WESTCHESTER October 2018 -- Tishrei-Cheshvan 5779, Volume 24, Issue 10 JewishWESTCHESTER COUNTY’S ONLY MONTHLY JEWISHLife NEWSPAPER Ambassador Dani Dayan, County Executive George Latimer Address Second Annual Leadership Reception BY STEPHEN E. LIPKEN cate prejudicial behav- p.m. it sank into the fiberglass. To- ior. “If it were not for “I remember the day, we don’t manufacture Ambassador Dani Dayan, the rock-solid support Oil Embargo. Israel had cars, but Israeli automotive Consul General of Israel in of the Jewish Clergy, a two-month’s reserve of software and navigation tools New York, was Guest Speaker Black and Christian imports…Today the Bank are used in vehicles around the along with Westchester Coun- ministers, that legisla- of Israel has $100 billion world.” ty Executive George Latimer tion would not have dollars in reserve. We “Tonight was particularly at the Second Annual West- passed,” Latimer not- export more than we im- interesting for me to listen to chester Jewish Council (WJC) ed. port. The shekel is one of Ambassador Dayan speak as Annual Westchester Jew- “Israel has never the strongest currencies a native of Buenos Aires and ish Leadership Reception at Ambassador Dani Dayan, Consul been stronger, more in the world.” man who has lived in Israel the JCC of Mid-Westchester, General of Israel in New York prosperous and with Ambassador Dayan for many years, serving in the Scarsdale on Wednesday, Sep- better relations with pointed to million/bil- Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) tember 5th. Jenkins plus New York State the world than today,” lion-dollar acquisitions and now in a diplomatic capac- Approximately 150 citi- Senators Shelley Mayer, Ter- Dayan began. “Israel Westchester County Executive George Latimer (left) and of Israeli companies Mi- ity…,” zens attended with a long list rence Murphy and Andrea was built from the Westchester Jewish Council Executive Director Elliot rabilis ICQ by America “I think it tells us that of dignitaries, including Board Stewart-Cousins. ashes of the Holocaust Forchheimer. on Line and Mobileye by leadership in the Jewish com- of Legislators Chairman Ben Stressing that Westches- and Jews expelled Intel, pioneers in “cars munity of Westchester is the Boykin; Legislators Nancy ter County stands with the from Arab lands. U.S. News from Buenos Aires. I arrived in without drivers.” leadership of Westchester… Barr, Catherine Borgia, Damon Jewish community, Latimer and World Report ranked Israel Tel Aviv. There was one black- Dayan cited the “Sussita,” fully integrated with business, Maher; Assembly members recalled that Stewart-Cousins as the eighth most powerful and-white television channel, an Israeli car of the 1960’s and cultural, governmental and so- David Buchwald, Steven Otis; advocated forming a Human country in the world. owned by the government. ‘70’s, “a fiberglass disaster. If cial life of this County…,” Lat- Deputy County Executive Ken Rights Commission to adjudi- “I came to Israel in 1971 Broadcasting ceased at 10:00 you put your elbow on the hood imer concluded. County Welcomes New Shaliach and Four Shinshinim The newest shlichim - Is- year in high school and wish to on the Hudson and Hillels of Telem, the youth department raeli emissaries –have arrived participate as Israeli emissar- Westchester. Each year, The of the Jewish Reform move- in the United States to begin ies prior to joining the IDF. Jewish Agency for Israel sends ment in Israel. Nadav’s first their tenure in the Westches- This year, the four shin- over 1,500 shlichim around shlichut was in Melbourne, ter Jewish community. Nadav shinim will work with 15 part- the world to strengthen Jew- Australia where he worked Shachmon will serve as the ner organizations around the ish identity and connection to with the progressive Jewish community’s fourth shaliach county – including the follow- Israel. The selection process community and the Reform (Israeli emissary) and Lior Mal- ing synagogues, day schools for shlichim is extremely com- youth movement Netzer. ul, Carmel Mena, Adi Nulman and Hillels: Solomon Schech- petitive, and participants rep- Nadav holds a BA in Psy- and Yuval Shiran, working un- ter School of Westchester, resent the best of Israel. chology from Tel Aviv Academ- der Shachmon’s supervision, Carmel Academy, Temple Is- Born and raised in Je- ic College and an MBA with a will serve as the second team rael Center of White Plains, rusalem, Nadav Shachmon specialty in psychology from of community shinshinim Jewish Community Center attended high school in the the College of Management (young Israeli emissaries.) of Harrison, Scarsdale Syna- Conservative movement. In Academic Studies. Nadav is The goal of the Westches- gogue Temples Tremont & the army Nadav served as an married to his partner, Aylee, ter community shlicut pro- Emanu-El, Shaarei Tikvah, officer in the medical corps, and until recently lived in the Left to right: Nadav Shachmon, Westchester community Shaliach welcomes gram, launched in the summer Pelham Jewish Center, Beth El training and preparing doc- center of Tel Aviv. Yuval Shiran, Carmel Mena, Adi Nulman and Lior Malul, Westchester com- of 2013 with generous fund- Synagogue Center of New Ro- tors, paramedics, and senior Lior Malul is from munity shinshinim, with Elliot Forchheimer, Executive Director, Westchester ing from UJA-Federation of chelle, Temple Shaaray Tefila, medics for their service. Nadav Moshav Amazya, next to the Jewish Council. New York and overseen by the Congregation Kol Ami, Larch- has worked in the field of Jew- city of Kiryat Gat in southern Westchester Jewish Council, education and engagement. in August 2017. This program mont Temple, Temple Israel ish education for more than 10 Israel. Lior graduated from is to expose the community to The shinshinim component attracts Israeli students who of New Rochelle, Westchester years. In his previous position Tzafit high school and majored the diversity of Israel through was introduced in Westchester have completed their senior Jewish Center, Shames JCC he was the national director of continued on page 4 Visit www.westchesterjewishlife.com 2 • October 2018 • Tishrei-Cheshvan 5779 • Westchester Jewish Life www.westchesterjewishlife.com Shaarei Tikvah Hosts Rabbi Menachem Creditor and Maital Friedman in Conversation BY STEPHEN E. LIPKEN Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar- someone who disagrees with against one of the stones of in-Residence at UJA-Feder- you…,” Shaarei Tikvah Rabbi the Western Wall in Jerusa- A pre-Selichot Program, ation NY. Friedman is the Adam Baldachin stated. lem with his infant daugh- “Is the Jewish State for All Muslim Leadership Initiative Friedman said that the ter in his arms 16 years ago, Jews?” was hosted by Shaarei Alumni Director at Sholom month of Elul is an anacro- versus “chairs thrown at my Tikvah, on 46 Fox Meadow Hartman Institute of North nym for “Ani Dodi, v’Dodi li,” “I sister when she attempted to Road, Scarsdale on Saturday America. am my beloved; my beloved is pray with other women at the evening, September 1, featur- “Tonight’s theme is relat- mine,” referring to tensions and Kotel (Wall)…” ing a conversation between ed to this week’s parsha, ‘Nit- forgiveness between lovers, “I will not be silent, Rabbi Menachem Creditor zavim,’ where Moses is tell- as the relationship between when Israeli law denies LG- and Maital Friedman on re- ing the people that teshuva, America Jewry and Israel. BTQ couples having children pairing the relationship be- penitence is not too far from “Our relationship with or when someone accuses tween North American and anyone…It is something that Israel is not political but Israel of being an apart- Israeli Jews, attended by a is in your mouth and in your religious,” Rabbi Creditor heid state. And Israel needs rapt, attentive audience. heart…You may be vulnerable opined. He pointed to the protection. When I led an Rabbi Creditor, 43 is the even when you are next to dichotomy of his weeping AIPAC delegation, I saw an Iron Dome knock out a mis- Shaarei Tikvah Rabbi Adam Baldachin; Shalom Hartman Institute of North sile over my head,” Creditor America Muslim Initiative Alumni Director Maital Friedman; Rabbi Menachem stressed. Creditor Founder of Rabbis Kids Meals 50% OFF At Ben’s! 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The painting, Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin, painted in 1919 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (the “Renoir”), was stolen by the Nazis from a bank vault in Paris in 1941. Ms. Sylvie Sulitzer, the last remaining heir of her grandfather Alfred Weinberger, a prominent art collector in pre-war Paris from whom the Renoir was stolen, saw the painting for the first time when it was unveiled at a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. It remained on display until September 16th . “Today, as we celebrate the just return of this painting to its rightful owner, we also remember the unique- ness of the Holocaust and reaffirm our commitment to ensure that the words ‘never forget, never again’ never ring hollow.