• Dependable income for retirement Local faith leaders Christians and • Youth Foundation focus on poverty stand in solidarity Yazidis urge • Seniors can win $$ page 2 UN to act page 9 page 4 Arab states align Revival of with Israel on Iran lost mitzvah page 3 page 5 committed to mda Medicine is her calling By Elizabeth Tarpy Alcalde from Turkish rule, then was disbanded at the end of the war. Allegra Lewison doesn’t The organization was formed shy away from the sight of again in 1930 by a group that blood. As a high school stu- included physicians, members dent in Parkland, Florida, she of the pre-State military, and shadowed her neighbor, the private citizens. The Ohio Jewish Chronicle assistant fire chief of the Coral Lewison is carrying on her Springs Fire Department, on commitment to MDA through a Serving Columbus and the Central Ohio ambulance runs. program she is organizing with Jewish Community since 1922 “I always knew that I wanted the help of Ohio State’s Melton to volunteer in the medical Center for Jewish Studies. VOLUME 93 MARCH 19, 2015 field,” said Lewison, a third- In April 2014, Lewison ap- year neuroscience major with plied for and was selected ISSUE 6 28 ADAR 5775 a minor in Hebrew. to receive the Norbert and DEVOTED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH IDEALS A chance encounter at an ac- Gretel B. Bloch Endowed cident scene further cemented Scholarship, for deserving Lewison’s decision that medi- students who wish to create cine was her calling. Allegra lewison a program of Jewish interest. In the spring of her senior taken to the hospital and Lewi- riding along, talking with the The scholarship, administered BDS becomes year in high school, Lewison, son continued on to Orlando. little girl at the same time I’m by the Melton Center, provides along with her mother and But she couldn’t get Boaz or communicating vital informa- students with tuition support issue at OSU grandmother, were heading the accident out of her mind. tion to the driver. It was big and funding to develop, pub- page 2 north on I-95 toward Orlando, That evening, on the way moment for me.” licize and carry out a program when they came upon an ac- back from Orlando, Lewison Lewison carried those mem- of topical Jewish interest of cident. Two men were lying decided that she needed to find ories with her when she came their choosing. Melton staff in the emergency lane of the the hospital where the motor- to Ohio State. During the lends programmatic and aca- Honoring freeway — one on his side with cycle driver was admitted and course of her studies, she spent demic support to scholarship his motorcycle helmet still on. stop by to see him. six weeks in Israel during the recipients. terrorists in Lewison ran over to help the “It was Friday — Shabbat summer of 2013, volunteer- “The Melton Center is de- man while others attended to — and I didn’t want him to be ing with Magen David Adom lighted to be able to support March? the other accident victim. alone,” explained Lewison. “I (MDA), Israel’s equivalent Allegra and her program on page 5 “The man’s name was Boaz just felt that I had to be there.” of the American Red Cross, Magen David Adom,” said and he was mumbling in Eng- In addition to the Israeli a national ambulance, blood- Matt Goldish, director of the lish and Hebrew,” said Lewi- motorcycle victim, a particular services and disaster-relief Melton Center and the Samuel son. “When I began to talk to emergency run sticks out in organization. M. and Esther Melton Profes- TBS gets him in Hebrew his eyes lit up.” her mind. MDA was first organized sor of History. “Our students Ambulances and news “We got a call that an 8-year- during World War I when the have had the opportunity to run ‘new’ 1855 piano trucks arrived on the scene. old girl was having a seizure,” Jewish Legion of Palestine many terrific programs through page 6 Both accident victims were explained Lewison. “I was fought to liberate the country see mElTon, page 19 museum of the tanach In The Chronicle Beyond the classroom at CTA By Shari Herszage see and study artifacts that offer beyond the Judaic curriculum ous temporary exhibits that At the JCC ........................... page 10 exploration beyond the text- and include science, music, highlight certain time periods Bowling ............................... page 14 Archaeology studies human book. A complete timeline is art, general history and more or events in history. Changing prehistory and history and in- part of the museum and shows as the displayed items include exhibits will focus on new Community .................. pages 12-13 volves surveying, excavation in real time the historical place- authentic replicas and real areas of history or highlight and eventually analysis of data ment of the items on display. coins from the land of Israel timely holidays or events in Deaths ................................. page 16 collected to learn more about “The museum brings to life and represent historic time pe- the Tanach that the students are Federation ............................. page 8 the past. A newly created, currently learning. one-of-a-kind Archaeological The first temporary exhibit 50 Years Ago ....................... page 18 Museum of the Tanach that is is about the Mishkan which on display at Columbus Torah is known as the tabernacle or Foundation ............................ page 9 Academy is an authentic as- shrine that the Jewish people Front Page ............................. page 2 sembly of items that mark carried through the desert dur- many of the subject areas that ing the exodus from Egypt and In The News ........................ page 15 the students are learning in eventually housed many valu- class. able symbols of Jewish life. Marketplace ........................... page 7 The Tanach is the complete A sub-display highlights the Hebrew bible that includes the ancient city of Shiloh which Simchas ............................... page 15 Five Books of Moses and con- was thought to be where the Synagogues ......................... page 17 tinues through all the writings Mishkan was finally erected. of the Jewish faith. The Tanach The Mishkan exhibit cur- Viewpoint ......................... pages 5-6 or “written word” is accom- rently on display was created panied by an oral law which by the 6th grade class at CTA. World News........................page 3-4 explains traditions further. The 6th graders researched the The interactive museum at Mishkan and then created edu- CTA has been designed in a cational displays about the dif- common area in the school ferent aspects. To supplement to create an environment for material that the students learn riods from the Bronze Age/ their study, students worked teachers to bring their students in the classroom about the Caananite period in 2200 BCE with the art teacher to create out of the classroom for educa- Torah, Jewish holidays and through the destruction of the models of various religious tional opportunities that reflect customs and the state of Israel,” Second Temple in Jerusalem artifacts that can be found in what they are learning in the explained Dror Karavani, cura- into the Roman period around the Mishkan. The students will curriculum. The museum gives tor of the museum. “The disci- 324 CE.” become teachers themselves the students a chance to view, plines that can be explored go The museum will have vari- see CTA, page 19 OJC - MARCH 19, 2015-1 FROnt pAge preventing anti-semitism BDS becomes issue at OSU By Jonathan Feibel, M.D. body was supposed to vote on cite anti-Semitism. Opposition the 2013-14 academic year. The the issue this past week, but at to the policies of the Israeli Pew Research Center found that University student govern- the 11th hour, the Undergraduate government is not the same as younger Jews were more likely ments across the country are Student Government Judicial anti-Semitism; however, BDS than older Jews to report being increasingly embracing the Panel rejected some signature threatens to blur the line between called offensive names because “Boycott, Divestment, and petitions, which were required anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, they were Jewish. Does this Local faith leaders Sanctions against Israel” move- to put the anti-Israel initiative portend a resurgence of anti- ment (BDS), a global campaign on the ballot. Even if the vote Semitism on college campuses? to increase economic and politi- had occurred and the referendum Based on recent incidents, it stand in solidarity with cal pressure on Israel to pull out had passed, divestment would would appear that these situations of lands claimed by Palestinians. have been unlikely because such are becoming more common. Noor Islamic Center Supporters of the effort to isolate an act would have required ap- Last month, undergraduate pre- Last week, a diverse group a long history of getting along Israel have tried to argue that proval by the University Board law student Rachel Beyda ex- of Columbus religious leaders and being close to each other. their campaign is aimed only of Trustees. pected easy approval to become gathered for a press confer- But even if that were not the at the State of Israel and not In spite of most University a member of the judicial council ence in response to repeated case, loving those around us is the Jewish people. However, Boards’ rejections, the BDS at the University of California, threats against the Noor Islamic a human duty. We all stand in as we have seen on campuses movement continues to become Los Angeles. A video of the se- Center. The leaders called for solidarity as people who want nationwide, as recently as last more prevalent on college cam- lection proceedings showed that an end to the violent threats, to worship in peace and live week in California, anti-Israel puses, where pro-Palestinian all student-government members and expressed their solidar- in peace.” initiatives have become quickly groups such as Students for agreed that Beyda was amply ity with Columbus’s Muslim Rev.