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This Chanukah,
be the light
in someone’s life
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Chanukah brings light into our lives at the dark time of year. And when you
make a donation to the Jewish Federation of the Desert, you share that light
with those who need it most right now. Give so that emergency funds are
there for a desperate family. Assure hot meals are delivered to a homebound
elderly woman. Give a young child a Jewish book. Your gift to Federation
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This Chanukah,
be the light
CElia
Norian
in someone’s life
Honor
Roll
Pages
18-25
Chanukah brings light into our lives at the dark time of year. And when you
make a donation to the Jewish Federation of the Desert, you share that light
with those who need it most right now. Give so that emergency funds are
there for a desperate family. Assure hot meals are delivered to a homebound
elderly woman. Give a young child a Jewish book. Your gift to Federation
does all of that and more. Be the light at www.jfedps.org.
jewish federation
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers and Executive
Committee
Celia Norian, President
Sondi Green & Libby Hoffman,
Vice Presidents, Campaign
Vernon Kozlen, Treasurer
Bernard Reiter, Secretary
Lainie Weil,
President, Women’s Philanthropy
Allan Lehmann & Phil Glass, Allocations
Nancy Ditlove, Major Gifts
Roberta Nyman,
Immediate Past President
Howard Levy, Immediate Past President
President
There is a special relationship
between all human beings and food.
There may be cultural differences and
the foods may vary, but just about
everyone has feelings regarding
certain foods and the customs
surrounding them. No less so for
Jews. Food is intrinsic to Jewish ritual,
life and culture. The first thing that
we were commanded to do in Egypt
was to have a communal meal.
Talking about food, you are
probably aware that this month we
have two holidays – one Jewish and
Board
Joseph Bernstein
Sandra Borns
Elliott Cohen
Ellen Glass
James Graff-Radford
Fran Kaufman
Marvin Lewis
Jason Novack
Allan Nyman
Dr. Paul Ross
Stephanie Ross
Elisa Schwartz
Sandy Seplow
Amy Stone
Bruce Landgarten,
Chief Executive Officer
Table of Contents
Vol. 39 • No. 4
Calendar
12-13
Federation
2, 3, 6, 29, 32
Endowment
11
Honor Roll
18-25
Women's Philanthropy
4
Young Adults (j-connect)
3
Food - Have a Nosh
31
Jewish Family Service
14
Schools
11
Simchas & Classifieds
30
Temples
12
Tolerance Education Center
14
Tributes
26
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one American – that will overlap,
each one having separate traditional
foods. Some of us will even try to
combine the usual Thanksgiving
meal with the fried foods related to
Chanukah.
What would our lives be like
if we didn’t have/couldn’t afford to
purchase food on a regular basis?
Would not have the traditional
foods of the holidays? Had to make
decisions between buying food or
medicine? These situations happen
to people every day. Right here, in
our lovely Coachella Valley, there
are people who are not as fortunate
as you and I.
This is where your Federation dollars
come in to play. Did you realize
that one third of our allocations are
spent taking care of the vulnerable
right here in the desert? We support
food distribution programs through
our contributions to Aids Assistance
Program, F.I.N.D., Food Now, and
the Mitzvah Food Program at Temple
Sinai. We support the Meals on
Wheels Program of the Mizell Senior
Center – the largest hot meal delivery
program in the valley.
Your Federation contribution goes
a long way to assuring that those
who are in need have their basic
food requirements met.
When you gather around your
Thanksgiving/Chanukah table with
your family and friends, be thankful
that you can enjoy the holiday foods
with your loved ones. Think of those
less fortunate and be thankful that
you have made a contribution to
Federation to help make a difference
in their lives.
Happy Chanukah. Happy
Thanksgiving.
From the CEO
Bruce
Landgarten
Jewish Federation Chief
Executive Officer
Now that we have moved into
the Fall season, we have rolled up our
sleeves and are going into overdrive,
fueled by the commitment simply to
be of service to the Jewish people here
and around the world.
Federation runs a lean machine.
As the economic crisis has not fully
recovered, we have kept our overall
budget down, while maintaining our
funding of allocations to agencies.
Our annual campaign is our
community’s “bread and butter”. So
many and so much relies upon its
success. Our Desert community’s
impressive agency services are
supported in part by the money we
raise through our Annual Campaign
and our 2012-13 campaign ended
up over $2.3 million dollars, allowing
us to continue to fund important
programs and services.
These past tough economic years
have been unnerving, and by no means
are we completely out of the woods
yet. Wallets that once held credit
cards now hold food stamps. Formerly
stable families are streaming into our
Federation and making requests for our
Tzedakah Fund emergency support
and to our recipient agencies for the
basics: housing, utilities, medicine and
groceries. Food banks need constant
replenishing, and all this unfolds as our
own Federation system is stretched by
decreased income from all sources.
This past year, through our
Federation, hundreds were served
meals, received support for health care,
including prescriptions, were given
support for mortgage or rent payments,
utilities and other necessities. We also
have done our best not to neglect
enrichment programs for children,
including assistance to attend Jewish
camps, Israel experience programs,
pre-school, after school….and so
much more.
Notwithstanding some of the
particular accomplishments that were
realized during this past year, the
challenges ahead are daunting. We
anticipate that our annual campaign,
despite best efforts and the generosity
of so many people, will be difficult to
maintain at the same level. We know
that all of our beneficiary agencies
face significant financial challenges
of their own.
While we can all hope that the
economy will continue to recover,
we have to face the fact that we are
dealing with a new economic reality:
We can’t plug every hole. But, make
no mistake, this Federation will not
allow Jews to go hungry or be put out
on the street. We are able to make this
pledge first and foremost because so
many generous people trust and rely
on us to do the right things in the right
ways on their behalf, effectively and
efficiently, with ‘rachmonus’ on our
part and dignity for those we help.
In the almost four years I have been
in this community, I have trumpeted
our success in building for the future,
and even in this most challenging year
I continue to do so. But we cannot kid
ourselves. This is not business as usual.
In past years, I have talked about how
far we've come. This year, it’s all about
how far we have to go.
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Jewish Federation of the Desert's
39 Days and Counting...
Education Day is Monday, December 9,
2013, with the highly anticipated return of Alon
Ben-David, Senior Defense Correspondent
for Israel 10 News. When he was here for
INSIGHTS in March, Ben-David said “the next
six months will be crucial” in the Middle East,
and the tumultuous events in Syria and Egypt
plus changes in Iran bear out his prediction.
Join us to hear a powerful speaker, whose
extensive knowledge and penetrating analysis
of the Mideast events will assure Education Day
is an insightful, riveting two hours.
Men are invited and urged to attend. The
program is being held at the UCR Palm Desert
Center Auditorium at Frank Sinatra Drive and
Cook Street. Parking is free. Couvert of $25
per person includes mid-morning refreshments.
Seating is limited. Reserve your seat now with
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New Therapy for Brain Cancer?
The Israeli discovery of a cancer-driving protein could lead to a new weapon in the currently losing battle against brain tumors.
By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel
control group rapidly developed
large tumors. In the second group of
mice, the scientists used a biologic
“knockdown” technique to reduce
hnRNP A2/B1 before injection. Those
mice developed only small tumors or
no tumors at all.
“These results suggest that hnRNP
A2/B1 is a driving oncogene — a
gene that causes normal cells to
become cancerous — on its own
and probably directly contributes
to glioblastoma development,” said
Karni. “Down-regulating hnRNP A2/
B1 levels in glioblastoma cells should
be considered as a new strategy for
glioblastoma therapy.”
The Israeli scientists’ data suggest
that hnRNP A2/B1 is a new biomarker
for glioblastoma patient survival and
a new proto-oncogene that regulates
the splicing and other RNA processing
steps of several tumor suppressors and
oncogenes.”
“Down-regulating hnRNP A2/B1
levels in glioblastoma cells should
be considered as a new strategy for
glioblastoma therapy,” he said. The
researchers in Karni’s lab are now
trying to identify which genes are
regulated by hnRNP A2/B1. He noted
that in a previous study of brain and
breast cancer cells with knockdown
of hnRNP A2, “we identified key
genes of very important pathways
involved in cancer development and
maintenance,” as well as genes that
indicate proliferation of cancer or
tumor suppression.
Regina Golan-Gerstl
Israeli biochemist Regina GolanGerstl has identified a genetic protein
likely to be involved in the development
and spread of glioblastoma, the most
common and aggressive type of brain
cancer in adults.
Each year, approximately 22,000
people in the United States are
diagnosed with a potentially lifethreatening brain tumor. Glioblastoma
tumors are extremely difficult to
remove surgically, and they press on
or damage brain tissue as they grow.
Chemotherapy and radiation do not
help much; the median survival rate
even with these interventions is just
over a year. Only about 10 percent of
glioblastoma patients live five years or
longer after diagnosis.
Golan-Gerstl has identified a
protein — splicing factor hnRNP A2/
B1 — that is highly “overexpressed”
in tumor samples from patients
with various types of brain cancer
when compared with samples taken
from healthy brains. The finding
was reported in the journal Cancer
Research, published by the American
Association for Cancer Research.
Working in the laboratory of
Rotem Karni at the Institute for
Medical Research Israel-Canada of
the Hebrew University-Hadassah
Medical School, Golan-Gerstl and
her team then injected lab mice
with glioblastoma cells. Mice in the
Three Jewish Professors — Two Israelis — Share 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
By Gavriel Fiske, The Times of Israel
Kibbutz-born Arieh Warshel fought
in the 1967 Six Day War and 1973Yom
Kippur War; Pretoria-born Michael
Levitt taught at the Weizmann Institute
for most of the 1980s, and became an
Israeli citizen; Martin Karplus fled as a
child to the U.S. from Nazi-occupied
Austria. The prestigious Nobel Prize
for Chemistry was awarded ‘for the
development of multiscale models for
complex chemical systems.’
Of the 23 chemistry Nobels
awarded in the past decade, 11 of
the winners were Jewish and six of
them were Israelis. But both Warshel
and Levitt left Israel for the United
States because they felt they could not
progress there, underlining concerns
about the ongoing brain drain of top
Israeli academics.
Ariel Warshel was born in 1940
in Kibbutz Sde Nahum, in the Beit
She’an Valley. He served in the Israel
Defense Forces (IDF), reaching the
rank of captain, then attended Haifa’s
Technion, where he
got a BSc degree in
Chemistry in 1966.
He earned MSc
and PhD degrees in
Chemical Physics
(in 1967 and 1969),
at the Weizmann
Institute of Science Dr. Arieh Warshel
in Rehovot. He
then did postdoctoral work at Harvard
University, returned to the Weizmann
Institute in the early 1970’s and also
worked for the Laboratory of Molecular
Biology, Cambridge, England. He
joined the faculty of the Department
of Chemistry at USC in 1976
Asked why he had left Israel for the
U.S., he said it was “hard to progress
at the Weizmann Institute.” It was later
learned that he had failed to secure
tenure at the Institute.
Michael Levitt, who was born in
Pretoria in 1947, received his BSc from
King’s College, London and his PhD
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in computational
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Exchange Fellow
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Institute from
1967-1968, and
later returned as a Dr. Michael Levitt
professor of chemical physics from
1980-1987. Levitt, too, left Israel
because he felt professionally stymied,
frustrated that his colleague Warshel
had been unable to secure tenure at
the Weizmann Institute. He holds
Israeli and British citizenship.
The third
winner, Martin
Karplus, was born
in Vienna in 1930,
and, along with his
family, fled to the
United States in
1938 to escape the
Nazi occupation
Dr. Martin Karplus
of Austria. He
attended Harvard University and
received his PhD from the California
Institute of Technology. Martin
Karplus is based at the Université
de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard
University in Massachusetts. However,
his daughter has called Jerusalem
her home for over 30 years. Rivka
Karplus, a family physician and an
internal medicine and infections
specialist, settled in Israel in 1985
and has worked in numerous Israeli
clinics and hospitals.
In determining that these three
scientists be awarded the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry, the academy noted that
in the past, chemists “used to create
models of molecules using plastic
balls and sticks. Today, the modelling
is carried out in computers. In the
1970’s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt
and Arieh Warshel laid the foundation
for the powerful programs that are
used to understand and predict
chemical processes … Computer
models mirroring real life have
become crucial for most advances
made in chemistry today. Chemical
reactions occur at lightning speed. In
a fraction of a millisecond, electrons
jump from one atomic nucleus to
the other. Classical chemistry has a
hard time keeping up; it is virtually
impossible to experimentally map
every little step in a chemical process.
Aided by the methods now awarded
with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
scientists let computers unveil
chemical processes.”
It said the work of Karplus, Levitt
and Warshel “is groundbreaking in
that they managed to make Newton’s
classical physics work side-by-side
with the fundamentally different
quantum physics. Simulations are so
realistic that they predict the outcome
of traditional experiments.”
The prize amount, approximately
$1.25 million — is to be shared
equally between the laureates.
Pope Francis: “It is a Contradiction for a Christian to be anti-Semitic”
Public Diplomacy Network
Pope Francis called for increased
vigilance to combat anti-Semitism in
a meeting with representatives of the
Jewish community in Rome. The Pope
met with Rome Chief Rabbi Riccardo
Di Segni and other leaders to mark
the 70th anniversary of the date when
Nazis rounded up the Jews of Rome
for deportation to Auschwitz.
Recalling the genocidal campaign,
the Pope said: “We remember and
pray for the many innocent victims
of human barbarism, and for their
families. It will also be an occasion
to recall the importance of remaining
vigilant in order that we do not regress,
under any pretext, to any forms of
intolerance and anti-Semitism, in
many Christian communities, “in
accordance with the wishes of the
Pope, opened their doors to provide
a fraternal welcome” to Jews seeking
to escape the Holocaust.
In his greetings, the Pope observed
that the Jewish community of Rome
“may claim to be the most ancient in
Western Europe.” He acknowledged
that the history of relations between
Christians and Jews had “often been
marred with misunderstandings and
real injustice,” but said that “many
decades of development of friendly
and brotherly relations” have improved
ties in recent years.
Rome and in the rest of the world I
have said it before, and I would like to
repeat once more: it is a contradiction
for a Christian to be anti-Semitic.
The “common tragedy of the war”
had a devastating impact on both
Christians and Jews, and “taught us
to walk together,” the Pope remarked.
He reminded his audience that
JNF: For the Love of Israel
The Jewish
National Fund
Palm Springs and
Desert Region
will be holding
its seventh
annual “Love of
Israel Dinner”
Tuesday evening,
Debbie Orgen-Garrett
December 17,
2013 at the Omni Rancho Las Palmas
Resort & Spa.
“The dinner this year will be a
truly special evening,” announced
LOI Dinner Chair Debbie OrgenGarrett. “Our honorees, Jim and
Donna Levitas and Leonard Sherman
are deeply committed to the State
of Israel and the work of the Jewish
National Fund.”
Visiting Israel five months ago,
Jim, Leonard and Debbie witnessed
firsthand the creation and expansion
of new communities in Israel’s Negev,
the target area of JNF’s Blueprint
Negev, a $600 million project to
develop this region through the
construction of new settlements for
immigrants and Israelis.
Seeing the newly built synagogue in
the developing community of Carmit,
walking through the completed areas
of the Be’er Sheva River Walk Project,
and dedicating the newly completed
playground in Givot Bar (a Palm
Springs and Desert Region Project),
were just some of the highlights.
Proceeds from this dinner event
will go towards completing the
commitment of JNF Palm Springs and
Desert Region to underwrite a group
residence home at Aleh Negev, a
state of the art facility for the severely
developmentally challenged, in the
town of Ofakim.
Anti-Semitic Elmo’ Goes to Jail
Court says Dan Sandler, known for spewing anti-Semitic invective while wearing a muppet suit, extorted Girl Scouts
By Stuart Winer, The Times of Israel
A man who gained notoriety for
going on anti-Semitic rants while dressed
in an Elmo muppet suit in New York was
sentenced to a year in jail for trying to
extort $2 million from the Girl Scouts,
where he worked briefly on a computer
project. Dan Sandler showed no remorse
for his crimes and said as much to Judge
Robert Stolz as he was sentenced at the
Manhattan Criminal Court.
“This is not the case of someone in the
back room of the office trying to embezzle
money — this is more of a protest, like
laying down in the intersection,” Sandler
said. “I am in no way sorry to the Girl
Scouts organization, because I think they
are a corrupt organization.”
Prosecutors claimed that in 2012
Sandler, 49, sent harassing emails to his
supervisors at the Girls Scouts. In the
emails, he threatened to publicize the
false claim that the Girl Scouts organized
sexual liaisons between men and its
members, unless he was paid $2 million.
Sandler pleaded guilty to lesser charges of
second-degree attempted grand larceny
and third-degree stalking.
His defense lawyer, Lorri Cohen,
said her client pleaded guilty to avoid
a trial that might have ended with a
heavier sentence, but also suggested that
Sandler never really intended to receive
the money. “Is there any realm in which
we think the Girl Scouts would pay him
money because he sent them emails?”
Cohen said. “It was sort of a silly case.”
Sandler shot to fame on the Internet
in June last year as “Bad Elmo” after he
was caught on film hurling obscene, antiSemitic epithets at tourists while dressed
as the Sesame Street character Elmo in
New York’s Central Park. Sandler earned
money from tips by posing for photographs
with tourists, including children, but was
arrested for disorderly conduct because of
his offensive behavior. According to The
New York Times, Sandler has a shady past
involving a website he ran from Cambodia,
called “Welcome to the Rape Camp,” that
featured videos claiming to be of nonconsensual sex. He was deported by local
authorities in 1999.
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Golden Dawn Leader Jailed Ahead
of Trial in Greece
Crackdown on the Neo-Nazi Party
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A Greek court ordered the head of
the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party
held in jail until his trial. The decision
to incarcerate Nikolaos Michaloliakos
came early October 3rd, following six
hours of testimony that ran through
Three of those MPs did not meet the
conditions for being retained in custody
and were released pending trial. Ilias
Kasidiaris, the party spokesperson,
was released on bail of EUR 50,000
and is forbidden to leave the country.
the night. Michaloliakos was arrested
the week before with several other
lawmakers and senior Golden Dawn
members on charges of forming a
criminal organization, part of an
unprecedented crackdown on the neoNazi party. If convicted, Michaloliakos
could face several years in prison.
Government spokesman Simos
Kedikoglou hailed the decision on
Michaloliakos an important victory
for the Greek legal system, calling it
“the most dynamic confrontation of a
neo-Nazi criminal gang in European,
and possibly world history.”
Michaloliakos and another 20
members of Golden Dawn were
detained in connection with the
murder of left-wing activist and popular
singer Pavlos Fisas in mid-September.
Michaloliakos is suspected of bearing
direct responsibility for the party's
illegal activities.
The party chair has been labeled an
authoritarian leader on the model of
the Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler.
The Greek authorities also reviewed
the cases of four other detained Golden
Dawn MPs on October 3rd.
Kasidiaris told the judges his detention
is a case of political persecution.
Golden Dawn is defending itself
against all of the charges by arguing
that the right-wing extremist who has
confessed to the murder of Fisas was
not a member of their party.
Two other MPs, Nikos Michos and
Ilias Panajotaros, are also banned from
leaving Greece. The fourth detained
legislator, Jannis Lagos, remained in
custody, reportedly because his indirect
participation in the murder of Fisas has
been ascertained.
Golden Dawn, which has 18 seats
in the 300-member parliament, has
been accused of being behind dozens
of attacks on immigrants in Greece. The
party is known for its Nazi swastikalike flag and Holocaust-denying
leadership.
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established in 1898 with Jewish
students from several universities
around New York City.
Technion Campus to Open in China
Chinese billionaire puts Israeli high-tech education on his Horizons, with a commitment to the Technion’s Israel campus and a
new one in Shantou.
By Karin Kloosterman, Israel 21c
What’s China got to do with Israel’s
startup success? A lot, and there’s more
to come, if Asia’s wealthiest man has his
way. According to Forbes magazine,
the eighth richest man in the world is
Li Ka-shing of China. Li has instigated
a $280 million research and academic
transaction between Israel and China
to benefit both countries.
The money pot –– $130 million from
his own Li Ka-shing Foundation and
$150 million from the governments
of Guangdong Province and Shantou
municipality — will give the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology a
continued cutting edge by updating
its infrastructure, and will help China
learn Israel’s “secret sauce” to startups
with a Technion-styled campus in
China.
Li’s pay-it-forward investment company
Horizons Ventures underwrites a
growing number of hot startups from
Israel — including the navigation app
Waze, seed-enhancement technology
from Kaiima, image-processing
technologies of Cortica, and socialmedia TV company Stevie. The HongKong-based Horizons also invested in
the global brands Skype, Facebook,
Spotify and Siri.
Li typically puts about one-third
of his profits into socially conscious
projects. After a recent billion-dollar
buyout from Google, Israel’s Waze
has made Horizons that much
richer. Sources in Israel say that this
is why Li decided to invest in Israeli
higher education – specifically at the
Technion, whose graduates lead many
Signing of the agreement on September 29 are, from left sitting, Prof. Gu Peihua of Shantou
University and Prof. Peretz Lavie, president of the Technion; and standing, Frank Sixt, co-director
of the Li Ka-shing Foundation; Lu Kun from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China;
Li Ka-shing Foundation co-director Solina Chau; Li Ka-shing; Governor Zhu Xioadan of the
Guangdong Province; Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space Yaakov Peri; Danny
Yamin, chairman of the Technion Council; and Technion Senior Executive Vice President Prof.
Paul Feigin.
of Israel’s most successful startups.
According to Danny Shapiro,
director of public affairs and resource
development at the Technion, there
are two major developments in the
pipeline. The first is $150 million
toward building the TechnionGuangdong Institute of Technology at
Shantou University, to open in 2014.
This campus, funded by the
Guangdong Province and Shantou
municipality, will draw on the
Technion’s experience in science and
technology. Technion faculty will help
train Chinese students, who will earn
degrees from the Technion in civil
and environmental engineering or
computer science.
“This is the first time China has
invested in and completely paid for
a university to open up business and
start operating in China,” says Shapiro,
noting that the Asian country is already
host to satellite campuses of US,
Canadian and European universities
looking to attract Asian students.
“The Chinese and the people we are
dealing with wanted the Technion to
develop a world-competitive institution
of education for engineering and
science. They could have chosen any
university in the world, and they chose
Israel,” Shapiro tells ISRAEL21c.
Labs for superstars
In a separate but related development,
the Li Ka-shing Foundation is donating
an unprecedented $130 million to the
Technion campus in Haifa to build
new labs, classrooms and basic
infrastructure.
If the Technion wants to “attract
top people from MIT or Stanford, we
need to build them half-million dollar
labs,” commented Danny Shapiro.
“This money is going to go to labs for
the superstars we just recruited.”
The Technion also is working with
Cornell University in New York to
construct a campus of technology at
Roosevelt Island off Manhattan. This
school will grant joint Technion and
Cornell degrees.
While the American science and
high-tech community is already turned
into the cross-pollination between
Israel and its states, China is starting
to wake up to the enormous potential
the startup nation can offer China’s
fledgling entrepreneurs. According
to Shapiro, the Chinese “have a
tremendous amount of respect for
our achievements. They identify with
our history and especially about
building ourselves and making our
way in the world using technology and
brainpower.”
Community
Schools
RELIGIOUS/
HEBREW SCHOOLS
CREATING a Jewish legacy empowers you to support the Jewish
causes you care about. Because all of us, regardless of age, wealth, or
affiliation, have the ability to secure our people’s traditions, promote
Jewish values, and create a strong future for generations to come.
Chabad Hebrew School
A project of Chabad of
Palm Springs & Desert Communities
Director: Sussie Denebeim
73550 S. Rosa Way,
Palm Desert, CA 92260
www.chabadpd.com
760-341-6501
Temple Isaiah
Principal: Rabbi Sally Olins
332 West Alejo Road
Palm Springs, CA 92262
www.templeisaiahps.com
760-325-2281, ext. 203
Temple Sinai
Director: Miri Ketayi
73-251 Hovley Lane West,
www.templesinaipd.org
760-568-9699
NURSERY SCHOOLS
Temple Sinai Tikvah Pre-School
Director: Debbie Midcalf
24 mos - Pre-K
73-251 Hovley Lane West,
760-568-6779
To learn more about Legacy Giving, contact Bruce Landgarten,
Jewish Federation Chief Executive Off icer, at 760-324-4737.
69-710 Highway 111,
760-324-4737
The Strength of a People.
The Power of Community.
Local Temples
November Shabbat Schedule
BETH SHALOM
(Member, United Synagogue of
Conservative Judaism)
Ken Hailpern, Spiritual Leader
79-733 Country Club Drive
Bermuda Dunes
[email protected]
760-200-3636
Centro Cultural
Hebreo de Mexicali
(Conservative)
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Contact: Ron Cohen
www.judiosdemexicali.com
760-960-3392 US
(686) 216-7152 Mexico
CHABAD OF PALM SPRINGS
& DESERT COMMUNITIES
Rabbi Yonason Denebeim
425 Ortega, Palm Springs
www.chabadpalmsprings.com
760-325-0774
CHABAD OF PALM DESERT
A project of Chabad of Palm Springs &
Desert Communities
Rabbi Mendy Friedman
www.chabadpd.com
760-969-2153 / 760-969-2158
CHABAD OF RANCHO MIRAGE
Desert Communities
Rabbi Shimon Posner
72295 Via Marta, Rancho Mirage
www.chabadrm.com
760-770-7785
Congregation Shalom Bayit
(Reform)
Rabbis Larry and Linda Seidman
1320 Williams Ave., Banning
Contact 951-769-3678/769-7514
HAR-EL
(Member, Union for Reform Judaism)
Rabbi Richard Zionts
Har-El Cultural Center
47-535 Hwy 74, Palm Desert
www.harelurj.org
760-779-1691
TEMPLE ISAIAH
(Conservative)
Rabbi Sally Olins
332 West Alejo Road, Palm Springs
www.templeisaiahps.com
760-325-2281
TEMPLE SINAI
(Reform)
Rabbi Glenn Ettman
73-251 Hovley Lane West, Palm Desert
www.templesinaipd.org
760-568-9699
BIKUR CHOLIM
Desert Communities
(Community Outreach)
Rabbi Yankel Kreiman
www.BikurCholimPS.com
760-325-8076
Beth Shalom
Shabbat Services: 8:00 pm.
Oneg follows.
Saturdays: Services 9:30 am,
followed by kiddush.
Morning minyan Mondays and
Thursdays at 8:45 am.
Chabad of Palm Springs
Friday Shabbat services: 20
minutes after candle lighting
time.
Saturday services: Morning 9:30 am; Women’s Torah
Discussion, led by Sussie
Denebeim during Kiddush at
noon. Evening: same as evening
before.
Chabad of
Rancho Mirage
Friday Shabbat services: 7:50 pm
Mincha followed by Kabbalat
Shabbat:
Shabbat morning: 10:00 am
followed by sit down Kiddush.
Children’s Program/Service
11:15 am. Daily minyan:
Shacharit services MondayFriday 7:00 am; Sundays
8:00 am
Desert Hot Springs
Jewish Community
Shabbat service Friday, November
1 at 7 pm and Havdallah Plus
Saturday, November 16 at 7 pm
- Mission Lakes Country Club,
8484 Clubhouse Drive, DHS,
officiated by Rabbi Faith Tessler.
Har-El Congregation
Member, Union for Reform
Judaism. Kabbalat Shabbat
Services Fridays at 5:00 pm
followed by a speaker or
discussion.
Shalom Bayit (Banning)
Havdallah the first Saturday
of each month at 5:30 pm.
Shabbat Services the third Friday
of the month at 7:30 pm. Both
held 1320 West Williams Street,
Banning.
Temple Isaiah
Friday Shabbat services 7:30 pm,
followed by an Oneg Shabbat.
Saturday mornings: Services
10:00 am. Kiddush following.
Morning minyan 8:30 am
Mondays and Thursdays.
Temple Sinai
Friday Shabbat services at
7:30 pm
Friday, November 8: Installation
of Rabbi Ettman
Saturday: 8:45 am: Torah Study,
10:00 am - Shabbat services.
Centro Cultural Hebreo
de Mexicali
Weekly Shabbat Services Friday at
7:00 pm, followed by dinner.
Saturday immediately before
sunset: Havdallah.
November Community Calendar
Tuesdays
5:30-7:30 pm Chabad Rancho
Mirage’s weekly BBQ. Reservations
not required, but helpful: 760-7707785.
Wednesdays
10:00 am and 1:30 pm The
Tolerance Education Center offers
free movies every Wednesday. Call
for schedule: 760-328-8252.
Wednesdays
3:30-5:00 pm Jewish Family
Service Jewish Bereavement
Group. Meets weekly at the JFS
Palm Springs Office, 801 East
Tahquitz Canyon. Free to local
community and reservations not
required.
Fridays
9:30-10:30 am Temple Isaiah Torah
Study with Rabbi Sally Olins.
Monday, November 4, 11, 18, 25
7:00 pm Chabad of Rancho Mirage
Men’s Torah Class with Rabbi
Benny Lew. For more information
call 760-636-2897 or email
[email protected].
Tuesday, November 5, 12, 19, 26
10 am Temple Sinai Yiddish Club
Tuesday, November 5
Noon Jewish Family Service “Lunch
In & Out” program for homebound
seniors at Jocelyn Senior Center.
Call 760-325-4088, ext. 205 to
register. See details page 14.
Wednesday, November 6, 13, 20, 27
10:00 am Temple Isaiah adult
education class Intermediate
Hebrew. Instructor: Rabbi Sally
Olins.
Wednesday, November 6, 13, 20
10:30-11:30 am Har-El Galen
Trimester Course “World Affairs:
Key Places and People; the U.S.
and World Affairs, Islam, BRIC
Countries and Immigration.”
Instructor: Prof. Penny Rivin.
Fee. Call 760-779-1691.
See ad page 9.
12 Noon Temple Sinai adult
education course “Judaism Today”
November Community Calendar Continued
1 pm Temple Sinai Bereavement
Group
4:00 pm Temple Isaiah adult
education class: “The Kings: Saul,
David & Solomon.” Instructor:
Rabbi Sally Olins.
5:00 pm Temple Isaiah adult
education class: Learning
Haftorah. Instructor:
Rabbi Sally Olins.
Thursday, November 7
9:00 am Sun City Hadassah
Meeting. Program: Linda Zweig
“Hillel’s Admonition.” $5.
RSVP to 760-772-4610.
4:00 pm Tolerance Education
Center presents a film and lecture
forum featuring survivor stories
75 years after Kristallnacht.
See details page 14.
6:00 pm American Friends of
Hebrew University Cocktails and
Conversation with Professor Eilon
Vaadia, See ad page 9.
Friday, November 8
1:00 pm Temple Isaiah Free Memoir
Writing Workshop followed by
holiday shopping. See classified
ad page 30 for details.
Friday, November 8
3:30-4:30 pm & 5:30-6:30 pm
Har-El Symposium: Fridays with
a Scholar - “The Jewish Image
on Television.” Presenter: Marc
Pariser.
Monday, November 11
5:30 pm Tamar Hadassah
Dinner Meeting, Mission Hills
CC. Program: Wynn Bloch
“Economical Flower Arranging.”
Mission Hills Country Club.
Couvert $20, pre-paid.
Contact 760-321-9941.
Tuesday, November 12
10:00 am Temple Isaiah Book Club.
Everyone welcome.
10 am Rimona Hadassah Light
breakfast meeting. Montecito
Clubhouse, Shadow Hills. Speaker:
Shaindy Friedman, “March of the
Living”
11:30 am Temple Sinai Sisterhood
Book Club.
11:30 am Temple Sinai Women’s
Text and Torah Study.
6:00 pm Temple Sinai
Brotherhood Dinner & Movie.
Call 760-568-9699 for more.
Monday, November 18
10:00 am Brandeis open meeting.
Speaker: Rabbi Glenn Ettman. All
welcome. At home of Gail Baum
and Larry Fox. For information
contact Caroline Weintraub at
[email protected].
Monday, November 18
10:30 am Har-El Galen Trimester
Book Course. Book: “The
Storyteller” by Jodi Picoult. Fee.
Call 760-779-1691.
11:30 am Temple Sinai Sisterhood
Luncheon
12:30-5:30 pm Temple Sinai
Sisterhood Holiday Bazaar.
See classified ad page 30.
Wednesday, November 20
6:00 pm Temple Isaiah’s "Palm
Swings” at the O’Donnell
House in Palm Springs.
Call 760-325-2281 for
information.
11:30 am Na’Amat Golda Meir
Chapter Luncheon at the Asian
Bistro, 362 South Palm Canyon,
Palm Springs. Bingo. Everyone
welcome. Couvert: $15. RSVP to
760-408-0532.
4:00 pm Tolerance Education
Center presents Dana Adkins in
Concert. $15. See page 14 for
information.
Monday, November 25
2:00 pm Café Europa - JFS Program
for Holocaust Survivors, held at the
Tolerance Education Center. See
JFS column page 14 for details.
Egypt Has Plan to Strike Gaza
by Maayana Miskin, Arutz Sheva
If attacks on Egyptian soldiers
by Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda
aligned groups in the Sinai Peninsula
continue, Egypt may carry out airstrikes
in Gaza, senior Egyptian officers have
warned. Egyptian officers told the
Bethlehem-based Maan news that
Egyptian planes had entered Gaza
airspace to study potential targets
in Rafah and Khan Younis, near the
southern border.
They said the military would also
consider targeting vehicles bringing
goods across the border. “All options
are open,” they warned. Egyptian
commanders say some of the attacks in
Sinai are being carried out by terrorist
groups based in Gaza. Among the
groups they named is Ansar al-Sunna,
which has ties to Hamas.
The Sinai has become a hotbed of
terrorist activity since the overthrow of
President Mohamed Morsi by General
Abdel Fattah el Sisi in July. Since then
the army has been cracking down on
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, trying
to undo its grip on some parts of
the country. A torrent of attacks by
gangs of Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic
terrorists have killed over 100 Egyptian
soldiers and policemen since Morsi's
overthrow. At least one group in the
region has officially declared loyalty
to Al Qaeda, bringing the group’s
influence to Israel’s southern border.
Egypt is currently conducting
a large-scale campaign to retake
control of the Sinai region. As part
of the campaign, the army has taken
several steps that have put pressure on
Hamas, including destroying many
of the smuggling tunnels between
Gaza and Egypt and shutting down
the border.
An Egyptian officer echoed
Israeli commanders, presumably
unintentionally, telling Maan
that Egypt does not blame Gaza
civilians – but that Hamas must
control terrorist groups within its
domain. “The Egyptian army does
not believe the population of Gaza
is involved in the violence in Sinai,
but certain factions strongly support
Sinai groups … In addition, Hamas,
although its involvement is limited, is
responsible for maintaining control
of the smuggling tunnels as well as
the factions operating in the coastal
enclave,” he said.
Jewish Family Service
of the Desert
“Count on us… for life”
801 East Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 202
Palm Springs, CA 92262
(760) 325-4088
www.jfsdesert.org
We show free movies each week
on Wednesdays, at 10:00 am and
1:30 pm. Call us for the November
schedule.
TWO SPECIAL PROGRAMS
IN NOVEMBER
75 Years After Kristallnacht
The Tolerance Center Education will
present a film and lecture forum
featuring survivor stories
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013
4:00 PM
Free Admission
Seating is limited. Reservations
encouraged.
DANA ADKINS IN CONCERT
PROGRAMS & SERVICES
For further information about these services and
others, please call the JFS office, 760-325-4088.
COUNSELING & FAMILY SUPPORT:
Experienced therapists help individuals, couples,
and families address life's challenges.
INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT DRUG TREATMENT
FOR ADOLESCENTS: Five week course for teens
that are at risk or have been expelled from school
due to substance abuse.
SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAM: JFS
counselors serve elementary school children
in Palm Springs Unified School District with
on-site counseling and now with a new 5th
grade curriculum to teach drug refusal and
interpersonal skills to prepare them for success
in middle school.
SOLUTIONS FOR SENIORS: Serves older adults
to maintain independence and help them enjoy
a higher quality of life. Please call the office for
information.
JFS EXPRESS SENIOR RIDE PROGRAM -If
you know someone homebound and needing
transportation to a medical or important
appointment, please have them contact JFS
Express for assistance.
JEWISH BEREAVEMENT GROUP: Free to
the local community. This group meets every
Wednesday at the JFS Palm Springs office, 3:305:00 p.m. No registration necessary.
FRIENDLY VISITORS: For seniors who are
isolated and would like companionship, a JFS
volunteer can bring care and friendship. Friendly
Visitors can also provide companionship and
celebration during the Shabbat observation. Call
for more information.
International performer starred in
Hello Dolly, Annie Get Your Gun,
Chicago and many more.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013
4:00 PM
$15.00
Join us for Wine and Cheese,
Meet and Greet after the show
Seating is limited. Reservations
encouraged.
COMING FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20,
2013
Desert entertainer Yve Evans
CAFÉ EUROPA GROUP: Programming for
holocaust survivors. Monday November 25,
2013 at the Tolerance Education Center 2:00 pm.
Transportation available, please call Julie Hirsh
for more information 760-325-4088 X 109.
LUNCH IN & OUT PROGRAM: Bi- monthly
activity program for homebound seniors. Next
Sessions Tuesday, November 5 & Tuesday
November 19, 2013 at noon at the Joslyn Center,
Palm Desert. Transportation is provided and
participants take part in activities and lunch.
Some restrictions apply. To register and obtain
further information contact Lisa Schmid 760779-9400. X 205.
JFS/Aleph Academy Chanukah Food Drive:
Jewish Family Service and the Desert Torah
Academy have teamed up to collect food
for needy Jewish Coachella Valley residents.
The scholars of Desert Torah Academy are
enthusiastically taking part in the holiday food
drive Mitzvah project. Please feel free to support
the scholars with your generous donation of
non-perishable food items.
2014 Campaign Cabinet
Celia Norian
President
Sondi Green
Co-Vice President,
Campaign
Libby Hoffman
Co-Vice President,
Campaign
Nancy Ditlove
Major Gifts
Co-Chair
Lainie Weil
President
Judith N. Cohen
Vice Chair of
Lion of Judah Campaign
Stephanie S. Ross
Vice President,
Campaign
Sherry Salzman
Outreach VP/
Pomegranate Chair
Joanne Chunowitz
Lion of Judah
Event Co-Chair
Brenda Weinstock
Vice Chair of
Pomegranate Campaign
Judy Cohn
Education VP/
Insights Co-Chair
Marjorie Kulp
Major Gifts
Co-Chair
Barbara Weisberg
Lion of Judah
Event Co-Chair
Evelyn Binsky
Insights
Co-Chair
Italian Cycling Legend Gino Bartali Honored by Yad Vashem
Bartali, already an international icon, smuggled forged documents inside his bicycle frame during Germany’s
occupation of Italy in WWII
By Andrew Samph, The Times of Israel
The
clandestine
World War
II work of
champion
cyclist Gino
Bartali was
recognized
October
10, 2013,
when a
ceremony
Gino Bartali in 1938
was held in
Jerusalem to mark his help in rescuing
Jews in his native Italy. The ceremony
was held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Jerusalem to
induct Bartali into the prestigious
Garden of the Righteous Among
the Nations for his work during the
German occupation of Italy. The
honor recognizes non-Jews who
risked their lives to save Jews during
the Holocaust.
The 1938 Tour de France winner
aided the Jewish-Christian rescue
network in his hometown of Florence
and the surrounding area by shuffling
forged documents and papers hidden
in the tubes and seat of his bike.
Bartali, who died in 2000, rarely
spoke about it for the rest of his life,
but his son Andrea Bartali led an
effort to gain recognition for what his
father had done. “It’s very moving for
me to be here now to talk about my
father, a man who covered more than
700,000 kilometers (nearly 500,000
miles) on his bicycle, many of them
during the war, to help people in
need and, above all, Jews,” Andrea
Bartali told The Associated Press at
the ceremony.
The Jewish-Christian rescue
network in Florence was led by Rabbi
Nathan Cassuto and Cardinal Elia
Angelo Dalla Costa, the Archbishop
of Florence, who was previously
recognized as Righteous Among the
Nations. Even after Rabbi Cassuto was
arrested by the Germans, deported
and sent to his death, the network
continued functioning.
Giorgio Goldenberg, who also
attended Thursday’s ceremony, was
a child when his entire family was
hidden by Bartali, who was a friend of
his father’s. “I’m alive because Bartali
hid us in a cellar,” the 81-year-old
Goldenberg, who now lives in Israel,
told the Italian Jewish monthly Pagine
Ebraiche.
Oscar-nominated director Oren
Jacoby just finished editing a film
called “Don’t Talk About It: Italy’s
Secret Heroes.” It’s a documentary
that tells the story of Bartali and other
Italians who helped Jews during the
Holocaust. “Of course there were bad
stories, and we show in the film that
there were Italians who were sent to
Auschwitz and there were times when
there were Italians who didn’t do the
right thing,” Jacoby said in a phone
interview. “But there were so many
remarkable instances. And Bartali’s
Andrea Bartali, the son of the late Italian champion cyclist Gino Bartali, speaks during a
ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on October 10, 2013
was just a wonderful paradigm for
what so many people did.”
Eighty percent of the Jews in Italy
survived the war, according to the
Italy Holocaust Foundation. Still,
more than 7,000 Jews were deported
under Benito Mussolini’s regime, and
nearly 6,000 of them were killed.
October 16, 2013, marked the 70th
anniversary of the rounding up of the
Jews in Rome, which has traditionally
held the religion’s largest community
in Italy.
Before the war, Bartali had won
the 1938 Tour de France and the Giro
d’Italia in 1937, making him one of
the country’s biggest stars. He also
won the 1946 Giro and 1948 Tour
after the war.
“He was sort of like Babe Ruth
and Clark Gable rolled into one,
in Europe,” Jacoby said. “He had
everything to lose.” When Bartali was
stopped and searched, he specifically
asked that his bicycle not be touched
since the different parts were very
carefully calibrated to achieve
maximum speed, according to Yad
Vashem.
Jacoby’s film is a feature-length
documentary narrated by Italian
actress Isabella Rossellini. The director
said he hopes to have it released by
July 2014 on the 100th anniversary of
Bartali’s birth.
“When people were telling him
‘Gino, you’re a hero,’” Andrea Bartali
said. “He would reply, ‘No, no. I want
to be remembered for my sporting
achievements. Real heroes are others,
those who have suffered in their soul,
in their heart, in their spirit, in their
mind, for their loved ones. Those are
the real heroes. I’m just a cyclist.”
March of the Living
By Shaindy Friedman, Director, Sunshine Circle
This past spring, local non-profit
Sunshine Circle sent six high school
students to Poland and Israel as the
Coachella Valley's first teen delegation
to join 'March of the Living' in more
than a decade. The students traveled
alongside thousands of Jewish teens
from around the world as they
explored the history, legacy, and
commemoration of the Holocaust. John Kimmes, Josh Weiss, Ethan Mezrahi and
The trip was made possible by the
Howard Berkowitz in Auschwitz.
many generous patrons of Sunshine The excited chatter quiets as we pass
Circle and the Jewish Federation of through the entrance. Was it just days
the Desert.
ago we sat with a Survivor and her
son as he spread maps on the floor
to show us the exact spot his mother
scaled a wall and escaped the Ghetto
through this cemetery? And just like
that, we are here.
We walk slowly down the long
paths, dwarfed beneath towering bare
oaks, studying the epitaphs. Leah,
Shmuel, Faiga...a modest woman, a
pious man. The wise, the righteous,
the young and old; peddlers, authors,
masons, Torah scholars. I could spend
A photo of Necha Landau, mother of local a lifetime here. I grow emotional
Survivor Rickie Taras, rests on Howard reading the narratives of a once
Berkowitz' knee as a he composes a bustling community, and then again
placard in her memory on the train tracks of
Auschwitz where she perished. at the unmarked mass graves covering
those whose stories we will never
The placard reads: NECHA ASSENFARB know; who never had the chance to
LANDAU, WARSAWA, POLAND 1918-1942
finish their stories.
AUSCHWITZ You’re daughter has had a great
A visit to the remnant of the
life. Married. Grandchildren.
Still living in Rancho Mirage, CA. Warsaw Ghetto wall, a tour of the
local Jewish day school and a bowl
It's a warm desert night when a of hot soup later and we are headed
group of Sunshine Circle teens trundle for Bialystok.
off to board a flight to Poland, piling
The next morning we marvel at
out a day later in a very gray Warsaw, a massive twisted iron dome jutting
wrapped in goose down and stepping through piles of white, untouched
over piles of muddied snow. It feels snow in an empty square with tall
like the dead of winter the April beige apartment complexes on either
morning we arrive. Throngs of excited side. We string ourselves with tightly
teens fill the terminal and spill out to clasped hands in a big circle halfway
the street. The sensation is positive around the remains of the largest shul
and strong.
in town and stand silently as the tiny
Through our charter bus windows we flakes falling all around--and then a
watch roads of low slung communist low mournful kel maleh rachamim
era buildings pass between streaks of and kaddish.
wet snow until we park just outside
There’s dancing in the still functional
the iron gates of the Jewish cemetery. Tykocin Synagogue we visit next, with
upbeat, meaningful
songs reverberating
off the intricately
painted walls. Two
Holocaust Survivors
are hoisted on chairs
and the teens encircle
them, clapping and
singing.
The steps we take
to retrace those of
the small Jewish
community of
Sunshine Circle delegation in Israel: (L-R) Howard Berkowitz,
Tykocin are heavy Kelsey Kimmes, John Kimmes, Ethan Mezrahi, Jaclyn Scarlett, and
with heartache and
Josh Weiss.
thought. We trudge
deep into the nearby Lupochowo women who lit Shabbos candles here
forest and mourn those buried for generations and then I picture my
beneath the tall watchful trees. And own two daughters doing the same.
we mourn again in Treblinka, now The continuity is breathtaking.
I walk through the streets of Warsaw
an expansive clearing in a thick
forest. Concrete blocks replace train and dream of the sounds of yore.
tracks and hundreds of sharp broken Of l’cha dodi and sholom aleichem
stones represent Jewish communities emanating from every open door and
of cities and shtetls shattered during window. The city seems so empty,
the Holocaust. Shaina, the woman I so robbed. It is completely hushed
now, and dark. And suddenly we
am named for, lost her life here.
Back on the bus we are thawing hear it, a chorus of voices growing
out, yanking off wet boots and folding stronger and louder. Turning a corner
up gloves. Despite the fullness of we see, nestled amongst shuttered
our day, there’s a palpable growing sleepy buildings, the brightly lit
excitement for Shabbos. With only Nozyk Synagogue, the only prewar
a short time to prepare, we rush up shul to survive the war. In the darkness
of that night it stands stubborn and
bright and beautiful. All around and
within it are hundreds of youth,
from scores of communities around
the world. The singing and dancing
during that Shabbos service is some
of the most joyous and heartfelt I've
experienced.
As we are leaving Nozyk the teens
are singing “Am Yisrael Chai” at the
March of the Living participants enter the
gates of Birkenau on Yom HaShoah. top of their lungs, their faces shining
bright as the desert sun. Those simple
to our rooms and back down in time three words resonate in an astounding
to duck into the hotel bar and light way. We are still here! We don’t
Shabbos candles. I want to remain in merely exist, we are thriving! Now,
this moment, to be fully conscious of thousands of miles from home, we
its depth. I picture the thousands of truly understand what that means.
Federation Campaign Donors
Thank You for Doing a World of Good!
The Jewish Federation of the Desert and its beneficiary
agencies would like to thank our compassionate and
loyal donors who gave so generously to the 2013 Annual
Campaign. Together we raised over $2.3 million dollars
for our community.
Federation’s Annual Campaign fills a gap as our
community’s needs expand and our needy grow in
number.
From Pre-school, Religious school and camp scholarships
$50,000 +
Barbara Fremont
Helene Galen
Judd and Katherine Malkin
$25,000 - $49,999
Annette Bloch
Robert and Sandra Borns
Dennis and Nancy Ditlove
Donald and Joni Maltzman
*Mike and Cookie Miller
William and Cydney Osterman
Madeline Redstone
Monroe and Rella Rifkin
Irma & Irvine Robbins Foundation, Marsha &
David Veit Trustees
Ira and Sheila Stone
$10,000 - $24,999
Robert and Alice Abt
Jerome Angel
Ellen Bakst
*Sidney and Elaine Blitz
Annabelle Bresler
William and Joanne Chunowitz
Elliott and Judith Cohen
Marv and Mildred Conney
Tom and Lois Davidson
Allen and Marilyn Eager
Arnold and Edith Familian
Ed and Sande Fineman
Henry and Joyce Freund
Bernie and Barbara Fromm
Marshall Gelfand and Jacqueline Rudman
Ted and Cora Ginsberg
Philip and Ellen Glass
Alma Glickman
Sheldon and Enid Goldman
Shelli Goodman
Bruce and Sondi Green
to providing care, food and services to seniors, from aid to
the unemployed to social services to the most vulnerable,
the Federation Campaign changes lives. Jews in need at
home, in Israel and all over the world are counting on us.
Thank you for making a difference in Jewish lives.
We gratefully thank our naming donors who contributed
to our new Federation Building.
To everyone who contributed to our 2013 Annual
Campaign, thank you. Your generosity has breathed life
James and Peggy Greenbaum
Carol Horwich Luber
Samita Jacobs
Herbert and Loreen Jacobson
Ronald and Barbara Kahn
Mort and Sally Kirshner
Vernon Kozlen
Charles and Ellen Lane
Annette Lerner
Mark and Pearle Rae Levey
James and Donna Levitas
Howard and Patricia Levy
Gary and Linda Nathanson
Sanford and Celia Norian
Lawrence and Annette Novack
Allan and Roberta Nyman
Barbara Platt
Lila Rauch
Paul and Stephanie Ross
A. Lee and Elise Sacks
Alan and Sandy Samdperil
Robert and Gail Scadron
Howard and Sherry Schor
Barbara Schrayer
Don and Carolyn Shagrin
David and Evey Simon
Marvin and Pat Weiss
Robert and Lynn Zimmer
$5,000 - $9,999
Jerry and Betty Abeles
Carolyn Ausman
Becky Benaroya
Frank and Toby Berman
Harriet Bernstein
Joseph and Audrey Bernstein
Ruth Beschloss
Lee Bohm
Sheri Borax
Darlene Brodovsky
Naomi Caspe
Benjamin and Bernice Cohen
Francine Cohn
into the words that define and guide our efforts: “The
Strength of a People. The Power of Community.”
We have endeavored to honor every special request
that we received, including those individuals who wish not
to be listed on the Honor Roll, and apologize in advance
for any mistakes.
*Deceased
Herbert and Barbara Cook
Judy Corwin
Dale and Marion Cowle
Gordon and Leslie Diamond
Elaine Frank
Diane Gershowitz
Morris Glesby
Harry Goldstein
Robert and Wendy Goodfriend
Frank Goodman
Melinda Goodman
George Green and Myrna Odwak
Alan and Helen Greene
Robert Guss
Martin and Laverne Hecht
Sally Helfer
Lee Hixon
Burton and Libby Hoffman
Roberta Holland
Malvin and Ruth Kaufman
Mark and Frances Kaufman
Nora Kaufman
Bart and Terri Ketover
Bruce and Susan Konheim
Ann Lehrer
Carl Levine and Adriene Garland
Bertel Lewis
Joanne Mintz
Cindy Muscatel
Alan and Carol Parsow
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Stephen and Alana Polacheck
Charlotte Quint
Shirley Randolph
Bernard Reiter
Albert and Rita Rosen
Richard and Barbara Rosenfield
Gary and Phyllis Schahet
Sanford Seplow
Esther Shepard
Larry and Jane Sherman
Sheryl Sherman
Fred Simon
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Richard and Sheila Sloan
Debra Star
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Jerry and Helen Stern
Amy Stone
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Carol Traub
Helen Varon
Tom and Lainie Weil
Sheldon and Barbara Weisberg
Rosella Weissman
Elle Winn
Lenore Wyatt
Larry and Eileen Zoll
Pacific Premier Bank
$1,000 - $4,999
Martin Appel
Robert and Judith Appelbaum
Trevor and Lynda Bailey
Michael and Naomi Bailie
Richard and Kathi Balaban
Richard and Janet Ball
Irv and Muriel Becker
Beverly Bell
Richard and Bunni Benaron
Miles and Sally Berger
Saul Berger
Dorothy Berns
Evelyn Binsky
Tammy Birnberg
Herbert and Barbara Borovsky
Ella Brandt
Lois Buell
Bonnie Carmell
Jean Carrus
Gloria Chodak
Chuck and Karen Cohen
Diane Cohen
Jackie Cohen
Joel and Susan Cohen
Seymour and Rita Cohen
James Cohn
Joyce Cohn
Gloria Colker
Richard and Jackie Comras
Leslie and LiLo Cooper
Ron Cukier
Isabelle Diamond
Robert and Susie Diamond
Susan Duman
Jane Effress
Stephen and Judy Ehrlichman
Rina Eliashar
Peggy Epand
Ruth Fairfield
Steven and Cindy Farber
Jeffrey and Suzanne Feder
Sig Feiger and Rose Grossinger
Betty Feinberg
Neil Feinberg and Marcia Milkis
Manley and Carol Feinstein
Robert and Joan Feldman
Murray and Rochelle Felson
Robert and Cheryl Fey
Lillian Fox
Ronald and Carol Fragen
Joyce Frank
Henry Friedman
Barbara Fuller
Raymond and Jeannette Galante
Ruby Gales
Robert and Toni Garmisa
Roger Getz
Eli Glassman
Jerry and Sue Goldberg
Ronald and Muriel Goldberg
Yona Goldberg
Alan Goldstein and Mary Levine
Dorothy Goldstein
Rosemary Goldstine
Robert Goodfriend
Perry and Gloria Green
Jim Greene
J. Greenwald
Stanley and Trena Greitzer
Edward and Rachel Gubman
Stanley Hack
Jerome and Margot Halperin
Jerome and Arlene Harris
Alvin Haveson
Melvin and Judy Hecktman
Sanford and Rosemary Hertz
Anne Holland
Joan Holland
Martin Honig
Frances Horwich
Alan Horwits
Joan Hymanson
Andrea Josephson
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Len and Trudy Kapner
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Susan Karsen
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Fay Katlin
Sharon Kaufman
Debbie Dann Kay
Sheila Keeshin
Pat and Joan Kerns
Maxine Kirshenbaum
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Yankel and Rochel Kreiman
Edward and Rita Kroll
Franklin Kulp
Stephen and Marjorie Kulp
Harvey Lambert
Lana Landa
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Charlene Lane
Tom Lang Family Foundation
Marvin Leaf
Allan and Sheryl Lehmann
Joan Lehr
Elaine Leib
Jo Ellen Leifer
Richard Levin
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Don and Reva Levy
Carol Lewis
Marvin and Rhoda Lewis
Norman Lewis
Beryl Libin
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Terri Lind
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Steven & Vera Mark
Bernard Mars
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Jean Mintz
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Irwin Narter
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Phyllis Newman
Terry Newman
Reesa Niznick
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Robert and Ann Osterman
Dorothy Palay
Harold and Miriam Paley
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Leslie Pepper
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Dolly Piano
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Robert and Joan Rose
Bobbie and Shelly Rosenberg
Stephanie Ross
Leslie Roth
Steve Rubinsky
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Sherry Salzman
Ivan and Donna Samuels
Herman and Faye Sarkowsky
Edward and Martha Saul
Lois Schnitzer
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Elisa Schwartz
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Larry Shapiro
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Leonard Sherman
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Babette Bay
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Samuel Belzberg
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William DeWoskin
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Rancy Feldman
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Manny Flekman
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Arthur Friedman
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Arnie Gillman
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Judie Goldetsky
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Jack Goldner
Ann Goldsmith
Mollie Gole
Joyce Gorney
Judi Gottesman
Adrian and Carol Graff-Radford
James Graff-Radford
Alan Green
Irving Greenberg
Shirley Greenwall
Noel Hanford
Sandra Harris
Thomas Harris
Kate Hauswirth
Ira and Jo Ann Heiman
Jerold and Lois Heisler
Claudia Hellmann
Benny and Anuga Herbst
Sandra Hertz
John Hines
Michael and Joan Hirsch
Joanne Hirschfield
George Horn
James and Barbara Horvitz
Thomas Horwich
Gordon and Pat Hubbard
Howard Hyman
Arthur and Deborah Jacobson
Myrna Kaplan
Brenda Katz
Laurence Kay
Connie Keiter
Jeannie Kendrick Winston
Alan and Orly Klugman
Mervin Kolb
Rhoda Kosslyn
Lawrence Kraines
June Kravitz
Richard and Eileen Kriozere
Ana Landau
Jerome Lapidus
Mervin Lemmerman
Richard Leshgold
Marilyn Leven
Mark and Barbara Levick
Calvin Levin
Seymour and Sonia Levinthal
Herbert and Ruth Levitsky
Julian and Dolly Levy
James and Helen Lewis
Freya Libby
Norman and Doris Libman
Howard and Roberta Liszt
Paul and Terry Lubar
Robert Lustbader
Marcella Maitin
Barry Mantell and Shelley Miller-Mantell
Melville Marx
Renee Mayer
Arlene Mazur
Jerome Meister
James and Joyce Meitus
Douglas Mellion
Jim Miringoff
Lester and Charlotte Morris
Bernie Naiman
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Jason and Diane Novack
Sandie Ovesen
Nori Patrick
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Royal and Myra Taxman
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Jerrold & Lita Widran
Norman and Joan Wine
Allen Wolf
Carol Woodward
Carol Yagher
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Laurence and Shirley Zipkin
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Manuel Perez for Assembly
Up to $364
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Toby Acosta
Sondra Alcalay
Naomi Amos
Michelle Anstadt
Richard Arnold
Noam and Heidi Arzt
Joyce Ashley
Amy Austin
Lynette Austin
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Chuck and Sheila Bailin
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Betty Bauml
Jerome and Dorothy Becker
Barbara Ben-David
Dana Lin Bernstein
Nadine Bicher
William and Janet Birnkrant
Leonard Block
Bryna Blum
Charles Booke
Stan Bossuk
Henry Brockman
Jean Broday
Marcia Brodsky
Burt and Jill Brody
Corinne Bronfeld
Linda Brooks
Joy Brower
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Lois Cain
Crista and Tanya Campagna
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Mae Cohen
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Murray and Rose Dunst
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Joseph Ehrlich
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Arthur Freed
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Selma Friedman
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Hareidi MKs Furious at Religious Zionists over Foreign Students
Bayit Yehudi under fierce attack for its support of a budget cut ending financial support to yeshiva students from abroad.
By Adam Ross, Arutz Sheva
Tension between hareidi and
religious Zionist MKs seemed to reach
an all-time high Tuesday, with the
issue of funding for foreign students at
Israeli yeshivot (religious academies)
discussed at the Knesset's Finance
Committee. The committee has
proposed the allowance, amounting
to several hundred shekels per student,
be axed.
Amid other angry remarks by
hareidi MKs, Moshe Gafni (United
Torah Judaism) warned Bayit Yehudi's
(Jewish Home) MK Nissan Slomiansky,
the head of the committee, that ending
the budget would "sever ties between
haredim and national religious with
one sharp cut."
In the discussions, MK Yaakov
Litzman (United Torah Judaism)
appealed to Slomiansky, "I turn to
you as head of the committee, who
is able to stop this terrible decree
that will slash the budget of foreign
students." The state is committing
an unforgivable crime, Litzman said,
"there is no value to these extensions
in the budget that you are so proud
of. Look what is befalling the world
of Torah! You are cutting off flesh from
the yeshivot for foreign students."
He continued his impassioned
plea: "This is daylight robbery, and I call
upon all members of the committee
to vehemently oppose the passing
of this budget, and for this decree to
be cancelled. What message is this
giving, that we are telling the whole
world not to come and learn Torah
in Israel."
He quoted a verse from scripture,
"From Zion shall the Torah go forth,"
and added, "Now [Yesh Atid head]
Yair Lapid and [Bayit Yehudi head]
Naftali Bennett are telling everyone
not to come here to study Torah, and
are closing the doors of the yeshivot
to foreign students."
"Overseas students contribute
to immigration"(aliyah) he told the
relationship between the hareidi and
religious Zionist communities."
The same sentiment was reflected
by MK Yaakov Asher (United Torah
Judaism) in an interview with radio
Kol Hai, who said, "the Bayit Yehudi
party is in a state of deficit regarding
the issue of the budget for yeshivot.
MKs Gafni, Rosenthal in Finance Committee They promised not to harm the
Israel news photo: Flash 90 Torah world, and here now we are
committee, "I personally came to hearing about another decree, to cut
Israel only because I learned here in the budget for yeshiva students from
yeshiva. l, as well as all my family, and overseas. This cannot happen, that
tens of thousands of Jewish families, such a party like this can be elected
moved here to Israel after spending to government. The Finance Minister
forces their hand, time and time again,
time studying here in yeshiva."
MK Gafni turned to the chairman it is about time they took their hand
of the committee and said "The gap away and started standing up to their
between us is now like between promises," he charged.
Hareidi newspaper Kikar
Hareidi Jews and secular Jews. For the
Hashabbat,
described the planned
first time, in history, you are coming
cut
as
"a
death
blow to yeshivot that
and taking money from yeshivot and
giving it to the 'settlements'. Don't have been catering to students from
let this happen," he said, adding that abroad, the majority of whom are
"with one sharp cut you will sever the American."
New Study: U.S. Jewish Population 6.8
Million and Growing
By Helen Chernikoff, The Jewish Week
New research has revealed that
the United States’ Jewish population
is growing and, with 4.2 million adults
self-identifying as Jewish, is 33 percent
larger than previously estimated in the
National Jewish Population Survey of
2000-2001.
Using what it calls “data synthesis”
techniques that involve amassing
data from hundreds of academic,
government and privately funded
surveys, the Steinhardt Social Research
Institute of Brandeis University
estimates that the total Jewish
population of the U.S. is 6.8 million,
the Institute said in its report.
“Socio-demographic studies
of the U.S. population have, over
the last several decades, painted a
mostly negative portrait of American
Jewry. The research suggests that,
beset by assimilation pressures,
declining identification and levels of
engagement, the Jewish population is
decreasing,” the study’s authors wrote.
By contrast, its own findings “indicated
that the U.S. Jewish population was
substantially larger than previously
estimated.”
Data synthesis techniques, according
to the study’s authors, correct for a
methodological problem in most
Jewish-specific population studies,
which try both to obtain a census and
collect data on the nature of Jewish
life. Trying to achieve both aims using
one source of data is risky, according
to the study.
Other key findings:
• 24 percent of Jewish adults are 65
years and older, compared with 18
percent in the general population.
• 52 percent of Jewish adults aged 65
and over are college graduates, versus
with 24 percent of U.S. adults.
• U.S. Jews are clustered mainly in six
states, with 20 percent in New York
and 14 percent in California.
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‘False Flag’ is loosely based on the 2010
assassination in Dubai of a Hamas official.
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Fox International Channels (FIC) and Keshet
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(False Flag), for American audiences. The format was
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Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
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across the Internet and news around the world as suspects
in a dangerous international crime. Parkland director
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American script.
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By Miriam H. Bent
With Chanukah and Thanksgiving overlapping, I
couldn’t resist giving you recipes that combine the
favorite tastes of each, hence Sweet Potato Latkes.
Keeping with the “combination” theme, try serving
them with a topping of cranberries instead of
applesauce or, better yet, cranberry applesauce. I’m
giving you recipes for both. Both cranberry toppings
work well with traditional potato latkes too! Happy
Chanukah! Happy Thanksgiving! MHB
Sweet Potato Latkes
1 lb. sweet potatoes, peeled
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 2" x 1" piece fresh ginger
1 teasp. baking powder
2 eggs
½ teasp. salt
½ cup apple juice
Vegetable oil
½ cup all-purpose flour
Grate sweet potatoes with grating disk of food processor or by hand. Place in
large bowl. Cut ginger into small chunks, then put in food processor with steel
blade and mince. Measure two tablespoons of the ginger and add to potatoes.
Combine remaining ingredients (except oil) then add to potatoes and toss together
until mixed. Heat ½ inch vegetable oil in large skillet over medium-high heat to
365 degrees. Drop ¼ cup batter into hot oil. Cook for 3-4 minutes per side, until
crisp. Drain on paper toweling before serving. Can be frozen. To reheat, do not
defrost, but put in 400̊ degree oven for 10 minutes, or until hot and crisp. Makes
about 15 latkes.
Marmalade Cranberry Sauce
1 lb. fresh or frozen cranberries
1½ cups sugar
1 cup sliced, toasted almonds
1 cup orange marmalade
3 Tablespoons orange liqueur
Juice of ½ lemon
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
(optional)
Rinse and pick over the fresh cranberries. If frozen, there is no need to defrost.
Combine cranberries and sugar in a casserole dish. Cover and bake in preheated
350 degree oven for 1 hour. Add remaining ingredients, stir and refrigerate. 10
servings.
Cranberry Applesauce
2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ cup sugar
½ cup Manischewitz
Concord Grape wine
4 large Granny Smith apples
In a medium sauce pot, combine cranberries, spices, sugar, and Manischewitz.
Bring mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. Peel and core
apples, cut them into half inch chunks and add to the cranberry mixture. Cover
sauce and continue to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. If sauce begins
to stick, add water. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature before serving.
10 servings.
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STRANGE AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
Four Yemenite fishermen were apprehended on suspicion of
smuggling arms but all the Israeli navy found on their boat was
hash – 100 kilograms (220 lbs.) to be exact. Hauled into port and
then into court, the four, who suffice it to say hadn’t taken passports
with them on the ‘run,’ were handed over to the Ministry of Interior
instead of the police.
Why?
Israel doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Yemen. It took
four months to cut through red tape until the International Red
Cross was able to obtain travel documents for the foursome to be
sent home via Egypt. But that wasn’t the end of their trials and
tribulations.
The fishermen were taken into custody by Yemenite authorities
upon their return – not for drug smuggling. They were arrested for
“visiting Israel.”
BABY BOOM
The Pillar of Defense campaign in November 2012 was marked
not only by 100 Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli civilian
settlements in the south, but for the first time a rocket landed just
south of Tel-Aviv, in Rishon Le’Zion during the flare-up.
Rishon Le’Zion authorities swore that during the eight-day
campaign in November 2012, their personnel were working
around-the-clock … but nine months later 24 employees are all
at the end of their 9th month of pregnancy, and that doesn’t even
count agitated rank-and-file Rishon residents who after the first
boom jumped into bed instead of seeking shelter under the bed
or in the hallway– giving birth to a minor local baby boom in the
Tel-Aviv bedroom suburb.
COURTING JUSTICE FOR JESUS
Israel is used to ‘lawfare’ – attempts to use legal means to
harass, isolate, and ‘criminalize’ Israel by accusing the Jewish
State and Israeli nationals of trumped-up war crimes and human
rights violations. But a Kenyan lawyer who recently filed a suit
with the International Court of Justice at the Hague had a more
ancient ax to grind.
The former spokesperson for the Kenyan Judiciary Dola Indidis
wanted the court to ‘overturn’ the trial of Jesus and the court’s
verdict “as a violation of human rights” and annul the legal
proceedings as “judicial misconduct.”
The charge was brought against the State of Israel, but the Jewish
state wasn’t alone in the docket; the Republic of Italy was named a
co-defendant by the Kenyan. Apparently even UN institutions have
their limits when it comes to Israel bashing: The ICJ ruled that they
couldn’t pillory Israel in this case. Was there a statute of limitations
after two thousand years? No. The ICJ said it has no jurisdiction
in such a case since it “settles disputes between states.”
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