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By AVI ISSACHAROFF
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JERUSALEM — A senior official
in the Prime Minister’s Office said
Monday that Israel does not know
anything about a new Hamas videotape showing abducted Israel
Defence Forces soldier Gilad Schalit,
Israel Radio reported.
The official said Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert is using every possible
avenue to ensure Schalit’s release
and will do so until the end of his
tenure.
Hamas deputy political bureau
chief Moussa Abu Marzouk is in
possession of the videotape showing
Schalit, who appears in good health,
the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported Monday.
Hamas associates say the videotape was handed to the Syrian-based
Abu Marzouk by Ahmed Jabari, the
head of the Hamas military wing,
during Abu Marzouk’s secret visit to
the Gaza Strip late last month.
Hadassah president beaten in Barbados
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National .................................... 3
Editorials & Letters ................ 8
Perspectives ............................. 9
Opinions ................................. 10
The Kirshner File ................. 11
Jewish Life ............................ 16
Health & Lifestyles ............... 20
Food, Scrumptious Food ...... 21
According to Reports ............ 22
Family Moments.................... 23
What’s New............................ 24
Obituaries and Notices ......... 26
Yiddish Corner ...................... 32
Heebonics ............................... 34
Israel & the Jewish World ..... 35
Arts & Travel ........................ 38
Books & Authors ................... 42
Canadian Hadassah-WIZO
(CHW) members and the entire
Jewish community are praying for
Terry Schwarzfeld, 60, national president of the organization, who, along
with her daughter-in-law, Luana
Cotsman, was severely beaten Feb.
28 while vacationing in Barbados.
The pair was walking along an
isolated stretch of beach at 4 p.m.
when they were approached by a
would-be robber. When they told
him they had nothing to give him,
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In addition, Abu Marzouk received a letter handwritten by
Schalit, which he then turned over
to the Syrian foreign ministry. Abu
Marzouk has decided to hold onto
the videotape for the time being.
The report said the contents of the
tape would be released only after significant progress is made in prisoner
exchange negotiations. Abu Marzouk
also informed Egyptian officials of
the tape’s existence.
The public campaign for Schalit’s
release shifted gears this week as the
soldier’s parents, Noam and Aviva
Schalit, erected a protest tent in front
of the prime minister’s residence in
Jerusalem. The move is meant to
apply pressure on Olmert to expedite
Schalit’s release before his term in
office ends later this month.
Schalit’s parents left their home in
the Galilee to set up the protest tent.
“We are leaving the house with very
tough feelings. We are leaving in order
to save Gilad,” Noam Schalit said.
Continued on page 36
Staff Reporter
he attacked them with a piece of
wood.
Schwarzfeld, who is from Ottawa,
was knocked unconscious by one or
two blows to the back of her head.
She was taken to Queen Elizabeth
Hospital in St. Michael, Barbados,
and airlifted back to Canada March
4, where she is being treated at
Ottawa Hospital.
As of earlier this week, she was
still unconscious and in critical condition, and was being heavily sedated
to reduce the swelling and internal
bleeding in her brain.
Cotsman, from Guelph, Ont., was
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also knocked unconscious, but she
regained consciousness while still on
the beach and was treated in hospital
overnight.
Lybron Sobers, assistant superintendent of the Royal Barbados
Police Force, told The CJN that
“several people have been questioned about the assault,” but as of
The CJN’s deadline, no suspect had
been arrested.
Peter Kent, minister of state of
foreign affairs (Americas), called the
attack an unfortunate, tragic incident,
but he said that it is “an exception.
Continued on page 31
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to represent Israel’s interests
in Venezuela,” as it does for
Israel in Cuba, Kent said.
OTTAWA — Liberal MP
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minister Irwin Cotler will
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United Nations anti-racism
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Israel and the United States
have boycotted the Durban
Review Conference because
they say it will be a repeat
of the 2001 parley, which
Jewish groups criticized as
anti-Israel and anti-Zionist.
March leaders are urging
other countries to boycott the
conference, slated for April
20-24 in Geneva.
BUENOS AIRES —
Argentina seized five
Iranian properties in the
Buenos Aires area last week.
Justice Minister Alberto
Nisman, who heads a probe
of the 1994 AMIA Jewish
community centre bombing, ordered the seizure. He
said the seizure, along with
six other Iranian properties
seized in 2008, will meet
the demands of attack victims’ relatives and survivors. If the Iranian owner of
the property is found guilty
in the attack, his property
will be sold and the money
given to the victims’ survivors. A survivor who
was severely injured in the
attack on the Buenos Aires
centre is seeking $1 million in a civil action. The
survivor says the attack was
planned by former leaders
of Iran and carried out by
the Lebanon-based group
Hezbollah.
Café Owner Sorry
AUCKLAND — A New
Zealand café owner who
evicted two Israelis from his
establishment during Israel’s
invasion of Gaza apologized. Mustafa Tekinkaya,
a Turkish-born Muslim, told
Natalie Bennie and her visiting sister, Tamara Shefa, to
leave his Mevlana Cafe in
Invercargill on the southern
tip of New Zealand’s South
Island after he heard them
speak Hebrew to each other.
there, in accordance with the
pope’s desire. Vatican Radio
said the document was dated
November 1943, just weeks
after German occupiers
deported 2,000 Roman Jews
to Auschwitz. The Vatican
said the document provides
written evidence of Pius’
directives. Jewish critics and
other historians have said
Pius turned a blind eye to the
fate of Jews in the Shoah and
want Pope Benedict to delay
Pius’ beatification until the
issue is clarified.
Waltz With Cesar
Italy Nixes Durban II
PARIS — Waltz With Bashir
became the first Israeli film to
win a Cesar, a French Oscar. It
won a Golden Globe in January
but failed to become Israel’s
first Academy Award winner
for best foreign film, despite
being favoured. The animated
docu-drama about director Ari
Folman’s experiences in the
1982 Lebanon war was well
received in France.
BRUSSELS — Italy is pulling out of the Durban II
UN anti-racism conference.
Foreign Minister Franco
Frattini disclosed the decision March 5 in Brussels,
where he was attending a
meeting of NATO foreign
ministers. Frattini said the
decision was made because
of “aggressive phrases of
an anti-Semitic nature” that
were “totally unacceptable”
in the draft of a final document to be approved at the
Durban Review Conference,
which takes place April
20-24 in Geneva. He said the
statements “must be eliminated,” and that Italy would
not take part unless the draft
document is changed. The
United States has set the
same condition to attend,
while Israel and Canada also
have withdrawn.
Pius Document Found
ROME — The Vatican
last week produced another document to bolster its
assertion that Pope Pius XII
worked behind the scenes
to save Jews in World War
II. Vatican Radio said a
1943 document found in a
convent in Rome listed the
names of 24 people who
were to be sheltered by nuns
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Local Jewish educators are expressing
concern over a restructuring plan for the Centre
for Enhancement of Jewish Education (the
Mercaz) that was announced last week, and
questions have been raised about details that
have yet to be made public.
The plan will eliminate 10 full-time jobs
and leave the Mercaz with only four full-time
staff in a move that UJA Federation of Greater
Toronto says is intended to provide more direct
funding to its beneficiary schools.
Last Wednesday, in an e-mail to 20,000
people in its data bank – and in a conference
call to lay and professional heads of Jewish
schools that took place 90 minutes before the
e-mail was sent – federation announced that it
would be “streamlining” the Mercaz, the successor to the old Board of Jewish Education,
while at the same time increasing financial
support for Jewish education.
Although school leaders were not consulted
about the decision per se, federation spokesperson Howard English told The CJN that “we’re
in touch all the time with the education commu- added.
nity and with senior educators. They [have] told
Seymour Epstein, the federation’s senior
us that the people who work at the Mercaz are vice-president for the Mercaz, “has been offered
fine, wonderful, dedicated, committed people, a senior position related to Jewish education,
but there had to be a change in the way service with UJA Federation,” English said.
delivery took place.”
Epstein declined to
As well, English said, “if
comment for this article,
the [conference] call [had]
and English would not say
Redirects
generated opinions that
which employees are being
would have led us to scrap
let go. He did not include
savings
[the announcement], we
Epstein among the 10 fullwould have listened.”
time employees who will be
to education
In the call, the changes to
losing their jobs.
funding
the Mercaz were presented
Lou Greenbaum, chair of
as the federation’s “intenthe Mercaz, said he didn’t
tion,” and questions and
think it was “appropriate”
thoughts were requested, he said.
for him to discuss the changes.
April 3 will be the last day on the job for
A news release said that employees who
10 full-time and two contract employees at the will no longer be part of the Mercaz “are being
Mercaz, English said. As well, 2-1/2 people treated sensitively and generously.” English
(two full-time and one half-time employee) said the federation has hired a company to
have been reassigned to other duties at the fed- provide relocation counselling, and they will
eration, he said.
receive “some kind of separation package.”
Four employees will remain on the job,
The changes do not have to do with the
English said. “The likely scenario” is that recent economic downturn and will not save
two of them will be education specialists, he the federation money, English said. “The
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money being saved is going to direct support
for Jewish education.”
A report by the federation’s task force on
Jewish education led to the creation of the
Mercaz two years ago. The entity had previously been called the Board of Jewish Education.
This year’s restructuring was deemed necessary by “lead professional and lay people at
the federation, including lead lay people at the
Mercaz,” English said. No educational professionals were involved in the decision, he added,
but Epstein “was informed about our intentions
a week to 10 days before the announcement
was made.”
The decision was preceded by several
months of ongoing discussions and was
approved by the federation’s executive committee and board, English said.
Among concerns expressed by school
leaders was the maintenance of financial assistance for supplementary schools, English said.
He told The CJN that funding for supplementary schools and special needs education would
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ast week in this space I wrote about
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Planning Institute (JPPPI) of the state of the guides and publishes other educational texts
that are suitable for schools across denomiworldwide Jewish community.
As our readers know, an ongoing worry national divides.
Indeed, schools and teachers from other
of the scholars at the institute has been over
jurisdictions are beginning to take note of
the quality of Jewish education.
the institute’s materials and
They do not worry less
From the
its innovative ideas. The
this year. “The quality of
institute has already won
Jewish education – in Israel
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wide praise from academic
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desk…
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concern to those who worry
across North America.
that ignorance about basic
And most recently, just
history, culture, and tradiweeks ago, a new publication
tion has a corrosive effect on
Jewish identity and, ultimately, threatens the about Jewish education has appeared that
survival of the Jewish People… Our policy deserves the attention, as the JPPPI writers
recommendation… is for Jewish leadership would say, of Jewish leadership. And once
worldwide to devote resources toward edu- again, Canadians figure prominently. Jewish
cational research, evaluation, international Day Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration is edited by Alex Pomson and
exchange and institutional innovation.”
On the subject of Jewish education, it Howard Deitcher (Littman Library of Jewish
can be said that Canadian educators and lay Civilization, 2009).
Pomson is a senior lecpeople have been among the most active
in the world. Given the number of Jews in turer at the Melton Centre
Canada, this is not merely an expression of for Jewish education at
narrow parochial pride, but rather an impor- the Hebrew University of
tant observation about how small numbers Jerusalem. Though not a
Canadian, before his aliyah
can do large things.
Some five years ago, The CJN wrote Pomson was the Koschitzabout the distinguished work Visions of ky family chair of Jewish
Jewish Education (Cambridge University teacher education at York
Press). One of the three co-editors was the University in Toronto, where
Canadian-Israeli, Daniel Marom. Marom is he co-ordinated the Jewish
the director of the Visions of Jewish Edu- teacher education program.
cation Project of the Mandel Foundation in Deitcher, a former MontreJerusalem and a senior researcher there. He aler, is the director of the
has published numerous books, articles and Melton Centre and a senior
curricula in the area of Jewish and Zionist lecturer at the school of education at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Both are
education in Israel and America.
More recently, and much closer to home, recognized scholars in the field. When they
The CJN wrote about the Lola Stein Institute. speak on the subject, people usually listen.
Founded in 2003, the joint initiative of ex- When they write, people usually read.
The book is a compilation of some of the
traordinary lay leaders and professional educators in Toronto, the institute sprang from papers delivered at an international confera desire to develop and enshrine the best of ence they convened in 2006 that explored the
the integrative approaches and experiences “community-building potential in Jewish day
at the Toronto Heschel School. The insti- schools for students, their families and sotute develops curricula and teacher training cieties.” It contains 21 essays by educators
Canadians, community, education
around the world – scholars, thinkers and
administrators – that touch upon myriad,
discrete aspects of the community-school
relationship. In truth, the collection is geared
more to the professional than the lay individual, for the essays are thick files of uncondensed observations and conclusions.
But Pomson states very plainly why he
believes the community-day school connection must be studied: “The constituent components of community ultimately provide the
raison d’être for Jewish day school education.
Without community… the Jewish day school
has no meaning or purpose.” Of course, he
also delves into the multiple aspects that
comprise the notion of “community.”
Like the bookVisions of Education, the
ongoing pedagogical works of the Lola Stein
Institute and undoubtedly many other valuable works dedicated to the enhancement
of Jewish education, the Pomson-Deitcher
work is potentially an important instrument in the hands
of our community leaders
to strengthen the constantly
strained sinews holding tight
the education of our children.
Pomson and Deitcher state
categorically that “components of community unite the
schools.” If their conclusions
are correct, the innumerable
ties and pathways interconnecting community and
schools must be intensified
and reinforced.
* * *
We note with profound loss and sadness
the deaths last week of four more Canadian
soldiers in Afghanistan: Warrant Officer
Dennis Raymond Brown, Cpl. Dany Fortin,
Cpl. Kenneth O’Quinn and Trooper Marc
Diab. To their family and friends we convey
our condolences. But we note, too, that the
entire nation mourns. Since 2002, 112 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have died in
the Afghanistan mission.
— MBD
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Continued from page 3
be maintained and “hopefully” increased in the
upcoming 2009-2010 fiscal year beginning July
1, depending on the amount of revenue raised in
this year’s UJA campaign.
He said the federation is confident that it
will reach or come very close to last year’s total
of $66 million. As of last week, “close to $62
million” had been raised, English said.
For the 2008-2009 fiscal year, an extra
$180,000 was budgeted for Jewish education,
and the federation is “going to provide another
$320,000” in the coming year, he said.
The money is already budgeted, and is
“coming from donor revenue available to UJA
Federation,” English added.
When asked to be more specific, he answered,
“I can’t say it’s coming from one particular
source. It’s a very complex process. Increases are
achieved through cutting in many other ways…
One of the ways is not rehiring when people
leave voluntarily. We’ve done some internal
cost cutting when it comes to seemingly small
things like long distance calls and paper supplies
and photocopies. We’ve instituted efficiencies.
We’re looking at every area of our operation.”
According to last week’s news release, a
substantial sum has been “set aside, in reserve,
for Jewish education, depending on campaign
revenue.”
“Substantial,” in this context, means “over
$1 million,” English said. “It will be applied on
a case-by-case basis for worthy programs and
services that the schools in conjunction with us
want to undertake.”
According to the news release, federation
“will be embarking on a renewed partnership
with community day schools by enhancing their
capacity to provide direct education services,
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rather than receiving services supplied by the
Mercaz.”
For example, English explained, “it is the
schools in consultation with UJA Federation
that will determine that they want to continue
the Rikudiya [annual dance festival] and Zimriya
[annual song festival], and together we will determine how that will be provided. One school
could take the lead in providing a program or
service to the community, or it could be outsourced, for example, to the faculty of Jewish
studies at York [University] or the University of
Toronto. The principle is the schools themselves,
in partnership with us, will be supplying direct
educational services to the community that were
supplied for them by Mercaz.”
Commenting in the news release on the
change, UJA Federation president David Koschitzky said the new approach “demonstrates
confidence in Toronto’s excellent day schools.
“Our modern, dynamic educators have
reached the point where they do not need us to
deliver services. Instead, capacity-building is one
of their most significant requirements.”
The “new Mercaz” will likely focus on “administration of tuition subsidies, educational
consultation at the schools, and liaison with the
schools in a capacity-building forum,” English
said
The model is similar to the one the federation
uses for its social service agencies, he added.
He said the changes at the Mercaz constitute
“a bold, progressive move that will significantly
benefit the community by redirecting money
from overhead cost to direct financial support.
It will be directed to the education system and
not to a department that is overseeing an education system.
“Our commitment to Jewish education is
genuine and it’s deep, and it’s ongoing.”
Shana Harris, head of school at Bialik
Hebrew Day School, said she was “concerned,
because it’s not clear to me what the new model
will be and what the impact will be” on day and
supplementary schools.
Many of the services that the Mercaz has coordinated and provided in the past are “critical,”
she said, citing as one example its Board of
Licence that certified Jewish studies teachers.
As well, Harris said, the Midrasha L’Morim
ran courses for all teachers in pedagogy and programming, and the Mercaz worked with York
University to provide special education qualifications, which was especially significant for
Jewish studies teachers.
English told The CJN there will continue
to be a Board of Licence and there will be a
Midrasha.
Taking on new responsibilities will “certainly… require extra staff or time” for the schools,
Harris said. “Schools are [already] stretched in
providing professional development and finding
time to do all the programs we want to do internally.”
Martin Lockshin, a York University professor
and a co-founder of its Jewish teacher education
program with Michael Brown and Syd Eisen,
also said he was “very concerned.
“I think that something real was accomplished by having a strong central authority for
Jewish education here in town.” He disagreed
with Koschitzky’s assessment that educators no
longer need service delivery from the Mercaz.
Lockshin said he thinks that “more than
skeleton operations are necessary.” He noted the
importance of the Mercaz annual professional
development day, its pedagogic library and film
library that’s used by teachers throughout the
Jewish school system, and its mentoring services
for teachers.
While mentoring can take place at individual
schools, he said, he noted that new teachers may
be reluctant to let their own principal know that
they don’t know how to do something.
The Mercaz has been “a safe place to go,”
Lockshin said. “I’m worried that’s going to be
lost.”
In some ways, the Mercaz has been “even
more crucial” for supplementary school teachers,
he added.
Mark Smiley, director of education at Associated Hebrew Schools, said he believes that
all the Jewish schools are “nervous that this will
negatively impact on our ability to do high-level
professional development without incurring significant additional cost to our professional development budget lines.”
Associated was involved in two highlevel professional development projects with
the Mercaz that Smiley said he hoped would
continue. One, held in conjunction with United
Synagogue Day School and Bialik, related to
making the school more child-centred, and the
other involved Judaic studies teachers at Associated’s middle school, he said.
“I think that outgoing leadership of the
Mercaz were successful in – almost across the
board – trying to raise standards and make the
schools focus more on quality, delivering childcentredness and professionalism,” Smiley said.
“I am hopeful that the reorganization of the
Mercaz will leave in place a strategic forum for
the planning for Jewish education, and while I
believe there is an improvement in school-based
leadership and excellence, most principals will
agree that having outside support is essential for
maintaining quality in the system.”
Syd Eisen – a York University professor
emeritus who founded the school’s Centre for
Jewish Studies and its Jewish teacher education
program, and who is also a life member of the
boards of both TanenbaumCHAT and Associated – said that, based on the minimal information he had, he was “delighted” to hear about
an increase in tuition subsidies and hoped there
would be enough funding to include some of the
smaller schools.
However, he added that he was “concerned
about what looks like the disintegration of the
central body of professionals and handing off
responsibilities to the schools.
“The schools have their job, which is to
educate students. The central body’s job is [to
take an] overall view of quality, bringing in
new things, running system-wide programs….
You need a body of professionals to do those
things.”
Frank Samuels, general studies principal
at Yeshivat Or Chaim and Ulpanat Orot and
chair of the Association of Principals of Jewish
Day Schools of Toronto, said that the Mercaz’s
services were geared more to elementary schools
than high schools like his own.
He said he is “very excited about the possibility of working with Mercaz as a service
provider as we create our own professional development,” but he added that he doesn’t have
“nearly enough time, given the demands of my
own school.
“I know how difficult it is to embrace change,
but I think that we’re all going to be stronger as
a result of this,” Samuels said. “I say that with a
really sad heart for the people who are no longer
working.”
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Gaza and surreal theatre
L
ast Monday, in the elaborate elegance and stunning
luxury of the finest conference room in Egypt’s resort
town of Sharm el-Sheikh, the representatives of some
80 countries and international organizations met to
discuss and pledge funds for the rebuilding of Gaza.
The Palestinian Authority had hoped to raise $2.78 billion
(US). By the end of the day, however, they had received promises
of donations totalling $5.2 billion. According to Egyptian Foreign
Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, $4.48 billion of that total represented new pledges. The remainder comprised previous pledges that
donors recommitted to giving. He described the figure as being
“beyond our expectations.”
Canada contributed $4 million.
In announcing the Canadian contribution, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said: “We stand firmly behind the direction
set by President Mahmoud Abbas toward a well-governed, democratic and prosperous Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace
with Israel. We believe just as firmly that it is not in the Palestinian people’s interest for terrorist organizations such as Hamas to
launch rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.” (Our emphasis)
There, in pointed, elegant understatement, Cannon pointed to
the very large white-black-green-and-red elephant not sitting in
the luxurious conference room.
Gaza is ruled by a regime that has never shown any interest
in building up or developing Gaza. It prefers to focus its energies
on a policy of genocide toward its Jewish neighbour. Indeed, in
the past, it has focused a great deal of energy on killing Fatah
members as well.
Thus, the obvious question begs to be asked: to whom in Gaza
are the billions of reconstruction funds to be given? Who will
administer, manage and oversee the rebuilding of Gaza?
Two days before the statesmen and NGO officials gathered
at the luxurious resort, a Qassam rocket slammed into a school
in Ashkelon. The day before the meeting, three Qassam rockets
struck southern Israel, one sparking a fire in Sderot. Last Thursday a Grad rocket struck a synagogue in Netivot. More rockets
fell on the weekend. Since the mutually agreed upon cessation
of hostilities in Gaza on Jan. 18, Palestinian terrorists have fired
some 130 rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel. They
show a particular penchant for targeting schools, nurseries and
houses of worship.
The day after the conference, Israel’s ambassador to the UN,
Gabriela Shalev, filed a complaint with the Security Council
concerning the unceasing rocket attacks by Hamas. “In response
to these ongoing attacks… the government of Israel will continue
to safeguard the security of its citizens and will ensure that the
situation in southern Israel does not return to the status quo ante
of December 2008. Israel will… respond accordingly to attacks
against its citizens.”
The combined posing for the cameras, the pledging of money
and the lofty posturing at Sharm el Sheikh last week, in truth, was
akin to an absurd play. If Hamas’ rule does not end in Gaza, neither will the rocket fire into Israel. And then, there will be a need
for even more reconstruction funds to be pledged by the players
in the surrealist Gaza theatre.
25 years ago in The CJN
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir criticized Egypt for not
returning its ambassador, who had been recalled during
the 1982 Lebanon War, describing it as being against the
spirit of the peace treaty between the two countries. Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak, however, said he had no intention
of cancelling the treaty.
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CUPE resolution protested in Windsor
The Jewish Defence League bused 50 of us to Windsor,
Ont., from Toronto on Feb. 23 to protest as the Canadian
Union of Public Employees Ontario voted on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. As we stood
outside in front of the Windsor Hilton Hotel, inside, delegates representing the union’s Ontario university workers
deliberated and voted on the resolution.
We were joined by Windsor Jews
and Christians, and we numbered over
100 strong as we came face to face
with angry Palestinian supporters on
the street outside the hotel. Women,
men and children from the Windsor
Arab community held up hand-lettered
signs denouncing Israel and waved
Palestinian and Hezbollah flags. Some
of us waved Canadian and Israeli flags,
while others held up signs that read
“No to CUPE’s attacks on Academic
Freedom” or “Vote No to Anti-Israel
Resolutions.”
At one point, Arab counter-protesters, without provocation, crossed over
toward us, yelling, “Death to Israel.”
The Windsor police intervened by blasting their patrol car sirens and driving their cruisers
between us and them. But the most striking image for me
was the sight of CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan, who
proposed the boycott of Israeli academics, as he made
his way toward the string of Hezbollah flags and posters
of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. As we watched
in disbelief, Ryan shook hands with many of the Arab
counter-protesters and embraced them.
The mood was sombre as we got word that the delegates
voted in favour of the boycott of Israeli universities. The
passing of this discriminatory resolution sets a dangerous
Canadian precedent by its singling out a single country.
Robin Shugar
Toronto
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Neuer to make his points that planning for the upcoming
“Durban II,” the followup to the UN World Conference
Against Racism conference of 2001, targets Israel exclusively while omitting mention of the human rights abuses
of notorious offenders such as Sudan and China. But
as Neuer spoke, Al-Jazeera projected videos of an antiZionist demonstration by completely unrepresentative
Jews – the Neturei Karta – and of suffering Palestinian
refugees, not of the Sudanese refugees to whom Neuer
was referring. This is just one example
of the subliminal message conveyed by
this ultra-slick network.
What the CRTC needs to see is the
hidden agenda of this splendidly packaged propaganda vehicle, staffed by
attractive, highly paid, western-trained
journalists. Like the propaganda films
Leni Riefenstahl made for the Nazis,
Al-Jazeera English’s broadcasts are
very professional, and they play well in
the West’s living rooms. Its journalists
dress like us and speak with cultivated
British accents, its graphics are topnotch, but inside the pretty package is
a subtle and insidious anti-Israeli and
anti-American message that is all the
more dangerous because it is so hard
to pin down. It is our job to drive this point home to the
CRTC.
Marjorie Gann
Toronto
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Jewish schools cast in bad light
A recent article in the general media featured a story
that cast two local Jewish schools in a particularly bad
light by highlighting the fact that they collectively owe
more than $1 million in rental arrears to the Toronto
District School Board. I have no doubt that these schools
owe the outstanding lease payments to the board, but a
careful examination of the underlying reasons for the
mounting debt is surely warranted before aspersions are
cast on them. These two Jewish schools (among several
Al-Jazeera’s bias is subtle
others) need to rent these otherwise vacant TDSB properPaul Michaels is correct to question the objectiv- ties at great expense to their tax-paying parents because
ity of Al-Jazeera English (“‘Objective’ reporting and religious schools that are not of the Roman Catholic
Al-Jazeera,” CJN, Feb. 26). Al-Jazeera English’s bias is persuasion presently receive no government funding. Any
extremely subtle and easy to miss. It is manifested not so anger, therefore, should be directed to the present inequity
much in whom it interviews – given that it goes through inherent in the education funding system and not at the
schools whose parents have chosen
the motions of interviewing Israeli
a different religious path than the
government spokespeople – but in
LET THEM GO…
only one presently sanctioned by the
how it packages the interviews it
Ron
Arad,
Zachary
Baumel,
Zvi
Ontario government.
delivers.
Feldman, Guy Hever,
Joseph Y. Adler
For example, an interview with
Yehuda Katz, Gilad Schalit
Toronto
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Netanyahu faces moment of truth
By Leslie Susser
P
JTA
ressed to take a firm stand on
the two-state solution, Benjamin
Netanyahu’s moment of truth
may have come sooner than he
wanted.
Despite strong international and domestic pressure, the
Likud leader, who is trying to form a governing coalition, is refusing to come out in
support of the idea of two states for two
peoples, Israel and Palestine, living side by
side in peace.
Ever since President George W. Bush
outlined his vision of two states in June 2002,
the two-state solution has been consensus
international policy and the basis for IsraeliPalestinian peace talks.
Netanyahu’s refusal to reaffirm Israel’s
commitment to the two-state principle leaves
him out of step with the rest of the international community. It also is likely to cost
him the chance of forming a more moderate
coalition.
Already the main international players are
ratcheting up pressure on Netanyahu to back
the two-state idea.
In an interview in advance of her trip to
the Middle East last week, U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Voice of
America radio on Feb. 27 that Washington
would continue working “to create an independent, viable Palestinian state in both the
West Bank and Gaza.”
A few days earlier, European Union (EU)
foreign ministers meeting in Brussels insisted that the two-state solution was “the
only option.”
“We hope that the new Israeli government will honour the obligations taken by
Israel under the ‘road map’ [peace plan]
and at Annapolis, and refrain from measures
rendering a two-state solution impossible,”
said an official statement from the Czech EU
presidency.
In Israel, Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni
has made acceptance of the two-state idea a
condition for joining Netanyahu’s coalition.
“Two states is not an empty slogan,” she
said. “It’s the only way Israel can remain
Jewish and fight terror.”
Even though he very much wants to see
Kadima in his government, Netanyahu has
made only vague promises to continue peace
talks. In messages to world leaders, he has
pledged to honour commitments by previous
Israeli governments, but has omitted any explicit references to Palestinian statehood.
Netanyahu has also been very careful in
statements to the media. Asked specifically
about the two-state solution in an interview
with the Washington Post, he replied guardedly, “Substantively, I think there is broad
agreement inside Israel and outside that the
Palestinians should have the ability to govern
their lives, but not to threaten ours.”
In other words, yes to self-government, but
not necessarily to statehood.
The obvious reason Netanyahu is treading
so carefully is that he doesn’t want to alienate his hard-line potential coalition partners
before he has even a narrow, right-wing gov-
Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week in Jerusalem. Clinton pledged
to press hard for Palestinian statehood, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Netanyahu.
[Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy TLV Flash90 photo]
ernment in place.
tentative acceptance of the two-state idea,
But his opposition to Palestinian statehood Netanyahu hurriedly convened the Likud
goes much deeper. In fact, Netanyahu is adopt- central committee to challenge Sharon. In the
ing very much the same position he did during ensuing ballot, Sharon was humiliated. His
his first term as prime minister, from 1996 to proposal to defer the vote on a Netanyahu1999. He argued then that in any agreement backed resolution that “no Palestinian state
with Israel, the Palestinian entity would be will be established west of the Jordan” was deso severely restricted that it would be less feated 696 to 465. As Sharon left the podium
than a fully independent state. It would not to loud booing, the Netanyahu measure was
be allowed to have
carried by a nearly
control over its airunanimous show of
space, control border
hands.
‘I think there is broad
crossing points, raise
The
vote,
agreement inside Israel and however,
an army or enter into
had no
military pacts with
outside that the Palestinians impact. Sharon
foreign powers.
adopted the twoshould have the ability
Netanyahu still
state solution, and
holds these posihis successor, Ehud
to govern their lives,
tions, which he
Olmert, declared
but not to threaten ours’
says are essential
that without it Israel
for Israel’s security.
“was finished.”
Therefore, he will
Ironically,
at
Please see According
not to commit to full
the time of the
Palestinian statehood
2002 Likud ballot,
to Reports on page 22.
– a concept he fears
Netanyahu joined
might erode some or
forces with the
most of these restrictions.
hawkish Moshe Feiglin, whose far-right
He also insists that for security reasons, Jewish leadership movement advocates transIsrael must retain nearly 50 per cent of the fer of Israeli Arab citizens out of Israel. But
West Bank, including the Jordan Valley. in this year’s election, Netanyahu pushed
This, too, runs counter to the international Feiglin down the party slate in a bid to give
consensus notion of a “viable and contiguous” Likud a more moderate image.
Palestinian state.
Some Netanyahu watchers suggest that his
While all other Israeli prime ministers position on Palestinian statehood may only be
have dramatically changed their views on tactical, designed to earn Israel a better deal at
Palestinian statehood in the decade since the bazaar-like Middle East bargaining table.
Netanyahu was last prime minister, Netanyahu In Netanyahu’s view, they say, statehood
appears to remain unwavering in his opposi- should come only at the end of a negotiating
tion to the idea.
process, after being used as a lever to acquire
In early 2002, when then-prime minis- concessions from the Palestinians, and not
ter Ariel Sharon, aware of Bush’s impend- conceded up front as Sharon, Olmert and
ing “two-state vision” speech, announced his Livni have all done.
But it is almost certainly too late for such
a gambit. Holding back on Palestinian statehood when it has been conceded by previous
Israeli governments is unlikely to fly in an
international climate where the two-state goal
has long been taken for granted.
The stance could well bring Netanyahu
into conflict with the United States and the
European Union. Worse, it could lead to
renewed confrontation with the Palestinians,
with Israel in the untenable position of putting
down a Palestinian uprising for a two-state
solution Israel itself had previously accepted.
The same is true of Netanyahu’s attempt to
turn back the clock on the issue of West Bank
territory. It’s hard to see how Netanyahu could
offer the Palestinians only 50 per cent of the
West Bank when Olmert, Livni and Labor’s
Ehud Barak all have offered well over 90
per cent, with land swaps for whatever areas
Israel annexes. This was also the U.S. position
expressed in the December 2000 parameters
set down by then-president Bill Clinton.
It is partly because he realizes the implications of his hard-line positions that Netanyahu
so desperately wants Livni and/or Barak in his
government.
If he doesn’t back the two-state solution,
they could serve as a fig leaf for his government. If he does, they could provide both the
excuse he gives the right for making such a
major concession and the political support to
see them through.
First, however, Netanyahu would have to
say the magic words and back two states for
two peoples.
If he does, he might lose the hawks, though
even Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Lieberman
supports a two-state solution. If he doesn’t, he
almost certainly will lose the doves.
Netanyahu is trapped, and in this moment
of truth, there is nowhere for him to hide.
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Adding to
our agenda
R
abbi Yitz Greenberg once declared that we can’t afford to let
our enemies set our agenda. They
might add to it, but not control it. What do
I mean?
As anti-Israel activity on campuses
across the country increase, we must act.
We must support our
students and communities with enough
resources to combat
this virulent form of
anti-Semitism. (Don’t
Norma Baumel tell me its not antiJoseph
Semitism when they
in Montreal
shout “Death to the
Jews!”)
Additionally, as we involve ourselves
maximally in the defence of Israel, there
are many demands on our resources at
home. The economy has taxed us to the
limit. Our agencies and institutions need
our help more now than ever before, but we
have less access to funds.
Yet while we engage in these crises,
we cannot forget our “ordinary” problems,
many of which are exacerbated during
times of emergency. Domestic violence
traditionally increases as the economy goes
south. Some men lose their jobs and their
self-possession at the same time, it seems.
Our task is to attend to the crisis at hand
while we continue to work on the long list
of Jewish communal needs. And we need
help with issues such as Jewish domestic
violence. It exists in our communities –
across all our economic, religious and
ethnic boundaries – and it’s serious.
In Canada, we have some help, such as
alternative short-term emergency housing
for abused Jewish women and their children
set up by Jewish Women International, as
well as one remarkable kosher shelter and
intake centre, Auberge Shalom in Montreal,
and resources in other cities.
But it’s not enough. Not nearly.
What can we do?
Primarily, we need to acknowledge the
problem exists. Then we should listen to
those suffering. I remember hearing one
doctor talk of her experience of physical
abuse. After years of hiding the scars, it
was her mother-in-law (!) who helped
her face the facts and get out. We need
that kind of courage. We need sermons,
columns and education. We can’t turn
away from domestic abuse of any kind.
For the past three years, friends and I
have attended a JWI International conference on Jewish domestic abuse. Our particular interest has always been our uniquely
Jewish form of divorce (get) abuse. But we
learned about all other kinds. The fourth
conference will be held next month in
Virginia. Visit www.jwi.org to find out
more. Try to go, or support someone who
wants to go. Talk to your local group and
see what you can do to help. Get involved.
Remember: it’s not their shame. It’s
ours.
We need to embrace historical research
H
istory – and Jewish history in par- a particular political agenda.
ticular – can be more than an acaWe are all familiar with the politician’s
demic exercise. It can be a tool for appeal to historical circumstance (always
propaganda (e.g., the book Stalinist Russia), a favourable to his point of view) that in turn
theological minefield (Quest for the Historical dictates a particular course of action. This
Jesus) or even a blood sport.
tendency is nowhere more visible
Prof. Stanley Kutler, my underthan in Israel, where history can be
graduate mentor, wrote the semiused as a tool to beat up on your
nal book about former U.S. presiopponent.
dent Richard Nixon. Yet recently,
Many years ago, a young hisa revisionist history of Nixon has
tory professor, Yeshiyahu Gafni of
begun to take shape among those
Hebrew University, was my teacher
who want to rehabilitate his reputain Jerusalem. An Orthodox Jew,
tion. To this end, they’ve published
Gafni is a brilliant, stimulating and
attacks on Kutler’s analysis, leading
perhaps sometimes controversial
to a battle of words in the media and Jean M. Gerber history teacher whose specialty is the
on academic blogs. It ended with the
talmudic period. Recently, Gafni was
in Vancouver
New York Times retreating from
a scholar in residence in Vancouver
its own articles by acknowledging the flimsy and I had a chance to once again listen to his
argument of the revisionists. That’s history as perceptive analysis of Jewish historiography.
a blood sport.
He argues that historians can extract valuHistory as propaganda we learned from the able historical information from the Talmud,
manipulation of historical truths during the dark and that we can examine Jewish history from
days of Stalin’s U.S.S.R. To change the future, this perspective without challenging the halathe Soviets changed the past. Other examples chic framework of Rabbinic Judaism. Indeed,
could be Austria’s “Hitler made us do it” he insists upon it.
argument or Poland recreating Auschwitz as a
In one unforgettable class in Jerusalem,
Catholic shrine.
we were studying the period of Yavneh,
We like to call ourselves a historical people, using the text “Give me Yavneh and her wise
but we often use history as a tool to advance a men” (“Ten li Yavneh v’hachameha”). This,
particular political, or even theological, agenda. it’s reported in the Mishnah, was the request
Case in point: the 1984 book From Time made by Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai to the
Immemorial, a volume that puts the Jews in invading Romans in order that the scholtheir land from, well, time immemorial, a posi- arship of the Pharisees-cum-rabbis could
tion guaranteed to be used in ways that advance continue.
I
Now Yavneh at the time was a wholly
Hellenized city with – wait for it – no wise
men of the Israelite persuasion. According to
Gafni, using this and other texts, we can learn
about the historical development of Rabbinic
Judaism, as well as the historical period in
which that development took place.
Pursuing this line of inquiry, we learned that
in addition to the many layers of Halachah and
aggadah that make up the Mishnah, historical
context is critical to a full understanding of the
text and the historical period.
Can we reinterpret the story of Yavneh
and her mythical wise men without losing
its essence? Gafni argues that we can extract
historical information from the Talmud, indeed
that this approach is critical to a true understanding of contemporary Rabbinic Judaism.
As Yosef Yerushalmi observes in his book
Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory,
professional Jewish historians are relatively
new. He points out that while “memory of the
past was always a central component of Jewish
experience, the historian was not its primary
custodian.” Jewish historians such as Gafni and
Yerushalmi – quite different in viewpoint, to be
sure – are staking out new territory.
We shouldn’t rely on a simplistic view of
Jewish history. We need to accept historical
research and be ready to re-examine how
we use, and abuse, our own history. That
won’t make us bad Jews. It will make us
even more committed, as Gafni is, to seeking out what really happened, as best we
can, and treating our texts as guides.
Slur on interfaith harmony
nterfaith initiatives are important to ensure
The bishop was excommunicated by the
that all major faith communities not become Church, not because of his anti-Semitic denials,
insular and isolated from the broader com- but because of the manner of his consecration
munity that we all share.
as a bishop. The Vatican subsequently lifted his
Consider, for example, the work of the excommunication.
Edmonton Interfaith Centre for
As a result of his Holocaust
Education and Action, which offers
denials, the bishop was removed from
programs, seminars, educational
the seminary in Argentina and was
displays and public gatherings that
expelled to his native England by
promote respect, friendship and
the Argentine government. Bishop
harmony among people of all faiths.
Williamson subsequently apologized,
In addition, many faith groups in
referring to the harm and hurt his
Edmonton sponsor their own proremarks caused, but did not in any
grams that encourage understanding
way retract his Holocaust denial. This
and a sharing of both unique and
was unsatisfactory to the Vatican.
common experiences. In mid-March,
On his return to England, it was
Gerald L. Gall
the Ahymadiyya Muslim Women’s
learned
that Bishop Williamson had
in Edmonton
Association of Edmonton is holding
contacted and sought advice from
its annual interfaith symposium, featuring pre- David Irving, the disgraced British anti-Semitic
sentations by representatives of the local Jewish, and Holocaust-denying historian.
Sikh, Christian and Islamic communities.
When Bishop Williamson was expelled from
As vital and encouraging as these interfaith Argentina, the government announced that his
contacts are, we still cannot lose sight of the hateful remarks had “deeply shocked Argentine
fact that there are prominent members of some society, the Jewish people and all of humanity.”
faith communities who are intolerant, and even
This obviously reflects the new Argentina, a
hateful, of others.
nation with a large, vibrant, and healthy Jewish
We are unfortunately reminded of this by the community of more than 200,000. But it wasn’t
recent controversy concerning Catholic Bishop that long ago, in 1994, when the Jewish commuRichard Williamson, who headed a Buenos nity centre in Buenos Aires was bombed, killing
Aires seminary and who held distorted, anti- 85 people and injuring more than 300. The subseSemitic views. In a widely publicized interview quent investigation and prosecutions were widely
on Swedish television, Bishop Williamson es- criticized. Over the years, Iran and Hezbollah
sentially denied the Holocaust or, at least, denied were implicated in the bombing.
the extent of the horrors visited upon European
However, the bombing reflects a long tradiJewry. He claimed that 200,000 or 300,000 Jews tion of anti-Jewish sentiment in that country. This
were murdered and not six million, and he denied dates back to the period after World War II when
that any Jews were gassed.
Argentina was considered a safe haven for many
Nazis fleeing prosecution, including probably the
most infamous of all, Adolf Eichmann.
To this day, South America has experienced
pockets of anti-Jewish sentiment. Currently,
Venezuelan Jews are feeling the pressure of
a government led by President Hugo Chavez.
According to the U.S. Anti-Defamation League,
a rise in anti-Semitism has been “fostered in
large part by Chavez’s own rhetoric and that of
his government institutions.” And, at the United
Nations World Conference Against Racism in
Durban, South Africa, in 2001, some of the worst
anti-Semitic “literature” originated in Brazil.
On a positive note, the official statement
of the Argentine government on the expulsion
of Bishop Williamson included the notion that
Holocaust denial deeply shocks “all of humanity.” This represents a refreshing new message
that will hopefully resound throughout that continent.
Perhaps the Williamson controversy represents somewhat of a failure of existing interfaith
dialogue. However, as Canadian Jewish Congress
Co-president Rabbi Reuven Bulka recently wrote
in the Ottawa Citizen, “Jew and non-Jew alike
rejected [Bishop] Williamson and his views…
there has been great progress in Christian-Jewish
understanding to the point that there is profound
amity between the two religions. The Williamson
affair proved that this profound amity is simultaneously unshakable.”
Clearly, such dialogue must continue.
Interfaith co-operation fosters mutual respect
and understanding among all faith communities and creates an atmosphere in which the
aberrant voice of a Bishop Williamson will
not be heard.
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March 12, 2009
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The Kirshner File
Schiff was first female publisher in New York
D
orothy (Dolly) Schiff, the scion of an
at the Church of the Heavenly Rest. “There was
assimilated German Jewish American
something in it for each of them,” writes Nissenfamily of conservative leanings, has the
son sardonically. “He got access to her money,
distinction of having been the first female pub- and she got his name.”
lisher of a major New York daily newspaper. A
Despite her conversion to Christianity, she
socialite whose parents were listed in the
was an atheist and al­ways considered
snobbish Social Register and a liberal
herself a Jew. Yet, like some of her
activist who may have been a lover of
upper-class Jewish contemporaries,
a president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she
she was was not entirely comfortable
was the proprietor of the New York
in her Jewish skin, considering her
Post, the oldest continuously published
Jew­ish heritage problematic, says
daily in the United Stat­es. Schiff, whose
Nissenson. Certainly, her brother,
grandfather was the legendary ban­ker
John, had no such problems. He
Jacob Schiff, presided over the fortunes
married into New York’s WASP esof the Post from 1939 until 1976, when
tablishment and raised his two chilshe sold it to the Aus­tra­­lian business
dren as Episcopalians.
tycoon Rupert Mur­doch.
A Democrat rather than a ReSheldon Kirshner
Under her direction, the Post – which
publican,
Schiff was drawn to the
in Toronto
was founded in 1801 and was one of
promise of Roos­evelt’s reformist
Abraham Lin­coln’s earliest supporters – was
New Deal. A social acquaintance of the presithe model of a crusading newspaper. It was the
dent, she may well have known him in the biblifirst to attack U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy,
cal sense. When she reminisced about her relathe paranoid red baiter. It supported the Africantionship with him, Nissenson observes, she was
American civil rights movement. It opposed
coy about whether or not it had been a sexual
the Vietnam war. It broke the story of Richard
one.
Nixon’s slush fund. It spoke up on behalf of
Schiff’s foray into publishing occurred after
Zionism at a time when many American Jews
her divorce and marriage to George Backer, a
were dubious about Jewish statehood. It consis- Jewish real estate mogul. With his encouragetently lined up behind Israel in its struggle for ment, she bought the Post from a fellow Demosurvival and acceptance.
crat, David Stern, who owned the Phil­adelphia
Schiff wanted to be taken seriously as an Record as well. Stern and his wife convinced
opin­ion maker and power broker, writes Mar­ilyn
Schiff, whose net worth was a cool $10 million,
Nissenson in The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff
that owning a newspaper was not just an investand the New York Post (St. Martin’s Press), and
ment but an opportunity for self-expression and
indeed she was. In this absorbing biography, Nis- a chance to be­come a personality in her own
senson, a journalist and sea­soned reader of the
right.
Post, draws a nuanced portrait of a driven and
With an average daily circulation of 250,­000,
intelligent woman who thrived in an era when
the Post lagged behind rivals such as the New
women had to fight for rights taken for grant­ed
York Times and the World-Telegram. But the
today.
Post was blessed with an admirable editorial staff
She was born in Manhattan in 1903, her
consisting of, among others, columnist Franklin
parents having been Mortimer and Adele Schiff, Adams, financial writer Sylvia Porter, editorialist
whose ancestors arrived in the United States in
I.F. Stone and Hollywood correspondent Sidney
the 19th century. Few doors in the New York
Skolsky.
social scene were closed to Schiff, a slim, darkThree years after buying it, Schiff displaced
haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed debutante who her husband as president and publisher of the
often moved in circles generally off limits to
Post. As she discovered, it was a money pit.
Jews.
Having already sunk $1 million into the venture,
Not surprisingly, the first of her four hus- she was forced to put up another $500,000 by
bands, Richard Hall, was a Christian from a fine, the end of 1942. The losses continued to pile up
though impoverished, waspy family who was
after World War II, but by the 1960s, the pa­per
given to making anti-Semitic comments about
was profitable, with circulation peaking at around
Jews in general and Schiff in particular. They
700,000.
were married in 1923 in a Protestant ceremony
Its readership being largely Jewish, the Post
was pro-Zionist. As World War II wound down,
As a person, Schiff could be shy, remote,
Schiff told a German-language Jewish newspaper
imperious, self-absorbed and unapproachable,
in New York that American Jews should pressure notwithstanding her evaluation of herself as
Britain to permit unlimited Jewish settlement in
someone with a common touch. Nissenson elabPalestine. “It is the land where, as my friends tell orates: “She may have shared the ideals, interests
me, roses bloom in the desert and outstanding
and concerns of most of her readers and employachievements have been accomplished,” she
ees, but the cumulative heritage of her childhood
said.
– being undervalued by her parents while reaping
With Israel’s declaration of independence the benefits of social privilege – almost guaranin 1948 – Nissenson
teed that she would
misstates the date
fall back on an austere
as 1947 – the Post
patrician style when
spared no space in
she was ill at ease.”
giving it front-page
During the heyday
coverage. “Stories
of her reign, morale
about Israel were
in the newsroom was
sometimes the only
high, with reporters
foreign news retaking pride in the
ported in the paper
perception that the
for days on end,” she
Post was the bestnotes, adding that the
written newspaper in
speeches of Israel’s
town.
representative at
But as the 1960s
the United Nations,
wore on, morale
Abba Eban, were
plung­e d as reportoften reprinted in
ers and editors were
verbatim form. And
stymied by her parwhen Israeli leaders
simonious style. She
visited the city, they
would steam un­used
were interviewed and
stamps off return enprofiled.
velopes and confront
Schiff’s fourth
employees who used
and final husband,
company phones
Rudolf Sonneborn, a
for private calls. In
manufacturer of peeditorial matters, she
troleum products, was
could be remarkably
a keen Zionist who
cheap. She refused
travelled to Is­rael on
to pay competitive
business quite often.
salaries and tried to
Dorothy (Dolly) Schiff in 1948
In 1951, prior to their
cut corners in the co­
marriage, she accomverage of stories.
panied him on one of his trips and remained in
On balance, though, Schiff was a serious and
Israel for two months.
fearless publisher who had noble instincts. “She
Although Schiff was torn by anxiety about
was the only publisher in New York with balls,”
her Jewish identity, she was always eager to
one of her editors said.
highlight successful Jews in the pages of the
Having sold the Post for $31 million, she
Post. In addition, she commissioned the socioloretired, spending her last years socializing,
gist Nathan Glazer to prepare a series on several reading books, needlepointing and watching
ethnic and racial groups in New York, including
television.
Jews and Puerto Ricans.
Murdoch, the new owner, transformed the
Dissatisfied with the results, she drop­ped
Post into a right-wing newspaper, resorting to
Glazer, who retained the rights to the material and
his tried-and-test­ed formula of skin and scandal,
proceeded to write the classic work, Beyond the which must have saddened Schiff before her
Melting Pot, a critical and commercial success.
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Karen Fenwick
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13-year-old whiz is a natural in the cockpit
By SHERI SHEFA
Staff Reporter
Recent news about airplanes falling out of the sky is
enough to turn anyone into a nervous flyer, but Michael
Domb hasn’t been deterred from achieving his dream of becoming a pilot.
Domb said he already has the required number of in flight
hours to go solo – fly without an instructor – but he’ll still
have to wait a few months before he can.
Legally, you have to be 14 years old to fly by yourself
with a student pilot licence, and Domb is just 13.
But by the summer, he expects to pass the test to get his
student licence, which would also make him the youngest
Canadian, and youngest Israeli, student pilot.
Domb, a Fieldstone Day School student who often travels
to Israel to visit family, said aviation has always been part of
his life.
“My dad was working for the U.S. for NASA for the
Apollo missions. He’s a rocket scientist. He also used to fly,”
Domb said, adding that his father, Uriel Domb, is president
and CEO of Telespace Inc., a satellite consulting company.
He said his uncle is also a pilot who owns a small, single
engine plane.
“I started flying when I was 12… We used to go up and
have some fun in the air.”
Domb said he started flying with an instructor last year
and began going to a pilot ground school, where he learned
aviation basics. After that, he was assigned to a unit and an
instructor who taught him to fly.
He said it was a surprise to him and many others that
flying came so naturally to him.
“Ever since I was little, I flew on computer simulators, but
it came pretty quickly to me in the airplane. I did pretty well,
and I progressed pretty fast,” he said.
He said he’s been learning to fly with Canadian Flyers, a
pilot training firm, at the Markham Airport, where he learns
on a Cessna 172.
“Markham has a really small runway. It is very narrow,
so it makes flying different and hard. If you can learn to land
there, you can land pretty much anywhere, because it’s so
small. And if you think about flying a plane at 130 kilometres
an hour and coming to land on a seven-foot wide runway,
it’s pretty hard. When you have to factor in wind and snow,
or rain on a slippery runway, it can get pretty complicated,”
Domb said.
With 15 hours of flying already under his belt – three more
than the minimum requirement – Domb is counting down the
days until his 14th birthday in June, when he is legally able
to fly solo as a student.
He said his instructor evaluates him every time he flies
and said he’s ready to go it alone because he knows how to
take off, fly and land.
“Part of the flight training is doing spins. You basically fly
Michael Domb learning on a Cessna 172
up to 6,000 feet, and then you stall the plane and it goes into
a spin and you spin for a couple thousand feet and the plane
is actually going pretty fast, but it only lasts for about three
seconds. When you pull out, it’s a lot of fun.”
Although Domb enjoys the thrill of flying, he takes it
very seriously, especially in light of recent plane crashes in
Buffalo and Amsterdam.
“As we have recently seen with the Bombardier plane
crash in Buffalo, flying can be quite dangerous. It is a lot of
fun, and a great experience, but when people treat aircraft
lightly, accidents happen,” Domb said.
“Last year, when I worked as a flight dispatcher at
Markham, people would rent airplanes and takeoff without
doing any [safety] checks. Not only is this breaking the law,
but it is extremely dangerous. These are aircraft, not cars.”
Domb added that when he turns 16, he plans to take
the written exam and flight test required to obtain a pilot’s
license, and then he’ll be able to fly a plane on his own with
passengers.
But his ambitions don’t end there.
Domb said that when he turns 18, he plans to make aliyah
and join the Israeli Air Force. He said part of the reason he
wants to serve in Israel rather than Canada is because he feels
more of a connection with the Jewish state, and he has a friend
who died two years ago serving in the war in Lebanon.
But beneath it all, he simply loves to fly.
“I mean, it’s complicated, and not every flight is the same
– it’s always different… I just love flying as a whole.”
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IN OUR SCHOOLS
PURIM PRINCESSES: At the Leo
Baeck Day School’s Thornhill campus
King Achashverosh and Queen Purim celebrations, princesses abounded.
Esther – nursery students at Students were treated to carnival games,
Netivot HaTorah, Ronen and face-painting, caricaturists, hamantashAnnika – learn about the story en and the story of Purim told in song by
singer-guitarist Kayla. From left are Doo
of Purim.
[Rebecca Ansel photo] Doo the Clown, who has a show on Treehouse TV,
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Compiled by CJN Staff
Two boys’ schools serving the haredi community reportedly owe almost $1 million in back rent to the Toronto
District School Board.
John Campbell, TDSB chair, was quoted last week
as saying that the board prefers not to evict tenants that
provide a service to the community, but he did not rule out
evicting organizations that don’t pay their rent.
One school, Yeshiva Bnei Tzion of Bobov, reportedly
owes $251,190 in rent on Champlain Public School, near
Bathurst Street and Wilson Avenue. The other, Yeshiva
Yesodei Hatorah, reportedly owes $701,700 rent on
Glen Rush Public School near Bathurst and Lawrence
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Campbell said that about 10 years ago, the two schools
reached a deal with the board that said they would pay
off the back rent when they bought the buildings they are
occupying, but neither school has been able to complete
its purchase.
He was quoted as saying that if the two schools were
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would be added to the purchase price.
Calls by The CJN to the board and to each school went
unanswered, but in a statement to the media, the director
of Yeshiva Bnei Torah, who refused to give his name, said
that the school has trouble paying rent because donors
like to give money to buy “bricks and mortars,” not for
operating costs.
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Africa. From left, top row, are Matt Nadolny, Joshua Green, Ashley Krakower, Jake Sirkin, Sebi
Zylberberg, and Mason Gillick. On floor, from left, are Jehonatan Ashkenazi, Sydney Appleby,
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It’s why we don’t
drive on Shabbat,
shave with razor
blades or eat shellfish.
Rabbinic
It’s why we observe
the monthly mikvah rituals, wash our
hands before eating bread and pray
three times daily in separate-seating
synagogues.
To some extent, it’s also why we
give charity, speak honestly, pay
wages on time and avoid gossip.
As a community and as individuals, we can sometimes be inconsistent.
We all have better and worse days,
moments of strength and weakness,
times when our personal practice falls
short of our stated ideals, but we try our
best to maintain our God-given ideals.
Although usually a Torah lifestyle can be pleasant, fun, and lifeaffirming, it is not always so. The
Torah lifestyle is
sometimes costly
and demanding. It’s
sometimes, admittedly, inconvenient,
contrary to common
sense and complicated. If anything,
it’s idiosyncratic.
Reflections
That’s just the
way Torah is.
Therefore, it has become predictably upsetting to read the critical assessments by some who don’t understand what Torah is and isn’t. They
portray anecdotal incident, community quirks and legitimate Torah particularity as all part of the same unflattering package.
Of course, women can play a new
role in Jewish life, as can recognition
of the State of Israel in our religious
outlook, Holocaust memorializing in
our liturgy, and scientific advances
in our daily lives. But while it’s true
that the Torah community hasn’t done
enough work in these areas, those
least educated in Torah should hardly
be the ones aggressively advancing
the most innovative ideas. They might
mean well, but their thick, broad
brushstrokes can often ruin a beautifully intricate pointillism.
The next time you hear complaints
about “those religious types,” recall
the way you might listen to your
well-meaning, non-Jewish Canadian
co-workers who offer platitudinous
opinions on the Middle East. You
know where they’re coming from and
believe their heart to be in the right
place, but you also know that they
simply don’t have a clue. They probably need to understand what they
criticize before they aggressively go
public with their opinions.
Rabbi Yechiel Goldreich is the
rabbi of Congregation Bnai Torah in
Toronto.
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By MARK MIETKIEWICZ
On April 8, Jews around the world
will have the opportunity to do something they haven’t done since 1981
and won’t be able to
do again until 2037 –
make a blessing. Not
just any blessing, but a
blessing on the sun.
Birkat HaChamah
or “The Blessing of
the Sun” is recited
every 28 years or once
every 10,227 days when, according to
Jewish tradition, the Sun returns to the
position it occupied at the beginning of
the fourth day of Creation. It’s always
a Wednesday (the fourth day of the
week) and always on the vernal equinox
(the first day of spring, when day and
night are equal in length.) [tinyurl.com/
chamah02]
The blessing itself is quite brief:
“Blessed are You, Lord our God, King
of the universe, who re-enacts the works
of creation.” For a relatively brief blessing that is recited so infrequently, there
is a surprising amount of discussion and
even controversy. First of all, doesn’t
Rosh Hashanah mark the creation of
the world? And secondly, doesn’t spring
begin in March?
As for Rosh Hashanah, apparently
there is a dispute in Jewish tradition
about whether the New Year falls in
Tishrei or six months earlier in Nisan.
The Gemara concludes that although we
count the years from Tishrei, when we
calculate the moon and sun’s cycles, the
Halachah is that the world was created
in Nisan. [tinyurl.com/chamah04]
The Chabad site adds somewhat cryptically that “All agree that the world was
created in Tishrei, but that God conceived the idea of creation in the month
of Nisan.” [tinyurl.com/chamah03]
Determining the
first day of spring gets
quite complicated,
but that’s largely due
to the legacy of the
switchover from the
Julian to Gregorian
calendars. [tinyurl.
com/chamah10] To
make matters even more interesting, this
year’s Birkat HaChamah falls on Erev
Pesach, just hours before the first Seder.
If you didn’t have enough on your mind
with cleaning the chametz and cooking,
there’s this, too.
This year’s timing has created some
buzz on the Internet, with claims that
the final redemption (Geulah) is imminent, since this is only the third time
in history that this blessing falls on the
eve of Passover. Proponents say the only
other times this has happened is when
the Israelites left Egypt and in the time
of events recorded in Megillat Esther.
Unfortunately, this does not seem to be
true. After performing some fancy calculations, the author of the Keitzmeguleh blog concludes, “The incidence of
Birkat HaChamah with Erev Pesach is
rare, but not unheard of. It last occurred
only a few cycles ago in 5685 (1925).
Persistence with a good Hebrew calendar program will show you that this
has happened between 5 to 10 times in
the last thousand years (sorry, it’s been
a while since I checked). We simply
cannot say that the third time is the
The Jewish
Highway
Geulah.” [tinyurl.com/chamah09]
The Berachot.org site lists some of
the Jewish laws associated with this
special blessing:
• A minyan of 10 is not needed, but being
part of a large group is preferable.
• A blind person should either hear the
blessing from someone else and answer
amen or say it by himself without saying
God’s name.
• The Shehechiyanu blessing is not
recited. Some people have the custom
to wear a new shirt and then say Shehechiyanu on the clothing. [tinyurl.
com/chamah01]
And what happens if after 28 years
of anticipation, you wake up to cloudy
skies?
• If the sun is covered by clouds for the
entire first three hours of the day, the
blessing may still be said, so long as
the sun’s outline can been seen through
the clouds or if any part of the sun is
visible.
• If the sun is completely obscured by
clouds, and one is not able to see it
before three hours into the day, he may
say the blessing without God’s name.
If you prefer not to wait another 28
years to recite this blessing, you’re in
luck. It’s also recited upon seeing lightning, very tall mountains or the Mediterranean Sea. [tinyurl.com/chamah07]
Next week, more on Birkat HaChamah and links for downloading the
entire sun blessing ceremony.
* * *
Mark Mietkiewicz is a Toronto-based
website producer who writes, lectures
and teaches about the Jewish Internet. He can be contacted at highway@
rogers.com.
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Jewish Life
of endowments in providing a constant
flow of income to an organization in good
times or bad has proven illusory. That flow
has been greatly reduced (and, at five to six
per cent, it was never quite large enough to
begin with). While governments the world
over are pumping money into their economies, many large charities are looking to
cut back, afraid of further depleting their
shrinking endowments.
While some form of endowments may
have their place, with so many needs right
before our eyes, it seems hard to justify
having millions and billions invested for the
future. Jewish law is based on the premise
that present needs must take priority over
uncertain needs in the future. Can we afford
to save for tomorrow when so many Jews
are disappearing today? This is especially
important to consider when investments run
the risk of negative returns.
Spending down our endowments will
generate enormous benefits today. It will
also deny us the ability to rest on our
laurels, forcing us to find new and creative
ways to meet the unknown challenges that
await us in the future.
Focusing on present needs may also
reflect an important theological notion.
Prophecy, the Talmud asserts, rests only
with children and fools. The future plans
of the Almighty are beyond human comprehension. We must not put off dealing
with the challenges of today because of
concern over an unknown and unknowable future.
All we wanted was to pray at the Kotel
I write this column from rainy screamed at on the women’s side of
Jerusalem, where tourists curse the the Kotel by the shomeret, the female
rain but Jerusalemites bless it after guard whose job it is to keep the
the terrible drought
women’s side of the
they’ve had. I’ve had
Western Wall clean,
the privilege of par- Ideas on Identity orderly and appropriticipating, along with
ately “holy.”
300 others, in the 120th
As many of you no doubt
anniversary
conference
read in the news, a group
of the Central Conference
of about 75 female rabbis
of American Rabbis, the
went to the Kotel on Rosh
umbrella professional orgaChodesh Adar at 6:30 a.m. to
nization of all Reform rabpray. I was part of that group.
bis. (Sure there are Israeli,
We didn’t have a Torah like
European and Canadian
on the men’s side. We didn’t
By Rabbi
rabbis in the organization,
have an obvious prayer leadElyse
but aren’t we all American?
er who proudly stood in the
Goldstein
Memo to the powers that be:
front at a table, leading the
time to change the name.)
service in a voice we could
By the way, the umbrella organiza- all hear.
tion of the Conservative rabbinate
Instead, we adhered to the Kotel’s
also had its conference in Jerusalem, notion of “modesty” and prayed quiending the day before ours began. Is etly, daring to raise our voices ever
it just me, or did anyone else notice a so slightly only at Hallel. Some of us
giant missed opportunity for shared also dared to wear our tallitot over
learning, collaborative politicking our coats and not under them, and
and the combined power of 600 non- that’s when a riot almost ensued.
Orthodox rabbis in the same room in
The female guard decided that she
Jerusalem?
couldn’t tolerate this breach. Never
The most powerful moment of the mind that she brought over two male
conference for me was not in plenary police officers to the women’s side
sessions or in planned excursions, to quiet us down, and never mind
although all of those were good. The that there were scores of beggars
most powerful moment was being aggressively pushing for alms right
behind her under a clearly posted sign
stating that “It is forbidden to beg at
the Kotel.” Never mind that pious
men spent the whole time yelling
at us from way across the mechitzah instead of davening their morning prayers (where it’s doubtful they
could have heard us unless they were
trying really hard to). And never
mind that one of my male colleagues
got his camera ripped from his arm
and thrown down on the stone plaza
from one of these pious men when he
attempted to photograph the event.
The press appeared, and almost
100 web postings proliferated after a
small article was carried by Ha’aretz.
Comments on Ha’aretz’s website
included everything from “American
provokers go home!” to “Hasidim go
back to Poland!” Yikes. It seems that
despite the economic downturn, the
security situation, the sorry state of
education, recent elections and just
about everything else, nothing can
inflame Israeli passions like a bunch
of sincere women davening shacharit
at a very early hour at the back of
the women’s side of Judaism’s holiest site – the site where any Jewish
man, no matter how ignorant or nonobservant or insincere, can daven in
full voice and with full security.
Now that’s power.
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Endowments: the future is now
Tzedakah has become big business. losses compound the billions that organizaWith the amazing amounts of wealth tions have lost in the stock markets.
created in the postwar period – the recesImagine the impact on Jewish life had
sion notwithstanding, we are blessed to be these billions actually been spent. The
the wealthiest Jewish community in history charitable stimulus could have helped us
– thousands of organizafight an assimilation rate
tions compete for billions
Money Matters that hovers at around 50
of dollars in philanthropy.
per cent, or provided adMyriads of professionals
ditional help to the one in six Jews
advise individuals and organizaliving at or below the poverty line.
tions on how to best maximize
It could have offered millions to
the benefits of giving. People no
our day schools for such things as
longer just write cheques. We
teacher training and retention and
have donations of art, stocks and
programs for children with special
real estate. Estate planning and
needs, and it could have provided
foundations allow us to give from
programming for university camBy Rabbi Jay
the grave. Directors of developpuses. Such funds are desperately
Kelman CA
ment are key executives who help
needed to help settle Jewish immiorganize dinners, journals, concerts, speak- grants and to help battered woman, as well
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this growth industry.
security for our institutions, and the many
Despite the great efforts expended on programs in need of support in Israel.
fundraising, many needs are going unmet,
In short, this money could have helped
presumably because of lack of funds. Day transform our community today, more so
school tuition continues to rise beyond the than the unspent – and now never-to-bemeans of many – in fact, the last number of spent – lost billions ever could.
years has witnessed many economic dropIt’s noteworthy that arguably the most
outs and decreasing enrolment.
successful Jewish initiative in recent years,
Yet at the same time, the Bernard Birthright Israel (offering free trips to Israel
Madoff Ponzi scandal in the United States for young Jews aged 18 to 26), consciously
has brought to light the staggering amounts decided not to set up an endowment fund.
sitting in endowment funds. Billions of Rather, all of its resources have been used
dollars already earmarked and donated for to send more youth to Israel today, an incharitable purposes were ostensibly wiped vestment that will pay dividends for years
out overnight, and the losses even forced to come.
some Jewish charities to shut down. These
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Reena event to feature auction of clients’ artwork
By SHERI SHEFA
Staff Reporter
The co-chairs of Not Just Another Saturday Night, in its fifth
year, are gearing up to raise money for Reena, an Ontario-based
organization for people with developmental disabilities.
Over the past four years, the event – conceived by Reena’s new
leadership division, a volunteer group of young professionals – has
raised more than $100,000 for services such as after-school programs, summer programs and respite care.
The fifth annual Not Just Another Saturday Night is being held
March 21 at the Academy of Spherical Arts in downtown Toronto.
This year, in addition to a cocktail reception, live entertainment, music, a raffle and an art show during which local artists can
display their work, Reena clients will also be auctioning off their
own artwork.
Sheri Becker, one of the six co-chairs, said that late last month,
Reena held an event called Painting with the Stars.
“We got Reena clients to paint and we’re going to auction the
pieces off at the event,” Becker said.
Carrie Fisher, a local Toronto artist, teamed up with Reena’s new
leadership division to raise funds for the organization in a program
that was meant to provide “kids with the opportunity to develop
their artistic potential by using creativity and imagination,” Reena
said on its website.
Becker said that Painting with the Stars gave some of Reena’s
clients an opportunity to be part of the event.
“It was so amazing to see the committee getting involved, the
Sheri Becker, right, a
co-chair of Reena’s Not
Just Another Saturday
Night fundraiser, helped
Rebecca, a Reena client,
with her painting that
will be auctioned off at
the event.
clients getting involved, the Reena staff were involved and it was
just so nice that everyone was on the same page and at the same
level.”
She said that last year’s Not Just Another Saturday Night
managed to raise about $40,000, but her goal for this year is a little
more conservative because of the recession.
“We’re expecting 500 people… and we hope to raise about
$30,000,” she said.
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Anti-racism program
marks milestone
By FRANCES KRAFT
Staff Reporter
Representatives of Fighting Antisemitism Together
(FAST) and Canadian Jewish Congress’ charities committee joined some 200 students at Toronto’s Lord Lansdowne
Public School last week to celebrate a milestone in the life
of “Choose Your Voice,” (CYJ)
the anti-racism and anti-Semitism
program for Grade 6, 7 and 8 students
launched by the two groups in 2005.
The event was held to mark the
announcement that the program –
founded by Tony Comper, immediate past president and CEO of BMO
Financial Group, and his wife Elizabeth, a former teacher – has reached
almost half a million Canadian elementary school students.
School principal Angela Marsh
said the event “at its heart celebrates
Student Sakinna
our country’s diversity.”
On a video prepared for the Gairey read a poem
occasion, students at the multicultural titled Unity.
school commented on the program. “It
taught me to be nice to people that are different,” said one.
“I don’t laugh at racist jokes any more,” said another.
Ontario Education Minister Kathleen Wynne, said that
“hearing the kids speak… takes my breath away,” and she
called CYJ “an exceptional resource.”
“One of Ontario’s greatest assets is that we have such a
diverse population,” she said, adding that the public education
system “teaches society how to get along. All the people who
use our schools in Ontario deserve a place that’s free of…
discrimination, and respects and honours diversity.”
Megan Tran, a Grade 8 student at the school and co-MC
for the afternoon, said, “We will use our voices to ensure that
mistakes of the past are not repeated in the future.”
The event showcased student artwork and performances,
including Stand Together, a song composed by music teachers
Laurence Gilman and Edward Hayes, and performed by the
“Choose Your Voice Ensemble.”
Elizabeth Comper, who spoke along with her husband,
read a letter from a teacher who had used the program.
Among her students were bullies who wrote that they didn’t
realize what they were doing was harmful.
Other outcomes included students befriending others from
different ethnic backgrounds, the teacher wrote.
“I can’t be more proud of you,” Bernie Farber, CEO of
Canadian Jewish Congress, told the students.
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those with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease,
Craik said that some kinds of memory do
hold up – primary memory, such as remembering phone numbers or long-term facts;
and procedural memory, such as how to
play the piano or a sport.
What does fall off, he said, are episodic
memory (what did I have for dinner last
night?), prospective memory (I have to call
the doctor tomorrow and book an appointment – and then remember to do it) and
memory for details such as names.
“It doesn’t matter if you can’t find your
keys,” he said. “What does matter is not remembering what the keys are for.”
Craik suggested making it a policy to,
for instance, always keep your keys in the
same place.
The more meaningful a memory is for
you, the easier it is to remember it, he said.
He told the story of a woman having trouble
remembering the password for something.
The password was “DJ,” and she finally
linked it to her son’s bar mitzvah party,
where there was a DJ.
Another change in memory over time
is that people have less ability to focus on
several things at the same time. For instance,
he said, teenagers have no problem studying and retaining what they studied while
listening to music. “As we get older, we are
less able to block off outside information,
and that becomes progressively harder.”
In that case, he said, adjust your environment when you are trying to learn, do or
listen to something – “turn off the TV and
tell people to stop talking around you.”
Your environment gives you cues to
remembering things. “That’s why when a
senior moves to a different apartment where
everything is different, memory seems to
worsen, at least for a time.”
It is easier, Craik said, to remember
general information than to recall exact
details. For instance, when “trying to remember where you parked the car in a
parking lot, remembering that you parked
on the red level is easier than remembering
that you parked in section D7.”
He emphasized that physical activity
helps maintain not only a healthy body, but
also healthy brain function. He quoted an
old saying: “What’s good for the heart, is
good for the brain.”
Members of the audience asked about
factors they had heard can affect the brain –
for example that being bilingual all your life
may have a positive effect, chemotherapy
may interfere with memory, and genetics
can play a role one way or the other. Craik
suggested that perhaps all these factors,
along with diet and lifestyle, may combine
in the process.
Clinical psychologist Kelly Murphy
joined Craik and Shapiro for the question period. “Look for ways to spend your
leisure time, especially after you retire,”
Murphy said. “Choose activities that you
feel are enjoyable and challenging,” such
as doing crossword puzzles, playing sports
and talking to your friends.
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Food, Scrumptious Food
When our kids discover the kitchen…
By BARBARA SILVERSTEIN
from time to time in our old neighbourhood.
But the deep-fried sugary dish had become a
rare treat once we moved away.
lthough my three sons are quite
Leigh’s foray into cooking began when
grown-up now – two are in local uni- he discovered a recipe for honey balls on the
versities and one is in high school, they Internet. When he realized he could make them
still sometimes fight like 10-year-olds.
himself, there was no stopping him.
The fighting has abated in the last five or six
Night after night, he would try different
years, but I’m still refereeing
recipes to perfect these
far more physical bouts than
dishes. One day, a sauce
I should be at this stage of
would be too sweet or too
the boys’ lives.
tart, or it would be too runny
This year, we experior too sticky. Then he went
enced some curtailment of
on to tackle brownies.
the altercations. But I disI was torn about what
covered that keeping the
to do about this culinary
peace on the home front had
output. It was messy and
its price.
unhealthy, but I worried
Sometime in December,
that if I set limits, I might
my middle son, Evan,
stymie my son’s creative
told me that he had serious
aspirations.
Leigh mixing up his dough
concerns about his big
Fast forward to my
brother.
conversation about Leigh’s cooking with my
“Leigh used to like to fight,” Evan said. younger sons. During this discussion, Matthew
“Now all he wants to do is cook. He’d rather admonished his middle brother: “Evan, what are
make honey balls.”
you complaining about? Does Mom bake honey
Matthew, my youngest son – he was within balls or brownies? She would never make us
earshot of this discussion – was quite pleased lemon chicken. She only makes healthy stuff.”
with this development. “Leigh’s cooking is the
I could tell by the pensive expression on
best!” he said.
Evan’s face, that he was not convinced all this
It was hard to miss Leigh’s new-found so-called “good food” was a suitable substitute
passion for the culinary arts. He was an excep- for a good fight.
tionally untidy cook. After he made a batch of
Not long ago, I, too, began having my doubts
honey balls, our shoes would stick to the floor. about this tradeoff. It was the morning after a
I used to buy this traditional Greek dessert culinary double header – lemon chicken and
Special to The CJN
A
brownies. The kitchen was a disaster.
Standing in the doorway and surveying the
mess, I realized that when it comes to peace in
the home, there are worse things than shoving
matches in the family room.
I had managed to live with the fighting
all these years, but there was no way I could
possibly endure the endless upheaval in the
kitchen. I decided right then and there to shelve
Leigh Cuisine – indefinitely.
I got out the cleaning supplies, and as I
began scrubbing chocolate off the wall, an old
adage came to mind: “Be careful what you wish
for.”
HONEY BALLS
(Loukoumades)
Batter
2 packages active dry yeast
4 oz. warm water (105 to 115º F)
8 oz. warm milk (105 to 115ºF)
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3 cups flour, sifted
vegetable oil, for deep-frying
ground cinnamon, to taste
In a small bowl, sprinkle yeast over the warm
water and let stand to soften (about 5 minutes).
Meanwhile, pour milk into a large bowl and add
sugar and salt.
Stir yeast mixture and eggs into milk
mixture; add butter and beat well. Slowly
add flour, beating continuously until batter is
smooth, sticky and thick.
Add more flour as needed to arrive at correct
consistency for handling. Cover bowl with a tea
towel and let dough rise in a warm place until
doubled in bulk (2 to 3 hours).
In a medium saucepan pour oil to a depth of
3 or 4 in. and heat to 360. Stir batter well. Drop
batter from a tablespoon into hot oil and cook,
turning spoonfuls in oil, until batter puffs and is
golden brown on all sides (about 2 minutes).
Remove balls with a slotted utensil to paper
towels to drain briefly, then arrange a layer of
balls on a platter.
Honey Syrup
1 tbsp. lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1 tsp. grated lemon zest
2 tsp. ground cinnamon, to taste
1 cup honey
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
Place honey, sugar and water in a small
saucepan, mix to combine and bring to a boil
over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer,
stirring occasionally, until sugar is completely
dissolved. Stir in lemon juice and lemon zest
and simmer until lightly thickened. Remove
from heat and keep warm.
Drizzle the balls with warm honey syrup,
dust with cinnamon, and top with a second layer
of balls. Continue in this manner until all the
balls are layered and dressed. Serve at once.
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Greater Toronto Area
The truth about Netanyahu? It’s complicated
O
verwhelmingly, journalists describe Likud party leader expressly ruled out Palestinian statehood. However, the full
Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Israeli President Shimon platform is available only in Hebrew and is, therefore, not acPeres has asked to form a governing cocessible to many journalists. And while its rival,
alition, as opposing statehood for the Palestinthe Kadima party, openly endorses a two-state soians. However, Netanyahu actually holds a more
lution, Likud does not, leaving vague its preferred
nuanced view that’s not being accurately portrayed
outcome of final-status negotiations.
in most media accounts.
During the recent election campaign, NetanFor example, in “Israel’s big stick” (Maclean’s,
yahu articulated his party’s position on national
Feb. 25) Michael Petrou wrote: “Likud, led by onesecurity issues facing Israel, including Palestime prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has a
tinian statehood. It’s available online at http://
party platform that flatly rejects the establishment
en.netanyahu.org.il/themes-of/security/.
By
of a Palestinian state ‘west of the Jordan River’
Some highlights include:
PAUL MICHAELS
(i.e., in the West Bank or Gaza).”
• “Likud is prepared to make concessions in exWhile this was once Likud’s official position, the party change for peace, such as [former prime minister] Menachem
amended its platform in October 2006, omitting the section that Begin did in the peace treaty with Egyptian President Anwar
at York University
invites you to a lecture by
Professor Arye Naor
Professor of Public Policy and Administration
Ben - Gurion University
and Visiting Professor of Israel Studies
at York University
Professor Naor teaches Public Policy and Administration at
Ben-Gurion University. He served as Cabinet Secretary
under Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
He frequently serves as a consultant to the Israeli government.
“The People Have Spoken:
The Election Results in Israel.”
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 4 p.m.
N109 Executive Learning Centre
Schulich School of Business
York University, Keele Campus
Space Limited – rsvp to 416-736-5823 or cjs@yorku.ca
Kadimah leader Tzipi Livni and Netanyahu attempt to
negotiate a coalition agreement.
[Isranet photo]
Sadat – concessions in exchange for a true and reliable peace
agreement.”
• There will be no more unilateral withdrawals, such as the 2005
withdrawal from Gaza.
• While helping the Palestinians “rapidly develop their
economy” and improve their day-to-day lives “will not resolve
the conflict,” it can “create an environment” in which “a final
settlement negotiation” can succeed.
• UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 are the basis
for ensuring Israel’s security.
This position allows room for accepting eventual Palestinian
statehood. In fact, in “Don’t make the same mistake” (National Post, Mar. 2), Tom Gross wrote that Netanyahu “has been
wrongly vilified as being against a two-state solution. In fact,
he is open to the creation of a Palestinian state – but only if it is
one that will live in peace with Israel.”
On the other hand, in “Netanyahu: Clinton and I found
common ground” (Ha’aretz, March 3), Barak Ravid wrote:
“Netanyahu has spoken of Palestinian self-government, but has
shied away from saying he would back a two-state solution to
the Middle East conflict.”
So where does the truth lie?
Many Israeli analysts say that the left-right divide in Israeli
politics is not nearly as pronounced as it used to be, and that Netanyahu, like former prime minister Ariel Sharon, is at bottom
more pragmatic than ideological. If there were a final status agreement that recognizes Israel as a Jewish state and provides for its
security, while also creating a Palestinian state, Likud, as well as
the Kadima and the Labor parties, would arguably support it.
While a majority of Israelis would like to see this outcome
(since it would preserve Israel as both a Jewish and democratic
state), most know that current conditions don’t allow for it. Even
if Israel today were willing to make all manner of territorial concessions, there could be no peace due to the wide split within the
Palestinian leadership, with a weak Fatah faction holding sway in
the West Bank and the rejectionist Hamas controlling Gaza.
Israelis have grown skeptical and realistic in the short term,
even as they remain hopeful for a solution in the long term. Thus,
it’s important for the media to avoid black-and-white characterizations of Israeli politics as deeply divided between “hardliners”
and “peaceniks.” The truth is far more complicated than that.
* * *
In a July 6 (2008) Toronto Sun column on relations between
the United States, Iran and Israel, Eric Margolis made the following claim: “According to Israel’s media, President [George
W.] Bush even told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he
could not trust America’s intelligence community and preferred
to rely on Israeli intelligence.”
On Feb. 14, the Toronto Sun issued a “Clarification,” admitting that Bush “did not specifically say he could not trust [his
intelligence community’s] reports.”
In what should have appeared as a “Correction,” the Sun
should have added both that Bush did not tell Olmert that he
preferred to rely on Israeli intelligence, and also that “Israel’s
media” reported no such statements from Bush to Olmert.
How did Margolis manage to get so many basic “facts” so
wrong? Did he just make them up?
Paul Michaels is communications director for the CanadaIsrael Committee.
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By REBECCA NADLER
What’s New deadlines: Monday, March 16, is the deadline for
the March 26 issue and Monday, March 23, is the deadline for the
April 2 issue. I receive calls on deadline days only. Phone 416-3911836, fax 416-391-0829 or e-mail rnadler@cjnews.com.
Thursday, March 12
GOLDSCHMIDT’S GUILT
Prof. Sam Weber, of Northwestern University, delivers the
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
Memorial Lecture “The Question
of Guilt and the Turn Toward the
Future: Goldschmidt’s Guilt from
the Standpoint of Judaism.” 4 p.m.
at U of T Munk Centre.
OPERA YORK AUDITIONS
Opera York concludes auditions
tonight for the November 2009
Hebrew opera And the Rat Laughed.
Applicants must be professional
opera singers, preferably Hebrew
speaking. Send resumé, picture and
March 12, 2009
contact info, laura@operayork.com.
Saturday, March 14
B’NAI SHALOM SERVICES
Join B’Nai Shalom, an egalitarian Congregation, for its monthly
Shabbat service in an Oakville
hotel. 10 a.m. Location, 905-9019889 or www.bnaishalom.ca.
Sunday, March 15
NOVAK BOOK LAUNCH
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation hosts the launch of David
Novak’s book In Defense of Religious Liberty, arguing the primacy
of divine law as a foundation for
democracy. 10 a.m. 416-789-3213
RIBBONS AND ROSES
Toronto’s Delta Pi, a Jewish sorority, holds its 14th annual auction
12:30-3:30 p.m. $5, proceeds go to
Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation for breast cancer research.
Tickets, 416-280-6482.
A FAILURE OF LANGUAGE
Gary Levine, of TanenbaumCHAT, on “Israel and the Palestinians: A Failure of Language,” the
complex issues facing Israel and
Gaza considering short- and longterm solutions. 7:30 p.m. at Kehillat
Shaarei Torah. $10. 416-229-2600
Monday, March 16
SING FOR THE CHILDREN
Support Chai Lifeline Canada at
a concert featuring Cantor Yizchak
Meir Helfgot, the Symphony Or-
Passover stays available
Call to reserve & receive
a complimentary gift
416-789-7670
3705 Bathurst St., Toronto
www.reveraliving.com
chestra, Cantor Benjamin Maisner’s Toronto Choral Ensemble,
pianist Yaron Gershovsky, and
Yisroel Lamm and the Philharmonic Experience. 7:30 p.m. at
Roy Thomson Hall. Tickets, www.
chaiconcert.com.
THE PINK TALLIS
Darchei Noam Congregation
presents “The Pink Tallis: A Sign of
Success?” Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
speaks about the state of Jewish
feminism today. 7:30 p.m. 416-6384783 or www.darcheinoam.ca
MOSES THROUGH ART
Beth Emeth Synagogue hosts
the Leon Eisner Memorial Lecture
with Rouhama Danto on “The Life
of Moses Through Art.” 8 p.m. 416633-3838
STROH ZIONISM SERIES
Rabbi Michael Stroh continues
a series on Zionism and the Idea of
Israel. 7:30 p.m. Non-members $5.
905-889-2252, ext. 5
Tuesday, March 17
JEWISH LITERATURE
Treasure of Jewish Literature
Book Series presents Janna Nadler
reviewing A Pigeon and a Boy by
Meir Shalev. Refreshments 1 p.m.
Program 1:30-3 p.m. Lipa Green
Building. $15. 416-636-1880, ext.
235
CHUG HATANACH
Seymour Epstein leads a study
group in a discussion of Nehmiah,
Chapter 8. 8 p.m. at Beth David
Congregation. All welcome.
COPING WITH MENOPAUSE
Beth David Sisterhood presents
“Coping with Menopause,” a panel
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discussion with Helen Rose,
Mitchell Zeifman, naturopathic
doctor, and Linda Tenenbaum, tai
chi and qigong instructor. 8 p.m.
Non-members $5.
Wednesday, March 18
book review
Beth Tzedec Sisterhood reviews
The Man in The Sharkskin Suit
by Lucette Lagnado. 7:30 p.m.
Admission, $5 donation to chesed
committee. 416-789-3511
the book of Dvarim
B e t h D av i d C o n g r ega t i o n
offers three interactive lectures on
Dvarim. Tonight, “An Introduction to Dvarim” with Rabbi Philip
Scheim, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, “The Haftorot of
Isaiah” with Shayna Kravitz; and
Thursday, June 4, “Dvarim from a
Feminine Perspective” with Rabbi
Elyse Goldstein. Pre-registration
required, $20, non-members $30,
or $10/class. 416-633-5500
Pomegranate Guild
The Pomegranate Guild of Judaic
Textiles hosts Techniques Night.
Includes making Pesach pillows,
painting, fusing and embroidering
Hebrew letters and Pesach motifs.
All supplies provided, bring your
sewing kits. 8 p.m. at the Shaarei
Shomayim Congregation. Guests
$5. info@pomegranteguild.ca
Diabetes
Rehab supervisor Diane Nixon
on “Take Charge With Exercise” at
the general meeting of the Jewish
Diabetes Chapter. 8 p.m. at Shaarei
Shomayim Congregation. $1. 416363-0177, ext. 7403
Other News
study with Strauchler
Rabbi Chaim Strauchler on
“The Laws of Passover,” Monday,
March 16, 9:30 a.m., and Tuesday,
March 17, 8 p.m. The following week on March 23 and 24, he
will speak about the Haggadah at
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation.
416-789-3213
volunteer in argentina
Ve ’ a h av t a : T h e C a n a d i a n
Jewish Humanitarian and Relief
Committee is offering an information session about volunteer/
travel in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
for six weeks to assist the Jewish
community by working in various
social service agencies. Information session, Thursday, March 19,
6:30-7:30 p.m. 2221 Yonge St. #12.
RSVP, katie@veahavta.org or 416964-7698.
celebrate SHABBAT
Beth Emeth Synagogue hosts
Shabbat Across North America,
Friday, March 20. Join Jews across
the continent as they celebrate
Shabbat, Shir Hadash service 7
p.m. Dinner 8 p.m. $20, children
13 and under $12. Non-members
$25, children $17. Reserve, 416633-3838.
beaches oneg shabbat
Friday, March 20, the Beaches
Synagogue hosts a potluck dinner
at 6:15 p.m. followed by a musical
Oneg Shabbat led by Susan Lichen
and Karen Gold, 7:15 p.m. Bring a
veggie or dairy dish. 416-694-7942
Norene Gilletz
Holy Blossom Sisterhood presents “A Panic-free Passover” a
demonstration with Norene Gilletz.
Wednesday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
$30 in advance, $36 at the door.
416-789-3291, ext. 221
Frum on obama & israel
David Frum on “A Frightening
Question: The Obama Administration and the Security of Israel” at
Canadian Friends of Laniado Hospital’s annual Dr. Joseph Weil Memorial Lecture. Thursday, March
26, 8 p.m. at Shaarei Shomayim
Congregation. $18. Reserve, 416785-8946.
Family oneg shabbat
Pride of Israel Synagogue hosts
a family Oneg Shabbat, dinner and
program, Friday, April 3. Services
6:30 p.m. RSVP by Monday, March
16, 416-226-0111, ext. 10.
.
study tour of Berlin
The Holocaust Centre of
Toronto and Centrum Judaicum
Berlin offers a study tour of Berlin
for Jewish educators and teachers in their 20s and 30s grappling
with issues of Holocaust education
and remembrance and contemporary Jewish life in Germany. June
29-July 9. Application deadline,
April 1. Info, cphillips@ujafed.org
or www.germanycloseup.de.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Circle of Care needs volunteers
for one to two hours a week to visit
isolated seniors in their homes.
Sharing tea, socializing, playing
cards, go for a walk and friendly
conversations. Professional staff
provides support and training.
Contact Penny, 416-635-2860,
ext. 462 or pedwards@circleofcare.
com
jias toronto
Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, 4600 Bathurst St. #325. www.
jiastoronto.org. To register, volunteer,
or information call 416-630-6481.
SINGLES EVENTS will return
Passover Seder Hosts: Welcome
a newcomer family to your seder
table, contact Joanna, ext. 30.
Homework Club: Volunteer
to help newcomer middle and
high school students with English
and other academic subjects on
Wednesday evenings. Knowledge
of Hebrew or Russian is an asset.
Contact Joanna, ext. 30
JUMPStart: If you have a volunteer, mentoring or job opportunity
in skilled labour market for a newcomer, call Simone, ext. 24.
Family-to-Family: Welcome
newcomer families and provide informal advice and orientation to our
community. Call Romm, ext. 28
Shindman/Sharna Scholarships,
financial support for new immigrant Jewish students pursuing
post-secondary degrees or upgrading skills. Application deadline is
April 24. www.jiastoronto.org
Jf&cs groups
Jewish Family & Child Service.
4600 Bathurst St. Call Shawna
416-638-7800, ext. 215, for info
and registration. www.jfandcs.
com.
Younger Widow/Widower Bereavement Group: Six sessions for
individuals 60 and under who have
recently lost a partner or spouse.
Begins Tuesday, March 24, 7:30-9
p.m. Lipa Green Building.
Birthdays, Hockey Games and
Holidays: Making It Work After
Divorce. A workshop for parents.
Monday, March 30, 7-9 p.m. Lipa
Green Building.
Adult Children Losing a Parent:
Six sessions for those who have recently lost a parent. Begins Tuesday,
March 31, 7:30-9 p.m. Lipa Green
Building.
For Seniors
B e t h Ti k va h Fr i e n d s h i p
Group’s Purim Party takes place
Thursday, March 12, 2-4 p.m.
Dance and sing with Rita and
Max. $10. Reservations, 416-2213433.
Beth Shalom Chai Society
hosts “Matzah, Midrash and
Music,” learning and singing with
Rabbi Aaron Flanzraich and
Cantor Eric Moses. Wednesday, March 18, noon. Lunch and
program $10. 416-783-6103, ext.
228
Temple Sinai Social Club
Lunch Programs presents Fern
Dworkin, singer and pianist.
Wednesday, March 18, 12:30 p.m.
$5, non-members $7. Reserve,
416-487-3281.
The Association of Jewish
Seniors presents Steven Shulman,
of UJA Federation of Greater
Toronto on “United Jewish Appeal
a n d t h e I s r a e l C o n n e c t i o n .”
Thursday, March 19, 9:30 a.m.
at Shaarei Shomayim. Guests $2.
RSVP to Tammy, 416-635-2860.
Active Seniors at the Miles
Nadal JCC: Enjoy an inter-generational lunch, Thursday March 19,
noon. Free. Pre-register, 416-9246211, ext. 155.
Earl Bales Seniors Club in the
Park. Movie day, Mamma Mia,
Thursday, March 19, 1:30 p.m.
Call Tuesday-Thursday 9 a.m.-1
p.m. 416-395-7881
bernard betel centre
1003 Steeles Ave. W., 416-2252112.
Book Talk and Tea with Celine
Kessler reviewing The Saturday
Wife by Naomi Ragen. Wednesday, March 18, 1:30-2:30 p.m. $8,
non-members $10.
Wellness Lecture, “Keeping Fit
As We Age” with Yossi Strauch,
musculoskeletal specialist, Thursday, March 19, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
wagman centre
55 Ameer Ave. 416-785-2500.
Smile Theatre performs the
musical Extraordinary. Tuesday,
March 17, 7-8 p.m.
Miles S. Nadal JCc
Miles Nadal Jewish Community
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By SHERI SHEFA
Staff Reporter
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) came and went last week,
but not without incidents at Queen’s University and the University of Toronto.
At U of T, there was a physical altercation involving a
Jewish U of T alumnus at an IAW lecture, and at Queen’s
University, students in one course were forced to go through
a mock security checkpoint set up by IAW organizers on their
way into class.
On March 3, U of T alumnus Isaac Apter attended an IAW
lecture with some friends. A friend sitting next to him asked
one of the speakers to address problems with Hamas’ charter.
Apter said that when the speaker dodged the question, he and
others began to shout, “Answer the question.”
Apter said a man that he assumes was acting as an usher
for Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) “grabbed and
squeezed the back of my neck and growled at me from about
10 inches in front of my face, ‘You shut the f--- up!’”
Apter said the man was wearing a bulletproof vest and a
leather jacket.
“It may sound like I’m trying to exaggerate, but these guys
were very, very intimidating-looking,” he said.
“When someone might have raised their voice out of turn, for
example to shout, ‘Answer the question,’ they would lean over
to you and say, ‘This is your first warning,’” Apter added.
“When the guy actually grabbed my neck, one of the other
event organizers pulled him away from me,” he said.
“When I waved the [U of T] police to come in and I was
pointing at the guy, saying, ‘That’s the guy,’ they sort of ran into
a corner to talk about it and they looked really nervous.”
Apter said he formally reported the incident to a U of T
special constable who was on the scene.
U of T spokesperson Robert Steiner said that while the
university has a policy that encourages room bookers to have
their own ushers to help maintain order in the room, “the
policy very specifically states that any security matters, including physical restraint, which you can read as even touching
someone, is absolutely not within the realm of an usher and
is only for U of T police.”
When Steiner spoke to The CJN last week, he said he was
still gathering information about the incident, but he added
that “if it turns out that this did happen the way that [Apter] is
describing… there will be some significant implications for a
group that is allowing this to happen.”
Steiner said that U of T administrators met with SAIA the
following day “to send a clear message that whatever may
have happened… whether it did happen last night or not, can’t
happen. It just cannot happen.”
Steiner added that while plainclothes U of T police officers were at the event, he couldn’t imagine that the man who
grabbed Apter was one of them, because that’s not how U of
T police operate.
“They are very experienced in crowd control. The normal
policy in the event of a disruption is [that] they would call for
the event to be delayed for a moment to deal with the disruption
if it’s serious enough, or they might ask an individual, before
it got to that point, politely to leave,” he said. “But they don’t
grab someone by the neck and say, ‘Shut the f--- up.’”
Apter agreed with Steiner’s assessment. “I’m absolutely
certain this guy wasn’t U of T police… The police don’t do
that. They just keep an eye out.”
Apter said he would follow up with Sam D’Angelo, the U
of T police operations manager. D’Angelo did not respond to
a request for an interview.
Meanwhile, Josh Zelikovitz, president of Hillel at Queen’s,
said he is communicating with his school’s administration
about students’ complaints.
“An issue we’ve been having is with professors setting up
fake checkpoints outside of their classrooms at the request of
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights [SPHR] and forcing
the students to go through these. We’ve been speaking to the
university about this,” Zelikovitz said.
He said that in one instance, students didn’t have the option
of not going to their Gender and Diversity class, because there
was an assignment due that day.
“Once inside, students had a 25-minute presentation from
SPHR, a slide show that was obviously completely one-sided
and the professor discussed it for a while after.”
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On Campus
Profs, students counter Israeli Apartheid Week
By SHERI SHEFA
Staff Reporter
As Israeli Apartheid Week was being
held on a number of Canadian campuses last
week, university administrations across the
country were being urged by Jewish students
and faculty to put a stop to the intimidation
and hostility that pro-Israel students are
facing.
Shalom Lappin, a professor of computational linguistics at King’s College in
London, England, and a visiting professor
at the University of Toronto, said he was
invited to give a talk at York University on
March 25 but declined “in light of the York
administration’s handling of the attack on
Jewish students that took place on the afternoon of Feb. 11.”
Lappin was referring to an incident involving a group of some 100 anti-Israel
protesters who barricaded Jewish students
in York’s Hillel lounge and shouted antiSemitic and anti-Israel slurs. In a letter to
York President Mamdouh Shoukri on Feb.
25, Lappin said he was upset there was “no
public statement by any university official
on this incident, beyond the expression of an
intention to investigate it…
“The fact that the university has not
taken up this assault with the students who
launched it, nor acted to reassure the students who they targeted indicates a severe
failure on the part of the administration to
fulfil its responsibility to sustain a campus
free of physical violence and harassment,”
Lappin wrote.
versity to take disciplinary measures against
Speaking to The CJN more than a week the people who barricaded students in York’s
after he sent the letter and three weeks after Hillel lounge on Feb. 11.
the Feb. 11 incident, Lappin said he had not
The groups also said they hope to beef
received a response from the administra- up student security by working closely with
tion.
Toronto police, providing training sessions
“Even-handed comments that have come for Jewish students, garnering public support
out from the administrafrom elected representatives,
tion are laudable, but none
and putting pressure on York
of them address the issue at
donors to urge the adminhand,” he said.
istration to act on behalf of
He added that Shoukri’s
students.
address to the university’s
The statement went on to
senate on Feb. 26 “indicall on the administration to
cates that there is a serious
“waive a requirement that affailure of moral courage on
fected students must first file
the part of the administraa formal complaint. York is
tion and their unwillingness
significantly behind in proto deal with the situation on
cessing complaints.”
campus.”
On March 5, York reLappin, who said he has
leased
a statement that reNoah Kochman
frequently spoken out pubferred to the “incident in the
licly against the policies of the Israeli gov- student centre” on Feb. 11.
ernment, added that “it’s fine to criticize
Vice-president of students Robert Tiffin
Israel and it’s fine to criticize any other gov- said that “given the very serious allegations
ernment… as long as it’s done in a civil and of intimidation that have been received by
courteous way, and this wasn’t the case.”
the university, three separate investigations
UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, Hillel are underway against the individuals idenof Greater Toronto, the Canadian Council tified in three complaints. These investigafor Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA), Ca- tions are being conducted through a local
nadian Jewish Congress, Hasbara Fellow- adjudicator under the processes identified in
ships and the Canadian Centre for Israel Ac- the Student Code of Conduct.”
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Daniel Ferman, Hillel at York president,
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ment of an investigation provides us with
In a statement, the groups urged the uni- a measure of satisfaction, we are dismayed
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that it took the administration this long to acknowledge the incident. The statement also
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Another professor, Edward Vrscay, of the
University of Waterloo’s applied mathematics department, protested Israeli Apartheid
Week (IAW), which ran from March 1 to 8,
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In a letter to Ryerson’s mathematics
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that while he was not boycotting Ryerson –
one of the campuses that allows IAW events
– and while the math department at Ryerson
is “removed” from the week-long lecture
series, “enough is enough as far as… Israelbashing is concerned.”
In an effort to counter negative and sometimes untrue messages being disseminated
on Canadian campuses, pro-Israel students
have started a campaign called Peace on
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Federation of Jewish Students’ Israel affairs
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Jewish students involved with groups
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‘IAW singles out
one state’
York fines pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups
By ANDY LEVY-AJZENKOPF Staff Reporter
York University handed down fines and suspensions last
week to Jewish, Tamil and pro-Palestinian campus groups for
their involvement in rallies that the university said disrupted
classes adjacent to the Vari Hall rotunda on Feb. 11 and 12.
The four campus organizations and their respective penalties are Hasbara Fellowship, which was fined a total of
$1,250 and had its operations suspended for 30 days; Students Against Israeli Apartheid, suspended for 30 days and
fined $1,250; the Tamil Students Association, suspended for
15 days and fined $650, and Hillel, which was fined $650 but
not suspended.
“One of the key agreements these clubs made was not to
disrupt classes with their activities. In recent weeks, all of
the clubs named have gone back on those agreements,” said
Robert Tiffin, York’s vice-president of students, in a statement last week. “York’s 50,000 students have a right to learn
without their classes being interrupted by the activities of
other students.”
Suspended clubs won’t be permitted to book university
facilities during their suspension period, the university said.
In response to the sanctions, Daniel Ferman, president of
Hillel at York, said the fines were handed down “arbitrarily
and unfairly.”
Aaron Rosenberg, Hasbara at York’s co-president, added
that the university’s “inability” to enforce its student code of
conduct is the cause of “the current climate” on campus.
“To fine students for taking a stand against intimidation
and harassment while ignoring the larger issues on campus is
unacceptable,” he said.
‘Must be no impediment to free access’
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The first video was posted on March 3, and within 72 hours,
it had been viewed more than 12,000 times. Another video was
posted March 5.
Kochman said he hopes the videos will open people’s eyes
and will push administrators to work to end all forms of racism.
He said students have also been distributing printed material
countering IAW claims, and some have attended workshops
by Jewish community groups to prepare themselves to counter
anti-Israel speakers.
Pro-Israel speakers have also been invited by CIJA’s National Jewish Campus Life group and its university outreach
committee to speak to students.
The situation has caught the attention of Liberal party leader
Michael Ignatieff, who met with B’nai Brith’s national president Joe Bogoroch last week to discuss the issue.
In a March 5 column in the National Post, Ignatieff also
added his voice to those condemning IAW. He wrote that IAW
“betrays the values of mutual respect that Canada has always
promoted” and that calling Israel an apartheid state is a deliberate attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish state.
“IAW singles out one state, its citizens and its supporters
for condemnation and exclusion, and it targets institutions and
individuals because of what and who they are – Israeli and
Jewish… It leaves Jewish and Israeli students wary of expressing their opinions, for fear of intimidation.”
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister
Jason Kenney said he was saddened by the “divisiveness” of
IAW events and urged students “to reflect on whether these activities are beneficial or are simply an effort to cloak hatred and
intolerance in an outward appearance of ‘intellectual inquiry.’”
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Patrick Deane, Queen’s vice-principal academic, said “students have the right to attend class without restraints, and they
also have the right to choose whether or not they take part in
any political debate, presentation, or enactment.
“It has been stressed to all faculty that there must be no
coercion and no impediment to free access. We have clearly
stated that it must be made clear to all that this is an illustration, and students must not feel that that they are obliged to
pass through a ‘checkpoint’ if they do not wish to do so.”
Deane added that, for the most part, the rules were followed
last week, but “faculty officials” are addressing the incidents
that violated those guidelines.
Zelikovitz spoke about a related incident at Queen’s. He
said a Jewish campus group called Israel on Campus put together a campaign to bring in pro-Israel speakers and distribute pro-Israel material to debunk claims being made by IAW
organizers.
“One of the things they distributed was a National Post
article deconstructing the myths and lies of the allegations of
apartheid,” he said.
A student found that on one of the sheets, someone had
written, “Don’t support the Israeli government,” and had
drawn swastikas all over it.
“In my opinion, this is just an isolated incident… I don’t
think it’s coming from the upper echelons of the organizations
running the [IAW] events, but I do think it is a symptom of
the toxic environment that Israeli Apartheid Week creates on
campus,” he said.
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Quebec court fines comedian
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making damaging statements about him.
During an interview shown on TéléQuébec in 2006, Dieudonné alleged that
Bruel is such a strong supporter of the
Israeli army that its killing of Palestinian children in the 2006 war in southern
Lebanon was “normal” for him and that
he is an “ultra-Zionist” with a “superiority
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In 2007, Bruel (whose real last name
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him by Dieudonné that have hurt his reputation.
Dieudonné never responded to the
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Judge Danièle Besner, however, reduced
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In the Francs-tireurs interview, conducted by Richard Martineau in Paris,
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southern Lebanon and they kill Palestinian
children, for him, it’s normal.”
Elsewhere, Dieudonné described Bruel
as “a product of this ultra-Zionist political
system, he’s a super-militant… He has the
superiority complex of certain Israelis.”
Noting that Bruel is also a champion
poker player, Dieudonné described him as
a “liar who always lies to his public.”
Dieudonné has been criminally charged
several times in France for his remarks
about Jews and the Holocaust, although he
has been acquitted on appeal in each case.
Despite his notoriety, Dieudonné nevertheless remains a popular entertainer in
Quebec and has presented several stand-up
comedy shows here in the past few years.
Dieudonné’s remarks on Télé-Québec
were made soon after Bruel appeared on the
Radio-Canada TV program Tout le monde
en parle, where he said he did not understand why Quebecers like Dieudonné so
much, given the multiple times he has been
sued for anti-Semitic remarks in France.
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OTTAWA — Liberal MP Irwin Cotler
called the International Criminal Court’s
(ICC) decision last week to issue an
arrest warrant for Sudanese President
Omar Hassan al-Bashir as “a historic
judgment.”
“The ICC’s decision demonstrates
that there will be no immunity – even for
a sitting head of state – for the commission of horrific war crimes and crimes
against humanity, including in this instance murder, torture, rape, extermination, forcible transfer and the pillaging
of villages,” said Cotler, a former justice
minister who is the Liberals’ special
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“The ICC has struck a blow against
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Cotler, who is also chair of the Save
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court’s order now that the arrest warrant
has been issued.
“What is important now is for the
international community to ensure that
this arrest warrant is in fact enforced
through joint support and action by
the United Nations Security Council –
which originally referred the matter to
the ICC – and the co-operation of the
African Union and member states of the
international community,” he said.
“Moreover, members within the
ruling National Congress Party must
finally distance themselves from President al-Bashir, surrender him to the
court, and pursue a peace process both
with respect to Darfur and with respect
to the North-South comprehensive peace
agreement.”
Canada, he added, as one of the
founders of the ICC treaty and the architect of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine – which includes the responsibility
to prosecute – has an important role to
promote respect for the court’s decision,
to ensure that al-Bashir is brought to
justice, and to take a stand against impunity.
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“We [continue to] advise Canadians to exercise security
measures when travelling to tourist areas, and be as careful as
they would in any large city,” he told The CJN.
In a press release, Alina Ianson, executive director of CHW
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are focused on Terry’s speedy recovery. Our thoughts and
prayers are with her family at this time.”
She said that in the interim, according to CHW’s national
constitution, Marla Dan, first vice-president, has assumed the
role of acting national president of CHW.
Immediate past president Sandy Martin called Schwarzfeld,
a past executive director of Ottawa’s Agudath Israel Synagogue who became Hadassah president in November, a visionary and a people person. “She is well-respected from coast to
coast and in Israel. She is a positive person, and I have faith
that God will be on her side.”
Toby Yan, an honorary national vice-president of CHW,
said the whole community is shocked and upset about the
incident. “Terry has a wide circle of friends who care about
her, and about 30 women attended an [impromptu] prayer
service when she arrived back in Ottawa.”
Sharon Sattin, a past national officer of CHW, said that
Schwarzfeld is a dedicated leader “who has done so much, and
still has so much potential. Because of her strength, I think she
will come out of this.”
Canadian Jewish Congress co-president Rabbi Reuven
Bulka, senior rabbi at Ottawa’s Congregation Machzikei
Hadas, condemned the attack and said that “Terry is a cherished member of the Ottawa Jewish community and a life-long
activist for human rights and human dignity for all.
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sisters at Hadassah-WIZO at this trying time. We call on Barbadian authorities to investigate this cowardly crime with all due
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Coast to Coast
Shul arranges to send
Purim baskets to IDF soldiers
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Forces (IDF) by providing mishloach manot baskets for
them.
On Feb. 25 and 26, children from both the synagogue and
Ohr Hatorah Day School decorated cards and wrote notes of
encouragement and appreciation to accompany the mishloach
manot baskets that will be sent to the IDF soldiers through an
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Israeli organization called Connections Israel.
“To order a basket only costs $15 dollars, and our members
have been calling in to order them. So far [two weeks before
Purim], we’ve received 23 orders. Connections Israel will
prepare and deliver the baskets to the IDF on Purim,” said
Rabbi Ari Ellis, whose synagogue has a membership of about
100 families.
“Although I never served in the IDF myself, I have a lot of
friends that have served in the army, so I thought this would
be a nice thing to do, especially after the latest war in Gaza.
I’m sure the soldiers appreciate this gesture of goodwill,”
said Rabbi Ellis, who lived in Efrat in Israel before coming
to Winnipeg in 2008.
“I can just imagine an IDF soldier getting a package and
a card from someone in Winnipeg and thinking to himself:
Where is this Winnipeg?” he added with a smile.
Tikvah Ellis, the rabbi’s wife, said, “It’s a great way to let
soldiers know that we are thinking about them, and it’s also a
way of injecting a little money into the Israeli economy.”
Synagogue member Rose Aziman said her two granddaughters were eager to make the cards, and this was “a good
way to encourage them to feel personally involved with the
soldiers.”
After the Purim baskets are distributed, Connections Israel
will send the synagogue a special commendation from the
Israeli army and a picture of the IDF unit that received the gift
baskets. The photo will be displayed in the synagogue.
Connections Israel was founded in 1998 as an independent, educational, not-for-profit organization that strengthens
Jewish identity while unifying the Jewish People. It provides educational, hands-on projects to Jewish communities,
schools, synagogues and camps around the world that enable
participants to show support for various populations and
places in Israel. This year marks its 11th annual Purim drive
“The organization has also done a lot of things in the
Israeli border town of Sderot,” Rabbi Ellis noted. “The staff
are volunteers or work there part time, and 90 per cent of the
donations go to people, not to overhead.”
“It’s possible that next year we can do this program together with some other organizations in the community here,
so more people will know about it. We can build on the
program,” Tikvah Ellis said.
“Anyone who didn’t place their order on time with us can
go onto the Internet at www.connectionsisrael.com and order
the Purim baskets directly,” Rabbi Ellis said.
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Travel Feature
Dead Sea spa treatments
good for body and soul
By PAUL LUNGEN
After providing me with a boy bikini that
folded to the size of a peanut, Klaudio retired
to heat the mud. He returned with a metal
EIN BOKEK, Israel — Years ago in my stu- bucket that could have held paving mix, but
dent backpacking days, I visited Masada and instead was full of the gooey concoction that
the Dead Sea on a budget.
has made the region famous. He first applied
I stayed in an un-airconditioned youth hos- the mud to my back, and after an initial jolt
tel, which does not exist anymore, and I recall from the heat, it quickly became pleasantly
making a room selection based on the absence warm. As I lay back, he ladled more mud on
of scorpions under the bed. I climbed the snake my chest, stomach and legs and shmeared it
path that wound its way up to the Herodian for- around.
tress, and I floated in
After covering me
the Dead Sea – provfrom neck to toe in
ing that even a sinker
mud, he placed big
like myself could bob
globs of the stuff under
around on the surface
my palms and then
given the water’s 33
wrapped me in plastic
per cent saline conthat left me looking, I
tent (the oceans have
imagine, like a chocthree per cent). I even
olatey Vietnamese
recall barely concealsalad roll.
ing a condescending
After turning down
chuckle when I saw
the light and adjusttwo otherworldly figing the volume of the
ures, caked in mud,
electronic relaxation
waddle down to the
music, Klaudio left,
Salt Sea to take the
with the advice to
therapeutic waters.
relax.
That was then. My
The mud felt sursalad days behind me,
prisingly pleasant on
during a recent visit to
my skin, the music
the same corner of the
was soothing, and I
Dead Sea as a guest of Magnesium-rich mud provides relief for nodded in and out of
the Israel Government skin ailments.
consciousness.
Tourism Office, it
At the end of the
was – gasp! – me who resembled that freak- treatment, I showered in the treatment room
ish mud-caked apparition I witnessed back – anywhere else would leave a muddy mess
in my younger days. During a late February everywhere – donned a new tiny boy bikini
visit to the Dead Sea, I signed up for the mud- and bathrobe and headed to another room for
pack treatment at the Daniel Dead Sea Resort a 30-minute Swedish massage. (I’d have gone
& Spa, one of several high-end hotels that for the full hour, but I wasn’t sure my boss
together make up a Palm Springs-like commu- would accept it as a legitimate expense.)
nity along the western shore of the Dead Sea,
Aaahh. Feel the tension of being on an allat 1,200 feet below sea level, the lowest point expense-paid junket fade to the background.
on the surface of the earth.
Ooooh. Let go of those difficult decisions of
With a bewildering variety of treatments whether to choose fish or meat tonight.
available to choose from, I selected the mud
Yeaaah. See those nasty energies the attenwrap with seaweed – the latter to draw out the dant warned me about evaporate at the tip of
nasty energies we keep inside us, according to the massage therapist’s expert fingers.
the attendant who booked my appointment. I
Yes, a massage can do wonders for tired
could have selected a reflexology treatment, muscles and knots.
a medical pedicure, hot-stone treatment, aroThe spa treatment over, guests can conmatherapy, milk bath, hot-seaweed wrap or tinue to relax in one of the Daniel’s many
an anti-stress body-peeling treatment, among pools. One is filled with warm water from the
other options. Klaudio was the Argentine oleh Dead Sea. Another smaller pool features bathwho provided the treatment.
temperature water with a strong waterfall in
The hotel was a real smorgasbord of interna- one corner, a third is a good-sized whirlpool.
tional talent. The kippah-clad doorman/securi- There’s also a sulphur pool, apparently good
ty guy was originally from Mumbai, India; one for those suffering joint ailments, as well as a
of the front-desk people was a young black girl cold water pool.
whose parents were originally from Chicago.
Nearby are a Turkish bath, wet steamroom
Almost all of them ride the buses from Arad or and a dry sauna, and showers to rinse off.
Dimona to work each day.
As if the man-made treatments aren’t benVisitors come from all around the world eficial enough, according to the U.S. National
to the Dead Sea for treatments, mostly in Psoriasis Foundation, high levels of bromine
the spring and fall, Klaudio said. The area’s in the air at the Dead Sea “seem to add to a
mineral-rich mud, loaded with magnesium, is patient’s sense of well-being.”
renowned for its healing properties, particuTrue enough. But will my boss sign off on
larly for skin diseases such as psoriasis. Guests the mud pack and massage treatment expensspend weeks, even months, at the spa, and es? Oh, the tension, the knots in my shoulders.
some countries subsidize the visits as a legiti- Better head back to the Daniel for one more
mate medical expense.
treatment before I go.
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And now for something completely different:
Jerusalem world music band’s T.O.
appearance dedicated to Gilad Schalit
By SHERI SHEFA
I
Staff Reporter
f you’re in the mood for some live music this
weekend, and you’re into African, reggae,
Moroccan, Israeli-style, upbeat klezmer funk,
you’re in luck because Aharit Hayamim, a
Jerusalem-based band, is on tour and set to
make its Toronto debut on Sunday night.
Aharit Hayamim, roughly translated from Hebrew
to “end of days,” – a biblical reference to Jacob’s
conversation with his sons about the end of days –
will perform on March 15 at Six Degrees Nightclub,
in uptown Toronto, to help local Jewish groups,
including Hillel of Greater Toronto, the Association for the Soldiers of Israel and The House, raise
awareness and push for the release of Gilad Schalit,
an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas in
2006.
The band, which has often been referred to as
a “grassroots movement,” is best known in Israel
for its impromptu street performances around the
country, the Aharit Hayamim music festival out of
which the band was born, and the message of “redemption and light” the band members promote.
The festival was founded in 1994 by Yehuda
Leuchter, Aharit Hayamim’s leader, as a tribute to
Aharit Hayamim band leader Yehuda Leuchter, second from right, said he wants to “spread the light
his late father, Emil.
“The festival started in honour of my father who of Jerusalem in every home” during the band’s visit to Toronto.
passed away 15 or 16 years ago and he was a musi“I get high, also, but I’m onstage so I don’t know which contributes to the group’s eclectic sound.
cian himself,” Leuchter said.
about the high that they get. I get high myself –
“Most of the band is from the Diaspora. I was
Emil was an American-born musician who played without smoking or anything.”
born in Jerusalem. The drummer is the father of the
with Shlomo Carlebach and the Diaspora Yeshiva
Leuchter said the band, which is influenced by the guitarist, and they come from Reunion Island near
Band.
18th-century chassidic Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, Madagascar. The bassist’s sister is married to the
“The festival basically started in my mom’s back- who started a movement by combining Kabbalah guitarist, and he comes from the [United] States.
yard. We started it the year before he passed away. study with Torah study, has a simple message: “We The saxophonist is from France,” Leuchter said,
All of his musician friends came and had a party for believe in Israel and we believe in God… We try to adding that they all now reside in Jerusalem.
him and then he passed away. A year later, every- bring the light. We come from Jerusalem and Je“Basically, the music is very unique. I can’t really
one showed up again,
rusalem is the light. describe it. It’s great, though.”
and it just grew,”
We don’t have to say
Some of the instruments that they use to achieve
he said, adding that
so much, we just have their unique sound are shofars, Irish flutes and
today, the two-day
to be.”
African drums.
festival attracts thouLeuchter’s free“Because each band member comes from a difsands of chassidic,
spirited nature is re- ferent place, we play African, reggae, Moroccan,
secular, hippie and
flected in the way the Israeli-style, upbeat klezmer funk.”
artsy music lovers to
band manages itself.
Leuchter said that he has a couple of goals for
Gush Etzion in Yesha
“We do street per- his visit to Toronto, where Aharit Hayamim will
to see some of Israel’s
formances, we play perform a show dedicated to raising awareness
most popular musipubs, we play wed- about Schalit, who has been held captive for more
cians, such as Ehud
dings, we play every- than two years.
Banai.
thing… We only know
“I hope when we come back, he’s going to be
But this weekend,
the day before where home already. I think it is a mitzvah to do anything
Torontonians have
we’re going to be at you can to bring [soldiers] back, so even though
an opportunity to exnight. We just travel, it is not our main mission, it is still our mission,”
perience a band that
you know,” he said.
Leuchter said.
has already garnered
“We play in the
“My goal is to come into each and every home
Aharit Hayamim achieves a unique, eclectic sound
a loyal following in
streets and people like [in Toronto] and say, ‘Hi from Jerusalem.’ I want to
by reflecting the diverse backgrounds of each band
Israel.
it. We’re giving it to come with my music and spread the light of Jerumember.
“At the end of the
the people, we’re not salem in every home.”
shows, people come up to us and tell us it was great just playing on stages and selling tickets. They like
To hear Aharit Hayamim’s music, look the band
and they get high from it,” Leuchter, 30, said as it. It’s real.”
up on Facebook or visit www.myspace.com/aharihe prepared at his Jerusalem home for his North
Just as interesting as Aharit Hayamim’s philoso- thayamim.
American tour.
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International
Israel & the Jewish World
No real peace before Palestinian situation resolved: Assad
© Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper Ltd.
JERUSALEM — Syrian President Bashar
Assad told a Gulf newspaper on Monday
that Damascus will negotiate with any Israeli
government irrespective of its political orientation, adding that there is little difference
between the political left and the right.
“One is bad and the other is awful,” the
Syrian leader told the United Arab Emirates
daily Al Khaleej, adding that Arab states
should not hang their hopes on the ideological makeup of the Israeli cabinet.
“The right-wing is right-wing, and the
left-wing is right-wing,” Assad said. “The
right kills Arabs and the left kills Arabs.
There is no value to all of these hopes.”
He said that a peace deal with Israel was
possible, but that normal relations would be
possible only if Israel ended its conflict with
the Palestinians.
“There will perhaps be an embassy and
formalities, but if you want peace, then it
has to be comprehensive. We give them the
choice between comprehensive peace and a
peace agreement, which does not have any
real value on the ground,” Assad said.
“There is a difference between a peace
agreement and peace itself. A peace agreement is a piece of paper you sign. This does
not mean trade and normal relations, or
borders, or otherwise.
“Our people will not accept that, especially since there are half a million Palestinians
in our country whose position remains unresolved. It is impossible under these terms to
have peace in the natural sense.”
Syria and Israel held indirect talks last
year under Turkish mediation. Talks focused
on the Golan Heights, which Israel captured
in a 1967 Middle East war and on Syria’s
relationship with Iran, Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
Syria is demanding that Israel commit to a
withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Golan.
The indirect talks, put on hold due to the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last
September, were disrupted further after the
recent Israeli war in Gaza.
U.S. Senator John Kerry, chairman of the
U.S. Senate foreign relations committee, said
after a meeting with Assad in Damascus last
month that Syria was prepared to resume the
talks but wanted U.S. participation.
Assad said that it was in the Palestinians’ interests to co-ordinate with Damascus over its peace talks with Israel, to
avoid Israel putting off a resolution with
the Palestinians.
“We believe that if Israel signs [a peace
agreement] with Syria, Israel will put away
the Palestinian question.”
Egypt was the first Arab country to sign
a peace treaty with Israel, but it is often described as a cold peace since relations extend
little beyond official government contacts.
Iran capable
of nukes: Israel
JTA
JERUSALEM — Israel’s military intelligence chief said that Iran is now capable of
creating an atomic bomb.
Iranian state-run television reported
Sunday that the military had test-fired a longrange missile, though the Fars News Agency
said it was an anti-ship air-to-surface missile.
Amos Yadlin told Israel’s cabinet Sunday
that “Iran has crossed the technological
threshold. Reaching a military-grade nuclear
capability is a question of synchronizing its
strategy with the production of a nuclear
bomb.”
Yadlin said that Iran is showing an interest in talking with the West to buy time to
produce a nuclear weapon.
Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commanderin-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, said
that Iranian missiles can target Israeli nuclear
sites.
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Israel & the Jewish World
‘We will stay until Gilad’s return’
Continued from page 1
Gilad Schalit was abducted by Gaza militants in a 2006
cross-border raid. In return for his release, Hamas, which
rules in the Gaza Strip, has demanded the release of hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
“We will stay in the [protest] tent until the end of Olmert’s term, or until Gilad returns,” Noam Schalit said on
Sunday in an interview with Army Radio from the protest
tent in Jerusalem.
Last weekend, Olmert criticized the public demonstrations urging Schalit’s release, claiming that the advocacy
campaign is encouraging Hamas to harden its position in
negotiations.
Schalit’s father addressed remarks made previously by
Olmert, who insisted that mass protests for Gilad Schalit
Re:
2009 Annual Meeting
9C2
U.K. cancels embassy move
The British Embassy in Israel called off a move to new
offices in Tel Aviv because the
building’s owner is involved in
West Bank construction. The
building is partly owned by
the Africa-Israel Investments
Ltd. real estate
company; a subsidiary of the firm
owned by Israeli
billionaire Lev Leviev that has built
homes in three
West Bank communities. Leviev
recently settled in
Britain. The British Embassy
received documents from Africa-Israel Investments a week
ago detailing its activities in
the West Bank. Based on that
information, the embassy decided not to rent the property.
A lease had not been signed.
The planned move was announced a year ago. After
media coverage of the move,
as well as the activities of
the company, pro-Palestinian
groups began protesting the
British foreign office.
Israel
Briefs
NOTICE
The 2009 Annual Meeting of
The Jewish National Fund of Canada
will be held in Montreal, Quebec at the
Ruby Foo’s Hotel, 7655 Decarie Blvd.,
Montreal, Quebec H4P 2H2
in the evening of
May 23rd and May 24th, 2009
Third bulldozer attack
A bulldozer driver overturned a police car and
rammed a bus in Jerusalem
in an apparent terrorist attack before being shot. Two
police officers were slightly
injured in the attack last
Thursday, Israel
Police said. Police
and a cab driver
shot the bulldozer
driver, who was
identified by Israeli media as a
26-year-old Palestinian resident of
eastern Jerusalem.
He died of his wounds. The
driver also reportedly tried to
flip over cars near the Malha
Mall. Last July, a Palestinian
from eastern Jerusalem used
a bulldozer in downtown Jerusalem to kill three and injure dozens. Two weeks later,
24 people were injured in a
similar attack.
Noam Schalit speaks to the media in the protest tent outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem.
[Isranet photo]
were undermining efforts to secure his release, saying that
“the prime minister mainly tells us what we can’t do, but
we don’t see him doing anything that yields any kind of
result.”
He added that he is examining the situation using the
“results test,” and the outcome is that Gilad is still exactly
where he was in 2006.
“It’s not reasonable that the State of Israel, with all its
resources and its long arm, can’t manage to bring back an
abducted Israeli soldier,” Schalit said.
“We’re not telling the government to do this or that,” he
continued. “I don’t give advice over the radio, nor do I give
recipes to the prime minister – let him do what he must.
But we’re here, and we’re not moving from here.”
Examining Pope Pius’ record
Yad Vashem will co-operate with a Catholic study
institute to evaluate research
on Pope Pius XII’s role during the Holocaust. Scholars
from Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research were to have
met this week with scholars
from the Jerusalem-based
Studium Theologicum Salesianum to evaluate the controversial pope’s wartime
record. The meeting was
being held “to understand
the present state of research
on the man and the topic,
and is an opportunity for
an exchange of updated
knowledge and a sharing of
scholarly opinions,” a statement from Yad Vashem said.
Many historians have accused Pius of turning a blind
eye to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, while the
Vatican and other historians
assert that Pius worked behind the scenes to save Jews.
Yad Vashem in particular has
come under criticism for an
exhibit caption that ascribes
“silence and the absence of
guidelines” during the Holocaust to Pius. The meeting
comes amid preparations
for a visit to Israel in May
by Pope Benedict XVI that
will include a stop at Yad
Vashem. It also comes amid
an ongoing process promoting the beatification of Pius
and after a report last week
that the Vatican produced a
1943 document to bolster its
assertion that Pope Pius XII
worked behind the scenes to
save Jews during World War
II.
Britain’s new Hezbollah policy
The British government said
it will re-establish contact with
Hezbollah. Britain had halted
all contact with the Lebanese
Shiite militia four years ago.
Canada, the United States and
Israel consider it a terrorist
group.The British government
announced it would resume
contacts with Hezbollah’s
political wing. The announcement came on the heels of a
visit by British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown to Washington, D.C., and British officials
said the move was discussed
in advance with the Obama
administration. A statement
from the British Foreign Ministry said the government had
“reconsidered our position on
no contact with Hezbollah in
light of more positive recent
political developments in
Lebanon” – notably, the participation of Hezbollah in the
formation of a national unity
government in Lebanon.
Mauritania expels envoy
The Foreign Ministry said
it had closed its embassy in
Mauritania after the government of this overwhelmingly
Muslim West African nation
asked the Israeli ambassador
and his staff to leave. The
move came after Mauritania’s
military junta recalled its own
ambassador from Israel last
month due to the campaign
against Hamas in Gaza.
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Rabbinical court ombudsman rebukes judge’s ruling
By Cnaan Lipshsitz
© Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper Ltd.
JERUSALEM — Jerusalem’s rabbinic court erred and overstepped its authority last year when it retroactively declared
that the converted, Canadian-Israeli son of prominent Jewish
philosopher Emil Fackenheim is a non-Jew, the court’s ombudsman ruled earlier this month.
Eliezer Goldberg, the former Supreme Court justice and
state comptroller who monitors rabbinic court activity, rejected the ruling made in August 2008 by Jerusalem rabbinic
judge Yissachar Dov Hagar regarding Yossi Fackenheim,
the 30-year-old son of the late Holocaust survivor, esteemed
theologian and Reform rabbi.
Hagar – who was reviewing Yossi Fackenheim’s divorce
from his former wife, Iris, unexpectedly declared that he
“was not and had never been Jewish,” despite the man’s
haredi conversion in Canada at the age of two. Therefore,
the judge concluded, there was no need for a formal get, or
divorce document.
The couple married in 2001 in Jerusalem in a ceremony
conducted by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, which years earlier
had approved the conversion he underwent with his mother in
Toronto, prior to the family immigrating to Israel in 1984.
In his complaint to Goldberg, Fackenheim – who has no
children – said a simple divorce had “unnecessarily turned
into a humiliating expulsion” from the Jewish people. “The
judge also made derogatory remarks about my profession,”
Fackenheim – an actor studying for his master’s degree at
London University – told Ha’aretz. “I came completely unprepared and didn’t think for one minute I’d walk out with a
document expelling me from my people.”
Rabbi Hagar nullified the conversion after learning
that Fackenheim did not go to synagogue often or observe
Halachah, the Jewish religious code. The rabbinic court ad-
ministration later defended the ruling as justified.
The Yossi Fackenheim case is unique in two aspects,
In his letter of rebuke, obtained by Anglo File, Goldberg according to U.S.-born Rabbi Seth Farber, head of ITIM, a
wrote: “These are offensive and rude statements that do not non-profit organization that helps Israelis navigate the Chief
befit the status of a rabbinic judge or a judicial institution of Rabbinate bureaucracy. “We often handle cases in which
the state.” He added he would have taken disciplinary action the Israeli Rabbinate’s conversions tribunal fails to recogagainst the judge in question if it were not for the man’s im- nize conversions performed abroad,” he said. “This case is
minent retirement.
different and unprecedented in that the
“Goldberg’s rebuke is a positive derabbinic court nullified a conversion the
‘Case highlights
velopment,” Fackenheim said, “but I’m
court itself had already approved.”
not sure how much it will help me in my
The second aspect, according to
the current chaos
struggle with the religious establishment
Farber, is the judge’s questioning Fackto have that judge’s ruling reversed.”
enheim’s Jewishness without being
within the rabbinic
In parallel to lodging the complaint
asked, is contrary to past practice. “This
court system on the
against Hagar with Goldberg, Fackencase, which began as a simple divorce,
heim is also fighting to have Hagar’s rethighlights the current chaos within the
issue of conversions’
roactive decision overturned with the help
rabbinic court system on the issue of
of the Israel Religious Action Center, the
conversions,” he said.
legal arm of the Reform movement in Israel, whose leadership
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the leader of the U.S. Jewish Reform
defines the case as both “crucial and alarming.”
movement, said that Fackenheim’s case “has sent shock
Einat Horowitz, the attorney the action centre has appoint- waves in the Reform community.”
ed to handle the case, said that “rabbinic judges may consider
David Ellenson, the president of Hebrew Union College,
Goldberg’s rebuke, but are not bound to it.” She added that recalled the retroactive nullification last year of thousands of
she would file a petition to the High Court of Justice on Fack- conversions performed by the state-sponsored Conversion
enheim’s behalf within a few weeks. “Yossi Fackenheim’s Authority headed by Rabbi Haim Druckman. “That Jewish
status is not clear right now,” she said. “He has one document identity can be revoked means an erosion of the certainty
from a rabbinic judge saying he’s not Jewish. If he wishes to that each of us can have in our faith,” he said.
get married again, no rabbi will be able to wed him.”
Hod Hasharon’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Reuven Hiller –
After the Holocaust, Yossi Fackenheim’s father, Emil who is an outspoken critic of the Reform movement – also
Fackenheim, who served in Canada as a Reform rabbi, spoke voiced harsh opposition to retroactive nullification of conof the “614th commandment,” a concept alleging that “to versions. “I wholeheartedly object to such rulings,” he said.
despair of the God of Israel is to continue Adolf Hitler’s “This is an extreme view that has no place in Judaism, and
work.”
its recent emergence is very regrettable. In the past, the hardEmil Fackenheim, who died in 2003, believed Jews had line haredi establishment fought against the nullifying conan obligation to observe their faith and frustrate Hitler’s goal versions at all price. Now we see a complete reversal, which
of eliminating Judaism.
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Series explores how religion shapes current affairs
By SHELDON KIRSHNER
Staff Reporter
Canadian broadcast journalist Martin
Himel, based in Israel since the 1980s, has
produced an ambitious 13-part Vision TV
documentary series on religious faith.
Twist of Faith focuses on how religion
shapes current events and how current events
affect belief.
Three of the segments deal directly with
Judaism and Israel, while a fourth touches
on the Arab-Israeli dispute.
Religion and Conflict, scheduled to be
broadcast on March 16 at 10 p.m., turns, in
part, on the Palestinian town of Bethlehem
and its historic Church of Nativity.
Although Bethlehem, the birthplace of
Jesus, is supposed to be a symbol of peace,
it is caught in the pincers of Israel’s struggle
with the Palestinians.
Due to a spate of suicide bombings that
took place in neighbouring Jerusalem during
the second intifadah, Israel sealed off Bethlehem with a high concrete wall. Himel briefly
examines the suffocating effect it has had on
Bethlehem and interviews an Israeli police
officer who lost his legs in such a bombing.
His most effective interview is with a Palestinian shopkeeper, who says wearily, “We
have to remember we’re all human beings.”
In this episode, Himel also examines the
conflict between Christians and Muslims in
Kosovo and Shiite-Sunni tensions since the
flight of 750,000 Iraqi refugees to Jordan.
The Future of Judaism, to be televised on
April 13 at 10 p.m., unfolds in Israel, New
York City and Toronto.
In Israel, Himel profiles a strictly Orthodox American immigrant family that gathers
strength and direction from the certainty and
continuity of Orthodoxy.
He contrasts their restrictive lifestyle
with that of Israeli secular Jews, but spends
far too little time fleshing out this important
theme.
Moving on to the United States, Himel
talks to a rabbi on the Lower East Side who
says that Israel does not fortify Jewish identity, to the owner of a famous delicatessen
who makes the case that traditional Jewish
delicacies bring Jews closer to Judaism, and
to a fashion designer whose garments are influenced by Torah scrolls.
He then turns his attention to an interfaith
family in Toronto, saying that such unions
are becoming increasingly common.
Himel’s conclusion is that Judaism, Orthodoxy aside, is evolving in response to an
ever-changing world.
In Marriage and Divorce, to be broadcast
on May 4 at 10 p.m., he profiles an observant
Israeli Jewish women who feel oppressed by the
inordinate power of the rabbinate, which controls
marriage and divorce in the Jewish state.
He talks to two young women in Jerusalem who cannot obtain a Jewish divorce,
a get, because the rabbinic court has sided
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem
with their husbands. Both women think they
most holy site.
and adds that if Jews want peace, they should
are the victims of a glaring injustice.
For Muslims, the Noble Sanctuary is asso- stay away from it.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, an Orthodox rabbi
He and others claim, without the slightest
who empathizes with their situation, argues ciated with the prophet Mohammed’s journey
that rabbinic courts lack sensitivity and are to Jerusalem and two buildings bound up shred of evidence, that Israeli archeological
out of touch with modern realities. Women, with Islam – the Dome of the Rock and the excavations are damaging the foundations of
the Noble Sanctuary.
he says, should be able to extricate them- Al Aqsa mosque.
Judging by Himel’s interviews, Muslim
In closing, Himel interviews a group of
selves from this intolerable impasse.
The Temple Mount Controversy, the last clerics are particularly adamant over the high-minded Jews and Arabs who believe
in Himel’s series, to be televised on June 1 ownership of the site. The mufti of Jerusa- that the Temple Mount should be shared.
at 10 p.m., turns on a pivotal holy site in the lem, a perfect example of unreasonableness, But, as he suggests, they are definitely in a
heart of Jerusalem, known as the Temple rejects Jewish rights to the Temple Mount minority.
Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to
Muslims. Himel claims that, unless they share
it, there will never be peace in the region.
If he is right, both sides are doomed to
perpetual conflict.
Jews differ on a lot of issues, he observes,
but they agree that
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Debut novel set in lingerie shop in Boro Park
By JOSEPH SERGE
Arts Editor
Sima’s Undergarments for Women unfolds like the relationship between two lovers; from the initial chance encounter to the giddy delights of flirtation and to the heartbreaking
trauma of the final goodbye.
But Ilana Stanger-Ross’ debut novel is not your ordinary
love story. It’s about the relationship between a woman in her
mid-60s and an Israeli in her 20s.
And it’s set in a bra shop.
Sima Goldner owns a lingerie shop in the basement of
the home she shares with her husband of 46 years, Lev. It is
tucked deep in the Orthodox neighbourhood of Boro Park in
Brooklyn, where mothers walk down the street with an army
of children in tow.
Sometimes these mothers stop into the shop with their
daughters to buy them their first bra, perhaps, or, when
they’re older, underclothes for their wedding dress.
Sometimes they just drop by to gossip or exchange
recipes.
That’s pretty much Sima’s life up to now, and she’s been
running her business for so long, she can tell a woman’s bra
size just with a casual glance. But something is missing. Her
marriage is loveless and she has no children of her own.
But Sima’s life is transformed overnight when Timna, a
beautiful young Israeli woman, walks into her store seemingly to buy underwear but is really looking for work. Seduced
by her youth and charm, Sima makes Timna her new seamstress and assistant.
Sima admires Timna’s beauty and perfect body, wishing
she admired her own body more when she was young. She
envies everything about Timna, and we get the impression
there is much regret in Sima’s life.
Sima quickly becomes enamoured of Timna. Her days at
the shop become richer and more joyful. She loves to hear
Timna talk about her boyfriend in Israel, Alon, and the way
her face lights up when she mentions him.
Like a teenage girl smitten by a boy, Sima talks about
Timna non-stop to her best friend, Connie. And like a jilted
lover, she becomes possessive over her, frustrated that Timna
consumes her whole world, while she is only a small piece of
Timna’s life. Soon Sima starts to follow Timna after work to
find out what she does outside the shop, and she also starts
to interfere directly in her life.
The story, told in an easy, conversational style, segues
nicely from the present to Sima’s past, and we learn that
Sima underwent fertility tests shortly after her wedding to
determine why she couldn’t have children.
Timna becomes the daughter Sima never could have. Like
a mother, Sima worries about her all the time and always
suspects the worst has happened to her.
The story is told from Sima’s point of view, and there is
much about Timna we don’t know. And some of the things
we do know are only conjecture and suspicion on Sima’s
part. Is she cheating on Alon, for instance? We never do find
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younger, than to bear children and instead finds herself in
a loveless marriage and carrying a secret inside her for 46
years.
But Sima is not without fault, either. She is meddlesome,
suffocating even, at times.
Like Sima, Stanger-Ross’ debut novel, published by Overlook Press, is not without fault, but there is much to enjoy as
well. Because it is set in a women’s undergarment store, I am
trying really hard to avoid calling this book uplifting.
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Bathurst St., Sunday,
March 29, 7:30 p.m.
By BILL GLADSTONE
Tickets are $8 to
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choir at the University of Toronto, is continuing a five-year tradition by performing Crazy For You: Scarborough Choral Soan upcoming concert for charity – in this ciety’s Onstage Productions presents Crazy
case for Te-Amim, a Toronto-based theatre For You, the George and Ira Gershwin
group focusing on tolerance education musical with book by Ken Ludwig. Songs
include I Can’t Be Bothered Now, I Got
through the arts.
Te-Amim is the only company in Canada Rhythm, They Can’t Take That Away from
using theatre to look at the history and legacy Me, But Not for Me, Nice Work If You Can
of the Holocaust as a route to addressing all Get It and Someone to Watch Over Me. Now
in its 55th year, the group is well-known for
forms of racism.
The choir boasts 20 members and per- its quality productions at a reasonable price
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uestion: I understand that
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divorce, the equity in my
present house could be split
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house before marrying, bank the
money, buy a house together with
my wife and then divorce, would
my wife be entitled to the money
in my bank account or only to the
house that we bought together?
A
nswer: The house you
bought together is primarily what would be divided.
However, depending on her own
net worth when you separate, the
increase in the value of the money
in the bank account — not its
value as of the date of marriage
— would also be subject to division. If you had $100,000 in the
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Names in the News: Toronto actor Allan
Price, who has offered Broadway Melody
Singalong classes for years, goes to the
Citadel Theatre in Edmonton this month
to play the wizard in a production of The
Wizard of Oz. (“I’m off to be the wizard,”
he quips.) When he returns in early June,
he begins rehearsals for The Right Road
To Pontypool, being produced by 4th Line
Theatre. The play is by Alex Poch-Goldin
and tells the story of the Toronto Jewish
community’s summer cottages and resorts
in Pontypool, a town near Peterborough.
Price also recently played a grandfather in an
episode of the new TV series The Listener.
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Arts in Brief
• Toronto Jewish Film Society presents
Contemporary Israeli Voices, a screening of
three short films – The Red Toy, The 74th,
and Out For Love, Be Back Shortly. The
featured speaker is Shlomo Schwartzberg.
Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre,
Al Green Theatre. Sunday, March 15. Two
screenings, 4 and 7:30 p.m. $15, $10. Rush
tickets available 15 minutes before each
screening.
• Congregation Shir Libeynu and the Miles
Nadal JCC present Purimania: A Grownup Celebration of the Adventures of Queen
Esther. Features the Purim story like you’ve
never heard it before, music by singer-songwriter Lovaine Cohen, DJ music, hamentashen and prizes for costumes.
Not recommended for people under 16.
$5. Miles Nadal JCC, Saturday, March 14, 8
p.m. Reservations required, 416-465-5488 or
shirlibeynu@yahoo.ca. A portion of the proceeds to benefit the Abused Women’s Fund,
Jewish Family and Child.
• Noah’s Great Rainbow, a new Canadian
play by Sam Chaiton, focuses on the aftershocks of genocide and features Afroklezmer-rap music performed by David Buchbinder, Waleed Abdulhamid and Popo
Murigande. The Showcase Production is
directed by Alon Nashman and stars Don
Francks and Mighty Popo. Miles Nadal
JCC, Al Green Theatre. March 25 to April 3.
Public performances $29. 416-924-6211, ext.
0. www. noahsgreatrainbow.com
• Opera York is holding auditions this week
for the North American Hebrew language
première of “And the Rat Laughed,” an opera
by Israeli author Nava Semel with music by
Ella Milch-Sheriff. All applicants must be
professional opera singers and preferably
Hebrew speaking. Send your CV, picture
and contact information to laura@operayork.com The opera is to be performed at the
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing
Arts in November. pzilberman@operayork.
com, 416-616-5195
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Passages: Jazz violinist Harvey Tishcoff,
who died last month at the age of 89, was
a legend of the Toronto music scene whose
talents spanned a wide variety of genres from
jazz and big band to classical and pop.
A pioneer of the five-string electric jazz
violin, he worked with the legendary Joe
Venuti and played with Luciano Pavarotti,
Tony Bennett, Bob Hope and others. A
mainstay of the Jewish music scene for many
years, Tishcoff performed with the Shawn
Clifford Trio, the Stan Hiltz Orchestra and
the Nafshenu Orchestra.
In 2005, at age 85, Tishcoff cut his first
and only CD, Legacy. He played his final gig
at his grandson’s graduation party about two
months ago. Tishcoff, who always said that
his riches were his family and friends, “has
truly left a legacy for Toronto music and his
family and friends,” said his daughter, Francine Birken.
uestion: I just found out
that I am not the biological father of my 10 year
old. The father earns over 150K.
The mother was his secretary. The
mother also continued to work for
him while visibly pregnant and
went on maternity leave while still
employed by him. Also, my son
was born with a heart defect and
has to be checked yearly by a
specialist and will need an operation before he reaches the age
of 30. Can I claim back support
against the biological father and
the mother for the 10 years the
biological father and the mother
deceived me?
A
nswer: No, sorry. Under
those circumstances you
cannot recoup your fatherly support.
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YOUR EYES: Israeli pop star Ahinoam Nini (Noa), left, and Mira Awad, an
Israeli Arab singer and actress, share the stage at the Israeli national TV studio.
Awad and Noa were chosen to represent Israel together at the 2009 Eurovision Song
Contest. Despite calls by several Arab artists and intellectuals, both Israeli and Palestinian, for the popular Palestinian Christian singer not to participate with Noa,
the duo have repeated that they will appear in the contest on May 16 in Moscow.
The duo will perform the peace song Your Eyes, which got the most votes in text
messages from among four selections the duo performed on state television.
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Arts & Travel
Film explores discharged Israeli soldiers’ drug abuse in India
By Sherry Smither
Special to The CJN
other hallucinogenic drugs and attend huge all-night raves –
parties where drug use is common.
Although the Israeli youths interviewed by Shamir seemed
Israeli director Yoav Shamir’s trek to India was not easy. troubled by their military experiences, they laughed it off as
His film Flipping Out took him to India’s Himalayas and Goa the time of their lives. Still, many became drug dependent and
beaches, where he documented young Israeli military veter- vulnerable and ended up needing help.
ans escaping the memories of their army service by turning
“In India there are so many Jewish travellers, so Chabad has
to drugs.
about 10 houses wherever there is a concentration of Israeli
“The Himalayas were difficult to get to – it’s almost im- backpackers, providing a place to pray, keep kosher and for
possible to get there by plane and if there’s a flight, it’s only a Shabbat,” Shamir said.
10-seater which hardly flies
“Since Chabad is very
there – it’s very remote,”
integrated into travellers’
the award-winning filmlives and Indian life, when
maker said from his Tel
someone gets into trouble
Aviv home.
with drugs, a lot of the time
To interview his subjects,
they [Chabad] will be the
Shamir travelled 24 hours by
first to hear if somebody is
bus from Delhi, five hours by
in a bad mental condition
jeep and another three hours
and they will help out.”
on foot, a trip he made four
But when the Israeli
times in the two years it took
government became aware
to film the documentary.
that Chabad was taking adThe film explores the
vantage of these young men
phenomenon known as
and trying to have them
“flipping out,” which affects
become more religious,
about 2,000 former Israeli
Shamir said the Israeli antisoldiers yearly who end up Guy Sahar Russo, a former Israeli elite combat soldier, has drug authority established
needing psychological help been living for the past six years in India.
secular “warm houses” to
when they experience psyhelp the young people.
chotic breakdowns as a result of their drug abuse.
In addition, parents concerned about their child’s drug
After their compulsory military service, many soldiers see dependency hired former Mossad agent Helik Magnus to
travelling as a rite of passage. They often meet in India at guest “rescue” delusional or dysfunctional youths with dramatic
houses and resorts where they experience LSD, ecstasy and drug interventions. Magnus has returned hundreds of Israe-
lis to their families, including
one youth featured in Shamir’s
film.
After his own military
service, Shamir recalls, “I went
travelling for three years to
South America and India, but
I never saw people flipping out
from drugs.”
Nevertheless, when producer
Michael Sharfshtein came to
him with the concept for the
movie he was intrigued.
“Back in 2005, when my film
Five Days was being screened
at Toronto’s Hot Docs film fesYoav Shamir
tival, I pitched the idea of Flipping Out, and the National Film Board was very interested.”
(The NFB’s Kent Martin co-produced Flipping Out.)
Shamir received international acclaim for his award-winning Five Days, which documented the dismantling of Israeli
settlements in Gaza, and for Checkpoint, which explored
Israeli-Palestinian conflicts at border crossings.
Now that he has completed Flipping Out, Shamir has
turned his attention to his latest documentary, Defamation,
which explores anti-Semitism.
Defamation premiered last month at the Berlin International Film Festival, and Shamir has plans for its Canadian
premiere at the Hot Docs 2009 festival, which begins April
30.
Flipping Out is available on DVD in mid-March at the
NFB online store www.nfb.ca. For information on Defamation, visit w
­ ww.defamation-thefilm.com
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Books & Authors
Publisher brings Judaism to the ‘public square of discussion’
By DOROTHY LIPOVENKO
Special to The CJN
W
hen Stuart Matlins, founder of Jewish Lights
Publishing (JLP), was recognized for American
Jewish Distinguished Service, he invoked the
iconic James Cagney.
Standing on the podium nearly three years ago to accept
the award from Hebrew Union
College, Matlins reached back
more than half a century to
a line of Cagney dialogue:
“Sometimes I believe more in
dreams than in statistics.”
Not long afterward, in
2007, somewhere in the
world, someone who speaks
English, Italian or one of the
numerous languages among
JLP’s translated editions,
bought its two millionth book.
That number was no dream.
In describing how and
Stuart Matlins
why he founded a niche
Jewish publishing house in the bucolic hills of Vermont –
with such diverse titles as to satisfy a spiritual hunger for
rabbinic wisdom or a craving for Jewish aliens in outer space
– Matlins could well have drawn inspiration from the title of
that 1948 Cagney film, The Time of Your Life.
Indeed, this transplant from New York to Woodstock, Vt.
(population 3,232), is having the time of his life nourishing
readers with Jewish food for body and soul, be it yoga and the
aleph bet or the modern man’s Torah commentary.
It’s a mission for him, publishing as “outreach” to other
Jews, those who go to bookstores, not to shuls, “to share with
them the relevance of Judaism to their lives.”
Making a midlife move to a village and operating Jewish
Lights from a converted dairy barn might suggest that the 68year-old entrepreneur has come full circle, returning to the
Polish shtetl roots that his family left in 1902 to cross the ocean
to America.
And as in the shtetl, parnassah
(business) and kavanah (intent when
we pray) aren’t far from each other.
Step out the front door of Jewish
Lights and it’s just three or so miles
to the country shul that Matlins and
his wife, Antoinette, founded 25
years ago, when they traded Manhattan’s go-go for the Green Mountain
State’s slow-mo.
But Matlins didn’t settle in Woodstock to publish books. The former
managing partner for the consulting
firm Booz Allen Hamilton was still
seeing clients when he took a successful stab at refreshing and reissuing a book on gemstones that his wife
had authored.
Then, as these stories go, Matlins happened to be attending a Jewish summer study retreat when an acquaintance put
a bug in his ear. That bug concerned the out-of-print books of
Lawrence Kushner, an American rabbi known for his writings
on spirituality and mysticism. Would Matlins consider adopting
the orphaned titles that could still attract readership?
Initially, he brushed off the suggestion. But the prospect soon
took shape as Matlins became convinced of the books’ potential
market – Conservative, Reform and non-affiliated Jews he felt
were underserved in publishing circles.
His target audience, particularly those with ID tags from the
consciousness-raising 1960s, were increasingly curious about
Judaism’s approach to the issues of poverty and social justice.
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And their interests dovetailed with the growing tikkun olam
(repair the world) movement that was inspiring many to greater
involvement in Jewish community life.
“No one [outside of publishing targeted at the Orthodox] was
focusing on creating a body of inspirational literature and resources based
on the Jewish wisdom tradition to help
people lead a Jewish life,” Matlins said
in a telephone interview.
And the difficulty of staying connected Jewishly in a small town had its
own unexpected benefit. “Had we not
moved to Woodstock, we never would
have understood the need for the kinds
of books we publish.”
What began in 1990 as a modest
venture headquartered in the guest
house on his property quickly outstripped its space and staff. Within
two years, Jewish Lights had moved
to offices in a converted old dairy barn
in town, and has since added 8,000
square feet of warehouse in nearby Windsor, Vt.
That “town square” location suits a company that aims to
bring Judaism, as Matlins puts it, into the “public square of discussion” on contemporary issues.
To that end, one can find among JLP’s 260 titles Jewish
ethics and social justice, Judaism and ecology, even spirituality
in the workplace. With theology as its guide, the publisher can
go just about anywhere in the Jewish galaxy of life-cycle events
and tradition, from texts on baby-naming to restoring spiritual
meaning to the bar mitzvah.
While it’s mostly Jews who buy the books, about one-third
of readers are Christian or of other faiths, drawn to themes both
Jewish and non-denominational, such as the illustrated God’s
Paintbrush for young children. And while Matlins is a regular at
Jewish book fairs, he can also be found at the annual trade show
of Christian religious booksellers in the United States.
That cross-cultural
interest is reflected globally, too: more than a
dozen languages, including Hindi, Portuguese and
French, are represented
among the JLP texts in
translation. One that’s
made it into 14 languages, including Korean, is
The Empty Chair, a compendium of aphorisms
from the long-dead Rabbi
Nachman of Breslov.
(How Empty Chair
found its way to Woodstock is a story with twists
and turns that Matlins relishes recounting: initially, he turned down a chassidic group’s
request to distribute its books, but subsequently, a chance encounter with a haunting Breslover melody while on a trip to
Jerusalem kindled his interest.)
Although Jewish Lights releases mostly non-fiction, it does
have a playful side. Under its imprint, one can find two firstrate short story anthologies of Jewish-themed crime fiction,
Mystery Midrash and Criminal Kabbalah. For readers who
like to orbit the fantasy-science fiction shelves, there are two
compendiums of the genre, Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars, while graphic novel enthusiasts can enjoy the
Rabbi Harvey adventure series set in the Wild West. (Harvey
is especially popular in France.)
Matlins will keep expanding JLP’s range. Because in accepting the award from Hebrew Union College, he not only
spoke of dreams and statistics, he also quoted from Ecclesiastes 12:12: “Of making many books there is no end…”
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in a visit to Jerusalem that Obama’s at- Khamenei, who has so far not directly adtempts to reach out to Iran have so far been dressed the issue of Obama’s overtures, but
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George W. Bush in supporting Israel, which and Britain, who committed the biggest sin
he called a “cancerous tumour.”
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Among them you can find enough Jewish
players to at least form a minyan.
Boston Red Sox first sacker Kevin
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appreciation by giving the Cincinnati
native, who turns 30 this month, a fouryear, $41-million (all figures US) contract
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The 6’1, 220-pound slugger batted .312,
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ended last June.
Ryan Braun of the Brewers, the son of
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club locked him up for so long a stretch,
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runs. Due to his defensive shortcomings,
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In early January, the
Colorado Rockies added depth
to their rotation, acquiring
durable right-hander Jason
Marquis, 30, from the Chicago
Cubs. The former Brave and
Cardinal had an 11-9 record
with a 4.53 ERA in 2008. The
Jewish hurler, described as a
workhorse, has had doubledigit wins in each of the last
five seasons, surpassing 190
innings four times. An added
bonus is that for a pitcher
he’s a more-than-decent hitter,
managing five homers and 40
RBIs in his nine-year career.
The almost $10-million-a-year
athlete is on occasion summoned as a pinch hitter.
Solid reserve outfielder,
Gabe Kapler, 33, has found
a new home. In 2007 the fitness buff retired and took a
managerial job in the minors.
Deciding that he could still
play at the major league level,
he signed a one-year pact with
Milwaukee in 2008. Coming
off the bench – in only 229 at
bats – he hit .301, with eight
homers and 38 RBIs.
Kapler’s season ended in September
when he tore a muscle in his right shoulder after making a hard throw to the plate.
Again in demand as a spare part, Kapler, a
lifetime .273 hitter, signed a one-year pact
for $1 million with the Tampa Bay Rays in
January.
Also on the move is veteran catcher
Brad Ausmus, who turns 40 in April. He
has caught more than 1,800 games in the
majors and will act as a backup receiver
and mentor this year for the Los Angeles
Dodgers, who signed him as a free agent to
a one-year pact.
Last season, Ausmus completed his 10th
year with the Houston Astros. A .251
lifetime hitter, Ausmus hit .218 to go
along with three homers and 24 RBIs. His
strength is his ability to call a game and
handle pitchers well. There are few ball
clubs who won’t offer Ausmus a coaching
job when he retires.
Relief pitcher Josh Grabow, 30, enjoyed
a banner season in 2008 with a poor
Pittsburgh Pirates team. The left-hander
had an impressive 6-3 record and an ERA
of 2.84 in 74 appearances. The Arcadia,
Calif. native, who stands 6’2 and weighs
250 pounds, is heading into his eighth
season. He has a fastball in the low 90s,
a strong change-up and curve, and works
well with runners in scoring position.
Boston’s Kevin Youkilis
Hawaii-born pitcher Scott Feldman, 26,
of the Texas Rangers can start or relieve.
Last season, he went 6-8 with an inflated
ERA of 5.29 in 25 starts. In 151 innings,
he managed only 74 strikeouts and walked
too many batters. At 6’5 and 210 pounds,
he is a formidable figure on the mound and
gives right-handed batters fits due to his
unorthodox delivery.
Left-handed reliever Craig Breslow, 28,
already has the label of a journeyman hurler. Now with the Minnesota Twins after
being claimed off waivers last May from
Cleveland, he has also played with Boston
and San Diego. Last year he fashioned a 0-2
record but with a sparkling ERA of 1.91 in
49 appearances. Craig is a decent strikeout
artist, but sometimes gets himself into difficulty with an occasional lack of control.
The New Haven, Conn., hurler is especially
tough on left-handed batters.
Watch also for 26-year-old Brian
Horwitz, an outfielder in camp with the
San Francisco Giants, who hit .277 with
seven homers and 29 RBI s in only 264 at
bats with AAA Fresno, as well as Colorado
Rockies right hander Jason Hirsh, 27, who
was out most of last year with a strained
right shoulder, and right-handed relief
pitcher Mike Koplove, 32, who was signed
by the Phillies and invited to spring training.
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Inside Back
Straight talk about feeding tubes
By Michael Gordon
I am frequently consulted by families and
health-care staff if there is a conflict about
It started with a phone call. “I need your inserting a feeding tube when someone can
advice about whether or not we should put no longer eat, or eat safely, and there is a
a feeding tube into my father.” It was the great deal of reluctance on everyone’s part
mother of one of our children’s friends.
to attempt feeding, even a modified and
“He had a very bad stroke and has recov- “safer” diet.
ered and is an acute-care hospital awaiting
An approach that I take regarding artificial
placement. He can’t eat and we have had feeding (another term often used for tube
two conflicting opinions about putting in feeding) follows along a train of thought that
the tube, and my brother and I
takes into account clinical, personal,
don’t know what to do.”
cultural, religious and family views.
It is a common scenario, played
The clinical question is imporout in hospitals all over world.
tant, as some conditions are such
Depending on the jurisdiction and
that there will be progressive dethe ethno-cultural perspectives or
terioration and the feeding tube is
religious views of those involved,
merely a stopgap in the process and
the issue can be tilted one way or
may not really change the actual
The Senior course of the disease. In other conthe other.
For those who subscribe to re- Side of Life ditions, the disease could stabilize,
ligions that espouse the sanctity of
and artificial feeding might prolong
life, it is almost deemed obligatory to put in life for an undefined and sometimes extena feeding tube (usually called a gastrostomy sive period.
tube or G-Tube) with the procedure called
The next issue I consider is what the family
a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy or believes the person would have wanted if
PEG.
he/she was able to give his/her views on
For those who espouse the quality-of-life the matter. Often family members who are
perspective, the procedure might be rejected substitute decision-makers forget or do not
if, in the opinion of the potential recipient or understand that their role in decision-making
their surrogate, it does not add anything sub- is to reflect what they, in good conscience,
stantially to the patient’s quality of life.
believe their loved one would have wanted if
There are many individuals who have no he/she could make the decision themselves.
fixed personal, religious or cultural domi- The personal view of the decision-maker
nant view and who are open to considering should not be what governs the decision.
any medical procedures as long as they
If religious views are held by the patient,
know and understand the implications of they must be interpreted by the surrogate,
the proposed treatment.
sometimes with the assistance of religious
There are some health-care professionals advisers, to determine what is right in that
who have interpreted the medical literature religion’s view.
on the subject as an indication that feeding
At the end, a decision has to be made, but
tubes have very little long-term benefit. it is important to remember that in Canada,
There are others who contend that although decisions such as these can be legally rethis method of feeding does not achieve its versed and artificial feeding discontinued
goals in all circumstances, it does maintain if there is reason to believe that it’s not the
life in many who would otherwise succumb best and most appropriate choice after it is
to inanition.
tried for a period of time.
Dr. Michael Gordon is medical program director of palliative care at Baycrest and co-author with
Bart Mindszenthy of Parenting Your Parents (Dundurn Press).
By Avrum Rosensweig
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like a forest fire travelling at immense speed.
Anti-Semitism, our survivors, God bless
them, told us all about you. They were right.
Man, you are ugly.
Much is being done to fight anti-Semitism –
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student organizations were prepared for Israeli
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(Deuteronomy
Now we can jok16:20)
ingly assume that
The
Toronto
other TDSB schools
District School Board
do not teach social
has just announced
the opening next Seymour Epstein justice, since a special school needs to
September of some
be
established
for that purpose.
new alternative, theme-based
schools. These are called mag- But is it really a joke?
The irony here is that our
net schools in other jurisdictions, in that they attract a spiritual tradition first taught
particular segment of parents the world about the life-critical
who are interested in a spe- need to care for the vulnerable,
cific theme. In fact, there have as quoted in Exodus above. It
always been thematic schools was our spiritual fore-parents
in the TDSB based on a spe- who taught us to double the
cial interest in arts, sports or a word “justice” so that the entire
Epi on
Education
world would learn how justice
alone must be the guiding principle of our daily behaviour.
These are the lessons that
our schools teach. These are
the reasons our schools are so
magnetic that they attract thousands of parents to pay very
high tuition fees for a special
environment where the richness
of our spiritual heritage can be
fostered and passed from one
generation to the next.
These faith-based schools
can’t be considered alternative
and thematic solely because
they are considered private.
There is nothing private about
the words of the Hebrew
Bible. They have been public since first disseminated
by the Jewish People. In a
province that funds a religious
stream that learned its first
lessons in social justice from
our teachings, it’s a shame
that other faith-based magnet
schools are not part of the
public domain.
Epi (Seymour Epstein) is the vice-president of Jewish Education at UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.
We can all fight anti-Semitism
administration at York University to argue our
case following hooliganism against our Jewish
students; CUPE Canada and the Liberal party
have come out against the CUPE Ontario ban
on Israeli academics’ speaking in Ontario. No
doubt some inside work was done to help this
process along.
Internationally, a conference
on anti-Semitism was held in the
Houses of Parliament and at Lancaster House in England to devise
ways of combating this hatred. Attendees and speakers included MP Irwin Cotler,
members of the U.S. Congress and British
Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch Brown.
These are sound strategies – many facets of
anti-Semitism need to be fought by governments
and through major organizations.
There is, however, a level where anti-Semitism froths and requires a response from individuals, communities and smaller organizations – at
the grassroots level, an area we rarely invest in.
For some reason, our leadership has failed
experience
the Caplan’s difference
to wrap our organizational genius around the
development of a solid, multi-tiered, wellfinanced, broad-based community mobilization strategy ensuring survivors, seamstresses,
lawyers, Birthright and March of the Living participants, doctors, truck drivers, rabbis, mothers,
teens and professors, are all involved in fighting
anti-Semitism.
The only organization offering Jews from
every corner of the city a way to battle this haranguing bully as a community “on the ground”
is the Jewish Defense League (JDL). It holds
regular strategy meetings, has bused Jewish
community members to Windsor where CUPE
voted, and held a rally during Israel Apartheid
Week. The JDL, however, is viewed as controversial by many. The bottom line is that our
community and every Jewish neighbourhood
around the world desperately need to come together in homes, offices and community centres
to give us the chance to talk about our fears, help
organize our own personal defence, understand
the issues regarding Israel and Judaism, create
tools to befriend our non-Jewish allies and more.
Let’s do so.
Approach our leadership and tell them we
need to construct a community mobilization
plan, with buy-in from all segments of the community, drawing upon skills from senior and
junior members and securing funding for its
planning and implementation. Alternatively,
e-mail me if you are interested in being part of
a grassroots movement.
Jewish communities have rarely developed
a community mobilization plan. Leaders of old,
such as revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky,
yelled for this, but people rarely listened.
My fellow Jews, once again, you and I are
not prepared to fight anti-Semitism. It is sui
generis, unique to the Jewish people, something
only we can understand; therefore, it is you and I
who need to battle it. I implore us to do so.
Romans, Greeks, Haman, Ferdinand II and
Isabella of Castile, Nazis – this is where antiSemitism stops. We challenge you.
See my blog http://avrum.net.
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