2017 45 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

What inspires your legacy giving? Take the challenge and help fuel our Jewish future.

Inspiring volunteer and donor created community challenge

Richard Roth moved to Ottawa over 20 years ago from Toronto for a business opportunity. He is a former lawyer and married to Ottawa native, Riva Levitan. “The Jewish Community was very welcoming to us. It made us want to be involved,” Richard explained, so it wasn’t long before they became integrated and active volunteers.

“Personally, I’ve always felt it is important to give back. I think in Ottawa, The Legacy Challenge is because, it’s a smaller community, it’s even more important. We were an ongoing Foundation program that offers up welcomed so warmly and we wanted others to have that same experience,” to $1,000 to cover the professional costs of making adjustments to an he added. “If you want to continue to have a strong community, you have to individual’s will. It has been instrumental in opening the door to conversations engage and offer your time.” about giving in our community that otherwise might never have happened. It was natural that when his sons started at the Ottawa Jewish Community “Riva and I accepted the challenge ourselves, and by doing so, we opened the School, then called Hillel Academy, he would get involved. Richard is a former conversation and encouraged others to also do it.” Chair of the Scholarship Committee and a former member of the Executive of the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation Board of Direc- Since its inception, the Legacy Challenge has been hugely tors. “I am proud to say that successful. For Richard, helping community means securing the the Legacy Challenge “I am proud to say that the Legacy Challenge has raised community’s vibrant future. For this reason, it wasn’t long several million dollars in deferred gifts and it continues to grow before his volunteerism led him to the Foundation. has raised several due to the hard work of community volunteers and the current Board and staff of the Foundation. This is very personal to Riva “I believe in making an investment for the future and that’s million dollars in and me – we are so pleased that the Challenge has taken root. what attracted me to the Foundation. If, and when, the deferred gifts It makes us feel we’ve made a difference.” community faces challenging times, it is going to be the Foundation that will be there to ensure the community and it continues Richard remains involved in the Foundation’s Investment Committee, and is proud of what they have accomplished in continues to thrive – consider it like the savings bank for future to grow...” needs.” managing the community funds. It’s a huge responsibility and one he takes very seriously. Richard is also an active volunteer in the This is a philosophy he and his wife have instilled in their children. “When our broader community. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa kids were Bar Mitzvah aged, my sons both opened B’nai Mitzvah funds. We Art Gallery and is involved in its Redevelopment Project. appreciated the idea of parents explaining to their kids the values behind opening a fund and giving back. These are the seeds to creating future “When it comes to community, you have to give more than you take. philanthropists. Both our children are very proud of their funds; having Community involvement is one of the most important things in your life. learned both at home, and at OJCS, that tzedakah is a mitzvah they too can There are four pillars in life: your family, your work, yourself; and your happily participate in. The B’nai Mitzvah Club is part of creating future community. And you have to give back to community to make sure you leave community leaders.” it better than when you showed up. It’s more than a responsibility. It’s almost required. Only by doing that can we guarantee that the next generation will With these values, Richard joined the Board of the Foundation over 10 years stay on and live here. We have to make sure we protect the future of the ago, first on the Investment Committee then eventually becoming the Chair of community.” the Foundation itself in 2011. It was during this time that he and Riva developed the idea of the Legacy Challenge incentive. Foundation assists donors in contributing to the long-term financial “Riva and I started the Legacy Challenge with the hope of facilitating the support of the agencies which serve the Ottawa Jewish community. conversation around legacy giving through estate gifts. These are gifts a person makes through their will. With proper tax structuring, a legacy gift To find out more, contact Arieh Rosenblum, Director of Development, can help families save money in estate taxes while at the at [email protected] or 613-798-4696 x270. same time, benefiting community.”

Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation www.ojcf.ca 46 April 3, 2017 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Novel details a mission to rescue one crucial man from Auschwitz The One Man By Andrew Gross Minotaur Books 407 pages ERIC VERNON BOOK REVIEW n The One Man, best-selling author Andrew Gross has devised one of the most improbable plot-lines imaginable: Smuggle a person into the dreaded IAuschwitz-Birkenau death camp on a critical mission to extract someone out. Not just anyone, mind What Gross does in The One Man ... you, but the “one man” who single-handedly can turn is deftly meet the primary challenge the tide of the Second World War. of Holocaust fi ction to evoke the horrors It is the spring of 1944. While the Germans are in full retreat in southern Europe and on the Eastern Front, two of the genocidal depravity in a compelling monumental efforts are underway to help the Allies creative account without treading on or crush the Nazis and end their putative Thousand-Year trivializing the sacred memory of the Shoah Reich. It is widely speculated that a massive invasion of predetermined rendezvous point to board the rescue France to open up the so-called second front is in the plane to safety. planning stages, likely to be launched before summer. Enter Nathan Blum, a Polish Jew who escaped the The other project, conversely, is being carried out under Krakow ghetto and made his way to America. Blum has an enormous blanket of secrecy, primarily in the desert been serving his adopted country by translating Polish of New Mexico, where physicists, mathematicians and documents for the Offi ce of Strategic Services, the numerous other specialized scientists are madly scram- forerunner of the CIA, but he desperately wants to do bling to beat the Nazis to the fi nish line of atomic more to assist the war effort and to assuage his terrible weaponry. guilt over abandoning his family. there are hold-your-breath twists and turns as the 72 Despite the presence in Los Alamos of Robert Offered the rescue mission, Blum must decide if he hours count down, and a gripping ending to the Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Neils Bohr, the organiz- can balance this urgent need to help end the war and narrative. ers of the atomic bomb project determine that they will avenge his family’s certain death with the horror of In an interview, Andrew Gross acknowledged that, fail to develop this game-changing weapon fi rst, if they returning to occupied Poland and passing through the “There’s been a canon of literature based on life in such do not have access to the brilliant mind of Polish-Jewish Gates of Hell to somehow fi nd Mendl and, against all camps, much of it written by people who experienced it nuclear scientist Alfred Mendl. odds, get him out. fi rsthand, and it surely wasn’t my goal to write the Mendl’s life-long specialized research, it seems, holds No spoiler alert is necessary to acknowledge that Blum defi nitive Auschwitz book.” the key to solving a critical problem that will fi nally lead manages to insert himself into the camp to begin his What Gross does in The One Man, though, is deftly to the weaponization of atomic energy. Intense diplo- rescue mission. Over the next three days, his own life is meet the primary challenge of Holocaust fi ction to evoke matic efforts to rescue Mendl from Nazi-occupied in constant danger as he searches for Mendl and the horrors of the genocidal depravity in a compelling Europe have failed, and the scientist and his family are attempts to implement the rescue plan. creative account without treading on or trivializing the deported to Auschwitz. Along the way, we meet three other key fi gures who sacred memory of the Shoah. American military and intelligence leaders then make will each have a profound impact on the unfolding Given the extraordinarily tight timeline of Blum’s the fateful decision to put in motion a dangerous and mission: a brilliant teenager who has become the camp mission, there are a couple of plot devices that, while likely impossible mission to dispatch a single agent to chess champion; a ruthless German intelligence offi cer necessary to move the narrative along, stretch credulity a penetrate the death camp. He will have 72 hours to fi nd who has uncovered evidence of the plot; and the wife of little. Overall, though, The One Man is a fascinating read Mendl, smuggle him out of the camp and get to the the Nazi second-in-command. Like any good thriller, that will capture your attention to the very last page.

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