Israeli consul: 'Now it's up to the Palestinians'

28 Av 5765 Vol. IV - Issue XXXV

Photo by Mary Karr

ISRAELI CONSUL MEIR SHLOMO, at right, speaks t o the Rev. John Holt after a debriefing session on t he Israeli disengagement from the West Bank and Gaza, which was held Monday for community leaders at the Jewish Federation of R.I.

Israeli consul: 'Now it's up to the Palestinians' ByMaryKorr

PROVIDENCE - On Monday, Israeli Consul Meir Shlomo, the consul general for New England, spoke to a group of Jewish and community leaders at a disengagement debriefing and answered quest ions. About two dozen people attended the event organized by the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of R.I.

The consul, a native of Tel Aviv, was a member of the peace delegation to Washington, D.C., in 1991. H e began by sharing a personal story. His cell phone, which he keeps under his pillow at night, rang over the weekend. It was his son, who is in the military in Israel, reporting that a suicide bomber had struck Sunday at the central bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.

See ISRAELI CONSUL, page 3

Helping Jews in areas hit by hurricane

NEW YORK CTTA) - Adam Bronstone barely slept Sunday night. After evacuating from New Orleans and heading west to Houston on Saturday to avoid Hurricane Katrina, he had a lot on his mind.

"You're worried about where it's going to hit," said Bronstone, director of communications for the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. "You're worried about the place you live in; the place you work; the synagogue I go to, which is near the lake; the federation office, which is on a beautiful campus that's only three years old and is also near the lake. I worry about where I'm going to be next week."

Bronstone is among the 10,000-12,000 Jews from New O rleans and its environs who are believed to have fled the city to stay out of harm's way. H e has taken up residence with a friend who works at H ouston's Israeli Consulate. Other consulate employees have taken in other refugees from the hurricane, he said. Katrina slammed cities

See HURRICANE, page 13

Jewish Federation of Rhode Island September 2, 2005

A taste of the 'Lower East Side' ]CC, ci-ty recreate the Jewish neighborhood of old New York

FISHEL BRESLER, and his band of Klezmer musicians kept the crowd on their feet. By MaryKorr

PROVIDENCE Ephraim Gerber of Pawtucket misses the sour pickles he ate as a child growing up in New York City's lower East Side. H e was dismayed that they were all gone when he arrived at a nostalgic neighborhood event held at Lippitt Park on Sunday.

The program, the "Lower

DAN JAFFEE, a former New Yorker, enjoys the summer afternoon with his daughter, six-month-old Eliana.

East Side comes to Providence's East Side," was presented by the Jewish Community Center CTCC) and sponsored by the city's D ept. of Art, Culture and Tourism.

JCC organizer Sue Suls estimated that almost a thousand visitors came to hear the sounds and sample the tastes of immigrant Jewish neighborhoods of the past century.

G erber recalled the lower East Side of his youth. "Essex Street was lined with kosho: food establishments," he said.. "And all the small shuls wen, on East Broadway." His fatba was a butcher from Poland.

At the event, clusters friends gabbed about going back to school, vacations spent in Israel, and participating in

See LOWER EAST SIDE, page TT

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Alumni Bowling League Tuesday Alumni Bowling League, senior women's group using

duckpins, will resume. New bowlers welcome. For information, call 467-4154 or 941-9062.

WED., SEPT. 7 Cranston Senior Guild

1 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 330 Park Ave., Cranston. First meeting of the season. Storyteller, musician, comic James Gillen will speak. Raffie and refreshments.

"Clarence Darrow - One Man Show" 6:30 p.m. Phyllis Siperstein Tamarisk Assisted Living Center,

3 Shalom Dr., Warwick, in community room. Featuring New York theater and television actor, Richard Clark. For more information or reservations, call Gina at 732-0037.

FRI., SEPT. 9 B'nai Israel family night

6 p.m. Congregation B'nai Israel, 224 Prospect St., Woonsocket. Candlelighting, non-traditional Friday dinner of spaghetti and meatballs. Friday night services led by Cantor Jeffrey Cornblatt will follow. Dinner: $7 for adults, $5 for ages 3-12. RSVP by Sept. 6. For more information, call 762-3651.

United Brothers Synagogue open house 8 p.m. United Brothers Synagogue, 205 High St., Bristol. Shab

bat service, kosher wine tasting. Meet and greet. All welcome. RSVP to 253-0040.

Yiddish shmooz 10 am. Fourth season begins, first meeting is free. At JCC. Con

versation, jokes and more. Membership is $18 for JCC members, S20 for non-members, and $30 for couples. Contact Sue Robbio 861-8800, ext. 107.

SAT., SEPT. 10 B'nai Israel wine tasting

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Kosher wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, music. S20 per person. RSVP by Sept. 6. For more information, call 762-3651.

SUN., SEPT. 11 South County Sunday School begins

9:30 a.m. to noon. White Hall on the URI campus. G rades K through 7. For more information, contact Ethan Adler, school director, at 946-2604.

Temple Sinai open house 9:30 a.m . to 12:30 p.m. Social hall at Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen

Ave., Cranston. Current and prospective members are invited to meet other parents and members of the Sisterhood and Brotherhood. Bagels and coffee. For more information, call 942-8350.

Agudas Achim open house 1 to 3 p.m. Congregation Agudas Achim, 901 North Main St.,

Attleboro. Information for prospective members and on children's programs. For more information, call 508-222-2243.

Emanu-EI Sunday School begins 9 a.m. Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., Providence. Religious

school classes begin for grades K through 7. Grades K, 1 and 2 meet until 11 a.m. Sundays. Grades 3 through 7 meet an additional two hours, until 1 p.m. on Sundays. (Grades 2 through 7 meet again on Tuesdays, 4 to 6 p.m. Classes no longer meet on Thursdays.) For more information, contact religious school director Susan Rodrigues at 331-1616.

Emanu-EI open house 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., Providence.

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MON., SEPT. 12 WA's 'Home Sweet Home'

9 a.m. or noon sessions for annual Women's Alliance campaign kick-off event. Dairy meal. Guest speaker Alina Spaulding, daughter of an Olympic athlete. For more information, call Meredith Einsohn at 421-4111, ext. 206.

Torat Yisrael barbecue 5:30 p.m. Temple Torat Yisrael, 330 Park Ave., Cranston. Bar

becue for members and prospective members; minyan at 5:30 p.m., barbecue at 5:45 p.m. $6 per adult, S4 per child age 10 and under, with a maximum charge of S20 per family. RSVP by Sept. 5 to the temple office, 785-1800.

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friends, family members, or yourself?! In the Aug. 5 issue of

the Jewish Voice & H erald we mistakenly listed in our timeline that the Balfour Declaration was signed in 1910. It was signed in 1917.

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A one-day specialty gift fair in the Lobby of the JCC

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10am-7pm

Benefiting the Rhode Island Holocaust Museum

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The photos of Alison Golub on the cover of our Aug. 5 issue were taken by Amir Afsai and were not properly credited to him.

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September 2, 2005

ISRAELI CONSUL: From page 1

"Terrorism and peace do not go hand in hand. We expect Abbas to Sharon did boldly."

do what to act

He wanted his father to know he was safe; the bus station is one frequently used by the military in the region, where his son is stationed.

"This is the reality on the ground in Israel. Israeli parents sleep with cell phones under their pillows, but daily life goes on," Shlomo said.

It was the first such attack since the evacuation of 21 settlements from Gaza and four from the northern West Bank earlier this month. Shlomo said the mood on the Palestinian streets is one of a hope for peace; they do not want violence and would react negatively to a new wave of terrorism propelled by Islamic Jihad or Hamas, which called the disengagement a "victory."

He acknowledged that the disengagement was a painful but necessary step toward the "Road Map" plan for peace agreed to, "although it will take some time to heal the wounds." However, most Israelis support the idea of a Palestinian state, he said.

When Rabbi James Rosenberg of Temple Habonim in Barrington asked about the possibility of further withdrawals from the West Bank, Sholmo said the larger settlement blocs there are "irreversible" but that, as part of the final peace plan, others could be removed.

"Israel has shown a clear sign by the disengagement that we are willing to go a long way to achieve a peaceful solution with our neighbors. It is up to the Palestinians now, and the other Arab states," he said.

"We would like to see Abu Mazen {Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas), stop talking and do something. It is the time for action. He has to gain control and dismantle the terrorist organizations. Terrorism and peace do not go hand in hand. We expect Abbas to do what Sharon did - to act boldly." Sharon, he said, has put his future, and the future of the Likud Party on the line.

Herb Stern, Federation president, asked why Abbas couldn't control the terrorists, who range from 2,000 to 5,000 in number.

CONSUL MEIR SHLOMO, right, met with area rabbis at his talk Monday at the Jewish Federation. He is standing with Rabbi Peter Stein of Temple Sinai in Cranston, behind them is Rabbi James Rosenberg of Temple Habonim in Barrington.

Withdrawal update According to Israel's Consul General Meir Shlomo:

The "historic and dramatic" withdrawal from Gaza, {after 38 years of settling) and the northern West Bank of nearly 9,000 settlers, went quicker and more peacefully than anticipated. Next is the deconstruction of military installations and outposts.

Israeli military rabbis began exhuming 48 bodies buried at the main Gaza settlement bloc of Gush Katif on Sunday, for reinterment inside the Jewish state.

Gaza's synagogues - Under a new plan, the synagogues in Gaza may be moved to Israel and not be demolished.

Israel will relinquish control of Gaza's border with Egypt. Egyptian troops will be posted along the 8-mile border to prevent arms smuggling.

Shlomo said Abbas is reluc- tive director of the R.I. Council tant to control and disarm them, of Churches, said that amongst partially out of fear for his politi- discussions with his Christian cal future. H e said it was a "huge brethren, the wall and divestopportunity" for moderate Pales- ment are the main topics. "It tinians to come forth and assume wasn't until I went on a Federaleadership. tion trip to Israel this summer

Dennis Langley, executive that I saw the reasons for the director of the Urban League wall firsthand," he said. He sugin Providence, who went on a gested Israel has to find a way Federation study trip to Israel to interpret the security fence to in July, asked Shlomo what the the non-Jewish community. "The Israeli government could do to Christian community sees it as a prop up these moderates and Berlin wall," he said. suggested that once Palestinians Shlomo noted that the bus were exposed to a better standard bombing in Beersheba happened of living, and feel the effects of there for a reason. "There is no democracy, peace would follow. - security barrier there." He added

Shlomo said Israel has no one is "for" the wall, but the encouraged the moderate leader- Israeli public views it as a necesship to come forward, but it has sary measure. "It's stupid in the to be careful. Open Israeli sup- 21st century that we have to build port can be the kiss of death for a a wall that cost Israel $2 billion," Palestinian leader, he said. he said. "But there was great

He also called on the wealthy public pressure to build it." Gulf States to act as humanitar- Afterwards, Shlomo told ians and offer greater financial CRC chairperson Sharon Gaines support to the Palestinians. "The that study seminars in Israel with West has spent S2.2 billion, while diverse community leaders should the Gulf States have contributed be done by all Federations. "You just Sl.1 million." have to see the reality firsthand

Building the Palestinian of what is going on in Israel," he said. economy underlies the success of

a Palestinian state, he said. Marylyn Graff contributed to

The Rev. John Holt, execu- this article.

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Communitv Q&A WITH RABBI DAVID SAPERSTEIN

Social action connects young people to Judaism By Jonathan Rubin

Editor's note: Dubbed the "quintessential religious lobbyist on Capitol Hill" by the Washington Post, Rabbi David Saperstein heads the Religious Action Center, an arm of the Union of Reform Judaism based out of New York. During his 30-year tenure as director, he's helped turn t ikkun olam into a household concept, as well as lead the way in Jewish responses to human rights abuse, embryonic cell research, and other issues. He spoke with the Jewish Voice & Herald last Rabbi David Saperstein week over his cell phone.

VH: Social action seems to be one of the few methods that brings young Jews into organized activities. Can you comment on this?

DS: Most polls done over the past 30 years have shown that commitment to our [social action] programs is the most common indicator of Jewish identity in the United States - more than Israel or ritual observance or anything else.

You cannot talk about Jewish continuity without talking about the central role of social justice, both for its own sake and as a gateway to bring young people back to Jewish study and worship.

If the Judaism we offer our young people does not speak to the great moral issues of their lives and of the world, it will not be a Judaism that invokes their interests and their loyalty. It is precisely because Judaism has been a religion that looks not just inward but outward that it has been one of the secrets of Jewish survival in the face of unremitting hatred, persecution and the temptations of assimilation.

VH: So there is something fundamentally Jewish about social action?

DS: Responding to God's call to be partners in creating a just and compassionate world is essential to Judaism. It was embodied by the prophets in the creation of the world's first social welfare structure, or in the social justice institutions of a self-governing Jewish community. We have always had a major focus on social justice. It's central to being a Jew.

VH: Those seem like mostly internal successes. DS: Where Jews have lived in society, where they have been

allowed to participate in greater society - Joseph in Egypt, the golden age of Spain, and much of the (modern] western world - they have been key figures in political and public affairs. In America, Jews have been disproportionately at the forefront of every social cause over the last 120 years.

One strand of Jewish social justice has been from the secular socialist institutions from Eastern Europe. Also, since the 1920s, the synagogue communities of America have been powerfully outspoken voices for social justice, the labor movement, child labor laws, general workers' rights, and the civil rights movement.

VH: Numerous Jewish advocacy groups, from your organization to the Shalom Center to the American Jewish World Service, have achieved great success in alerting our communities to the deplorable conditions 1n Sudan. Why does this issue resonate so strongly with Jews?

DS: We Jews have been the quintessential victims in group hatred and persecution. We know what happens when good people stand idly by while evil is being done. One of the central lessons of the Holocaust is that we can never again be silent, so whenever genocidal activity takes place, it is not surprising that Jews are at the forefront of denouncing it. Darfur was a key manifestation of that.

VH: Over the past year you've been featured in many national

See SAPERSTEIN, page 11


Opinion September 2, 2005

A MAJORITY OF ONE

4 Visiting the grandchildren of the Diaspora

In ancient days, when Jews lived in E-Z fold portable reed huts and wanted to visit their grandchildren, they had only to search through

the crowd in whatever corner of the Sinai Desert the tribe was encamped.

Then was then, this is now. Today, if you want to visit grandchildren, you can count yourself fortunate if they live on the same continent. This observer recently returned to Rhode Island from a journey to his four grandchildren and a fifth in process ( explanations later) whose pictures, at right, attest to the high

quality of the genes they have inherited from their grandparents.

In my self-appointed role of certified public noodge, I feel impelled to suggest several things you should be aware of when visiting your children and their offspri ng.

(1) Choose carefully the proper time for your visit. As a veteran of parenting four children through the Suzuki system of violin teaching, in which the entire family is expected to attend each and every recital, I know whereof I speak.

Tanner, 1 1/2

What works for the violin does not necessarily work for the theater, especially for a two-hour presentation of "Beauty and the Beast," performed thrice in two days and in which my granddaughter starred as a singing knife. (Don't ask.) At violin recitals, you can depart discreetly after your offspring has had a turn on stage. But you can't just leave the theater before the final curtain, especially when the child's other grandfather is also present and enjoying every elongated minute of each performance.

Dry Bones THE PAIN IS PLAIN

DECIDING TO LET GO OF THE HOT

POTATO

WAS QEALLY DIFFICULT.

ACTUALLY DOING IT.

lssadora, 5, and Hannah, 10

Dahlia, 3, and Asher, 6

(2) Be prepared to endure a measure of gastronomic privation. I have two daughters-in-law, both intelligent, lovely women, whose definition of gourmet dining differs widely from mine.

One keeps a kosher kitchen; the other considers a cow's milk fit only for calves. People who disapprove of cow's milk tend to replace it with soy milk, a concoction promoted by the international soybean conspiricy and intended to ensure our living long, if tasteless lives. As for kashrut, I have no problem with that other than it is confusing enough keeping track of calories, fat grams, sodium and the other threats to one's survival without having to memorize which kashrut symbols are regarded as genuine and which are considered trey/in any given Jewish household.

(3) Always bear in mind Garrison Keillor's profound maxim, "All the children are above average." It just so happens that my grandchildren conform to that description, but there are other, less fortunate persons whose need for grandparental affirmation may require reinforcement. Never be critical of anyone's offspring and never, ever, question how your grandchildren are being raised.

There are some strange child-rearing concepts out there, among them

perm1ttmg the innocent darlings to listen to rap music and other cultural aberrations. My mind is eased by the memory of my parents who, while I was learning to jitterbug and lindy hop, were convinced that Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman and their ilk represented a clear and present danger to society. I made it through those years, so did you, and so will our grandchildren, all evidence to the contrary not withstanding.

That's the sum of these scholarly observations after visiting the youngest generation in St. Louis, Santa Monica, Los Angeles and Seattle. Which leaves only the one who did not inherit the family genes, the grandchild in process.

My younger daughter is adopting the daughter of her fiance. In time the child will, as did her father, convert to Judaism whereupon, I am certain, she will be the grandchild who will become a rabbi or win a Nobel Prize or travel to Mars. And when she has done all that, she will look at her grandchildren and wonder, even as we do, how will they ever survive their upbringing.

Yehuda Lev, a regular columnist, is a retired journalist who has worked in Europe, Israel and the United States. He lives in Providence.

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September 2, 2005 Jewish Voice & Herald 5

Opinion ALISON ON ALIYAH:

~ I took the two orange ribbons off the side mirrors of my car today. I had noticed, already a week ago, the striking absence of orange in

A country relieved

the country these days. As covered in ribbons and posters and bumper stick

ers as most of Israel had been for the past few months, it has all just as quickly and conspicuously and completely vanished from every surface.

Throughout those days, I continually found myself wondering which footage was making it intci the international news circuit and onto American television sets. Was it the shots of soldiers praying and weeping alongside the settlers, or was it the pictures of settlers being dragged out by a group of soldiers, one assigned to each limb, as the settlers struggled and screamed? Was it the lines of cars leavi ng quietly and in an orderly fashion, with their belongings piled

from here, many Israelis have expressed a great deal of relief that everything seemed to go as smoothly as it did. There is no question that, as devastating as the disengagement was for many settlers as well as soldiers, it could have been much, much worse. The Israeli army showed its power and impeccable prowess, with orders carried out with efficiency, skill, and empathy. The settlers, as well, for the most part were able to show their opposition in a civil and equally empathic way.

them from now on. Individual citizens have been visiting the hotels in droves, dropping off diapers and clothes and food, but beyond that our hands are tied.

Alison Golub

There have been times this week when I have wondered whether the disengagement has

vanished just as completely from our collective consciousness.

For the 10 days or so of the major disengagement activities, I had been walking around in a stupor, wondering why I was feeling so depressed. It took me a while to realize that sitting in front of the television all day long, watching scenes of settlers sobbing, soldiers hugging them, and houses being destroyed might potentially have had an effect on me. The truth is that it had an effect on all of us. Jerusalem felt palpably heavy with tension and sadness, and everyone I talked to throughout the couple of weeks seemed subdued at best, and near tears at worst. Regardless of what side any of us is or was on in the "disengagement debate," it was clear that the immediate events at hand were difficult and saddening for all.

I still don't know where I stand on whether or not this was the right decision for our people and our country, but I nonetheless find myself feeling very sad about what we have seen and what we have done here.

The huge majority of the country has wholeheartedly accepted what took place here over the past month, for better or for worse. We now wait to see what the consequences will be, on both sides of the spectrum. I still don't know where I stand on whether or not this was the right decision for our people and our country, but I nonetheless find myself feeling very sad about what we have seen and what we have done here. I feel great sadness for the tent cities filled with displaced settlers that have sprung up in many of the city centers, and for the trailer parks filled with families who have no home and children who don't know where they will attend school next week. Most of all, I am terribly sad that there seems to be so much relief pervading the country these days: relief that it is over, relief that things didn't reach the "worst case scenario," relief that "we" don't have to deal with this anymore.

high on trailers behind them, or was it the family of 10 marching out of their house with orange Stars of David pinned to their chests, reminiscent of the Holocaust? What got the most press attention: a unit of soldiers being air-lifted in a shipping container to the rooftop of a synagogue in Kfar Darom, in order to evacuate in an orderly and painless way the extremists who had barricaded themselves up there, or other groups of extremists who set fire to houses, tires, garbage cans, and Israeli flags?

I don't know how it appeared to all of you, but I can say that even with all the heart-wrenching scenes we all watched

Letter I. E-mail from Attleboro infantryman in Iraq

I was born in Providence in 1985 and raised in Attleboro, Mass. I have been in the army since I was 17 and was deployed to Egypt in the Sinai desert from July 14, 2004 to Jan. 13, 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

During the last month of my deployment in Egypt I volunteered to do one year in Iraq, where I am now. I hit Kuwait on May 17 and flew into Iraq on May 29. I am · now in Taji, which is 15 miles north of Baghdad.

My position in the army is E-4 SPC (Specialist) and I am an infantryman by choice. A lot of people dislike being in infantry, saying that it's scary, and it can be a scary job at times but I have a great deal of pride in my job and its history.

There are many reasons why I joined the military. Some are personal, and others are what you could call "normal," such as pride in my country and a desire to fight against evildoers.

Life in Iraq for an infantryman is always full of surprise and danger. We are always running patrols, searching for weapons and enemy insurgents, and at times working closely with members of the Iraqi army. It is a job which at times can be very rigorous and consuming.

Life as a Jewish soldier in Iraq is much harder than that of most other soldiers: many are ignorant of Jewish beliefs and do not understand religious observances and customs. However, this is turning out to be a life-changing experience, and I'm sure I'll learn from it in years to come.

If anyone would like to write me, you can at: SPC Michael Beltran

TF 1-118 Dco 3/172 INF (MTN) APOAE09378

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Most nights these days, there is still a throng of weary demonstrators congregated at the entrance to Jerusalem, waving their weathered orange flags and continuing their desperate, and slightly pathetic, protest. Families of settlers are safely tucked away into three-star hotels in Be'er Sheva and Jerusalem, out of sight and, I wonder, out of mind? They don't know where theywill be living in a week, or a month, or a year. Their hotel bills are being graciously and involuntarily paid out of the compensation package they have received from the government, and no one high up enough to do something about it seems to care what happens to

Life seems to be going on for most of the country. I suppose the question is: How much longer will it remain this way?

Alison Stern Golub was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington and is a graduate of Brown University. E-Mail her at Alison_ [email protected], and read about her adventures at www. alisonsterngolub. com.

Response on abortion Viewpoint from Rabbi Avi Shafran

For someone who claims to enjoy reading my writing, Rabbi Mitchell Levine certainly doesn't do a very thorough job of it. Although he suggests otherwise, my essay on Judaism's attitude toward abortion clearly states that there is a range of halachic opinions about the gravity of the forbiddance to kill a fetus, and that there are times when halachah clearly permits, even mandates, feticide. That "Judaism clearly prioritizes the life of the mother," which Rabbi Levine pronounces as ifl held otherwise, was an essential part of my presentation.

Which is why, again, I haye never endorsed a wholesale ban on abortion. What I contend is that placing curbs on "abortion on demand" (like counseling, the offering of adoption options and parental notification in the case of minors) would better reflect Judaism's attitude; and that "partial-birth abortion" (the killing of a child already born in the eyes of halachah) is murder. No halachic authority- none - holds otherwise.

Nor are there halachic authorities who consider the decision to abort "a woman's choice," the only contention I challenged. The rabbi shouldn't _be surprised at my not having mentioned some secret "sources [that] are well-known in scholarly rabbinic circles" that take such a "permissive stance" - it was because they don't exist.

Perhaps most disturbing about Rabbi Levine's mischaracterization of my words - and most telling about it - was h is condescending comment about Agudath Israel of America. It's nice that he "welcomes" our organization's "foray" into contemporary issues and our "engagement with modernity." But he might do well to read some American Jewish history. What he will find is that Agudath Israel has been at the forefront of American Jewish issues for over a half-century, that we have operated a full-time Washington office for almost two decades, and that we are very well known and respected in the halls of Congress and the highest courts of the land. What we also are, above all, is pledged to counter misrepresentation of the Jewish religious heritage - even when doing so might be vexing to some.

Rabbi Avi Shafran Director of Public Affairs,

Agudath Israel of America

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"Mitzvah of the Month"

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September 21st

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September 2, 2005

FROM THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

Reflections on a busy, and sobering, summer here and in Israel

S meone called this final week of f\ugust the "mourning time"

of summer. Before we head back to our regular routines, school schedules and shorter days, I

would like to take the opportunity to reflect on significant Federation activity that occurred over this summer.

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Janet H. Engelhart wasd front-an -center

in our minds throughout the summer. The study seminar that our Community Relations Council (CRC) sponsored, bringing nine, non-Jewish influential leaders from Rhode Island to Israel at the beginning of July continues to pay major dividends. Media coverage has reflected the reality of what participants saw on the ground. Others on the trip are sharing their support for the security of Israel with their friends and colleagues. One participant called the trip "life changing." The relationships that CRC and JFRI leaders made on the trip will benefit the Rhode Island community as we work

more closely together on the critical issues facing our state, such as homelessness, affordable housing, and quality childcare. At the end of the summer, as we held our collective breath during Israel 's disengagement from Gaza, the Federation and CRC leadership took a public stance with a strong statement of support for the government of Israel's difficult and bold action.

Other Federation action over the rummer related to two important areas of feedback we received this year in our organizational assessment. First, the assessment's · recommendations focused on our need to communicate more effectively. To that end, we have hired Jennifer Robinson, communications and marketing specialist. Jennifer began in July to implement a new, comprehensive communications plan that she developed over the spring with the assistance of officers and staff. You will see a more exciting graphic look for Federation, more visibility in the general community, and better information about what we do and how you make a difference with your personal and financial contributions to the community.

Second, we heard strongly that we must streamline our governance procedures for more

meaningful volunteer part1c1pation. Vice-President Bob Starr convened a governance task force in August that will shepherd a year-long process to: study our current structures and decision making processes, receive input from current board members and others, look at cutting-edge governance models being used by other non-profits, and recommend changes in the way we do business. The task force will be working with the United Jewish Communities consulting services that will provide an objective basis by which to make decisions.

As you look at the following pages (8-10) in this week's paper, please note the large number of our neighbors who are dedicated to making a real difference for our worldwide Jewish community. These are the solicitors for our 2006 Annual Community Campaign. We sustain life and support a vibrant community when we Live Generously.

Hurricane help During this week of national

tragedy, note on page 13 that the United Jewish Communities has opened a national mailbox on behalf of all Federations to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. As we pray for strength for those who have been touched, we ask you to please respond generously.

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Federation Breaking down barriers, building bonds, for Ethiopians in Israel

(7he fallowing is the second article on the July ~ission to the Former Soviet Union and Israel taken by Stacy ELISA HEATH AND STACY EM~ NUEL on a beach with a defense Emanuel, associate campaign chair of the Womens Alliance, and Eltsa Heath, campaign director of the Jewish tower located near the Gaza Strip.

Federation of R.1.)

By M iriam Klein Asaf used to hang out in the

mall, picking fights. He wouldn't tell his parents beci'use they literally would not understand him. Asafs parents, like many Ethiopian Israelis who immigrated as adults, speak little or no Hebrew; and Asaf, like many Ethiopian Israeli teens, doesn't know enough Amharic, their native language, to talk to them.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Community (JDC), The Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), and the Ethiopian National Project (ENP) are all trying to bridge the rift between Ethiopians and other Israelis, as well as the rift within Ethiopian Israeli families. On a recent JDC mission to Israel and Georgia, in the Former Soviet Union, Stacy Emanuel and Elisa Heath witnessed some of the programsand a few success stories-first hand. Emanuel is the associate campaign chair of the Women's Alliance, and Heath is the campaign director for the Jewish Federation of R.l.

Absorption center Emanuel visited the Beit

Canada Absorption Center in Ashkclon, and was amazed. "It was like a miniature city," she recalls, with its own synagogue, playground, and computer labs. New olim (immigrants) spend 15 months at the center, learning Hebrew while adjusting to modern technology. Like Eastern Europeans in the early 1900s, T:', 1 •

"I owe it to myself to succeed, to my parents who walked through the Sudan, and to you for helping my family excel."

- Pnina Tamano, a law student and a volu nteer at Sparks of Science

middle of a modern city." And again like Eastern E uropeans, the olim send back as much of their small paycheck as possible to those they left behind . • About 14,000 Ethiopian Jews have not emigrated.

Another program, PACT (Parents and C hildren Together)

helps children ages birth to six years old and their parents by teaching H ebrew, parenting, and other classes intended to aid assimi lation into Israeli society. (

The Kiryat Gat program has 500 children from 300 families. It has been a success: already - the

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The Faces of the 2006 JFRI Community Campaign These members of our community will be reaching out to you, our neighbors throughout Greater Rhode Island, so that the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island can continue to help feed, educate, clothe and provide medical assistance to Jews all over the world. These outstanding volunteers are helping all of us to connect and strengthen Jewish life here at home, in Israel and in 80+ countries.

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Al Silverstein

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Ed Greene

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Sally Rote nberg

" Volunteering for the }FRI is just os much o part of the dues I pay for belonging to a Jewish community os my annual check. Connecting with other Jews reminds me of the wider family I call my own. Sometimes I help them; one day I'll need their help. That's what families are for." Sally Rotenberg

Robert Landau

Sam Shamoon

Sid Goldstein

Sam Zurier

Alice Goldstein

Barbara Forman

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Diane Ducoff

Elaine Hoffman

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Estelle Klemer

Gloria Feibish

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Joyce Starr

Judy Mann

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Marjorie Blake Seena Dittelman

Maybet h Lichaa Sharon Varlas

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Anne Krause

Doris Feinberg

"My volunteerism reflects my gratitude and respect for a tradition of values that guides my life choices and family values. My volunteerism is a small price to pay for a life enriched by my Judaism." Doris Feinberg

Steve Schechter Carol R. Brooklyn Jocelyn Feldman Marilyn Schlossberg Rosalind Bolusky

Please join us in thanking our volunteers for their EXTRAORDINARY dedication to Jewish life.

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Tha.nk you to our_ 2006 JFRI Community Campaign Volunteers

Selma B. Stanzler

"It is the least I can do for the life I have been fortunate enough to live .. .# want a thriving, vital Jewish R.I. community ... and volunteering for federation is one way to achieve that hope." Selma B. Stanzler

Cindy Feinstein

Barbara Lavine

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Stacy Emanuel Marilyn Friedman Shealey Charles Sarndperil Stanley Grossman Robert Berkelhammer Gary Siperstein

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"I think it is awesome to help even one person. It is awesome to help our community, our children, our elderly ... the little that I can do brings meaning to my life:" Myrna Rosen

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Edward D. Feldstein

Harley Frank

Sharon Gaines Ron Markoff Norman Gordon

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Mel Alperin Michael Isaacs Roberta Schneider

Richard Licht Ralph Posner Lillian Golden

Mayer Levitt Harris N. Rosen Jay Strauss

To join our talented team or make a donation, please contact Elisa Heath at 401-421-4111, ext. 171, or visit our website at www.jfri.org.

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"If we don't volunteer and help each other, who will do it for us? No one. That's why everyone needs to participate in ane way or another." Bill Kolb

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Jeanne Feldman Ada Winsten

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All volunteers confirmed as of Aug. 26.

Thank you, everyone, for making a REAL difference in our community. Volunteers are ~/ways needed ... please contact Elisa Heath at 40 l-421-4 /II, ext. I 71, or visit our website at www.jfri.org.

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RABBI SAPERSTEIN From page 3

newspapers and appeared before DS: There are many different Congress. Who are some inter- kinds ofJews in the world - Zionesting people you've met on the ists, those who focus on worship way? as a part of their Jewish identity,

DS: I came from a meet- and others. [Social action] is an ing this morning with Donald opportunity to keep many people Rumsfeld and a group of religious who normally go away from the leaders. We talked about the war Jewish community connected to in Iraq and the religious needs us. of our soldiers and incidences of anti-Semitism at the Air Force Academy, and the Muslim religious practices at Guantanamo

We should be proud of what young people do even as their only expression of Judaism, and if they have not yet made the link back to the Jewish community we have more work to do and a wonderful opportunity to involve them.

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It was a productive meeting. We spoke about the Air Force guidelines that would really clarify how they should act on these issues, and training on religious issues. I asked him if he would encourage the other branches to undertake a similar kind of effort and he was quite receptive to that.

I met the Deputy Prime Minister of Sudan and invited him to speak at the Religious Action Center about the humanitarian disaster that preceded Darfur. I also met Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (from Ben and Jerry's fame) when we got arrested protesting the atrocities in Darfur. We both grew up in my uncle's synagogue.

VH: Some believe that social action, rather than making people stronger Jews, is actually leading people away from Jewish observance, that it has almost become a new religion in itself. Comments?

VH: What are the next projects you're hoping to tackle?

DS: W e're very proud of our programs that bring about 1,500 high school and college students that focus on the links between Jewish ideals and democratic values. We have to turn hundreds of kids away each year, and we want to find a way to expand these programs. We're going to be launching a nationwide effort of a way of approaching poverty and minimum wage [through] our congregations as well.

Of course, with the pullout from Gaza, there's the question of whether or not the peace process can get back on track, and it can't happen without the U.S. government being a big facilitator. We are working very closely with the administration on this.

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Stage is set for Sharon-Netanyahu battle By Leslie Susser

JERUSALEM OTA) - The agreement under which Egyptian forces will guard a perilous corridor along the border with the Gaza Strip could prove key to Ariel Sharon's future.

The Knesset on Wednesday approved the government's agreement with Egypt under which 750 Egyptian troops will deploy along the Philadelphi route, bordering with the Gaza Strip, after Israel completes its withdrawal from the Strip. The deal was approved by a 53 to 28 majority, with no abstentions ..

The success or failure of the agreement with Egypt goes to the heart not just of Sharon's Gaza withdrawal strategy but of his political leadership: Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is highlighting the potential dangers of the agreement in a campaign, now moving into high gear, to unseat Sharon as Likud Party leader and as prime minister.

In a long-anticipated move, Netanyahu announced his candidacy to challenge Sharon on Tuesday, just weeks after resigning as finance minister, ostensibly to protest the Gaza withdrawal.

"Ariel Sharon has abandoned the Likud's principles and decided to take another route, the leftist route," Netanyahu told reporters and cheering party rebels who had broken with Sharon over the Gaza move. " He is threatening to destroy, with his own hands, the house that he helped build."

If weapons smuggling from Egypt across the Gaza border intensifies - and especially if the Palestinians use smuggled weapons to launch a new wave ofterrorism from Gaza - Netanyahu is likely to make major political gains at Sharon's expense.

The Sharon-Netanyahu power struggle could come to a head sooner than expected after a Likud court ruled Monday, against Sharon's wishes, that the

party's Central Committee will convene in late September to set a date for a leadership primary. Most political pundits agree that the ruling has set in motion a dynamic that will lead to a split in the Likud, with Sharon leading a moderate wing out of the party rather than losing a leadership race to Netanyahu, who is well ahead in party leadership polls.

Two large questions are at issue between Sharon and Netanyahu over the agreement to allow Egyptian forces to patrol the 8.5-mile Philadelphia route along the Gaza-Egypt border: Will having Egyptians rather than Israelis guard the corridor lead to more or less terrorism? And will the beefed-up Egyptian presence serve as a bridgehead for more Egyptian forces in the Sinai Desert, forces that might eventually threaten Israel?

Sharon's view Sharon argues that Israel and

Egypt have a common interest in preventing Gaza from becoming a terrorist base that could threaten both countries. The Egyptians, Sharon says, probably will use their influence to prevent Gaza from becoming a jumping- off point for terrorist actions against them. That in turn will mean a weakening of terrorist militias working against Israel, he believes. Sharon further says that the Philadelphia agreement specifically rules out any further Egyptian deployments in the Sinai. He notes that Israel specifically rejected an Egyptian proposal to deploy thousands more soldiers along the Israeli-Egyptian border south of Gaza down to the Red Sea port of Eilat.

Netanyahu's view

Netanyahu argues that by allowing regular Egyptian army forces on the border with Gaza, Israel has created a precedent for a much larger Egyptian deployment in Sinai, no matter what the agreement says. His sup-

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porters claim that for the tactical value of preventing smuggling into Gaza, Israel has given up one of the biggest strategic gains of its 1979 peace agreement with Egypt: a fully demilitarized Sinai Peninsula as a buffer between the Israeli and Egyptian armies. Netanyahu's immediate concern, however, is that Gaza will became a huge base for Palestinian and international terrorism.

Personal and ideological differences between the two men seem irreconcilable, and a torrent of harsh words make it unlikely that they can remain in the same party.

Sharon can't afford to run against Netanyahu and lose: It would taint any subsequent decision to leave to start a new party, and would make it far more dif-

ficult for Sharon to take other leading Likudniks with him.

Pundits therefore believe he'll, make his decision soon, probably when he returns from the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in mid-September.

JTA correspondent Dan Baron in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

Groups prep for Roberts hearings WASHINGTON OTA)

- As the Senate prepares for the first confirmation hearings of a Supreme Court justice in more than a decade, many lawmakers are hearing from Jewish organizations about the information they want gleaned from Judge John Roberts.

Jewish organizations from across the political spectrum recently have sent letters and met with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of hearings set to begin Sept. 6. While few groups plan to endorse or oppose Roberts, many do want senators to ask specific questions about how Roberts would rule on issues they care about, such as the separation of church and state.

Roberts' confirmation is likely, barring any unforeseen developments, but Jewish groups are hoping strong questioning could help elucidate his views and draw more attention to their issues. A thorough confirmation process for Roberts also could set a precedent for other nominees in

coming years.

"There is a very important role to play for organizations that are not opposing him to continue to press for comprehensive hearings and 'questions and answers that will shed light on our concerns," said Mark Pelavin, the associate director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

Many Jewish groups say they want a better understanding of Roberts' judicial philosophy. Since his nomination was announced in July, papers and memos that Roberts has written have come out slowly, offering contradictory views of the man. Roberts took a strict conservative approach on many occasions, but he also had more moderate moments, such as working in 1986 to help overturn Colorado's anti-gay constitutional amendment.

"Without asking Judge Roberts to comment on any pending cases, the committee can and should seek his views on the Supreme Court's role in inter-

preting the United States Constitution and laws to guarantee and protect fundamental individual rights and civil liberties," Barbara Balzer, the president of the Anti-Defamation League, and Abraham Foxman, the group's national president, wrote last week to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Patick Leahy (D-Vt.), the committee's ranking minority member.

The six-page letter lays out five areas where Roberts should be asked to clearly enunciate his views - government and religion; civil rights and civil liberties; federalism; judicial philosophy; and reproductive rights and the right to privacy.

The Orthodox Union sent a letter Monday to Specter and Leahy stressing that Roberts' views on the separation of church and state are not out of the mainstream, as some liberal ,;;roups have suggested.

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HURRICANE From page 1

and towns along the Gulf Coast on Monday, hitting portions of Louisiana and Mississippi with racing winds and an engulfing downpour. In New Orleans, levees overflowed and pumps failed, leaving part of the city under four to five feet of water.

The storm - reportedly among the most powerful to hit the United States - tore off a large section of the roof of the Louisiana Superdome, the football stadium where some 10,000 people who didn't evacuate the city had taken shelter.

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Nemes could not be reached by telephone. Thirteen people are now staying on the top floor of his home, where water is running through the roof. The first floors have been flooded and toxic water is coursing through the taps, the Chabad spokesman said.

The United Jewish Communities, the umbrella organization of North American Jewish federations, established an emergency mailbox to accept donations to aid both the Jewish and general communities

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While many New Orleans Jews headed west to Houston - which under normal circumstances is a five- to six-hour drive but, because of traffic, took some people more than 10 hours - others landed in Birmingham, Ala.; Nashville; Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Florida and elsewhere.

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Jewish organizations in the region and beyond pitched in to help out those touched by Katrina. A Jewish camp in Mississippi was opened to New Orleans residents fleeing the storm. Nearly 150 evacuees, including some disabled adults, took shelter at the Reform movement's Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica.

Three Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries remained in New Orleans to help residents who couldn't leave the city. Among them was Rabbi Yossi Nemes. Nemes had received a panicked phone call from a visiting Jewish family that had been evicted from their hotel, which was shuttering up against the storm, a Chabad spokesman told JT A.

The family couldn't make it to the Superdome quickly enough to miss the storm and was concerned for its safety. Nemes decided to stay in his own home and take in

affected by the storm. UJC also is encouraging federations and affiliated communities to open independent mailboxes to raise money.

"The Jewish community has always been at the forefront of responding to human and natural disasters, and is playing a major role in alleviating such devastation," said Carol Smokier, chair of the UJC Emergency Committee.

B'nai B'rith has activated its disaster relief fund to collect money for Katrina's victims. ''A natural disaster of this magnitude will certainly create huge need," said Joel Kaplan, B'nai B'rith's international president. "B'nai B'rith's disaster relief fund will help us provide assistance as we have done in the case of natural and man-made disasters for nearly 140 years."

The Union for Reform Judaism also opened a disaster relief fund. As soon as damages are assessed, the group said, it will decide which organizations are

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Federal court freezes PA assets in U.S. By JV&H staff

PROVIDENCE - A federal judge's decision upholding a $116-million award to relatives of an American couple murdered in 1996 by Palestinian gunmen may force the closing of the Washington offices of the Palestinian Authority.

The sum was granted last year by the U.S. District Court in Providence and upheld by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

David Strachman, a Providence attorney representing the relatives of Yaron and Efrat Ungar, asked the court in April to freeze Palestinian assets in this country after he heard that they were being sent out of the country to avoid payment.

In May, U.S. District Judge Ronald Lagueux agreed with the request and issued an injunction. Strachman told the Associated Press that his office has located Palestinian assets in Washington, Delaware, Connecticut and New York. "We're talking about tens of millions," he said.

The Palestinian Authority, claiming that it has sovereign immunity under international law, did not originally oppose the suit because to appear in court would compromise its position.

In Washington, Hasan Abdel Rach man, head of the PA office, said he would appeal the injunction which, he claimed, will force the closing of his office. "It paralyzes the function of this office

and I think that is the intention of the plaintiffs," he said. H e added that he has not been able to pay his employees for three month.

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Mideast news briefs More settlements to go

JERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon said Israel could remove more West Bank settlements for peace with the Palestinians. "Not all of today's settlements in Judea and Samaria will remain once we complete the final stage of the 'road map,"' the prime minister said Monday, referring to the U.S.-led peace plan. Sharon did not specify how many settlements in the West Bank, beyond the four evacuated this month, would be torn down. But Sharon reiterated that major West Bank settlement blocs would stay under Israel's control. OTA)

Sharon's son tried JERUSALEM - The trial of Ariel Sharon's son on corruption

charges began. State prosecutors filed an indictment Sunday against Omri Sharon in Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, charging him with fraud, false testimony and obstruction of justice in connection with his father's 1999 run for the Likud Party leadership. Omri Sharon has admitted to exceeding regulations on funding for the primary, and said it was solely his responsibility. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided not to prosecute the prime minister in the case. OTA)

Security chief quits post JERUSALEM - The head oflsrael's National Security Coun

cil resigned. Israeli sources said Monday that Giora Eiland, a retired general, had told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he would step down at the end of the year. According to the sources, Eiland is frustrated by his inability to influence Israeli policy. OTA)

Bomber strikes in southern Israel JERUSALEM - A Palestinian suicide bomber wounded 48

people in southern Israel. The terrorist tried to board a bus in Beersheba on Sunday but, after being chased away by suspicious security guards, he blew himself up outside. OTA)

Brewing in Israel TEL AVIV - O!tick, what beloved New England beverage

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Immigrant sets himself on fire A 30-year-old American immigrant set himself on fire outside his

Jerusalem ulpan Wednesday, critically injuring himself, in protest over Israel's pullout from Gaza, police and rescue officials said. The single Jewish man, who moved to Israel last year and was studying Hebrew at an ulpan, suffered first-degree burns on 70 percent of his body. 1he Jerusalem Post

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STACY EMANUEL, standing in second row, far right, at the Beit Canada Absorption Center in Ashkelon. New olim (immigrants) spend 15 months at the center.

gap between Ethiopian and Israeli children entering kindergarten has been halved.

Programs such as Sparks of Science, Student Power and Community Empowerment (SPACE), and Project Ofek, as well as youth centers, are targeting teenagers.

Ofek (Horizon) helps high schoolers stay in school and get jobs. Like an increasing number of the programs intended to help Ethiopian Israelis, Yosefa, the head of the project, is Ethiopian. Emanuel recalls one girl she met at Ofek. The girl, an aspiring actress, complained about her "oldfashioned" parents' midnight curfew rule. Emanuel laughs. "It makes you realize that teenagers are teenagers wherever you are."

Sparks of Science gives young adults interested in the sciences a chance to learn at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. Professors give these students extra courses in science and math to develop their talents. Many of the teens in these programs have high ambitions: one boy plans to study astrophysics, and another participant, Aviva, plans to go to medical school and become a pediatrician. Pnina Tamano, a law student and a volunteer at Sparks of Science, said, "I owe it to myself to succeed, to my parents who walked through the Sudan, and to you for helping my family excel."

RESHET, which means 'net' in

Hebrew, is the JDC's employment incubator, teaching Ethiopians enough Hebrew to fill out job applications and ace interviews, as well as vocational skills. The three currently offered are in electricity, elder care, and gardening. Emanuel toured the electricity program and met one woman about whom she says, "She has so much spunk I know she'll succeed." This woman wanted to know why strangers were interrupting during work hours - the program creates a work environment, complete with clocks to punch and a paycheck for the participants. It also offers a job placement service.

The UJC Israel mission focused on the Ethiopian community, but took a few detours on the way. Emanuel spoke of her visit near Gaza, where she heard from representatives from the military and the settlements-all pro-disengagement, although sad at having to leave. She was deeply moved by the new exhibits at Yad Vashem: "It was very tough going through there." But one of the most optimistic sights wasn't even planned. Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, formerly avoided due to terrorist threats, was packed with Israelis and tourists, and a group of young men danced.

Miriam Klein is an intern at the Jewish Voice & Herald. She will attend Brown University in the fall.

Here, Big Brothers make the difference Stacy Emanuel's meeting with

Daniel Bachta showed her how leadership, academics, and pride in one's heritage can all come together in the Big Brother/ Sister and Roots program, another leadership project.

Daniel, a student at Ashkelon College, and his "little brother" Lior have both benefited . Daniel's pay goes towards his education, and he gains confidence as he becomes a role model for Lior. Lior gets tutored by someone from the same background. Lior also gets to learn about his culture: while he was born in Israel, D aniel's life began in a Sudanese refugee camp. Because his Big Brother

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LITTLE BROTHER Lior with big brother Daniel Bachta.

immigrated, Lior feels more of a connection to his culture and his parents. H e also gets a head start as one of the 80 children receiving this mentoring. Big Brother/Sister is another program run entirely by Ethiopians.

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\iaccabiah games. The Orthodox community spoke of the disenment; parents talked about driving their kids to college. The longest line on Sunday was at Izzy's Catering booth, where ,et sandwiches, stuffed cabbage and knockwurst with sauerkraut, ell as the half sour pickles and brown bags of peanuts fed a mulle. "Where can I buy food like this here?" asked a transplanted New :er. "Where is the nearest Jewish deli?" It was a day to meet and greet old friends and make new ones. ·y Schoenfeld walked the family's newest member, a Portuguese :r dog puppy named Speedo. The pup caught the attention of nonth-old Eliana Jaffee, whose parents, Dan and Jordana Jaffee, ·ed here from New York a year ago. At the Stella Brothers Seltzer booth, Florence Schiffman ofProvce tasted an egg-cream - a quintessential New York City drink ich contains neither eggs nor cream). "My husband made the best ·creams," Mrs. Schiffman said. "He even challenged Sammy (of ,my's restaurant on the lower East Side of Manhattan) to an eggm making contest." The secret, she said, is the right amount of 1p to milk - and the fizz. "It must be fizzy," she said.

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Add 1 inch whole milk. Tilt the glass and spray seltzer (from a pressurized cylinder only) a spoon, to make a big chocolate head. Stir, drink, enjoy. It goes lOUt saying that an egg cream must be sipped through a straw. Throughout the day, there was kJezmer music, provided by The zphonics and Fishel Bresler, which had groups of people dancing. :am Indigo, a swing band, presented music by George Gershwin Irving Berlin. Mark Binder told stories from the old days. Samantha Goldman of Lincoln was at the Bureau of Jewish

ication's booth, where she and Susan Landau of Providence cre-i keepsakes. There were about 35 booths from different Jewish I community organizations and businesses as well. The crucial ingredient to the day was the sun. "The rain held off,"

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- Many years ago an attorney working for the U.S. Department of Justice was physically attacked outside a bank while on assignment in Europe. In shock and soaked in his own blood, he took a cab to the airport to take the first flight out. A few hours later he landed in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Qyick thinking and impulsiveness were not new qualities for Israeli-born Haggai Carmon, who has been the only

recovery and intelligence gathering in multinational, multimillion-dollar cases over the past two decades.

"It has always been a realization that the adventures that I've been going through were so remote from what I thought would be a practice of law; says Carmon, 60.

Dan Gordon, the protagonist of Triple Identity, is an Israeli attorney and a former Mossad

ing DeLouise's "triple identity" set the stage for this high-stakes thriller, which unfolds in four countries.

Carmon, who grew up in Tel Aviv, served three years in the Israeli air force. In 1964, he enrolled at Tel Aviv University and studied political science and developing countries. After graduation in 1969, he attended the university's law school.

attorney to represent the U.S. government in its Israeli civil litigation, such as customs and art-ownership disputes between the two countries, since 1985. But it was the memory of that particular incident that inspired his first novel, Triple

Carmon entered public life when he was elected vice president of the IsraelAmerican Chamber of "It has always been a realiza

tion that the adventures that Commerce, where he helped fo rge and promote the economic relationship between Israel and the United States. He still serves as legal counsel to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.

I've been going through were so remote from what I thought would be a practice of law."

Identity, which recently made its debut in American bookstores.

Originally written in English, Triple Identity was translated into Hebrew and first published in Israel by Yediot Achronot in late 2003.

The book is based on Carmon's experience as an outside consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice assigned to asset

agent working for a fictitious government office.

His assignment is to track down S90 million thought to have been stolen by one Raymond DeLouise. Gordon soon discovers that DeLouise, who is found dead at the beginning of the book, has two other names - Dov Peled and Bruno Popescu - and two other citizenships.

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Carmon travels to Israel one week of each month and maintains households and law practices in both New York and Israel. He says he has emphasized Jewish values in the education of his five children, ages 11 to 36. His eldest son is an attorney in Carmon's Israeli practice.

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That changed with the recent release ofMirembe Kawomera, or "Delicious Peace," a Fair Tradeand kosher-coffee produced by a new cooperative ofJewish, Muslim and Christian coffee farmers from the Mbale region of Uganda.

"We think this coalition is unique in all of Africa," says coffee farmer J. J. Keki, leader of the 700-member Abayudaya Ugandan Jewish community that is at the core of the project.

It started 18 months ago when Katzeff got a phone call from Laura Wetzler, the Uganda coordinator for Kulanu, a Washington-based Jewish charity that promotes community-empowerment projects around the world.

Katzeff knew how complicated the international coffee trade is, and the idea of this young woman sitting in Uganda making cold calls to corporate executives made him shake his head.

"Then she said, Tm from Kulanu, and I'm working with a group of Jewish coffee farmers here,' " Katzeff continues. "I said, 'C_o~e on.~you're kidding,' and she said, No.

She represented a cooperative of 400 coffee farmers organized by Keki, who was going doorto-door asking his Muslim and Christian neighbors to join the Abayudaya Jews to improve their

general lot. The co-op was trying to circumvent price gouging by local middlemen and was looking for a foreign market.

Wetzler told Katzeff about the Abayudaya, descendants of a Ugandan general who adopted Judai~m in the early 20th century. Nearing extinction during the reign of the dictator Idi Amin, the community revitalized itself in the 1980s and drew the interest of Kulanu, which sent a delegation in 1995 along with a Conservative rabbi, who formally converted the community.

Today the Abayudaya are helped by various foreign Jewish organizations; they have a school, a synagogue and several smallscale economic projects.

The idea that he could use his company to help Jews in Africa-Jews who had joined forces with Muslims and Christians-impressed Katzeff.

Coffee growing is the main income-producing crop of the Abayudaya and their neighbors, Keki notes . But coffee prices had dropped, and the farmers were discouraged.

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"They picked me up at the hotel and said I didn't look Jewish," he quips. "Then they took me to their shul. They did the whole service in Hebrew. Afterwards, we ate only food that didn't have to be cooked-fresh fruit and vegetables.

Katzeff says he was astounded by the primitive equipment the locals worked with. It takes 100 tons of "cherries," or raw coffee fruit, to yield 37,500 pounds of green beans, the amount the coop managed to produce this past year.

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Keki and Katzeff signed a three-year agreement guaranteeing Fair Trade prices for all the coffee the cooperative can produce. Eighty percent of the money is put in an escrow account to be plowed back into developing the co-op's infrastructure, with the goal of doubling output by next year. A dollar surcharge on each pound sold will be sent directly to the cooperative-hopefully yielding a further S30,000.

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Communitv Living Literature delivers echoes of the Holocaust

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they were deported on a train to a concentration camp, Gerda bet Suzie the war would be over in six months. The bet would be for one quart of strawberries and whipped cream, to be payable after the war. "I lost that bet," said Gerda years later.

Gerda's story was just one of six portrayed in a performance called "Rhode Island Remembers: A Mosaic of Holocaust Voices." Barry Press, the artistic director of Living Literature, has ere- Photo by M iriam Klein

ated a self-described "collage of VOICES - Living Literature, a program developed by Barry Press, oral histories" from videos and center, presented a dramatic reading of survivors' stories at a Holowritten accounts in the archives caust Museum workshop in August. Tanya Anderson and David at the Rhode Island Holocaust Rabi now, graduates of Trinity Rep's Conservatory, also performed.

Museum. Living Literature is a non

profit arts organization with the purpose of "teaching literature through performance." Most other performances are based on books; "Voices" is a new direction for Living Literature, and has only been performed a few times. This performance was held at the Aug. 17th teacher workshop, "How to Personalize the Holocaust when the Survivors are Gone," sponsored by the Rhode Island Holocaust Museum and held at Temple Beth-El.

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ties - the right to attend sports events and socialize with non-Jewish friends - and continuing on through the survivor's recollections of the ghettos, concentration camps, and death marches, finally ending with liberation, the play captures the feelings of people who lived through the Holocaust.

Each survivor had a different story to tell. Gerda made he;bet and lost, but never had to repay it - Suzie disappeared at the end of one of the death marches. Lea gave up her daughter to a Lithuanian woman in order to save her. In that vignette, Lea spoke of one of the conflicts Holocaust survivors grapple with. Her father, mother and sister had all been shot by SS soldiers - why did she live? On the other hand, why should she and her daughter die? One man who survived Buchenwald, portrayed by David Rabinow, hid under floorboards because he was too ill to survive a death march, and stayed there with other people from the infirmary until the liberation.

It was not the horrors and injustice, though, that brought the audience or actors to tears. Tanya Anderson, playing Gerda, nearly broke down when she spoke of the first American soldier she spoke to.

She felt it was her duty to tell him, "We are Jewish, you know." She said he took a long time to answer.

"So am I." He held the door of the barn where she and the other survivors had ended their march, and asked her politely about "the other ladies." In that moment, Gerda said, the soldier not only freed her, he restored her humanity.

Two of the voices in the play were those of American soldiers, one of whom was the one who held the door for Gerda. Their stories, while much shorter than those of the survivors, were just as crucial to understanding the Holocaust. Many people didn't cry in the concentration camps, because, as one man said, "we were afraid we wouldn't be able to stop." But when a soldier told the only survivor in a camp that he was free, the man burst into tears. The soldiers were not numbed; they were shocked that their government hadn't known or didn't tell them what was happening under Nazi control.

Lea and the man who had survived Buchenwald both managed to try to live a new life through the actions of righteous gentiles: although she had raised Lea's daughter for longer than Lea had, the Lithuanian woman gave her back. The man found some family friends who had been given an envelope by his father. The envelope clearly contained money, but it had never been opened.

Even with the help of non-Jewish friends, life after the war was difficult. Lea was lucky: her child and husband both survived. Gerda was the only one of her family to live, although she created a new family, marrying the soldier who liberated her.

If people never hear about the Holocaust, said Press in his introduction, they may begin to doubt it. As one survivor featured in the play said, he could write about nothing but the Holocaust, speak about nothing else for the rest of his life, and he still would not have said enough. ·

Miriam Klein is an intern at the Jewish Voice & Herald. She will attend Brown Univ,ni(1• thi,Jall.

September 2, 2005

Medical Arts 'Kein ein hora!' Warding off the evil eye

There was a time in the dis- curses have wit, tant past when curses were taken color and originalmore seriously. Centuries ago, ity. A favorite is, "Do a person cursed with the full you realize that you expectation that his invective was are depriving a vilmore than a hasty expression of !age somewhere of

wrath or frus- an idiot?" Yiddish tration.

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could cause herds of cattle to sicken, strong men to waste away and even great empires to crumble. In some belief systems curses ranked high on the rosters of potential causes of human disease. And just as the administration of placebos might convince the credulous soul to feel cured, so too might a grimly delivered curse persuade a believing person to retreat from radiant health to sickness.

The student of cursing must distinguish carefully among expletive profanities, denunciations, oaths, swearing, spells, voodoo, whamrbies, incantations, solemn damnation and maledictions, all of which are sometimes called curses. Of course, not all cu;kes were designed expressly to affect another person's health. Curses, after all, are of many sizes and missions: Some may be short-lived, others may endure for generations; some are casually rendered, others solemn; some are narrowly focused while others are broadly indiscriminate. The social standing of the one delivering it enhances the ultimate success of a curse. A curse intoned by a bearded rabbi would probably be more effective than one uttered by an itinerant peddler.

Cursing, more as an insult than a malevolent wish, was institutionalized in Elizabethan England. It consisted of two or more belittling adjectives modifying a demeaning noun. The curse was even more effective if the chosen words were alliterative, i.e., "You are a fawning, festering flapdragon." Note that this form of curse, common to the Shakespearean plays, assumed that the cursee already was a victim of some terrible malady and that the curse accomplished little more than announcing something that was a pre-existing reality. In general, the more flamboyant the curse, the less malign was its effect.

Ireland, a land where poetry and curses are taken seriously, improved upon the Elizabethan style of cursing. The Hibernian

curses cover a nearly infinite variety of insults, in fine shades of meaning: shlemiel, shlimaze/, shmendrik - similar but not quite the same.

Eastern Euro-pean Jews, from £enturies of oppression, developed a unique variety of curses which were plaintive rather than vindictive, elliptical rather than blunt, and often poignantly humorous. "May a little child be named after you." (Said in a culture where children were named only after the deceased.) "May you die and come back as a candelabrum to hang by day and burn by night." "May onions grow out of your navel."

When a curse begins with the word may ("May you be brought low by leprosy"), it implies that the victim of the curse does not currently have leprosy. Thus, the curse carries a tacit measure of uncertainty, an interval of time between the wish and the emergence of the disease, allowing for a countervailing cottage industry to spring up, namely those who, for a fee, provided incantations to neutralize the impending effects of the original curse.

As a protective shield against the possibility of a curse taking effect upon her child, an Eastern European Jewish mother might exclaim "Kein ein hora!" (May no

evil eye bring harm to him.)

The "may" curse, spoken by struggling humans, contrasts sharply with scriptural curses proclaimed by the Lord: "I will send pestilence among you and you shall be delivered into enemy hands. The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever. .. madness, blindness and dismay." (Deut. 28.) Note that there is no "may," no latent interval, no ambiguity in curses of divine origin.

The dynamics of cursing leave many questions unresolved. Does the person being cursed have to hear the curse in order for it to become effective? Do curses carry something akin to statures of limitation or do they operate forever? Do curses function even if they are directed against someone innocent of the crime? What is the source of the power invoked to translate a curse to a real hazard? And finally, why, in this imperfect world, are there more curses than blessings?

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Storytirne at Emanu-El 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sisterhood lounge at Temple Emanu-El, 99

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The Papal transition 7 p.m. Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Ave., Providence. Brown

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Jewish Historical Assoc_ genealogy 7 to 9 p.m. Meeting at the Jewish Federation ofR.L board room,

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FRI., SEPT. 16 Playgroup: Babies, Kids & Kibbutzing

10:30 a.m. to noon. Jewish Federation of R.L board room, 130 Sessions St., P rovidence. Theme: N oah 's Ark. Facilitator Rabbi Sarah Mack of Temple Beth-EL Playgroup run by Gateway Committee, Women's Alliance.

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Arn David tag sale 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Temple Am David, 40 Gardiner St., W arwick.

Hope H.S. 60th reunion 60'h reunion and luncheon for Hope High School's class of June

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Communilv Kollel hosts rabbi, founder of ethics forum

PROVIDENCE - The mum donation is asked, students P rovidence Community Kolle! are free. is hosting a guest lecturer from On Friday, Sept. 16, at 8:30 England, Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz, p.m., Rabbi Tatz will speak on founder and director of the Jeru- "The P roblem of H appiness" at salem M edical Ethics Forum. a location to be determined.

H is first talk will be held On Sat., Sept. 17, at 5 p.m., Thurs., Sept. 15, at 7:15 p.m., at the rabbi will speak on "The New Brown Hillel. H is topic, "The You; Re-inventing Ourselves for Real Judaism: ContrastingJewish the New Year." He will probe the Mysticism to Eastern Spiritual- depths of teshuvah (repentance). ity," is based on his recent book, It will be held at the Providence

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His final topic is "Life and D eath D ecisions in Medicine." The breakfast seminar, primarily for doctors and medical students, will be held at 9 a.m. on Sun., Sept. 18, at Brown H illel. Cost is S20 per person, SlO for medical students, advance reservations are required. All of the rabbi's books are available at J udaic Traditions on Hope Street. For more information or to RSVP, call Kolle! at 383-2786.

Emanu-El adjusts religious school schedules PROVIDENCE - Temple

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Classes for grades 3 through 7 will now meet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sundays. W ith two-hour sessions on Tuesdays, students will complete a six-hour week in

Hope U.S. class of'45 plans reunion

PROVIDENCE - H ope High School's class of June 1945 will celebrate its 60th reunion with a luncheon on Sept. 18.

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Temple Emanu-El embraces children on Shabbat

PROVIDENCE - Parents seeking a child-friendly atmosphere in which to introduce their young children to Shabbat celebration will find a variety of choices available to them at Temple Emanu-El, 99 Taft Ave., Providence. Non-members are welcome to participate as they learn about the temple community.

Tot Shalom, a service designed for ages 3 to 6, will take place monthly, beginning on Sept. 17. Guy Bermel, a certified teacher and a .pre-school parent, will lead a program of prayers, stories, songs and activities aimed at providing young children a warm experience of synagogue service.

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On Friday nights once a month, starting on Sept. 23, family services will be held. Spirited singing will begin at 5:45 p.m. and a participatory service of prayer, song and stories will follow (with a babysitting option available to parents).

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Communilv Torah Peace Corps spreads the message By Miriam Klein

PROVIDENCEMaimonides once said that each act of kindness has a positive impact on the whole world. Yehuda Blotner and Nissim Lagziel, both students at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, make it their responsibility to increase that impact. They are two of over 250 students who are part of the Torah Peace Corps.

The Torah Peace Corps, now in its 63rd year, sends Chabad Lubavitch rabbinical students all over the world to provide aid and outreach programs. In Rhode

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Island, outreach means selling books about Judaism and teaching people how to wrap Tefillin (phylacteries), say psalms, and light candles for Shabbat. With such programs as Prayer on Thayer and ;'isits to Jev;:ish ~hildren s camps - contmu-

CORPS MEN - Nissim Lagziel and Yehuda Blotner, both students at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, are part of the Torah Peace Corps who visited Providence. Here they talk to campers at the Jewish Community Center with Rabbi Yehoshua Laufer.

ity through children," as Rabbi Yehoshua Laufer, Providence's Chabad rabbi, puts it-the Torah Peace Corps hopes to improve the world, and prepare for the coming of the Messiah.

While some of the actions may seem small, Blotner explains, "a little light banishes a lot of darkness."

In the Jewish Community Center summer camp, children made tzedakah boxes in preparation for their visit. After hearing the rabbinical students and Rabbi Laufer tell a story and sing songs about charity and good deeds, the campers were eager to volunteer some of their own good deeds. Everyone agreed that sharing one's toys was one of the nicest things to do, but the children enjoyed sharing their answers even more.

In Rhode Island, outreach is the main goal, but the Torah Peace Corps has done much more. Blotner and Lagziel's classmates have gone to Thailand to provide aid after the tsunami. While outreach brings Jews together, it is equally important for Jews to have a connection to the world as a whole, they said. The focus of those "prayers on Thayer" is often closely tied in with world events. Often the prayers are for peace, but recently there have been prayers for the safety of American troops and, only a few weeks ago, for the safe landing of the spaceship Discovery and the rescue of the Russian submarine trapped on the sea floor.

M iriam Klein is an intern at the Jewish Voice & Herald. She will be attending Brown University in September.

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just as hu mid inside the tropical rainfo rest exhibit as it was outside on Sunday. Nevertheless, over 30 people came to Roger W illiams Park Z oo for Rabbi Nosson Slifkin's presentation, and a few zoo visitors who hadn't known about the program tagged along.

Rabbi Slifkin, a. k. a. the "zoo rabbi," spoke at Temple Beth Sholom in P rovidence on Aug. 20 on lessons to be learned from animals, as well as the subject of dinosaurs and creation of the world-one that is disputed among different denominations of Judaism. While some ultraOrthodox believe that dinosaur bones were placed in the ground by God as a test of faith, Slifkin dismisses that viewpoint as illogical. His belief is that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Torah "the same place where the Torah mentions komodo dragons. Or penguins. Or Windows XP." In other words, dinosaurs were anachronistic and ancient Jews wouldn't have been able to understand. The Torah had to be written to target its audience.

At the zoo, the lessons were also adapted to target the audience, a significant portion of which was in elementary school. Jewish animal myths were busted: giraffes really are kosher, and there is no trouble in finding the jugular vein.

An engaging speaker, Slifkin covered very different aspects of animals in Judaism. For the eagle and gazelle, he talked about the original Hebrew meanings of animal names versus the translation used among eastern European Jews (more 'targeting the audience'- Jews in rural Poland translated the Hebrew word tzvi as 'deer' rather than 'gazelle'); for the aoudad, a wild North African sheep, he explained how evolution is compatible with scripture; and for flamingos and monkeys, Slifkin spoke of the moral and

AT THE ZOO - The "zoo rabbi," Rabbi Nosson Slifkin, led families from Temple Beth Sholom on a tour of the Roger Williams Park Zoo last Sunday. Nathan Rosenbaum stands next to him; seated on the camel are, from left, Chana Ingber, Akiva David Rosenbaum, Yonah Ingber, Nadav Herzog, Yedidiah Moise, and Yoni Moise. Standing in front of camel is Anteneh Kutenplon.

philosophical lessons we can learn from the natural world .

The Zoo Torah program, while it is clearly about zoology and its relation to Jewish beliefs, serves another purpose. It shows how to apply "Occam's razor'' (which states the simplest explanation is the best) without destroying Jewish faith, and how

to respect ancient texts without taking the science of the time too literally. Most of all, it teaches that religion doesn't have to be stuck in the past, and that science doesn't have to be atheistic.

Miriam Klein is an intern at the Jewish Voice & Herald. She will be attending Brown University in September.

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The offspring of the Kotlen's seven children gathered from 13 states and Israel.

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Robert Gray, 49 dence/Warwick area, and then to CHICHESTER, N.H . W est W arwick in 1995.

- Robert Adam Gray, 49, d ied Mrs. M iller was a past presiAug. 16. He was the husband of dent of the Jewish War Veterans D enise (Pare) Gray. Originally Auxiliary, and an active volunteer from Rhode Island, he was the at the Veterans Medical Center. son of Mort Gray and Marion She was the program director for Chorney. the Social Seniors of Warwick

H e graduated from Cranston for 25 years. Mrs. Miller was a High School West and Provi- volu~teer worker and. driver for dence College, with a bachelor of ln~s1ght, the Assoc1auon for the arts in political science. Blind, and the Nat10nal Fed-

M G k d c eration of the Blind. She was r. ray wor e ,or niore f . di . . f h R d

than 15 years for Jefferson Pilot a r'.en y visitor o t e etire · C d N H Seniors Volunteer Program and a m oncor , . . c b f h B

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ester Youth Association as a soccer coach and girls' softball coach. He also played hockey in the Concord area as a goalie.

Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Adam Gray, and a daughter, Marisa Gray, both of Chichester; h is father, Mort Gray and his wife, Joan, of Cranston; his mother, Marion Chorney and her husband, M el, of Cranston; a brother, Aaron Gray, of Vienna, Va.; two stepbrothers, Bruce Chorney of Cranston and Louis Chorney of North Attleboro; two sisters, Linda Klaen of Germany and Lois Johnson of Cranston; and many nieces and nephews. H e was the brother of the late Steven Gray.

Burial was at Leavitt Cemetery in Chichester.

Contributions may be made to the Chichester Youth Association, Chichester Town Hall, 54 M ain St., Chichester, NH 03234. Estelle Miller, 85

WEST WARWICK Estelle (Silk) Miller, 85, died Aug. 23. She was the wife of the late Saul Miller. Born in Providence, a daughter of the late Jacob and Minnie (Sossin) Silk, she lived in Fall River for over 20 years before moving to the Provi-

erans.

She was a former member of Temple Am David, a member of the South Providence Hebrew Free Loan Association, and a member -of the Chabad Chai Center of Warwick.

She leaves two sons, Joel J. Miller of Georgia and Larry S. M iller of Greenville; a daughter, Ellen M. Duchesneau of West Warwick; seven grandchi ldren, Eric, Jennifer, Michele, David, Andrea, Allison and Courtney; and six great-grandchildren, Salena, Kiel, Stefan, Thomas, Nadine and Nate. She was the sister of the late Nathan Silk and Nettie Weiser.

Burial was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick.

Contributions may be made to the Chabad Chai Center of W arwick, 3871 Post Road, W arwick, RI 02886.

Arthur Nozick, 73 LOS A NGELES - Arthur

Nozick, 73, a ret ired auto industry finance manager, died Aug. 14. Born in Providence, a son of the late H arry and Ann (Milivsky) Nozick, he had lived in California for 51 years.

M r. Nozick graduated from Los Angeles City College with an associate degree in business.

He retired in 1995 after many years as the finance manager of D owntown L.A. Motors.

He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Mr. Nozick was a member of the Loyal Family Circle of Rhode Island. He made lifetime friends and was a loyal and generous friend, brother and uncle.

He leaves a sister, Selma Beckler, and her husband, Joe, of Warwick; and extended family members . Burial was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick.

Contributions may be made to the charity of one's choice.

Blanche Roth, 86 PROV1DENCE - Blanche

(Greenman) Roth, 86, died Aug. 24. She was the wife of Carl Bloom and the late Leon Roth. Born in Bronx, N.Y., a daughter of the late Max and Rose (Schneider) Greenman, she had resided in Rhode Island for 50 years, in Cranston and then Greenville before moving to Providence in 2002.

She received a bachelor of arts degree from Hunter College in 1940 and a master of science in social services from Boston University in 1960.

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A memorial service was held at Swan Point Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, 60 E. 56th St., 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Lillian (Gordon) Swartz

HIGHLAND BEACH, Fla. - Lillian (Gordon) Swartz died Aug. 20. She was the wife of Leo Swartz. Born in Worcester, Mass., she was a daughter of the late Saul and Isabella (Kagan) Gordon.

Besides her husband, she leaves two sons; Peter Swartz of Burke, Va., and Jeffrey Swartz of Mission Viejo, Calif.; a daughter, Carol Swartz, of Homer, Alaska; and four grandchildren, Dina, Daniel, Mitchell and Jeremy. She was the sister of the late Alvin and Leonard Gordon.

Burial was in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick.

Contributions may be made to the United States Holocaust Museum Memorial, P.O. Box 90988, Washington, D.C., 20090-0988. Samuel H. Wilk, 88

PAWTUCKET - Samuel H. Wilk, 88, of Pompano Beach, F la., d ied Aug. 14. He was the husband of the late Esther (Trutt) Wilk for 57 years. Born in Providence, he was a son of

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He leaves a son, Harvey Wilk; a daughter, Sheila Dworkis; four grandchildren, Margie Raynor, Judi Weisman, and Corey and Jared Wilk; two greatgrandchildren, Colby Raynor and Elex Weisman; and a sister, Miriam Roiff.

Sam Weiner, 92 CRANSTON - Sam

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Born in Poland, he immigrated to Canada in 1930, and moved to Cranston in 2002. He wintered in Florida for 30 years. He was in the wholesale and retail food distribution business until his retirement.

He was a founding member of The H ouse of Israel in Ste. Agathe des M onts, a predominately Jewish resort area north of Montreal. Services and burial were in Montreal.

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As a Jewish parent, I find values to be of utmost importance. Although I would like to take all of the credit for your great sense of values, much of it also comes from the community. This includes your attendance at Hebrew School.

Now you are in college. You may have noticed, much as I did when I was in school, that it may not be easy being Jewish in college. There may be times when you feel different from the rest of the people on campus. Although there are other Jewish students on campus, they may seem hundreds of miles away. By the way, many of these students feel the same as you do.

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Finally, become an active part of the Jewish community. I appreciate the amount of time required to do well in school. However, I strongly encourage you to volunteer your time. A suggestion is to become an advisor in a youth group such as USY, or offer assistance at Hillel or the temple. It has been my experience that such volunteer work helps you grow as a person. It also introduces you to interesting people.

Your mother and I love you. We want you to have a complete college experience. Please understand that while a formal education is important, so is your life outside of academia. Now go and have a wonderful year.

P.S.: It wouldn't hurt to call your grandmother once in a while.

Marty Cooper lives in Warwick. His daughter is entering her senior year in college.

September 2, 2005

PORTSMOUTH-Temple Shalom and The Samuel Zilman Bazarsky Religious School will honor Rabbi Marc S. and Barbara Jagolinzer at a 10 a.m. brunch on Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Green Valley Country Club in Portsmouth. It will be attended by family, friends and members of the clergy.

The rabbi, a native of Providence, has been the spiritual leader of Temple Shalom for 30 years.

He also teaches religious studies at Salve Regina University and has taught at the Univer-

Agudas Achim plans engaging Shabbats

ATTLEBORO - Congregation Agudas Achim is introducing a Shabbat initiative. In addition to regularly scheduled services, the synagogue has planned yoga classes, book discussions, theme-based dinners, outdoor activities and a variety of creative and innovative programs as a part of Celebrate Shabbat!

It is modeled after similar initiatives in other American Jewish communities, in which synagogues offer multiple programs on Shabbat as a way to attract individuals who are less interested in formal prayer services. These programs are supported by the STAR Foundation (Synagogue Renewal and Transformation) which awarded Rabbi Elyse Wechterman a unique fellowship to study synagogue growth and development last year.

"Our goal is to take STAR's national model and make it our own," said congregational president Michael Rudnick. "Here in the greater Attleboro area, we have people with so many different interests and lifestyles, we are trying to offer a little something for everyone."

"I am particularly excited about our 'First Fridays,"' said Rudnick, referring to a monthly program of ethnic catered dinners set in between family services at 6 p.m. and regular evening services at 7:45 p.m.

Additional programs include breakfast before Saturday morning services, periodic Friday night services outdoors at Capron Park in downtown Attleboro, and Saturday evening social activities. Also planned are speakers and musical performances, the first of which will feature multinational musician Guy Mendilow, on Oct. 29.

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sity of Rhode Island for the past 30 years in the Department of Languages.

The rabbi is the Jewish chaplain for Roger Williams and Johnson & Wales Universities.

Involved in interfaith activities, he is currently the president of the Aquidneck Island Clergy Association and Interfaith Rhode Island.

Rabbi Jagolinzer also serves as a member of the Child Protection Advisory Board of the Diocese of Providence.

He is a past president of the

Rhode Island Board of Rabbis, past chair ofthe Principal's Council and a former board member of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Rhode Island, a past secretary of the Newport Hospital Board of Trustees, a past chair of the Hospital's Ethics Committee, of which he is still an active member. He is immediate past president of the Chaplaincy Center.

RabbiJagolinzerwas the first rabbi to preach from the high pulpit in the 267-year history of the historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Newport.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards from the NAACP, the U.S. Navy, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island; the R.I. Holocaust Museum presented the rabbi with the prestigious "Never Again Award."

For many years, Rabbi Jagolinzer was the chaplain for the Middletown Police Department.

Currently he writes a regular religion column for The Newport Daily News.

Mrs. Jagolinzer is a realtor and a registered nurse. She has also been honored with numerous awards and offices on the state, local and national level. Her activities in the Jewish community include 30 years of teaching Hebrew to both children and adults. She has been active as a board member in the women's division of the Jewish Federation of R.I., and served on the board of the Bureau of Jewish Education.

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