October 20-26, 2017 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVI, Number 42 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK Federation Super Sunday and Annual Meeting to be held on Oct. 22 By Reporter staff because there will be a delicious brunch. Don’t forget to The Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton will hold The Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton make a reservation.” a combined Super Sunday and Annual Meeting on Sunday, asks people to update their phone numbers People also may make their 2018 gift at the meeting, October 22, at 10 am, at the Jewish Community Center, and e-mail addresses by contacting the rather than wait for a call. That will help the Federation 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. The cost to attend will be $10 Federation office at 724-2332 or dirjfbc@ know what funds are available before the allocation pro- and reservations should be made by Sunday, October 15, to cess, which begins in early November and will culminate ensure there’s enough food for the brunch. “The Federation stny.rr.com. “Last year, we couldn’t reach on Wednesday, November 22. “It is helpful to have a sense has the ever present Jewish mother’s fear of not having many people because the phone numbers of how much money we’ll raise before we allocate funds,” enough food, so let us know you will be coming,” said Sima we had on file were no longer accurate Auerbach said. Auerbach, executive director of the Federation. Reserve a and we didn’t have people’s e-mails,” said During the event, officers will be elected to the Feder- seat by calling the Federation at 724-2332. Sima Auerbach, executive director of the ation’s Board of Directors and the Yasher Koach awards “We combined our two major events last year and it will be bestowed. The awards honor local members of was a great success,” said Auerbach. “This year, the event Federation. “If you’ve changed your home community organizations. The Phonathon will be held will be held after the holidays so people can be relaxed or cell phone number, or e-mail address, from 2-8:30 pm and from Monday-Thursday, October and ready to enjoy the fall. It’s the perfect time to recon- please let us know.” 23-26, from 6-8:30 pm. nect with old friends and make new ones. Come hungry, See “Super” on page 3 Ithaca College to present annual Holocaust lecture on Oct. 23 The Jewish Studies Program at Ithaca College will of the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish people. He is ness, amidst much evil, of a Ukrainian family played an present its annual Holocaust lecture on Monday, October one of only 200 of the 4,000 Jews living in Zloczów in the essential role in that survival. And ultimately it is a story 23, at 7:30 pm, in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall, Ithaca 1930s who survived the Holocaust. After some years of post- of the choices for good or evil that people must make in College. This year’s lecture will be “Returning, Remem- war wandering, he came to America. He will also speak of the the worst of times.” bering, Forgiving; Roald Hoffmann on the Holocaust in complexity of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, the role in the war For more information about the lecture, contact Rebecca Ukraine.” Dr. Roald Hoffmann is an emeritus professor of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic church and the struggle to Lesses, associate professor and coordinator of the Jewish of chemistry at Cornell University and received a Nobel establish memorials in Zolochiv and its surroundings. Studies Program, at [email protected] or 274-3556. Indi- Prize in Chemistry in 1981. “The story is a personal one, embedded in the geography viduals with disabilities requiring accommodations should Hoffmann, who was born in 1937 in Zloczów, Poland (now and history of the people cohabiting that contested piece of also contact her as soon as possible to make arrangements Zolochiv, Ukraine), will tell the story of his family’s survival earth,” said organizers of the event. “The personal good- for attendance. CJS fall program “Divided by Victory: The Legacy of the Six-Day War” Oct. 26: “The Six-Day Nov. 2: Impact of Six- Nov. 9: “Jewish War Remembered: Day War on the kibbutz Settlers Today” On Thursday, November 9, 50 Years Later” and labor movements Assaf Harel will speak on “Jewish The first lecture in the College On Thursday, November 2, at Settlers Today: From Religious Zi- of Jewish Studies Fall program 7:30 pm, Lior Libman, assistant onism to Religious Post-Zionism” will be held on Thursday, October professor and associate director as part of the College of Jewish 26, at 7:30 pm, when Dr. Steven of the Center for Israel Studies at Studies fall series “Divided by Bayme will speak on “The Six- Binghamton University, will speak Victory: The Legacy of the Six- Day War Remembered: 50 Years on “Between The Seventh Day and Day War.” CJS programs are open Later.” Bayme is the director of the ‘The Movement for Greater Israel’: to the entire community; general William Petschek Contemporary The Aftermath of 1967 in the Kib- admission is $8 per program, or Jewish Life Department of the butz and Labor Movements and $20 for all three programs; senior American Jewish Committee and the Significance of 1948” as part Assaf Harel admission is $5 per program or $12 the Koppelman Institute on Amer- of the College of Jewish Studies for all three programs. Binghamton Dr. Steven Bayme ican-Israeli Relations. The lecture Lior Libman fall program “Divided by Victory: University students are welcome to attend with no charge. is co-sponsored by the Binghamton The Legacy of the Six-Day War.” All programs are held at 7:30 pm at the Jewish Community University Department of Judaic Studies Temple Beth Libman is a literary scholar and cultural historian special- Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. El Endowment. The program, which will be held at the izing in the literature and cultural history of the kibbutz and Harel is an assistant professor of Israel Studies at Jewish Community Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal, is Socialist-Zionism. “Her lecture on the impact of the Six- Binghamton University. He is a sociocultural and a visual open to the entire community. General admission is $8 per Day War on the kibbutz and labor movements in Israel is anthropologist who conducted ethnographic fieldwork program, or $20 for all three programs; senior admission is sure to be thought-provoking,” said organizers of the event. among Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank $5 per program or $12 for all three programs. Binghamton The College of Jewish Studies programs are open to the and the Gaza Strip. His work examines relations between University students are welcome to attend with no charge. entire community; general admission is $8 per program, or $20 Jewish Messianism and settlement practices. Called an expert on America-Israel relations, Jewish for all three programs; senior admission is $5 per program or Harel grew up in Bat Yam, Israel, by the Mediterranean history and contemporary Jewish life, Bayme’s responsi- $12 for all three programs. Binghamton University students coastline. His post-military travels brought him eventually bilities at the AJC include Jewish family issues, Jewish are welcome to attend with no charge. All programs are held to California, where he received his B.A. in cultural an- education, Israel-Diaspora relations, Jewish identity and at the Jewish Community Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. thropology from the University of California at Berkeley. See “Remembered” on page 4 See “Impact” on page 4 See “Settlers” on page 4 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Cyber sleuthing Israel Scouts in the U.S. Torah study tool Special Sections Investigators are using cyber tech The Israel Scouts have started An online database of Jewish texts Legal Notices...... 4 to solve the mysteries of Anne troops in the U.S. for Israeli ex- enables users to create source Small Business Profiles...... 5-8 Frank and Raoul Wallenberg. pats and American Jews. sheets for Torah study. Congregational Notes...... 10 ...... Page 5 ...... Page 6 ...... 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JNS briefs Oct. 17, 2017 From JNS.org the Whelen Euro championship in Belgium, Motorsport.com reported. “Finishing the season like this is the sweetest thing I can ask,” he said. “We finally made it. I have Israeli racecar driver wins European NASCAR no words right now.” Day, 26, from Ashdod, topped the Whelen Euro standings after championship finishing fourth in the Oct. 15 race. He had only needed to complete one lap to secure Racecar driver Alon Day became the first Israeli competitor to win a NASCAR the title. The Israeli driver finished second and third, respectively, in the European series on Oct. 15, placing first in the American motorsports giant’s European circuit. circuit’s previous two seasons. He has also won the Asian Formula Renault Series and “It is such an amazing feeling! We were trying so hard the past three years to win this the FIA GT Championship. In January, Israel’s Ministry of Culture and Sport named title, we won so many races, but never the championship,” Day said after winning Day as its Athlete of the Year for 2016. Opinion Breitbart, racists and the dirty work of laundering the “alt-right” By Andrew Silow-Carroll explain the emerging alt-right to a general audience while white identity politics to overt racism and antisemitism on its NEW YORK (JTA) – Stephen Bannon, whose an- staking Breitbart’s claim as the news site most congenial site. The documents obtained by BuzzFeed show Breitbart ti-globalist insurgency at Breitbart News was interrupted to its jumble of ideas. But they weren’t just interview Editor-in-chief Alex Marlow editing out of Yiannopolous’ briefly by his tenure as chief adviser to the leader of the subjects – Yiannopoulos and his co-author sent them work what BuzzFeed describes as “antisemitic and racist free world, has always been adamant that his right-wing drafts of the article for their approval, with the implicit ideas and jokes.” news site and worldview is neither antisemitic nor racist. understanding that while the published version would There are two ways to look at the evidence in the When he referred to Breitbart as a “platform” for the “alt- be “racially charged,” it would be careful to dissociate BuzzFeed story. The more charitable is to regard Ban- right,” Bannon didn’t mean, he insisted, that he personally Breitbart’s version of the alt-right from the movement’s non, Marlow and other Breitbart editors as gatekeepers supported the white supremacists and racists who attached racist and antisemitic fellow travelers. trying to keep the loonies and bigots out of a movement themselves to his “populist nationalist” movement. Published in March 2016, the resulting article, “An they consider reasonable and well-intentioned. After all, “Are there some people that are antisemitic that are Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right,” as Bannon is known to ask, doesn’t the left work hard at attracted? Maybe,” he told Mother Jones in July 2016, was certainly racially charged: It describes the movement’s keeping the communists and anarchists and anti-Zionists a month before he was tapped to lead Donald Trump’s natural constituency as “mostly white, mostly male mid- out of its own mainstream? According to this reading, presidential campaign. “But that’s just like, there are cer- dle-American radicals, who are unapologetically embracing Bannon might be compared to William F. Buckley, who tain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that a new identity politics that prioritizes the interests of their used his own platform at the National Review to purge attract certain elements.” own demographic.” the conservative movement of its antisemites and Birchers Truth be told, the evidence that Breitbart News is Yiannopolous and his co-author are careful to distinguish and other lunatics. antisemitic has always been weak. Bannon and Breitbart the alt-right’s community of “the more reasonable white But the more apparent portrait is of a budding media often deal in tropes that set one’s antisemitism detectors identitarians” from the “real racists and bigots.” The latter, empire that seems intent on growing its own market share, a-tingling – mongering of global economic conspiracies, they explain, represents “old-school white supremacy” and and political power, by courting some of the coarser and creepy talk about dangerous “elites” – but stop short of invokes Hitler as a role model. Members of the alt-right, by most hateful elements on the American right – or turning singling out Jews. And they can point to the site’s reliably contrast, “focus more on building communities and lifestyles a blind eye to the staffers doing the dirty work. It shows its pro-Israel reporting, which is often to the right of main- based around their values than plotting violent revolution.” one-time star literally seeking the approval of the farthest stream Jewish groups on some Israel issues. Feel better about the alt-right? They’re not Nazis and of the far right, even as he and they agree that Breitbart It’s through that framing of Breitbart that I read the racists – they just want to preserve their white identity in risks too much in acknowledging their influence. lengthy exposé in BuzzFeed that purports to lay bear how the face of mass immigration and liberal political correct- That was the conclusion conservative blogger Ben one of Breitbart’s estwhile stars – the far-right provocateur ness. Or, as Yiannopoulos writes, “They want to build their Shapiro reached when he resigned from Breitbart in March Milo Yiannopoulos – sought the help and blessings of white homogeneous communities, sure – but they don’t want to 2016. “Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, nationalists and neo-Nazis while “laundering” their input commit any pogroms along the way.” with Yiannopoulos pushing white ethno-nationalism as a and participation in the enterprise. This, mind you, is the version of the article Bannon was legitimate response to political correctness, and the com- Based on e-mails and other documents obtained by happy to publish, as e-mails between him and Yiannopolous ment section turning into a cesspool for white supremacist BuzzFeed, the article features correspondence between attest. They indicate that Bannon considered Yiannopolous meme-makers,” Shapiro wrote, referencing the “Establish- Yiannopoulos and charmers like Andrew “weev” Auern- a protégé of sorts, calling the younger man a “war corre- ment Conservative’s Guide.” heimer, described as a system administrator of the neo-Nazi spondent” in Bannon’s assault on the establishment and Earlier this year, Yiannopolous resigned from Breitbart hub the Daily Stormer; Devin Saucier, who “helps edit the engineering his rise as a Yippie-ish nemesis of feminists, after a video emerged in which he seemed to condone online white nationalist magazine American Renaissance Muslims, Black Lives Matter activists, women in tech and pedophilia. Bannon is out of the White House and back under the pseudonym Henry Wolff”; and Curtis Yarvin, “social justice warriors.” at Breitbart, plotting what he calls a “day of reckoning” purveyor of the fringe anti-democratic “neoreactionary” It’s not clear how much Bannon knew – or wanted to for the Republican establishment. When he left, President movement, who has argued that neither Nazism nor slavery know – about the ways the article was vetted by the very Trump wished him well, tweeting, “Fake News needs the were as bad as they have been depicted. groups he says will be “washed out” of the alt-right. But it competition!” The documents show that Yiannoplous sought input appears other editors at Breitbart made sure Yiannopolous Andrew Silow-Carroll is the editor-in-chief of the Jewish from all three men for an article he was writing that would and his stable of writers and sources didn’t cross over from Telegraphic Agency. 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Editorial/News Regular weekly deadline is noon, Wednesday, for the following week’s newspaper. www.thereportergroup.org October 20-26, 2017 Page 3 - The Reporter “Wrestling Jerusalem” showing in Ithaca on Oct. 24 “Wrestling Jerusalem,” a film adaptation of writer-actor finds both entrenched isolation and shared humanity in “Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City” Aaron Davidman’s one-man show, will be shown on Tues- the shifting moral compasses and competing narratives and “Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas day, October 24, at 7 pm, at Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St., of all his characters.” of Israel’s Peacemaking.” Ithaca. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion “We’re fortunate to have two excellent panelists who Shlosberg is an organizer of Women Wage Peace and an with political scientist Miriam Elman and Women Wage will be able to answer questions and shape a meaning- Israeli social worker, who has worked with the Bedouin in Peace organizer Inbal Shlosberg. ful discussion about the issues raised in the film,” says the Negev. Women Wage Peace is a grassroots movement Critics have said that in the film, “Davidman takes a event organizer Phil Donovan. “I’m excited to bring this founded after the Gaza-Israel War of 2014 and counts multidimensional journey into the heart of the Middle important film to Ithaca. Even those who saw the stage among its thousands of members women from the political East and the intersection of politics, identity and spiritual version at the Hangar Theatre will find new insights in right, center and left, Jewish and Arab women, religious yearning. He embodies and gives voice to 17 different the cinematic version.” and secular women – united in the demand for a political characters on all sides of the existential divide – deftly Elman is associate professor of political science and agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. moving between male and female, Jewish and Muslim, the Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence Tickets for the film are $10 general admission and can Israeli and Arab – modeling what it takes truly to bear at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. She is also be reserved at www.tugg.com/events/wrestling-jerusalem. witness through the eyes of the other. Challenging long-held research director of the Program for the Advancement of The “Wrestling Jerusalem” trailer can be viewed at www. beliefs with sharp and unblinking observation, Davidman Research on Conflict and Collaboration, and co-editor of wrestlingjerusalem.com/film-trailer.html. TI/TC to hold “Two with Two: Two Scholars Address Two Pieces of Holocaust Literature” adult ed. brunch The Temple Israel/Temple Concord Adult Educa- Women Writers Before the (Feminist) a poet, he has taught creative writing tion Group will present the first brunch program of its Revolution.” She also has published workshops and “The Literature of the 2017-2018 series, featuring Dr. C. Beth Burch and Dr. about rhetoric and composition in a American War in Viet Nam.” Paul-William Burch of Binghamton University on Sun- 2017 book “Grammar for Writers.” “In a provocative, interactive day, October 29, at 10 am, at Temple Israel. Their talk Formerly, she worked with Paul-Wil- program, our speakers will work is titled “Two with Two: Two Scholars Address Two liam in pioneering the Holocaust with participants in a close reading Pieces of Holocaust Literature.” The cost of the brunch literature courses for Judaic studies. and discussion of two brief, very is $5 per person. Paul-William specializes in Ho- different pieces of Holocaust litera- C. Beth is a professor of Judaic studies at Binghamton locaust literature and the literature ture, unpacking a short story and a University, specializing in Jewish American literature, of witness, war and atrocity. He poem,” said organizers of the event. specifically Jewish American writers. She teaches the originated the Holocaust literature “The two readings represent both courses “Survey of American Jewish Literature,” “Jew- courses in Judaic studies at Bingham- Dr. Paul-William Burch and male and female, and Israeli and ish American Novel” and “American Jewish Women ton University and now teaches “Ho- Dr. C. Beth Burch American writers. Readings will be Writers.” She is currently doing research for a teaching locaust Literature,” “Post Holocaust provided. You need only bring your anthology with the working title “Jewish American Literature” and “Holocaust Fiction.” Under his aegis, interest and curiosity!” the Holocaust literature program has brought to campus To make a reservation, contact the Temple Israel office Continued from page 1 Holocaust scholars and writers for its Holocaust Liter- at [email protected] or 723-7461. “This should Sunday ature Speakers’ Series. He has presented his research at be a fascinating talk! We look forward to seeing you,” There will be a table of free books, courtesy of The conferences at Claremont College and Yad Vashem. Also organizers added. Reporter. “We’re known as people of the book,” said Auerbach, “but we are really people of the books! “Please be sure to pick up your phone and say hello to one of our dedicated volunteers,” said Auerbach. “Make JLI course on six Jewish debates a donation and help keep our community vital! You can “Prepare to be intellectually challenged and emotion- hastening the redemption, look closely at the resistance met also call us before October 22, which is a double mitzvah. ally charged,” says Rivkah Slonim, local JLI instructor to by the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Chasidism and consider You’ve made your pledge and have given us the opportunity participants both old and new. “This course is chock full the very contemporary question of religion in the public to call someone else.” of new information heretofore inaccessible to lay persons, arena,” said organizer of the event. This year’s Yasher Koach award winners are: fascinating insights and provocative debate.” The course was developed by historians who will be ‹‹ Beth David Synagogue – Judy Silber “Great Debates in Jewish History,” the fall 2017 course featured in the audio visual accompaniments to each lesson. ‹‹ Hadassah – Claire Shefftz from the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, looks at “stirring See “JLI” on page 9 ‹‹ Hillel Academy – Malvinia Sambursky and surprising accounts that span two millennia of Jewish ‹‹ Jewish Community Center – Kim Levene disputation.” It seeks to reflect the panorama of Jewish The Jewish Community wishes to express ‹‹ Jewish Family Service – Laura Hotaling history and its monumental political, ethical and spiritual ‹‹ Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton – Susan Hubal challenges. 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Impact Continued from page 1 Remembered Continued from page 1 Libman received her Ph.D. in Hebrew literature from The continuity, and intra-Jewish relations. Bayme holds an Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also earned her undergraduate degree in history from Yeshiva Universi- About CJS B.A. in history and M.A. in cultural studies. She has been ty, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Jewish history from Individual sponsorship for CJS is available and do- granted scholarships to attend UW Madison and the Harvard Columbia University. He is a member of the Board of nations are always welcomed. Individual sponsorship Institute for World Literature at the Department for Compar- Trustees of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Cul- of $100 includes admission to both fall and spring ative Literature. She was a winner of The Hebrew University ture, has served on the faculties of the Wexner Heritage programs. For more information on how to become President’s Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. Candidates in Foundation and the Nahum Goldman Fellowship, the an individual sponsor or to make a donation, e-mail the Humanities (2009-2014), and the Wolf Foundation Schol- Wexner Foundation Fellowship Committee, and as a [email protected]. The College of Jewish Studies arship for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates (2012), among judge for the National Jewish Book Awards. He has is a 501(c)(3)non-profit organization. other awards. She recently was a recipient of the Frankel published articles on family policy, intermarriage, The College of Jewish Studies provides opportunities Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies faculty fellowship to liberal Judaism, Jewish parenting, Jewish responses to for adult Jewish education for the Broome County com- work on her project “Jews in Harness: The Socialist-Zionist modernity, Jewish attitudes on terrorism and violence, munity by offering fall and spring programs. Drawing Labor Movement and Hasidism.” Her publications include and Modern Orthodoxy in America. He is often cited in on local resources and inviting scholars and experts “Hakibbutz Hameuchad’s ‘State of Shock,’ 1948-1954: Textu- the media, was profiled in Lifestyles magazine and on from a range of universities and cultural and religious al Expressions” (Iyunim Bitkumat Israel,2012 in Hebrew) and three occasions has been named to the Forward’s annual institutions, CJS sponsors a wide array of programs the forthcoming co-edited volume “Visioning Israel-Palestine: list of the 50 most influential Jews in the United States. dealing with Jewish history, culture, religion and politics. Encounters at the Cultural Boundaries of Conflict.” In her The list noted that Bayme “influences the debate on a The College of Jewish Studies, which was founded in forthcoming book “State of Shock: The Kibbutz Traumatized, variety of issues and has helped steer his organization 1986, is an informal coalition between the Judaic Studies 1948–1954,” Libman examines the kibbutz and its imagery into position as the leading address in the national Department of Binghamton University and several area in the formative years of Israeli statehood. Jewish discussion.” Jewish sponsoring institutions, including the Jewish Com- munity Center, the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton, Continued from page 1 Beth David Synagogue, Temple Concord and Temple Israel. Settlers Programming for CJS would not be possible without the Harel received his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Everyday Life in West Bank Settlements.” He is currently additional financial support of the Jacob and Rose Olum Rutgers University. He received numerous awards for his working on his book, “The Lives of Jewish Settlers: West Foundation, the B’nai B’rith Lectureship Fund, the Victor doctoral research, including grants and fellowships from the Bank Messianism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” and Esther Rozen Foundation, an endowment fund from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and As an anthropologist, Harel considers long-term cultural former Temple Beth El of Endicott, a grant from the JoyVel the American Council for Learned Societies. He has written immersion as a condition of knowledge. And although Charitable Fund and the donations of individual sponsors. several articles and book chapters on his research, most new to the university and Binghamton area, Harel said he For more information on the College of Jewish recently “Beyond Gush Emunim: On Contemporary Forms has already had positive experiences with students and Studies and its programs, visit www.bingcjs.org and of Messianism among Religiously Motivated Settlers in the colleagues, and has enjoyed much that the Binghamton www.facebook.com/bingcjs. West Bank,” in “Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of area has to offer.

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The fee is $5 for community case, we will be uniting our campus and local commu- organizations – will host a Mega Challah Bake during members with reservations made in advance ($7 at the nities, through campus and local Jewish organizations which hundreds of students and community members door) and $3 for students with reservations ($5 at the co-sponsoring, and lots and lots of people coming will join in mixing, kneading and shaping challahs, one door). Each participant will receive an apron as well as out to enjoy this activity together,” explained Hadasa of which they will keep and one of which will be given two challahs. Reservations can be made at www.JewishBU. Slonim, coordinator. away by participants to someone who would appreciate com/MegaBake. 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For additional times and more information, visit http://pma.cornell.edu/content/ bad-jews or contact the theater at 254-2700. The play takes place the night after a funeral when TC to hold Tot Shabbat on Oct. 21 three cousins are forced to share their family’s Upper West Temple Concord will hold a new program, Tot Shabbat, and is excited to offer this new program every month or Side apartment. The cousins fight over who will receive for 1-4-year-olds on Saturday, October 21, at 9:30 am. The two this year,” said Tot Shabbat organizers. a family heirloom that was not specifically left to any of child must be accompanied by an adult. Parents and/or grand- Those interested in participating should RSVP to the them. The play was nominated for a 2014 Lucille Lortel parents are welcome. 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Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton www.estatesolutionsny.com ÊVisit us on the web at www.thereportergroup.org Page 6 - The Reporter October 20-26, 2017 Scouting Israeli-style comes to America – in English By Ben Sales After I joined the Scouts, I felt there is something I can do.” NEW YORK (JTA) – The 16-year-old counselor In Israel, the Scouts (Tzofim in Hebrew) are the coun- stands in a tan uniform shirt, untucked, with green jeans, try’s largest youth movement, with 85,000 members from a green kerchief tied around her neck and epaulets on her fourth to 10th grade. Youth groups often play a prominent shoulders. Two patches are embroidered on her chest. And role in the lives of Israeli children, with chapters run by she’s surrounded by a circle of 11-year-olds. Her task on teens aged 15-18 meeting twice a week with little to no this Sunday morning in uptown Manhattan is to list five adult supervision. Unlike other large Israeli youth groups, sneaker brands before one of the children can run around the Scouts have no political affiliation and have chapters the entire circle – a slightly more complex version of for religious and secular kids. “Duck, Duck, Goose.” She fails, and the next round falls There’s already a Hebrew-speaking branch of the Scouts to one of the kids who wants to one-up her. He promises in the U.S. for children of Israeli expatriates who are being to name five types of knots before a friend completes a raised in the language. That program has 3,500 participants lap around the circle. across 24 chapters in cities nationwide. “Types of knots?” the counselor, Arielle Geismar, shouts The English program, which began this school year, Arielle Geismar, in the Israeli Scout uniform, led a group as “Golden Boy,” a 2015 Israeli hit sung entirely in English, has chapters in Manhattan and on suburban Long Island of American Jewish kids in one of the first meetings of plays. “I don’t know types of knots. And I’m a Scout!” serving children 9-15, with about 60 participants. the Manhattan chapter of Tzofim Atid, the Israeli Scouts’ Welcome to the American version of Israel’s most “People are looking for their kids to participate in some- English-language branch. (Photo by Ben Sales) popular youth group, the Israeli Scouts. thing Jewish, but it has to be secular in order to attract the “Golden Boy” is an appropriate choice for this youth unaffiliated,” said Iryna Gubenko, strategic partnerships secular Israeli parents a way to see their expatriate peers group, which wants to impart an Israel-centric secular manager at the Areivim Philanthropic Group, which is without having to join a synagogue. Judaism to American Jewish kids, all in English. In Israel, funding the new initiative. “We see Israel as part of the “We need to create these cultural hubs for Israelis because the group teaches teamwork and leadership, along with identity of those [people].” they usually will not go to the synagogue,” said Eytan Behiri, Boy Scout-style survival skills. Except for the language, The program has four components – life skills, Israeli the adult supervisor of the Hebrew chapter on Long Island, the new American group aims to mimic that curriculum. culture, social responsibility and Scouting. Activities range whose children are members. “As much as we don’t like to But in the concrete jungle of New York City, the focus from learning about Israeli history to making an Israeli say it, we are immigrants in this country. A lot of immigrants appears to be more on teamwork and Israeli history and flag to, yes, tying a knot or building a tent – though the want to bring their culture and pass it on to their kids.” culture, less on knots and building a fire. kids will also play games. There will be occasional joint Anglophone American parents said they also appreci- “It’s this bigger idea of connectedness in a time of activities with the Hebrew-speaking groups. ated the connection to Israel, where some have extended displacement,” said Geismar, who was introduced to the One of the biggest differences between the Israeli and family. Regina Kachkoff-Enk enrolled her 9-year-old Scouts at a summer camp run by Young Judaea, an Amer- American Scouts, says Mika Kaminsky, the English pro- daughter in the program because she liked the emphasis ican Zionist group. “Growing up in America and watching gram’s director, is that when they graduate, the Israelis on Judaism without too much religion, unlike some other the current election and everything going on with Israel will enlist in the army, whereas the Americans will attend youth groups. And she chose the Israeli Scouts over the and Palestine and problems in the Middle East, I felt like college. 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But let’s say you Rabbis and teachers had always done this kind of layered do. You’ll sit in a classroom, or a lounge, or in the front Jewish teaching, building an argument or lesson out of centuries row of a synagogue. There will be a teacher, and he or she of Jewish writing on a topic the way a geologist describes a will pass around a stapled packet of papers – maybe two mountain by pointing to the layers of rock beneath the surface. sheets, maybe five – with various biblical verses, talmudic But the source sheet revolutionized Jewish learning by making excerpts, examples of Jewish law and perhaps a snippet sure every student was literally on the same page. of a contemporary essay or a quote from Martin Buber or Many educators credit Nechama Leibowitz, an Israeli Hannah Arendt. teacher, with popularizing and democratizing Torah study I want to talk about these sheets, why they may be in Israel with the distribution of her mimeographed work uniquely Jewish, and why they may be the most important sheets, or gilyonot. Sent to subscribers by mail between and ubiquitous example of Jewish educational technology 1941 and 1971 (and later collected between hard covers), that you probably take for granted – or never heard of. Leibowitz’s work sheets offered Torah verses and rabbin- The packets are known as source sheets, and they’ve ic commentary, and questions quizzing students on the been with us since ... well, at least since the widespread One of 7,200 source sheets available at Sefaria.org. (Photo connections between them. Leibowitz, who was teaching use of the mimeograph machine in the 1950s. Before that, by JTA) nearly up to the moment she died in 1997 at age 92, would rabbis or teachers might quote from a pile of Jewish books comment on the students’ answers and mail them back. they kept in front of them, and perhaps refer students to a Other sites share their source sheets online. The Sha- Barry Holtz, the Theodore and Florence Baumritter similar pile on their desks. mayim V’Aretz Institute posts sheets on animal welfare. Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological But once teachers could cheaply copy fragments of Jew- American Jewish World Service offers material on social Seminary, remembers learning Torah from original texts ish text, and cut and paste them in any order they wished, action. The Orthodox NCSY youth group has sheets on a and all-Hebrew textbooks in the 1950s at Congregation the source sheet became a tool for flexibility, convenience range of topics. Kehillath Israel in Brookline, MA. But the assistant rabbi and ingenuity in the Jewish classroom. And their current Rabbi Dan Epstein, the senior Jewish educator at the there, Joseph Lukinsky, introduced new ways to teach his dominance is an example of how technology transformed George Washington University Hillel, refers to creating Hebrew school classes. “He was an incredibly creative tradition – and continues to do so in the digital age. a source sheet as an art form. Epstein should know: He’s young rabbi, maybe ahead of the curve,” Holtz recalled. “When you are weaving together different threads from shared nearly 100 source sheets on Sefaria, and they’ve “He must have been one of the first people to introduce different texts composed during vastly different times and been viewed collectively more than 72,000 times. a Tikkun Leil Shavuot” – an all-night study session on places, the best way is to pull excerpts from different texts,” To teach a lesson on Jewish views on the afterlife, for the spring holiday of Shavuot – “outside of the Orthodox said Sara Wolkenfeld, director of education at Sefaria.org. example, he might include verses from the Bible; talmudic world, in 1962, just for the teenagers. “There is an art form to it. The way you pull and combine passages known as Mishnah or Gemara; perspectives from “It’s weird that I can remember this, but he had created helps express the story you want to tell in the class you the medieval sages Maimonides and Saadia Gaon about a packet I suspect is someplace in a closet in my house, are teaching.” the soul and reincarnation; and a teshuvah, or rabbinical with texts that we studied all night long, and the title was Sefaria, an online database of Jewish texts in both their ruling, from the 20th-century Modern Orthodox authority ‘Gods Jews have known, and Jews God has known.’ It original language and in translation, is rapidly becoming the Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. These would form the basis for a was so radical and amazing and interesting at the time.” red-hot center of the source sheet universe, which I assure guided classroom discussion, perhaps after the student had Lukinsky, before his death in 2009 at 78, was a “revered” you is a thing. Since Sefaria was founded in 2013, more a chance to review the material and a few key questions professor of education at JTS. than 12,000 people have made some 74,000 source sheets in chavruta – that is, in pairs or small groups – a staple of Source sheets have spread to all the Jewish movements, using the site’s handy source sheet builder. Of those, 7,200 yeshiva education going back centuries. and to classrooms where the often esoteric talmudic texts of their creations are available online. (Disclosure: Daniel Epstein might not get to every text in a lesson, but that’s and medievalwww.CelebrationsWithDeRue.com commentaries may be daunting or unfamiliar. Septimus, one of Sefaria’s founders, sits on the board of OK. “The lesson is like a concert and the source sheet is “I am a lover of rabbinic607-343-6269 text – particularly in the Reform 70 Faces Media, JTA’s parent company.) more like a set list,” he explained. “You’ll get to it, but movement thatWi often often finds it less accessible,” said And the range of subjects is testament not only to the maybe you’ll cancel some songs or just play a Celebrationsfew of the Rabbi Sari Laufer, director of congregational engagement depth of the Jewish canon, but to the breadth of Jewish longer songs.” at the Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles. “People aren’t obsessions. There are sheets for lessons on sex, death, love, The key, he said, is knowing your audience – the lan- as familiar [with Talmud or rabbinic text] or feel that it is money, family strife and sibling rivalry, Donald Trump and guages they understand, their level of knowledge and their not ours in some way. I am very committed to using and Hillary Clinton. There’s even a sheet about whether or not interests. “You need to make the student feel connected unlocking a lot of rabbinic text.” Jews should take part in Halloween. and touch the head and the heart and the hand,” Epstein See “Study” on page 11 • Interactive DJ Entertainment • Lighting & Video Options • Weddings & Special Events • High Quality Equipment • Karaoke • All Types of Parties • High Standard of Service

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Town Continued from page 8 amenities to pull in young couples or retain for the removal or resignation of another Ortho- yeshiva graduates wanting to start a family. dox rabbi from London, Joseph Dweck, over Those started popping up in Gateshead Dweck’s assertion that the growing acceptance shortly after the arrival in 2008 of its current of homosexuality in society was a “fantastic” chief rabbi, the New Jersey-born Rabbi development for humanity. Shraga Feivel Zimmerman. He’s known For many haredim, Gateshead’s appeal is here simply as “the Rov,” a Yiddish pro- an economic one: With housing becoming nunciation of the word rabbi. “Before the unaffordable in London, many religious Jews Rov, things had been the same for many, are looking northward for solutions. In recent many years,” said Shimon Guttentag, an years, some have moved to Manchester, the senior administrator at the yeshiva, adding only other city in England that has seen its that the change has improved the quality of Jewish community grow. But now, “even life for Jews “tremendously.” prices in Manchester are rising,” leading Schleider said that Zimmerman – who A view of Gateshead, England. (Photo by Cnaan Liphshiz) many haredim to consider Gateshead, said declined to be interviewed by JTA, citing a Guttentag, a father of 11 whose family was busy schedule – opened up the community, But Zimmerman approved it on condition that men and among the first to settle in the town. which Schleider said was more averse than it is now to women be served at separate hours. Gateshead is also one of the few places in Britain with interacting with the outside. “For all of many years we’ve More critically, Zimmerman led a “massive” investment a large Jewish community where antisemitism is not a been here at Gateshead Jewish community essentially in education for small children with the help of donors from primary concern. The Gateshead Yeshiva doesn’t have isolated,” Schleider said in an interview in September, outside the relatively impoverished community of Gateshead, any guards or even a perimeter fence. “We are mindful of referring to the insular attitudes. During the interview, he transforming the town into an attractive option for large the situation today, but thankfully, we’ve not had a serious also noted that men wearing jeans is frowned upon by some families. He also created couples counseling and other social incident and it’s not a major problem affecting us,” said members of his deeply conservative community. services programs especially suited to haredi recipients. Rabbi Gershon Miller, a senior educator at the yeshiva. Schleider said the insularity changed somewhat under And under his leadership, communal representatives began Schleider said that part of this reality is the relative Zimmerman’s leadership, as he “decided he’s not going to to liaise more closely with municipal officials, locals say. scarceness of “ethnic populations” – a reference to Mus- be buried in the synagogue, but be a communitywide rabbi.” Yet this relative openness notwithstanding, the Gateshead lims. According to a recent poll, Muslims in the United One of Zimmerman’s reforms was to allow the opening Jewish community and its leader remain ultra-conservative, Kingdom are significantly more antisemitic than the general of Gateshead’s first kosher restaurant, Blooms, a takeout to the right of the majority of British Jews. The community population. Muslim extremists are responsible for about place. Previous rabbis had opposed the opening of such a shuns most media and cultural influences that are deemed half the antisemitic attacks in the kingdom. shop to avoid unsupervised interaction between the sexes. foreign and morally corrupting. In June, Zimmerman called The combination of all these factors and more – in- cluding the proximity of Newcastle International Airport, Continued from page 5 considered an important amenity for haredi families with Mysteries large numbers of relatives in Israel, the United States and ers’ performances to identify and I want it to happen soon – for beyond – have transformed Gateshead from an old, sleepy patterns over time, which can the closure of his family and those community to a magnet for haredi families. then be translated into effective he rescued,” Kaplan said. “That is But progress came with a price, said Schleider, who strategies. In both cases, any what keeps me upbeat.” misses the more personalGet nature oft thehe community word when it out! success will beat the odds. 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Weekly Parasha Acting godly Noah, Genesis 6:9-11:32 RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, THE REPORTER GROUP

Not all the mitzvot (commandments) in the Torah are that modeling all of God’s actions could be problematic. desert. While we might think of patience and mercy as direct commands from God. In addition to the ones clear- For example, if by my hand, a great flood destroyed the godly behavior, it’s not always the behavior God chooses. ly labeled “you must do this” or “you must not do that,” Greater Binghamton area, I don’t think anyone would Commentators make excuses for these actions, blaming we perform several actions based on God’s behavior. For describe my actions as godly. Yet, in this week’s para- humans for what occurs, rather than God. For example, the example: sha, Noah, God does something even more violent: God ancient rabbis were so disturbed by the destruction caused ‹‹ We clothe the naked because God made clothing for creates a flood that destroys all living creatures, except by the flood that they claimed it took Noah 120 years to Adam and Eve. for Noah, his family and the animals on the ark. Even complete the ark, during which time all living creatures ‹‹ We visit the sick because God visited Abraham after worse, God doesn’t give the sinners the opportunity to had the opportunity to repent. Unfortunately, the Torah text his circumcision. change their ways or repent. makes no mention of this. It is only after the fact, when the ‹‹ We comfort mourners because God comforted Isaac This is not the only time God performs an action we flood waters subside, that God promises never to perform with a blessing after the death of Abraham. would condemn if done by a human hand. For example, this action again, but only because God acknowledges that ‹‹ We bury the dead because God buried Moses. think of the destruction of Sodom and Gemorah, and the “a man’s heart is evil from his youth.” We perform these mitzvot because we consider these plagues that rained down on Egypt. God is also described Should we give up on the idea of modeling godly be- actions to be godly. By godly, I mean, they’re considered as becoming so angry – particularly when people don’t havior? No, but we do need to be more careful how we acts of benevolence that bring good into the world. How- follow the rules exactly or complain about their lives – that define that phrase. We also need to make certain we don’t ever, if we look more closely at the Torah text, we realize God destroys large numbers of Israelites wandering in the use our religious beliefs as an excuse to kill or harm others. 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Rabbi’s e-mail: [email protected] religious school is in session. On Saturday, October 21, at 9:30 am, services will be Website: www.bethdavid.org On Friday, October 20, at 8 pm, there will be Shabbat led by Rabbi Geoffrey Brown. The Torah portion will be Shabbat Services: Services honoring the national observance of Children’s Friday, October 20...... 5:55 pm Genesis 6:9-11:32. The haftarah will be Isaiah 66:1-24. Shabbat, October 21...... 9 am Sabbaths – Children’s Defense Fund with Rabbi Gold- The kiddush sponsor will be Michael Wolff...... Mincha/Maariv 5:40 pm man-Wartell and Jason Flatt. On Friday, October 27, at 6:30 pm, Shabbat on the Weekday Services: On Saturday, October 21, at 9 am, there will be religious Road will be held at Brookdale Senior Living, across Mornings: school; at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study; at 9:30 am, from the JCC on Clubhouse Road, Vestal. Sun., October 22...... 8:30 am there will be a Tot Shabbat program for families with children On Sunday, October 29, there will be an adult education Mon.-Fri., October 23-27...... 7 am 1-4; at 10:35 am, there will be a Shabbat Family Morning brunch at 10 am at Temple Israel. Dr. C. Beth Burch and Evenings: Service with Rabbi Goldman-Wartell and Jason Flatt; and Sun., October 22...... 5:55 pm Dr. Paul-William Burch, of Binghamton University, will Mon.-Thurs., October 23-26...... 7 pm at 11:20 am, there will be a “Blessing of Pets” held in the speak on “Two with Two: Two Scholars Address Two Classes: Rabbi Zev Silber will hold his weekly Talmud class Schagrin Garden. Pieces of Holocaust Literature.” The cost is $5 prepaid. every Tuesday evening after services. On Thursday, October 26, from 5:30-7 pm, the CHOW The bat mitzvah of Sonia Horowitz will take place pantry will be open. on Saturday, November 11, at 9:30 am. Rohr Chabad Center Those who wish to recite the Mourner’s Kaddish Affiliation: Chabad-Lubavitch Penn-York Jewish Community during a weekday service can contact Howard Schwartz Rabbi: Aaron Slonim, E-mail: [email protected] President and Treasurer-Secretary: Harvey Chernosky, 570- at [email protected] or call the temple office one-and- Address: 420 Murray Hill Rd., Vestal, NY 13850 265-3869 Phone: 797-0015 B’nai B’rith: William H. Seigel Lodge a-half weeks or more before the date to ensure time to Fax: 797-0095 Purpose: To promote Jewish identity through religious, cultural, make up a minyan. Temple Israel holds weekday minyan Website: www.Chabadofbinghamton.com educational and social activities in the Southern Tier of New York services on Tuesdays and Fridays at 5:30 pm. For those Chabad on the West Side and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, including Waverly, NY; who prefer a different day to coincide with a yahrzeit Rabbi: Zalman Chein, E-mail: [email protected] Sayre, Athens and Towanda, PA, and surrounding communities. date, contact the temple to make arrangements. To see Address: 27 Bennet Ave., Binghamton, NY 13905 a video on how to recite the Mourner’s Kaddish, visit Phone: 722-3252 Regular service times: Daily 7:30 am, Friday evening 6 pm, Temple Beth-El of Ithaca http://templeisraelvestal.org and look under “Worship.” Shabbat morning 9:30 am, Maariv and Havdalah one hour Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism after candle-lighting time, Sundays 9:30 am. Rabbi: Scott L. Glass Congregation Tikkun v’Or Linking Hearts for youngsters with special needs: This program Address: 402 North Tioga St. (the corner of Court and Tioga Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism connects Jewish special-needs children and teenagers, ages streets), Ithaca, NY 14850-4292 Address: PO Box 3981, Ithaca, NY 14852; 2550 Triphammer 5-14, who have mental, physical and/or functional disabilities, Phone: 273-5775 Rd. (corner of Triphammer and Burdick Hill), Lansing, NY with student volunteers who will visit participating youngsters E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] Phone: 607-256-1471 weekly in their homes. Website: www.tbeithaca.org Website: www.tikkunvor.org To join the mailing list, for up-to-date information on adult President: Jerry Davis E-mail: [email protected] education offerings or to arrange for a private tutorial, for Sisterhood President: Julie Paige Presidents: Dorothy Debbie and Nina Cummings details concerning the Judaica shop and resource center, or Director of Education: Rabbi Suzanne Brody Rabbi: Brian Walt for assistance through the Piaker Free Loan Society or Raff Administrative Assistant: Jane Griffith Religious School Director/Admin. Coordinator: Naomi Wilensky Maasim Tovim Foundation, call Chabad’s office at 797-0015. Services: Friday 8 pm; Saturday 10 am, unless otherwise Services: Fridays at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Family announced. Weekday morning minyan 7:30 am (9 am on Sundays services and Tot Shabbat once a month at 6:30 pm. Call for and legal holidays). weekly schedules. Norwich Jewish Center Religious School/Education: September-May: Classes meet on Religious School: Preschool through seventh-grade classes Orientation: Inclusive Sunday, 9 am-12:30 pm and meet on Sunday mornings. Sixth-grade Hebrew and seventh- Rabbi: Dena Bodian Wednesday afternoons, 3:45-5:45 pm. The Midrashah (eighth- grade b’nai mitzvah classes meet on Wednesday afternoons. Address: 72 South Broad St., Norwich, NY 13815 grade and high school) classes will meet at times designated Adult Ed.: Special classes and discussion groups held Contact: Guilia Greenberg, 373-5087 by their respective teachers. regularly. Essential Judaism classes offered in the fall and Purpose: To maintain a Jewish identity and meet the needs Adult Ed.: Numerous weekly courses, several semester-long spring. Call the office for details. of the Jewish community in the area. courses and a variety of mini-courses and lectures are offered Adult Ed.: Saturday morning study is held at 10 am. Call for throughout the year. Call the temple office for more details. more information and to confirm. Temple Beth El of Oneonta Temple Brith Sholom Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Kol Haverim Affiliation: Unaffiliated Rabbi: Molly Karp Affiliation: Society for Humanistic Judaism Address: P.O. Box 572, 117 Madison St., Cortland, NY 13045 Address: 83 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820 Address: P.O. Box 4972, Ithaca, NY 14852-4972 Phone: 607-756-7181 Mailing address: P.O. Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 Phone: 607-277-3345 President: Louis Wilson, [email protected] Phone: 607-432-5522 E-mail: [email protected] Service leaders: Lay leadership Website: www.templebetheloneonta.org Website: www.kolhaverim.net Shabbat services: Either Friday evening at 7:30 pm or Saturday E-mail: [email protected] Chairman: Jonathan Joseph at 10 am from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot. Holiday services Regular service times: visit the temple website for days of Kol Haverim: The Finger Lakes Community for Humanistic are also held. Check the weekly e-mail for upcoming services. services and times Judaism, is an Ithaca-based organization that brings people Contact the president to get on the e-mail list. Religious School/Education: Religious School, for grades together to explore and celebrate Jewish identity, history, Religious School: Students are educated on an individual basis. kindergarten through bar/bat mitzvah, meets Sunday culture and ethics within a secular, humanistic framework. Temple Brith Sholom is a small equalitarian congregation serving mornings. Rabbi Karp conducts services and holds classes KH is part of an international movement for Secular the greater Cortland community. Congregants span the gamut of in Torah, beginning Hebrew and Maimonides. Humanistic Judaism and is affiliated with the Society for observance and services are largely dependent on the service For the schedule of services, classes and events, see the Humanistic Judaism, a national association with over 30 leader. The Friday night siddur is “Likrat Shabbat,” while the website. member communities and congregations around the country. Saturday morning siddur is “Gates of Prayer.” The community Established in the spring of 1999, it offers celebrations of extends a warm welcome to the Jewish student population of Jewish holidays, monthly Shabbat pot-lucks, adult education, SUNY Cortland, as well as the residents of local adult residences. a twice-monthly Cultural School for children, and a bar and bat mitzvah program. KH welcomes all individuals and families, including those Friday, October 20, light candles...... 5:55 pm from mixed religious backgrounds, who wish to strengthen Shabbat ends Saturday, October 21...... 6:54 pm the Jewish experience in their lives and provide their children Friday, October 27, light candles...... 5:45 pm with a Jewish identity and experience. Shabbat ends Saturday, October 28...... 6:44 pm October 20-26, 2017 Page 11 - The Reporter NEWS IN BRIEF Jewish Community Center From JTA JCC Friendship Club Far-right party finishes second in Austrian elections Jewish groups called on the head of the conservative People’s Party in Austria to exclude the far-right Freedom Party from the new government coalition after the parties The JCC Friendship Club met on Oc- traditional communities celebrate them on finished first and second in national elections. Sebastian Kurz, the 31-year-old foreign tober 11. October 12 is Shemini Atzeret two separate days. It is common for people minister and head of the center-right Austrian People’s Party, or OVP, will become and October 13 is Simchat Torah. It is the to make a circuit around the synagogue Europe’s youngest leader. With nearly all the results counted as of the morning of Oct. end of the holiday of Sukkot. Shemini called hakafot, holding Torahs. Children 16, OVP won with 31.6 percent of the vote, to 27.4 percent for the Freedom Party, or Atzeret is established in the Bible. It is may be given flags with which to march FPO. The center-left Social Democrats of outgoing Chancellor Christian Kern was written in Numbers 29:35, “On the eighth around. The holiday of Simchat Torah is close behind with 26.7 percent. The results appear to be a result of the refugee crisis day you should hold a solemn gathering; not mentioned in the Bible, but has become in Europe. Kurz focused his campaign on the question of limiting migration, while the you should not work at your occupation.” Bible-centered – which draws the hearts Freedom Party ran on a hardline anti-Islam platform. Austria accepted one of the highest Someone commented that this was his of Jews to celebrate the Torah. proportions of refugees during the 2015 crisis. The European Jewish Congress in its kind of holiday. Michael Strassfeld wrote The meeting was called to order by statement congratulating Kurz called on him to form a coalition of centrist parties and a book, “The Jewish Holidays,” in which Sylvia Diamond. Morty Hofstein said the “not be beholden” to a party of the far right in his coalition. “A party which has run on a he compared Shavuot, which comes seven blessing over the cookies he provided, after platform of xenophobic intolerance and the targeting of immigrants must not be granted weeks after Passover, to the holiday of the Pledge of Allegiance. We discussed the a seat at the governing table,” said EJC’s president, Dr. Moshe Kantor. Some 9,000 Jews Shemini Atzeret, which comes at the end Sukkah Hop that some of us attended on Oc- live in Austria, according to the Jewish Virtual Library figures for 2016, making them of Sukkot. Shemini Atzeret is celebrated tober 8. Sylvia described the different types about 0.1 percent of the country’s population. for one day in Israel and liberal Diaspora of sukkahs at each temple. We learned that communities, but for two days in traditional they have different walls and decorations, Israel OKs housing for Jewish neighborhood in mostly Diaspora communities. but you could see the sky through the roof Palestinian Hebron In the Middle Ages, reading of the coverings in all. We also discussed eating Torah was completed and the cycle of out after the holidays. An Israeli planning committee approved the construction of an apartment complex reading it was started again, leading to Join us at the JCC on Wednesday at in a Jewish neighborhood of Hebron, a mostly Palestinian West Bank city that has been the holiday of Simchat Torah. In Israel 1:30 pm. the flashpoint in attacks against Jews. The approval on Oct. 16 by the Civil Administra- and liberal Diaspora communities these Sylvia Diamond, tion’s Subcommittee for Licensing is the first for new Jewish housing in the city since two holidays are celebrated together, but President 2002. In Hebron, some 500 Jews live among 40,000 Palestinians. The building will be constructed in the Beit Romano neighborhood, one of four Jewish neighborhoods in the city. Hebron’s Palestinian municipality is expected to appeal the decision and claim Study Continued from page 7 ownership of the land. Peace Now claims the property was under Jewish ownership prior to 1948 and that after 1967, the Civil Administration leased the land to the Hebron Pal- A “prolific” poster to Sefaria, Laufer has the database of myriad Jewish texts. “When estinian Municipality and it remained under protected tenancy. The liberal NGO argues created source sheets on work-life balance, you put a bunch of sources on paper, the that should continue, even thought it was taken from the municipality in the 1980s to the theology of food and seduction, and audience can only see what’s on the sheet,” establish an Israeli military base. Now that there is no longer a base on the land, the group the imagery of darkness in Jewish thought, Wolkenfeld said. says, it should revert to the municipality. The subcommittee, a Defense Ministry panel among many others. Working though the Using the database, however, “you are that oversees construction activity in the West Bank, was set to approve hundreds more multiple layers of Jewish learning, she in control of the story. You can open up a housing units throughout the West Bank during its meetings scheduled for Oct. 17 and said, “grounds us in an entire history – a chapter and see the larger context,” she said. Oct. 18. Hebron has seen a number of attacks on Jewish Israelis, most recently a rash of great reminder that questions we think of “From three commentaries I can navigate stabbing attempts by Palestinian teens last month and some car rammings. as modern are questions people have been to 10 others.” And if students have tablets asking for thousands of years with incred- or laptops, they can do all that exploring Israelis can’t compete under their country’s flag in Abu ible insight.” during the lesson itself. Dhabi judo tournament And sometimes a list of sources can be a Holtz warns that if there is a downside powerful tool for conversation – and even to the source sheet, it’s the temptation by Israeli judokas participating in the Grand Slam event in Abu Dhabi will not be able change. Abby Stein, a transgender activist a teacher to pick and choose from the wide to compete under their country’s flag. The team will be prevented from wearing the and teacher who grew up in a Chasidic and woolly corpus of Jewish text to prove Israeli flag or any other national emblems on their uniform, including the designation family in Williamsburg, NY, uses a source a dubious point. ISR for Israel, and if they win a place on the podium they will not hear their national sheet in classes she teaches on Judaism “Some would argue... that you don’t anthem, “Hatikvah,” the AFP news agency reported. Instead, they will be identified as and gender. The sheet, titled “Changing the cherry-pick,” said Holtz, who wrote a competing as part of the International Judo Federation, or IJF. Twelve Israelis are slated Conversation: Jewish-Gender IS Queer ... beginner’s guide to studying Jewish text, to participate in the tournament being held later in October in the United Arab Emirates, and Feminist,” is available on Sefaria and “Back to the Sources.” “And Jewish study an Arab country with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations. Among Israel’s linked to her Facebook page. according to this argument should not be delegation will be Ori Sasson, who won a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016. “After everything I had done to enrage about all the good parts or the cool parts During those games, Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby refused to shake hands with the Chasidic community, the most negative, or obviously meaningful parts, but you Sasson. “The demand to appear without national symbols is contrary to the mandate of most hate I ever got was for that Torah should work hard through all the parts as international sports associations, the main aim of which is to separate politics from sport, sheet – not media, not transitioning, but for you encounter them.” and strengthen sport as a bridge and connection between peoples, cultures and countries,” publishing that source sheet,” Stein recalled. And as seductive a tool as source sheets Miri Regev, Israel’s minister of culture and sport, wrote in a letter to the International Judo “It threatens them the most because it is can be, many teachers don’t want them seen Federation’s president, Marius Vizer. Eight Israelis competed under similar conditions using their own text. as substitutes for the real thing. “A source during the same event held two years ago in Abu Dhabi. “Usually they are very dismissive. Here sheet, as critical as it is, it is a tool but no Ukraine honors nationalist leader blamed for Jewish when I show them a text from a Chasidic replacement for the text in the original,” rabbi saying a man [can be] in the wrong said Tzvi Sinensky, the rosh beit midrash, pogroms body, or from Zohar saying an ideal person or dean of Jewish learning, at the Kohelet Ukraine unveiled a statue for a nationalist leader who guided a regime that killed has to balance femininity and masculinity at Yeshiva High School in suburban Phila- tens of thousands of Jews in pogroms during the Russian Revolution. The memorial for all times, or a wife can’t have kids because delphia. “We want our students engaging Symon Petliura was unveiled on Oct. 14 in Vinnitsa, a city in the western part of the she is a male, they can’t just dismiss it as BS.” with the original texts and have the skills nation, on Defender of Ukraine Day, a national holiday, the RT news site reported. It is Sefaria is trying to chart a future for to parse the Gemara – not to know about located in an area once known as Yerusalimka, or Jerusalem, and located next to a small a study tool that is itself the product of a the text, but to know it.” synagogue that is still in operation. The statue, which RT calls the first official monument th th mid-20 century information revolution. Its The source sheets Sinensky has posted to Petliura, though there is a bust of the early 20 -century leader in the capital, shows library of online source sheets is interactive to Sefaria have been viewed nearly 95,000 him sitting on a bench with a map of the country in his hands. During Petliura’s time as – that is, every source on a sheet links to times. head of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, 35,000 to 50,000 Jews were killed in a series of pogroms between 1918 and 1921. Petliura was killed in 1926 by a Ukrainian-born Jewish watchmaker, Sholom Schwartzbard, who was acquitted by a French court that ruled he Moving any time soon? was acting in the heat of the moment after 15 of his relatives were killed in the pogroms. Or just leaving town for a few months? Hamas reportedly agreed not to carry out terror, rocket Whether you’re moving across town or across the country, please let The Reporter know so you can stay up to date on community news and attacks against Israel quickly receive the paper at your new (or temporary) address! Hamas reportedly agreed not to carry out terror attacks against Israel or launch rockets E-mail [email protected] with “Reporter Address change” in the subject from Gaza into Israeli territory as part of the Palestinian reconciliation deal signed the line, or call 607-724-2360, ext. 254, to let The Reporter know about your new week of Oct. 13 in Cairo. The agreement requires Hamas to refrain from any activity that address. would foment a confrontation with Israel, Haaretz reported, citing the London-based Ar- abic language newspaper Asharq Alawsat. Also as part of the agreement, the Palestinian Authority cannot take any new steps regarding Israel. Hamas said on Oct. 15 that it had handed over control of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority, Haaretz reported, citing Don’t park it. Hamas’ deputy leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, in an interview with the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa television. However, the full transfer of responsibility for government workers, control of border crossings and other issues will take longer and require cooperation by both sides. On Nov. 21, representatives of all Palestinian factions will meet in Cairo to Donate it. discuss forming a new government, elections for president and parliament, and reforms of the political structure, Hayya reportedly also said. 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From JNS.org Patriarchs, where the biblical Jewish matriarchs and patriarchs are believed to be buried, as Republican lawmakers introduce resolution defending an endangered Palestinian heritage site. In October 2016, UNESCO passed two resolutions ignoring all Jewish and Christian connections to Jerusalem’s holy sites. Israel, condemning UNESCO High-level Israeli business delegation slated to visit Cuba Two Republican lawmakers introduced new legislation condemning the United Nations cultural body UNESCO, shortly after the U.S. and Israel separately announced their plans to in December would withdraw from the organization due to its anti-Israel bias. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Israel has reportedly granted approval to a group of top Israeli business leaders to visit Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Oct. 13 introduced a measure that reaffirms “the deep historical Cuba – which has no diplomatic ties with the Jewish state – to establish trade relations connection between the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem.” The legislation conveys with the Caribbean nation’s government-owned corporations. The Israeli delegation, support for “the Israeli government’s protection of religious freedom for all faiths,” and organized by the Israel-Latin American Chamber of Commerce, is slated to arrive in details archaeological findings throughout Jerusalem that prove the historical Jewish and Havana in early December, the Times of Israel reported on Oct. 17. The delegation is Christian presence in Israel’s capital. “The Trump administration has demonstrated strong comprised of about 20 top executives from the fields of agriculture, renewable energy, moral clarity in deciding to withdraw and continuing to withhold U.S. taxpayer dollars water, food production, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and real estate. Reports of the dele- from UNESCO as a result of its relentless hostility towards our close ally Israel,” said gation’s upcoming trip come just two weeks after Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sport Cruz. Gaetz said UNESCO’s “cruelty, their attempts to erase history, and their antisemitism Miri Regev made a private visit to Cuba. Regev’s trip marked the first such visit by a cannot be tolerated any longer.” In July, UNESCO approved a resolution denying Israel’s sitting Israeli minister to Havana since 1973, according to senior Israeli officials. The sovereignty in Jerusalem’s Old City as well as a measure declaring Hebron’s Cave of the minister purportedly did not conduct any official meetings during her stay.

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