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BY LOUISE RACHLIS because it’s satisfying not because you’re forced to, or some- ichael Landau will receive the 2018 Shem Tov one made you. It’s not a chore, it’s fulfilling,” he said. Community Volunteer Award from the Jewish “With everything I do, what’s important is the interaction Federation of Ottawa. The award is given annually with people. It’s interaction with people at a different level to an outstanding volunteer for a lifetime of compared to your work, and it’s very interesting and enjoy- Mservice dedicated to the betterment and enrichment of Jewish able… The hope is my children, who are now in university or life in Ottawa. beyond, will learn from what I do. I hope that in their time Landau began fundraising for the United Jewish Appeal in they will take on their responsibility as best they can.” while he was still in dental school there. Landau has an extensive history chairing major communi- “When I came back here in 1991, I kept on fundraising,” ty fundraisers such as golf tournaments, Federation’s Annual HOWARD SANDLER said Landau, now 54. “My parents did volunteer work as long Campaign and the community walkathon. Volunteerism is a “lifelong endeavour,” says as I can remember; it’s just something you do. You somehow He is the immediate past-chair of the Ottawa Jewish Com- Shem Tov Award recipient Michael Landau. “I discover you’re comfortable with it, and you just keep on. munity Foundation and currently sits on the Foundation’s hope to always do what I can, however I can.” “Whatever it is you do outside your regular job, do it See Landau on page 2 Freiman Family Award: Aaron Smith called ‘a very gifted and trusted young leader’ BY LOUISE RACHLIS was planning a trip to Yellowknife. aron Smith, who grew up in Sarnia, Ontario, “a super “My wife and I moved to Ottawa five years ago when we small Jewish community,” has been chosen to receive were having our third child,” he said. We had two children the 2018 Freiman Young Leadership Award. born in Toronto, but once we were five, we wanted to be closer “My dad and brother and I made up 30 per cent to family.” Aof the minyan,” said Smith, whose grandfather was Ottawa They enrolled their son in senior kindergarten at Ottawa kosher caterer Jack Smith. Jewish Community School (OJCS), “and didn’t even have a The fact that Aaron Smith has a busy job and young family house yet,” he said. “I worked with Ian Sherman at EY and he was not a deterrent to his becoming involved in the Ottawa connected me to people in Ottawa. Jewish community. Smith, who turned 40 in February, quickly became involved Born in Sackville, New Brunswick, Smith lived in Ottawa with OJCS. From 2014 to 2017, he served as president of the for a few years when he was younger, before moving to Sar- OJCS board, after previously serving as chair of sales and mar- nia. He did his undergraduate degree in genomic medicine at keting in 2013. He and his wife Erin currently have two chil- Western University, a business course at Ivey, worked for a few dren at OJCS and one at Ganon Preschool. years and then studied health industry management and strat- “In my work, we’re all about action and impact, and adding egy at . value for our clients,” he explained. “The secret for me is that “In my work, we’re all about action and Now based in Ottawa, he is a healthcare consultant with I was always action-oriented. You can lost in analyzing impact,” says 2018 Freiman Family Young hospitals, government and health industry providers across a situation. Sometimes you have to work with your time to Leadership Award recipient Aaron Smith. the country, frequently traveling coast to coast. This month he See Smith on page 17

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BY LOUISE RACHLIS while giving immense courage and com- pre-med student at uOttawa. “They or inspiring and leading ‘By making the university a fort to all students and have been hailed defeated BDS on three separate occa- University of Ottawa students in as a model for social action, justice, hard sions this year – not to mention also the fight against the anti-Israel more inclusive and ultimately work, and community. overcoming the Student Federation boycott, divestment and sanctions better campus for current and “The students involved in this fight decertifying Hillel as a club on campus. F(BDS) movement, Jewish student leaders at uOttawa are true leaders in the fight The composure and collectiveness dis- future students, these at uOttawa will collectively receive the against BDS,” wrote Allyson Grant of played while these anti-Semitic events 2018 Student Leadership Award from the students exemplified leadership the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs occurred speaks to the types of indi- Jewish Federation of Ottawa. and represented the in a letter nominating the student viduals these students are. By making “What our Jewish and pro-Israel stu- community in a remarkable way.’ leaders for the award. “Whether it was the university a more inclusive and dents accomplished this year is nothing spending hours researching how to ultimately better campus for current and short of monumental,” said Dovi Chein, defeat the motions, recruiting record future students, these students exem- director of Hillel Ottawa. the university, Jacques Frémont, came to numbers of students to vote, delivering plified leadership and represented the “This award is a way for the Jewish Chabad for dinner in January with 100 passionate speeches at a meeting, or community in a remarkable way.” community in Ottawa to tell our stu- students. The president said ‘please wear simply supporting their peers when The 2018 Community Service Awards dents, thank you,” he said. “Thank you your kippahs. We want every minority things got tough, I am truly impressed will be presented at the Jewish Federa- for standing up for what is right. Thank to be proud of who you are.’ He was so by their intelligence, commitment and tion of Ottawa’s annual general meeting you for never backing down in the face supportive of the Jewish community.” bravery in the face of this discriminato- on Wednesday, June 20, 7 pm, at the of adversity, and for being an example “I found it to be a very emotional ry movement.” Soloway Jewish Community Centre. For and inspiration for the whole commu- experience for students,” added Yoch- “I could not think of a group of stu- more information, contact Solange Ashe nity. As director of Hillel, I am beam- eved Boyarsky. “Their Jewish identity dents that are more deserving of this at [email protected] or 613-798- ing with pride and gratitude for these came to the forefront. They felt a real award,” said Sam Morgan, a fourth year 4696, ext. 236. incredible students. The future of Jewish threat and it brought out the joy of life on campus looks stronger and more being Jewish. Each time the resolution unified than ever before.” was defeated, they felt a sense of togeth- The award is “very well deserved,” erness. It brought everyone together. It Landau: ‘Embodies kindness,respect’ said Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky, co-director was wonderful to see that uninhibited Continued from page 1 with his wife Yocheved of the Chabad pride and joy to be Jewish, to feel they board and fundraising committee. In one values my abilities and I’m appre- Student Network. had nothing to be ashamed of or to addition to these leadership roles, he ciative of that.” “It brought out a real Jewish pride. hide.” helps the community in other ways, “Michael’s volunteer activities could Over 40 students wore their kippahs the Jewish student leaders, who include whether serving as a gabbai at Kehil- be best described as continuous and entire time. Students came out feeling members of Hillel Ottawa and the lat Beth Israel or as a member of the considerate,” wrote Maxine Miska, assis- very proud and happy after the reso- Chabad Student Network, rallied hun- , he always makes him- tant executive director of the Soloway lution was defeated. They came over dreds of other students to stand up self available to lend a helping hand. Jewish Community Centre (SJCC) in her to Chabad House after, and there was against BDS and succeeded against great “When I’m asked to volunteer for letter nominating Landau for the Shem dancing and celebration, a sense of real odds, and systemic bias, to defeat three something, I’m thankful for being given Tov Award. “He does what needs to be Jewish pride. The trick is to keep that separate votes to advance BDS. Their the opportunity to help in some way done for many community organiza- spirit and pride alive. The president of leadership inspired others to take action and to be valued in such a way that I tions, and he embodies the principles of can help,” he said. “It means that some- kindness and respect.” “Fundraising for the community at various levels seems to be a lifelong Allan Taylor endeavour,” said Landau. “I hope to ■ GROUP PLANS always do what I can, however I can.” ■ LIFE INSURANCE The 2018 Community Service Awards ■ DISABILITY INSURANCE will be presented at the Jewish Federa- ■ PENSION and RRIFs tion of Ottawa’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, June 20, 7 pm, at the Commercial Sales & Leasing ❋ Consulting ❋ Site Selection/Relocations ❋ Tenant Representation ❋ Feasibility Studies 613-244-9073 [email protected] Investment/User Properties ❋ Strategic Growth Planning ❋ Land Assemblies/Development Sites Soloway Jewish Community Centre. For more information, contact Solange Ashe BRENT TAYLOR BROKER of RECORD, PRESIDENT at [email protected] or 613-798- 4696, ext. 236. 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BY OTTAWA JEWISH BULLETIN STAFF read a prayer for the State of Israel in abbi David Lau, Israel’s flawless Hebrew. Vered fought to create Ashkenazic chief rabbi, visited the Jewish state and now shares her Ottawa and was the featured stories with young people to ensure they speaker, May 3, at a celebration understand the history of our people. Rof Israel entitled “Israel at 70: A proud These young students demonstrated past, a bright future,” held at that the lessons of the past are resonat- Congregation Machzikei Hadas. Rabbi ing and that the future is in very capa- Lau was on a tour organized by Mizrachi ble hands. that also included stops in The importance of Jewish unity and Montreal and Toronto. the valuable contributions of Jews from Approximately 350 community mem- all denominations of were bers participated in the evening, chaired emphasized by Israeli Ambassador to by Sharon Appotive and Bram Bregman, Canada Nimrod Barkan who described ALEX SARNA headlined by a conversation between (From left) Rabbi Elan Mazer, national director of Mizrachi Canada; David McGuinty, Ottawa how for 70 years Israel has strived to Chief Rabbi Lau and Rabbi Reuven P. South MP; Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau; Bram Bregman, event co-chair; John Fraser, Ottawa be a light unto the world, which also Bulka, rabbi emeritus of Machzikei South MPP; Sharon Appotive, Event Co-Chair; and Jean Cloutier, Ottawa City Councillor for Alta entails being a light unto ourselves. Hadas. The entire program traced the Vista, at Machzikei Hadas, May 3, during the chief rabbi’s visit to Ottawa. This includes working to avoid internal indelible historic link that celebrates strife and building a homeland where all Israel’s living history that runs right Jews feel welcomed. The ambassador’s through our nation’s capital. From the Crystalizing the links were remarks years before that, including the period remarks took a different approach to the moment Cantor Moshe Krauss, the first by Sara Vered, an esteemed member of between 1881 and 1948 when the Jewish theme of living links by emphasizing chief cantor of the Ottawa’s Jewish community, who was a population grew exponentially from the connections and responsibilities we and Cantor Pinchus Levinson, a former member of the Haganah in Israel’s War 15,000 to 600,000. have one to another. Israel Defense Forces member and can- of Independence. Vered spoke eloquent- The cycle of history Vered described The chief rabbi’s remarks centred on tor emeritus at Congregation Machzikei ly about her service and emphasized the was exemplified when two young stu- the theme of “know from where you Hadas, sang the Canadian and Israeli importance of remembering that the dents, Tehilla Botwinik of Day came.” In making this point, he told an national anthems, the historic connec- State of Israel was not formed in 1948, School of Ottawa and Yardayna Miller of incredible story of a member of the czar- tion came alive. but had been in formation for many the Ottawa Jewish Community School, See Chief Rabbi on page 5

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Authorized by the Ontario Liberal Party May 28, 2018 4 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Key Jewish community issues in Ontario election campaign You are cordially invited to attend mental disabilities. GUEST COLUMN According to Statistics Canada, the Jewish Federation ALLYSON GRANT, Jewish community is the religious minority most frequently targeted for of Ottawa’s CIJA hate crimes, many of which target plac- You are cordially invited to attend es of worship, religious schools, and th community centres. Along with other 84 Annual n May 9, Ontario’s provincial groups at risk, we collectively spend election campaign went into millions every year protecting users of Jewish Federation full swing in anticipation of our respective community facilities. The General Meeting Election Day on June 7. The Ontario government should, therefore, Ocampaign provides many opportunities provide funding for training communi- of Ottawa’s to engage with local candidates seeking ty institution staff and funds to cover support at community events or the half the costs of hiring paid-duty police Wednesday,th June 20, 2018 front door. officers. You are cordially84 Annual invited to attend When you meet a candidate, it is When Canadians and work important for them to hear from the together, both countries benefit. This General7 pm Meeting Jewish community. By combining our is certainly true for Ontario, which has Jewish Federation voices, we are more likely to be heard. fostered extensive trade, academic, After consultation with grassroots com- technology, and healthcare ties with Dessert reception to follow munity members, Jewish agencies, orga- Israel. The government of Ontario has Wednesday,of Ottawa June ’20,s 2018 nizations and institutions, the Centre for hired a trade representative based in th Israel and Jewish Affairs has identified and announced its intention to 84 Annual several key issues for discussion with open a permanent trade office in Israel. 7 pm your local candidate during this election The next provincial government should PRESENTATION OF campaign. move forward with these plans to open General Meeting Although most Ontarians reject all an Ontario trade office in Israel. Dessert reception to follow forms of hatred, anti-Semitism neverthe- Until recently, Canadians who under- COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS less persists at the margins. 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Continued from page 3 ist secret police, who while not acknowl- edging his own Jewish religion (his Jewish roots could be traced back gen- erations), was insistent that his eight- day-old son have a bris. The policeman’s logic being that his son should always bear the mark of his ancestry and know from where he came. In the conversation with Rabbi Bulka, Chief Rabbi Lau conveyed in a broad sense the vast and diffuse nature of his role and how much time he spends connecting with individuals and trying to make a difference in their lives. For example, Tuesdays are the sacrosanct time he spends sitting in the Supreme Rabbis, dignitaries and community leaders gather with Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau, May 3, at the Lag B’Omer parade and fair organized by High Court and adjudicating on indi- Chabad of Centrepointe and the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. The Torah held by Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn has been donated to an IDF vidual cases to, as he put it, “bring army base. peace to individual people.” Similar to other rabbis around the world, he conducts pastoral visits to incarcerated In his indomitably gentle and humor- when he enters a mosque, he removes Jewish inmates and tries to meet with ous way, Rabbi Bulka made sure to ask his shoes. as many congregants – the people of some of the tough questions on the The MC for the event was Rabbi Idan Israel, as possible. He described how it minds of many Diaspora Jews – includ- Scher, spiritual leader of Congregation is not atypical for him to deliver nine ing about conversion, the Kotel and Machzikei Hadas. Rabbi Scher’s thought- speeches on any given day. Tellingly, the migrant workers from Africa. ful remarks focused on the need to both chief rabbi did not describe the time he While the chief rabbi’s answers may speak and listen. It is a privilege, he spends with world leaders, but rather not have pleased everyone, his answers said, to hear from Chief Rabbi Lau and the uniqueness of his position and the centred on the theme of respect for it is the responsibility of audience mem- ALEX SARNA responsibility it bears to help individual rules. For example, he does not see the bers to both listen and to ask questions Chief Rabbi David Lau (left) in conversation Israelis. While there is no typical day in Kotel as a religious question, but one – and it is the chief rabbi’s responsibility with Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka at Machzikei the life of the chief rabbi, he said, each of respect for the custom of a place and to hear the diversity of views and opin- Hadas, May 3, during the chief rabbi’s visit to day is a helping day. an issue of basic politeness, akin to how ions being expressed. Ottawa. May 28, 2018 6 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

An inspiring tale of resilience and ingenuity, of innovation and hope

technologies in water management such is reflective of Israel’s commitment to feasible. Like the peace deals secured as drip irrigation and desalination. Both helping the disadvantaged. with both and Jordan, Israeli of which, among other practices, have This philosophy of assisting those in leaders have, and will continue to pur- helped Israel achieve water security in a need speaks to the very core of Judaism sue a just and lasting peace with all our region plagued by water scarcity. and the value of tikkun olam that rever- neighbours, including the Palestinians. Working to ensure that others have berates throughout the Jewish state in Together, Canada and Israel are

FEDERATION FEDERATION REPORT the same, Israel is sharing its cut- both our words and deeds. working towards achieving a more pros- NIMROD BARKAN, AMBASSADOR ting-edge technological know-how with I am inspired by everyday Israelis, perous, sustainable and inventive future OF ISRAEL TO CANADA the world. From installing solar-pow- who despite decades of conflict and ter- for generations to come. ered water pumps in villages in Senegal, ror have continued to lead happy and From joint international develop- to bringing the first ever Israeli-de- full lives. In fact, according to the UN’s ment projects to our mutual commit- even decades ago, the nascent signed mobile water purification system 2018 World Happiness Report, Israel is ment to gender equality and empow- State of Israel had its fair share of to the Marshall Islands, Israeli tech is the 11th happiest country in the world. ering women and girls around the difficulties. delivering life-changing solutions to And I am inspired by Israel’s world, the cooperation between our The country possessed little millions of people around the world. improved relations with countries two countries spans various fields and Snatural or financial resources, public I am inspired by MASHAV, Israel’s around the world. From Guatemala to is reflective of the strong ties that bind services were limited, housing and international development and aid Ethiopia, India to the Gulf States, world our multi-partisan friendship, rooted in employment were scarce, and the very agency, that since it was founded by leaders now view Israel as a strong part- shared values, and buttressed by strong existence of Israel was in jeopardy. then-foreign minister Golda Meir has ner in a variety of fields. Jewish communities such as this one. Through it all, Israel persevered; and provided training and support to nearly Earlier this year, in a historic first, a Israel and Israelis are deeply grateful we not only survived, but we thrived. 300,000 people from some 140 coun- flight from India travelled over Saudi for your tremendous support. Today, Israel’s story has unfolded tries. Through its work with individuals airspace en route to Israel – an act that May the State of Israel, its friends, into an inspiring tale of resilience and and communities on agriculture, health was previously denied by the Kingdom and Jewish communities here in Can- ingenuity, of innovation and hope. care, education, gender equality, and of Saudi Arabia. The improving rela- ada and around the world continue to When I think of my country, its peo- women empowerment, MASHAV is tions with Gulf States underscore that move from strength to strength; and, ple, and its achievements, I am inspired. enabling so many across the develop- peace and friendly relations between in the words of the Prophet Isaiah, be a I am inspired by Israeli innovation and ing world to improve their lives, and the Jewish State and the Arab world are “Light unto the Nations.”

Freedom of the road Ottawa Jewish Bulletin VOLUME 82 | ISSUE 14 nity is based on commitment founded member of the community. Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. on the principles of Jewish education In a sense, general society is the 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, K2A 1R9 that cuts across all ages from the very master, and the Jew who has no Jewish Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 Email: [email protected] young to the adult community. educational background or interest in Published 19 times per year. We are blessed with education- anything Jewish is the slave. His free- © Copyright 2018 al institutions of all stripes in our dom from religion is simply another PUBLISHER community, and we support their manifestation of an adherence to an Andrea Freedman continued survival as the founda- alternative pathway of life that in many EDITOR tions of Jewish continuity in its truest ways reflects moral relativism rather Michael Regenstreif sense – not simply by numbers but than moral constancy. While there are PRODUCTION CONSULTANT Patti Moran

FROM THE THE FROM PULPIT by demonstrated commitment to the many blessings to an open society in tenets of our faith. We lose too many of which we live, there are many draw- BUSINESS MANAGER RABBI HOWARD FINKELSTEIN Eddie Peltzman BEIT TIKVAH our sisters and brothers to the scourge backs as well which pose challenges to The Bulletin, established in 1937 as “a force of assimilation due in no small part to Jewish continuity and preservation. for constructive communal consciousness,” he recent unveiling of the the fact that so few in our community As we begin our travels on the communicates the messages of the Jewish Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s are taking advantage of Jewish educa- Federation superhighway in terms of Federation of Ottawa and its agencies and, as the city’s only Jewish newspaper, welcomes a superhighway plan for the tional opportunities that are available community building, we have to think diversity of opinion as it strives to inform and future of Ottawa’s Jewish in Ottawa, or that could be available back to another superhighway that was enrich the community. Viewpoints expressed Tcommunity is a welcome opportunity with the reestablishment of a commu- taken thousands of years ago, when the in these pages do not necessarily represent the policies and values of the Federation. for us to grow in our quest for greater nity Jewish high school that only will Jewish people travelled from Egypt to The Bulletin cannot vouch for the involvement in Jewish communal become a reality if parents really want the Promised Land. The tribe of Dan of advertised products or establishments issues and projects. It is highly com- it passionately. was given the assignment to gather that unless they are certified by Ottawa Vaad HaKashrut or a rabbinic authority recognized mendable that Federation is setting its To put this whole theme of discus- which was left behind by other tribes as by OVH. sights on the future, and that is the sion through a Torah perspective, Rashi the Israelites travelled through the des- $36 Local Subscription | $40 Canada M.O. of a successful venture which at the end of Parashat Behar speaks of ert. There will be many stragglers falling $60 USA | $179 Overseas | $2 per issue requires our support. the community’s obligation to redeem a off of the road of the superhighway, and Funded by the Government of Canada. At the same time, there has to be Jewish slave sold to a non-Jewish mas- we have a responsibility to pick them a service road that parallels this high- ter. The community cannot ignore this up. It is our role as a community to ISSN: 1196-1929 way – specifically in the area of Jewish hapless Jew who finds himself enslaved support and to reach out to those who Publication Mail Agreement No. 40018822 outreach in order to enhance Jewish to someone whose values do not reflect fall off the derech (pathway) that we Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: organizational affiliation and, equally if his own. The slave, by definition, emu- are traveling in the years to come in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin not more importantly, increased Jewish lates his master in terms of the latter’s Ottawa Jewish community. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa ON K2A 1R9 observance of the laws of the Torah and failure to observe Judaism thus result- We have to drive carefully, and Talmud. Our future as a Jewish commu- ing in the loss, albeit spiritually, of a ensure that no Jew is left behind. May 28, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 7

Funding for faith-based schools in Ontario itoba, Alberta and British Columbia, have – been a consensus-building issue the prime minister – said, “An election have put formulas in place to provide into a deeply divisive wedge issue. is no time to discuss serious issues.” some level of public funding to faith- McGuinty, whose own children Campbell was ridiculed for the com- based schools that meet their provincial attended Catholic schools, said that ment and went down to perhaps the curriculum standards. children attending other faith-based biggest election defeat of an incumbent In 1999, when the Progressive Con- schools “become sequestered and seg- in Canadian history. But maybe there servatives were in power under premier regated,” implying that these children was some truth to her comment. Some Mike Harris, the United Nations Human do not integrate well in society. This issues should not be partisan election Rights Commission said the province’s was surely insulting to all of the Jewish campaign issues where party positions funding of Catholic schools but not day school graduates in Ontario who become hardened and polarized – as FROM THE THE FROM EDITOR those of other religions was discrimina- have proven time and again how well they did in 2007 on the issue of funding MICHAEL REGENSTREIF tory and a violation of Canada’s obliga- they have integrated and who have for non-Catholic faith-based schools. tions under the International Covenant made immeasurable contributions to When talking about rights – or at least he campaign for the June 7 on Civil and Political Rights. The UN society. And this is surely true, as well, about what is right – an issue should be Ontario election is now in full commission reiterated that ruling again for students who have attended the approached through nonpartisan con- swing and there are some in 2005 when the Liberals were in schools of Muslim, Hindu and Sikh sensus building. important issues you won’t hear power under premier Dalton McGuinty. communities, and various non-Catholic The status quo in Ontario educa- Tparty leaders Doug Ford, Andrea The Progressive Conservatives, under Christian communities including Arme- tion funding has been in place since Horwath or Kathleen Wynne – or, for leader John Tory (now the mayor of nian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Greek Confederation in 1867. But society has that matter, any of their candidates – Toronto), seized on the issue in the Orthodox, Evangelical Christian, Sev- changed immeasurably over the course talking about. 2007 provincial election campaign enth Day Adventist and Mennonite. of 151 years. Other provinces have rec- Among those issues is funding and promised to find a formula for Playing wedge politics on faith-based ognized this and adapted and so should for non-Catholic faith-based schools non-Catholic faith-based school fund- school funding worked for McGuinty ours. in Ontario. Ontario provides 100 per ing in the province. But Tory and the and the Liberals in the 2007 election. I’ve heard MPPs from all three par- cent of the funding to run the Catho- Tories (pun intended) did not manage Tory and the Progressive Conservatives ties at Queen’s Park say off the record lic school system in the province and the issue well. Instead of reaching out were shellacked on election night and that if it were up to them, they’d sup- no funding at all for the schools of all to the Liberals and New Democrats and dropped the issue. None of the parties port funding for faith-based schools. other faith groups. This province is finding consensus on an issue affecting have brought it up since and this is A common front of faith-based com- the only jurisdiction in North America only a relatively small minority of the now the third Ontario election cam- munities in Ontario needs to help the which still funds the religious school population they let it become a partisan paign since 2007. political parties find the consensus system of one religion to the exclusion election issue. McGuinty and the Liber- During the 1993 federal election needed to correct the situation. The of all others. A number of other Cana- als played cynical, populist politics and campaign, Progressive Conservative work should begin as soon as possible dian provinces, including Quebec, Man- made what could have – and should leader Kim Campbell – then briefly after the election.

The enormous cost of being really old

that approaching 70 is like closing in row will not be better. It is a merry-go- io long-term care homes chronicle a on the new 50 – but anything over 65 round of challenges that never stops. desperate account of abuse and hard- makes you a senior citizen, which is a It is disheartening when you arrive at ship for the residents and their families. polite term for ‘old.’ So if you are over an emergency room with a parent over Seeing so many severely compromised 90, ‘old’ becomes ‘elderly’ and for some- 90 and you and the parent are directed people wallowing aimlessly in wheel- one closer to 100 than 90, ‘ancient’ qui- to a waiting room or a corridor for a chairs, and in beds in the corridors, is etly comes to mind. double digit number of hours of wait- beyond sad. On every visit you see the While most senior citizens in today’s ing. Respect for the elderly, let alone same diaper-clad people, in the same developed world are in good health, anything close to special treatment, is places, with nowhere to go. Those who it is a safe bet that most people over non-existent. No disrespect aimed at can afford the daily expense of personal

IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS 90 are not. Their health problems can the medical profession, but sometimes caregivers are the only ones who seem JASON MOSCOVITZ be mental, physical, or both. While we you wonder if anyone cares. to get the attention they need. know how modern medicine has greatly It is not unusual in a hospital to Still being at home in your 90s remember it so well although it extended people’s lives, the warranties have your efforts advocating for an means needing a scheduler and a book- didn’t resonate at the time. When I on the body and mind have expired and elderly parent dismissed with, “After all keeper to manage all the people who retired, my father told me I should that is where the struggle begins: the your parent is 95,” which comes across are hired because being home alone at keep working for as long as I could. struggle of balancing the joy of being in two ways. First, that there is not that age, in most cases, is not an option IIt wasn’t about keeping active it was alive for another great-grandchild’s much to do and even if there were, a – and, needless to say – paying all those purely financial. milestone with the daily reality of living 95-year-old is not a priority in an emer- people who are coming and going and “You don’t understand,” he said. “It in an often sadly diminished state. gency room. True or not, that is what it sleeping over can amount to many costs an enormous amount of money to As many of you know, the experi- feels like. thousands of dollars a month. get really old.” ence of being in hospital emergency And should it happen that an elder- When you are a healthy senior citi- With three of my four grandparents rooms, long-term care homes, seniors’ ly person is admitted, it is interesting zen you tend to think, because no one dying in their 60s, as many people did residences, and witnessing the ultimate to see how visiting hours suddenly ever explicitly tells you otherwise, that 60-plus years ago, it is a remarkable to challenge of elderly people trying to become a sanctioned and required medicare in Canada covers people of all have an almost 96-year-old father and a stay in their homes, doesn’t make one 24/7. Family members need to be there ages from birth to death. 93-year-old mother; and to say that my an expert, but it does bring you face to at bedside because hospital employ- You need to live the experience of life partner also has a father who is 95 face with their day-to-day realities. It is ees can only do so much, which is not the elderly to know the medicare card and a mother who is 88 makes it that often the case that some problems don’t nearly enough for frightened and frail does not cover the prohibitive cost of much more impactful. have solutions. Somehow it seems more elderly people. special personal care the elderly so des- People can tell you on a birthday like treading water knowing that tomor- Recent horror stories in some Ontar- perately need. May 28, 2018 8 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Legacy of Colonial Furniture founders honoured with memorial fund

Max and Grete Cohen’s This story began in the summer of 1920 when a young Ottawa man met love story began in the love of his life on a summer trip to Europe. Max was in Europe buying Europe in 1920 and goods to resell in Canada when he met continued in Ottawa his bride-to-be, Grete, in the Prussian seaside town of Kolberg (now Koło- where Grete became brzeg, ). “It was love at first sight,” explains a pioneering woman the couple’s grandson, Mike Cohen. That summer romance led to a court- leader in the Jewish ship by mail. community “Distance made their hearts grow Pauline fonder,” says granddaughter, Susie Colwin reports. Charendoff. “They wrote trans-Atlantic love-letters for three years!” In 1923, they married in Europe, and he Max and Grete Cohen Grete moved from Berlin to Ottawa. The Grete Cohen, the 1971 JNF Ottawa Negev Dinner honouree, surrounded by members of her Memorial Fund at the Ottawa wooden sidewalks and lumber mills of family. Grete was the first woman to be honoured at a JNF Ottawa Negev Dinner. In 1988, she Jewish Community Foundation Ottawa were a far cry from cosmopoli- also became the first woman to receive the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award honours the founders of Colonial tan Berlin. But Grete quickly made new – the highest honour bestowed by the Jewish community of Ottawa. TFurniture. After Grete died in 1992, her friends and joined Max’s large family sons, Ed and Sid, created the fund in their already there from Russia. parents’ memory. This past January, in The loving couple soon had three was a kosher butcher who taught them crushing news that her youngest sister, commemoration of Sid’s first yahrzeit, his children: Ed, Sid, and Erica. Initially, how to slaughter. Else, and husband had been murdered three children (Steve, Brian, and Susie) they lived in a basement apartment on “It’s hard to imagine, but apparently by the Nazis. Miraculously, their son Ben have done likewise, remembering their College Avenue (now Copernicus) on my ‘poppa’ was quite good at it!” says survived, hidden by a non-Jewish couple father and grandparents with a significant the University of Ottawa campus. Sid’s granddaughter, Olivia Grete Cohen, in Belgium. After the war, Grete not only donation to their family’s fund. Max had an entrepreneurial spirit a second year McGill University student, adopted her nephew but sponsored his and tried many ventures who carries her great-grandmother’s rescuer-parents, as well. They came to to support his growing name. live on the same street in the Glebe and family. One of his early Max’s sudden and unexpected death were eventually recognized by Yad Vash- businesses was a 130-acre in 1944 left Grete a single mother of em as Righteous Among the Nations for chicken farm off Albion three. But Grete had no plan to give up. their actions. Road South. During the “She got up, brushed herself off, and Grete had been raised in a Zionist war, if you took a job on did what she had to do,” says Brian. home and, in Ottawa, devoted herself a farm, you could leave At the time, his father Sid was only in to Jewish, communal and early-femi- school three weeks early, Grade 12 but started work immediately. nist causes, such as Canadian Hadas- so Ed and Sid became Likewise, Ed had to get a military dis- sah-WIZO, Israel Bonds, B’nai Brith, and enthusiastic, teenage charge from the Air Force in Manitoba, ORT. She was the first female honouree chicken farmers. Their in the middle of the war, to attend the of the JNF Ottawa Negev Dinner in 1971, neighbour in Sandy Hill funeral. and the first female recipient of the Ed and Sid joined their mother on Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service a mission to save the family business. Award in 1988 for lifetime leadership in Grete dressed her boys in suits and Ottawa’s Jewish community. drove to the Bank of Montreal offices in Grete, the single mother, business- Old Montreal in a bold move to speak woman, and community volunteer, face-to-face with the bank manager. retired and left Ed and Sid in charge of “She convinced him that they could the store until they sold it in the 1980s. run the store and asked for some debt (The new owners kept the Colonial flexibility,” explains the couples’ grand- name because of its good reputation.) son, Steve Cohen, who grew up hearing To honour their parents, Ed, who this impressive story of resilience. “It died in 2005, and Sid created the Max was also the first time my dad smoked a and Grete Cohen Memorial Fund after cigar – he did it to look older!” Grete’s passing at age 92. Against all odds, the bank manager Coming full circle, Sid’s three children agreed, and, with Grete at the helm, the continue this charitable legacy to the family started to revive the business. A Foundation as a testament to their fam- few months later, the war ended and the ily’s century-long involvement in and economy rebounded. The boys worked support of the community. full-time, and their younger sister Erica “I’m the fifth generation in Ottawa,” worked part-time while earning a com- says Billy Max Cohen, a fourth-year merce degree at Carleton – she was among Carleton University student who car- Carleton’s first female graduates in 1952. ries his great-grandfather’s name. He is Despite this successful turnaround, fortunate to have grown up in a family it was a difficult time for Grete. The loss with such strong role models and loving of her husband was followed by the family bonds. May 28, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 9

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(Front row, from left) “My Heart in a Suitcase” cast members Alex Rafala, Jamie Lee Kearns, Paula Shtein and Katrina Klein. In the rear are stage manager Sarah Resnick (far left), Ridgemont student crew members, and Ridgemont teachers Jessie Lavallee and Nadia Gandhi (centre). Ridgemont students moved by drama about Kindertransport

BY LOUISE RACHLIS than that they were Jewish. burly Grade 9 student at “Six million other Jewish people were Ridgemont High School killed during the Second World War, student turned to his teacher over one million were children, but it is after watching the performance a number so huge, it’s just impossible to Aof “My Heart in a Suitcase” at the school understand or visualize,” she said. “So on May 11. instead we need to remember that each “Miss, I shed a tear,” said the usu- person who was killed had a story, a life, ally undemonstrative student. His two a family… So today’s program is not just friends were equally attentive and a history lesson, but also an opportunity moved. to teach the next generation, all of you, The play was performed by ArtsPow- the importance of tolerance and under- er, a non-profit touring theatre company standing, so that we don’t repeat the from New York City. Ottawa was their horrific mistakes of the past.” first Canadian visit. The Shoah Committee, along with The 550 students attending the play the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs were mostly Grade 8, 9 and 10 students and play sponsors Miriam and Michael at Ridgemont, but there were also Leber, brought “My Heart in a Suitcase” students there from St. Patrick’s High to Ottawa as a way to commemorate the School and Alta Vista and Sawmill Creek 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport Elementary schools. which rescued thousands of Jewish chil- In the play, Anne Lehmann and her dren from Nazi Germany by bringing family no longer feel safe in their Berlin them to Britain between 1938 and 1940, home. Life in 1938 Germany is deterio- Halton-Weiss told the Bulletin before rating quickly for all Jews living there. the event. In order to protect their daughter, Mr. The Shoah Committee wanted to and Mrs. Lehmann may have to say reach out to students of diverse cultur- goodbye to her forever. al and religious backgrounds to teach By bringing the play to Ottawa stu- about the Holocaust “in an accessible, dents, the Shoah Committee of the Jew- and even entertaining way,” she said. ish Federation of Ottawa hoped to touch “Many of these students, aged 12 to the students by providing historical con- 15, will not even have heard about the tent “in an emotionally powerful format Holocaust, and we are hoping this play to which they could relate.” It obviously and the Q&A following the performance succeeded, as there was lots of clapping, will be a way of teaching the lessons of cheering and many rising at the end of the Shoah, with the hope that this will the performance. raise further conversations and intro- Speaking to the students before the spection.” performance, Shoah Committee Chair The Shoah Committee knows it is Debbie Halton-Weiss said that “similar important for Jewish audiences “to com- to the true story portrayed in this play,” memorate, and acknowledge our own her father escaped from Czechoslovakia history,” said Halton-Weiss. “But equally 80 years ago, “got on a train bound for and sometimes more importantly, we England, and never saw his parents or want to ensure that the next generation any members of his family again.” of Canadian students, from all back- She said that it was an honour to grounds, understand the dangers of welcome them, “as it makes me feel that intolerance, and how we as individuals a little bit of meaning has been added and a society, have the obligation and to the lives of my family who were so responsibility to speak out when faced needlessly murdered for no other reason with intolerance, prejudice, and racism.” May 28, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 11 Jeanne Beker: Fashion icon intertwines life, art and survival

BY TOBY HERSCOVITCH 1939. By 1941, all the Jews in the town of saw them through the Holocaust,” said CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION Kozowa (now in Ukraine) were confined Beker. AND SCHOLARSHIP to a ghetto. Beker will recount the trag- Among her many awards, in 2016 n her defence of the winning book edy that befell her mother’s family, and Beker received a star on Canada’s Walk during this year’s how her father Joseph helped his then of Fame in Toronto “on the very side- competition on CBC Radio, Jeanne girlfriend Bronia escape Nazi roundups. walk my dad walked every day to his Beker said she recognized her own What their story doesn’t reveal is how small slipper factory.” Iparents’ courage against unimaginable Beker, who lives in Toronto, used her Beyond influencing her own life, suffering and the impact such stories parents’ encouragement and sheer guts Beker says, “These accounts are stories have on future generations. to develop a trailblazing fashion and of hardship and courage, and primarily Beker, a Fashion Television icon, media career, while giving back to the tenacity – the ability to rise from the media personality and 2014 recipient community. ashes and keep going, no matter what. of the Order of Canada, is the daughter “My parents, especially my mother, They can also help others move forward of two Holocaust survivors. She will Jeanne Beker, seen at Rideau Hall in 2014 on instilled in me a love of the arts,” said with acceptance and compassion… and discuss how her parents’ experiences the occasion of her investiture in the Order of Beker. At age 16, despite a lack of expe- resonate with future generations.” intersected with her own life at “In Con- Canada for her support of the Canadian rience, Beker had the chutzpah to audi- Beker’s passion in telling her parents’ fashion industry, an award she was thrilled versation with Jeanne Beker,” presented tion for a CBC production – and miracu- story promises to make Monday, June her mother could witness. Her mother passed by the Centre for Holocaust Education away the next year. lously won the part. 11 a riveting evening. All participants and Scholarship and the Azrieli Founda- This led to “bits and pieces” in film, will get a copy of Beker’s parents’ story, tion on June 11. acting school in New York, and eventu- Joy Runs Deeper, courtesy of the Azrieli “Those of us lucky enough to have praising the book Forgiveness by Mark ally to entertainment anchor on a local Foundation’s Holocaust Memoirs pro- heard our families’ survival stories first- Sakamoto, about his grandparents’ tor- Toronto newscast and host of Fashion gram. The event takes place at 7 pm hand share a window into a world of ments during the Second World War. Television. at Carleton University’s Singhal Family unspeakable loss. But it’s these very The lives of Beker’s own parents, Bro- “My parents encouraged me to dream Theatre, Richcraft Hall, 9376 University tales of toughness and tenacity that nia and Joseph (Josio) were thrown into big. My father’s motto was ‘don’t be Dr. Tickets ($25) are available at often define who we are,” said Beker, in chaos when Germany invaded Poland in afraid and never give up’ – that’s what https://carleton.ca/ches/jeanne-beker. Curious George documentary coming to Temple Israel BY LOUISE RACHLIS video games. famous monkey, and for families to have lost or destroyed. FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL “Temple Israel has been given the a great experience learning about the Having the opportunity to view the urious Jews will have a chance to honour of hosting the Canadian pre- Jewish roots of this iconic children’s lit- film and learn about the Reys’ incred- satisfy their curiosity about miere of this amazing film,” said Merle erary character,” Haltrecht-Matte added. ible story will be a wonderful way to Curious George, on Sunday, June Haltrecht-Matte of Temple Israel. ”We “Monkey Business” tells the Reys’ also explore the ideas of what was lost 10, 1 pm, when Temple Israel are planning a multi-generational expe- story using animation, photographs and during the Shoah… The values and Cscreens the documentary “Monkey rience in which teens and adults will interviews with people who knew them. morals that are deeply embedded in the Business,” directed by Ema Ryan watch the documentary in our social “This documentary is the story of stories of Curious George can easily be Yamazaki with narration by Sam hall. Simultaneously, in our school two young adults who fled Europe, tak- traced to the Reys’ Jewish heritage.” Waterston. wing, we will host an afternoon of ing with them a manuscript that would There is no charge for the movie The full-length movie tells the story learning about Curious George through change the lives of countless children,” afternoon but RSVP is appreciated to of H.A. (Hans) and Margret Rey, Jews the books, watching the animated said Haltrecht-Matte. “It is a powerful Temple Israel at 613-224-1802. who fled Nazi Germany and eventually movies, and with activities that tell the reminder of how many fantastic pieces For more about the film, visit made it to the U.S. where they sold the story of the Reys in an age appropriate of literature, art, and innovation were www.curiousgeorgedocumentary.com. original Curious George manuscript. way. We’ll also be selling popcorn,” she The first Curious George book was said. published in 1941, followed by more “There will be an opportunity to have books and television shows, movies and your picture taken with Judaism’s most Respecting tradition

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Curious George creators Margret and H. A. Rey in Hamburg, Germany, May, 1973. Arbor Memorial Inc. May 28, 2018 12 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM National conference begins overdue conversation on inclusion in the Jewish community

with disabilities and other stigmatized groups in com- munity life. In Toronto, innovative social enterprises GUEST COLUMN are hiring people with intellectual disabilities and pay- HARVEY GOLDBERG ing them real wages for real work. And the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has included disability rights in its advocacy agenda. The conference attendees also heard from several nclusion of people with disabilities was the topic of Israeli organizations, such as Krembo Wings, a fully a first-ever national conference organized by the integrated youth movement. Several of the Israeli orga- Canadian Jewish community. “Pushing the nizations at the conference are working in partnership Boundaries: Disability, Inclusion & Jewish with Canadian federations, to ensure inclusion in the ICommunity,” held in Toronto from April 15 to 17, Jewish state. discussed how to remove the many social, economic The discussion started in Toronto continued in Otta- and physical barriers faced by Jews with disabilities. wa on May 2 when one of the conference organizers, The conference, sponsored by the Jewish Federa- Linda Kislowicz, president and CEO of Jewish Federa- tions of Canada-UIA, UJA Federation of Toronto, and Harvey Goldberg (centre) with Tamir staff members (from left) tions of Canada-UIA, spoke at the Jewish Federation of other organizations, spotlighted Canadian and Israeli Stacey Bellemare, Mark Palmer, Estelle Allen and Lisa Griffin Ottawa members’ meeting. As Kislowicz emphasised, at a reception during the “Pushing the Boundaries” programs and organizations working on disability disability rights are now firmly on the Canadian Jewish conference in Toronto. issues. Equally important, it allowed around 150 peo- community agenda. The enthusiasm to keep the con- ple, with a variety of expertise and lived experience, to versation going, by participants at the conference and begin an overdue discussion. munity has lagged behind. The conference discussed organizing partners, was encouraging. It would be sup- Sarah Beutel, Jewish Federation of Ottawa vice-pres- how the most persistent barrier to inclusion is the ten- ported by her organization, she said, by the allocation ident (community building) attended the conference dency to see people with disabilities as “the other,” and of seed financing to grassroots inclusion projects. along with a number of other community members to stigmatize and marginalize them. Bimahs without Anyone interested in an informal discussion on how including Tamir Executive Director Mark Palmer, who ramps; Jewish schools that do not adequately accom- to make the Ottawa Jewish community more inclusive is highlighted the recently-announced plans to build modate the needs of children with disabilities; lack of invited to contact me at [email protected]. an integrated living centre on the Jewish Community affordable, adapted housing; and community spaces Campus, as part of a panel addressing housing adapted that are not fully accessible are still common. Harvey Goldberg is a semi-retired senior policy advisor at to the needs of people with disabilities. Jewish communities across Canada are beginning to the Canadian Human Rights Commission where he has While the disability rights movement has been push- catch-up. Several Jewish communities have hired inclu- worked for over 25 years on issues regarding the rights of ing for inclusion for decades, the Canadian Jewish com- sion coordinators to facilitate the inclusion of people persons with disabilities. Join Us STRAWBERRY SOCIAL SATURDAY, JUNE 9 2:30 - 4 PM

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BY GLADYS ZARECKI EMUNAH OTTAWA Rivka’s dedication and never faltering belief his year’s Emunah Family-in-Israel event will be held Monday, June 18, 6:30 pm, at Congregation in the importance of Emunah’s lifesaving Machzikei Hadas. Co-Chairs Anna-Lee Chiprout and life-affirming mission, has inspired and Barbara Crook promise a most elegant and many women to become proud Emunah Tinspiring affair: a gala dinner honouring Rivka Kraus, a tireless and passionate lifetime volunteer. Our guest life members. speaker, coming from Israel for this unique occasion, is Shlomo Kessel, director of World Emunah. immediate: music. Given her passion for opera and Emunah’s honoree, Rivka Kraus, was raised in classical music, she chose to have the funds dedicated Israel and married Cantor Moshe Kraus at age 17. The to a special music therapy program known as “Ryth- couple lived in Belgium, South Africa, Mexico, and music” at the Emunah Multipurpose Daycare Centres. Canada, and in each community they made their These centres cater to children that come from chal- mark. Arriving in Ottawa 40 years ago, Rivka became lenging home environments. The daycare staff – work- an active Emunah member and later served as local ing with the social services department in Israel – cre- president and treasurer. She is currently national ates individualized programs for each family they serve vice-president of Emunah Canada. with a goal of keeping families together. Very often Thanks to Rivka’s wide range of interests, and her these children do not receive sufficient enrichment numerous contacts with dignitaries and politicians of and stimulation at home so the Rythmusic program is all stripes, whom she invited to speak at events, Emu- important. It combines music and occupational ther- nah Ottawa is well known for its tremendous programs apy, allowing children to receive the stimulation they and guest speakers. Along with members of the execu- Honoree Rivka Kraus has chosen Rythmusic, a music therapy need to thrive and succeed. tive committee, Rivka canvassed for multiple sponsors program for at-risk children in Israel to receive the proceeds Proceeds from the dinner will go to support the from this year’s Emunah Family-in-Israel event. and ads, kept the books and made thousands of phone Rythmusic program for 200 of the most vulnerable and calls, all the while keeping administrative costs to the neglected children in the Emunah Canada Therapeutic minimum. Her goal was always that money raised to ensure continuity, Rivka sent several members on Daycare Centres in Ashkelon and Ashdod. would go straight to helping children at risk in Israel. Young Leadership Missions so they could discover the For more information, to receive an invitation, and to Rivka’s dedication and never faltering belief in the tremendous breadth and scope of what Emunah is find out about sponsorship opportunities, contact the importance of Emunah’s lifesaving and life-affirming achieving in Israel. Montreal Emunah Office at [email protected] mission, has inspired many women to become proud When Rivka was asked which of Emunah’s projects or 1-514-485-2397. In order to make this gala an elegant Emunah life members. With her characteristic foresight she would like this event to support, her answer was and dignified affair, reservations by June 4, are required. May 28, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 17 JCC Monday ad.qxp_Layout 1 2018-05-07 6:44 PM Page 1

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You will meet Israelis in their homes, Rabbi Garten has taken a special and visit sites you have never been to interest in the development of this before, including art galleries, ancient extensive tour and describes it as, “a synagogues, a Druze village, archaeo- unique opportunity to see Israel at its logical treasures and the newly opened AJA 50+ travellers gather in during a tour of Israel in November 2010. most complicated best.” Ammunition Hill Museum. “The New and Ancient in Israel” will Our special tour will enhance your take travellers to fascinating off-the- knowledge of other religions in Israel, beaten-path locations in the Western one of the highlights being the holiest and Northern Galilee, Haifa, Tel Aviv sites of the Baha’i faith. JFS’ Rebecca Fromowitz and Jerusalem, and will be of interest to Both first-timers and returnees will returning visitors as well as first-timers. be inspired by the historic sites in Jeru- The 10 days of touring will feature salem, where you will also celebrate receives social work award many unique experiences from the Shabbat. On other days, join in Israeli time you land in Israel until you leave. dancing and listen to street musicians BY MARK ZARECKI JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF OTTAWA Participants will begin by exploring the during fun-filled evenings. Ein Hod artist colony near Haifa, and Previous trips have sold out quickly, ebecca Fromowitz, assistant then visit Zippori National Park to view so plan to join us for an exciting adven- executive director at Jewish its extraordinary ancient mosaics. On ture with your friends and community. Family Services of Ottawa subsequent days you will learn first- For more information about the trip, (JFS) and director of hand about the security issues confront- including the detailed itinerary and RCounselling Services, received the ing Israelis in the Upper Galilee – the pricing, visit http://static.daattravel.com/ Bessie Touzel Award from the Ontario partnership region of Ottawa’s Jewish Flipbooks/AJA_Oct_2018/ and our page Association of Social Workers on April community. Those with a taste for the on Facebook. 25. The award recognizes the achieve- ment of social workers who demon- strate leadership, vision and dedication in the practice of social work and who have made significant contributions to the social work profession. Areas of social work practice taken into con- sideration may include: direct service, Rebecca Fromowitz is the 2018 recipient of management, community develop- the Bessie Touzel Award from the Ontario Association of Social Workers. ment, public policy, education, advocacy and research. The agency is particularly pleased ing Arabic and Spanish. that Rebecca received the award Another example of Rebecca’s work this year. It has been JFS’ policy over is her implementation of the very suc- the years to identify and hire Jewish cessful Walk-In Counselling Clinic. The professionals. This has been a great agency currently has eight locations challenge with so few Jewish social in the Champlain LHINS region. The workers staying in Ottawa. Rebecca program was created and coordinated started at JFS as a student placement by JFS. The agency is providing super- from Carleton University and quickly vision and training for the staff across became a leader and one of our assis- all sites. The model is being replicated tant executive directors. in other communities, and is being In her role as director of Coun- recognized as a successful model for selling Services, Rebecca has grown quick and free walk-in counselling the program and has helped with service. The Walk-in Counselling Clinic the expansion of the vision of the ensures that those in our community agency. She is a visionary thinker and who do not have resources have access a leader in the Ottawa social service to immediate no-fee counselling. sector. She is a champion of advocacy Rebecca has spear-headed chang- for our clients as well as the sector. es to the unit, responsively meeting Under her leadership, The Counsel- the needs of Ottawa and ensuring ling Group at JFS has expanded from services continue to be as sustainable a staff of five to over thirty clinicians. and accessible. Rebecca’s receiving Rebecca has also integrated numer- the Bessie Touzel Award is recogni- ous additional languages of service, tion of the cutting edge nature of the mirroring the languages that the Set- work that JFS has been offering over tlement Sector offers clients, includ- the years. May 28, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 19 Israeli novels confront ethical dilemmas can migrant. Believing they are alone, work about Israel and human nature. judge who lives on the third floor, Eitan does the unthinkable – or, at least, Book club readers may find themselves speaks to the past by relating her tale RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN THE REPORTER, VESTAL, N.Y. an action he once assumed would be agreeing with both sides of the issues to her late husband by means of an unthinkable: He leaves the man on the raised, while lovers of literary fiction will old answering machine whose mes- BOOK REVIEW side of the road and drives away. definitely want to add Gundar-Goshen’s sage he recorded. Unfortunately for Eitan, there is a novel to their must-read list. All three narrators are facing a cri- witness: Sirkit, the man’s wife, who sis in their lives. Aron is distraught shows up at Eitan’s door – first demand- over whether an elderly neighbour did ing money and then his medical services something unspeakable to his daugh- for other illegal migrants. When Liat ter. His fear begins to undermine not Waking Lions is assigned to investigate the African’s Three Floors Up only his marriage, but his sanity, as By Ayelet Gundar- death, Eitan must again face the moral By Eshkol Nevo his obsession distances him from Goshen and ethical implications of his act. Other Press those he loves. Hani is unsatisfied Back Bay Books Gundar-Goshen explores a variety of 288 pages with her life as a stay-at-home moth- 352 pages issues: how our perception of ourselves er, especially during the times her may differ from our actual behaviour; husband must travel for business. She the relationship between spouses, understands not only her own com- including whether it’s possible to ever plaints, but how her husband could truly know someone; the lingering prej- successfully rebut them. This doesn’t ne moment – one decision – udice against poor Sephardic Jews; and n apartment building is like a prevent her from breaking one of his can change the course of a the plight of African refugees who are miniature city: each person rules: when her brother-in-law shows lifetime. That’s what Eitan afraid to return to their native lands. lives in separate, but loosely up at the apartment door, she invites Green discovers in Ayelet The author’s view is intensely person- connected worlds. In Eshkol him inside, even though he’s wanted OGundar-Goshen’s fascinating Waking al, giving readers a nuanced, detailed ANevo’s excellent Three Floors Up, the lives by the police. Lions. view of her character’s inner lives that of three tenants are explored in close My favorite section focused on Devo- Eitan’s life has already taken an is incredibly well done, even if once in detail. What connects their stories – in ra, who lived her life according to her unwanted turn: he and his family a while a character’s introspectiveness addition to the fact all three live in the husband’s high standards, even when moved to Beersheva when his career as seems a bit too much. same apartment building – is that each of that meant not supporting their only a neurosurgeon was derailed due to a Gundar-Goshen’s greatest triumph, the main characters is in desperate need child. Now that she lives alone and is conflict with the professor who served though, is her slow and careful rev- of a confidant with whom they can share no longer working, Devora is at a loss. as his mentor. While his wife Liat, who elation of Sirkit’s inner life, one that their troubles. A decision to attend a demonstration in works as a police detective, and their remains invisible to those unable One of the first floor apartments Tel Aviv changes the course of her life. two children have adjusted to their to see past her status as an illegal is occupied by Aron, who confides in Each section in Three Floors Up is new home, Eitan is frustrated. Then migrant. The impossibility of truly an army friend he hasn’t seen in ages. compelling and Nevo manages to cre- one night, after an unsatisfying time at understanding a person – unless Hani, who lives on the second floor, ate believable characters and suspense work, he decides to drive in the dunes you’ve shared their history – serves a writes letters to a childhood friend, about their behaviour. His book is a surrounding Beersheva, even though it’s major theme throughout the novel. to formulate an objective view of the wonderful look at human nature and dark. Unable to see, his car hits an Afri- Waking Lions is an eye-opening changes in her life. Devora, a retired Israeli society.

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Roz and Morty Elman Mazel Tov on your Burt Gorenstein Mazel Tov on your second Eric Elkin and Molly Hirsch Mazel Tov on the By making a contribution of $1,000 grandson Matthew’s Bar Mitzvah by Bar Mitzvah by Esther and David Kwavnick birth of your granddaughter by or more, you can create a permanent Arlene and Seymour Isenberg remembrance for a loved one, honour a Maureen and Henry Molot ***************** Toby and Joel Yan Mazel Tov on the birth of family member, declare what the Lodge Gert and Norm Leyton Family Fund Therapeutics Program your new grandson by Julia, Ted, Jess and has meant to you and/or support a cause In Honour of: In Honour of: Ayelet, and Henry and Maureen Molot and Dina Teitlebaum In appreciation by Mrs. Lee Curry Have a happy and healthy spe- that you believe in. family Cheryl Leyton and Manuel Glimcher cial Birthday by Carol Gradus A Hillel Lodge Honour Fund is a per- Carole and Bernie Starkman Mazel Tov on the Melissa Weiner Happy and healthy special manent pool of capital that earns interest birth of your first grandson by Henry, Max Lieff Endowment Fund Birthday by Carol Gradus or income each year. 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David Silverman was born in Toronto on January discussed Long Term Care – they decided that Ottawa and more specically Hillel 19, 1934. At 84, he is one of the younger residents Lodge would be a good choice. at the Lodge. David’s parents, Sarah (from ) and Ephraim (from Poland) were married in These two Torontonians will tell you what many of us in Ottawa already know, Europe and then immigrated to Canada in 1928. “Ottawa is a beautiful city and the people here are very friendly”. David adds that David was the little brother to Florence (who “the Lodge has many great activities” – highlighting the bingos and monthly passed away last year), they lived in Toronto’s birthday parties. Kensington Market area on McCaul Street. David When I asked David what makes the Lodge special, he told me that when he was in became the man of the house very early, as his Toronto, he attended Shabbat services regularly for almost 40 years at Adath Israel David Silverman father died when David was a very young boy. near Wilson and Bathurst. In his own words “it’s important to go to shul, and at the In 1951, at the age of 17, David dropped out of Givins Commercial School (after Lodge I can do that”. David is a regular at the Lodge’s Shabbat services. attending Ryerson Public School) to help his mother pay the bills. He started David feels that people should try to do more for themselves. It may take a little working for the Federal Government’s department of National Health and Welfare longer and not be as easy as asking for help, but he encourages people of all ages to processing “Baby” bonuses. He worked for the Federal Government for 44 years try and try and try again before asking for help. before retiring (Interesting that the government recognized only 43 years as they started counting once he was 18). I asked David a simple question at the end of our interview, as a Resident - what do you think the Lodge needs? An open-ended question that could have had many David met his wife Netta at a dance at the YMHA on Spadina (now the Miles Nadal responses. David didn’t hesitate to reply “More sta. The current sta are great, but JCC). Netta will tell you that David did his talking through dance. He loved and still they don’t have time to do everything they need to do and spend time getting to loves to dance just like his late mother did. Two years after they met on the dance know us.” oor – David and Netta were married on February 28, 1960. When we were wrapping up, Netta and David were laughing that for a guy who David and Netta have two children and ve granddaughters (ages 16-24) that they didn’t say much for most of his life…he found his voice at the youth-lled age of 80. are very proud of. Their daughter Sharon lives in Toronto. Their son Michael and his We look forward to many more years of hearing what David has to say. family are in Ottawa and regularly visit the Lodge as well as actively volunteering on the Lodge’s Family Council. David will be participating in the 10th annual Biking for Bubbies. To help him reach his goals visit www.hillel-ltc.com/pledge It was in 2013 that David and Netta moved from Toronto to Ottawa. David had been in the Toronto General Hospital for seven months and when the family By Mitch Miller, Executive Director, Hillel Lodge LTC Foundation May 28, 2018 22 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM A Shabbat in the Heights getaway BY ALICIA HEARNS JEWISH YOUTH LIBRARY dance, the group of 20 from Ottawa was The weekend included such events as Participating in Shabbaton getaways the largest delegation. Shabbat candle lighting and traditional such as “Shabbat in the Heights” is uring the last week of April, Participants were provided with an Shabbat ceremonies, uplifting Chassidut one of the ways in which individuals members of Ottawa’s Jewish “insider’s tour of the neighbourhood.” gatherings, group study and dinners. in the Jewish community can devel- community travelled by bus to This included a walking tour of Crown There were also many opportunities to op a deeper sense of connection with Crown Heights in Brooklyn to Heights, a visit to the synagogue of participate in insightful lectures and those they share similar philosophies Dtake part in a “Shabbat in the Heights” Lubavitch World Headquarters, “770,” workshops organized with wonderful and ideas. Through the participation of weekend getaway. This annual event, Chabad Central Headquarters, the Jew- and inspiring keynote speakers such such gatherings and in seeing so many organized by the Rohr Jewish Learning ish Children’s Museum, a Chassidic art as Rabbi Benny Zippel, Rabbi Chaim individuals with similar values congre- Institute (JLI) in conjunction with the gallery, the Rebbe’s house, the Ohel, Hanoka, Rabbi Mordy Dinerman, Molly gate, it is impossible not to feel a deep Lubavitch Youth Organization, is a and more. Resnick and more. and profound sense of belonging and “spirited Shabbat experience in the Accommodations organized by JLI “I had hoped for a life-expanding acceptance. nerve centre of the Chabad-Lubavitch with friendly and welcoming families Shabbaton. It was much better than For more information on the various movement.” The trip from Ottawa was residing in Crown Heights allowed indi- that. It was life altering... All of the programs offered by the Jewish Youth organized by the Jewish Youth Library. viduals to gain a more in-depth experi- speakers were very human, compas- Library of Ottawa and to keep up to date The Shabbaton lived up to the expec- ence of what it is like to live in the city sionate and enthusiastic with their life on information regarding future getaways tations of participants from Ottawa. Of and participate in the night life within lessons,” said Ottawa attendee Tom visit us at www.jewishyouthlibrary.com or the 300 adults and children in atten- the community. Dewar. call Devora Caytak at 613-729-7712. Malka Touger speaks to Jewish students and women

BY ALICIA HEARNS of maintaining their ties to their Jewish ciated. “Mrs. Touger’s workshop on this and strength of connection to our fami- JEWISH YOUTH LIBRARY community and the values and ideas relevant topic drew women from all dif- ly,” said attendee Stacy Goldstein. n April, the Jewish Youth Library they have cultivated through their edu- ferent neighbourhoods and from across For more information on the various welcomed world-renowned lecturer cation. a diverse range of age groups. As women, programs offered by the Jewish Youth and author Malka Touger to deliver a Touger also conducted a two-part we know that the strength in our rela- Library of Ottawa and to keep up to date series of workshops for students and series of workshops for women in con- tionships translates to strength in our on information regarding guest speakers, Iwomen in Ottawa’s Jewish community. junction with Congregation Machzikei marriages, strength in our friendships visit us at www.jewishyouthlibrary.com. Touger is a teacher and author whose Hadas which explored ideas of marriage insights have attracted audiences around and intimacy in connection to Judaism. the world. She has also produced several Part one, “Renew, Rejuvenate and Recon- educational videos in both English and nect,” explored how Jewish women can Hebrew, as well as a film in collaboration gain tools to refresh a relationship. Part with JEM. two, “The Inside Story,” discussed the During her stay in Ottawa, she visit- Torah perspective on intimacy. ed many schools including the Ottawa Through these workshops, Touger Jewish Community School, Torah Day discussed ideas of personal growth and School and Torah High to deliver lec- development in relation to women, tures on a variety of important topics providing a well-rounded, text-based such as “How do Jewish teens preserve look at this integral and sensitive their Judaism in a public high school part of a Jewish women’s life. These environment?” “Why Judaism is rel- talks emphasized the importance of evant to teens this day and age” and men and women remaining in sync “Preparing yourself for Matan Torah: throughout their marriage and of Learning from the Beis Hamikdash.” maintaining the same values. Further- Such topics are highly important more, she discussed the importance of among Jewish youth who may face a taking initiative in relationships and number of obstacles regarding their bridging the gap with others to try to HOWARD SANDLER beliefs as they prepare for adulthood. improve and invest in relationships in Jewish Unity Live: Dedicated community volunteers Leah and Issie Scarowsky were Touger’s talks allowed students to begin a positive way. honoured, May 6 at Centrepointe Studio Theatre, when JET (Jewish Education through to consider the possibility of such diffi- Her ideas regarding marriage, family Torah) presented its annual Jewish Unity Live event. culties and emphasized the importance and women’s issues were greatly appre-

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ct 5, scene 3 of “Romeo and Juliet” is the gathered to decide what to do about intermarriage. well-known death scene. Juliet is lying in the Since the 1970s, the Conservative Movement has tomb under the influence of a sleeping potion RABBI STEVEN H. GARTEN banned its rabbis from officiating or even attending that makes it appear she has died. Romeo A VIEW FROM wedding ceremonies between Jews and non-Jews. But Afinds her in the tomb. He mourns over her body, then over time, the number of rabbis challenging this stance drinks poison as he believes that Juliet is truly dead. THE BLEACHERS has grown steadily. Juliet wakes up moments later and overcome with grief, Following the meeting, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Art- stabs herself in the heart. If the one she loves no longer son, dean of Zeigler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los lives, life is not worth living. Angeles, wrote: “We are committed to the principles Read the scene again, this time focusing on your Our community is confronted with of inclusiveness and welcoming and human dignity own response. Do you see two foolish teenagers hope- post-modernity. We are no longer of all people. We’re also committed to the principles lessly infatuated and blind to the world around them? of the integrity of Jewish law and commanded-ness.” Do you see yourself in them and ask what you would strangers in a strange land. His words were part of a letter sent by the Rabbinical sacrifice for the one you love? Assembly to its members in response to a declaration William Shakespeare is not the only author who has United States have a non-Jewish partner. The numbers by a small but significant group of Conservative rabbis asked this difficult question. The Talmud tells us that are somewhat smaller in Canada but in both countries that they would begin officiating at intermarriages. there are three sins for which one is required to die: the rates of intermarriage are rising exponentially. What a dilemma! If you love Judaism with all your idolatry, sexual misconduct (incest, adultery, bestiali- We are well aware of how emotionally charged this heart and all your soul, what are you prepared to do ty) and murder. Although ordinarily one is permitted topic is for our community. All members of the com- to preserve it? On one hand, intermarriage is a real- to transgress when a life is in danger, certain munity have staked out positions on the spectrum: ity; let’s reach out and hope that our efforts engage situations require one to give his or her life, for what clergy who will officiate at ceremonies between Jews Jews. On the other hand, how can we desert the prin- they believe. The Talmud is comfortable equating and non-Jews and those who will not; parents whose ciples that we have lived and died for? It sounds like belief and love, for it understands that to preserve the children marry non-Jews and want a rabbinic officiant; the words to a song from “Fiddler on the Roof.” In essence of our faith, our people, which we love and those who feel as if the sacrifices made to raise their Anatevka, Tevye was confronted with the beginnings believe in, requires the ultimate sacrifice. children in a Jewish home have been for naught when of modernity. Our community is confronted with We are rarely placed in the position to make such the child brings home an unconverted spouse-to-be. In post-modernity. We are no longer strangers in a strange difficult choices. Our lives are usually immune from all these circumstances, the overwhelming intentional- land. We are citizens fully integrated into the societies such life and death situations. Yet there is one set of ity has been to “save the Jewish people,” to “preserve in which we live. Unlike Tevye, we can’t run away seek- circumstances for which many of us are not simply the Jewish religion.” It is our love of Judaism that ing a fresh start. uninterested bystanders: intermarriage. serves as the source of our emotional response. The discussion taking place within the Conservative Intermarriage occurs when a person of Jewish birth Last June, 19 rabbis gathered in New York City for Movement is not relegated to one movement – it is the chooses to marry a person born into a non-Jewish fam- an urgent meeting. It wasn’t a secret meeting, but it conversation of every person who loves Judaism, who ily without prior conversion. In 2013, the Pew Research was certainly not public. The rabbis, all members of wishes to preserve Judaism, and is willing to do more Center found that 44 per cent of married Jews in the the Conservative Movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, than just chat about it. Sunday, June 10, 2018 JET YARCHEI KALLAH 1pm at Temple JEWISH EDUCATIONAL JULY 2- 7, 2018 EXTRAVAGANZA 1301 Prince of Wales Dr

Are you curious about Lunch and Learns Jewish Mysticism/ Mon: The Occult & Kabbalah 101 Curious George? Superstition -or- Tues: Guns 4 Jewish Habits You may remember Curious George as a Wed: Sleep for a Happy Life sweet little monkey who can’t help but get Thurs: Tzedakah 7:20 – 8:20 PM Fri: The Afterlife into trouble and his friend “The Man in the Yellow Hat,” who tries to take care of The Mussar Path MORNING CLASSES & George and always ends up saving the day. to Personal LUNCH AND LEARNS Transformation A Jewish Look @ Hillel Lodge However, did you know that the book series was written and drawn by at Christianity -or- Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey, a Jewish couple that grew up in 8:30 - 9:30 PM EVENING CLASSES The Ten early-20th-century Germany? Have you heard the story of how they fled @ The Soloway Jewish Commandments 9:15 - 10:30 AM Paris on bikes carrying the Curious George manuscript with them just a Community Centre few hours before the city fell to the Nazis? SHABBATON @ Congregation Beit Tikvah Temple Israel is proud to announce that we will have the honour of hosting the Canadian Premiere of this amazing film. During the Marvelous Miriam premiere of the documentary, there will be programming for The Ten Plagues A Text Based Class children between the ages of 4 – 10 that will include games, crafts, A Text Based Class -or- 8:00 - 9:00 AM The Jewish Zodiac book readings, and videos all about Curious George. There’s a rumour 10:45 AM - 12:00 that a character from the book series may even make an appearance! There is no cost to attend this event – all we ask is Shabbaton Friday night: Weapons of Mass that you bring your family, friends and your curiosity Distraction about the stories that have been favourites of Shabbos Day: The Joke’s on You children and parents alike for over 70 years. Please RSVP to Temple office 613-224-1802 or Live. Life.Better. [email protected] q613-695-4800 E [email protected] www.jetottawa.com May 28, 2018 24 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM

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The Board of Directors of the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation APPOTIVE FAMILY ENDOWMENT KATIE ELLEN FARBER acknowledges with thanks contributions to the following funds from FUND MEMORIAL FUND APRIL 15-30, 2018 In Memory of: In Memory of: Elliott Feller by Sharron and Cila Farber by Randi and Ian Sherman Reminder: Printed acknowledgment must be requested to appear in Howard Appotive the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. Esther Cohen by Sharon and ALFRED AND KAYSA FRIEDMAN David Appotive ENDOWMENT FUND Refuah Shlemah to: Join us in building our community by In Memory of: BRAYDEN APPOTIVE Barry Baker by Alfred Friedman supporting these local agencies Goldie Davies by Sandra and ENDOWMENT FUND Norman Zagerman by Alfred Friedman Norman Slover Mazal Tov to: AJA 50+ ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday Wishes to: Bissonnette Family on the birth of Dr. Bill James by Alfred Friedman Birthday Wishes to: OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY their son Louis Joseph by Sharon and Molly Hirsch by Judy and Jerry Goldstein ENDOWMENT FUND David Appotive Mazal Tov to: Peter Kornics on your new position at In Memory of: The Alta Vista Retirement Home by MENDEL AND VALERIE GOOD Nina Cass by Marilyn and David Akman ANNE AND LOUIS ARRON MEMORIAL FUND Alfred Friedman HOLOCAUST CONTINUING Mazal Tov to: EDUCATION FUND Adelia and David Bensoussan on the In Memory of: Cila Farber by Daphne and FRAN AND SID GERSHBERG In Memory of: birth of their granddaughter by FAMILY FUND Abraham Newman by Sarah Beutel and Marilyn and Daniel Akman Stanley Arron Steve Morgan and Family Birthday Wishes to: ALYCE AND ALLAN BAKER Arnold Swedler by Fran and JOSEPH AGES FAMILY FUND FAMILY FUND Sid Gershberg HILLEL LODGE LEGACY FUND Mazal Tov to: Anniversary Wishes to: In Memory of: Sandra and Murray Ages on the Rayzel and Ernest Goldstein by GILBOA/MAOZ FAMILY FUND Cila Farber by Donna and Bernard birth of their granddaughter by Alyce and Allan Baker In Memory of: Dolansky Sandra Marchello Cila Farber by Tal Gilboa, Rob Steiner RICKI AND BARRY BAKER JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES and Family, and by Chaim Gilboa AND ISRAEL (AL) ALLICE ENDOWMENT FUND Helen Gilboa by Tal Gilboa AGENCY FUND MEMORIAL FUND Refuah Shlemah to: Birthday Wishes to: Refuah Shlemah to: Barry Baker by Sandra and HOWARD HERZL GOLDBERG Barry Weinstock by Sandra and Norman Barry Baker by Beverly and Norman Slover MEMORIAL FUND Slover Irving Swedko Birthday Wishes to: CAYLA AND MICHAEL BAYLIN Edward Weinberg by Helene, Shawn, ENDOWMENT FUND Chaim and Aaron Goldberg In Memory of: Cila Farber by Cayla Baylin JACK AND GERT GOLDSTEIN Sam Lithwack by Cayla Baylin MEMORIAL FUND Refuah Shlemah to: In Memory of: Barry Baker by Cayla Baylin Cila Farber by Diane and Allen Abramson IRVING AND CLAIRE BERCOVITCH Abraham Neuman by Diane and ENDOWMENT FUND Allen Abramson In Memory of: Judith Schneiderman by Claire HERB AND DENA GOSEWICH Bercovitch ENDOWMENT FUND Teena Goldberg by Claire Bercovitch. Refuah Shlemah to: Norman Zagerman by Dena MARTIN AND ELLIE BLACK Gosewich and Family ENDOWMENT FUND Herb Cohen by Dena Gosewich In Memory of: and Family Nina Cass by Marty and Ellie Black In Memory of: Cila Farber by Marty and Ellie Black Cila Farber by Dena Gosewich SANDI AND EDDY COOK and Family AND FAMILY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND JEFFREY AND ENID GOULD FAMILY FUND In Memory of: Cila Farber by Sandra and Eddy Cook Birthday Wishes To; Bill James by Jeff and Enid Gould LESLIE AND CORNELIA ENGEL ENDOWMENT FUND FRITZI AND MAX (CHIEF) GREENBERG MEMORIAL FUND In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Cornelia Angel by Dr. Andre Engel In Memory of: Cila Farber by Linda, Murray and BARBARA AND LEN FARBER Greenberg Family ENDOWMENT FUND Nina Cass by Linda, Murray and Greenberg Family In Memory of: Cila Farber by Jessica and Mazal Tov to: Micah Garten Norm Ferkin on receiving a TOV award from Kehilat Beit Israel by Linda, Murray and Greenberg Family May 28, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 25

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LARRY AND SHEILA HARTMAN SAMUEL AND LEEMA MAGIDSON their granddaughters Kate and WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE ENDOWMENT FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Allison Bat Mitzvah’s by Myra, Lester ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday Wishes To: Birthday Wishes to: and Aronson Family Mother’s Day Wishes to: Janice and Howard Sipnner by Roselyn, Arnold Swedler by Sheila and Larry MOE AND CHARLOTTE SLACK Lynne Oreck-Wener by Hart, Jocelyn, Hartman Arnold and Kimmel Family Eleni, Benji, Taryn, Tim and Lucas Wener Refuah Shlemah to: MEMORIAL FUND In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Mazal Tov to: JEREMY KANTER MEMORIAL Barry Baker by Roselyn, Arnold and Bonnie and Alan Finkelstein on the FUND Kimmel Family Moe Slack by Marlene Levine and Andrew Siman, and by Sandra Palef and engagement of Shari to Alex by Lynne In Memory of: THE OTTAWA LION OF JUDAH Nissim Avraham, and by Enid Slack, and Bobby Wener Lynda Latner’s father by Julie Kanter ENDOWMENT FUND Ron Kanter and Family Dr. and Mrs. E.B. Weinstein on the and Joe Silverman In Memory of: Charlotte Slack by by Marlene Levine engagement of Courtenay to Aaron by Janina Solomon by Evelyn Eisenberg Cila Farber by Leiba Kranzberg and and Andrew Siman, and by Sandra Palef Lynne and Bobby Wener Michael Metz and Nissim Avraham, and by Enid Slack, DAHLIA AND ZACHARY SYD, ETHEL, LINDA AND Jenina Solomon by Leiba Kranzberg and Ron Kanter and Family STEVEN KERZNER AND FAMILY Michael Metz SHABSOVE B’NAI MITZVAH FUND COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND CASEY AND BESS SWEDLOVE Condolences to: In Memory of: GERALD AND MARY-BELLE MEMORIAL FUND Cindy Poplove on the loss of her grand- Nina Cass by Linda and Steven Kerzner PULVERMACHER FAMILY Refuah Shlemah to: father by Adrianne Shabsove Cila Farber by Linda and Steven Kerzner ENDOWMENT FUND Barry Baker by Carol-Sue and Pat and Morris Neuman on their loss by Joseph Murray by Linda and Steven In Memory of: Jack Shapiro Adrianne Shabsove Kerzner Cila Farber by Mary-Belle and Gerry Marilyn Kimmel by Carol-Sue and JONATHAN, MATTHEW AND Mazal Tov to: Pulvermacher Jack Shapiro Nina Cass by Mary-Belle and Gerry ADAM SHERMAN B’NAI MITZVAH Dr. & Mrs. Eric Elkin on the birth of their TAMIR FOUNDATION FUND FUND new granddaughter by Linda and Steven Pulvermacher Kerzner In Memory of: Donation Made by: MOE AND SARAH RESNICK Samantha Molot by Judith and Gavriel Stulberg Mr. & Mrs. Mendy Taller on the birth of ENDOWMENT FUND their new granddaughter by Linda and Vince Piazza In Memory of: ARIELLE ZELIKOVITZ B’NAI Steven Kerzner Elaine Kurtz by Penny, Gordon and BRENT AND RISA TAYLOR MITZVAH FUND Refuah Shlemah to: Resnick Family ENDOWMENT FUND In Memory of: Joe Levitan by Linda and Steven Kerzner In Memory of: Esther Cohen by Lenora, Evan, Noah Ronald Levitan by Linda and Steven FLORENCE AND GDALYAH Nina Cass by Risa, Brent and Shira Taylor and Arielle Zelikovitz Kerzner ROSENFELD ENDOWMENT FUND Cila Farber by Risa, Brent and Shira Taylor In Memory of: NOAH ZELIKOVITZ B’NAI MITZVAH ARTHUR AND SARAH KIMMEL Cila Farber by Anita Rosenfeld STEPHEN AND GAIL VICTOR FUND MEMORIAL FUND ENDOWMENT FUND Vita Winthrop by Anita Rosenfeld Condolences to: Nina Cass by Anita Rosenfeld In Memory of: Mazal Tov to: Janet Shabsove by Lenora, Evan, Noah Cila Farber by Mary-Belle and Gerry Stephen Victor on the tremendous honor and Arielle Zelikovitz Pulvermacher FRANCES AND MORTON ROSS of receiving an Honorary Doctorate Paul Cook by Marilyn and Daniel Kimmel FAMLY FUND from Hebrew University of Jerusalem Anniversary Wishes to: Contributions may be made by Evelyn Greenberg, and by Sandra online at www.OJCF.ca or by PHILLIP AND ETTIE KIMMEL Rayzel and Ernest Goldstein by Frances Marchello MEMORIAL FUND and Morton Ross contacting the office at 613-798- Frances and Morton Ross by John, Refuah Shlemah to: In Memory of: Barry Baker by Gail and Stephen Victor 4696 extension 274, Monday to Jessie, Liz, Mark and Families Friday or by email at Sam Lithwack by Stan Kimmel Birthday Wishes to: In memory of: Paul Cook by Stan Kimmel Elizabeth Szirtes by Frances and Morton Cila Farber by Gail and Stephen Victor [email protected]. 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ENDOWMENT FUND Refuah Shlemah to: In Memory of: Joe Levitan by Frances and Morton Ross Cila Farber by Isabel and Norman Lesh SHELLEY AND SID ROTHMAN THE LEVITZ FAMILY FUND FAMILY FUND In Memory of: Mazal Tov to: Nina Cass by Sharon, David Appotive Stephanie and Allan Shefrin on the and by Susan and Charles Schwartzman, birth of their daughter Frances Gerri by and by The Board and JFO staff Jessica, Marc, Jack and Leo Borenstein, and by Rena and Max Cohen SHEKEL HAKODESH Ingrid Levitz on the birth of her grand- ENDOWMENT FUND daughter Frances Gerri by Jessica, Marc, In Memory of: Jack and Leo Borenstein Cila Farber by Laurie and Steven Gordon ARNOLD AND ROSE LITHWICK STELLA AND LOUIS SLACK MEMORIAL FUND MEMORIAL FUND Happy Birthday to: In Memory of: Barry Lithwick by and Harvey Goldie Davis by Myra and Lester Aronson Lithwick Mazal Tov to: Stephanie and Thomos Hirschen on May 28, 2018 26 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Find your place in the sun by adapting to your body’s changing needs his spring it felt like we went from an extended us. In early May, we had a windstorm with 100 km-per- winter straight into summer. In mid-April we hour winds. But then a few days later it was 25 C., were subjected to heavy freezing rain referred to GLORIA SCHWARTZ sunny and glorious! There’s an older gentleman I used as Ice Storm 2018. We had snow and temper- FOCUS ON to notice from time to time walking his dog. Then for Tatures well below the seasonal norm. In the third week a few years I’d see him walking with poles. I’m guess- of April we suddenly had a balmy 20 C. The last rem- FITNESS ing the dog died. This spring while out running, I saw nants of winter finally melted. It felt wonderful to peel the man using a walker. He could have stayed home. away the layers of winter jackets, hats and boots and cast Instead, he seems to be facing his progressive mobility off the winter blues that weighs so many of us down. challenges with courage. I find that inspiring. Neighbours I’d only seen over the previous months Sometimes a few modifications to your gear A common changing need I and most runners expe- as we waved to each other while driving in and out rience at some time is foot-related. Finding a shoe that of our garages were now outside doing yard cleanups or the way you perform certain activities works best for your feet can make the world of differ- and walking across the lawn to chat. Walkers, runners can help you overcome obstacles. ence. After several of my 20-km runs, I was fed up with and cyclists were out in droves as was the new crop of the shoes that had been recommended by a foot spe- spring babies being pushed in strollers. winter and summer sports gear and gardening sup- cialist a few years ago. Whenever I run long distances, One mild and sunny day in April, while out for one plies. I treated myself to a new-to-me bicycle. Having these shoes give me horribly large painful blisters. So of my spring training runs in preparation for Ottawa experienced and nearly fully recovered from over six I reverted back to wearing a different type of running Race Weekend, I passed by the Ottawa Civic Hospital months of pain caused by bulging discs, I decided that shoe that I had. It doesn’t give me blisters but is too and observed numerous patients seated outside in rather than give up certain activities, I would adapt narrow; I only made my situation worse. A couple of wheelchairs. They were wearing hospital gowns, bath- accordingly. I did some research and determined long runs and several toenails were bruised and blis- robes and slippers. Some patients had intravenous that if I wanted to cycle, I needed to get a bike that tering underneath – telltale signs that they’d fall off in poles. Despite their personal health challenges, they would allow me to sit fully upright; forward flexion the weeks and months ahead. I’ve lost some toenails looked content being outdoors and able to feel the is not conducive to many lower back problems. My over the years and just like a lizard’s tail, they eventu- warmth of the sun on their faces, the gentle breeze trusty quarter-century-old mountain bike was no ally grow back. To accommodate my changing feet, I on their skin. Like the crocuses eagerly pushing their longer suitable. With my less sporty-looking but very finally bought a different type of shoe that I hope will heads up through the thawing ground, we’d waited so back-friendly cruiser style bicycle that I was lucky to be kinder to my tender tootsies. long for our springtime reawakening. I felt compassion find on consignment for less than half the price of a If your changing physical needs are preventing you for these patients but my heart sang for them too, brand new one, I’ve been able to enjoy leisurely rides from getting outdoors to exercise in this wonderful knowing that despite their suffering they could emerge all around town. Being able and willing to adapt to weather, don’t despair. Sometimes a few modifications from the hospital for a few moments of bliss. one’s changing needs and abilities is key to staying to your gear or the manner in which you perform cer- I felt so much more energetic than I had for active and fit. tain activities can help you overcome obstacles. I hope months. I cleaned out the garage and organized the Mother Nature wasn’t quite done having fun with you find your place in the sun.

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Ottawa Jewish Bulletin celebrates 70 years of modern Israeli statehood May 28, 2018 2 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM ISRAEL AT 70 The generation of 1948 who made the State of Israel possible As a teenager, Ottawa philanthropist Sara Vered served as a radio operator in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. In this article, Ariel Vered offers a tribute to her grand- mother’s actions then, and to her lifetime of support for the Jewish state.

very culture has its raconteurs, the individuals entrusted with communicating the history of a people. Sara Vered considers it Eher responsibility to tell the story of the establishment of the State of Israel; it has been a thread that has been woven throughout her life’s story. The history of the founding of the State of Israel is, essentially, Sara’s story. She was 12 when she joined Gadna, the pre-Haganah training organization. Four years later, at the age of 16, she joined the Haganah and was chosen as one of Sara Vered’s philanthropic efforts have 10 students to be trained as a wireless touched thousands of lives in both the Jewish communications operator. This was a and broader communities. time when being found with a radio apparatus was punishable with jail time. This experience demonstrated Sara’s lescence and has enriched so many lives commitment to an ideal, a view that Sara with her wealth of knowledge. would go on to carry with her through- Sara has touched many lives. A few Sara Vered (centre) was a Haganah wireless operator during the siege of Jerusalem in out her life. The circumstances may have years ago, she addressed a group of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. been perilous, but the greater good of Torah High students and their thoughts establishing and protecting a home for on the experience were compiled in a the Jewish people was what counted. booklet for her. Their comments speak Sara is first and foremost a Sabra. Born to Sara’s ability to communicate her Purchase your copy of the in Tel Aviv, she spent most of her youth experiences in a meaningful dialogue. in Jerusalem, where her father built a “The most important lesson I took 2018 Ottawa Jewish Directory macaroni factory. She remained in Jeru- from Mrs. Vered’s courage is that youth salem to perform her communication is the driving force in change,” said during the advance sale days duties during the siege while her family Michael Rogov, “and that if we try hard left for Tel Aviv. This was only a fraction enough we can do whatever we like.” at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre of the remarkable experiences she had in Ben Silverman said, “Hearing her the formative years of the State of Israel. stories and experiences really touched Later, she served in the communications me. It made me realize how truly special tueSDay, June 19 office of the headquarters of the Negev. Israel is and it also made me see what Shortly after marrying Zeev Vered in sort of things people can do when fight- 8:30 am - 12:30 pm 1950, the couple came to Canada. ing for something they believe in.” Celebrates They made their mark instantly as Educating and giving back have been WeDneSDay, June 20 the first Israeli students at McGill Uni- important values that Sara and Zeev versity. Sara and Zeev eventually moved promoted in their family and in the 8:30 am - 12:30 pm and to Ottawa and built Ron Engineering, community. Sara has served on boards 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm INSIDE FEATURES

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JERUSALEM (JTA) – For decades, world Jewry helped Israel. Organizations gathered and sent funds to the feeble, small state; our Air Force and Navy were formed and trained by Jewish volunteers from around the globe. As we celebrate our 70th year as a state, we should thank the previous gen- erations while shifting to a new era, one in which we reverse the roles and Israel spends more time and resources helping the Jews of the world. Since its inception, Israel has played two roles: First, it is the country of all of its citizens, Jews and non-Jews alike. Second, it is the nation state for all Jews, citizens or not. The Law of Return, which offers immediate citizenship to any Jew interested in living in Israel, is MIRIAM ALSTER/FLASH 90 the best example of this idea. As the “After 70 years of Diaspora Jews helping Israel, it is time for Israel to help Diaspora Jews,” says Israeli Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs Jewish homeland, Israel has always felt Naftali Bennett. a sense of responsibility toward the Jews of the world and has acted, often quiet- ly, to safeguard those in need – simply education and identity, multiplying the thing to do, it is also a strategic invest- care enough to be mad at Israel. To be because they are Jews. resources allocated to projects like Mosa- ment by Israel because when you disen- clear, I wish we could resolve all the Sadly, recent events in France and ic United, Birthright or Masa by at least gage from Judaism, you tend to disengage disagreements between North American Poland highlight the rise of anti-Sem- tenfold. This statement – and my contin- from Israel. The toughest challenge Jews and the Israeli government, but we itism and the need to maintain such ued policy of investing in education for facing us is the masses of Jews distanc- have to be realistic. There are serious actions. However, the greatest danger Diaspora communities – caused people ing themselves from Judaism and Israel. differences between North American facing the Jewish world in the 21st cen- to ask why. “Why should our tax monies This distancing has little to do with the and Israeli Jews, including the size and tury is disengagement: Millions of Jews, go to a child in Dallas or ?” disputes between the Diaspora and Isra- significance of non-Orthodox denomina- mainly in North America, are drifting I have two answers to this question. el. The often harsh criticism directed by tions. This, in turn, influences political away from Judaism and, as a result, from The first is a one-word answer coming Diaspora Jews at the Israeli government is representation and resulting public pol- Israel. Israel cannot ignore this reality. from my kishkes: because. Jews are being voiced by Jews who are connected icy. So while it is unlikely we will solve Acting as the home of the Jews, Israel family, and we need to help our family, and care deeply. Those angry at Israel are all the issues, we must work hard for an helped Jews in physical danger. Now it is whether in Brazil, England, Canada or those who love Israel and feel they have a open dialogue based on mutual respect time to help those at risk of losing their the United States. We help them because stake in the Jewish state. and understanding. connection to Judaism and Israel. we are all Jewish. In North America, for example, they Despite the massive gaps, I refuse to Not long ago, I told our government The other answer is a far second, but are a minority, not the majority. I am give up. Seeing a Jew drift away from that Israel ought to drastically increase it, too, has its place: Maintaining strong concerned with the 75 per cent of North our heritage and traditions, away from its investment in promoting Jewish Jewish communities is not only the moral American Jews, or more, who don’t See Bennett on page 12

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Continued from page 4 do for you. There’s a reason why Israel tunity to understand that distinction. ranks 11th on the world “Happiness The 77 per cent of American Jews who Index,” despite the nation’s many chal- hate Donald Trump still remain proudly lenges. Most Israelis are instinctively American. Why can’t we love Israel and Identity Zionists. Their identity blos- Zionism regardless of particular prime soms from the Zionist state – which ministers or policies, too? appreciates strong family values, robust Here’s the real question for Jews: community ties, deep patriotic feelings Do you feel connected to Israel, today’s – and a broader sense of mission in life. great Jewish people project? If so, you That’s part of the package Birthright stick with it because you belong to the participants and other tourists appre- Jewish people. And you help perfect ciate when visiting Israel. And that’s that state through Zionism – embracing the recipe that makes so many Israelis different schools of Zionist thought. It happy despite the rush-rush of their could be Religious Zionism or left-lean- society and the roar-roar of some Pal- ing Labour Zionism or right-leaning estinian neighbours demanding their Revisionist Zionism or Cultural Zionism. destruction. In honour of Israel at 70, I just pub- Zionism isn’t the only way or the lished The Zionist Ideas, updating Arthur best way, it’s just my way, my people’s Hertzberg’s classic anthology The Zion- way. I’m not smart enough to improvise ist Idea. Adding the “s” broadens the another framework. conversation, from the 38 thinkers in Identity Zionism includes commit- his book to the 170 in mine. As part of ments to Jewish education, Jewish its publication I am urging readers to action, to making Jewish ethics come host Zionist salons, home-based conver- alive, to Jewish peoplehood and Jew- sations addressing “what Zionism and ish community – these are core Zionist Israel mean to me today.” values I, for one, would – in Churchill’s Establishing Israel in 1948 fulfilled the words – never surrender. Zionist idea – that powerless Jews need Today, the #MeToo conversation a state as a refuge, immediately, and as a spotlights how often victims – especially platform to flourish and express Jewish women – internalize persecution, letting values, long-term. Seventy years later, bullies win. Anyone interested in aban- debating Zionist ideas welcomes debate doning Zionism first should ask: How from left to right, religious and nonre- much of this internalizes the delegitimi- ligious, about what Zionism and Israel zation campaign? can mean to me as Jew, as a person – If we don’t stand up for ourselves, Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, leaning over the balcony of the Drei Konige Hotel and how some of these ideas can help who are we? If we let those haters win, during the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 29, 1897. (GPO via Getty Images) Israel become a model democracy. what are we? And if we don’t start cele- That’s why Zionism didn’t end in brating and reclaiming the Z-word now 1948 – the debates continue. of explaining Judaism as a culture, a sion in an often aimless world. – at Israel’s 70th – then when? If Zionism as an idea asserts that Jews civilization, an ethnicity, a tradition, not Reclaiming Zionism often entails are a people with a homeland, and Zion- just a religion. It anchors us in a self-in- moving from Political Zionism – asking Gil Troy is a Distinguished Scholar of ism as a movement builds, protects and dulgent, throwaway society, providing a what we can do for our country – to North American History at McGill Univer- perfects the state, Zionism as a value is sense of community in an often lonely, Identity Zionism – asking, with apol- sity in Montreal. Follow him on Twitter @ more personal. Zionists see it as a way alienating culture, and a sense of mis- ogies to JFK, what your country can GilTroy.

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Rabbi Donniel Hartman compares Diaspora Jews to grown children who have left their parents’ homes. Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein compares the relationship between Jews who live in Israel and Jews who live in the Diaspora to a relationship of siblings.

Israel at 70: Israeli and Diaspora Jews are siblings living in very different homes

BY RABBI AVITAL HOCHSTEIN are free to create their own new spaces and struggling, often with success, to an ethical Jewish army should function, as they understand them, with no lim- break free from old traditions and ways, how to collect taxes and spend govern- JERUSALEM (JTA) – Rabbi Donniel itations stemming from parental bag- despite being in an all-too-familiar envi- ment revenues, and many more issues. Hartman, who lives in Jerusalem yet gage. Israeli Jews face a more arduous ronment. Jews in Israel today face new chal- works regularly in North America, likens task. Feeling free to innovate when one Israeli Jews, on the other hand, are lenges and novel circumstances. But we Diaspora Jews to grown children who has moved back into the home of one’s the siblings who have broken with old also have new tools to use because there have left their parents’ nest and created parents is more challenging, she says. family ways and are meeting new situ- exists a state with a Jewish majority and their own space and home outside the I appreciate both metaphors of family ations at every turn. Being the majority sovereignty. In our homeland, we have homeland of the Jewish people. dynamics. This is an important con- and having Jewish sovereignty are new the freedom to innovate, to experiment, The beloved grown adult children versation. Yet I am uncomfortable. The experiences for Jews, even after 70 years and to meet those challenges and cir- still feel at home when they visit their shift from understanding the relations of having a state. cumstances in our own way. parents – that is, Israel. Yet they may between Israeli Jews and world Jewry as As we mark our 70th anniversary as not go freely into every room in the one between parents and grown children, a state, we have a lot of work ahead of Rabbi Avital Hochstein is a research house or feel at ease, even though it is to appreciating them as the relations us figuring out how, for example, we fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute still their ancestral, family home. between siblings, is interesting, challeng- should treat minorities ethically and in Jerusalem and president of Hadar in Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein of the 14th ing and compelling. But the constraints Jewishly. We must continue asking how Israel. Street Y in New York spins that meta- that Rabbi Koch Epstein describes feel phor in another direction. She under- foreign to my experience as an Israeli. stands the relationship between Jews While the sibling metaphor is a help- who live in Israel and those who live ful way to understand the realities and elsewhere as one of siblings. She prefers challenges of Jews today, I would flip it: a portrait conveying greater equality World Jewry, not Israelis, are the grown between the two groups. children living in their parents’ home, Epstein says that Israeli Jews are like as indeed, Jews have been living out- the children who have moved back into side Israel, with no sovereignty and as a their parents’ home, while Jews else- minority, for more than 2,000 years. where are like the children who have set Thus, Jews around the world are up a new home. Jews around the world living in their parents’ environment

I am delighted to C’est avec plaisir que congratulate the members je félicite les membres of the Ottawa Jewish de la communauté community, and the team juive d’Ottawa, ainsi at the Ottawa Jewish que l’équipe de Bulletin, in recognition l’Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, of the 70th Anniversary à l’occasion du of the State of Israel. 70e anniversaire de Mazel Tov! l’État d’Israël. Mazel Tov!

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BY BEN SALES with electronics. One small rectangular TEL AVIV (JTA) – When Elad Horovitz screen was connected to sensors on the was shot in the head during Israel’s 2014 front-left corner of the car, blinking if it war in Gaza, his first concern was sur- got too close to anything. A camera sim- vival, not how to maintain peripheral ilar to the now-common rearview cam- vision while driving. eras was for Horovitz’s blind spot. Horovitz, then 20, was shot through “Today I can do almost everything, his left ear and right eye. Somehow he and I drive a lot, almost every day,” survived, losing half of his hearing and he said. “If I avoid going down narrow sight, and underwent two years of reha- streets, it’s just because I’m a little BEN SALES bilitation before he was able to return scared. Now I’ll stop avoiding it. So Elad Horovitz, whose vision was affected after he was shot during Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza, to normal life. Now he’s a psychology these are things you can overcome, and tests a device that will make it easier for him to drive. student at the Hebrew University of that reduces the presence of my wound Jerusalem. day to day.” He has a driver’s licence, but his The Horovitz project was one of medical devices. The teams were drawn from Tel vision problems provide obstacles: Hor- 14 showcased at “Makers for Heroes,” Some of their innovations seemed Aviv’s fertile tech ecosystem. Some took ovitz can’t see past the right corner of a three-day Tel Aviv event that ran like they would be helpful to a broader off three days from their jobs to partic- the car, making it difficult to drive on through May 2 at which wounded for- clientele. One team created a wristband ipate in the “make-athon,” while some the narrow streets that crisscross Jerusa- mer soldiers worked with 150 Israeli tech that could sense the advent of a panic local startups sent teams to participate. lem, Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities. engineers to devise solutions to prob- attack by measuring the wearer’s pulse “These soldiers gave us everything That, however, changed a few weeks lems posed by their disabilities. After and the moisture on their skin, then they can – their health, their entire life,” ago. two months of prepping, the veterans playing a soothing song or providing a said Shoshi Rushnevsky, a former Israeli At a South Tel Aviv garage, Horovitz and their tech teams met April 30 in the different distraction. tech worker and the founder of Restart, watched as a couple of computer engi- basement of a WeWork office and spent Another project aimed to prevent an organization that aids wounded Israeli neers worked on his car. One bent under much of the next 72 hours building blood clots by wrapping a veteran’s legs veterans and organized the event with the open hood while the other crowd- their products with code, 3-D printers, in blood pressure sleeves and pushing the Reut Institute think tank. “Let’s take ed the left side of the steering wheel polymers and the electronic guts of blood back up the veins. See Tech on page 10

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aaine d a 2018.indd 1 592018 8:53:0 May 28, 2018 ISRAEL AT 70 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 9 A letter to Israel – from a young Israeli in Ottawa Noa Gill is one of the shinshinim in Ottawa this year. Shinshinim are Israeli high school graduates who spend a year volunteering in Diaspora Jewish communities before returning home for their military service. Noa wrote this letter to her homeland, the Jewish homeland, last month on the occasion of Israel’s 70th Yom Ha’Atzmaut.

DEAR STATE OF ISRAEL, language, my customs, my Israeli chutz- Like every birthday of a friend or a rel- pah, the music I hear, and in my various ative, and for your 70th birthday, I have experiences of the holidays in Israel. decided that you deserve a real birthday This year you were not my far-away greeting. state-of-origin, you were the closest All these years I lived within you – home that was possible. a third generation Sabra. I spoke your I know it’s not always simple for all language, Hebrew, from the moment I of us. We remembered this on Yom learned to speak. I had my most beauti- Hazikaron – Israel’s Memorial Day for ful memories amongst your landscapes. fallen IDF soldiers – and we are remind- I cried, and I was happy and excited by ed of it each day anew in the difficult the sound of your songs. I was educated reality we live in. But I and everyone in the youth movement according to else knows it’s worth it. That the com- your values, and I ate your food, which plicated reality in which we live only like every mother’s food, is the most makes us appreciate everything you are. delicious food in the world. I never Even if it is difficult, even if it is fright- thought I had a special privilege to be ening, even if it is expensive – we know your daughter, but like every child, who that we have no other country. really appreciates their parents when You are worth the struggle, worth they are young? the less-than-ideal realities and worth I came here to Ottawa, the capital the difficult moments. In the 70 years of Canada, for a year of shnat shurut of your existence, and with the hard (volunteering). I delayed my life a year work of the generations before me, you NORAH MOR for the honour of serving you, to talk have developed into a country worth Shinshinim Noa Gill (left) and Idan Ben Ari celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut at the Soloway Jewish about you and to educate about you. A fighting for. The state that develops in Community Centre, April 19. year in which my goal has been to bring all areas, the state in which brotherhood together people – children in school, and friendship among its people will adults in the synagogue and kids at the prevail, and the state that is our home. I want to wish you, my country, to tinue to nurture differences, and also to summer camp – about you. One year And whether we live in Israel or Canada, just keep going like this. To be compli- bring the encounter closer. that the most exciting thing I can be is you are home for us. Home to return to cated and complex, but also the most I could not be more proud of you and “the girl from Israel” or “the one who when life is hard and you need a warm basic and simple place you can be. To everything you are. Proud to say “I am knows Hebrew.” A year when I was place and sustenance, or just when you be developed and first in so many areas, from Israel,” to speak Hebrew and stand asked to cook shakshuka, which I had miss it and feel a bit homesick. A home and get better in new areas as well. To tall when we sing “Hatikvah.” You are never cooked before, just because I’m where we will always feel comfortable be good to your people but not make the strongest component of my identity Israeli. When I had the mission to repre- to be who we are, to wear our kippah them take you for granted. Keep us and in everything I am. I am grateful sent all the opinions of the entire State and tefillin, to speak our language and real, but take care of yourself and us for the person you made me be and am of Israel on political issues, to be a guide dance our dances. A home filled with within you. Keep being so beautiful, so constantly trying to be a better person. for people who want to visit Israel, and family that will be there for you no mat- beautiful it hurts – from the snow on May you continue to be so strong in our be proud of everything I am and every- ter what. A home that is always in our Mount Hermon to the coral reef in Eilat, hearts: Happy 70th Birthday! thing you are as part of my identity: my hearts, wherever we go. a beauty you cannot stop missing. Con- Noa

Together, we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence! [email protected] | www.JeanCloutier.com | 613-580-2488 May 28, 2018 10 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM ISRAEL AT 70 Tech: Plans for these innovative projects to be available free online Continued from page 8 our connections, our knowledge, our ment. They were there to test out their experience, and help the wounded get teams’ innovations and guide them out of the cycle of injury. The injury cycle on what would be most helpful. They can really get you stuck. That feeling of also helped figure out which projects immobility is what we want to set free.” would be possible to complete within a The Israeli government funds rehabil- three-day period. Horovitz, for example, itation for its 51,000 living wounded vet- decided not to pursue creating a hearing erans – a population that receives public aid that would alert him when someone sympathy in a small country where was speaking to his deaf ear. most citizens are subject to a mandato- “I told them my problem, we dis- ry draft. Wounded soldiers also receive cussed it, they came up with the idea public benefits following their rehab. and they banged it out,” said Assaf Dory, Restart’s mission is to support the an Israeli American who had his leg soldiers after the government scales amputated after being wounded twice back its obligations to them, providing on police duty in Florida. His team was them with benefits to ease their daily fashioning a cushion that would allow lives. One program matches 15 wounded the ex-Israeli soldier to sit in any chair. veterans with professional mentors who “It’s amazing to see all these profes- can help them find jobs and burnish sionals dancing, doing their thing,” he themselves professionally. “Makers for said. Heroes,” which has taken place twice, None of the products will end up aims to bring Israeli tech prowess to being licenced by a savvy tech firm. bear on helping the veterans. Instead, they will all be uploaded online, “There’s an inclination after the war complete with plans and open-source to neglect the wounded soldiers,” said code. The idea, Dory said, was to help Niv Efron, an Israeli veteran who was the veterans and empower them. If BEN SALES shot in the chest and hand in the 2014 Shoshi Rushnevsky, the founder of Restart, hopes “Makers for Heroes” will make the lives of someone wants to copy any of the ideas, Gaza war and underwent six surgeries. wounded veterans a little easier. he said, they can go ahead. Efron participated in the first iteration “It’s the ability to do something you of “Makers for Heroes” two years ago, couldn’t or thought you couldn’t,” Efron where his team built a device to help the wounded. “They need to go back to ranging from biomedical tech startups to said. “We find a product to enable [a vet- him do pull-ups. work. But the wounded soldiers are still Israel’s robust security tech industry. For eran] to do what he wants to. It will also “You can’t blame them,” Efron said there.” the most part, the veterans themselves show him that even with his limitations, of Israelis who stop paying attention to The engineers brought experience did not take part in the tech develop- he can still do things.”

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF YOM HA'ATZMAUT

and best wishes for the continued prosperity and happiness of the people of Israel!

Proud supporters of the Ottawa Jewish community for over 65 years. ggfl.ca | 613.728.5831 May 28, 2018 ISRAEL AT 70 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 11 The Israel Bible highlights Jewish links to Land of Israel BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND JERUSALEM – In 1903, American evan- gelist and Christian Zionist William E. Blackstone sent Theodor Herzl a per- sonal Bible. It was a gift with a specific message. Blackstone had heard that at the Sixth Zionist Congress Herzl had proposed a territory in East Africa as a haven for Eastern European Jews. Opposed to the Uganda Scheme and convinced that a Jewish homeland should be created only in the Holy Land, Blackstone highlighted for Herzl the bib- lical passages referring to the restoration of the Jews to the Land of Israel. One hundred and fifteen years later, The Israel Bible, a newly published Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) does for today’s readers what Blackstone did for Herzl – and more. Centred around the Land of Israel, the people of Israel and the dynamic relationship between them, this new Tanakh provides explanations and commentaries that amplify Black- stone’s message and bring it up to date 70 years after Israel’s founding and a half-century after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, resulting in Israel’s capture of the biblical heartland and unification of Jerusalem. ISRAEL365 The Israel Bible speaks to all who With his new book, The Israel Bible, Rabbi Tuly Weisz is targeting audiences ranging from Jewish religious Zionists to the world’s 700 million believe in biblical prophecy and that the evangelical Christians. Jews have a God-given right to the entire Land of Israel. Religious Zionist Jews are an obvious target audience, but so geting evangelical Christians interested are the world’s 700 million evangelical in connecting with the Holy Land from Join us for a special screening of Christians. biblical and prophetic points of view. the award-winning documentary film The Israel Bible’s editor, Rabbi Tuly The Israel Bible, published by Meno- Weisz, predicts it will be a game changer. rah Books, a division of Koren Pub- “The Bible that has been a source of lishers Jerusalem, uses the Masoretic division between Jews and Christians Hebrew text and a modified version of can now be what brings unity,” he said. the 1984 New Jewish Publication Soci- Rabbi Weisz is founder and publish- ety English translation. Key names and er of Israel365, an Israel-based, Jew- places appear in transliteration, as do all ish-owned and run media company tar- See Israel Bible on page 12

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Continued from page 11 Though many contemporary maps used self-published a booklet with the verses, understand what God is conveying to us.” highlighted verses denoting God and the in Israel show the same, Israel’s own commentaries and supplemental resourc- Swaggerty emphasized that most people of Israel’s connection to the Land government has never formally recog- es for the Book of Genesis. By December evangelicals already believe wholeheart- of Israel or Jerusalem. nized the West Bank as part of Israel. 2015, booklets for all 24 books of the edly that “God gave the Land of Israel to Commentaries range from the teach- Inspired by the account of Blackstone Tanakh were complete. At that point, Abraham and his seed.” ings of classical Torah scholars such as and Herzl, Rabbi Weisz began a project Rabbi Weisz approached Koren, a respect- “However, this Bible solidifies this Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi) and that would eventually lead to the pub- ed Judaica publisher, about putting all of for those who question. And the con- Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel, to snippets lication of The Israel Bible. He carefully them together into a professionally edit- temporary commentaries, like those of of speeches by Israeli prime ministers read through all 24 books of the Tanakh, ed and produced Hebrew Bible. Netanyahu and [Jewish Agency Chair Menachem Begin, Golda Meir and Ben- making note of every single mention of “I wasn’t necessarily looking to write Natan] Sharansky bring it up to date, jamin Netanyahu. the Land of Israel. He ended up high- a book for Christians. Our staff is Jew- showing that the prophecy is unfolding A representative commentary com- lighting at least one verse on almost ish and we wanted it to be authentic,” today and nothing can stop it,” the pas- paring Israeli settlers in Hebron to the every page, and found hundreds of men- he said. “But it was important for it to tor said. biblical Caleb emphasizes loyalty to God tions of Jerusalem alone. speak in a universal way so that non- Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi and willingness to fight for the land. It This was enough to convince Rabbi Jews could understand the references of Efrat and founder of the Center for mentions the anti-Jewish violence and Weisz to immigrate to Israel with his and nuances.” Jewish-Christian Understanding and terror that have plagued the city for family from Columbus, Ohio in 2011, Reverend David Swaggerty, senior Cooperation, contributed a foreword to decades and how these settlers “bravely and to found Israel365 as a way to pastor at CharismaLife Ministries in The Israel Bible. He views it as a tool to preserve both their own community engage non-Jews in their biblically pre- Whitehall, Ohio, recently toured Israel ensure biblical literacy among Jews. and the rights of the entire Jewish scribed role in the ingathering of the with a copy of The Israel Bible in hand. “If we are to truly enjoy the Land of people to pray in the holy Cave of the exiles and the rebirth of Israel. “This is a necessity for the library of Israel, it is incumbent upon us to con- Machpelah (Patriarchs) in Hebron.” The Rabbi Weisz began by sending out any student of the word of God,” Swag- tinually study the Torah,” Rabbi Riskin book does not mention the violence or daily emails with one of these biblical gerty said. wrote. “‘The Israel Bible’ provides us the vitriol directed at Hebron’s Arab popula- verses, along with a short commentary. “I have seven or eight Bible com- lyrical content to express our joy in liv- tion by Jewish residents of the city, who Within a short time, his distribution list mentaries on my shelf, and they only ing in the Land that God calls holy.” are among the most extreme Jewish set- had grown into the tens of thousands. give a limited knowledge of the original tlers in the West Bank. He knew he was on to something. Hebrew context. That makes them mere- This article was sponsored by and pro- The book includes maps showing Rabbi Weisz recruited a team of local ly opinion,” he added. “This Bible gives duced in partnership with the American the entire biblical Land of Israel as Torah scholars to help produce addi- a first-hand understanding, clarity and Jewish Press Association. This article was belonging to the modern State of Israel. tional content, and in 2014, Israel365 invaluable insights. It helps us better produced by JTA’s native content team.

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(JTA) – One year after Israel’s estab- lishment, in the dead of night, three students ascended a tower at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York and raised the Israeli flag. The next morning, the Conservative rabbinical school’s administration took it down. That act of surreptitious Zionist pro- test was one of several at JTS during the years surrounding 1948, when Israel gained independence, Michael Green- baum wrote in an essay in Tradition Renewed, a JTS history edited by Jack Wertheimer. Students supported the new Jewish state. However, the semi- nary’s chancellor, Rabbi Louis Finkel- stein, opposed North American Judaism focusing all its efforts across an ocean, and also needed to appease a board wary of Jewish nationalism. But the students persisted. Once, they sang the Israeli anthem “Hatikvah” fol- lowing graduation ceremonies. Another time, they convinced their colleagues at the Union Theological Seminary, the ZOLTAN KLUGER/ISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE VIA GETTY IMAGES Protestant school next door, to play the David Ben-Gurion, who was to become Israel’s first prime minister, reads the new nation’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv, May 14, anthem from their bell tower. 1948. Today, nearly all North American Jewish institutions are vocally, even passionately pro-Israel. But even in the to the idea of a Jewish sovereign state – one day (the equivalent of some $4 mil- “Here’s this new state they had to years after the Jewish state won its inde- gradually incorporating it into their cul- lion today) on behalf of the provisional kind of develop this relationship with, pendence 70 years ago, that feeling was ture, prayers and religious outlook. state on just one stop in Montreal. In [and] the cultural realm was really the not yet universal. “After the mid-1930s, the majority of the weeks following independence, she place it was happening,” Alice Before the Holocaust, Zionism itself [North] American Jews had come to be started a drive in the United States and Katz, author of the 2015 book Bringing was polarizing among North American positive one way or another about the Canada for $75 million more (or about Zion Home, told the New Books Network Jews. Many, in the U.S. felt support for a idea of a Jewish homeland,” said Hasia $750 million in 2018 dollars). podcast. “There were these years in Jewish homeland would cause their loy- Diner, director of the Goldstein-Goren “There was a sense that once [North] which it wasn’t as much about rallying alty to America to be called into ques- Center for American Jewish History at America recognized the state, Zionism the troops for these massive outpourings tion. The other side was represented by New York University. “While 1948 on the had won, and everyone wanted to link of aid or political influence, but it was Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish justice one hand was very exciting and had lots with the winners,” said Jonathan Sarna, more of this coming to know Israel.” on the U.S. Supreme Court, who saw no of communal programming and celebra- a professor of Jewish history at Brandeis Part of the reticence to support Israel conflict between American values and tions, it was slightly anticlimactic in the University. “It was growing very quickly, stemmed from the ethos of the 1950s Zionist aspirations. sense that opposition had been gone for it took in all of these refugees, which in the U.S., with its focus on suburban By the time Israel declared indepen- at least 10 years.” solved that problem.” growth, the “melting pot” and assimila- dence on May 14, 1948, North American North American Jewish support for After Israel secured its independence, tion. Against that backdrop, Jews were Jews, scarred by images of the Holocaust Israel was turbocharged by the Truman North American Jews began to engage trying to prove they belonged as social and Nazism and inspired by newsreels administration’s quick recognition of with the new nation in small ways. There and cultural equals in North American of tanned kibbutzniks, were largely sup- the state, and by the Israeli army’s vic- was no rush of tourism, but North Amer- society. So again they were fearful of portive of Zionism. But they were not yet tory against the Arab states in its war of ican Jews would show their support by “dual loyalty” charges that could stem turning out for organized political advo- independence. purchasing goods from Israel, reading from vocal support for a Jewish state. cacy and mass tourism to Jerusalem and In February of that year, Golda Mey- books about Israel or holding Israeli In a watershed moment in that Tel Aviv. Instead they were getting used erson (later Meir), raised $400,000 in dance classes in their community centres. See 1948 on page 14

“May He Who makes Peace in the Heavens, Make Peace Upon Us and Upon all of Israel.” Happy 70th Israel! May 28, 2018 14 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM ISRAEL AT 70 1948: ‘Before the Holocaust, Zionism was polarizing to North American Jews’

Continued from page 13 debate, Israeli prime minister David and was adapted into a popular movie Ben-Gurion sent a letter in 1950 to Jacob in 1960 starring Paul Newman and Blaustein, president of the American Eva Marie Saint. In 1961, the Yiddish Jewish Committee, which for many star Molly Picon starred in a Broadway years had been hesitant to throw its musical about a visit by American Jews support behind the Jewish national to Israel, “Milk and Honey,” which ran movement. Ben-Gurion pledged not to for over 500 performances. A few years speak for American Jewry or intervene later, the Israel Pavilion at the New in its affairs, and to dial down his insis- York World’s Fair showcased the coun- tence that American Jews move to Israel. try’s charms. And as Cold War tensions In exchange, Blaustein recognized “the continued into the 1960s, Israel began necessity and desirability” of supporting to be seen as a U.S. ally against the Israel in its nation building. Soviet Union. “The 1950s were the heyday of Amer- In 1967, Israel’s existence was again ican Jewish assimilation,” said Sara threatened by Arab armies. Between the Hirschhorn, an Israel studies professor anxious buildup to that war and Israel’s at Oxford University. “It was the post- lightning victory, North American Jew- war era, when American Jews were ben- Paul Newman in a scene from the 1960 film, “Exodus,” which presented Israel in heroic terms. ish acceptance of Israel had turned to efiting from the same things everyone adulation, placing the Jewish state at the else was benefiting from – the GI bill, all centre of their identity. The few dissent- kinds of ways for people to move into of JTS, eventually were sidelined. “The theme of destruction and ers are found on the non-Zionist left, the middle class – and they wanted to The biggest shift, Sarna said, was rebirth becomes a very important theme among various haredi Orthodox move- continue to make the most of that.” North American Jewry viewing Juda- in the lives of American Jews,” he said. ments, and in the quiet grumblings of Nevertheless, Israel began to show up ism’s history as one of “destruction and “So much so that American Jews don’t some mainstream leaders and rabbis in American Jewish religious practice. A rebirth.” That outlook posed the Holo- know the history of Zionism going back, who think the emphasis on Israel has Conservative prayer book published in caust and the establishment of Israel as and have bought the idea that it’s all thwarted the development of distinctly 1949 had readings about Israel, but not its two poles and, Sarna said, remains about the Holocaust being linked to the North American . the prayer for Israel that is now standard dominant in North American Jewish birth of the State of Israel.” “Slowly but surely, Israel became in many prayer books. Religious schools thinking today. He noted that Yom North American Jews became more more important for [North] American gradually shifted their pronunciation of HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remem- open in their celebration of Israel about Jews,” Sarna said. “1967 is at once a Hebrew from European Ashkenazic to brance Day, and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, its a decade after 1948. Exodus, the 1958 reflection of Israel’s growing impor- Sephardic-inflected Israeli. Non-Zionist Independence Day, are commemorated novel by Leon Uris that painted Israel in tance, but at the same time it is a great religious leaders, like Rabbi Finkelstein about a week apart by design. heroic terms, was a national best-seller intensification of Israel’s centrality.” May 28, 2018 ISRAEL AT 70 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 15

Greilsammer performs Sunday, June 24, 10:30 pm, in the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s Focus Israel series.

AMIT ALFONTA Marsh Dondurma performs Saturday, June 23, 10:30 pm, in the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s Focus Israel series.

  Rotem Sivan and  his trio perform  Thursday, June 21,  8 pm, in the  Ottawa Jazz Festival’s Focus  Israel series. Mazal Tov on this special anniversary Ottawa Jazz Festival to feature Israeli artists From

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