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History of Kosher Certification Final CJS Program Temple Israel to Welcome Visiting Rabbi Chabad to Hold Mega Challah Bake on No November 4-10, 2016 Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton Volume XLV, Number 45 BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK Temple Israel to JCC fund-raising gala welcome visiting rabbi on Nov. 12 Temple Israel has engaged Before coming to Bingham- The Jewish Community Center will hold as a “mind reader, clairvoyant and empath.” rabbinical student Geoffrey M. ton, Brown served as the visiting its annual fund-raising gala on Saturday, Tickets to attend cost $65 per person Brown to serve as interim rabbi rabbi for several years at a con- November 12, at 7 pm. The event will and those interested in attending are en- beginning the weekend of Friday, gregation in York, PA. include a light dinner, drinks, a one-hour couraged to make reservations in advance November 4, through May. Prior to studying for the show, dancing and dessert. by calling the JCC at 724-2417. Attire will Brown is in his last year at rabbinate, he served as campus This year’s event will include excerpts be cocktail casual. the Academy for Jewish Reli- Hillel director at a variety of from the musical “I Love You, You’re Per- The entire production of “I Love You, gion in New York City and will colleges. He has been involved fect, Now Change,” with book and lyrics by You’re Perfect, Now Change” will be per- receive smicha (ordination) in as a campaign associate with a Joe DiPietro, music by Jimmy Roberts, and formed on Sunday, November 13, at 3 pm, the spring. He will serve the Jewish Federation in the South. starring Jan and Shannon DeAngelo, Annie in the JCC auditorium. Anyone purchasing Temple Israel congregation two Interim Rabbi Brown also has had experience Graham and Josh Sedelmeyer. Before the gala tickets will receive a discount on the weekends each month. Geoffrey Brown as a successful grant writer. show, mentalist Robb Riddel will perform Sunday show tickets. Chabad to hold Mega Challah Bake on Nov. 10 Chabad will once again hold a Mega challah, and one will be given away to to boost Shabbat observance amongst be $3 for students with reservations or Challah Bake, in which hundreds of those who “would appreciate the gift,” Jews around the world. Hundreds of $5 at the door. Each participant will students and community members will according to organizers of the program. communities will hold challah bakes receive a designed apron as well as two join in mixing, kneading and shaping This year, the Mega Challah Bake is on November 10 to begin the weekend. challahs. Reservations can be made at challahs on Thursday, November 10, at 7 said to take on “additional resonance” The fee will be $5 for community www.JewishBU.com/MegaBake. pm, in the Mandela Room at Binghamton as it will be held to coincide with the members with reservations made in ad- “The Mega Challah Bakes, held in cit- University. Participants will keep one worldwide Shabbos Project, which aims vance, or $7 at the door. The cost will See “Challah” on page 5 Bar Kocva Israeli Art Expo provides opportunity to support economy in Israel Israeli-born Moshe Bar Kocva is no other artists from Israel that he represents. Brumer, JCC executive director. “The jew- feeling. In addition, the fact that 82 percent stranger to Binghamton. He has been Scheduled for Sunday-Tuesday, No- elry and art he brings is incredible, but more of the sales go directly to him and the other sharing his jewelry and the work of other vember 20-22, from 10 am-8 pm, and importantly, it’s a wonderful opportunity to Israeli artists he represents, rather than a Israeli artists with the Binghamton com- Wednesday, November 23, from 10 am-2 support these incredibly talented artists from middleman or a dealer, makes your purchase munity for more than 15 years. Packing pm, the Bar Kocva Israeli Art Expo will take Israel. Bar Kocva is a wonderful, delightful that much sweeter.” and shipping thousands of pieces of art place at the Jewish Community Center, 500 man. Meeting and talking with him is half “A graduate of Israel’s Bezalel School throughout the U.S. each year, Bar Kocva Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. the experience, and knowing that he actually of Art in Jerusalem, Bar Kocva’s creations leaves his family to travel to America “We are extremely excited that Bar Kocva looks forward to coming here because he are one-of-a-kind designs that range from where he earns a living for himself and 45 will be returning to Binghamton,” said Sheryl feels at home in our community is a great See “Art” on page 4 History of kosher certification final CJS program The final program in the College of Jew- ulation in the Age of Industrial 2,000-year-old example of pri- one of the most reliable systems of private ish Studies fall series “Eat, Drink, and Be Food” (Harvard University Press vate food certification. My initial certification in the food industry, indeed, Kosher” will be held on Thursday, Novem- 2013), and will speak on the his- suspicion was that kosher certifi- perhaps in any industry.” ber 10, at 7:30 pm, at the Jewish Community tory of kosher food certification cation was full of price gouging Lytton received his B.A. and J.D. from Center, 500 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal. and implications for a model of and unnecessary, super-stringent Yale University. Prior to joining the faculty The guest speaker will be Timothy Lyt- food safety. standards. As I began to get into of Georgia State University College of Law, ton, distinguished university professor and When interviewed by the my research, however, I found he taught previously for 15 years at Albany professor of law, Georgia State University, Forward about his book and that, although fraud and cor- Law School, where he was the Albert and College of Law. His talk will be “The how his interest in health and ruption were rampant a century Angela Farone Distinguished Professor of Turbulent History of Kosher Certification safety regulations got him ago in kosher meat production, Law. He has been a fellow in the Harvard in America: From Price Fixing, Consumer interested in kosher certifica- today’s kosher system is highly Program on Ethics and the Professions, as Fraud, and Drive-by Shootings to a Model tion, Lytton said, “As a ko- Timothy Lytton reliable. My book tells the story well as the Hartman Institute for Advanced of Private Regulation.” Lytton will discuss sher-observant Orthodox Jew, of how, within the span of a Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He has worked aspects of his book, “Kosher: Private Reg- I realized that kosher certification offers a century, kosher certification became the See “Kosher” on page 3 “School Photos in Holocaust Europe” talk at Cornell The Jewish Studies Program and Depart- as the historical, me- of possibility” are and professor in the Institute for Research ment of Comparative Literature at Cornell morial and aesthetic considered eviden- on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is University have announced the next event dimensions of class tiary records both former president of the Modern Language in the “Technologies of Memory” series. photographs as a of “the refusal to Association of America and a member of “School Photos in Holocaust Europe: vernacular genre. It submit and the hope the American Academy of Arts and Sci- Archives of Possibility” will be held on will look specifical- of survival.” ences. Hirsch’s work combines feminist Thursday, November 10, at 5:30 pm, in ly at the images tak- Hirsch is Wil- theory with memory studies, particularly the Klarman Hall KG70. It will feature Pro- en in sanctioned and liam Peterfield Trent transmission of memories of violence across fessors Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer. clandestine ghetto Professor of English generations. Her recent books include Photographs of school classes appear schools during the and Comparative “The Generation of Postmemory: Writing very early in the history of photography. This Holocaust. These Literature at Co- and Visual Culture After the Holocaust” talk will examine the ideological use, as well unknown “archives Marianne Hirsch Leo Spitzer lumbia University See “Cornell” on page 11 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Cancer research Fighting violence News in brief... Special Sections Hadassah Medical Center A black rabbinical student leads JFNA board votes to OK some Legal Notices ................................... 4 continues its leading-edge re- an “Army of Moms” in fighting West Bank visits; violent anti- Health and Wellness ..................... 5-8 search in breast cancer detection. Chicago’s gun violence. Israel protest in Britain; and more. Dine Out .......................................... 9 ........................................Page 6 ........................................Page 7 ...................................... Page 12 Classifieds ..................................... 12 Page 2 - The Reporter November 4-10, 2016 Off the Shelf Death, grief and mourning RABBI RACHEL ESSERMAN “Everyone mourns differently.” Those wise rabbinic of the healing process. Some of my favorites include: The essays in “The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing” words are reflected in two recent works about death and “Resiliency” by Rabbi Shira Stern, which notes how we cover an impressive range of material. Each may speak to dying: “The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing: A Spiritual must accept that our world has permanently changed. Instead a different reader since the work acknowledges that the Companion for Mourning” edited by Stuart M. Matlins and of looking backward, we need to forge a new way of being. healing process for each person may differ. The essays are the editors at Jewish Lights (Jewish Lights Publishing), and Two articles by Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman – “Responding best read a little at a time and don’t have to be read in any “After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, to Suffering” and “Facing a Cascade of Losses.” The for- particular order.
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