January 11-17, 2019 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLVIII, Number 2 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK JFS to offer “Beyond the Rainbow: LGBTQ in the Binghamton Jewish Community” on Jan. 29 Jewish Family Service, in conjunction The purpose of the program is to The event will include presentations is both personal and professional for with Pride and Joy Families/Lesbian and make the Binghamton Jewish community by Rabbis Barbara Goldman-Wartell and me, given my work at Pride and Joy Gay Families Building Project and Temple a more welcoming place for LGBTQ Rachel Esserman of the multiple genders Families, Binghamton’s LGBTQ family Concord, will hold the program “Beyond people and create allies. Roz Antoun, mentioned in the Bible and the Talmud. organization. I was so glad that Roz ap- the Rainbow: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Trans- the director of JFS, noted, “We hope A panel including Harry Cohen, Claudia proached me with the idea of doing some gender/Queer in the Binghamton Jewish this program will help increase our Stallman and others will offer first person sort of educational program together. I Community” on Tuesday, January 29, at Jewish community’s understanding accounts by folks who live at the inter- am looking forward to learning more Temple Concord, 9 Riverside Dr., Bing- of the unique perspectives of LGBTQ section of Jewish and LGBTQ identities. about what Judaism has to say on this hamton. There will be no charge for the individuals. Topics to be covered will Trainer and teacher Alex Compton-Monell subject and engaging in this community program and the light dinner. The dinner include the basics of sexual orientation will lead the discussion about gender conversation.” will held at 5:30 pm, with the program and gender identity, and how to be more identity and sexual orientation, and how Those interested in attending should running from 6:15-8 pm. The community welcoming, inclusive and affirming of to be an ally. RSVP to Antoun at 724-2332 or rozjfs@ is invited to attend. (The snow date will be LGBTQ people who are friends, family, According to Claudia Stallman, one stny.rr.com to prepare enough food and Tuesday, February 26.) neighbors and associates.” of the event organizers, “This program materials for all participants. Jewish approach to criminal justice to be studied at the Rohr Chabad Center this winter With criminal justice reform currently in December and is soon expected to or rehabilitation?,” “What’s Judaism’s posi- wrongdoing are as relevant today as ever taking center-stage, the Rohr Jewish Learn- become law. Among other provisions, the tion on the death penalty?” and “Can criminals before,” said Rivkah Slonim, course direc- ing Institute – the world’s largest Jewish bill gives prisoners new ways to earn early ever make amends, and, if so, how?” The tor. “JLI’s ‘Crime and Consequence’ course adult education network – is launching a release, expands compassionate release course will draw on ancient Jewish sources, brings these important Jewish perspectives course that explores the Jewish approach for terminally ill prisoners and will keep while using contemporary materials to give home to our own community.” to the questions of crime, punishment and inmates closer to their families. The bill a modern context to the discussion. The program has won early endorse- justice. “Crime and Consequence” is a six- is said to have brought the debate about Course participants will discover that the ments from law professors and criminal part series that will be offered beginning in criminal justice into focus; Americans are Jewish approach to justice goes well beyond justice campaigners. February locally as well as at hundreds of discussing the value of tougher or smarter the reforms in the First Step Act, providing Dr. John H. Laub, a professor in the locations worldwide. reforms, fairness of mandatory minimum alternative sentences for non-dangerous Department of Criminology and Criminal The United States of America has the sentencing as opposed to judicial discretion criminals that are tailored to fit the crime, Justice at the University of Maryland, highest rate of incarceration in the world. and whether prison is at all effective in and advocating for rehabilitation programs welcomed the course. “Questions about A reported 2.3 million Americans are in reforming criminals. that continue well after punishment has the causes of crime and the appropriate prisons and jails: almost a quarter of the JLI’s “Crime and Consequence” course been served. governmental response have challenged world’s prisoners are in America. will tackle these questions from a Jewish per- “The debate over the First Step Act and bedeviled social thinkers for centuries. In a rare show of bipartisan workman- spective, addressing topics such as “What’s shows that Judaism’s timeless truths and Indeed, such big questions have no easy ship, the First Step Act passed the Senate the purpose of prison: punishment, deterrence insights about human nature, society and See “Justice” on page 3 Spotlight For the past decade, Innovation: Africa has taught developing nations how to improve their lives By Noa Amouyal Israeli solar, water and agricultural tech- (JNS) – Imagine giving birth in the nologies in more than 200 villages in 10 dark. For those fortunate enough to have a African countries that has impacted the charged smartphone, the husband will use At right: Sivan Ya’ari lives of some 1.3 million people. But most the phone as a makeshift flashlight, enabling sppoke with residents of a importantly, its program teaches local the doctor to see what his hands are doing. village in Uganda who are community leaders, project managers and Or imagine bathing, cooking and cleaning the beneficiaries of Israeli engineers how to maintain the technologies with contaminated water, and feeling sed- technology being exported given to them so they can be self-reliant. iments of dirt brush up against your skin as to the continent. (Photo “We are using Israeli innovations to you attempt mundane everyday tasks like courtesy of Innovation empower and transform the lives of others,” washing your face. Africa) said its founder and CEO, Sivan Ya’ari, at a For many Africans, what is inconceivable December 18 ceremony at the Peres Center to the developed world is their reality. In for Peace and Innovation honoring several Central Africa alone, “fewer than three out milestones: a 10-year anniversary for IA, 60 of five children make it through primary for MASHAV and, of course, Israel’s 70th. school, and almost half the population has tion: Africa (or IA) employees who came to of poverty sweeping the continent. “President [Shimon] Peres understood no access to clean water,” according to a Israel in December for a two-week training For nearly 10 years, the New York-based that we cannot live on an island of prosperity, December UNICEF report. course in innovation and community devel- Innovation: Africa has demonstrated that a and that it is our duty to share,” she said. “We have women who go to the hospital opment. Their trip, which was coordinated little can go a long way. With simple Israeli “He understood that poverty and ignorance at night to give birth and there’s no electric- in partnership with Israel’s Agency for technology, it is teaching developing nations enable terror, and that we can stop it if we ity, so they use kerosene. There are some International Development Cooperation in the continent how to create self-sufficient chose to empower the other.” cases where doctors and nurses ask patients and the Center for International Agriculture infrastructure and bring access to clean wa- It is a message that the African delegation to come with their own source of light,” Development Cooperation, gave them “an ter, education, refrigeration for vaccines and has internalized during their time in Israel. Lerian Moshi from Tanzania told JNS. eye-opening” look at the latest in Israeli medicines, and food security to the region. “Israel believes in not letting other people Moshi was one of the 24 local Innova- technology that can help turn back the tide To date, the organization has installed See “Africa” on page 4 INSIDE THIS ISSUE TI/TC adult ed. Israel news in brief JCC events Special Sections The TI/TC adult ed. program on Haredi mom wins marathon; The JCC will hold a Wine and Paint Book Review...... 2 Jan. 27 will be a viewing of “My Hebrew U. professor to give anti- night on Jan. 19 and the annual Business Profiles...... 4-5 Coffee with Jewish Friends.” Israel speech; and more. family Breakfast Ball on Jan. 27. Legal Notices...... 7 ...... Page 3 ...... Page 5 ...... Page 7 Classifieds...... 8 Page 2 - The Reporter January 11-17, 2019 Off the Shelf Halakhah from several angles RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN

What exactly is halakhah? The concept is more dif- capital punishment and how that punishment would be ideas that would never be put into practice. The study of ficult to understand than one might expect, at least ac- dispensed. A great many Jewish institutions and practic- halakhah is still considered a religious practice today, cording to Chaim N. Saiman’s “Halakhah: The Rabbinic es – including the Temple, sacrifices and the priesthood not only in yeshivot, but at synagogues and community Idea of Law” (Princeton University Press). Saiman, who – were no longer relevant once the Temple had been centers. Another example of contemporary study is the is a professor in the Charles Widger School of Law at destroyed, Yet, one of the first works of halakhah, the Daf Yomi movement, through which people of all ages Villanova University, looks at halakhah from an unusual Mishnah, acts as if the laws it includes were still being and branches of Judaism agree to study a page of Talmud viewpoint: he’s interested in how legal disputations meted out by a court system. Saiman notes that the ha- a day. Some do so for religious reasons; others just enjoy also came to serve as religious practice. He notes that lakhic system “adopts an as-if jurisprudence; detailing the intellectual challenge. his “book is largely an attempt to explain halakhah as regulations as if the Temple in Jerusalem stood in all its Saiman includes a chapter on the founding of the experienced from within... the halakhah castle to an au- splendor; as if the Jewish people were sovereign in the state of Israel and its relationship to halakhah. He notes dience standing outside it... the goal is not to unearth the land; as if the Sanhedrin exercised its powers; and as if that halakhah offers no guidance on how to govern a history of halakhah but to offer a constructive account Jewish criminal law was routinely enforced in accord modern state because the different texts offer too many of the interpretive and conception practices presented with mishnaic doctrines.” options. There also is no structure on how to turn these within in it.” In simpler terms, Saiman explores the way Saiman also discusses how it’s possible to understand theoretical laws into functioning governmental rulings. halakhah works for the Jews who study it for legal and rabbinic theology through halakhic arguments, even One example is the halakhic idea of the importance of spiritual reasons. if the rabbis themselves don’t specifically speak in saving a life: “Halakhah requires a passerby (Joseph) to Saiman notes that halakhah is usually translated as Jewish theological terms. The study of halakhah was the way drop everything and spend time and money to save Ben- law, but the literal meaning of the word – “the path” – better these Jews connected to God after the destruction of jamin’s life. How does this individual mandate translate explains how the halakhic system works. The reason for the the Temple. While they engaged in study partly for its to state policy? What emergencies must a halakhah state common translation is that most people think of halakhah own sake they also believed studying Torah – written plan for? What should its health policy look like?... Since as the laws that have governed Jews throughout the century. and oral Torah – helped them learn how God wanted the mitzvah of saving lives is paramount, must the entire Yet, Saiman shows how it has a far wider range. In fact, them to behave. The Torah (in its largest sense as en- Gross Domestic Product of a halakhah state be devoted he believes the halakhic system functions in four different compassing all biblical and rabbinic writings) was said to healthcare? Who pays, and by what mechanism are ways, none of which are mutually exclusive: “Halakhah is to contain all the knowledge one needed to function in scarce health resources to be allocated? And who makes concurrently a system of governing rules and practices, a this world. Every detail in the Torah – no matter how these decisions?” The answers to these questions can’t forum for legal analysis, a platform of religious expression, minor or unimportant it seemed – had something to be found in current halakhic texts. and an object of devotional study.” teach these rabbis and their students. This review only touches on a few areas that Saiman Over the course of his work, Saiman examines each In “Halakhah,” Saiman also explains how Jewish discusses. The concepts he uses can be difficult to grasp at of these ways of looking at halakhah. One of the most study over the years has changed. He notes that while first since his view of halakhah is very different from other interesting chapters looks at halakhah as “non-applied” medieval codes, such as Maimonides’ “Mishneh Torah,” works on the subject. However, his writing will appeal to law. Halakhah developed during Greco-Roman times were supposed to limit the need for discussion about the scholars and laypersons who are willing to work a little when Jews didn’t have sovereignty over the judicial correct way to follow a law, that quickly changed. Codes to understand his ideas. “Halakhah” offers fascinating system and could not, for example, practice capital themselves became objects of study and commentary. insights into how the rabbis transformed their religion into punishment. That did not stop the ancient rabbis from Commentators varied as to whether they were looking for the study of law and how that transformation still informs discussing in great detail who would be deserving of practical applications of halakhah or offering theoretical Judaism today. Opinion From the Desk of the Federation Executive Director Hello, this is Sima SIMA AUERBACH

I mentioned some words about tax deductions in my or older, or blind, each spouse receives an additional contribution deduction will depend on whether you have last Hello and would like to amend what I had written. standard deduction amount of $1,300. For a single indi- enough charitable and other itemized deductions to exceed Although the personal exemption was eliminated by the vidual or head of household meeting the same criteria, the standard deduction. new law, the standard deduction was nearly doubled. It’s the additional standard deduction amount is $1,600. Hope this is clear. now $12,000 for single people and $24,000 for married While the charitable deduction was left unchanged and P.S. Went to visit Abraham on his one month birthday. couples filing jointly; for married taxpayers who are 65 is still tax deductible, your ability to claim the charitable I wish him a less complicated world!

In My Own Words Mexico and Central America RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Mexico recently announced that it would spend up to skin colors, ethnicities and religions – who have made our least in the short term, because there is an enormous amount $10.6 billion from funds already received from the United nation a better place to live. However, wouldn’t it also be of governmental reform that needs to take place. But, just States to create government initiatives, which will help wonderful if people didn’t feel forced to leave their homes because the problem isn’t easily solved, does that mean those living in poverty in Mexico and Central America. due to oppression, poverty, natural disasters or war? we shouldn’t try to make a difference? The caravans are a While it is unfortunate that it took President Donald Trump Most immigrants enter the U.S. for economic or safety symptom of a greater problem, whether it’s corruption in the threatening to cut aid if the caravans traveling to the U.S. reasons. This is not an easy choice. Underlying their decision Central American and Mexican governments, the need for to seek refuge don’t stop, it makes sense to improve the usually is a sense of desperation that’s difficult for those of greater knowledge and technology in those countries, or the lives of Mexicans and Central Americans so they won’t us living in safety in a land of plenty to understand. Just financial resources to recover from disasters and violence. feel the need to leave their countries. These efforts are think of what they leave behind – their families, language The subject puts me in mind of a quote from Pirke Avot long, long overdue. and culture – to start fresh in a new place. These are the (Sayings of the Fathers) that has appeared in this column Before people say my support of this initiative makes people who come to the United States willing to take hard before: “It is not your responsibility to finish the work, but me anti-immigration and asylum, let me be clear: I fully and back-breaking work, and to risk being treated as second neither are you free to desist from it.” So my answer is, support allowing people to immigrate or seek asylum in class citizens – because they know no English or speak “Allow people to immigrate to our country. Give asylum to our country. I will always be grateful that my ancestors with an accent – in order to have a better life. those who need it now. But also help make it possible for were allowed to enter the U.S. In addition, I appreciate the The newspaper article I recently read about this topic people to remain in their homelands by helping make those regular influx of hard working people – of all nationalities, quoted analysts who said this initiative wouldn’t work, at homelands as safe and economically solvent as our own.”

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Editorial/News Regular weekly deadline is noon, Wednesday, for the following week’s newspaper. www.thereportergroup.org January 11-17, 2019 Page 3 - The Reporter American Southwest talk at BD luncheon on Jan. 12 On Saturday, January 12, Beth David Synagogue’s Lun- Networks and Identity: Replanting Jewish Lives Binghamton, and is house chair of Beth David cheon Speaker Series will begin 2019 with guest speaker from Nazi Germany to Rural New York.” Born and the JCC. Charlie Manasse. He will focus on his recent vacation in in Greene, Manasse attended high school there, “Charlie has a wealth of knowledge of so many America’s Southwest, sharing his experiences related to and later moved to Whitney Point. He graduated things,” organizers say, “and his adventures are the Jewish elements he discovered in states including New with a degree in economics from the Wharton always a source of fascination. His experiences in Mexico. How did Jews end up in that part of America? School at the University of Pennsylvania. He America’s Southwest will surely spark vivid mem- When are the records of their first arrival there? What is subsequently returned to be part of the family ories for those who have been there; for those who Jewish life there now, in the 21st century? These are among cattle business. He was in the auction business haven’t, it will be an eye-opening talk, particularly the topics that will be explored by Manasse. and was the owner of the Whitney Point Live- as it relates to the Jewish aspects of his trip.” “I aim to offer an informative and entertaining presenta- stock Auction. Manasse was a professional Beth David’s luncheon speaker series takes tion,” Manasse said, “and look forward to sharing some of automobile auctioneer for 30 years, working place the second Saturday of the month after my off-the-beaten-track encounters, including meeting the from Buffalo to Boston. As a member of the Shabbat morning services, and is open to the chief judge of the Tribal Court of San Juan Pueblo, Navajo NYS Auctioneer’s Association, he served on the Charlie Manasse community. There is no charge for the luncheon, Reservation in New Mexico, who is not only fluent in Navajo board and as president. He was also inducted however, Beth David welcomes donations to the and Hopi, but happens to be Jewish and from Brooklyn, of into the NYS Auctioneer’s Hall of Fame. Luncheon Fund in order to keep the program going. Dona- all places!” Manasse will also share his Shabbat experience Manasse’s positions in local government include having tions can be made in honor or in memory of someone, or to as part of the morning services in Albuquerque, NM. served as supervisor of the town of Barker for six years; mark a special occasion. Those wishing an acknowledgment Longtime residents of upstate New York, Manasse’s at that time, he was the youngest supervisor in New York to be sent to the person being honored, or to the family parents fled Nazi Germany in 1938 to come to the United state. Presently, he is the supervisor of the town of Triangle. of someone being remembered, can indicate that, along States. A few years later, they bought a farm near Greene, A longtime member of the Jewish community, he serves with the necessary information. Donations may be sent to where they were in the cattle dealer business. They are as first vice-president of Beth David Synagogue, ison Beth David Synagogue, 39 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, described in Professor Rhonda Levine’s 2001 book, “Class, the Executive Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater NY 13905, Attention: Luncheon Fund. TC Sisterhood annual book review on Jan. 13 On Sunday, January 13, from 11 am-1 pm, Rabbi Rachel Namdar’s “The Ruined House” won the Sapir plot looks at what happened to a Jewish family Esserman will review three books at the annual Temple Prize, Israel’s highest literary award. There was escaping Europe with a valuable Rembrandt. The Concord Sisterhood book review, at Temple Concord, 9 controversy over the win because Namdar does painting disappears, but 70 years later is put up Riverside Dr., Binghamton. The snow date is Sunday, not live in Israel. A rule was passed saying all for auction. The novel travels from the tenements January 20. The program is open to the public. Brunch winners must now live in Israel. The New York and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt’s studio in will be served at a cost of $3 per person. Times called the book “a masterpiece,” although 17th-century Amsterdam, telling the story of peo- The books to be reviewed are “The Ruined House” by not all reviewers agreed. It tells the story of ple forced to choose between the tenets of their Israeli novelist Ruby Namdar, “Heretics” by Leonardo Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative faith and the realities of the world, between their Padura and “You’ll Miss Me when I’m Gone” by Rachel culture at New York University, who is at the personal desires and the demands of their times. Lynn Solomon. zenith of his life, but the manicured surface of Solomon’s “You’ll Miss Me when I’m Esserman said, “I am once again looking forward to his world begins to crack when he is visited Gone” is a young adult novel about young the Sisterhood book review. The first two novels will be by a series of strange and inexplicable visions twin Jewish women who are tested for a challenging literary works, one of which is translated from involving an ancient religious ritual that will Rabbi Rachel genetic illness. One tests negative, while the Hebrew and the other from Spanish. For the first time, I’m upend his comfortable life. This literary novel Esserman other tests positive. The novel explores their reviewing a young adult novel, but the dilemma these young includes pages borrowed from the Talmud as relationship as they deal with the idea that one Jewish women find themselves in is anything but simple. the author explores ideas about ancient Israel. of them will die young. The Sisterhood book review is one of my favorite events Padura’s “Heretics” has been called “a sweeping novel of Esserman is the executive editor and book reviewer for of the year and I can’t wait to read these intriguing novels.” art theft, antisemitism, contemporary Cuba and crime.” The The Reporter Group. Her editorials and reviews have won awards from the American Jewish Press Association and the Syracuse Press Club. She also serves as the Jewish TI planning trip to Israel chaplain for Broome Development Disabilities Service Office. A Reconstructionist rabbi who says her first love Temple Israel is planning a group trip to Israel for five nights in Jerusalem. Complete land packages start at is teaching, she sees her position at The Reporter as an fall 2019 or early winter 2020. An interest meeting $1,875, hotel options vary. Flights are not included, but opportunity to educate the public about Judaism. was held on December 9 at Temple Israel. A second the group will try to get a group rate and can arrange for meeting will be held on Sunday, January 13, from transportation to Newark airport. 4-5 pm, and a third meeting on Sunday, February 10, Organizers say, “It will be a life-changing trip. Please join The Jewish Community wishes to express its from 4-5 pm. All interested members of the Jewish us on January 13 at Temple Israel to learn about the trip.” sympathy to Terri Bennett on the death of community are welcome. More information can be found on the American her husband, Under consideration is the 11-day Jewish Heritage Israel Tours website, www.americaisraeltours.com/ Journey to Israel run by American Israel Tours, which is jewish-tours-israel/new-jewish-heritage/, or by calling Shepard “Shep” Bennett geared for active adults. The trip includes two nights in 877-248-8687. Other questions can be directed to Rabbi Tel Aviv, two nights at Kibbutz Lavi Hotel Galilee and Geoffrey Brown at Temple Israel. The Jewish Community wishes to express its sympathy to Earl Gordon the death of his TI/TC adult ed. program on Jan. 27 brother, The next Temple Israel/Temple Concord Adult Education some smiles and bittersweet tales. The most thoughtful Phillip “Butch” Gordon program will be presented on Sunday, January 27, at 10 am, discussions are with those who have lost faith in a God, at Temple Israel. The program will be a viewing of Man- or whose beliefs have altered over time.” fred Kirchheimer’s documentary “My Coffee with Jewish Simon Abrams, in The Village Voice, wrote: “Political The Jewish Community wishes to express its Friends.” The film director interviews a cross-section of the head-butting and crabby bon mots energize a series of wide Jewish community, raising such questions as: How does ranging conversations about the nature of secular Judaism sympathy to Debbie Saltzman the death of our Jewish identity impact your life? Is our Jewish identity in this consistently entertaining documentary.” her mother, enhanced because of Israel? Does an increase in antisemitic Community members are invited to have breakfast with Bea Saltzman incidents make us more sensitive to our religion? Did the their Jewish friends at Temple Israel. In order to cover a Holocaust strengthen our Jewish traditions or undermine partial cost of the film, the Adult Ed. Committee will be them? The film has been called a thought-provoking col- charging $10 for the breakfast. The community is advised lection of views, opinions and beliefs. to contact Tammy Kunsman in the Temple Israel office In a review in The New York Times, Ken Jaworowski at [email protected] or call 723-7461 to make a wrote: “In the film he speaks with more than 20 people reservation by Wednesday, January 23, so organizers can and comes away with countless viewpoints, as well as ensure sufficient food and sufficient seating for the movie.

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Africa Continued from page 1 suffer,” Robert Khahosi, an IA project manager from Uganda, to collect water. IA came as a savior.” the continent’s borders. According to the Food and Agricul- told JNS while touring the Old City of Jerusalem. “Like Mo- While touring Israel’s agriculture and energy-research ture Organization of the United Nations, 54 percent of the ses, who lost one sheep and had to leave his other 99 sheep centers, like the Volcani and Arava institutes, the delegation world’s population lives in urban areas and that population to look for the missing one, Israel is going back and making learned how the technology they are already using back is expected to increase to 66 percent by 2050. sure everyone is accounted for. We are that missing sheep.” home can be upgraded. Mercy Tayim, for one, is particularly But Ya’ari is most gratified when she sees how her How, then, does IA enact such radical and practical interested in seeing the implementation of hydroponics in organization affects people on an individual level. “It is change in these communities? In Khahosi’s Uganda, her home country of Cameroon. priceless to see the eyes of children looking at a bright for example, installing solar panels, solar pumps, water This relatively new Israeli technology takes urban light bulb for the first time, and to witness children and tanks and taps brought clean drinking water to villages gardening to the next level. With hydroponics, no soil is mothers tasting clean water,” said Ya’ari. where residents had to walk some three hours for access needed. Instead, nutrients like fish excrement, duck manure However, Ya’ari believes IA’s work has just begun. to non-contaminated water. or fertilizers are used in a water solvent. This is ideal for “Although we’ve helped over one million people, it is only IA community developer Abraham Ngobeni saw urban spaces that have little farmland or areas with limited a drop in the ocean,” she said. “There are still over 600 similar transformations in his native Bushbuckridge, fertile soil. “In many places [in my country], there isn’t million people in Africa without energy, and 350 million South Africa. “Women would collect water from open much free land, so this is a great option,” Tayim told JNS. people searching for water every single day. Now that sources, where they would just gather water with their “In other places, there is a surplus of land, but it’s not Israel is strong, by sharing its innovation we can bless hands on the river banks,” he told JNS. “Sometimes, fertile. So lots of areas suffer from famine. If we can train other families in the world. We can fulfil our destiny, and they’d travel long distances to do this. Innovation people to use these technologies, we can help relieve our by sharing our innovations we can take action and stand Africa changed that. In six months, we completed 11 food-scarcity problem.” up to our responsibility to be a blessing and realize our projects. Now women don’t have to walk long distances Exporting this technology could be useful far beyond purpose, which is to better this world.”

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From JNS.org explain how Israel uses the “bodies and lives” and “daily suffering” of Palestinian children Haredi mother wins Tiberias marathon in order to improve its weapon sales. Through the “the voices and writings of Jerusalemite children who live under Occupation,” explains the event promo, “she will reveal how A haredi mother of five from Jerusalem won the Tiberias Marathon on Jan. 4, the first surveying, imprisoning, torturing and killing can be used as a laboratory for states, arms ultra-Orthodox woman to take first prize in the event. Bracha Deutsch, known by her friends companies, and security agencies to market their technologies as “combat proven.” Shal- as “Speedy Beatie,” finished the race in 2 hours, 42 minutes and 18 seconds – the fifth fastest houb-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair of Law at Hebrew University, which faced time for a female Israeli marathon runner – and was cheered across the finish line by her criticism the week of Jan. 4 after a professor was filmed scolding a student who attended husband, a yeshiva teacher, and her children. Deutsch, a 29-year-old who made aliyah from class wearing an IDF uniform. In response to the lecture, Hebrew University responded New Jersey eight years ago, told Ynet that she did not anticipate winning the race. The vic- that “the lecturer accepted the invitation to the conference on her own initiative, without tory marks Deutsch’s fourth marathon. She competed in the Tel Aviv Marathon while seven the involvement of the university or connection to her position.” months pregnant and began training for the trials just three years ago. Though Deutsch’s time would have qualified her to enter the 2016 Olympic games, the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo Malaysia blocks entry to Israeli swimmers for world entry requirements demand a completion time of 2 hours and 36 minutes. championship Hebrew U. prof. to give anti-Israel speech in Europe Malaysia has denied Israel’s Paralympics swimming team from entering the country to A senior professor at Hebrew University, Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, is scheduled partake in the World Para Swimming Championships in July. The event, to be held in the to deliver a lecture later this month in Amsterdam accusing Israel of exploiting Palestinian Malaysian city of Kuching, is considered crucial as the outcome will affect the competition children to promote arms sales. The conference, “Technologies of Violence at Damascus of the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, which will host more than 600 swimmers from 70 nations. Gate,” is being organized by the Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, an international group Israel and Malaysia currently have no diplomatic relations. Israeli Olympic Committee that “stands against the concept and process of normalization” with Israel. According to the Chairman Nisim Sasportas told Ynet, “In principle, everyone says that it will work out, event description, first reported on byMakor Rishon newspaper, Shalhoub-Kevorkian will but we have still not received an invitation or visas. We are continuing to apply pressure.”

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Weekly Parasha Bo: The heavy heart Bo, Exodus 10:1-13:16 RABBI BARUCH BINYAMIN HAKOHEN MELMAN, TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS The Talmud teaches us Rachmana liba baee, meaning This makes sense, because through the act of trying we gestures. Such evil is beyond the pale. But only through “God wants our hearts.” God wants us to have a heart con- could ignite a change and turn him around. We may fail in showing love can we learn to tell the difference between nection with Him. And if we are to have a heart connection the end, but we need to try just the same. To give up trying redeemable evil and unredeemable hard core evil, that we with God, how much more so are we to try to achieve such is to abandon hope for a better world. must then vanquish or be vanquished in turn. a connection with God’s creatures, our fellow creatures! Or, as said above, we may have turned them into our In the story of the Exodus from Egypt, the usual transla- It’s hard enough to love a stranger, but does that extend enemies merely because something about them reminds us tion tells us that Pharaoh’s heart was “hardened.” But those to our enemy, as well? Or even to hidden negative aspects of unfinished business we need to take care of in our own who know Hebrew know the root for the word “hard” is of ourselves which we project onto others, people we may souls. We are projecting our own undealt with evil onto kasheh, with the letters koof, shin and hey. But here the have turned into our enemy because they remind us too them. They may even have come into our lives for the sole Torah uses the root word kaved, with a koof, a vet and a much of our own darker sides? purpose of reflecting back to us what defects in our own souls dalid. This means heavy, not hard. In Leviticus 19:18 the Torah says that we should “love need fixing. Perhaps we only were reborn into this world Parshat Bo Ex 10:1 “...bo el paro ki ani hichbadti et our neighbor as (we love) ourselves.” The Hebrew reads to fix that exact defect that is being reflected back to us. libo...” “...come to Pharaoh because I made his heart heavy...” ve’ahavta le’re’acha kamocha. Reah, meaning “neighbor,” Many people react instinctively and mimic our actions In a sense, God wants Moshe to come to Pharaoh to also has the same spelling as ra’ah, meaning “bad” or or emotional states. Some people may respond to a loving cheer him up, to bring him out of his melancholy and sad- “evil.” So it could also be understood as teaching that we gesture with love. The answer to darkness is light. The an- ness. The Torah thus is teaching us that there is a special should try to love our bad or evil neighbor as ourselves. swer to hate is love. But hard core evil is oblivious to such See “Heart” on page 8 Congregational Notes Beth David Synagogue Temple Concord Temple Israel Affiliation: Orthodox Union Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism Orientation: Conservative Rabbi: Zev Silber Rabbi: Barbara Goldman-Wartell Rabbi: Geoffrey Brown Address: 39 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 9 Riverside Dr., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: 4737 Deerfield Pl., Vestal, NY 13850 Phone: 722-1793 Office hours: Tues.-Fri., 10 am-2 pm Phone: 723-7461 and 231-3746 Rabbi’s Office: 722-7514 Phone: 723-7355 Office hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30 am-4 pm; Fri. 8 am-3 pm Fax: 722-7121 Fax: 723-0785 E-mail: [email protected] Office hours: Mon. closed; Tues. 10 am-1 pm; Wed. closed; Office e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.templeisraelvestal.org Thurs. 9 am-1 pm; Fri. 10 am-1 pm Website: www.templeconcord.com Service Schedule: Tuesday, 5:30 pm; Friday, 5:30 pm; Beth David e-mail address: [email protected] Regular service times: Friday, 8 pm; Saturday, 10:35 am, when Saturday, 9:30 am Rabbi’s e-mail: [email protected] religious school is in session. On Saturday, January 12, at 9:30 am, Shabbat ser- Website: www.bethdavid.org Hebrew school: Hebrew school meets at 5:15 pm on Tuesdays vices will be led by Rabbi Geoffrey Brown. The Torah Facebook: www.facebook.com/bethdavidbinghamton and Thursdays during the school year unless otherwise noted. Shabbat Services: portion will be Exodus 10:1-13:16. The haftarah will On Friday, January 11, at 8 pm, Shabbat evening services be Jeremiah 46:13-28. Debbie Schepis will sponsor the Fri., Jan. 11...... 4:35 pm will be led by Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell. The oneg Shabbat, Jan. 12...... 9 am th kiddush following services...... Mincha after the kiddush will be hosted by Eve Berman in honor of the 30 yahrzeit On Sunday, January 13, at 4 pm, there will be an Israel ...... Maariv 5:55 pm of her father, Israel Berman. trip interest meeting. Weekday Services: On Saturday, January 12, at 9 am, there will be religious On Friday, January 18, at 5:30 pm, there will be a Mornings: school; at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study; and at 10:35 Kabbalat Shabbat pot luck dinner. RSVP to the office. Sun., Jan. 13...... 8:30 am am, there will be Shabbat family services. Mon.-Fri., Jan. 14-18...... 7 am On Monday, January 21, the temple office will be On Sunday, January 13, at 11 am, there will be the Sister- closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Evenings: hood Book Talk and Brunch with Rabbi Rachel Esserman. Sun., Jan. 13...... 4:40 pm On Tuesday, January 22, at 7 pm, there will be a Board Mon.-Thurs., Jan. 14-17...... 7 pm On Tuesday, January 15, at 4:15 and 5:15 pm, there will of Trustees meeting. Fri., Jan. 18...... 4:45 pm be Hebrew school. Classes: Rabbi Zev Silber will hold his weekly Talmud On Thursday, January 17, at 4:15 and 5:15 pm, there will Norwich Jewish Center class every Tuesday evening after services. be Hebrew School; from 5-7 pm, the CHOW pantry will Orientation: Inclusive be open; and at 7 pm, there will be the iEngage program Rabbi: David Regenspan Rohr Chabad Center snow date. Address: 72 South Broad St., Norwich, NY 13815 Affiliation: Chabad-Lubavitch On Friday, January 18, at 6:30 pm, there will be a Shabbat Contact: Guilia Greenberg, 336-1523 Rabbi: Aaron Slonim BYO Picnic Dinner celebrating Tu B’Shevat – The New Year Purpose: To maintain a Jewish identity and meet the needs E-mail: [email protected] of the Jewish community in the area. Address: 420 Murray Hill Rd., Vestal, NY 13850 for the Trees; at 8 pm, there will Shabbat evening services Adult Ed.: Saturday morning study is held at 10 am. Call for Phone: 797-0015, Fax: 797-0095 led by Rabbi Barbara Goldman-Wartell. The oneg will be more information and to confirm. Website: www.Chabadofbinghamton.com hosted by Walt Selan. Chabad on the West Side On Saturday, January 19, at 9 am, there will be religious Rabbi: Zalman Chein school; at 9:15 am, there will be Torah study; and at 10:35 Congregation Tikkun v’Or Affiliation: Union for Reform Judaism E-mail: [email protected] am, there will be Shabbat family services. Address: 27 Bennet Ave., Binghamton, NY 13905 Address: PO Box 3981, Ithaca, NY 14852; 2550 Triphammer Phone: 722-3252 Rd. (corner of Triphammer and Burdick Hill), Lansing, NY Regular service times: Daily 7:30 am, Friday evening 6 pm, Temple Beth El of Oneonta Phone: 607-256-1471 Shabbat morning 9:30 am, Maariv and Havdalah one hour Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism E-mail: [email protected], Website: www.tikkunvor.org after candle-lighting time, Sundays 9:30 am. Rabbi: Molly Karp Presidents: Miranda Phillips and Shawn Murphy Linking Hearts for youngsters with special needs: This program Address: 83 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820 Rabbi: Brian Walt connects Jewish special-needs children and teenagers, ages Mailing address: P.O. Box 383, Oneonta, NY 13820 Religious School Director/Admin. Coordinator: Naomi Wilensky 5-14, who have mental, physical and/or functional disabilities, Phone: 607-432-5522 Services: Fridays at 7:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Family with student volunteers who will visit participating youngsters Website: www.templebetheloneonta.org services and Tot Shabbat once a month at 6:30 pm. Call for weekly in their homes. E-mail: [email protected] weekly schedules. To join the mailing list, for up-to-date information on adult Regular service times: visit the temple website for days of Religious School: Preschool through seventh-grade classes education offerings or to arrange for a private tutorial, for services and times meet on Sunday mornings. Sixth-grade Hebrew and seventh- details concerning the Judaica shop and resource center, or Religious School/Education: Religious School, for grades grade b’nai mitzvah classes meet on Wednesday afternoons. for assistance through the Piaker Free Loan Society or Raff kindergarten through bar/bat mitzvah, meets Sunday mornings. Adult Ed: Mini courses throughout the year. Adult Hebrew Maasim Tovim Foundation, call Chabad’s office at 797-0015. Rabbi Karp conducts services and holds classes in Torah, offered regularly. Call the office for details. beginning Hebrew and Maimonides. Temple Beth-El of Ithaca For the schedule of services, classes and events, see the website. Penn-York Jewish Community Affiliation: United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism President-Treasurer-Secretary: Harvey Chernosky, 570-265- Rabbi: Scott L. Glass Kol Haverim 3869 Address: 402 North Tioga St. (the corner of Court and Tioga Affiliation: Society for Humanistic Judaism B’nai B’rith: William H. Seigel Lodge streets), Ithaca, NY 14850-4292 Address: P.O. Box 4972, Ithaca, NY 14852-4972 Purpose: To promote Jewish identity through religious, Phone: 273-5775 Phone: 607-277-3345 cultural, educational and social activities in the Southern E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Tier of New York and the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, Website: www.tbeithaca.org Website: www.kolhaverim.net including Waverly, NY; Sayre, Athens and Towanda, PA, and President: Jerry Davis Chairwoman: Abby Cohn surrounding communities. Sisterhood President: Julie Paige Kol Haverim: The Finger Lakes Community for Humanistic Director of Education: Rabbi Suzanne Brody Judaism, is an Ithaca-based organization that brings people Temple Brith Sholom Administrative Assistant: Jane Griffith together to explore and celebrate Jewish identity, history, culture Affiliation: Unaffiliated Services: Friday 8 pm; Saturday 10 am, unless otherwise and ethics within a secular, humanistic framework. KH is part Address: P.O. Box 572, 117 Madison St., Cortland, NY 13045 announced. Weekday morning minyan 7:30 am (9 am on of an international movement for Secular Humanistic Judaism Phone: 607-756-7181 Sundays and legal holidays). and is affiliated with the Society for Humanistic Judaism, a President: Bruce Fein, [email protected] Religious School/Education: September-May: Classes meet national association with over 30 member communities and Service leaders: Lay leadership on Sunday, 9 am-12:30 pm and congregations around the country. Established in the spring of Shabbat services: Either Friday evening at 7:30 pm or Saturday Wednesday afternoons, 3:45-5:45 pm. The Midrashah 1999, it offers celebrations of Jewish holidays, monthly Shabbat at 10 am from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuot. Holiday services (eighth-grade and high school) classes will meet at times pot-lucks, adult education, a twice-monthly Cultural School for are also held. Check the weekly e-mail for upcoming services. designated by their respective teachers. children, and a bar and bat mitzvah program. Contact the president to get on the e-mail list. Adult Ed.: Numerous weekly courses, several semester-long KH welcomes all individuals and families, including those from Religious School: Students are educated on an individual courses and a variety of mini-courses and lectures are offered mixed religious backgrounds, who wish to strengthen the Jewish basis. throughout the year. Call the temple office for more details. experience in their lives and provide their children with a Jewish Temple Brith Sholom is a small equalitarian congregation On Friday, January 11, services will be held at 6:15 pm. identity and experience. serving the greater Cortland community. Congregants span On Friday, January 18, at 8 pm, a Sisterhood Shabbat the gamut of observance and services are largely dependent will celebrate the 101st anniversary of Women’s League for on the service leader. The Friday night siddur is “Likrat Friday, January 11, light candles...... 4:34 pm Shabbat,” while the Saturday morning siddur is “Gates of Conservative Judaism. An oneg Shabbat will follow services. Shabbat ends Saturday, January 12...... 5:35 pm Prayer.” The community extends a warm welcome to the On Saturday, January 19, at 10 am, Sisterhood Shabbat Friday, January 18, light candles...... 4:42 pm Jewish student population of SUNY Cortland, as well as the will continue. A kiddush luncheon will follow services. Shabbat ends Saturday, January 19...... 5:44 pm residents of local adult residences. January 11-17, 2019 Page 7 - The Reporter Jewish Community Center JCC to hold Wine and Paint Night on Jan. 19 The Jewish Community Center of Binghamton will be Adults of all skill levels are welcome to attend and will holding an adult Wine and Paint class on Saturday, January receive guidance from two art instructors. Those who plan 19, at 7 pm. The cost is $30 for JCC members and $40 to attend must pre-register and prepay at the JCC main for non-members. The entire community is welcome and office to ensure space. All proceeds from the class will encouraged to attend. go to benefit Camp JCC programming and scholarships. The class, run by JCC youth director and licensed art For more information about the Wine and Paint Night, educator Lynette Errante, is an opportunity for any adult JCC Youth Programming, Camp JCC, or the JCC, contact to complete their own painting, guided by art teachers. the JCC office at 724-2417. Canvases, all paint and brushes, wine and light refreshments will be provided for the event. At right: Participants in the 2018 Wine and Paint Night. Annual Breakfast Ball at the JCC on Jan. 27 The Jewish Community Center will host its annual and physical education classes, and Universal Pre-Kin- Breakfast Ball on Sunday, January 27, at 10 am. Admis- dergarten. “The proceeds go toward items needed in the sion is $5 per person, with a $20 per family maximum. classrooms that create an overall better environment for Reservations are appreciated and can be made with Marley the children,” said ECC Assistant Director Nichole Fuller. Vavra at 724-2417, ext. 413, or by e-mail at MarleyV@ Proceeds from previous Breakfast Balls purchased items binghamtonjcc.org. such as thermometers, cots and classroom manipulatives. The event is family oriented and open to the entire For more information about the Breakfast Ball, ECC pro- community. “Children and their families can come and eat gramming, or the JCC, contact the JCC office at 724-2417. breakfast with their favorite characters,” said Vavra, the JCC Early Childhood Center administrative assistant and one of the event organizers. Several Disney, Marvel and Moving any time soon? DC characters will be in attendance, including Cinderella, Or just leaving town for a few months? Belle, Spiderman, Power Rangers and more. There will Whether you’re moving across town or be formal photo opportunities for kids to take pictures across the country, please let The Reporter with their favorite characters for a $5 fee, benefitting know so you can stay up to date on com- the JCC ECC. The Power Rangers posed with children at last year’s munity news and quickly receive the paper The breakfast will feature standard breakfast offerings. breakfast ball. at your new (or temporary) address! There will be other activities, such as music for dancing, E-mail [email protected] with “Reporter coloring and a formal story time. “We wanted to host a fun a warm and caring environment where children explore, Address change” in the subject line, or call event for children and their families to attend,” said Vavra. experiment, play, grow and learn to ask questions.” Pro- 607-724-2360, ext. 254, to let The Reporter The contributions from the fund-raiser go to the JCC’s gramming is offered for infants through age 5, including know about your new address. Early Childhood Center. The ECC is a place that “provides full-day daycare and preschool, half-day preschool, art

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