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HOWARD SANDLER There were few dry eyes at the April 13 press conference when the Tamir choir sang Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World,’ led by Joel Yan. $5.1-million Ontario grant to fuel Tamir project Ottawa’s first Integrated Living Centre to benefit people with developmental disabilities

BY PAULINE COLWIN Tamir’s executive director. “Individuals with developmental disabilities face amir saved my life,” explains Barbara many challenges,” Palmer told the more than 50 invit- Grinfeld. ed guests in attendance, including MPP Yasir Naqvi, Grinfeld is a “Tamir mom.” Her son, Ottawa Deputy Mayor Mark Taylor, health-care repre- Danny, a sociable, happy young man, has a sentatives, Tamir and Federation board members, and ‘T“catastrophic epileptic syndrome,” coupled with devel- community members. opmental disabilities. Just over a year ago, Danny, now “They are among our most vulnerable in society. in his early 20s, moved to a Tamir residence. For the Many need help with the basic activities of daily liv- Grinfelds, this was life-saving and life-altering. Not only ing, things you and I take for granted. They often have is Danny thriving in a friendly, active and safe environ- complex medical needs, but they want to find mean- ment, but the immense 24/7 strain of caregiving has ingful ways of engaging in society. Often, they are in been lifted from the family. This is just part of the dif- desperate need of affordable supportive housing, a ference Tamir makes in people’s lives. place to feel accepted and belong, a place to call home. Grinfeld shared her family’s story after an emotion- HOWARD SANDLER “At Tamir, we have made great efforts to plan a al press conference on Friday, April 13, at the Soloway Lily Penso, the founding president of Tamir, looks over plans model which will offer affordable housing and support JCC where MPP Bob Chiarelli announced a $5.1-mil- for the new Integrated Living Centre. services to people in critical need. We want to offer this lion Ontario government grant to build Ottawa’s first efficiently and effectively, within a fully inclusive envi- Integrated Living Centre (ILC), which will be operated donating the land, while the Ministry of Community and ronment.” by Tamir and located on the Jewish community cam- Social Services will be funding ongoing operating costs. Palmer expressed his gratitude to the government pus. An additional $2.5 million for the project was Tamir is a Jewish community agency dedicated to and explained that the new centre will “transform also announced by Myer Bick, Director of The Azrieli ensuring that people with developmental disabilities what Tamir can do for the community” by creating a Foundation. The Jewish Federation of Ottawa is proudly live with dignity and respect, explains Mark Palmer, See Tamir on page 2

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COMMENTS SPECS INSERTION DATE --- April 30, 2018 2 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Tamir: A model for the whole province Voices Continued from page 1 “Ladies and gentlemen, our Tamir ILC vision “welcoming, and integrated environ- is something vibrant and alive, filled with ment with 34 well-equipped and acces- services and opportunities, great hopes and sible apartment units, 45 beds, and a practical help. major day-services area.” I asked Bob Thompson, Immediate Past As a major supporter of the proj- President of Tamir and father of a young man ect, Bick, of The Azrieli Foundation, with Angelman Syndrome, to describe what explained how his organization is the ILC means to him and his family: dedicated to funding knowledge and ‘We are not just building a building for understanding of our past, as well as Tamir,’ he said. ‘We are building dreams for people. I am excited because the ILC, ways to better our present and future. as a model for the entire community, will He expressed how the ILC was perfectly allow and encourage families to chase their aligned with this philanthropic mission dreams for their loved ones. To dream about and how he was impressed by the hard and actually realize life in a safe, secure and work of all those involved. welcoming environment with opportunity to Chiarelli, who also delivered a mov- live as full citizens each and every day.’ ” HOWARD SANDLER ing Yom HaShoah message from Pre- – Mark Palmer, Happy to join in the momentous announcement were, from left: Tamir Chair Richard Zuker, mier Kathleen Wynn, shared his deep executive director of Tamir Ottawa Deputy Mayor Mark Taylor, Tamir Executive Director Mark Palmer, MPP Bob Chiarelli, respect for the work undertaken by Director of The Azrieli Foundation Myer Bick, Jewish Federation of Ottawa CEO Andrea “Many people have made the ILC vision organizations like Tamir. He explained Freedman and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa Hartley the $5.1-million grant was the part of come together. Many people in the public Stern. service, in the public health and social ser- provincial funding of $1.8 billion, to be vices, as well as people in political service. made over three years to agencies in the Note how the word ‘service’ applies to all developmental services field, marking the whole city of Ottawa.” of these people – we all share in the work “the single largest investment in the This sentiment was highlighted by The Integrated Living Centre of helping others, serving the needs of our developmental services area in the his- a heart-warming performance by the to be built on the Ottawa Jewish community and our province. This project tory of the province of Ontario.” Tamir Neshama choir, which brought Campus will: has also benefited greatly from advice and “We want an Ontario where all peo- many in the audience to tears as they • create 34 apartment units, with support of Brain Keshen, CEO of Reena, ple with developmental disabilities can sang “What a Wonderful World.” After 45 beds; Tamir’s big sister organization in Toronto, live their lives to the best of their abili- the performance, choir member Debbie • operate a Supported Independent and the chair of the Intentional Community ties. …The Tamir Integrated Living Cen- Wasserman, speaking on behalf of Tamir Living program (SIL) to help Consortium.” tre will help us do just that.” participants, stood in front of the crowd individuals live successfully in – Richard Zuker, chair of the board of directors for Tamir The Jewish community, as a whole, and spoke directly to the ministers: their own apartments; was recognized by both Chiarelli and “This is a dream come true; thank • significantly expand respite care places, to help caregiving “Who are we here today? We are mothers, Naqvi, who congratulated the Federa- you from the bottom of our hearts.” fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, tion, its social service beneficiary agen- Certainly, the Tamir participants’ families; • create transitional living capacity and friends within a community. We are cies, as well our community members, smiles were contagious and impressed bound by our DNA with infinitesimally small to assist individuals improperly for our inclusivity, generosity and sup- upon all those present the real reasons differences between us. We are bound by housed in hospitals, long-term port of people with special needs. behind the need for the ILC project – to our community: our Jewish community, the care facilities, or Ottawa Chiarelli explained that being at the ensure all people may live their lives city of Ottawa, province of Ontario, Cana- Community Housing units, SJCC for the announcement helped put fully and to the best of their abilities, in da. All true, but I submit what truly binds freeing up those beds and spaces; the Jewish community’s work “into per- happiness and safety as a respected and is here today is our set of values. A set of • create a seniors’ living section for spective.” He explained that the new ILC dignified part of the community. This is values which says we will ensure that those older individuals who can no lon- sisters, brothers, friends who by force of project is clearly the next building block the vision of Federation’s Jewish Super- ger manage meal preparation and accident cannot advocate for the same in the vision of the Jewish community highway with the goal of creating a net- other chores on their own. quality of life as the rest of us shall not of Ottawa that began decades ago. work of meaning Jewish experiences and • centralize and expand day services; want for the support they need to enjoy all “I remember very well when this site journeys where the entire community is • create a seniors’ program to pro- that we hold dear. was acquired,” Chiarelli said in reference interconnected and no one is left behind. vide assisted living; Today, I am proud to be a citizen of Otta- to the current Jewish campus. “That ini- “For me, as a feeling, sensitive per- • create several rental units (at wa, of Ontario and Canada. And I am indeed tial vision has come to reality because of son,” Grinfeld sums up, “the best part market rates) for non-disabled a very proud Jew.” the tremendous leadership and generos- of this project is that all families will get persons; – Hartley Stern, chair of the board of directors for the Jewish Federation of Ottawa ity of the Jewish community of Ottawa. the help they need, like mine has. • benefit from educational, I just want to say how impressive it is social and sports facilities in … and I am pleased I can be here to be From the Publisher: A shining “This is an exceptionally joyous and historic the nearby Soloway Jewish day and I thank you all for being part of it.” part of another building block that ben- example of collaboration and hard work, Community Centre. – Andrea Freedman, CEO of the efits not only the Jewish community but Page 7. Jewish Federation of Ottawa

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BY LOUISE RACHLIS andle lighting is – yes – to commemorate and to remember,” said Ruth Gottlieb Katz. “But, more ‘Cimportantly, each of the six flames must continue to burn brightly, as a beacon call to action by each of us.” Gottlieb Katz was one of six Holo- caust survivors who performed a mov- ing candle-lighting ceremony on April 11 at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre to begin the 2018 Yom HaShoah community commemoration. Born in Berlin in 1927, she, along with her fellow survivors, brought unique insights to the occasion. “We are all responsible for being informed, and for taking positive, ongo- ing actions to continue fighting anti-Sem- itism in all of its many manifestations,” said Gottlieb Katz in an interview before the event. She noted that anti-Semitism has increased in Canada over the past decade, with spikes in vandalism, attacks, boycotts and hate-incitement. “Each of the six candles represents one million murdered Jewish civilians,” she said. “All were individuals. Each had their own life, and story. They included 1.75 million babies and little children.” HOWARD SANDLER Gottlieb Katz, who had a 48-year March of the Living participant Maya Avni and Holocaust survivor Ruth Gottlieb Katz participate in the candle lighting. career teaching children in Quebec, then more years teaching adults after she and her family moved to Ontario in 1975, The theme of remembering history was a half Jew, one of many who was tianity,” he noted. said anti-Semitism was rife in Canada continued with the presentation of “The “Aryanized.” Hitler alone had the power “Most of us are taught some vari- from the 1930s to the 1960s. Mitzvah Project” by Roger Grunwald. to grant a “declaration of German blood” ation of ‘us’ and ‘them,’ but there is “Canadian public policy and aca- In his one-man play, co-authored and for those who looked Aryan enough. no longer – if there ever was – ‘pure’ demic boards kept six million capable directed by Annie McGreevey, Grunwald In 1933 in Germany, Aryans caught anyone. We’re all an amalgam. We’re all contributors to Canada’s economy out of brought several characters to life, com- having relations with non-Aryans were mischlings. The ‘other’ is ‘us’.” our country. They kept brilliant minds plete with various accents, to illustrate punishable by death, noted Grunwald, Allan Shefrin read “A Prayer for Yom out of our universities. Anti-Semitism is the history of tens of thousands of adding that, sadly, the United States had HaShoah,” composed by British Chief to the disadvantage of the world.” German men known as mischlings, the a long history of promoting the same Rabbi Lord Sacks. 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| [email protected] Jewish Family mailbag Services of Ottawa is pleased to offer an WE NEED TO SPEAK UP FOR BETTER first arrived in Ottawa, one of the factors information session PASSOVER PRODUCTS in drawing them to our city was the To paraphrase both Andrea Freedman access to Kosher food. for Holocaust and Rabbi Garten, I am writing this let- Let me provide two other noteworthy survivors and their ter with one foot in the arena and one facts. The Kosher department serves families on the foot in the bleachers. other ethnic communities besides ours. After being away for an extensive Secondly, store management has com- following: period, I shopped at the College Square mented that “ traffic” has decreased. Of Loblaws Kosher department prior to Pass- course – because customers have been over. To my dismay I was shocked at the forced to shop out of town. disarray that appeared before my eyes. In previous years, prior to Passover, Before I proceed, let me say that I an area was cleared, lined with paper feel eminently qualified to express a and labelled to indicate Passover prod- COMPENSATION PROGRAMS professional opinion on this topic in ucts. This year the Passover products that I was the first Kosher manager of and chometz were mixed together. When ADMINISTERED BY THE the flagship store launched by Loblaws. I questioned the Mashgiach on duty, he During my tenure, my mandate was to simply shrugged his shoulders. ensure a good selection of product, to I could detail many other deficien- CONFERENCE ON see that shelves were well stocked and cies, but I won’t because everyone knows that personalized service was offered to what they are. JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS the Community. By and large, I believe I’ve always been told that we need to we accomplished these ideals. be grateful because otherwise we will AGAINST GERMANY Having said that, the current stan- lose our only Kosher access. dards fall short. I say we get what we deserve if we Previously, I have had conversations don’t speak up. We deserve better and The Claims Conference’s mission is to “provide a measure with the department managers and the we need to speak up – to the store man- of justice for Jewish Holocaust victims.” director of the Vaad HaKashrut. Man- ager, to the director of the Ottawa Vaad agers have expressed their frustrations HaKashrut, to the President of Loblaws, to me. Rabbi Teitelbaum seems unable to Galen Weston! Ms. Deborah Kram, Claims Conference Client Outreach to access any support from the Loblaws Going out of town to shop is not the organization. solution. Let’s make it great here! Manager, will be in Ottawa to provide an update on the Interestingly enough, when Kollel Alyce Baker, Ottawa various compensation programs. For example, survivors who received a one-time payment in the 1950s or 1960s may be entitled to an additional payment. How Washington D.C. got a bunch of new kosher restaurants She will also be available to answer general questions, (JTA) – For years, the U.S. capital had and to meet one on one with individuals regarding only one full-fledged kosher restau- rant. But as of mid-April, that changed. specific concerns. * The clergy at Ohev Shalom-The National Synagogue, a Washington D.C. Modern Orthodox congrega- tion, have given kosher certification DATE: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 to three vegan restaurants in the District, along with two others in TIME: 1:30 pm the suburbs. 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Our pride in our school the entire Passover story, all the songs, social studies, writing and math com- and all the symbols. petitions, after-school science programs • An eight-year-old son and 10-year- and online math programs with great old daughter reading Hebrew more flu- success and acclaim. ently than almost everyone at the table Rooted in our love of Torah, our (other than their father!), with deep school offers a warm, welcoming and explanations of the Pesach story and caring learning environment for Jewish strong understanding of the complex children of all backgrounds and affili- Jewish history. ations.

FEDERATION FEDERATION REPORT • A 10-year-old near-fluent in Our trilingual school offers small DEBBIE SCHARF, CHAIR OF EVAN GREEN, VICE-CHAIR French and an eight-year-old who can class sizes, individualized attention and TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF TORAH DAY SCHOOL no longer be kept out of the adult con- qualified, caring, innovative teachers. versation that used to be held in French More than 25 per cent of our students in order to keep it for “adults only.” are enrolled in our Extended French orah Day School of Ottawa is a they are asking and reflecting on. Not Torah Day is more than just a “Jew- program, offering social studies and sci- school we are extremely proud only is the Judaic education deep, rich ish school.” Besides a rich academic and ence taught in French. of. Not only because we are and meaningful, but our students also Judaic curriculum, our school offers a Our parent-teacher association orga- board members who are deeply excel in math, science, social studies wide range of hands-on activities, field nizes activities throughout the year, Tcommitted to its success, but because and reading. trips and extracurricular programming reinforcing a strong family connection. each and every day we see the results of There is much to love about Torah that has students skating in the winter, If you are looking for a school that the school in our own homes with our Day. Here are some of our favourite playing soccer outside in the spring, has an excellent academic program, respective families. moments: learning taekwondo after school and strong Judaic and Torah-based curric- Every day, our children impress us • A five-year-old reading the Hag- learning about all Canadian provinces ulum and an involved parent body, we with what they are learning, how much gadah fluently in both English and and territories in a unique way. Our invite you to arrange a visit. Please con- they already know, and what questions Hebrew, singing French songs, knowing students also participate in provincial tact Torah Day at 613 274-0110. Israel and the pattern of Jewish history

came the great era of the prophets. We have had our golden ages, times Out of the destruction of the First of peace. However, we have also had Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Temple and the Babylonian exile came our share of dark times of persecution. VOLUME 82 | ISSUE 12 the renewal of Torah in the life of the As we kept our lunar calendar through- Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Publishing Co. Ltd. 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, K2A 1R9 nation through Ezra who led the peo- out history, the moon always reminded Tel: 613 798-4696 | Fax: 613 798-4730 ple back to Israel and built the Second us that, no matter how dark it gets, Email: [email protected] Published 19 times per year. Temple. we will always find new energies to © Copyright 2018 From the destruction of the Second renew ourselves. We will always come PUBLISHER Temple and the terrible massacres bouncing back with fresh vitality and Andrea Freedman committed by the Romans came the strength. Our people always felt that EDITOR

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Tamir’s Integrated Living Centre is shining example of collaboration, hard work

ish Federation of Ottawa, to bring their Jewish Superhighway. Just as Federa- community with new facilities and vision to reality. It has taken time and tion’s Annual Campaign has changed fresh opportunities for engagement persistence, but by 2020, we will all see over time, so has the field of health ser- among individuals and organizations and benefit from this project. vices. Tamir’s development of the ILC’s on campus. This collaboration of people from the model of comprehensive care, and even Finally, the Jewish Superhighway is developmental services field, the politi- incorporating some housing for seniors about raising the bar – raising the bar

FROM THE THE FROM PUBLISHER cal arena and the community is a shin- as part of the project, is an important so that we can do business differently, ANDREA FREEDMAN ing example of what we can all accom- example of the evolution of the indus- so we can do business even better. I can plish when we work together. Going try. The hope is that this becomes the think of no better way of launching our y now, I hope you have read the forward we can take inspiration from model for Ontario. vision of the Jewish Superhighway than wonderful news about the what Tamir’s collaboration has achieved Second, the Jewish Superhighway is by celebrating Tamir’s ILC! Mazel tov to $5.1-million grant from the with the knowledge that together we about inclusion. It has been said that all those who worked so hard to make Ontario government and $2.5 can reach our goals and help address the true measure of any society is how this happen. Bmillion from The Azrieli Foundation to other areas of need in our community. it treats its most vulnerable members. build Tamir’s Integrated Living Centre Virtually whenever I can, I speak and By this standard, the entire community WELCOME BACK, MICHAEL! on the Jewish community campus. This write about the Jewish Superhighway – should take enormous pride in Tamir’s While I have enjoyed writing this is exciting news for Tamir and our entire interconnected, meaningful experiences ILC, which will not only expand care for column for the Bulletin, I am truly Jewish community. The announcement and Jewish journeys, where Jewish life people with disabilities and seniors, but delighted to cede the space back to of $7.6 million in new funds flowing to is vibrant and no one is left behind. will bring them into the centre of our our editor Michael Regenstreif who Tamir and Ottawa’s Jewish community The Jewish superhighway is about for- communal life by operating right in the has sufficiently recovered from surgery is epic, and I am not overstating the case. ward-thinking investments in our com- midst of the Jewish campus. Residents and is ready to take back the reins. Tamir had a bold vision for a new munity, like Tamir’s Integrated Living and clients will be able to benefit from We missed Michael and are grateful to model of how best to support individu- Centre (ILC). the proximity to the Soloway JCC and interim editor Laura Robin and Federa- als with development disabilities. They Let me share three thoughts: be able to join in community programs tion’s communications director Pauline worked extremely hard, with a handful First, compassionate care for our and social events. The ILC itself will Colwin for doing all the heavy lifting of key stakeholders, including the Jew- most vulnerable is a key tenet of the offer a community hub for our entire the past few months.

Michael Moore’s movie proves prescient 30 years later was also the proud birthplace of the 30,000 people and their families with so brilliantly. United Auto Workers Union. Michael nothing but a deputy sheriff at their What is shocking is that it took Moore’s father and many other of doors who was throwing them out of three decades for the victims and their his family members worked for GM. their residences because they couldn’t families to rise up and scream loud Everyone did. pay the rent. enough to be heard – their lives had Flint was where General Motors Moore vividly demonstrated the become so sad, so desperate, so hope- made Cadillacs, Buicks, Chevys and beginning of the gigantic divide less. That collective scream is why GMC trucks. GM made motors there, it between the haves and the have-nots Donald Trump is now the president of IDEAS AND IDEAS IMPRESSIONS made spark plugs and it made the Fish- in the United States as he tried to track the United States. JASON MOSCOVITZ er bodies for the cars in Flint. down Smith in the exclusive golf club Thirty years is enough time to know For many years, Flint epitomized and the posh yacht club to which he whether or not things are going to get t seems like forever ago that I first what made America great – lots of belonged. He and his camera crew were better. Today, Flint is a basket case. came across the documentary work well-paying jobs for lots of people. Such quickly shown the door by security As Moore’s movie shows, all attempts of Michael Moore. I had rented a as 30,000 people in Flint. staff. Moore was not welcome, but it to revitalize the city failed miserably. cassette at Blockbuster (that’s how In the mid-1980s, GM started to close was the questions he was asking that The politicians had it all wrong as they Ilong ago it was) so I could watch his first some of the plants in Flint. In a few were really not welcome. threw good money after bad, as they movie, called “Roger and Me.” short years, the company closed them The now-famous rust-belt syndrome, faced one revitalization failure after I recently downloaded it from the all, claiming the factories were too old that ugly legacy of the 1980s, made Flint another. Apple store and I liked it even more 30 and too expensive to modernize. The a sad, depressing precedent for what Today, Flint is the city that recently years later. company started making cars in Mexico happened in so many other American had lead poisoning in its main water Back in 1989, as a broadcast journal- because there was no union there, no cities as manufacturing jobs disap- supply. It is the city where Netflix pro- ist, I was blown away by how personal benefits, no pensions, and lots of cheap peared in the night, turning good places duced a 10-part documentary series on the movie was. I couldn’t believe how labour. into cities and towns where crime and police attempts to tame its murderous well written it was. I couldn’t believe The documentary was called destruction overtook the streets. gangs, which have taken over whole how good a storyteller Moore was. “Roger and Me” because Roger Smith I wanted to see “Roger and Me” neighbourhoods. Moore wrote “Roger and Me,” he was the president of General Motors again in 2018 because I thought it There are too many Flints in the voiced it, and he played the lead- at the time of the Flint plant closings. would tell me more about the down United States. Too many U.S. cities and ing role in the documentary as he An important theme of the movie was and out people who voted for Donald regions have been wiped out, boarded recounted what had happened to Flint, Moore’s ill-fated frequent attempts to Trump in 2016. In fact, it told me so up and deprived of hope. Michigan, the city he grew up in. Just get an interview with Smith to explain much more than I could have imagined. There were certainly enough Flints in north of Detroit, Flint was the city that why his still-profitable company It is amazing to think a 30-year-old doc- 2016 to have made Donald Trump look General Motors put on the map. Flint decided to wipe out a city, leaving umentary could endure the test of time good in an election. April 30, 2018 8 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Passover and Mimouna around town The Sephardi Association of Ottawa held a Mimouna celebration at the Soloway JCC on April 8. Shown here are Gladys Zarecki, left, Viviane Ohana, centre, and Maya Benhamou. The celebration is held the day after Passover, marking the return to eating chametz. The Mimouna celebrations originated in Jewish communities in North Africa, primarily in Morocco. The name comes from Rabbi Maimon ben Yosef, the father of the Rambam, who passed away on the day after Passover. Another derivation says the name came from the Hebrew word emuna (faith). A third derivation says the name comes from the Arab word for “wealth” or “good luck.”

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COURTESY OF IRVING OSTERER COURTESY OF IRVING OSTERER On Thursday, April 5, Merivale High School’s Jewish Culture Club held its annual Matzah Brei Merivale High School’s annual Matzah Brei Fry event was open to the whole school community. Fry. The students were able to ask questions about Passover traditions in the Jewish Here, teacher Irving Osterer is joined by trustee Donna Blackburn, centre, and parent Nina community. Suffice it to say that mass quantities of matzah were consumed. Jason-Byerley.

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Dan Mader Lynda Taller-Wakter Board Chair Executive Director JNF is Past, Present, Future Building Israel since 1901

We count on all of you! Thank you for bringing in your JNF Blue Box! Many individual members of our community donate to JNF via the JNF Blue—we have received more than 100 boxes over the past two years. Two contributors to JNF Ottawa are organizations whose con- tributors do the mitzvah of tzedakah together: the minyanaires at Kehillat Beth Israel (KBI) and the students at the Ottawa Jewish Community School (OJCS).

KBI’s morning minyan is made up of a committed and enthu- COURTESY OF THE EMBASSY OF ISRAEL siastic core group of men and women. KBI puts out donation When Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Nimrod Barkan, right, boxes, including one for JNF. According to one of KBI’s regular hosted an event on Parliament Hill to celebrate Israel’s 70th minyanaires, “Donations are made by at any time during the Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut, Canadian Minister of morning service. Both regular attendees and those present observing a yartzeit make contributions. A few coins a day add up Public Safety, Ralph Goodale, left, spoke warmly about the to a significant yearly donation.” Canada-Israel relationship and his past trips to Israel. The OJCS also has a strong relationship with JNF Ottawa. Ambassador Barkan said: “As I look around the room tonight, I JNF-KKL Shlichim (emissaries) visit the school when in Ottawa see the great friendship between our two countries reflected and the school staff and students are keen participants in the in all of you. I see a friendship that is multi-partisan, rooted in annual JNF Tu Bi’Shevat campaign. For the past two years, the shared values, co-operation, and buttressed by our strong- student council has donated their Dress Down Friday donations, people-to-people ties.” in the month closest to Tu Bi’Shevat, to JNF Ottawa. Ben Shapiro, the 13-year old Student Council President says, “Our advisor sug- gested to consider Jewish holidays and charities that intertwine. JNF is a huge supporter of Israel and that’s vital for OJCS. JNF Show Israel You Care! doesn’t just take care of the land, it also teaches students about Israel and the environment that surrounds it. This is extremely Volunteer as a civilian worker important for future generations.” for two or three weeks Thank you and Kol Ha’Kavod to both these institutions and their members. Of course, a hearty toda rabah to all donors, big on an Israeli army supply base and small, who contribute to JNF Canada’s ongoing campaigns building the State of Israel. If you have a JNF story to share, please email it to Ottawa@ JNF.ca. If you have a JNF Blue Box at home, now is the time to bring it in: Be eligible for a tax receipt (for donations over $18 in 2018) and start a new JNF Blue Box. Please remember to include your name on your JNF Blue Box in case you are eligible for a tax receipt.

TAMMY TORONTOW On Yom Hazikaron, candles were lit at the Veterans’ Memorial at the Jewish Memorial Gardens to honour those who died to protect Israel.

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Editor’s Note: The Ottawa Jewish Bulletin accepts submissions on a wide variety of topical issues and viewpoints with the goal of supporting and encouraging a vibrant and inclusive community and healthy dialogue. As “a force for constructive communal consciousness,” the Bulletin believes that, as a community, we are made stronger by sharing and debating a range of views and engaging with those with different perspectives. As such, the Bulletin urges readers to engage fully in communal life and events and to be open to hearing all sides and opinions.

Chief Rabbi of Israel makes historic first visit to Ottawa Chief Rabbi of Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut “I am very excited to host in Ottawa ing “Israel at 70: A Proud Past, a Bright and of Shoham in Israel, and is a reserve one of Israel’s highest representatives Future.” Nimrod Barkan, Israel’s Ambas- GUEST COLUMN major in the Intelligence Corps. Rabbi of the Jewish people,” said Bram Breg- sador to Canada, as well as Sara Vered, Lau was the first rabbi in Israel to teach man, co-chair of the visit. “The events who fought in Israel’s War of Indepen- RABBI ELAN MAZER Jewish philosophy over the Internet. planned will bring together our com- dence, will also share what this topic Since 1999, he broadcasts a daily radio munity in a special way to celebrate the means to them. One of the highlights program, “Jewish Point,” and since 2006, 70th Yom Ha’Atzmaut.” of the evening will be an open dialogue he Jewish community of Ottawa he has appeared every Friday on the TV Last year, Rabbi Lau asked Jewish between Rabbi Reuven Bulka and Rabbi will have the honour of meeting show “Ask the Rabbi.” In 2014, Chief communities around the world to Lau on critical issues handled by the the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Rabbi Lau hosted Pope Francis in Israel donate Torah scrolls to army bases in Chief Rabbinate. David Lau, on his first official and discussed bringing together global Israel, and the Canadian Jewish commu- “This is a great opportunity to meet Tvisit to Canada on behalf of the State of religious leaders to combat hate by edu- nity participated. On Thursday, May 3, a man who has endeared himself to the Israel. This will be the first time ever that cating people in tolerance and love. at 4 p.m., Chabad of Centrepointe and people of Israel through his dedication a sitting Chief Rabbi of Israel will be in In Ottawa, the Chief Rabbi will par- the Soloway Jewish Community Centre and devotion,” says Rabbi Bulka. “In Ottawa. ticipate in meetings with Parliament will be hosting their annual Lag B’Omer particular, he has been of such profound Rabbi Lau has been the Chief Rabbi and in a meeting hosted by the Jewish Event that will include a Grand Unity comfort and solace to families that have of Israel since 2013, having been the Federation of Ottawa with community Parade with floats and marching bands suffered grievous losses due to ongoing youngest ever, at 47, to be elected to leaders. The Chief Rabbi will address to walk united and in solidarity with terrorism.” the position. Upon assuming his new the first joint school assembly between Israel and the Chief Rabbi with one of The visit of the Chief Rabbi is being role, his message was clear: “We need to the Ottawa Jewish Community School the newly dedicated Torah scrolls. sponsored by Mizrachi Canada and gen- focus more on what we have in common (OJCS) and Torah Day School, demon- The main event will be May 3 at 8 erous local donors. and create unity in the Jewish world.” strating the unifying power of his histor- p.m. at Congregation Machzikei Hadas, Rabbi Elan Mazer is the National Rabbi Lau previously served as the ic visit. where the Chief Rabbi will be discuss- Director of Mizrachi Canada. My Jewish Ottawa is an inclusive and diverse community perform good deeds on Mitzvah Day; Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, is com- These words will not unite the Jewish comes together to celebrate Yom ing to Ottawa to speak. community, and they will not inspire a GUEST COLUMN Ha’atzmaut; has cross-denominational In June 2017, the Israeli government love of Judaism and Israel. supplementary and day schools; and our reversed its earlier decision to officially In the summer of 2017, the Chief Rab- BEN TATHAM multiple rabbis from different congrega- recognize a permanent mixed-gender binate released a list of 160 blacklisted tions listen respectfully to one another and prayer area at the Kotel. Rabbi Lau diaspora rabbis, including many Ortho- discuss what is best for our community. was instrumental in the deal-breaking, dox, whom they do not trust to confirm am proud to be a part of the Ottawa I wish to raise awareness about an having issued a letter stating that it is the identities of Jews, which affects both Jewish community, in all of its divers- upcoming event, so that members of entirely forbidden to hold mixed prayer Jews by birth and Jews by choice. The ity. Our city proudly boasts many our Jewish community may decide for at any site of the Western Wall, closing result is the undeserved tarnishing of options for different Jewish practice. themselves whether they wish to attend the door to so many who wish to share many rabbis’ reputations. Query whether IOur Jewish community comes together to and show support. Rabbi David Lau, in family simchas together, as they wish. these tactics serve also as an intimida- In addressing the backlash, Rabbi Lau tion tactic for any rabbis in the future said “In the past two weeks, we have who may have wanted to speak out been exposed to lies, that American against a particular Chief Rabbinate pol- Jews are tearing themselves away from icy. There has also been an exponential Israel. 85% of American Jews have never spike in the Chief Rabbinate revoking stepped foot in Israel.” The insinuation the “Jewish” status of Israelis over the is that the views of North American past two years, making them unmarri- Jewry on Israel do not count. able in Israel. These Israelis did not even Rabbi Lau lacks respect for any form apply to the Chief Rabbinate for any- of Judaism that is not Ultra-Orthodox. thing; it is more or less a witch hunt. In December 2015, when the Minister of Attending Rabbi Lau’s event to hear Education and Diaspora Affairs, Naftali his perspective of Israel’s future is Bennett, visited the Conservative Solo- an endorsement of his philosophy to mon Schechter day school in Manhat- exclude a vast majority of Jews. As an tan, Rabbi Lau stated: “To speak delib- alternative, on May 3, I plan on getting erately with a specific community and together with other Ottawa Jews; we to recognize it and its path, when the may watch an Israeli movie, eat deli- path distances Jews from the path of the cious Israeli food, fundraise for a favou- Jewish people, this is forbidden. If (he) rite inclusive organization, or just have would have asked my opinion before the a meaningful and respectful discussion visit, I would have said to him explicitly: about questions facing Judaism today ‘You cannot go somewhere where the and how we can make the world a kind- education distances Jews from tradition, er, more inclusive place. from the past, and from the future of Ben Tatham is a dedicated Ottawa the Jewish people.’ ” Jewish community member. April 30, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 11 A physician’s wish for health, peace and security

Medical advances in Israel GUEST COLUMN have been extended globally, HARTLEY STERN with benefits shared with friendly countries and even with so-called “enemies.”

first visited Israel in 1986, working with local surgeons on techniques to absence of good health care. Political avoid using external colostomy bags, boundaries do not reduce this human thereby improving the quality of life value. A life is equally valuable wherever Ifor patients, particularly young adults. that person happens to live. The health-care system in Israel at that Sadly, there are so many places in time was good, but it lacked some our world where mental and physical modern techniques and infrastructure. devastation is rampant. Seen from my Since then, over a mere 30 years, this medical standpoint, this harm is so picture has changed radically. pointless. Diseases cause enough dam- Today, because of clear planning, age to people. The added injuries caused vision and leadership, Israel has one of by warfare is an affront to humanity. the most efficient and effective health- As a physician and a health-care care systems in the world. It operates at administrator, my belief is that seeking a fraction of Canada’s health costs. Most peace with powerful enemies is a nec- notably, Israel uses electronic commu- essary part of protecting the health of nication to fully integrate primary and people on all sides of a conflict, and is hospital care in a type of coherent medi- worthy of our support. cal model that has eluded many Western Yet, I worry that my admiration for countries. what Israel has achieved in health care The medical advances in Israel have and public health protection will be been extended globally, with benefits condemned by some people. Some crit- shared with friendly countries and ics will politicize anything said about even with so-called “enemies.” (I say Israel, even a discussion about its health so-called “enemies” because for a doc- services. While I am not an expert in tor, a patient is a patient, whatever the international relations policy, I do know nationality.) a good deal about health care. Israel’s Two examples stand out. After the efforts in medicine and in trying to pur- terrible Haiti earthquake in 2010, the sue peace and security are so important emergency mobile health unit sent from for ordinary people in that country, and Israel was by far the most effective trau- in the international “neighbourhood.” ma care unit to assist ordinary Haitians. On a recent visit to Israel with leaders Today, on its northwestern border, Israel and CEOs of Canadian and American offers remarkable humanitarian medical hospitals, I toured five exceptional care for Syrian victims in that country’s Academic Health Science Centres, and awful civil war. several extraordinary trauma centres. In public health, Israeli innovators This eye-opening visit left me with two are using nanotechnology to recycle questions: Israel has been in existence sewage and desalinate seawater. From a for only 70 years, but how did it manage health-care viewpoint, this is very signif- in such a short time to create one of the icant because the most common cause best health-care systems in the world? of death among children in developing Second, how might we in Canada learn countries is diarrhea, due to unclean from Israel and adopt some incredible water. Millions of children’s lives can innovations? be saved when this Israeli technology is It is customary on birthdays to exported to those countries that need it. extend wishes for good health, prosper- There is an ethical vision behind this ity and peace. On Israel’s 70th birthday, medical work. My understanding is that I am very pleased to wish all Israeli there exists a universal government citizens, whether Jews or Muslims, secu- obligation to protect all citizens from larists or Christians, all the health, peace harm, through effective health-care and security they desire. And I hope delivery, as well as from external threats that the residents of nearby countries to their safety and security. To fail at torn by terrible conflicts, whether in one or the other will have grave conse- Iraq, Syria, Sudan or others, all the secu- quences. rity and peace they desire. This is my This reflects a core value regarding wish as a physician. the sanctity of life. As a physician, I am appalled by the harm caused by factors Hartley Stern is chair of the board of that humans can control, such as the directors of the Jewish Federation of absence of peace and security, or the Ottawa. April 30, 2018 12 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM April 30, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 13

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The BoardBoard of of Directors Directors of theof the OttawaJENNIE Jewish AND Community MORRIS BAYLIN Foundation LINDSAY AND NEIL GOTTHEIL HARRY AND BERTHA PLEET acknowledgesOttawa Jewish Community with thanks Foundation contributions ENDOMENT to the following FUND funds from FAMILY FUND MEMORIAL FUND acknowledges with thanks Happy Passover: Happy Passover to: In Memory of: contributionsFebruary 28 to – Marchthe following 25, 2018 funds Hennie Honigman by Betty Baylin The Werier Family by Lindsay Gottheil Leib Pleet by Pinchas and Barbara Pleet as Reminder: of March 26-April Printed 2, 2018.acknowledgmentKrym must Naomi be requested by Betty Baylin to appear in Rachel Pleet by Pinchas and Barbara the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. 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BY TERI LEVINE, FOR THE OTTAWA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ow’s the time to RSVP to attend a very special Camp B’nai Brith event, to be held Thursday, May 17. The Ottawa Jewish Historical Society, in partner- Nship with the Soloway JCC, is inviting all Camp B’nai Brith alumni to attend a night to remem- ber. Organizers promise there will be hilarious ancient photos of old friends and wonderful pictures of the camp the way it was, as well as a session of “Mamaloshin 101” for everyone to enjoy. Mark Max and Russell Kronick will lead a singsong with all kinds of old favourites, while David Smith of Creative Kosher will provide delicious refreshments with a little hint of camp. A souvenir program booklet is being produced for everyone to take home. Ads are being sold for the program book for a nominal fee to help defray the costs of the evening. If you are interested in buying an ad, e-mail Zoe Thrumston with the text you would like at [email protected]. The event will start at 7:30 p.m. on May 17 in the Social Hall at the JCC. Admission is $10. RSVP to the Ottawa Jewish Historical Society by May 7 at 613-798-9818 ext. 264 or [email protected]. For more information please contact Anna Bilsky at 613-728-4202 or [email protected] or Campers gather in front of the Camp B’nai Brith dining hall sometime in the mid-1950s. Teri Levine at 613-798-0357 or [email protected].

63rd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THE BESS AND MOE GREENBERG FAMILY HILLEL LODGE, OTTAWA JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGED JOSEPH AND INEZ ZELIKOVITZ LONG TERM CARE CENTRE, 10 NADOLNY SACHS PRIVATE WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018 - 7:00 P.M. Members of the Lodge and Community, Residents, Families, Staff and Volunteers are welcome to attend BUSINESS AGENDA Annual General Meeting: • Welcome – Dr. I. Kreisman • Treasurer’s Report – E. Adler • Election of Officers 2018/2019 • Greetings from the Jewish Federation of Ottawa • Appointment of the Auditors 2018 • Award Winners 2017/18 – S. Saslove • Greetings from the Long-Term Care Foundation – M. Miller • Appointment of the Signatories 2018/2019 • Thank you to Long Service Staff – S. Schneiderman • Adoption of Annual General Meeting Minutes – May 24, 2017 • Thank you -Outgoing Board Members – Dr. I.Kreisman • Medical Director’s Report – Dr. D. Levine • Business Arising – from previous AGM, May 24, 2017 • Report of the Nominating Committee – S. Saslove • Report of the President – Dr. I. Kreisman • Approval of actions taken by the 2017/2018 Board • Election of Incoming Board 2018/2019 • Thank you to Outgoing President – Dr.A. Rosenbloom • Amendment to the Bylaws – M. Black • Report of the CEO – S. Schneiderman

BOARD OF DIRECTORS - 2017/2018 PAST PRESIDENTS NOMINATIONS COMPLETING COMMENCING OUTGOING TERM NEW TERM MEMBERS Dr. Irwin Kreisman Dr. Irwin Pencer Janet Dollin Stephen Saslove Lillian Kimmel z”l Marcia Aronson (1) Joel Diener (2) Adina Libin (2) Elayne Adler Charles Schachnow Russell Kronick Dennis Newton z”l Marty Black (1) Heather Evenchick (2) Dr. Arlene Rosenbloom (2) Jack Cramer Seymour Mender Sylvia Goldblatt z”l Jeff Pleet (1) Jim Farrow (2) Issie Scarowsky (2) Stephen Saslove Jeff Miller M. Sidney Green z”l Carl Raskin (1) Dr. Irwin Kreisman (2) Rosalie Schwartz (2) Ingrid Levitz Theodore Metrick z”l Anna Telner Wex Dan Doctor z’’l BOARD APPOINTEES: • Auxiliary Representative - TBD • Family Council Representative - Laura Lunn Morris Kimmel z”l Dr. M. Ralph Berke z”l • Long-Term Care Foundation Representative - Russell Kronick Eric Weiner Ben Levin z”l Melane Hotz Dr. Joseph Greenblatt z”l EXECUTIVE Shlomo Mayman Samuel Berger z”l Past President – Dr. Irwin Kreisman 2nd Vice-President – Joel Diener Secretary – Issie Scarowsky Irving Greenberg z”l Judge J.C. Horwitz z”l President – Dr. Arlene Rosenbloom Treasurer – Adina Libin Member(s) at Large – Heather Evenchick & Marty Black Noreen Bosloy Dora Lithwick z”l 1st Vice-President – Jim Farrow FURTHER NOMINATIONS: Additional nominations may be made by any member in good standing of the Corporation. Such nominations may be made at any time up to fifteen (15) days prior to the date fixed for the Annual General Meeting, by mailing the same to the above address, attention: Stephen Schneiderman. All such nominations must be in writing and signed by the nominee and by at least twenty (20) members in good stand- ing of the Corporation. There will be proposed changes to the existing By-laws of the Ottawa Jewish Home for the Aged, otherwise known as the Bess and Moe Greenberg Family Hillel Lodge at the 63rd Annual Meeting, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. To request a copy of the summarized amendments and/or the revised By-law document, please call the Lodge at 728-3900. The notice of the AGM will also appear on www.hillel-ltc.com. 2017/2018 AWARD WINNERS Thelma Steinman Direct Service Award – Aviva Lightstone Shalom Perel President’s Award of Merit – Joel Taller z”l Refreshments to Follow April 30, 2018 16 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Giving back, saving other lives Ottawa radio host Stuntman Stu collaborates with Israeli registry to create donor pool

BY NORAH MOR and touching,” said Dena Benshalom, hat do you do when director of Ezer Mizion’s Canadian oper- someone saves your life? If ations. “The families were so happy.” you are Jewish community Arriving in Ottawa, Levi was greet- member and local celebrity ed with excitement and gratitude, said W“Stuntman Stu” Schwartz, you try to give Benshalom. “People were honking their back and save more lives. horns and shouting ‘thank you for sav- Last month, Schwartz, the Majic 100 ing Stu.’” morning radio host and Ottawa Senators After the transplant and recovery, home game announcer, had the chance “Stu said he had to do something real- to meet David Levi, the man who saved ly big,”said Benshalom, explaining his life with a bone marrow donation. Schwartz’s motivation for creating the After this special and emotional meet- DNA pool. “Because everyone knows ing, Schwartz decided he needed to do and loves him, he wanted to help others more to help others, just as Levi had as he had been helped.” helped him. He partnered with the So he created a donor pool to sponsor donor registry to create “Stu’s Pool,” DNA tests. a dedicated pool of people to sponsor “Right now, we have almost 900,000 bone-marrow DNA tests. active donors registered, and our goal is In February 2016, Schwartz was to reach a million,” said Benshalom. diagnosed with leukemia. He soon “Every month,” she explained, learned he would need a bone-marrow “Ezer Mizion co-ordinates about 35 COURTESY OF EZER MIZION transplant to save his life. An extensive It was an emotional moment when ‘Stuntman’ Stu Schwartz, right, met David Levi, the Israeli bone-marrow or stem-cells transplants local and national search failed to find man who donated the bone marrow that saved Schwartz’s life. in Canada.” a match for him, so his doctors reached The cost of processing each swab is out to Ezer Mizion, a not-for-profit $65 and there are 27 registries for one Israeli organization that manages the orates with 48 other countries around cell donors of the same ethnic origin. match. world’s largest Jewish bone-marrow the world. Donors and recipients need Because of this, the registry has become “Stu created a pool of 100,000 Israeli donor registry. to be genetically compatible, so patients a vital resource and a safety net for Jew- shekels that would sponsor 460 DNA Located in Israel, Ezer Mizion collab- of Jewish ethnicity often require stem ish patients everywhere. tests.” Levi is an Israeli citizen who provid- The greatest need at the moment, she ed a swab sample to the DNA registry says, is to donate money to Stu’s pool. 10 years ago when he was in the Israeli “Our goal is to help Stu fill his pool. army, which has a partnership with Ezer The pool is labelled, and when a dona- Mizion. In May 2016, he got the call tion is found we call the creator of the that he was a match and was asked to pool, and he notifies all the donors.” donate. “It’s constantly refilled again and Last month, Levi was flown to Ottawa again – there’s no limit to how many by Ezer Mizion to meet Schwartz, who lives can be saved.” was anxious to thank him in person. To donate to Stu’s donor pool “The meeting between Stuntman and help save lives, please visit: Stu and David Levi was very special www.ezermizion.org/stuspool

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fessor at Bard College who has done BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN extensive research on the institute. He (JTA) – The Torah tells how God created decided to, um, honour her by nam- the earth and the heavens, although the ing the character after the topic of her stories that follow tell us more about the work, the archive and research centre on former than the latter. A new exhibit Eastern European Jewish life founded in doesn’t quite answer theological questions Vilna in 1925. about space, but it does show the ways in which Jews have looked at, written about and travelled into the final frontier. “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit,” named after a Mel Brooks gag, is an exhibit organized and on view at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research NASA/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS and the Center for Jewish History in Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman signalling from New York City. Here are some of the space in 1993. unusual and unexpected details uncov- ered by the exhibit: IN 1985, A JEWISH-AMERICAN NASA/SPACE FRONTIERS/GETTY IMAGES Mission specialist Judith Resnik sending a ASTRONAUT READ FROM THE TORAH message to her father. IN SPACE. Jeffrey Hoffman, the first Jewish- THE FIRST JEWISH AMERICAN TO GO American man to go into space, con- INTO SPACE WAS A WOMAN. sulted a rabbi on how to observe Judaism Judith Resnik became the first Jewish on his first trip, in 1985. Hoffman, a American and second Jew (Soviet astro- Brooklyn native who was born in 1944, naut Boris Volynov was the first) to go brought with him a scaled-down Torah into space when she flew on the maiden and did the first Torah reading outside of voyage of the Space Shuttle Discovery in Earth. He also had a set of Jewish ritual 1984. Born in 1949 to Jewish immigrants PIXABAY items specially made for his trip, includ- JOSEFIN DOLSTEN Leonard Nimoy, left, as Spock on “Star Trek,” This Ukrainian book from 1907 contains from Ukraine who settled in Ohio, Res- alongside co-star William Shatner. ing a mezuzah with a Velcro strip that he horoscopes in Yiddish. nik worked as an engineer at the Xerox would attach to his bunk and a prayer Corp. before being recruited to NASA THE VULCAN SALUTE ON “STAR TREK” shawl with weights to keep it from THIS BOOK OF HOROSCOPES WAS in a program to diversify its workforce. HAS JEWISH ORIGINS. floating away in zero-gravity. He also WRITTEN IN YIDDISH. Resnik was only the fourth female to Actor Leonard Nimoy used an unlikely brought a menorah to celebrate Published in 1907 in Odessa, Ukraine, ever do so. She died in 1986 along with source of inspiration for his character Hanukkah, although he was never able “The Revealer of That Which Is Hidden: the rest of the crew of the Space Shuttle Spock’s iconic Vulcan salute, which to actually light it aboard the spacecraft. A New Practical Book of Fate” gave Challenger when the spacecraft broke consists of a raised hand with the Yiddish readers a way to learn about apart shortly after takeoff. middle and ring fingers parted into a A JEWISH IMMIGRANT TO THE U.S. their futures by way of astrology. Much V. The gesture looks just like the one HELPED POPULARIZE SCIENCE FICTION. like a modern-day horoscope, the book AN ALIEN IN “FUTURAMA” WAS NAMED kohanim do in synagogue during the Hugo Gernsback, a Jewish immigrant offered predictions based on the reader’s AFTER THE YIVO INSTITUTE. Priestly Blessing. In his autobiography, from Luxembourg, is sometimes called zodiac sign. Similar books existed both Some might think it a coincidence Nimoy explained that he had copied the “The Father of Science Fiction” for in Yiddish and Hebrew during the time that the institute shares a name with a Jewish gesture, which he had seen in a publishing a magazine that helped period, but rabbinic authorities were bizarre extraterrestrial in the animated synagogue as a child (it also appears on popularize the genre. Launched in 1926, not thrilled, since astrology is banned science fiction comedy series. In a 2008 tombstones of kohanim). The Vulcan “Amazing Stories” featured tales of by Jewish law (although zodiac symbols direct-to-video based on the TV series, salute, which is accompanied by the aliens, robots and other beings, includ- have shown up as synagogue decora- Yivo (voiced by actor David Cross, who phrase “Live long and prosper” (the ing ones written by Gernsback himself. tions for at least 1,500 years). Despite was raised Jewish) is a tentacled being kohanim’s blessing begins “May God His magazine brought science fiction – a that, Jews at the time continued to read who uses his many limbs to have sex bless you and guard you”), became so term he coined – to the mainstream and horoscopes as well as seek other ways of with every living being in the universe. iconic that the White House mentioned inspired many writers. Among the Jew- predicting the future, such as by going Turns out the screenwriter, Eric Kaplan, it in a statement issued on Nimoy’s ish-American writers were Isaac Asimov to psychics and reading tea leaves. is friends with Cecile Kuznitz, a pro- death in 2015. and Howard Fast.

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Card Donations Fred and Esther Ballon Family Fund Evelyn and Isadore Hoffman Sam and Ruth Rothman Memorial Card donations go a long way to improv- In Memory of: Family Fund Fund ing the quality of life for our residents. Joe Murray by Fred and Esther Ballon In Honour of: In Memory of: Thank you for considering their needs David Smith Wishing you a happy, healthy and Abraham Neuman by Stephen and Sue Rothman Boris and Dolly Blacher Family Fund prosperous Passover by Evelyn and Issie and contributing to their well-being. 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Molot Bill and Phyllis Leith Family Fund Ingrid Levitz Mazel Tov on the birth of your Rhoda Zaitlin In Honour of: new granddaughter by Henry and Maureen Joe Murray by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Eileen and Arnold Weiner With sincere appre- Molot Zaitlin Ruth and Irving Aaron Family Fund ciation by Arlene and Seymour Isenberg In Honour of: Julia Gluck and Ted Overton Mazel Tov on Roslyn and Myles Taller Family Fund Jess`s engagement to Ayelet by Henry and Brenda Wolf Wishing you good health and a Sam and Dora Litwack Family Fund In Memory of: Maureen Molot happy Passover by Ruth and Irving Aaron In Memory of: Sam Litwack by Roz Taller Jess Overton and Ayelet Mizrahi Mazel Tov on Rabi Levy and Dina Teitlebaum Mazel Tov on Sam Litwack by Frayda and Charles Wiseman, your engagement by Julia Gluck and Ted Carole and Norman Zagerman Family Rochel`s Bat Mitzvah by Ruth and Irving Mera and Bill Goldstein, Ada Glustein, Overton and Henry and Maureen Molot Fund Aaron David and Judith Kalin, Dorothy Karp Peter Webb Best wishes on your 90th Birthday Howard and Joyce Nagler Mazel Tov on the In Honour of: by Julia Gluck, Ted Overton, Jess Overton birth of your grandson by Ruth and Irving Farrand and Joyce Miller Family Fund Norm Zagerman by Evelyn Monson and Ayelet Mizrahi Aaron In Honour of: *************** In Memory of: Evelyn and Irving Greenberg Fund Joyce Miller Have a happy and healthy Pass- Feeding Program Sam Litwack by Ruth and Irving Aaron In Honour of: over by Lorna Rosenstein In Honour of: R’Fuah Shlema: Sidney Klotz Happy Birthday and best Ingrid Levitz, Stephanie Levitz, Alan Shefrin Ellis Solomom by Ruth and Irving Aaron Ken and Leah Miller Family Fund wishes by Evelyn, Peter, Michael and and Livy Mazel Tov on Frankie’s safe arrival Leslie Greenberg and Families In Honour of: by Carol Gradus Bill and Leona Adler Memorial Fund Tony Greco Happy 50th Birthday by Mitch Ingrid Levitz Mazel Tov on the birth of your Gunner Family Fund In Memory of: Miller granddaughter by Flo and Joel Morgan Vita Winthrop by Marilyn Adler In Honour of: Dr. and Mrs. Ed Rose Mazel Tov on the birth Pencer Family Fund Darleen Rattew by Marilyn Adler Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Mazel Tov of your grandson Wyatt Parker by Dee and Sam Krongold by Marilyn Adler on the birth of your granddaughter by Sol In Memory of: Yale Gaffen Leila MacNeill by Marilyn Adler and Estelle Gunner Selma Lubell by Irwin and Marcia Pencer Continued on page 19

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The Lodge is a Family made up motivated him to accept the position of President of Beth Shalom. At the time, of our residents, volunteers, sta Irving was the Lt.Governor of Kiwanis, and when he initially declined the honour and generous donors who of Shul President, his father-in-law said “You have time for the goyim, but not for choose to support the Bess and your own?” – Irving and Ruth have always been strong supporters of our Jewish Moe Greenberg Family Hillel community in both volunteer hours and dollars donated. As anyone who has Lodge. This issue of “Get To served as a Synagogue president will tell you, you are the volunteer President for Ruth and Irving Aaron Know Us” will share a little bit 1200 (the membership of Beth Shalom at that time) Presidents. about two long time volunteers and supporters of the Lodge. Ruth and Irving’s connection to the Lodge goes way back to before the Lodge Ruth and Irving Aaron are living in the home that Irving built in 1957. Irving has was even built. Irving’s grandmother suggested that the community should build been a Real Estate Broker since 1948. He knew people in construction and wisely a Jewish Home for the elderly in Lowertown, but she wasn’t able to gather the built his home in the winter, which gave many of the trades people employment necessary support. Ruth’s late father, Benjamin Feinstein, lived at the Watergate when their industry was a little slower. Sitting at their kitchen table, you can just down the street from the Lodge on Wurtemburg and well into his 90s looked imagine how they recently celebrated Ruth’s 89th birthday with their four forward to joining the minyan on Friday evenings. Ruth has always been an active children and thirteen grandchildren. volunteer at the Lodge, including being responsible for refreshments when the groundbreaking took place for the current location on the Jewish Community Ruth and Irving met in Ottawa after Ruth’s parents moved from Manitoba (Ruth Campus, giving tours of the Lodge to new families and volunteering in the was born in Winkler, near Winnipeg) when she was ve years old. Irving’s sister Auxiliary’s gift shop to name a few. was a leader of a local Jewish youth group, and she suggested that he ask Ruth out. They will celebrate their 65th anniversary on June 2, 2018. Ruth and Irving have been supporting the Lodge for years, choosing to send tribute cards through the Lodge’s Foundation, and in 2009 started the Ruth and What were the chances that Ruth’s parents who were from Poland and Russia Irving Aaron Family Fund at the Hillel Lodge LTC Foundation “to support resident would immigrate to Canada and that Irving’s parents from Kiev (Russia) and Riga needs as they relate to direct resident care”. (Latvia) would have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Canada. In his early 90s, Irving will tell you that he and Ruth still enjoy attending Shabbat Irving grew up in Ottawa and he enlisted in the Navy during World War II. We services at the Lodge where on some Saturdays his attendance makes the joked that his training as a Navy minesweeper may have helped him di use minyan. explosive situations when he became a Jewish Community volunteer and President of a Synagogue. Irving says that his late father-in-law is the one who By Mitch Miller, Executive Director, Hillel Lodge LTC Foundation April 30, 2018 20 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM A Holocaust novel for a new generation 30 years later, the author of The Devil’s Arithmetic has a new young adult book BY PENNY SCHWARTZ (JTA) – More than 30 years ago, Jane Yolen had already made her mark in the world of children’s literature. Among the nearly 100 books she had written were fantasies and folk tales, picture books and the popular Captain Toad chapter book series. Her gift for spinning original fairy tales earned her the reputation as the American Hans Christian Anderson. But when her editor, Deborah Brodie, suggested she write a Jewish children’s book, Yolen dismissed the idea. Sure, she was Jewish, she recalled telling Brodie, who was Jewish, too. But, growing up, Yolen’s family wasn’t particularly observant. And although she had JASON STEMPLE Jane Yolen has written 366 books. Yolen’s newest book. The Devil’s Arithmetic, 1988. minored in religious studies at Smith College, Yolen told Brodie she would have to do as much research as someone who wasn’t Jewish. back a contract. Gittel Abromowitz make a daring escape with their Brodie persisted. “I thought, ‘OK, I’m going to try this,’ ” she said in a family. Separated from their parents in the forest, “She was a classic nudzh,” Yolen recalled fondly all phone conversation with JTA from her home in west- the twins hide with Polish partisans, and are later these years later of the late editor, a giant in the world ern Massachusetts. captured by German soldiers and forced into a slave of children’s publishing. The result was The Devil’s Arithmetic, a Holocaust labour camp. But Yolen, best known as a fantasy writer, had a novel that when it appeared in 1988 was nothing like Mapping the Bones is Yolen’s 366th book. As she set spark of an idea for a Holocaust story that would lead anything that had come before. The book garnered out on a whirlwind series of book talks and confer- with a girl bored and indifferent at her grandparents’ critical acclaim, earned multiple book awards and was ences, she said she had not planned to write another Passover seder. When Hannah opens the door to sym- made into an Emmy-winning Showtime film starring Holocaust novel. In four years of being immersed in bolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she finds herself Kirsten Dunst. The novel has sold nearly two million Holocaust research and writing, there were also lighter transported back in time to a Polish shtetl where the copies and is used widely in schools across North and happier books, Yolen said. Among them was Jewish villagers are on the verge of being shipped to a America. Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook, written German Nazi concentration camp. Only Hannah knows Now, three decades later, Yolen, 79, has written with her daughter, Heidi E.Y. Stemple. the horrifying tragedy that the future will bring. Mapping the Bones (Philomel), a Holocaust novel for a “But the things that feed the soul are (books) like Yolen relented and wrote a first chapter. She new generation of teens. The year is 1942, in the Lodz Mapping the Bones,” Yolen reflected. “As hard as it was, assumed it would end at that. Instead, Brodie sent ghetto in Poland, where 14-year-old twins Chaim and I know I was meant to write this book.” Temple Israel An egalitarian Reform congregation

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n 1968, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach visited the Reform Rava said: “Rabbi Meir found a pomegranate. He ate Jewish camp where I was a counsellor. One of the its fruit and threw out its peel!” great innovators in Jewish music, Carlebach’s RABBI STEVEN H. GARTEN Elijah said: “Now the Almighty blessed be He also oeuvre was changing the very nature of how we A VIEW FROM quotes the novel Torah insights of Rabbi Meir, and with Iworship, even how we think of ourselves as particular fondness.” worshippers. THE BLEACHERS Rabbi Elisha ben Abuya was considered a great Today, there is hardly a synagogue, Jewish school scholar who became a heretic for studying Greek or Jewish camp, whatever its tradition, that does not philosophy. In this passage, the rabbis are asking: have embedded within its structure the music of Rabbi essential question in these troubling times is the same “Is there a way of eating the fruit and throwing out Shlomo Carlebach. Most of us don’t know the composer question Jews have been asking about the music of the klipot (seeds)?” This is not an exact parallel, but of the music we sing, myself included, but we instantly Richard Wagner these past 70 years: can the art be sep- close enough. recognize Carlebach’s work if it is pointed out to us. arated from the artist? Think about it – among our ancient Jewish heroes, That summer 50 years ago, I witnessed behaviour Some will suggest that the answer is a simple no. few were pure individuals. Abraham: Avinu, but I that I did not understand or know how to categorize. The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra does not usually wouldn’t have wanted to be Isaac. Maybe we need to Somehow Carlebach always seemed to have an easy play Wagner. Why? Because he was an arch anti-Sem- eliminate him from the Avot. David: A great king – but way of finding himself with young female campers ite and his work formed the thematic backdrop to the would you want him hanging out with your daughter? and his hands were rarely at his side. What I witnessed entire Nazi era. But he was a great composer and some Maybe we need to stop singing “David Me-lech yis-ra- then, and what others witnessed, continued until his believe his music sublime. This argument has been eil” or chanting the psalms. death in 1994. He was an artist who created sublime extended to the work of many others. Roald Dahl, The truth is the great ones were (and are) great at music, but he was not such wonderful human being. author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and some things and not so good at others. Somehow our But he is by no means the only person whose work the Giant Peach and Fantastic Mr. Fox was known to tradition has woven into its very fabric people whose inspires respect, but whose life calls for censure. despise Israel and Jews. Should his wonderful chil- values and charisma are a legacy, even while their Over these last few months, we have been over- dren’s books be banned from all Jewish homes? behaviour is unacceptable. whelmed by media reports about successful individu- How does one wrestle with these significant moral Some synagogues, schools and camps have banned als whose personal behaviours are to be condemned, dilemmas? the music of Rabbi Carlebach. Some have determined while their artistic or professional achievements are to In the Talmud, we read the following discussion: that they need to take time and study the issue. And be praised. It is a long list and many on it are Jewish: Rabbi Meir Rabba bar Shila said to Elijah: “What is some have chosen simply to ignore the complexities Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allan, James Levine, Lorin God doing?” that his behaviours and the behaviours of others raise. Stein and Al Franken, to name just a few. He replied: “He is quoting novel Torah insights of the But before we censure others, let us remember that as There are, of course, many others accused of sexual sages, but not the insights of Rabbi Meir.” Jews, we are good at sticking our heads into the sand harassment and sexual assault who are not “members “Why not Rabbi Meir?” Rabba asked. when the actions of Israel challenge our normative of the tribe.” But birth, ethnic origin or religion don’t “Because he learned Torah from Elisha ben Abuya,” morality. Unfortunately, being a moral ostrich can lead seem to me very important. What strikes me as the said Elijah. to moral suffocation.

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F April 30, 2018 22 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM Are you making any of these 10 fitness mistakes? lbert Einstein is thought to have said: “A Mistake No. 7: Choosing physical activities you don’t person who never made a mistake never tried really enjoy. Perhaps you’re doing them because your anything new.” Winston Churchill said: “All GLORIA SCHWARTZ friends do them. Maybe you go to classes with your men make mistakes, but only wise men learn FOCUS ON friends, but you don’t find those classes fun. Find Afrom their mistakes.” something you like. Some people have more fun out- Consider these common mistakes if you’re inter- FITNESS doors, some feel great in a gym, and some like to be in ested in improving your health and fitness. If you’re a group setting, while others prefer working out alone. already making some of them, you can use them as If it feels like drudgery, you’ll be less inclined to stay learning experiences and opportunities for growth. Mistake No. 4: Focusing too much on numbers: cal- engaged long-term. Remember that making a mistake is not as bad as con- ories consumed, steps walked, pounds/kilos on the sidering it a personal failure and allowing it to under- scale or minutes spent on the treadmill are just some Mistake No. 8: Expecting unrealistic results, such mine your plans. of the metrics that can become an obsession. Instead as significant weight loss or big muscles, in a short of walking on the treadmill for your usual 30 min- amount of time. This is real life, not The Biggest Loser Mistake No. 1: Having no goals. It’s motivating to have utes, for example, forget about the time and do a few television show. Starving yourself and working out something specific to work towards. If you set specific rounds of intervals to bring up your heart rate. Instead for hours each day is not a healthy solution. Dropping goals, put together a plan of action and document your of dwelling on your weight, focus on improving your out of your exercise program because your short-term progress, that process will help keep you on track. dietary habits. results aren’t spectacular is not going to help. And remember that many of the benefits of exercise are on Mistake No. 2: The next mistake is trying to do it all Mistake No. 5: Training without exerting yourself (not the inside of your body, which you cannot see. Be real- on your own, especially if you are not committed to even breaking a sweat) or exercising half-heartedly. istic and remember that a healthy lifestyle is a lifelong exercise. Skipping a walk, a bike ride or a workout can Habits such as riding a stationary bike slowly for long endeavour. easily spiral into a full-blown dropout period that can periods of time while reading a magazine, leaning on last for weeks, months or even years, and that can have the elliptical machine or treadmill with poor posture, Mistake No. 9: Not warming up and/or not cooling detrimental effects on your health. A personal trainer or using momentum (swinging) rather than lifting and down. Warm up before your workout with five to even an active buddy can help get you going in the right lowering dumbbells, or chatting while working out, 10 minutes of light cardio exercise or with dynamic direction – even though, ultimately, the onus is on you. can limit the benefits of your workout. Push yourself stretches. Cool down after your workout with static outside your comfort zone to improve your strength, stretches to help maintain your flexibility and range of Mistake No. 3: Doing the same thing repeatedly and speed and endurance. Build up slowly and safely. motion. If you worked out intensely, you can walk or expecting different results. Even if you’re working out cycle slowly to bring your heart rate down to normal. regularly, your body will adapt and hit a plateau. You’ll Mistake No. 6: Waiting for the perfect time to get stop seeing improvements and that can lead to attri- started. The perfect time to start is now. Putting off Mistake No. 10: Doing lots of cardio, such as aerobics tion. That’s why you need to switch up your workouts. getting started until after vacation, after holidays, or classes or walking, and very little resistence train- Do what you like, but don’t be afraid to explore new after a work project, will not improve anything except ing. Don’t be afraid to lift weights, whether you use activities. Challenge your body with different exercises. your procrastination skills. machines, dumbbells or your own body weight. April 30, 2018 OTTAWAJEWISHBULLETIN.COM 23

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