January 26, 2015 - Ottawa Jewish Bulletin

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‘Je suis juif’
Loblaws
seeks input
from kosher
consumers
Focus group held
at College Square store
BY LOUISE RACHLIS
Fittingly, freshly squeezed orange juice
was on the tables, and platters of cold cuts,
bread, pastry, fruit and vegetables lined
the side table of the upstairs community
room.
The topic was kosher food, and the
focus group of interested consumers from
the Jewish community had a lot to say as it
gathered, December 3, at Loblaws College
Square.
There had been a limit set of 30 attendees, but six tables of six enthusiastically
embraced the three themes of “experiences,” “products,” and “Going Forward” and
shared their wide-ranging insights for two
lively hours.
Facilitator Michael Walsh said the gathering was exceptional for many reasons.
“There is a very limited appetite for
developing ethnic markets in corporate
Canada,” he said. “They don’t know how
to do it, or are afraid of the cost.”
Loblaws College Square, on the other
hand, has created a “candid and sincere
opportunity for people to have a real
dialogue,” said Walsh.
Loblaws assistant manager Paul Payant
had been at the store just five weeks. He
said he was brought in “to address the
See Loblaws on page 2
inside:
PHOTO: AURELIEN MEUNIER/GETTY IMAGES
People gather in solidarity in front of the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris, Jan. 12, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid
his respects to the four victims of the terrorist attack there three days earlier as they shopped for Shabbat.
Dark times in the City of Lights
Editor Michael Regenstreif on the tragic events in Paris.
T
he news from Paris this month
was shocking and tragic. It
began, January 7, when Islamist
terrorists attacked the offices of
Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine
known for its uncompromising skewering of politicians and religion. Ten of
the magazine’s staff members – mostly
editors and cartoonists – and two police
officers were massacred.
The next day, a policewoman was
Arsenic and Old Lace photos
revisit OJCS production > p. 15
murdered in what first seemed to be an
unrelated incident.
And, then, on Friday, January 9, when
the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket
was crowded with Jewish shoppers
preparing for Shabbat, a terrorist from
the same al-Qaida-inspired cell as the
Charlie Hebdo murderers, entered the
store, killed four of the shoppers, and
took many more hostage.
At about the same time as the Hyper
Ceremony to mark International
Holocaust Remembrance Day > p. 11
Cacher events were unfolding, police had
the Charlie Hebdo terrorists under siege.
In almost simultaneous raids, the
terrorists in both locations were killed
and the hostages freed.
We later learned that the policewoman
killed on January 8 was murdered by the
Hyper Cacher terrorist. In all, 17 people
were murdered during the three days of
terror. The “City of Lights,” and the
See Editor on page 7
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Loblaws: Shoppers seek quality, quantity and reliability
Continued from page 1
issues of the kosher department.”
“What I want from today,” Payant said,
“is to move forward and get as much
information as possible. We want to be
your one-stop shop. I’m very happy with
the turnout.”
Walsh asked the group, “How many
communities with 14,000 Jews do you
know in North America? How about
Buffalo, San Antonio, Albany, New
Orleans? They all have populations bigger
than Ottawa. You know what? It’s hard to
eat kosher in Buffalo.”
Because Ottawa has a small Jewish
population, he said, “we have to look after
ourselves. We have to be creative.” By
comparison, there are 185,000 Jews in
Toronto and 95,000 in Montreal. “Ottawa
was 6,000 Jews in 1975. We’ve more than
doubled.”
There were plenty of “dittos” all around
as the groups agreed with each other’s
comments.
“Jen [Robillard, the kosher manager] is
the benchmark,” said Walsh to much
agreement. “We need more Jens ... The
customer experience has never been
better.”
Each of the three themes elicited a round
of thoughts on everything from the
location of the kosher department
Cantor Jeremy Burko (left) and Rabbi Barry Schlesinger lead Chanukah songs at the menorah
lighting and Chanukah celebration, December 18, presented by Agudath Israel Congregation
and PJ Library in the kosher department at Loblaws College Square. See pages 13, 16, 18 and 24
and visit www.ottawajewishbulletin.com/chanukah-5775 for many more photos from Chanukah
celebrations around Ottawa.
(positive) to the frozen food in three
different locations (negative), selection
(positive), even sometimes “too much – do
we really need so many kinds of candies?”
Participants wanted to be notified when
new products are available, were frustrated
at head office decisions, and happy with
product “except before the holidays.”
Recording for one of the tables, Rabbi
Levy Teitelbaum, director of the Ottawa
Vaad HaKashrut, said “meat trim at the
store level would be a help,” and noted
“it’s a 24-hour store! Where else can you
get kosher food at 3 am?”
Walsh said central ordering systems are
usually electronic.
“Paul is kind of stuck in a system we
need to appreciate. How do we get a handle
on product, quantities and lead times in a
way that is manageable?” asked Walsh.
Suggestions poured forth. Participants
want Loblaws to bring back the kosher
sushi, have enough quantity when they
put items on sale, track trends through the
inventory system every year on the
holidays, never run out of Cholev Yisroel
milk, and put health products in a special
section in the kosher area.
They want quality, quantity and reliability; healthy food, low salt, low sugar. They
want to encourage the next generation to
keep kosher, and they want Loblaws to
have community initiatives. And they want
more options in meals-to-go, and rewards
like more PC Points on the holidays.
“Paul and Jen, when you look at all the
suggestions, could you make us aware of
what you can do in the short term, and in
the long term?” asked Walsh. “Draw our
attention to how you’re addressing our
needs.”
To applause from the group, Walsh said,
in 35 years, “it’s the first time I’ve seen
anyone reach out to us and say ‘I want to
improve the relationship.’”
Payant said he will gather all the
information the six table facilitators will
be sending him, and then he’ll be able to
“speak of some timelines and get some
information out.”
Follow-up: Store plans new services for kosher consumers
BY LOUISE RACHLIS
Loblaws College Square assistant
manager Paul Payant had been working
at the store for just five weeks when a
focus group from the Jewish community
gathered to discuss his kosher department on December 3.
Suggestions poured forth, which
Payant promised to look into. This
month, he updated the Ottawa Jewish
Bulletin on his initial progresss on the
file.
“Our intention was to come together
as a community and create a concrete
plan to improve our assortment of
kosher products for Jewish customers,”
he said. “The turn-out was beyond our
expectations and, thanks to the engaged
shoppers who participated, I think we
achieved our goal.”
Customers told Loblaws they were
looking for more healthy options in the
kosher department, he said.
“To address this, we’ve already started
working with Christine Devaney, our
in-store dietitian. Monthly, Christine will
host free kosher days to speak to customers one-on-one about nutritional
choices, help with personal shopping,
[and] provide recipe ideas and give out
kosher snacks!”
Loblaws College Square – the site of
Loblaws’ only kosher department in
Ottawa – has also instituted freshsqueezed juices and salads in the kosher
department and is working on quick
lunch and dinner-time meal ideas,
including hot meal deals and sandwiches, said Payant.
“We are looking for a supplier that
offers parve cakes for celebratory
occasions. And, in the very near future,
our store will be rolling out stickers to
help customers quickly identify kosher
items throughout the store,” he said.
In addition, he has met with the
Kosher Food Bank, and the store will
continue to help the food bank by
collecting kosher food donations.
“Thanks to their guidance, we also
plan to offer kosher cooking classes
where community members can learn
how to prepare food, sample products
and take home recipe ideas,” he said.
Payant also feels it’s “equally important for our customers to know what
feedback we may have difficulty implementing at the moment.”
He said Loblaws has received many
requests for specific name-brand items
that customers would like to see the
store carry.
“Some of these items are just not
available for us to order and some of
them are only available on a seasonal
basis ... That said, I think we’ve come a
long way with providing a greater
assortment and we’re constantly looking
for ways to improve. I think better
identifying the kosher products we
already have in store will also help,” he
said.
Payant said he would like the community to know that “we have almost
weekly meetings with different groups,
including the Kosher Food Bank,
Ottawa Vaad HaKashrut and suppliers,
so that we can exceed our customers’
expectations. We are working on several
projects that will take some time to
introduce. The focus group was just the
start.”
Payant can be reached via email at
[email protected].
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Understanding the Middle East
Agudath Israel and Machzikei Hadas launch
new lecture series with renowned experts
BY ALEX GRILLER
FOR AGUDATH ISRAEL
AND MACHZIKEI HADAS
A
gudath Israel Congregation
and Congregation Machzikei
Hadas are co-sponsoring “The
Middle East: Power, Passion,
Politics,” a series five lectures at which
renowned guest speakers offer fascinating, entertaining, and highly informed
perspectives on the Middle East.
The first lecture, “Survival Skills 101
for Israel,” with former Israel Defense
Forces Military Intelligence Service
official Moti Kedar took place January 21
at Agudath Israel.
Still to come are the following
lectures:
• Kasim Hafeez will speak on “The
Day I Stopped Hating Israel: Confessions
of an ex-radical,” on Wednesday,
February 25, 7:30 pm, at Machzikei
Hadas.
“By the time I had reached 18, I was
completely indoctrinated to the fold of
radical Islamism. My hate for Israel and
for the Jews was fuelled by images of
death and destruction,” explains Hafeez,
who grew up a British Muslim, born to
parents of Pakistani origin.
Now based in Winnipeg, his beliefs
were transformed as a result of a long,
tortured process of rigorous self-examination and wide-ranging research.
The founder of the pro-Israel advocacy
group, The Israel Campaign, his journey
from rabid anti-Semite and Israel-hater
is a mesmerizing story that demanded
he show enormous courage, stand in the
face of all he had been raised to believe
and cast off the dogma taught to him
since birth.
A deeply moving speaker, his grasp of
the problem of violent radicalization in
democratic society is unsurpassed. He
PHOTO: NGO MONITOR
Kasim Hafeez, once a radical Israel-hater,
now leads a pro-Israel advocacy group.
Nora Gold’s Fields of Exile is the
first novel to examine anti-Zionism on
university campuses.
Bar Ilan University Professor Gerald
Steinberg is the founder of NGO Monitor,
which tracks and assesses media coverage
of Israel.
has lived it, and rejected it.
• Nora Gold will speak on
“Combatting the New Vilification of
Israel on Campus,” on Sunday, April 19,
7:30 pm, at Agudath Israel.
To say that Nora Gold is a “powerhouse” is an understatement. A highly
respected academic in the fields of social
work and research, she has served on
dozens of boards and committees from
the Autism Society of Canada to the
Canadian Jewish Congress, has worked
as an expert for the Ontario Hate Crimes
Commission and was a co-founder of the
New Israel Fund of Canada.
Gold founded and is editor of
www.Jewishfiction.net, a prestigious
online literary journal and is author of
Fields of Exile, the first novel to examine
and explore anti-Zionism on university
campuses.
The novel is described by the publisher as “a moving story of love,
betrayal, and the courage to stand up for
what one believes. It delivers a searing
indictment of the hypocrisy and intellectual sloth that threaten the integrity of
our society.”
Fields of Exile has received enthusiastic
reviews in many publications including
the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin (August 25,
2014).
• Professor Gerald Steinberg, a
political scientist at Bar Ilan University
and the president of NGO Monitor, which
tracks and assesses international media
approaches to Israel and the movement
to de-legitimize Israel, will offer two
lectures: “How to Defeat the Political
War Against Israel,” on Thursday,
May 28, 7:45 pm, at Machzikei Hadas;
and “How Human Rights Are Used As
Weapons Against Israel,” on Sunday,
May 31, 9:45 am, at Agudath Israel.
A highly respected academic,
Steinberg has also been active in the
development of Israeli government
policy as an adviser to the Prime
Minister’s Office and to the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs.
Steinberg has his finger securely on
the day-to-day pulse and realities of
Middle East politics and is a thoughtprovoking speaker whose sometimes
unorthodox ideas educate and inform
on all the relevant issues in the Middle
East.
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January 26, 2015
4
Ottawa Torah Institute renewed as a
Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva boys’ high school
BY ZEV SINGER
FOR OTTAWA TORAH INSTITUTE
F
or many Orthodox families in
Ottawa, a Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva
boys’ high school is more than a
big deal. It could well make the
difference between staying in Ottawa
over the long-term and moving to a
bigger city to find such an educational
opportunity.
Last school year, when enrolment was
insufficient to hold classes at the Ottawa
Torah Institute’s high school for boys,
the school’s board approached the
famed yeshiva in Queens, New York, to
ask if it would be willing to create a
branch in Ottawa. Since September, it
has been a reality, with the rejuvenated
Ottawa Torah Institute now holding
classes in the Young Israel of Ottawa
building.
Two young rabbis have moved from
Queens to Ottawa with their families to
run the yeshiva. Rabbi Dovid Mandel
now lives near the Soloway Jewish
Community Centre, while Rabbi Yaakov
Moshe Harris is living in Craig Henry.
Rabbi Mandel said that with growing
interest from Montreal and Toronto,
neither of which has a Chofetz Chaim
yeshiva high school for boys, the plan is
to grow the Ottawa Torah Institute by
making Ottawa a regional hub. Their
hope is that this strategy will attract the
critical mass of students needed to make
the yeshiva viable in the long-term.
Rabbi Mandel, whose parents moved
to Miami as a young couple to help start
the Chofetz Chaim branch there, said he
and his family are enjoying Ottawa. The
best surprise for him so far, is the unity
of the Jewish community. In a big centre,
he said, Jews of different stripes often
have little to do with each other.
Here, Rabbi Mandel said, there is a
“broad tent” and a real feeling of
community and mutual respect.
“There are a lot of proud Jews,” he
said, and there is an appreciation that
high-level Torah learning benefits the
entire community.
Rabbi Mandel admits he was, at first, a
bit intimidated by Ottawa’s weather.
Recalling his first visit here last winter,
he remembers looking out the airplane
window and staring in amazement at the
blanket of snow covering the city. Now,
though, he’s a winter enthusiast.
“We got snow tires, we got down coats,
and we got snow pants – the works. An
extra-long shovel, an extra-long brush
for the car, we’re definitely geared up to
Employment Opportunities
Congregation Machzikei Hadas is looking to fill two
positions in June 2015. The first, that of Executive Director,
is a full-time position. The second, that of Director of Family
and Children’s Programming, is a part-time position.
Duties of Executive Director include:
• in conjunction with the Rabbi and the Board, implement and coordinate
all Shul activities
• implement programs to attract new members
• manage the day to day operations and functions of the office and staff,
being accountable for results and ensuring the Shul functions smoothly
• manage and implement fundraising activities
and develop new fundraising initiatives
• manage Shul communications, website and social media
• interact with the Jewish Federation and other Jewish organizations
Duties of Director of Family
and Children’s Programming include:
•
•
•
•
Shabbat morning youth programs
Monthly family programs
Work with the Executive Director to attract new members
Develop and maintain relationships with young member families
and potential young member families.
PHOTO: ISSIE SCAROWSKY
Rabbis Yaakov Moshe Harris (left) and Dovid Mandel have relocated to Ottawa
from Queens, N.Y. to head the Ottawa Torah Institute.
embrace the winter.”
Rabbi Harris and his family feel the
same way.
“Our kids even have ice skates,” he
said, emphasizing the word ‘ice.’
Coincidentally, both rabbis are
married to speech pathologists and both
couples have three children, all girls.
For now, the rabbis are focused on
building the yeshiva, educating the
students and, by extension, making a
contribution to Jewish life in Ottawa.
“The effect that a yeshiva has on a city
is untold,” said Rabbi Harris.
Temple Israel
An egalitarian Reform congregation
Jewish roots, contemporary values, egalitarian
Friday Kabbalat Shabbat Services, 6:15 pm.
Saturday Shabbat Services, 10:15 am.
Sunday, February 22: Books and Bagels,
Professor Fran Klodawsky will review Fields of Exile by Nora Gold.
Bagels, 9:30 am; review 10:00 am.
Books are available through the Ottawa Public Library and the
Greenberg Families Library at the SJCC. The Malca Pass Library
and the Temple Israel Library also carry some titles.
Norman Klein, Interim Rabbi
Steven H. Garten, Rabbi Emeritus
Heather Cohen, Executive Director
Sheli Braun, Principal, Religious School
Applications should be submitted to [email protected]
or Congregation Machzikei Hadas, Attention Search Committee, 2310
Virginia Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 6S2
1301 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, ON K2C 1N2
Tel: 613-224-1802 Fax: 613-224-0707
www.templeisraelottawa.com
January 26, 2015
Jewish Community
Service Awards
Members of the Jewish community are invited
to nominate individuals
to receive community awards at the
Annual General Meeting of the Federation on June 17, 2015.
Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award
The Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award is the highest tribute the
Ottawa Jewish Community can bestow on an individual for exceptional service
and leadership to the Jewish community over the course of many years.
Freiman Family Young Leadership Award
Rabbi Dovid Hayes begins the new study cycle of Maimonides at the
Siyum HaRambam event, December 14, at the Kollel of Ottawa.
Gathering marks the completion
of Rambam study cycle
BY BORUCH MALCHY
CHABAD OTTAWA
M
any of Ottawa’s Orthodox
rabbis and Torah educators
came together, December 14,
at the Kollel of Ottawa as
Jews around the world celebrated Siyum
HaRambam, the completion of the daily
study cycle of Maimonides, for the 33rd
time since the Lubavitcher Rebbe first
launched the three-track study in 1984.
The Rambam, Maimonides, was,
perhaps, the most renowned of Jewish
medieval scholars. He changed the face of
Judaism by codifying Jewish law in his
work Mishneh Torah. In establishing the
study cycle, the Rebbe highlighted the
unique quality of the study of Rambam
that by studying Rambam, one effectively
studies the entire Torah. When all Jewish
people unite to study the same Torah
concepts, Jewish unity is accomplished
through Torah.
From Ottawa’s senior Orthodox rabbi,
Rabbi Reuven Bulka of Congregation
Machzikei Hadas, to Ottawa’s newest
roshei yeshiva, Rabbis Yaakov Harris and
Dovid Mandel of Ottawa Torah Institute,
numerous leaders responsible for
spreading Torah in Ottawa joined
Ottawa’s Chabad rabbis for discussions
and scholarly analyses of the Rambam,
and to celebrate the study cycle’s completion with a beautiful meal.
“I think this was one of the most
important events that have ever taken
place in Ottawa. There was an energy of
strong unity,” said Cantor Yair Subar of
Congregation Beit Tikvah.
The speakers, all introduced by Rabbi
Sender Gordon, included Rabbi Yehoshua
Botnick, the rov of Lubavitch in Ottawa,
who concluded the cycle of Rambam
study and pointed out discrepancies
between the ending of the work and a
similar discussion toward the beginning
of the same text. He resolved the discrepancies with the Rebbe’s elucidation that
distinguishes between perspectives in
tune with exile, as demonstrated at the
onset of the text, and the outlook of
redemption displayed at its end.
Rabbi Dovid Hayes, Ottawa’s head
Chabad shaliach (emissary), began the
new cycle of Rambam study and
explained the mitzvah of knowing, as
opposed to merely believing, in God’s
existence as explained by the Tzemach
Tzedek.
Rabbi Bulka analyzed a statement of
the Rambam and went on to practise
what he had preached by complimenting
all present.
Rabbi Yonah Burr, head of the Kollel of
Ottawa, offered an involved explanation
of a difficult to understand passage
pertaining to material recently covered in
Daf Yomi, which he resolved by quoting a
responsa of the Rashbo that distinguishes
between a positive commandment and
one that is solely to negate the alternative
but not to require fulfilment.
Rabbi Levy Teitlebaum, director of the
Ottawa Vaad HaKashrut, contrasted the
prohibition against the effects of non-kosher rennet with honey from a bee in an
overview of the prohibition of cheeses
made without supervision.
Other speakers included Rabbis Chaim
Mendelsohn, Ari Galandauer, Chaim
Boyarsky, Shmuly Hayes, Yisroel
Goldbaum, Dovid Mandel and Mendy
Loewenthal.
“It was inspiring to see representatives
of all segments of the community united
through Torah study,” said Rabbi
Menachem Blum of the Ottawa Torah
Centre.
The Freiman Family Young Leadership Award recognizes
an individual under the age of 40, who has rendered exceptional service
to the Jewish community.
The Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award
The Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award recognizes an outstanding
and active volunteer with the Jewish community who, through many years
of service, has contributed to the enrichment of Jewish life in Ottawa.
Submit Nominations by Tuesday, March 31, 2015 to:
Chair of the Community Award Selection Committee
Jewish Federation of Ottawa
21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa, Ontario K2A 1R9
or email: [email protected]
For more information or to submit a nomination form online,
please visit www.jewishottawa.com
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January 26, 2015
Mitzvah Day 2015: Old
favourites and new mitzvot
FEDERATION
REPORT
6
WARREN AND LINDA MELAMED
MITZVAH DAY
O
FROM THE
PULPIT
n Sunday, February 8, the
Jewish Federation of Ottawa
will host our 9th annual
Mitzvah Day – a day members
of Ottawa’s Jewish community come
together to perform mitzvot to help
make the world a little bit better, one
good deed at a time.
Mitzvah Day is all about kindness and
helping others. It’s about teaching our
children to become involved and to put
others before themselves. It’s about the
Jewish concept of tikkun olam (repairing
the world). Mitzvah Day is about going
beyond the boundaries of our commun-
RABBI HOWARD FINKELSTEIN
BEIT TIKVAH
O
n my flight from Israel to
Canada at the beginning of the
month, I observed hundreds of
Birthright students who were
returning home after their 10-day
adventure in Israel. For many, it was
their first time in Israel. Suffice it to say
that, without the dozens of Birthright
groups in Israel during winter break,
there would have been few tourists.
No one can doubt the exuberance of
the Birthright participants much as one
cannot deny that the epicentre of Jewish
life, Jerusalem, is vibrant, growing and
the exemplification of a renewed spirit of
Jewish learning, life and pride in
Judaism, and, by extension, the State of
Israel.
On the other hand, on our return to
Ottawa, we see a dampening of that
religious spirit that pervades Jerusalem
ity to help those less fortunate. It is
Jewish values in action.
Last year, the community took part in
such amazing mitzvot as Locks of Love,
for which two brave and selfless young
girls had their ponytails cut and donated
them for hair pieces for children
suffering from medical hair loss. We also
wrote letters of support and encouragement to Israel’s lone soldiers; made
sandwiches for the Ottawa Mission and
Shepherds of Good Hope; collected a ton
(almost literally) of hockey equipment
for the Canada-Israel Hockey School, a
terrific bridge-building program for
Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze
boys and girls; and raised over $1,000 for
the Pulmonary Hypertension
Association of Canada through our
Extreme Football Challenge.
This year’s mitzvot promise to be even
more exciting and include such past
favourites as Challahs for Hunger, in
which challah dough is braided and
donated to the Kosher Food Bank, and
creating birthday celebration kits for
children living in shelters to ensure that,
despite very difficult circumstances, they
do not miss out on birthday celebrations.
We will also be putting together care
packages for Canadian troops serving
overseas, as a way of saying “thanks” for
protecting our freedom.
A new addition to this year’s program
is the Jewish Family One-Stop Info Shop
– taking place in the Soloway JCC social
hall – which will showcase the
family-oriented programs and services
offered in Ottawa’s Jewish community.
This will include a showcase of the
amazing schools, shuls and summers
Ottawa and Jerusalem:
A tale of two cities
and Israel. Synagogue memberships are
down, student populations in the city’s
day and afternoon schools are declining,
and there is a waning of commitment on
the part of young Jews to their faith and
community. What will the picture of the
Ottawa Jewish community look like in
five or 10 years?
Issues of affordability and sustainability in Jewish educational institutions
such as day schools remain as potent as
ever in determining whether there is a
future for Jewish education in Ottawa.
Of course, Ottawa is not unique in this
regard. Jewish communities elsewhere
are facing the same issues. Rising tuition
costs cannot meet the rising costs of
educating a child in the Jewish day
school network. Fundraising efforts are
insufficient in erasing debts incurred by
schools. Federations must deal with the
ugly reality that they must constantly
play catch-up to enable schools to
remain above financial waters.
Schools must think of new ideas, new
alternatives, in order to survive. Their
survival is an indication of the survivability of the larger community. Hard and
unpopular decisions must be taken to
preserve our educational institutions in
Ottawa. We who live in Ontario are not as
privileged as our neighbours to the south
[as well as some other provinces] who
are recipients of government aid for
parochial day schools despite the claim
of separation of church and state.
Recently, the Orthodox Union in the
United States declared its campaign to
petition the American government to
provide even more money to Jewish day
schools. In Ontario, the provincial
government will not provide money
to a faith-based school to purchase a
three cent pencil unless said school is
Catholic.
Interestingly, at a conference of
Orthodox rabbis in Israel, which I
attended, it was announced that the
Israeli government will be providing
billions of dollars in financial aid to
Diaspora schools. The Israeli government recognizes that formalized Jewish
education, in addition to the family, are
the guarantors of Jewish continuity.
We remind ourselves constantly in our
prayers when we take the Torah out of
the Aron Kodesh that Torah shall come
forth out of Zion or Jerusalem. Perhaps
some of that Israeli largesse will come to
aid our schools in Ottawa.
The closure of any Jewish educational
institution because of a lack of funds
and student is disastrous, and a bad
omen for the future of its host community. Without Jewish schools, there is no
Jewish community. There is no future.
camps our wonderful community has to
offer.
As always, we are collecting such
items as new toys for the Make-a-Wish
Foundation, laundry detergent and
dish soap for Ronald McDonald House
and canned goods for the Kosher Food
Bank. For more details about Mitzvah
Day or to register, visit our website at
www.mitzvahdayottawa.com.
We are grateful to Ginsburg, Gluzman,
Fage & Levitz (GGFL) Chartered
Accountants for their continued support
of this amazing community-wide event.
As lead sponsor, they provide the funds
necessary to buy supplies for the
mitzvot, and a sizable contingent from
GGFL comes out, rolls up their sleeves
and participates!
Mitzvah Day has something for
everyone, regardless of age. Join us for
this meaningful and rewarding experience helping those in need.
We look forward to seeing you there,
Linda, Warren, Jacob and Michael
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IDEAS AND
IMPRESSIONS
surrounding areas, had become places of
so much darkness.
Almost all of 17 murdered victims
were killed for one of three reasons.
• Ten were killed because they worked
for a magazine the terrorists took offence
to for its depictions of the Muslim
prophet, Muhammad, the founder of
Islam. Many Muslims believe it is
forbidden to depict Muhammad in any
way – let alone mockingly as many
Charlie Hebdo cartoons had done over
the years.
Perhaps it should be noted that the
Charlie Hebdo cartoonists had no sacred
cows when it came to skewering religion.
They were equal opportunists who
would offend Christianity, in particular
Roman Catholicism, France’s dominant
religion, Judaism and other religions no
less than they would Islam.
JASON MOSCOVITZ
R
ecent events in France, as brutal
as they were, could have been
predicted. There has, unfortunately, been a steady build-up
to the ever present worldwide reality of
terrorist acts, and sometimes people
express fears that are precursors to such
horrors which still shock the soul.
In December, there was a conference in
Jerusalem of artists and filmmakers,
which focussed on how best to use
comedy to drive social change. One of the
speakers was 40-year-old Danny Cohen,
director of all four BBC television
networks. He oversees drama, entertainment and knowledge output. He is
obviously a whiz kid, who went from
Unprecendented solidarity
in wake of terrorist attacks
In 2008, Charlie Hebdo actually fired
one of its cartoonists because he refused
to apologize for an anti-Semitic cartoon
that drew complaints from the Jewish
community.
• Three more were killed because they
were police officers, representatives of
the French state. Some might argue that
two of them were killed because they
just happened to be on the scene of the
Charlie Hebdo attack, but that argument
cannot be made about the policewoman
murdered the day after. And, in reality,
the police on the scene at Charlie Hebdo
were there because the state’s fundamental values of freedom were under
threat of precisely the kind of terrorist
attack that took place. Ironically, one of
the murdered policemen at the magazine massacre was himself a Muslim.
• The final four victims were killed
simply because they were Jewish. Exactly
seven decades after the end of the
Holocaust, European Jews were murdered just because they were Jewish.
As National Post columnist Christie
Blatchford asked, “It’s curious, isn’t it,
how, for some people, when push comes
to shove, it’s always about the Jews?
“Does anyone believe for a minute
that, when Amedy Coulibaly, in presumed solidarity with his alleged
associates the Charlie Hebdo killers,
chose to make a grand gesture, he
randomly picked a Hyper Cacher supermarket on the eastern edge of Paris?”
And it wasn’t just about the Jews for
the terrorist who attacked the kosher
supermarket. Anti-Semitic conspiracy
theories quickly surfaced about the
Charlie Hebdo attack. The most prevalent
of them spread by some anti-Israel
activists like Greta Berlin who blamed
the attack on Mossad agents posing as
Islamist terrorists.
While Wikileaks didn’t blame Israel for
the attack, it did take to Twitter to say the
“Jewish pro-censorship lobby” legitimized the attacks on Charlie Hebdo
because of the complaints about the
anti-Semitic cartoon in 2008.
I mentioned that each of the 17
murdered victims was killed for one of
three reasons. Actually, one of the
victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre
was killed for two reasons.
Columnist Elsa Cayat was the only
woman killed at Charlie Hebdo.
Apparently, the terrorists told the
women on the scene they would not be
killed. They made an exception, though,
for Cayat because she was Jewish. So, it
wasn’t just about the Muhammad
cartoons for the Charlie Hebdo terrorists;
Prominent British Jews alarmed
at rising anti-Semitism in UK
being comptroller of the networks to
director at a young age.
While in Jerusalem, Cohen was interviewed on Israeli television where he
elaborated on what he said at the conference. The headline was, “BBC chief says
anti-Semitism makes him question Jews’
future in UK.”
Cohen, who grew up in Britain and
attended Jewish day school, said much
more about a bleak future. The transcript
is chilling.
“I’ve never felt more uncomfortable
being a Jew in the UK as I have felt in the
last 12 months. And it’s made me think
about, you know, is it our long-term home
actually? Because you feel it; I’ve felt it in
a way I have never felt it before.”
Now Cohen is not just anybody. With
his job at the BBC, he has an incredibly
high public profile. He is next in line for
the top job. And, although not directly
responsible, he is still identified with the
BBC’s world famous news service, which
is often criticized by pro-Israel advocacy
groups for biased reporting. Saying what
he said could not have been politically
easy for Cohen, but silence was not his
preferred option.
Cohen also said, “And you’ve seen the
number of attacks rise. It has been pretty
grim. And having lived my whole life in
the UK, I have never felt as I do now about
anti-Semitism in Europe.”
This past summer’s Israel-Hamas war
led to a striking increase in anti-Semitic
attacks in Europe and the UK. In July,
there were more than 100 hate crimes
reported in the UK alone – more than
double the usual number. Among those
attacks were an assault of a rabbi in
Gateshead, attacks on synagogues and the
attack of a Jewish boy riding his bicycle in
a north London neighbourhood.
What I didn’t know before researching
this column is that Ed Miliband, leader of
the Labour Party in the UK, is a Jew who is
also deeply concerned about the rise of
anti-Semitism in his country. Like Danny
Cohen, he laments and worries.
While praising his country’s long
tradition of tolerance, Miliband issued a
stern warning by stating, “The recent
spate of incidents should serve as a
7
it was about the Jews for them too.
Another of the victims, 80-year-old
cartoonist Georges Wolinski was also
Jewish.
These attacks were the latest in the
long string of anti-Semitic incidents that
have had many in France’s Jewish
community – the second largest
Diaspora community in the world –
questioning whether they have a future
there.
If there was any silver lining to those
terrible in events in France, it was the
unprecedented solidarity of literally
millions and millions of French citizens
who marched through the streets of
Paris and in other French cities on
January 11 standing solidly against
terrorism and for the principals of
Western democracy and human rights.
The Paris marchers were joined in the
streets by dozens of world leaders at the
head of the demonstration. And, among
their front ranks, standing just a few feet
apart, were Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
While some might be cynical about the
of the two of them marching together –
especially with all that has been revealed
about the machinations behind both
being there – it was a symbolically
significant moment.
In light of such terrorism and the clear
rise in anti-Semitism across Europe, the
world and its leaders need to keep up
this united front – and take it well
beyond mere symbolism.
wake-up call for anyone who thought the
scourge of anti-Semitism had been
defeated and that the idea of Jewish
families [being] fearful of living here in
Britain was unthinkable.”
It is shocking to read these quotes and
to consider their impact, especially when
you consider what happened in France
just a short time after the conference in
Jerusalem.
And, you have to wonder about
Canada. Politically and socially, we share
so much with France and the UK, but I
can’t imagine a day when I, or anyone of
us in the Jewish community, would say
we fear for our futures as Jews living in
Canada.
But, if anything, these events remind us
we have to be on our guard. We can’t just
pretend we are above it and that it
couldn’t happen here.
Last summer’s war in Gaza demonstrated to Jews all over the world, all over
again, how tough it is for Israel to catch a
break in public opinion. With today’s
instant news and video, between traditional media and social media, there is an
avalanche of anti-Israel viewpoints to
cope with – and these are heightened, of
course, when there’s trouble.
The depressing and difficult truth is
that it isn’t always possible to stay above
the fray, totally untouched, in our comfortable Canada.
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OTTAWA RALLY IGNORED ROLE OF ANTI-SEMITISM
When I learned a rally was going to be held January 11
at Confederation Park in solidarity with the million
marching in Paris, I grabbed a sheet of paper and a
marker and wrote, “Je suis Juive.” I’d been tweeting that
hashtag since four Jews were murdered by a Muslim
terrorist in a kosher grocery store in Paris.
My husband Allan and I headed to the rally. I was a
bit anxious. Would a terrorist strike at this event? Just
two days earlier, twin brothers who’d converted to
Islam had been arrested in Ottawa on terrorism-related
charges. I hugged my children before leaving the house,
just in case.
The rally, organized by the Association démocratique
des Français de l’étranger, was a tribute to freedom of
expression and to the 17 French victims.
There were hundreds of marchers, quite a few French
flags and lots of signs that read “Je suis Charlie,”
referring to Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine
whose cartoonists were massacred by Islamist terrorists.
Others carried pencils to honour the cartoonists.
The rally was somber, respectful and peaceful. What
was lacking, in my opinion, was both a visible Jewish
presence and acknowledgment that anti-Semitism
played a key role in four of the killings.
Because Allan and I were the only two people with
“Je suis Juive” and “Je suis Juif” signs, we were
among those who caught the media’s attention. We
appeared later that day on CTV News. Our signs and a
clip of Allan expressing his solidarity and sorrow were
shown.
When asked why I was in attendance, I told the
interviewer that my father is a Holocaust survivor and
that I’m deeply concerned about the rise in hate crimes
against Jews in Europe. I went on to say we must unite
against all terrorism.
My interview was not shown on television. Perusing
the same day’s online editions of the Ottawa Citizen and
Ottawa Sun, I noticed that reports on the Ottawa rally
made no mention of the Jewish victims at the kosher
store.
I’m glad I attended the rally. It’s important to stand
up for what you believe in. I’m grateful that I live in
Canada, where I can hold up a sign proclaiming that
I’m Jewish. Despite my initial concerns about making
such a declaration in a non-Jewish milieu, no one
bothered me.
In fact, my husband and I felt welcomed and many
people read our signs, smiled and asked to take our
photo. However, I’m disappointed that the rally goers
and the media failed to mention anti-Semitism and the
targeting of Jews.
And I’m angry that, in Canada, we need security
guards at Jewish schools, Jewish community centres
Gloria Schwartz (left) and Allan Wolfsohn with their signs at
the Ottawa solidarity rally in Confederation Park, January 11.
and synagogues. We must do more as a nation to
combat anti-Semitism and Islamist extremism
abroad and in our own backyard. Rallies can only do
so much.
Gloria Schwartz
JCC PROGRAMS
I read with keen interest the December 8 article
discussing the Soloway Jewish Community Centre
(SJCC) Engaged Adult Learning courses to be offered
this winter and was dismayed and disappointed to
find that 17 of 18 courses are being offered during
daytime hours; only Hebrew language is offered in the
evening.
This situation has existed for some time and does a
disservice to SJCC members, such as myself, who are
still working. With AJA 50+ offering many excellent
daytime courses, I feel strongly that SJCC adult programming should reflect the needs of the full range of
members, not just those who are available during the
day. I will convey my concerns directly to the SJCC and
urge others who share my views to do the same.
Joel Kanigsberg
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As a result of Operation Protective Edge during the
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the Gaza border. Today, only barbed wire and a few
miles separate the residents from the desert plains of
Egypt and raging rockets of Gaza. Planting trees during
a shmita year is allowed by the Rabbinate, is a mitzvah,
and demonstrates Canada’s solidarity with Israel’s pioneering communities.
David and Margo Kardish have a place in Florida
for winter and a place
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Over the past few
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JNF has yielded their family many markers of their
devotion to Israel with friendship “footprint” plaques in
Israel’s north, centre and south.
We asked David and Margo what drives their connection to JNF.
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We are defined by how we help others and JNF brings
our community together in a meaningful way. It unites
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and so much more. It is very special and humbling that
by helping JNF we are helping the Jewish people. How
lucky we are to be part of the community that envisions
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Plant a Tree on Mitzvah Day, February 8
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Merle Haltrecht-Matte (left) and Dara Lithwick (rear) of Temple Israel’s Social Action Committee with Imam Mohamad Jebara and
Rabbi Steven Garten after serving a lunch, November 30, to women staying at Shepherds of Good Hope Shelter.
Jews and Muslims combine for inter-faith mitzvah
BY MICAH GARTEN FOR TEMPLE ISRAEL
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s it still a mitzvah if you have an amazing time
performing it?
Eight Temple Israel congregants joined together
with eight members of Cordova Islamic Academy,
November 30, to perform a mitzvah for the women staying
at the Shepherds of Good Hope shelter.
The two groups gathered together in a small kitchen on
the third floor of the shelter where roughly 65 women
sleep each night. The volunteers brought the ingredients
needed to make a delicious lunch and, as they prepared
the food, they made introductions and shared laughter. As
the residents of the shelter peaked in to see what all the
commotion was about, they were invited to come in for
some coffee and conversation. Pretty soon everyone was
mingling and it became difficult to tell who was a client
and who was a volunteer.
When the food was ready, everyone moved to the
conference room where the shelter residents were served
the meal. Some remarked that it was the best meal they
had ever had and that they were so grateful for the whole
experience.
And the smiles on the faces of the Jewish and Muslim
volunteers shined equally as large with the knowledge that
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“To serve is the best way to move faith from words into
action,” said Imam Mohamad Jebara of the Cordova
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‘‘It was a pleasure to share a mitzvah with all. I look
forward to many more moments of blessings,’’ added
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have a store on Bank Street, or in the ByWard Market, or in LeBreton Flats? Have you saved
a memento from that time? The Ottawa Jewish Historical Society and the Ottawa Jewish
Archives would like to hear your stories and see your memorabilia.
On Wednesday, April 29, in partnership with the Soloway JCC, we’ll “go shopping” down
memory lane and we want to make sure your family’s business is included. Please bring
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City Hall ceremony to commemorate
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
BY FLORALOVE KATZ
OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST
REMEMBRANCE DAY COMMITTEE
I
nternational Holocaust
Remembrance Day will be commemorated in the nation’s capital on
Tuesday, January 27, 12 pm, at
Ottawa City Hall.
This annual event honours six million
Jews – including a million children –
murdered during the Holocaust. The
United Nations chose January 27 as
International Holocaust Remembrance
Day in recognition of the liberation of the
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on
January 27, 1945. This year marks the 70th
anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka will act as
master of ceremonies and other speakers
will include Employment and Social
Development and Multiculturalism
Minister Jason Kenney; Liberal Leader
Justin Trudeau; Mayor Jim Watson; the
ambassadors of Germany, Israel, Poland
and Turkey; and Salma Siddiqui, president of the Coalition of Progressive
Canadian Muslim Organizations.
Cantor Moshe Kraus, a survivor of
Bergen-Belsen, will sing “Kel Malei
Rachamim” and recite Kaddish and
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Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka will act a master of
ceremonies for the International Holocaust
Remembrance Day Ceremony, January 27, 12
pm, at Ottawa City Hall.
Cantor Moshe Kraus, a Holocaust survivor,
will sing “Kel Malei Rachamim” and recite
Kaddish.
Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak is among the
ambassadors from four countries scheduled
to speak at the International Holocaust
Remembrance Daye Ceremony in Ottawa.
Holocaust survivors will place six flowers
in a vase to represent the six million
Jewish murder victims.
There has been a resurgence of
anti-Semitism and alarming anti-Semitic
acts over the past year – witness the
murders of four shoppers in a kosher
supermarket in Paris just this month – so
the theme of Ottawa’s International
Holocaust Remembrance Day for
2015, “The Renewed Urgency of
Holocaust Education and Eradication
of Anti-Semitism,” is both timely and
important.
Holocaust remembrance is typically
marked with a moment of silence for the
six million murdered Jews. Were we to
dedicate one moment to each of them,
we would have to stand silent for 11 years!
For more information about the
International Holocaust Remembrance
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n 1990, when Estelle Backman walked into the
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she had no idea she was about to embark on an
exciting new career that would change her life.
A teacher from Montreal, Estelle, along with her
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insistence was probably the most significant reason that
I took the job. That incident totally changed my life. I
absolutely loved it.”
When Estelle retired in December, she reminisced
about her years working in the JCC and then Soloway
JCC libraries.
The Chapel Street library was housed in the basement
of the building and, when she first arrived, it had been
closed for some time, so her first foray into the life of a
librarian was cleaning, dusting and organizing. Still, she
knew from the start it was where she belonged.
“Right away, I knew that I loved the job,” said Estelle.
“It was below ground and had one window with bars on
it. It was so cold in the winter you could see your breath
and I wore mittens, [but] I still loved it.”
For Estelle, the beauty of the dingy basement library
came from the people who used it. Since it wasn’t a very
busy place, she had the time to talk to the people and
practise her Yiddish with the Lunch Bunch crowd.
After seven years in the Chapel Street basement, the
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her eyes on what was to become her new home away
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“When we came in and saw the library, I was overwhelmed. It was a wonderful opportunity to turn the
library into the gem it is today,” she said.
Now, with a budget to purchase quality books and a
second librarian, Donna Guttman, by her side, the two,
along with several volunteers, began automating the
catalogue of books.
In recent years, with Estelle and Jack Schecter at the
helm, the Greenberg Families Library collection has
grown to include 10,000 Jewish content and Jewish
interest books, more than 1,000 DVDs, and a children’s
section, which didn’t exist on Chapel Street. And the
library has been recognized with Advanced
Accreditation by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
While these are all things of which Estelle is extremely
proud, her biggest thrills come from recommending a
book that makes someone happy and in the accolades
the library receives from its users.
“When a guest author comes in and says ‘Wow, this is
a first class library,’ it’s such a joy to hear that … that’s
the nicest compliment we can get,” she said.
With her final days in the library now behind her,
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someone who, I hope, will derive the same amount of
pleasure from this job as I have.”
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Chanukah music on Parliament Hill
Seymour Mayne launches new poetry collection: Poet and University of Ottawa professor
Seymour Mayne speaks at the launch of Cusp, his new collection of word sonnets,
November 17, at uOttawa’s Café Nostalgica. The event was also a celebration of the 50th
anniversary of the publication of Mayne’s first book, That Monocycle the Moon, which he
holds in the photo. That first book received the Chester Macnaghten First Prize in Creative
Writing at McGill University in 1964.
Dominion Carillonneur Andrea McCrady (seated) performed a noontime program of Chanukah
music, December 18, on the Peace Tower carillon. She was joined in her studio by (from left)
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Mitzvah in the mitzvah tank: Joseph finds his way
BY MINDY WALLACH
FOR CHABAD OF KANATA
D
uring Chanukah, a “mitzvah
tank” was seen on the streets
of Ottawa for the first time in
15 years. Organized by Chabad
of Kanata under the direction of Rabbi
Michoel Gershzon, the tank was dedicated in memory of the late Rabbi
Mordechai Berger.
On December 22, the sixth day of
Chanukah, the tank was parked on Bank
Street in downtown Ottawa and many
Jews stopped by to partake of the
doughnuts, lay tefillin and receive a
menorah kit.
Joseph, a middle-aged man with a
ponytail, came into the mitzvah tank
and shared his story. His maternal
grandparents had run away from the
Nazis in Europe and settled in a Quebec
village. Traumatized by their experiences of anti-Semitism in Europe, they
decided to hide the fact that they were
Jews and became members of the local
Catholic church. Their daughter married
a man from the village and eventually
had a son, Joseph, who was raised
without any knowledge of his Jewish
ancestry.
When Joseph’s grandmother passed
away, he was tasked with cleaning up her
apartment and he came across many
Jewish books among her belongings.
When he asked his mother about
them, she would only provide vague
answers. But Joseph was persistent
and his mother finally shared the story
of their escape from Nazi Europe
and the decision to hide their
Jewishness.
Since then, Joseph said he has been
trying to learn more about being Jewish
and was happy to come across the
mitzvah tank that Chanukah day.
Rabbi Gershzon helped Joseph lay
tefillin, gave him a menorah kit and a
pushke, both with Chabad of Kanata’s
contact information on them, and said
goodbye.
Joseph had inadvertently left his bag
in the tank and called Rabbi Gershzon
later that evening to ask if it had been
found.
This led to another 30-minute discussion about Yiddishkeit during which
Joseph and the rabbi discussed the
mitzvah of brit milah. Rabbi Gershzon
arranged with a mohel for Joseph to have
his brit milah.
The very next day, at age 40, Joseph
entered the covenant of Avraham and
was named Yosef Yitzchok. He plans to
join the Torah classes at Chabad of
Kanata just as soon as he is feeling
better.
When Joseph, who grew up not knowing he was Jewish, visited the mitzvah tank during
Chanukah, Rabbi Michoel Gershzon of Chabad of Kanata showed him how to lay tefillin.
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PHOTO: HOWARD SANDLER
The Ottawa Jewish Community School’s Capital Cappies production for this year,
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, was performed to great acclaim from December 8
to 11 at the school. (From left) The Brewster sisters, Martha (Ella Sabourin) and Abby (Meera
Landau), shrink from evil relative Jonathan Brewster (Gabe Hamburg) and Dr. Einstein (Shmuel
Benzaquen).
Elaine Harper (Hannah Srour) talks with Mortimer Brewster (Ethan Sabourin).
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It is with great sadness that the family of
Mickey Finkelstein, announces his peaceful passing, Friday, December 26, 2014, at
Hillel Lodge in Ottawa at the age of 81,
after a valiant fight with dementia. Mickey
was a devoted husband, father and grandfather. He leaves behind his loving wife,
Donna, of 54 years, 4 children, Jeff
(Brenlea), Lori (Jordan), Ken (Rachel), and
David (Yunna) along with 7 grandchildren,
Nicole, Dara, Brooke, Jonah, Dayna, Mira,
and Toby. Mickey received his Chartered
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of Manitoba in 1957, and went on to become a
successful businessman, executive, and real
estate investor. Mickey was the ultimate
family man, always helping out friends and
family whenever in need.
Funeral services were held on December 28,
2014, at the Jewish Memorial Gardens.
Tamir: Cantor Daniel Benlolo assists participants in lighting the Chanukah candles at the Tamir Chanukah Party, December 17, at
Beth Shalom.
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Embassy of Israel: Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak hosted a Chanukah reception, December 22, at his residence.
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Twin sisters share
special birthday with Hillel Lodge
This year marks the 60th
anniversary of Hillel Lodge.
We will be presenting a
series of articles to commemorate the past, showcase
the present and plan for the
future. Two local twin sisters recently celebrated their
60th birthday by honouring
the Lodge with a special gift.
Joy Mender and Sharon
Appotive are the daughters of the late Sam and Sue
Slack. The sisters learned
early on how important it is
to stay connected to family,
calling their Bubbie, Dora
Slack, daily to report in on
their day, and visiting her
every Sunday. Being close to
their Bubbie came naturally,
witnessing the devotion of
their father and his brothers
to their mother.
Lodge: “We don’t anticipate
the decline of our parents,
and while it is not easy to see
this happening, we
are grateful to have this
facility, where they are very
well cared for, in a Jewish
environment. Highly regarded and respected in Ottawa,
Hillel Lodge staff listened to
our needs, provided appropriate diets and, at the end
of life stage, administered
exemplary palliative care.”
Joy and Sharon take
comfort in knowing their
mother felt the support, and
knew that she was living in
the right place for her.
To honour their parents
as Sharon and Joy celebrated
their 60th birthdays, they
requested that donations to
commemorate their birthday
be directed to the purchase
Upon retirement and until
of twin benches to be placed
his death in 2001, Sam Slack
at the entrance of the Lodge.
Joy Mender and Sharon Appotive
volunteered at Hillel Lodge.
When spring arrives, and
He enjoyed being with the
the benches are in place,
excellent care provided to
Joy and Sharon have
residents, escorting them to their mother. Joy and her
maintained their connection everyone is welcome to
activities, assisting them at
husband, Seymour, also
to Hillel Lodge by participat- come to the Lodge to visit
Bingo and at Shul services.
recall the excellent care
ing in the annual Biking for with the residents and enjoy
Volunteer work at the Lodge provided by the Lodge for
the new “twin” benches.
Bubbies. This year, Sharon
was what Sam referred to as Seymour’s late mother,
hosted 120 guests at her
his “best medicine”.
Helen Mender. Moreover,
home for a highly successful
all the grandchildren felt
Israeli Brunch with all
When Sue Slack needed
comfortable when visiting
proceeds going to the Lodge.
more care, she became a
their Bubbies; a testament to
resident of the Lodge.
the devoted staff and
The sisters reflected on
Sharon and Joy recall the
welcoming environment.
their experience at Hillel
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Emerging Generation: Carli Fink and Ben Menka are among the many
enjoying the Emerging Generation Chanukah Party, December 16,
at @thespace.
Or Haneshamah: Sarah Waisvisz reads to some of the kids at
the OrH Chanukah Party, December 19, at the First Unitarian
Congregation of Ottawa building.
Hillel Lodge and OJCS: Ottawa Jewish Community School students performed Chanukah songs for the
residents of Hillel Lodge, December 18. Lodge resident David Silverman and Cantor Daniel Benlolo light
the menorah as some of the students look on.
Adath Shalom: Morris Schnitzer relates the
miracles he experienced during the Shoah
at Adath Shalom’s Music and Miracles
Chanukah program, December 21, at OJCS.
Chabad Hebrew School: Chabad Hebrew School students and their families
enjoy the Mad Science Fire & Ice Chanukah show, December 21, at Ottawa Torah
Centre Chabad.
Torah Academy: More than 130 people – students, teachers, parents, grandparents and friends – enjoy the annual Chanukah Luncheon, December 23, at Torah Academy.
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By Pamela Rosenberg
Another great summer at JCC of Ottawa
Summer Camps is just around the corner
with exciting themes, more specialty camps,
adventurous trips, Judaic learning opportunities and tons of summer fun.
Jon Braun is back in his role as Summer
Camp and Travelling Sports Camp executive director, with Gail Lieff heading up the
Specialty Camps and Lauren Lee as Day
Camp director. Back for a second year as
part of the Day Camp senior management
team is Debbie Shapiro, and Hailey
Rosenthal Dubarsky, is making her JCC
Summer Camp debut.
With tons of day camp experience under
her belt, Hailey is earning a bachelor of
Education at Queen’s University. This past
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“We are very excited to have someone
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Along with Day Camps, there are wonderful weekly themes like Water Works,
Animal Planet, Space is the Place and exciting field trips for the older campers, and
each week contains meaningful Jewish programming that will have everyone celebrating and learning.
According to Lauren, day campers will
take part in camp-wide Shabbat and mitzvah projects, visit the residents at Hillel
Lodge and learn Israeli dancing.
In addition to the always exciting
Travelling Sports Camp afternoon trips, this
summer, campers will cheer on the city’s
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sports will stop in throughout the summer.
A fan favourite, Coach Carlos Brown, will
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Travelling Sports Camp takes campers on a different adventure every afternoon
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As always, daily instructional swimming
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Three new additions to the Specialty
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Ottawa City Hall: (From left) Rabbi Dovid Hayes, Mayor Jim Watson, Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka and
Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky prepare to light the giant menorah outside Ottawa City Hall, December
16, at a menorah lighting organized by the Rohr Chabad Student Network of Ottawa.
Sephardi Association: Children light the candles as Clemy Srour and Cantor Daniel Benlolo
look on at the Sephardi Association of Ottawa Chanukah Party, December 20, at Shikun Oz.
JET: Participants in the Sarah’s Tent program, a division of JET, enjoy their Chanukah party,
December 17, at the home of Rabbi Yisroel and Rochel Goldbaum.
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In support of the Bess and Moe Greenberg Family Hillel Lodge
In the Joseph and Inez Zelikovitz Long Term Care Centre
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Card Donations
Card donations go a long way to improving
the quality of life for our residents. Thank you for
considering their needs and contributing to their
well-being.
On behalf of the residents and their families,
we extend sincere appreciation to the following
individuals and families who made card donations
to the Hillel Lodge Long-Term Care Foundation
between November 19 2014 to January 7, 2015
inclusive.
HONOUR FUNDS
Unlike a bequest or gift of life insurance,
which are realized some time in the future, a
named Honour Fund (i.e., endowment fund) is
established during your lifetime.
By making a contribution of $1,000 or more,
you can create a permanent remembrance for a
loved one, honour a family member, declare what
the Lodge has meant to you and/or support a cause
that you believe in.
A Hillel Lodge Honour Fund is a permanent
pool of capital that earns interest or income each
year. This income then supports the priorities designated by you, the donor.
Ruth and Irving Aaron Family Fund
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Jacob Benaich by Ruth and Irving Aaron
Stanley Abelson by Ruth and Irving Aaron
Joe Viner by Ruth and Irving Aaron
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Raisa Blank by Marilyn Adler
Dr. Hyman Kaufman by Marilyn Adler
Lillian Kimmel by Elayne Adler, David, Jordan and Benjamin
Jean Stenzler by Marilyn Adler, Neil and
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Mickey Finkelstein by Marilyn Adler
Raymonde Herscovitch by Marilyn Adler
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In Memory of:
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In Memory of:
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Friedberg and Dale Families Fund
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January 26, 2015
My childhood memories
of Jews and Arabs living
in harmony in Morocco
I
n the 20th century, approximately
850,000 of a population of one
million Jews from Arab and Muslim
countries (mainly Morocco, Syria,
Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen,
Lebanon and Egypt) emigrated either by
force or by choice – many of them
dispossessed and forced to become
refugees in the years following the
creation of the State of Israel.
The Israeli Knesset recently declared
November 30 as the national day of
commemoration for Jewish refugees
from Arab lands. This date has special
significance because it immediately
follows the anniversary of the United
Nations General Assembly approval of
the Partition Plan of Mandatory
Palestine and the creation of a Jewish
state (November 29, 1947), which was
rejected by the Arab nations.
As a result, attacks against Jews in
Arab countries were rampant and
Jewish communities in those countries
where they had lived for centuries
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CANTOR DANIEL BENLOLO
GUEST COLUMN
became uninhabitable. Inevitably, most
made their way to the emerging Jewish
state.
Just a few years earlier in Morocco, the
land of my birth, King Muhammed V
had told the Nazi commander who
demanded a list of Jews: “We have no
Jews in Morocco, only Moroccan citizens.” Those sentiments have been
shared by the king’s son and successor
Hassan II, and by his son, the present
King Muhammed VI.
The majority of the 300,000 Jews of
Morocco left during Israel’s War of
Independence and the Six Day War,
fearing an outburst of violence toward
them. The 5,000 who remain today
consist mainly of older generations.
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Nevertheless, Morocco has taken
wide-ranging steps to preserve its Jewish
history. Today, many historically significant Jewish sites, such as synagogues
and cemeteries, have been refurbished,
are well guarded and have been declared
national historic sites. Projects like the
renovation of the Moroccan Jewish
Museum keep these sites and memories
of Jewish life alive and safe and promote
understanding and tolerance for future
generations.
With the nightmare visited upon the
French nation in the last few days, to be a
Jew today in Morocco can be safer than
walking the streets of Paris. André
Azoulay, a senior Jewish adviser to the
king and a member of the project’s
advisory board, told the JTA: “I am not
trying to paint a one-sided rosy picture.
There are some difficult and maybe
black pages in the book of Moroccan
Jewry, but there are many, many more
beautiful chapters.”
Despite some “black pages,” my
childhood memories of Morocco are
good. I was fortunate enough to have
spent my youth in Casablanca with its
harried marketplaces, crowded cobbled
streets and, most deliciously, the smell of
baked goods and bread emanating from
the many food stalls scattered along the
streets.
But it was the Shabbat dinners, the
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Lawrence Pleet
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Bryan, Alison and Rob Glube
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holidays and the Jewish experience
intertwined with a slew of Moroccan
traditions that enriched and enhanced
my appreciation for Jewish life in a
Muslim country. I identified myself as a
Judeo-Arab. I became so much more
appreciative of my own Judaism and of
how our people, who were so dispersed
throughout the world, were really one
community.
On my last trip to Morocco, I visited
my father’s former synagogue in
Essaouira, a place where I never felt
more sheltered and out of harm’s way
than under my father’s tallit during the
recitation of the priestly blessings. I
would grin at my brothers who joined
me under this enveloping canopy, while
the congregation prayed with fervour.
At the conclusion of this prayer, we
would kiss our father’s hand and in
return he would lay his gentle hands on
our heads and bless us once more in his
own words. Those memories in a land
where Jews and Arabs lived in harmony
will always live within me.
As Diaspora communities shrink
worldwide, we must do our best to
ensure the memories of those who came
before us live on. Hence, new generations of Moroccans can learn and
appreciate that Jews are not only those
who live in Israel, but were once their
next door neighbours.
Steven Poleski
Care Cohen by Sandy Pollock and Steven
Poleski
Brian Bloom by Belle Gitterman
Goldye Fenster by Susan and Charles
Schwartzman and family
Samuel Fried by Susan and Charles
Schwartzman and family; and by Ed and Betty
Rose
Parents of Lynn Gillman by Merle and
Rickey Moses and family
Charlotte Markoff by Barbara and Larry
Hershorn
Dr. Hyman Kaufman by the Residents,
Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge
Gertrude Klain by the Residents, Board and
Staff of Hillel Lodge
Dr. Morris Broder by Lauire Chochinov
Ben Eisenstat by Cynthia Cowan
Sigmund Mintz by Deborah and James
Farrow
Raymonde Herscovitch by the Residents,
Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge
Max (Mickey) Finkelstein by the Residents,
Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; by Evelyn
Monson; by Sylvia Monson; by Phyllis and Bill
Cleiman; by Arnold and Jeanette Finkelstein; by
Rena and Max Cohen
Henry Upfall by Shirley and Norman Levitt
and family; by Ruth Calof and family; and by
Marilyn Binder
Mike Roodman by Beth Roodman
Ruth Kizell by the Residents, Board and Staff
of Hillel Lodge
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Cheryl Leyton by Brian Goldstein
January 26, 2015
27
Abbas may live to regret his New Year’s resolution
A
bold move toward statehood, or an illconsidered ploy doomed to backfire?
Even the experts can’t agree on the likely
outcome of Palestinian Authority (PA)
President Mahmoud Abbas’ New Year’s move to seek
membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC)
in The Hague.
But one thing is certain: Abbas’ desperate move has
made the prospect of a negotiated two-state solution
more remote than ever.
Since the collapse of the U.S.-brokered peace talks in
April, the Palestinian leadership has opted for diplomatic warfare – seeking international recognition for a
Palestinian state and gaining acceptance to international bodies.
When the PA failed in its attempt at the United
Nations (UN) Security Council in December to pass a
resolution for the creation of an independent
Palestinian state, Abbas took a different tack and signed
what is known as the Rome Statute, which begins the
process of acceptance into the ICC.
Although the U.S. and others have questioned the
Palestinian entity’s eligibility because it is not a true
state, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that
the “state of Palestine” (sic) will officially join the ICC
on April 1.
However, the Palestinians’ acceptance of the jurisdiction of the ICC is retroactive to June 13, 2014, the day
after the kidnapping and murders of Israeli teenagers
Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach by
terrorists associated with Hamas.
This suggests that the PA will try to bring charges
stemming from Israel’s widespread arrests in the West
Bank after the kidnappings, as well as all the actions of
the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza during the
summer of 2014. It would not include previous Gaza
wars of 2008-2009 and 2012.
BARBARA CROOK
MY ISRAEL
But what does membership in the ICC mean, and
what are its powers?
The ICC is an independent organization that is not
part of the UN. More than 120 countries have ratified the
Rome Statute that officially established the court in
2002. Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member, but
Canada is a founding member.
The court addresses four general areas: genocide,
crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of
aggression. It has jurisdiction to try individuals, not
states.
So, the Palestinians would likely try to charge Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister
Moshe Ya’alon, senior IDF officials, and possibly commanders of IDF units with particularly high casualty
counts in Gaza.
A complaint to the ICC does not automatically trigger
an investigation or prosecution. That is up to the ICC
prosecutor.
To date, the ICC has dealt mainly with conflicts in
Africa, and has convicted only two people, Congolese
warlords Thomas Lubanga Dyilo and Germain Katanga.
It does not actually arrest or detain those charged or
convicted, but having senior Israeli political and military
leaders prosecuted in an international forum would
further damage Israel’s international image and
embolden the country’s many foes.
According to Shana Tabak, a practitioner-in-residence
Reflecting on the conversation in 2014
I
t was quite the year. By now you have probably
reflected on the highs and lows of 2014.
There were major events disrupting and challenging Jewish communities across the Diaspora. Some
are easily identified. It was a tough summer, to say the
least. Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach are
names that will not be forgotten.
In 2014, Ottawa’s Jewish community – along with the
rest of the Diaspora – experienced “overwhelming
sorrow,” as Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak said at the
special Zachor service held in June for the three murdered Israeli boys.
During Israel’s war with Hamas last summer, updates
could not come fast enough – particularly for families
who had children or friends living in Israel or serving in
the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Tobin Kaiman, an Ottawa resident and former IDF
paratrooper who finished his tour of duty last year and
then voluntarily went back to help Israel during the
fighting, spoke to the community via a pre-recorded
video at the Rally for the People of Israel in July.
The former lone soldier was just one of many who
shared their personal stories with the community,
which helped to deepen and shape the understanding
and connection many now have of the realities of life in
Israel, both in this past year and as they currently
evolve.
At the very least, this year’s tension prompted
conversations. Attending the solidarity rallies and
MONIQUE ELLIOT
EMERGING GEN
events this past year allowed me to listen in to what is
truly important to Ottawa’s Jewish community. I asked
so many questions and learned so much during my first
year reporting for the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. I needed to
know what was actually happening in Israel and
devoured as many reports as I could get my eyes on –
from a variety of news media.
Many of my emerging gen peers did the same. Social
media lit up with debates, anger, frustration and hope.
Yes, hope and compassion were key themes in many
conversations, with impromptu moderators appearing
to appeal for calm and rationality. We can never know
the full story, as much as we try. Yet, learning to acknowledge our biases and keep an open mind allows our
passionate perspectives to evolve as the situations do.
I remember a particular conversation I had in the fall
with one of my friends and colleagues who is also an
Ottawa-based reporter. They say you should never talk
politics or religion at dinner parties. Neither of us has
ever been the type to follow the rules, in that sense.
with the International Human Rights Law Clinic at
American University, it could also make it difficult for
those charged or convicted to travel in or through ICC
member countries.
But Tabak argues the real danger is that joining the
ICC and 17 other international treaties strengthens the
PA’s position in the international community and the
UN “which can only lead to greater international
recognition of Palestine as a state.”
The fallout has begun. Israel has refused to release
$127 million U.S. in tax revenue it collects for the PA and
the U.S. is expected to freeze its $500 million in annual
foreign aid to the PA.
But both moves are only temporary sanctions.
Netanyahu argues that the Fatah-Hamas government
should be more concerned than Israel about being
prosecuted for war crimes. Indeed, Shurat HaDin, an
Israeli NGO that defends the legal rights of terror
victims, is poised to charge senior PA leaders with war
crimes at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the
primary judicial branch of the UN.
Shurat HaDin has already won several high-profile
lawsuits in the U.S. against the PA and others involved
in terrorism against Israelis.
Approaching 80, and with his popularity plummeting, Abbas is determined to achieve Palestinian
statehood. He obviously hopes his UN actions will
marginalize Israel and establish Palestinian statehood
without concessions to Israel.
It would be a state without official borders, misruled
by a partnership between the ineffectual Fatah and the
terrorist organization Hamas; a state that cannot
survive without co-operation from Israel and substantial handouts from the U.S. yet continues to spit in the
face of both; a state that would rather reopen past
wounds than make any effort to heal them.
He may live to regret his New Year’s resolution.
Our conversation was about the Israel-Hamas
hostilities last summer. It was polite yet supercharged.
Our dinner table went otherwise quiet as our friends
and loved ones turned to listen in to our discussion.
Some chimed in with questions or with what they had
heard from the media. Humanizing such a complex
conflict is a nuanced and delicate undertaking; it is a
dance of respect, requiring the full participation of all
parties.
We left the conversation with more questions than
the answers we each thought we had going into it. I got
to see this conflict, and this year, mostly through the
viewpoints of the emerging gen (and they truly vary).
Despite all the negativity and fear, 2014 was a landmark year for Ottawa’s Jewish community: solidarity,
communication and understanding projected as
auspicious overtones, and redirected the dialogue to
more productive commentary. Some events define who
we are in subtle ways, and, other times, we know exactly
when our lives have changed, and that certain things
will never be the same.
It is our personal growth and willingness to learn that
ultimately direct the conversation. My friend and I
agreed to disagree on certain issues, which means we
will likely repeat a version of that conversation in 2015. I
welcome the opportunity to keep the discussion open.
What defined 2014 for you? Where do you see the
conversation going in 2015? We want to hear from you,
so let us know by sending a letter to the editor or by
commenting on the website posting of this column.
Let’s keep the dialogue energetic and productive.
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January 26, 2015
Thoughts on reaction to a scammer
I
t starts out innocently enough. The phone rings.
“Hey, it’s your favourite nephew.”
“David?” you respond.
“Yes, it’s David.”
“You don’t sound like David,” you say, but he explains
that away by mentioning a broken nose. More to the
point, he adds, he’s in trouble. He got arrested last night,
and he needs you to wire him $3,000.
“I know it’s a lot to ask,” he says, “but it’s urgent, and
I’m in trouble. And please don’t tell my parents.”
The grandparent or aunt-and-uncle scam, as it’s known,
happened to a friend of mine a few years ago. Sadly, she
fell for it, believing she was helping her nephew out of a
bind. In a matter of hours, she was bilked out of a few
thousand dollars.
So, when the phone rang at my parents’ house in
Richmond, B.C. a few weeks ago when I happened to be
standing there and heard my mom say, “My favourite
nephew? You’ve broken your nose?” I jumped into action,
grabbed the phone, and began swearing a blue streak at
the caller.
It’s a common enough scam, but one which
unsuspecting victims continue to fall for. With all the junk
email one receives with trumped up stories of our contacts
being stranded travellers, we are used to scams and other
digital phishing attempts. But there is something different
about being confronted by a live person on the other end
of the line. A rapport can quickly develop as one unwittingly feeds the scammer facts that are then used to
continue to establish a sense of trust that is based on lies.
CBC reported last month that 500 seniors fall for the
scam each year in Canada, with a total of $1.7 million lost
(averaging $3,400 per person).
I write about this here partly in the hope of preventing
other potential victims.
MIRA SUCHAROV
VALUES, ETHICS,
COMMUNITY
If we intuitively knew
how to decrease unethical behaviour
in our society, we would surely
live in a much different world.
But, at the very least,
we should be asking ourselves
what kinds of strategies can lead
troubled individuals to reform
their actions. Perhaps a strategy
of empathy or compassion
is a better one ...
I also am writing about it in an attempt to try and
understand the dynamic of shame and guilt when it
comes to persuading petty criminals like these to cease
their horrible behaviour. When I took the phone from my
mom’s hand, I had but a couple of seconds to figure out a
strategy. I decided to shame the person, until he finally
said, “It’s a job.” It was a sad admission of guilt, which
only led me to continue my swearing diatribe about how
he might go about finding a real job, the jerk.
Psychologists have discussed the difference between
shame and guilt. Experiencing shame means internalizing
one’s negative behaviour such that one comes to experience feelings of worthlessness. The result can be more
anti-social behaviour. Guilt, on the other hand, is understood to be more targeted to the behaviour itself and thus
potentially a more constructive emotion, as one can make
amends for specific misdeeds.
If we intuitively knew how to decrease unethical
behaviour in our society, we would surely live in a much
different world. But, at the very least, we should be asking
ourselves what kinds of strategies can lead troubled
individuals to reform their actions. Perhaps a strategy of
empathy or compassion is a better one, as Phil Barker,
then a political science graduate student, wrote in 2003.
http://tinyurl.com/guilt-shame
In my own study of the ongoing conflict between
Israelis and Palestinians, I certainly do suggest strategies
of empathy, dialogue and mutual understanding. But, as I
realized, it’s difficult – and not at all intuitive – to apply
this to a stranger who is seeking to defraud an
unsuspecting victim of money. There is nothing protracted about that momentary conflict; there is no
ongoing relationship of mutual victimization. Add to that
my desire to protect my parents and other potential
victims – thus, my instinct that morning to curse rather
than show compassion.
Part of me wishes I could talk to that young man again.
With his jarring admission that all he was doing was
working at his “job,” perhaps I could try to understand
how he sees ethics, honesty and the value of hard work.
While we should ensure we are vigilant against scams
such as these (word of mouth and media coverage is
best), we might also gain by trying to understand where
people who conduct themselves in such a vile way are
coming from. Maybe, just maybe, one pathetic soul can be
rehabilitated and another future victimization prevented.
Setting new goals for the new year
T
his month marks the transition into the
[secular] new year.
For many, the new year is symbolic of the
turning of a new leaf in one’s life, allowing them
to reflect on all the good as well as the bad that may
have occurred in the previous year. These reflections
typically lead to promises and resolutions to be achieved
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in the new year. The new year is about learning from
mistakes, moving forward, growing as individuals,
appreciating the good and digesting the disappointment
and upset.
For most of us, it is in our nature to strive constantly
to achieve the greatest possible outcomes. We want to do
better, live better and feel better. In alignment with
those views, many clichéd new year’s resolutions are to
eat healthier, visit the gym more often, call our families
more often, be a better friend, and so on. However, many
new year’s resolutions are difficult to keep. They tend to
come and go in fads, as our busy lives stand in the way
of some goals we have set.
University students lead incredibly busy lives. We face
a constant struggle to balance time for school, work,
family, social lives and personal causes. For many of us,
these responsibilities may be daunting at times and
difficult to manage.
We are all busy, but we should not let external factors
act as obstacles to achieving our goals. This is why it is
important to create realistic resolutions for this upcoming year. We must recognize our responsibilities and set
realistic expectations for ourselves. A premise of
creating resolutions is actually to be capable of working
hard enough to achieve them. This year, as you reflect
on your new year’s resolutions, there are a few things I
think are worth considering.
On campus, we are privileged with having an abundance of meaningful and fulfilling projects, organizations and culturally enriching activities to take part in.
This year, I ask you to take your new year’s resolutions
one step further. Resolve to achieve something that you
ARIELLE ELLIS
CAMPUS LIFE
typically may not go for. Beyond making resolutions to
travel more, work harder, spend more time with family
and loved ones – all incredibly important and meaningful resolutions that I make for myself – why not make
additions to the list that will add to your university
career and benefit you while on campus?
Maybe take on a leadership role with Jewish organizations like Hillel Ottawa or the Chabad Student Network
(CSN). A leadership role may seem like a daunting task
and it’s not for everyone, and that’s OK. There are other
ways to enrich your university experience while, dare I
say, also embracing your cultural and religious roots.
For example, if you have never attended a Hillel
Ottawa or CSN Shabbat dinner, I highly recommend
experiencing it. They are a great way to meet other
students and may well lead to many opportunities for
campus involvement in Jewish student life. There are
many other events for Jewish students and young
professionals throughout the year that are great networking opportunities.
And there are many resolutions you can make that
are easily manageable while on campus. From attending cultural or social events, to resolving to only dating
within our faith, I guarantee this year will bring you
plenty of opportunities to grow as an individual, learn
and bring even more meaning and fulfilment into y
our life.
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Try tire-pulling your way to a stronger body
I
t’s a (secular) new year. Why not try some new
physical activities? There is safety in sameness, but
doing the same exercises at each workout puts you
at risk of physically plateauing and psychologically
burning out. If you’re not seeing realistic results or
you’re just not feeling motivated, it may be time to
shake things up. There’s no better way to combat
boredom than to try something you’ve never experienced before, something that challenges your mind and
body. I decided to test my mettle with tire-pulling.
Pushing and pulling movements are excellent ways to
improve strength. Football players sometimes challenge
their muscles with an expensive exercise sled with
weight plates on it. They push it or pull it while running
or walking.
You don’t have to spend a lot of money on such a sled.
I created a homemade version for $6. I went to a local
garage and asked the owner if I could have one of the
many old tires he was going to dispose of. I selected one
that was from a standard-size vehicle. If you’re very
strong, you can choose a larger, heavier tire, such as one
from a truck. Of course, you have to be strong enough to
lift it into the trunk of your car for the ride home.
Next, I purchased a skein of thin rope at a hardware
store. I was delighted to find rope in hot pink. Although
traditionally some of the exercises I enjoy, such as
boxing, might be considered masculine, I do like to add
a feminine touch.
When I got home, I put the tire in my backyard and
cut a 10-foot length of rope. I tied one end of the rope
securely around the tire and the other end to my
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FITNESS
water-carrying vest designed for running. Alternatively,
you can tie the rope to a thick belt such as a weightlifting belt.
I put on the vest and went for a test run around my
backyard, dragging the tire behind me. It was not easy!
The type of surface affects the friction. Grass is easier
than pavement or gravel. You can even do it on packed
snow. As you pull, snow may accumulate in the tire,
adding weight.
The heavier the load, the more you’ll work your
muscles. The length of the rope also affects the difficulty
level. The longer the rope, the more difficult the drag
will feel. I learned from experience that rope frays and
tears as you drag it. I’ve since added a length of chain to
attach the tire to the rope.
Tire-pulling works your glutes and leg muscles. You’ll
also get a really good aerobic workout. After a couple of
minutes, my heart was pounding. After a 20-minute
tire-pull, I felt as though
I’d had the best lower body
workout ever.
You can perform a
reverse tire-drag by pulling the tire while walking
backwards. This exercise will really work your quads.
Wear the vest or belt backwards and hold the rope,
pulling it as you step backwards. A crossover reverse
drag works the lateral muscles in the legs. Hold the rope
and drag the tire while walking sideways. After several
pulls, switch direction. You can perform the exercises as
a series of short sprints or long and slow walks or jogs.
Tire-pulling will complement your traditional lower
body workout, and you’ll stimulate new muscle growth.
Tire-pulling is suitable for people who can’t squat or
deadlift because of knee pain. Always warm up before
you begin exercising, and make sure you’re fit enough to
engage in strenuous exercise.
Whether you choose to try tire-pulling or something
else, don’t be afraid to go where you’ve never gone
before. Don’t surrender to sameness; explore and live
life to the fullest. True transformation comes when you
have the courage to push past your self-imposed limits.
If you decide to try tire-pulling, be prepared to get
some stares as you run across a field or down a street
dragging a tire – especially if you’re a middle-aged
woman like me! When I drag my tire around my neighbourhood on chilly winter days, I get double-takes and
cheers from curious onlookers and sometimes get asked
what I’m training for. My response is, “I’m training for
life!”
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January 26, 2015
‘Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match’
Playing with Matches
By Suri Rosen
ECW Press
256 pages
MICHAEL REGENSTREIF
BOOK REVIEW
I
magine, if you will, that the hottest matchmaker in
an Orthodox Jewish community in Toronto is a
16-year-old working anonymously with her clients
via email.
When we first meet Raina Resnick – the first-person
protagonist in Playing with Matches, Toronto writer Suri
Rosen’s debut novel – she’s riding the No. 7 bus along
Bathurst Street en route to the (fictional) Moriah
Hebrew High School for Girls, an Orthodox school in
Toronto where she’s been enrolled after being expelled
Mazal Tov!
from Maimonides High School for Girls in New York City
for a transgression that will only become clear much
later in the book.
Raina’s parents are living in Hong Kong for business
reasons, so she’d been living with an aunt in New York
and was summarily shuffled off to another aunt in
Toronto after whatever it was she did that got her
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thrown out of the New
York school.
The plot quickly
thickens when Raina is
joined in her Toronto
aunt’s household by
her 23-year-old sister,
Leah, who is resentful
and mistrustful of
Raina whom she
blames – again, for
reasons that will only
become clear later in
the book – for her
broken engagement.
Soon, Raina strikes
up a friendship with Tamara, a young woman in her 20s
whom she meets on her daily commutes on the No. 7.
Hearing Tamara’s lovelorn stories about not being able
to find a suitable mate, Raina decides to fix her up with
Jeremy, a 30-year-old family friend she’d met at her
aunt’s house. Romance blooms between Tamara and
Jeremy and a wedding is quickly in the works.
When Raina set up Tamara with Jeremy, she insisted
that Tamara keep the identity of her matchmaker a
secret. But, as word of her success with Tamara spreads
through the Orthodox community, so, too, does the
demand for her services. And thus is born her online
identity as “Matchmaven,” a matchmaker only accessible via email who soon has more clients than she can
handle. Among those who approach Matchmaven is
Leah, who, Raina knows, would be horrified to discover
the identity of this modern-day-Yenta.
As this easy-to-read comic-novel unfolds, Raina has
her share of successes, failures and crazy misadventures
as a matchmaker. She also sees her schoolwork suffer
from paying too much attention to Matchmaven’s
clients (who include her school’s principal).
Although Playing with Matches is breezy and entertaining – and is suitable for teenaged readers – I was
surprised that a novel specifically about religious
Orthodox Jews had almost no references to religious
practice or much insight into what is unique about this
Orthodox community (other than the use of matchmakers to find marriage partners). I was hoping for
some sort of revelation about why the life of a young
person attending a religious girls’ school might be
different from that of a secular teenager attending
public school and didn’t find it.
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Mollie Fine, a beloved sister by Donald Cherm
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on the Bar Mitzvah of Nitai by Pam Beiles and
family.
SHARON KOFFMAN
ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Fay Koffman by Michael Gennis and Robert
Birnbaum.
January 26, 2015
KRANTZBERG KRANE FAMILY FUND
In Memory of:
Janna Adler by Evelyn Krane.
Freda Smith by Robert Krantzberg; and by
Clair Krantzberg.
Pauline Stone by David Nozick; by Stanley
and Sandra Nozick; and by Joanne and Michael
Argrand.
Joseph Viner by Evelyn Krane; and by Myra
and Sam Krane and family.
DAVID LOEB FAMILY FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by David and Adele Loeb.
SUSAN AND DAVID KRIGER
ENDOWMENT FUND
Diane Kriger, a dear sister by Susan and David
Kriger.
ANNE (BLAIR) AND HYMAN
MAYBERGER ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Shelley and Morris
Schachnow.
RIVA AND ABRAHAM KROLL
MEMORIAL FUND
Vicki and Earle Weiss by Yvonne and Harvey
Lithwick and family.
CHUCK AND BONNIE MEROVITZ
FAMILY FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Eleanor Getzler by Chuck and Bonnie Merovitz.
In Memory of:
Samuel Fried by Chuck and Bonnie Merovitz.
ANNICE AND SYDNEY KRONICK
FAMILY FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Sydney Kronick by Marilyn and William
Newman; and by Dorothy and Hartley Stern.
ISSIE AND EDITH LANDAU
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Irwin Berkowitz by Edie Landau.
LEON AND BYRTHA LECKIE
MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of:
Byrtha Leckie, a dear mother by Ester Leckie.
Leon Leckie, a dear father by Ester Leckie.
NORMAN AND ISABEL LESH
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Norman and Isabel Lesh.
Joe Nadrich by Norman and Isabel Lesh.
SANDRA AND JACIE LEVINSON
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Abe Murray by Sandra and Jacie Levinson.
RHODA AND JOE LEVITAN AND FAMILY
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Rhoda and Joe Levitan.
SALLY AND ELLIOTT LEVITAN
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Sally and Elliott Levitan.
Sylvia Saunders by Sally and Elliott Levitan.
Ricki Baker by Sally and Elliott Levitan.
Diana Malomet by Sally and Elliott Levitan.
JOSEPH AND EVELYN LIEFF
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Lieff by Sheila Cooper.
Mazel Tov to:
Barbara Fine on the engagement of her
daughters, Alexandra and Rebecca by Evelyn
Lieff.
Dorothy Hymes on the engagement of her
granddaughters, Alexandra and Rebecca by Evelyn
Lieff.
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SAMUEL AND LEEMA MAGIDSON
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel.
Leema Magidson by Larry Weisz.
RHODA AND JEFFREY MILLER
FAMILY FUND
Mazel Tov to:
Avalee Prehogan on being at Robert Half for
25 years by Rhoda and Jeffrey Miller and family.
PINKAS AND YEHUDIT NEWMAN
MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Marilyn and William
Newman.
THE OTTAWA LION OF JUDAH
ENDOWMENT FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Golda Feig by Leiba Krantzberg.
Ned Steinman by Leiba Krantzberg.
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Leiba Krantzberg.
HARRY AND BERTHA PLEET
MEMORIAL FUND
Bertha Pleet, a dear mother by Pinchas and
Barbara Pleet.
Harry Pleet, a dear father by Pinchas and
Barbara Pleet.
GERALD AND MARY-BELLE PULVERMACHER
FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Sheila Higginson by Mary-Belle and Gerald
Pulvermacher.
PHYLLIS AND ALAN RACKOW
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Phyllis and Alan Rackow.
MOE AND SARAH RESNICK
ENDOWMENT FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Sylvia Bronsther by Penny, Gordie, Zac and
Steven Resnick.
In Memory of:
Samuel Fried by Penny, Gordie, Zac and
Steven Resnick.
GOLDIE AND ALBERT RIVERS
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Goldie Rivers by the Division of Dermatology
at St. Paul’s Hospital.
JACOB AND LEAH RIVERS
MEMORIAL FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Goldie Cantor by Stan and Ann Goldberg.
FLORENCE AND GDALYAH ROSENFELD
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Anita Rosenfeld.
FRANCES AND MORTON ROSS
FAMLY FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Sydney Kronick by Fran and Mort Ross.
In Memory of:
Norman Stein by Fran and Mort Ross.
Sandy Stein by Fran and Mort Ross.
Sam Sweet by Fran and Mort Ross.
Joseph Viner by Fran and Mort Ross.
Mazel Tov to:
Steven and Roslyn Fremeth on the birth of their
granddaughter, Madelyn by Fran and Mort Ross.
RICHARD ROTH AND RIVA LEVITAN
FAMILY FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Richard Roth and Riva
Levitan.
Joseph Viner by Richard Roth and Riva
Levitan.
Mazel Tov to:
Roger Greenberg on being awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by The Ottawa Chamber
Richard Roth and Riva Levitan.
SAMUEL AND RUTH ROTHMAN
MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Sheldon and Corinne Taylor.
Michael Roodman by Sheldon and Corinne
Taylor.
HAROLD AND FRANCES SHAFFER
MEMORIAL FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Sunny Shaffer by Rhea Wohl and Dorothy
Shaffer.
SYLVIA AND HARRY SHERMAN
MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Nachum and Sorel
(Sherman) Eizicovics.
ISRAEL AND JENNIE SHINDER
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Israel Shinder by Yanda and Mark Max; and by
Judith Kashul and James Coulton.
HERB GRAY AND
SHARON SHOLZBERG-GRAY
FAMILY FUND
In Appreciation to:
The eight grandchildren of Sharon SholzbergGray by Sharon Sholzberg-Gray.
FAY AND JOSEPH SHULMAN
ENDOWMENT FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Goldie Cantor by Nadine, Brian, Marcia and
Alex Mordfield.
JULES AND BARBARA SIGLER
In Appreciation to:
Jules Sigler by Stuart Levine.
SAMUEL AND KATHERINE SIGLER
MEMORIAL FUND
Condolences to:
Susan Ziegler on the loss of her dear father by
Jules and Barbara Sigler.
JACK AND SARAH SILVERSTEIN FAMILY
ENDOWMENT FUND
Herbert and Corinne Zagerman by the Silverstein family.
LINDA SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Halina Silverman by Mark, Susan and Gregory
Silverman.
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Mark, Susan and Gregory
Silverman.
MARGO AND JUDAH SILVERMAN
FAMILY COMMUNITY
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Margo and Judah Silverman and family.
STELLA AND LOUIS SLACK
MEMORIAL FUND
Condolences to:
Geri Sedler on the loss of her dear husband by
Myra and Lester Aronson.
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Myra and Lester Aronson.
Barbara Goldrosen by Bonnie and Paul
Bowering.
MOE AND CHARLOTTE SLACK
MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of:
Howard Leibov by Marlene Levine and
Andrew Siman.
JACK AND LINDA SMITH
ENDOWMENT FUND
Inez Smith, a beloved mother by Leslie Smith
and Maureen McIlwain and family.
MAX AND PEARL SMOLKIN
FAMILY FUND
Pearl Smolkin, a beloved mother by Sheila
Smolkin and family.
LAURA AND GORDON SPERGEL
ENDOWMENT FUND
Laura and Gordon Spergel by Libby Katz.
DORIS AND RICHARD STERN
FAMILY FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Sam Sandler by Doris and Richard Stern.
RUTH TALLER MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of:
Burton Cook by Nina Elkin and Jason Taller.
SALLY AND MAX TALLER FAMILY FUND
Mazel Tov to:
Rosalyn and Steven Fremeth on the birth of
their granddaughter, Madelyn by Sally Taller.
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CLAIRE AND SAM TANNER
MEMORIAL FUND
Condolences to:
Stewart Curry on the loss of his dear mother by
Stephen and Lana Tanner.
Jot Toor on the loss of his dear father by
Stephen and Lana Tanner.
CHARLES AND RAE TAVEL
MEMORIAL FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Ellen and Stan Magidson.
BRENT AND RISA TAYLOR
ENDOWMENT FUND
Condolences to:
Sheri Krell on the loss of her dear grandfather
by Brent, Risa and Shira Taylor.
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Brent, Risa and Shira Taylor.
BARBARA AND GERALD THAW
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Gerald Thaw by Michael Gennis and Robert
Birnbaum.
LISE AND MARK THAW FAMILY FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Lise and Mark Thaw and
family.
HENRY (HANK) TORONTOW 39TH BOY
SCOUTS
In Memory of:
Howard Osterer by Julie, Daniel, Yael and
Jonah Kanter.
ELIZABETH AND ARNON VERED
FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND
In Memory of:
Arnie Vered by Michael Gennis and Robert
Birnbaum.
SUSAN, GILLIE AND ELIE VERED
FAMILY FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Marcia Saipe and Ted Miller.
STEPHEN AND GAIL VICTOR
ENDOWMENT FUND
Stephen and Gail Victor by Elaine and Dan
Shapiro; and by Daniel and Marilyn Kimmel.
Birthday Wishes to:
Goldie Cantor by Stephen and Gail Victor and
family.
Elaine Shapiro by Stephen and Gail Victor and
family.
In Memory of:
Louis Lemko by Stephen and Gail Victor.
Shelley Schachnow by Stephen and Gail
Victor.
Shirley Strean-Hartman by Stephen and Gail
Victor.
Carole Zagerman by Stephen and Gail Victor.
RUTH AND JOSEPH VINER
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Norman and Sandra Slover;
by Daniel and Marilyn Kimmel; by Lorne, Laurie,
Zak and Ben Shusterman; by Clair Krantzberg;
by Sandy Shaver; by Sol and Estelle Gunner; by
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Zelaine and Sol Shinder; by Marilyn and William
Newman; by Sandy Goldberg and John Jussup;
by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel; by Ian and Melissa
Shabinsky; by Andrea and Michael Malek; by
Sara Shabsove; by Joy and Eric Weisbloom; by
Lynne Oreck-Wener and Bob Wener; by Marty
and Ellen Cardash; by David and Ethel Malek;
by Joan Bloom; by Rhoda and Jeffrey Miller
and family; by Carol Gradus; by Bernard and
Donna Dolansky; by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz;
by Marisa and Tony Mancini; by friends and
colleagues of The Civic Family Health Team;
by Marjorie and Michael Feldman; by Merrijo
Hershoran; by Evelyn Lieff; by Barbara and Len
Farber; by Libby Katz; by Barbara and Larry
Hershorn; by Joanne Burgess and Martin
Freeman; by Michael and Lina Yachnin and family; by Judy Bernstein; by Fred and Lisa Cogan;
by Diana and Alvin Malomet; by Michael and
Shelley Shnider; by Blossom Read; by Barbara and
David Slipacoff and family; by Harry and Sally
Weltman; by Shirley Halpern; by Jeff Appotive;
by Sharon Appotive; by Marcia and Paul Friedberg; by Michael Gennis and Robert Birnbaum; by
Michael Landau and Faye Goldman; by Sandy and
Philip Gennis; by Sheila Cooper; by Gary and Kim
Garber; and by Sol and Anne Shmelzer.
MICHAEL WALSH
AND LISA ROSENKRANTZ
ENDOWMENT FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Lisa Rosenkrantz by Debbie Halton-Weiss and
Ron Weiss and family.
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Michael Walsh and Lisa
Rosenkrantz.
HARRY AND RAE WEIDMAN
MEMORIAL FUND
Marcia Dworkin, a dear sister by Roslyn Taller.
Rae Weidman, a dear mother by Roslyn Taller.
Harry Weidman, a dear father by Roslyn Taller.
MILDRED AND PERCY WEINSTEIN
ENDOWMENT FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Zelaine Shinder by Millie Weinstein.
In Appreciation to:
Margo and Norman Viner by Millie Weinstein.
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Millie Weinstein.
HALTON/WEISS FAMILY FUND
In Memory of:
Lillian Evenchick by Debbie Halton-Weiss and
Ron Weiss.
Howard Osterer by Debbie Halton-Weiss and
Ron Weiss.
Joseph Viner by Debbie Halton-Weiss and Ron
Weiss.
HERBERT AND NORMAN ZAGERMAN
FAMILIES FOUNDATION
Birthday Wishes to:
Norman Zagerman by Sandra and Jacie
Levinson.
In Memory of:
Adele Cowan by Corinne and Herbert
Zagerman.
SAM AND HELENE ZARET
MEMORIAL FUND
Mazel Tov to:
Jessica Steinberg on the completion of her PhD
by Debi and Neil Zaret and family.
ZIPES KARANOFSKY FAMILY
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Rick and Helen Zipes.
Mazel Tov to:
Marjorie and Michael Feldman on the engagement of their son, Jonathan to Lauren Ashley
Smith by Rick and Helen Zipes.
SANDRA AND SAM ZUNDER
ENDOWMENT FUND
In Memory of:
Joseph Viner by Sandra and Sam Zunder and
family.
THE WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE
PHILANTHROPY PROGRAM
Providing support for services and programs
that directly benefit women and children.
WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE
ENDOWMENT FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Zoe Oreck by Zave Chad and Janet Dollin; and
by Yaffa Greenbaum and Jack Shinder.
Debi Zaret by Lynne Oreck-Wener and Bob
Wener.
THE SAUL AND EDNA GOLDFARB
B’NAI MITZVAH PROGRAM
JORDAN SAMUEL FINN
B’NAI MITZVAH FUND
Mazel Tov to:
Steven and Rosalyn Fremeth on the birth of their
granddaughter, Madelyn by Sharon and Paul Finn.
LIEFF FAMILY B’NAI MITZVAH FUND
Birthday Wishes to:
Sydney Kronick by Francie Greenspoon and
Norman Lieff.
Miriam Pleet by Francie Greenspoon and
Norman Lieff.
Mazel Tov to:
Barbara Fine on the engagement of her
daughters, Alexandra and Rebecca by Francie
Greenspoon and Norman Lieff.
Peter Fine on the engagement of his daughters,
Alexandra and Rebecca by Francie Greenspoon
and Norman Lieff.
Dorothy Hymes on the engagement of her
granddaughters, Alexandra and Rebecca by
Francie Greenspoon and Norman Lieff.
KAYLA REICHSTEIN
In Appreciation to:
The teachers and staff at the Ottawa
Jewish Community School by Kayla Reichstein and
family.
Mazel Tov to:
Howie Lupovitch and Marni Foster and family
on Hanna’s Bat Mitzvah by Malcolm and Vera
Glube.
NOAH REICHSTEIN
Mazel Tov to:
Sheila and Lonny Felsen on Noah’s Bar Mitzvah by Malcolm and Vera Glube.
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F O R M O R E C A L E N D A R L I S T I N G S , V I S I T W W W. OT TA W A J E W I S H B U L L E T I N . CO M / C A L E N D A R A N D W W W. J E W I S H OT TA W A . CO M / CO M M U N I T Y- C A L E N D A R
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27
International Holocaust Remembrance Day/
70th Anniversary Liberation of Auschwitz with
MC Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka and speakers including
Ottawa mayor, MPs, ambassadors and the president of the
Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations.
Jean Piggott Place, Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave. West,
12 pm to 1 pm.
RSVP: Fred Litwin, 613-261-9060, [email protected]
“50 Italians – The men who saved 50,000 Jewish lives”
Film screening in observation of the International
Holocaust Remembrance Day by the Embassy of Italy
in collaboration with the Canadian Film Institute.
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St., 8 to 10 pm.
RSVP: Embassy of Italy, 613-232-2401, [email protected]
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30
Shabbat Shalom at the SJCC: Join us for a fun Shabbat
celebration and playgroup in the kid-friendly Ganon
preschool space, with story time, songs, play and more.
Challah and a snack for kids and coffee and tea for
parents. Perfect for kids four and under, 9:15 to 10:45 am.
Weekly until June 26.
Info: Ella Dagan, 613-798-9818, ext. 243,
[email protected]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31
Piano Concert with Milana Zilnik, an accomplished
Israeli pianist, composer and vocalist. Sponsored by
the Vered Israel Cultural and Educational Program.
Milana embraces a variety of styles, from folk, blues, opera
and Middle Eastern, to rock and jazz. Light refreshments,
coffee and tea will be served., 7 to 9 pm.
Info: Ella Dagan, 613-798-9818, ext. 243,
[email protected]
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Tu B’Shevat with PJ Library and Beth Shalom: Join
PJ Library and Congregation Beth Shalom for Tu B’Shevat
crafts, stories, songs and snacks, 10 am to 12 pm.
Info: Ariel Fainer, 613-798-4696, ext.240,
[email protected]
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4
OJCS Story Time:
Morning of stories, songs and snacks, revolving around a
PJ Library book of the month. For toddlers (four and
under) and parents.
OJCS Library, 31 Nadolny Sachs Pvt., 9:30 to 10:30 am.
Also March 25, April 22.
Info/RSVP: Andréa Black, 613-722-0020,
[email protected]
Jewish National Fund of Canada - 2015 Tu Bi’Shevat
Telethon supporting Israel through planting trees.
Regional Realty, 1737 Woodward Dr., 11 am to 4 pm.
Info: Ilana Albert-Novick, 613-798-2411,
[email protected]
Congregation Machzikei Hadas Movie Night: “Winston
Churchill: Walking with Destiny.” Kosher snacks will be
served. Donation to Kosher Food Bank appreciated.
Machzikei Hadas Congregation, 2310 Virginia Dr.,
7 to 10 pm.
Info: Michelle Pulvermacher, 613-521-9700,
[email protected]
COMING SOON
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Soloway Jewish Community Centre AGM: 7 to 9 pm.
Info: Barry Sohn, 613-798-4696, ext. 268,
[email protected]
CANDLE LIGHTING BEFORE
JANUARY 30
FEBRUARY 6
4:46 PM
4:56 PM
FEBRUARY 13
FEBRUARY 20
5:06 PM
5:16 PM
BULLETIN DEADLINES
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Mitzvah Day: 9 am to 12:30 pm.
Info: Rena Garshowitz, 613-798-4696, ext. 241,
[email protected]
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Condolences are extended to the families of:
Joseph Wolf Baumberg
Brian Bloom
Burton Cook, Massachusetts
(father of Marcia Cantor)
Stephen Farovitch, Montreal
(brother of Mark Farovitch)
Joseph Feller
Samuel Fried, Montreal
(father of Donna Karlin)
Bennie Goodz
Hyman Kaufman
Leon Katz
Anne Keen, London, England
(mother of Roger Keen)
Ruth Fay Kizell
Gertrude Klain
Louis Chaim Lemkow
Goldie Lobel
Pearl Rudin, Toronto (mother of Jeremy Rudin)
Max Silverman
Freda Smith
Fannie Solomon (née Frost), Montreal
(mother of Carolyn Appotive)
John Aaron Sussman, Montreal
(brother of Deborah Silverman)
Joseph Viner
Helen Zawalsky (née Greenberg)
May their memory be a blessing always.
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