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According to Reports .........25 

Just Between Us .................26 

Mazel Tov ...........................29 

What’s New ........................30 

Obituaries and Notices ......32 

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Spice of Life .......................36 

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The Iranians must be 

laughing all the way to 

the bomb. 

Israel and the United States, 

instead of working shoulder 

to shoulder to thwart Tehran’s 

nuclear drive, with the clearest 

understandings on what would 

necessitate a resort to the last 

option of a military strike, are diverting 

their focus to each other’s 

ostensible failings. 

The regime in Tehran is territorially 

rapacious and ideologically 

extreme. Quite apart from 

bidding for a bomb, it is guilty 

of the relentless mistreatment 

of its own people and of inciting 

genocide against Israel. However, 

rather than concentrating 

on exposing Iran’s reprehensible 

actions to international scrutiny, 

and thereby bolstering support 

for whatever action 

may be necessary 

to curb 

the regime’s nuclear ambitions, 

American and Israeli leaders currently 

spend their days trading 

mutual recriminations. Rather 

than discrediting Iran, they are 

discrediting each other. 

The American low came on 

Comment 

Aug. 30, when the chairman of 

the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. 

Martin Dempsey, pronounced 

that he would not wish to be 

“complicit” in an Israeli resort to 

force against Iran’s nuclear facilities. 

Dempsey could have used 

neutral language to indicate his 

dismay at talk of 

an Israeli militaryintervention 

that he regards as unwarranted. 

He could have said he 

would not want to be “part” of 

such an action, or “a partner” in 

it, or “party” to it, or any number 

of other formulations. 

But he chose – and offi cials 

of Dempsey’s stature, in jobs 

of such acute sensitivity, do 

not employ loaded, emotive 

language by accident – to use 

“complicit,” a word that carries 

connotations of criminality and 

illegality. America’s top soldier, 

that is, opted not to highlight 

the illegality of an ongoing program 

by a murderously irresponsible 

regime to obtain the 

most destructive weapon known 

to mankind. Rather, he reserved 

his characterization of illegality 

for a potentially desperate, highrisk, 

courageous Israeli effort to 

thwart that program. 

Continued on page 39

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space was extensive, but no 

one was hurt, and books 

and sifrei Torah were undamaged. 

The cause of the 

fire is unknown, but fire officials 

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NEW YORK — Agudath Israel of America is reportedly 

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passed a law requiring written parental consent 

for the metzitzah b’peh circumcision ritual. 

The New York Jewish Week reported on the move 

based on a forwarded email from the account of Agudah’s 

general counsel. The email said the haredi group 

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reduced rate” to bring the lawsuit. 

The city passed a measure last week requiring 

parents to sign off before the direct oral suction procedure 

is performed. It isn’t used in most Jewish circumcisions, 

but many haredim still adhere to it. Haredi 

leaders have resisted calls to use alternatives. 

The health department vote culminated a year of 

debate about the practice, sparked by the death of an 

infant last September and the subsequent revelation 

that the mohel who performed the ritual on the infant 

had tested positive for herpes. 

A statement by the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of 

America (RCA) last week noted that “many Jewish legal 

authorities have ruled that direct oral suction is not an 

integral part of the circumcision ritual and advocate 

the use of a sterile tube to preclude any risk of infection.” 

Like Agudah, however, the RCA expressed opposition 

to the New York City measure, citing “concern 

about government regulation of religious practices.” 

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Jews,” he said. “we want the discussion 

of israel to be an inclusive one. That’s 

where i’d like to take [my role].” 

he said one of his goals is to make people 

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of israel. 

“when you promote the real israel, it 

builds ties [to other communities] while 

ensuring the hostile agenda of anti-Zionists 

has less entry points than it normally 

would” to those who are less knowledgeable 

about the Jewish state. 

however, the dialogue with others about 

israel must be ongoing, and he knows it 

will “take a lot of effort by both the [Jewish] 

community and the consulate to get it into 

the Canadian bloodstream,” he said. 

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In May, The CJN interviewed Ben 

Erely, Dana Merzel and Omer 

Shafrir, three young Israeli idealists 

who are working to “build” Jerusalem 

(“Idealists rebuild Jerusalem,” 

CJN, June 14). They are involved in 

a unique program called Building 

Community, under the joint auspices 

of The Jerusalem Fund and city 

hall, in what we described as “the 

close and cluttered neighbourhood 

of Kiryat Hayovel.” It is primarily 

an impoverished, down-on-its-luck 

neighbourhood where thousands of 

people from diverse backgrounds 

live clustered and crowd- 

From the 

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desk… 

ed lives. 

Merzel and Shafrir 

worked out of a community 

centre on Stern 

Street, one of the city’s 

most notorious redoubts 

of street toughs and neglected 

byways. 

In typically energetic and youthfully 

positive manner, they described their 

mission as trying to “build the human 

tissue” of the neighbourhood. They 

are determined to “foster among the 

residents a sense of confidence and 

belief in their own skills and abilities, 

planting in them the notion of interconnectedness 

among all the residents 

of the neighbourhood, strengthening 

the sense of common interests and a 

shared future.” 

It was therefore a very heartwarming 

pre-Rosh Hashanah message 

that The CJN received from Shafrir, in 

which he updated the paper on the 

completion of a recent project in the 

neighbourhood. 

Shafrir was walking along the pleasant 

walking path on the edge of Stern 

Park in the furthermost, lower part of 

the street when he happened upon a 

grimy, garbage-laden, neglected portion 

of the park. 

Out of the corner of his eye, however, 

he saw evidence that someone had 

been trying to beat back the tide of the 

rising garbage, trying to care for what 

was then entirely neglected. 

A Jerusalem update 

“Ah. There is potential here,” he 

thought to himself. “There is someone 

here with whom we can work.” 

With a bit of luck and blessing, 

Shafrir found that someone, a humble, 

low-profile resident of the neighbourhood. 

Together, they were able 

to recruit other local residents. Shafrir 

also managed to scrounge some 

expert advisors and resources from 

city hall. In just a short time, he and 

the humble resident had 

managed to assemble a 

volunteer team of neighbourhood 

residents – old 

and young, children and 

grandchildren – to fix 

what was broken. They 

succeeded in creating the 

Stern Garden of the Stern 

Park on Stern Street in Kiryat Hayovel. 

Inset is a photo showing a resident 

and his daughter working on 

the garden and a photo of the garden, 

complete with irrigation tubes, 

terraced stones for water-gathering, 

plants and trees. 

Building the garden, Shafrir wrote, 

was but a means toward the larger 

goal of helping to “build” the lives 

Two residents of the Stern Street 

neighbourhood work on the garden. 

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of the people who live in the neighbourhood. 

The garden epitomizes the new, creative, 

positive beginnings we all hope 

for at this time of year. 

* * * 

Rabbi Abraham Feder, former spiritual 

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that tells of the heroism and unique 

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youth, Tzaki. The book is called Tzaki 

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in which the young, daring lad 

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in distress. And each adventure is 

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of a specific holiday. A flying sukkah is 

central to the magic and mystery of 

the situations in which Tzaki becomes 

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instruction about the Jewish 

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imagination and identification with 

the Jewish state. 

According to Rabbi Feder, the genesis 

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many years ago when he met a “precocious 

little boy named Yitzhak whom 

everybody called Tzaki… It occurred 

to me that telling stories about the 

adventures of this young Israeli Jew 

would help bring everyone emotionally 

closer to the trials of our brothers 

and sisters in Israel.” 

Tzaki and His Holiday Miracles 

helps to instil in an age-appropriate 

manner for preteen readers a sense of 

being Jewish and a sense of belonging 

to a Jewish people. 

Edited by Tzipora Ne’eman and 

lushly illustrated by Lisa Cain, the 

book is available on Amazon.com and 

at bookstores. 

–MBD 

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Chenell Stern, left, and Raisa Nakhimova 

baked challah on Sept. 11 through an initiative 

organized by iVolunteer – a group 

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survivors – as well as the Jewish Urban 

Meeting Place (JUMP), UJA Federation 

of Greater Toronto’s Community Connect 

and The House. Volunteers delivered their 

challahs to Holocaust survivors in time for 

Rosh Hashanah.

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in Pride Parade 

Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf 

Staff Reporter 

The City of Toronto’s executive committee 

has asked the city manager to strengthen 

its anti-discrimination policy in the wake of 

anti-Israel messaging at this summer’s Pride 

parade. 

At its Sept. 10 meeting, the committee 

heard from various citizens and Jewish 

groups who want to beef up the policy in 

order to hold parade organizers more accountable 

for the groups they allow to take 

part each year. 

The move came in response to the participation 

of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid 

(QuAIA) in the 2012 parade. The 

controversial group sat out the 

2011 event after threats by the 

city to revoke nearly $124,000 in 

funding to Pride if it marched. 

QuAIA’s presence at Pride has 

been denounced by Jewish and 

pro-Israel organizations since 

the group first started participating 

in them four years ago. 

After its meeting, the committee 

issued a four-fold directive to 

city manager Joe Pennachetti to 

revise the city’s declaration of compliance 

to include anti-discriminatory city policies 

that go beyond provincial and federal statutes 

and legislation; report back on amendments 

to the city’s anti-discrimination 

policy; report on amendments to the city’s 

grants policy, and consider banning the 

term “Israeli apartheid” from Pride events as 

a condition for the city funding 2013 Pride 

Week. 

The last point was tabled in a motion by 

Ward 10 Councillor James Pasternak. 

Pennachetti has until April to report back 

to council. 

Representatives from the Centre for Israel 

and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai Brith Canada 

and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center 

(FSWC) all asked the city to strengthen its 

anti-discrimination policy. 

In 2011, Toronto city council ordered 

Pennachetti to consider whether QuAIA’s 

messaging violated the policy and to rewrite 

it to ban the term “Israeli apartheid” from 

city-funded programs. 

But Pennachetti’s report ruled that the 

term wasn’t hateful, because it had never 

been ruled to be hate speech by any court 

or tribunal. 

As a result, Pasternak told The CJN at the 

time that the rewritten anti-discrimination 

rules were just a “mish-mash” of the old 

policy. 

James Pasternak 

Jewish and pro-Israel groups have been 

reluctant to bring the matter up in court or 

at the Ontario Human rights Commission. 

Howard English, CIJA’s senior vice-president 

for the greater Toronto region, helped 

draft his organization’s latest plea to the city. 

He told The CJN he hopes Pennachetti will 

revise the policy so that groups such as QuA- 

IA can’t take part in city-sponsored events. 

“While it is understandable that city staff 

would look to the human rights and criminal 

codes for direction, these statutes should 

not represent the sole criteria for the city 

to formulate a policy – whether it involves 

the Pride Parade or any other event,” CIJA’s 

deputation reads. 

“City policy should be broader than one 

which is tied only to anti-discrimination 

considerations. It should rest on other factors, 

in addition to compliance with provincial 

and federal statutes.” 

One of those “factors” should be the 

city’s own condemnation of the term “Israeli 

apartheid,” which it passed last June, CIJA 

said. 

CIJA also asked the city to consider demanding 

that groups such as Pride be held 

more accountable for their actions. 

That would help create 

“more transparency about the 

nature of an event for which 

funding has been approved,” it 

said. 

“After careful consideration 

of many factors, with the utmost 

respect for free speech, council 

would decide to grant, maintain 

or deny funding to an organization, 

guided by broader criteria.” 

Meanwhile, FSWC asked the city not to 

“align itself with hate groups” and to “withhold 

funding from future parades should 

Pride deem support for hate trumps acceptance 

and inclusiveness.” 

It said the city let the situation with Pride 

and QuAIA “fester” for too long. 

More controversy arose earlier this year 

when it was revealed that one of the authors 

of the anti-discrimination policy had previously 

written for Rabble.ca, a left-wing website 

that routinely characterizes Israel as an 

apartheid state. 

Uzma Shakir, the city’s director of equity, 

diversity and human rights and who helps 

draft Toronto’s anti-discrimination policy, 

posted numerous entries on the website 

prior to 2010. In one, she wrote that “Israelis 

invade, occupy and wage wars in the name 

of defending a Jewish homeland, and Americans 

continue to defend their policies of aggression 

in the name of a state that is firmly 

grounded in Christianity.” 

In another, she wrote that the terror 

groups Hamas and Hezbollah “allegedly 

question Israel’s right to statehood.” 

Interviewed by The CJN last June, Shakir 

said her personal views did not extend 

to her professional role with the city, and 

she downplayed her input into drafting city 

policy, saying that she was one of many employees 

involved.



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Manipulated 

by murderers 

as of this writing, the evidence is mounting that the 

American ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, 

and three of his colleagues were killed by terrorists 

in a well-planned, sophisticated attack. The four 

Americans were not victims of a frenzied mob violently 

expressing its outrage over the offensive content of a base, 

anti-Muslim film. 

According to a report in the Times of Israel, a witness 

and a senior Libyan security official confirmed that heavily 

armed militants used the melee of the protest as a cover 

to attack the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. 

Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya’s deputy interior minister, 

said the terrorists executed a two-pronged attack 

against the Americans. He added that it appeared the attackers 

had operated with insider information. They knew 

the precise whereabouts of a safe house to which the 

doomed diplomats had been taken. 

Nor was the timing of the attack against the Americans 

in Libya, Egypt and Yemen a coincidence. 

Stevens and his colleagues were killed in a commemorative 

celebration at the hands of pro-Al Qaeda terrorists, 

if not actual members of Al Qaeda, on 9/11. 

The day following the attacks, Al Qaeda leader Ayman 

al-Zawahiri urged Muslims to “topple the western proxies” 

left in their countries. This was a clear reference to the 

governments who allow American forces to remain on the 

sacred Muslim soil of the Middle East. 

Not only did al-Zawahiri target Americans, he also took 

aim at the favourite scapegoat of every Middle Eastern 

despot: Israel. The Islamic nation, he proclaimed, is capable 

of defeating the “Zionist-Crusader enterprise… in 

the heart of the Islamic world and especially in occupied 

Palestine, like it defeated this enterprise… in Iraq and Afghanistan, 

and like it managed to deliver the greatest blow 

in the history of America, on its own land, changing American 

history and destroying its economy.” 

There was clearly more to the story of the embassy 

violence last week than the anger evoked by a vindictive, 

infantile, stupid, silly film. The protests were angry, to be 

sure; but they were certainly not spontaneous. They were 

orchestrated by a sinister group of extremists intent on remaking 

the world in their Islamist image. 

And now, once again, the Arab street throughout the explosive 

Middle East, is roiling. Mobs of mostly young and unemployed 

men become fast-moving armies, easily exploited 

by the blood-soaked hand in the background to provide the 

drama of the violent, rowdy, yet severely telegenic protest. 

Last week, the mob in Benghazi was manipulated to 

provide cover for murder. Western governments must be 

wary of this even while they do their utmost to bring the 

murderers of the American diplomats to justice. 

25 years ago in The CJN 

Nathan Sharansky met prime minister Brian Mulroney 

and external affairs minister Joe Clark in Ottawa on his 

first-ever visit to Canada. Prior to meeting them, Sharansky 

attended question period in the House of Commons, 

where MPs gave him a standing ovation when his presence 

was recognized. He also visited Toronto and Montreal. 


Editorial Advisory Board: Maurice Benzacar, Michael Brown, Donald Carr, Rabbi Michael Dolgin, Jake Goldstein, Jeffrey 

Kopstein, Keith Landy, Lou Ronson, Alan Sandler, Rabbi Philip Scheim, Mike Shriqui, Pamela Medjuck Stein, Rabbi Chaim 

Strauchler, Ehud Telem, Nelson Wiseman. 

Closing of embassy in Tehran 

Prime Minister Stephen Harper did the right thing 

by closing down the Canadian Embassy in Tehran and 

by expelling Iranian diplomats from Ottawa (“Canada 

severs diplomatic ties with Iran,” Sept. 13). Iranian officials, 

from the president down, have slandered Israel, 

calling the country an insult to humanity and a cancerous 

tumour, and have issued calls for its disappearance. 

These insults from one member of the United 

Nations against the other should be grounds for Iran 

to be turfed from the United Nations. Instead, time after 

time, the UN Human Rights Council issues absurd 

resolutions condemning Israel for a variety of manufactured 

alleged transgressions. Not a word of condemnation 

against Iran, until finally Harper exhibits 

the courage and integrity to do to Iran what the United 

Nations and the rest of the world should have done a 

long time ago. 

Bert Raphael 

Thornhill, Ont. 

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The United Church boycott 

Three problem areas highlight 

the hypocrisy of the United Church’s 

decision to boycott products from Israeli 

settlements in the West Bank (“Community outraged 

at United Church,” Aug. 23): 

• It ignores much worse occupation scenarios, all done 

for aggrandizement and not for survival. Among others, 

these include India’s occupation of Kashmir since 

1947; China’s occupation of Tibet since 1950, and Morocco’s 

occupation of Western Sahara since 1975. The 

United Church does not advocate boycotting the products 

of these settlements. When I pointed this out to a 

prominent BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanctions) 

advocate, she called this a red herring, and would continue 

to attack Israel only. I think it’s because Israel is 

small and Jewish, and the others are not. 

• It morally equates Israel’s occupation of the West 

Bank with other occupations, when they are acknowledged 

at all. In May 1967, when everyone expected Israel’s 

imminent demise, and all the guarantees of the 

United Nations and the United States proved worthless, 

Israel fought to survive. How ludicrous would it 

be for China to claim it conquered Tibet because Tibet 

had been trying to wipe out China? China conquered 

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for aggrandizement, not for survival. 

• It ignores evidence that boycotters aren’t striving for an 

Israel with 1967 borders, but rather for no Israel at all. 

Israel withdrew from Gaza and now Hamas is in 

charge there, dedicated to Israel’s destruction. Why 

would anyone suppose a withdrawal from the West 

Bank would be different? Farfur, the Palestinian TV 

Mickey Mouse character, still teaches Arab children to 

hate Jews and to strive for Israel’s destruction. 

Nelson Daniels 


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The Levy report 

Smadar Meiri can quote the official Israeli government 

position during the 1967 Six Day War and the 

words of Israeli amabassador Abba Eban to her heart’s 

content, but she cannot get past the fact that these 

good intentions were entirely one-sided (“Levy report 

requires rebuttal,” letter, Aug. 23). At 

the end of the war, when Israel offered 

to return the territories, the Arab 

world rejected this offer in no uncertain 

terms: no negotiation, no peace, 

no recognition of Israel, the famous 

Khartoum “three nos.” The Arab position 

has not changed one iota since 

then (and was no different before, 

either). Meiri then accuses Israel of “encroach[ing] on 

territory that will likely be conceded,” yet in the very 

next sentence, admits that the settlements constitute 

only about five per cent of the captured territories and 

will likely be retained by Israel under any agreement. 

Despite this, she implies that anyone who agrees with 

the Levy report (which concluded that “Israelis have 

the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria) cannot 

possibly “yearn for peace” (Levy report affirms Israel’s 

rights to territory, Aug. 9). 

Jacques Gauthier, a non-Jewish French-Canadian 

international lawyer has spent more than 20 years 

studying the legal claims of the various parties to the 

territories in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. His doctoral 

thesis – successfully defended and therefore, presumably, 

accurate in its understanding of international 

law – agrees wholeheartedly with the conclusions of 

the Levy report. 

Stephen Tannenbaum 

Thornhill, Ont. 

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PERSPECTIVES 

Jewish exodus from Arab lands: redressing injustices 

First of two parts 

Aharon Mor and Orly R. Rahimiyan 

After Israel’s birth, Jewish life in Arab lands became untenable 

For more than 2,500 years Jewish communities have 

existed in the lands now known as the Middle East and 

North Africa, in Aden, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, 

Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen, as well as in 

Iran. All of these Jewish communities, however, were 

severely endangered by the events of the mid-20th century. 

The spread of Nazi propaganda and extreme Arab 

nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s threatened the status 

of Jews throughout the Middle East, and the establishment 

of the State of Israel in 1948 spurred almost all 

of these Arab countries to declare war, or support the 

war, against Israel. 

This anti-Zionist sentiment in the Middle East was 

not directed solely at the State of Israel. Jews living in 

Arab countries were uprooted from their homes or 

became subjugated political hostages. In virtually all 

cases in which Jews fled, their individual and communal 

properties were unduly seized, 

expropriated, or confiscated without 

just compensation from the 

relevant Arab governments. Furthermore, 

these Jews were the fortunate 

ones. Many Jews did not get 

to leave these Arab countries, but 

rather were imprisoned, tortured, 

raped or murdered. 

About one million Jews lived in 

the Arab lands of North Africa and 

the Middle East at the start of the 

20th century. By the start of the 21st 

century, less than three per cent of 

that one million still remain, mostly 

in Iran and Morocco. Approximately 

650,000 Jews from the Middle East 

and North Africa immigrated to Israel 

between 1948 and 1972 – twothirds 

of the Jewish immigrants in 

this period. Israel absorbed these 

immigrants at great expense, without 

receiving compensation from 

the Arab and Iranian governments 

that confiscated their possessions. 

An estimated $6 to $30 billion (in today’s currency) in 

assets were left behind by the Jews of Arab countries and 

Iran. The demand of the Jews from Arab countries is not 

only for financial compensation for their property and 

rights. What these Jewish refugees want most of all is redress 

for the historical injustice that they and their communities 

suffered. Thus, the demand includes an historical 

reckoning with the tragic events that led to the mass 

exodus of Jewish individuals and communities from Arab 

lands, many of which had hosted large and flourishing 

Jewish communities for more than 2,000 years. 

History of Jews in Arab countries 

After the Babylonian conquest of the kingdom of Judea 

and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE, Jews 

began to settle in various regions of what is now called 

the Middle East and North Africa. In the centuries following 

the Muslim conquest of the region in the seventh 

century CE, Jews were considered second-class subjects 

but were nonetheless permitted limited religious, educational, 

professional, and business opportunities. 

Contrary to widespread perceptions that Jews led 

comfortable and safe lives, the reality was that the status 

of Jews under Islam was often precarious. While the 

rules of Dhimma, or “protected minorities,” afforded to 

Jews and other minorities a form of conditional protection, 

in no way did it grant Jews treatment as dignified 

equals. Different Islamic regimes over the centuries 

imposed serious restrictions on Jews in both the legal 

and societal arenas. These restrictions frequently were 

manifested as expressions of contempt, denial of dignity, 

and incidents of recurring violence targeting Jewish 

individuals and communities. 

In the 19th century, the establishment of colonial regimes 

in the Middle East and North Africa, chiefly by 

France and Great Britain, allowed Jews to escape the 

miserable conditions so often provided to them under 

the rules of Dhimma. Under colonial rule, Jews enhanced 

their everyday lives and improved their status in 

society. Efforts by Jewish organizations such as the Alliance 

Israélite Universelle, which set up a modern network 

of schools throughout the Middle East, provided 

Jews with technical skills to integrate in their countries’ 

developing economies. Jews often used their skills and 

knowledge of foreign languages to act as intermediaries 

between the European colonialists and the indigenous 

Muslim population, and often found work in colonial 

administrations. In countries such as Egypt, Iraq and 

Libya, Jews became a crucial element in the development 

of key sectors of the economy. 

The data for this table was derived from multiple sources. The list of sources is available in the 

original essay, which can be found on the JCPA website. 

The post-World War I period presented mixed signals 

for Jews residing in Arab lands. Jews continued to prosper 

in the social and economic arenas. However, signs 

of large-scale rejection by the Muslim majority were 

becoming increasingly apparent. Local independence 

movements, which were oriented around the rejection 

of colonial authority, frequently adopted pan-Arab and 

pan-Islamic rhetoric without providing a platform to 

non-Muslim minorities. The best example is the Nasserite 

regime in Egypt, which promoted pan-Arab nationalism. 

At the time, Jews were seen as collaborators benefiting 

from the colonial powers, and this perception was combined 

with the frustration felt by the Muslim masses that 

Dhimma rule had been suspended in the Jews’ favour. 

The volatile issue of Palestine became a pivotal aspect 

of pan-Arab propaganda, serving to further antagonize 

the Arab masses against the Jewish populations living 

among them. In Egypt, as the partition of Palestine and 

the founding of Israel drew closer, hostility strengthened, 

fed also by the press attacks on all foreigners that accompanied 

the rising ethnocentric nationalism of the age. 

World War II brought increased suffering for the Jewish 

communities in the Arab world. Communities in 

German-occupied Libya and Tunisia faced persecution, 

and hundreds of Jews were deported to local work camps 

or to European extermination camps. In Algeria and 

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Morocco, ruled by Vichy France, Jews endured years of 

restrictions and fear. In Iraq, nearly 200 Baghdadi Jews 

were killed and 1,000 injured in a violent pogrom in 1941 

called the Farhud, which was initiated by Arab anti-British 

mobs who identified Jews as collaborators with the 

British. By the end of the war, Jews’ sense of security in 

their countries of residence had been seriously undermined, 

as had their trust in the colonial powers to defend 

them. Increasingly, Jews looked to Jewish sovereignty in 

Palestine as a solution to their plight. 

The end of normal Jewish life in arab lands 

The increasingly tense atmosphere surrounding the 

events in Palestine and Israel’s subsequent independence 

signalled the end of normal Jewish life in Arab 

lands. During the 1947 Palestine Partition debate at the 

United Nations, the Egyptian, Iraqi and Palestinian delegates 

issued violent threats against the indigenous Jewish 

communities of the Middle East and Africa. These 

threats were carried out in the weeks and months after 

the Nov. 29 partition vote, as hundreds of Jews living in 

Arab lands were massacred in government-sponsored rioting. 

This resulted in thousands of injuries and millions 

of dollars in destroyed Jewish property. 

Upon the establishment of the 

State of Israel in 1948, the status 

of Jews in Arab countries changed 

dramatically, as virtually all Arab 

countries declared war, or backed 

the war, against Israel. The Arab 

world’s rejection of the Jewish state 

triggered a deliberate surge in statelegislated 

discrimination and abuse 

by Arab regimes and their citizenry, 

making Jewish residence in Arab 

countries simply untenable, as some 

Arab leaders, including the secretary 

general of the Arab League, had 

threatened all along. In many cases 

Arab governments evicted their indigenous 

Jewish populations as part 

of an expulsion campaign. These 

campaigns included discriminatory 

legislation, confiscation of citizenship, 

limitations on the freedom of 

movement of Jews, random arrests 

and forced imprisonment, exclusion 

from the civil service and quotas 

in certain fields of employment. 

Such government-endorsed campaigns don’t include the 

innumerable cases of individual citizens who carried out 

acts of violence, abuse, and theft targeting Jews. The value 

of Jewish property confiscated by Arab governments 

during these expulsions is estimated to be in the tens of 

billions of today’s dollars. 

The plight of Jewish refugees was not widely publicized, 

predominantly because they did not remain refugees 

for long. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish 

refugees between 1948 and 1972, some two-thirds were 

resettled in Israel at great expense, all without any compensation 

provided by the Arab governments who confiscated 

their possessions. 

Moreover, Arab nations conducted misinformation 

campaigns portraying Jewish life in Arab lands as ideal 

and respectful, while downplaying the vulnerability and 

lack of rights suffered by Jews in these lands throughout 

history. Such efforts also have striven to eliminate the 

historical contribution of Jews to the larger Arab societies 

from local and international consciousness. These 

misinformation campaigns also bred the accusations 

that the Jews left Arab countries and Iran voluntarily and, 

therefore, forfeited their rights to any compensation. 

Part two will appear next week. Reproduced with permission 

from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Institute 

for Contemporary Affairs



OPINIONS 

The 17th-century French mathematician 

and philosopher Blaise Pascal 

noted that, as human beings in the 

world of nature, we are poised between 

two infinitudes that define us. 

On the one hand, there is the infinitely 

small. We see only the world of the visible. 

But, Pascal observed, so much is hidden 

from us – atomic particles, invisible 

tiny creatures. “All this visible world,” he 

wrote, “is but an imperceptible point in 

the ample bosom of nature.” 

On the other hand, as Pascal pointed 

out, there is the infinitely vast. He wrote: 

“Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre 

is everywhere and whose circumference is 

nowhere.” 

In other words, the universe humbles 

us. Pascal expresses this in language resonant 

with the Yom Kippur liturgy: “For after 

all, what is man in nature? A nothing 

in relation to infinity, an all in relation to 

nothing, a point between nothing and 

everything and infinitely far from understanding 

either. The ends of things and 

their beginnings are impregnably concealed 

from him in an impenetrable secret. 

He is equally incapable of seeing the 

nothingness out of which he was drawn 

As Jews, we’ve never had it so good. 

This assertion is contrary to the received 

wisdom in many circles in 

the Jewish community. Its leaders, often 

primed by cynical fundraising professionals, 

erroneously assume that by presenting 

Jews as a hounded minority and Israel as 

if on the brink of destruction, they’re helping 

to promote communal cohesiveness 

and individual loyalty. 

The 12-page supplement to the July 

28 issue of the influential international 

weekly the Economist presents a very different 

and more accurate picture. 

Its opening paragraph 

reads: “Judaism is flourishing, 

both in Israel, where 43 

per cent of the world’s Jews 

now live, and throughout the 

Jewish Diaspora. The Jews as 

a nation are flourishing too. 

Israelis, for all their problems, 

are the 14th-happiest people 

in the world, happier than the 

British or the French, according 

to a recent global happiness 

report commissioned by the UN. In 

the Diaspora, Jewish life has never been so 

free, so prosperous, so unthreatened.” 

At least three reasons come to mind in 

support of this assertion. First, wherever 

in the world Jews live today, they do so 

by choice, not of necessity. Second, Jewish 

movers and shakers in our voluntary 

Two infinitudes, two pockets 

and the infinite in which he is engulfed.” 

Pascal’s meditation on the place of humanity 

in the universe resonates deeply 

with the thrust of the High Holiday liturgy. 

His two-sided image of human existence 

– “a nothing in relation to infinity, an all 

in relation to nothing” – brings to mind a 

famous story attributed to Rabbi Simcha 

Bunim of Peshischa, a chassidic rebbe in 

the late-18th and early-19th centuries, a 

little over a century after Pascal. Unusual 

for his time, he was both a Chassid and a 

scientist, an intellectual who read philosophy 

alongside chassidic teachings and believed 

that study was the route to a close 

emotional connection with God. 

Because of its thematic connection to 

the Yamim Noraim liturgy, one of Rabbi 

Bunim’s stories is often retold in the 

commentary sections and notes of High 

Holiday machzorim: Every person should 

have two pockets, with a note in one saying, 

“Bishvili nivra ha’olam” (for my sake 

was the world created), and a note in the 

other saying, “Anochi afar va’efer” (I am 

dust and ashes). 

Most retellings of the story add an interpretation: 

when we feel worthless, we 

find reassurance in the note that affirms 

Diaspora are out of proportion to our 

numbers. Third, the dramatic success of 

the Jewish state has led to a historic transformation 

of Jewish self-confidence and 

power everywhere. 

The ghetto is no more, even though 

naysayers pretend otherwise. They point 

to the allegedly dwindling Jewish population, 

the persistence of antisemitism, 

often in the guise of anti-Zionism, and 

the political and military dangers that Israel 

is facing. 

Without seeking to deny any of this, 

there’re nevertheless compelling reasons 

to celebrate the overwhelmingly 

positive aspects of contemporary 

Jewish life. The cyn- 

ical stress on doom and gloom 

may turn into a self-fulfilling 

prophecy, because a growing 

number of young Jews are being put off by 

it and, as a result, choose to withdraw altogether 

from Judaism and Jewry. 

Rabbi Donniel Hartman, president 

of the Shalom Hartman in Jerusalem, is 

well aware of it. He writes: “As a people 

we have replaced vision with crisis as the 

central force and motivation of identity, 

our centrality to the world. But, lest we get 

a swelled head, the other message deflates 

our arrogance. Interpreted in this way, the 

story addresses the contradiction that our 

tradition assigns to our position, and that 

the Yom Kippur liturgy emphasizes: master 

over all living things, and, at the same 

time, insignificant and impermanent. 

The man with the pockets is a bit like 

Alice in Wonderland with the magic mushroom: 

one side makes her grow 

to gigantic proportions, the other 

side shrinks her to the point of 

vanishing. If she eats from one 

side, the world cannot contain 

her. If she eats from the other, she 

risks slipping into non-being. 

But other versions and other interpretations 

of the story exist, and these, too, 

bear in interesting ways on the themes 

of the High Holidays. Like many rebbes’ 

teachings, Rabbi Bunim’s story was 

passed down through his disciples, orally 

Moving from fear to faith 

Rabbi Dow Marmur 

in Toronto 

Sara R. Horowitz 


philanthropy, and unity. We have found 

amongst the plethora of demographic 

studies an inexhaustible gold mine. We 

now have an unending source to feed 

our fear.” 

The fear of demography is being augmented 

by the fear of antisemitism. There 

are organizations in our midst whose 

main objective seems to be to identify 

enemies in the vain belief that this will 

strengthen our commitment to Judaism. 

Not that we should be blind to prejudice 

and discrimination, but we must see the 

incidents in proportion, not in distortion. 

And we must never allow our enemies to 

define our Judaism! 

And if the fears of demography and 

antisemitism aren’t enough, there’s the 

fear of the annihilation of Israel, promoted 

by reactionary forces that assume a 

catastrophic prognosis will galvanize the 

Jewish people. 

Rabbi Hartman’s critique of the fear 

of demography is, therefore, equally relevant 

to the other fears that cloud our 

sense of reality and poison our efforts to 

enjoy being Jewish. He writes: “We don’t 

need a demography of fear; we need a 

demography of aspirations and responsibility.” 

And again: “We need to marshal 

our talent to create a different reality, 

to remove self-destructive policies, and 

through the power of ideas offer an alternative 

and compelling vision.” 

and eventually in writing, and varying versions 

can be found. 

In one version, the rebbe adds instructions: 

one must also divide his money between 

the two note-bearing pockets. When 

we come upon human misery and injustice, 

the note stating that the world was 

created for us functions as a call to action, 

a reminder of our commonality and obligation 

to other human beings, our responsibility 

to other creatures and 

the natural world. Rather than 

asserting our importance, the 

note impels us to use our resources 

for tikkun olam. 

When we feel a longing 

for material possessions, the 

other note reminds us of the 

enduring importance of our 

spiritual side, because the 

physical world fades. Evoking 

our mortality, it is designed 

not to deflate us, but to give 

us the courage of our convictions and the 

sense of urgency to do what we believe 

is right. Focusing us less on what we are, 

and more on what we might do, this version 

carries us from the meditations of the 

liturgy into the world awaiting us outside. 

Rabbi Hartman challenges us to repudiate 

fearmongering. I understand 

him to imply that, for example, instead 

of bewailing intermarriage and the low 

Jewish birthrate, the community should 

reach out to all Jews, including non-Jewish 

spouses and their children, to make 

Judaism sufficiently attractive for them. 

Instead of consistently playing the 

antisemitism card, we must promote 

interfaith and intercultural understanding 

in the service of an open and healthy 

society, both in Israel and in the Diaspora. 

Thus, for example, although the recent 

malicious United Church resolution 

to boycott goods from Israel should 

be decisively repudiated, contact with 

the organization must be maintained, 

and even intensified. It’ll also effectively 

strengthen those who’re pained by the 

apparent anti-Jewish direction of their 

church. 

As for Israel, in addition to protecting 

ourselves from enemies from without, 

we must face the problems within by 

helping to bridge the potentially selfdestructive 

gaps in Israeli society in economics, 

religion, politics, gender equality 

and many other areas. 

In this season of collective introspection, 

we turn to our religious and communal 

leaders to help us move from fear 

to faith.


Franz Kafka, an aspiring, unknown 

Czech Jewish writer living in Prague, 

was a clerk by day, toiling anonymously 

over personal injury claims for the 

Worker’s Accident Insurance Institute. 

Writing at night, after a long day’s work, 

he published a few short stories and finished 

his novella, The Metamorphosis, before 

his untimely death on June 3, 1924. 

Prior to succumbing to tuberculosis 

in a Vienna sanatorium, 

Kafka penned a letter to his 

friend, Max Brod, a journalist, 

author and composer whom he 

had met in 1902 when they were 

both students at Charles University. 

The letter, discovered in his 

desk in Prague, took the form of 

a request. “Dearest Max,” Kafka 

wrote. “Everything I leave behind 

me… in the way of 

diaries, manuscripts, letters, 

sketches and so on, 

to be burned.” 

Kafka had already 

burned most of his personal 

documents, but had not gotten 

around to disposing of his unpublished 

novels. Brod ignored his friend’s last wish, 

justifying his decision on the basis of a letter 

he had sent to Kafka in 1921 in which 

he had said he would definitely not burn 

his papers. 

Brod had enormous faith in Kafka’s talents, 

though Kafka himself was doubtful 

about his abilities. Brod, therefore, decided 

to prepare Kafka’s novels for posthumous 

publication. 

Since Kafka’s German-language novels 

were unfinished, Brod tinkered with 

them, altering punctuation, changing the 

order of chapters and the like. 

Thanks to Brod’s belief in Kafka, and his 

skills as an editor, three of Kafka’s seminal 

novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, 

were published in the 1920s. 

Brod, a Zionist, departed for Palestine 

in 1939, leaving Prague literally minutes 

before Germany closed the Czech border. 

Packed into one of his suitcases were the 

rest of Kafka’s papers. 

More than 70 years on, the contents of 

Brod’s suitcase have become the object of 

a literary cause célèbre, the hub of legal 

wrangling and the subject of a new Israel 

documentary, Kafka’s Last Story, which 

was screened at the Toronto Jewish Film 

Festival recently. 

After arriving in Palestine, Brod and his 

wife, Elsa Taussig, settled down in Tel Aviv, 

where they lived until the end of their lives. 

Brod, a dramaturge for the Habimah Theatre, 

grew close to Otto and Esther 

Hoffe, a couple he had met 

after his wife’s death in 1942. 

Brod, supposedly an extrovert 

and a womanizer, employed Esther 

as a secretary, but she was 

probably his lover as well. 

With Brod’s passing in 1968, 

his valued trove of Kafka papers 

was passed to Esther, who kept 

them in an apartment she shared 

with dozens of cats. 

In fact, Esther was in 

possession of one-third 

of the papers, Brod having 

sent two-thirds of the 

cache to Switzerland in 

1956 to Kafka’s four nieces. 

One of the nieces, Marianna Steiner, 

bequeathed the bulk of the papers to Oxford 

University’s Bodleian Library so that 

the first critical edition of her uncle’s writings 

could be published. 

During the following years, she and 

her relatives donated yet more of the papers 

to the library. Today, they are jointly 

owned by Oxford University and one of 

the daughters of Kafka’s sister. 

The Oxford University collection consists 

of diaries, letters, postcards, drawings, doodles, 

photographs and notebooks in which 

Kafka practised Hebrew and wrote some of 

his novels and short stories. 

In 1988, 19 years before she died, Esther 

sold the original manuscript of The 

Trial to the German Literature Archive in 

Marbach, Germany, for close to $2 million. 

The sale prompted the American 

novelist Philip Roth to quip that a “Kafkaesque 

irony” had been inflicted on the 

world because Kafka’s three sisters had 

been murdered during the Holocaust. 

With Esther’s death in 2007, her two 

daughters, Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, 

assumed ownership of the papers. 

But due to ambiguities in Brod’s will, 

the National Library in Jerusalem claimed 

a right to them, contending that Brod had 

left the papers to Esther as an executor 

rather than as a beneficiary. 

In his will, Brod stipulated that his literary 

estate should be placed in the National 

Library, Tel Aviv’s municipal library “or another 

public archive in Israel or abroad.” 

Since the Tel Aviv library renounced its 

claim, the National Library remains the 

only claimant. 

This past April, Israeli Attorney General 

Yehuda Weinstein ruled that the papers 

belong to the public and should be held in 

public trust by the National Library, noting 

that Brod’s wishes should be respected. 

Weinstein in his verdict stated, “It 

seems that the deceased, who was Jewish 

and a Zionist and who came to Israel after 


Prague was taken over by the 

Nazis, would have wanted his 

literary estate to be kept by the 

State of Israel, which was the 

centre of his life and was where 

he died.” 

In closing, he claimed that 

Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler 

(who died last May) had not 

proven that they had received 

the manuscripts from their 

mother as a gift. 

Several months ago, the director-general 

of the National 

Library, Oren Weinberg, announced 

that he would make the 

papers available on the Internet and would 

publish Brod’s works, most of which have 

not been translated into Hebrew. 

In the meantime, however, they remain 

in Tel Aviv, scattered between Esther’s apartment 

on Spinoza Street in the centre of the 

city and several safety deposit boxes in 

banks. It will be left to a court in Tel Aviv to 

decide whether the papers are the property 

of Eva Hoffe and her late sister, Ruth, the 

National Library or the German archive. 

The drama over the final disposition 

of the Kafka papers has consumed Israeli 

filmmaker Sagi Bornstein, whose documentary 

rehashes the controversy. 

“It’s a great story to tell,” he said in an 

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interview while the Toronto Jewish Film 

Festival was in progress. 

Bornstein declined to say which of the 

parties in the dispute has a rightful claim 

to the papers. 

“What’s important now is that they be 

digitized for everyone to see. It’s not a big 

deal who actually owns them.” 

He intends to make a sequel to Kafka’s 

Last Story once the case has been definitively 

resolved by the court. 

“There is still no end to it,” he said. 

“There is still a lot of unfinished business.” 

Bornstein’s opinion of Kafka remains 

undimmed. “He had an amazing imagination. 

He was a genius.”



Paul Lungen 


GTA 

Jews, Muslims meet to break down stereotypes 

The Jewish-Muslim dialogue in Toronto is gathering 

steam. Last week, some 65 people gathered at a Toronto 

library to discuss ways of improving relations between the 

two groups. At the same time, around 10 Pakistani journalists 

interviewed three Canadian Jews by phone on a 

range of topics, including Israel and the purported Jewish 

control of the media and Hollywood. 

Organizers termed the meetings a success. “The vibrations 

were very positive,” said David Nitkin, president of 

EthicScan, one of the conveners. “It was a chance to break 

stereotypes and hear people’s stories.” 

Tariq Khan, publisher of Weekly Press Pakistan (WPP), 

an online news service in English and Urdu, said, “My vision 

is that we are building a bridge between Jews and 

Muslims. Also, my main objective is that non-Arab Muslims 

should recognize, accept the Jewish State of Israel… 

[This] will take some time, because it is such a large [Muslim] 

population.” 

The meeting marks the fourth time Jews and Muslims 

have gathered in Toronto to explore ways to improve relations. 

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“It helps that Tariq knows 

1,400 journalists [in Pakistan] 

and can push the message 

in Urdu, Pashtun and 

Arabic,” Nitkin said. 

Participants at last week’s 

gathering included 50 adults 

and a little more than a dozen high schools students from 

both communities. 

Participants talked about the mundane – their day-today 

lives, how they came to Canada, what they do for a living 

– to how they perceive the State of Israel. The Muslim 

participants, who largely hailed from Pakistan, India and 

Bangladesh, discussed the impact of 9-11 on them. 

Jewish participants were asked about Israel, 

and even what a kippah is, Nitkin said. 

Many of the Muslim participants had 

heard very little about the Holocaust, largely 

because not much is written about it in 

Urdu, Khan said. His own wife was “completely 

surprised” to learn about it. The Jewish 

participants largely were unaware of the 

“holocaust” suffered by Muslims in 1947 

during the partition of the Indian subcontinent 

into the modern states of India and 

Pakistan, he added. 

The journalist interviews reflect increased 

interest in Israel, Khan said. WPP is doing its 

part, providing news about the Jewish state 

to Urdu-speaking readers, thanks to an arrangement 

with the Israeli Tazpit news service. 

A write up on the WPP website provided readers with 

highlights of the international press conference. The Jewish 

participants – Nitkin, Judie Oron, an Israeli-Canadian 

journalist and author of Cry of the Giraffe, and Andria Spindel, 

president of the March of Dimes – were asked about 

the history of the Jewish People and their ties to Israel. 

WPP reported that the Jewish interviewees said there 

was no need to have tension between Pakistan and Israel 

and that Israeli people “see a bright future for Pakistan, 

which may become a bridge of tolerance and co-opera- 

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tion to connect Israel with the Muslim world in the near 

future.” 

Responding to suggestions that Jews control the media, 

the Jewish participants said if that was the case, why are 

the media so often critical of Jews and hostile to Israel? 

WPP reported the participants asking. 

The Jewish interlocutors also referred to Israeli academic 

excellence and scientific achievements. 

They noted that the Palestinians living in Israel 

participate in Israeli elections, practise 

their religion and enjoy a higher standard of 

living than Arabs living nearby. 

“What emerged… was how little contact 

there was between Pakistani Muslims and 

Jews. The lack of good information in Pakistan 

about Israel is unfortunate,” WPP said. 

Nitkin said the dialogue has drawn the 

attention of not only those who wish to emulate 

it, but also those who oppose it. 

He is, however, hoping to see others 

seeking goodwill run similar programs. He 

would also like to see more programs, such 

as joint sports and cultural events and perhaps 

a fact-finding tour by Canadian Muslims to Israel. 

Khan himself has repeatedly expressed an interest in 

visiting Israel. Ajmi Muslim – those who are not Arab – 

“have no grudge against the Jews or Israel,” he said. 

In fact, Afghani Pashtuns are historically descendants of 

some of the 10 lost tribes of Israel and call themselves sons 

of Joseph, or sons of David and sons of Moses, he said. 

Khan said the dialogue is scheduled to continue, with 

the next meeting likely at the end of October. “What we are 

doing here, the message is going to Pakistan. We want to 

create a strong basis for further dialogue.” 

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Barbara Simmons 

Special to The CJN 

GTA 

Temmy Latner Centre reaches out with picnic 

Toronto’s Forest Hill, typically bucolic and stately, is 

also a place of hustle-bustle, moms and strollers, dogs 

with attitude, parks and great coffee. 

A floor above a coffee shop on Spadina Road, operating 

for almost 12 years amid secular world commerce, is 

the Temmy Latner Forest Hill Jewish Centre. 

Its members and leaders thrive on community involvement 

with events such as the recent Picnic in the 

Park, which featured magic, crafts, games and food in 

a circus-like atmosphere. The Rosh Hashanah and Yom 

Kippur “Family Experience” was a one-hour interactive 

service for everyone – especially parents, children and 

grandparents – to learn together while sitting on beanbag 

chairs, taste-testing apple, honey and pomegranate, 

and experiencing an interactive puppet show and shofar 

blowing. 

The aim of the Temmy Latner Centre, led by the dynamic 

Rabbi Elie Karfunkel, is to nourish individual 

community connection through learning, living and the 

celebration of Jewish life. More than 200 families are involved 

with the centre. 

The centre plans to move to a soon-to-be-built new 

home just down the street from the current location. The 

Temmy Latner Centre is a living legacy to the Jaslo Synagogue 

in Poland, which was destroyed in the Holocaust, 

and is open to Jewish people of all levels of observance. 

Perhaps it is that openness that people see and feel 

when it comes to the centre’s appeal. It has a reputation 

for giving people what they want in terms of Jewish education 

and worship, as well as community programming. 

The centre is moving forward at warp speed, possibly because 

of its commitment to inclusiveness. 

“This community has an open feeling. Some people 

are wary of approaching an Orthodox synagogue, but 

the majority of our community come from all levels of 

observances,” said Dalia Appelrouth, whose husband, 

Rabbi David Appelrouth, is the centre’s educational director. 

Rabbi Karfunkel said that “people want 

to go to a place where they don’t necessarily 

take themselves seriously, but they take 

their Judaism seriously. It’s the members of 

our centre that make it special. Everyone 

knows your name, kind of like Cheers. It’s a 

warm place and people can connect.” 

Darren Gluckman, a single dad who 

doesn’t come from a traditional background, 

agrees. “The centre has opened 

my eyes to the beauty of traditional Judaism, 

and the community has welcomed me 

and my daughter without question or judgment,” 

he said. 

Youth director Sam Weisbrod works to 

increase the synergy between the centre 

and those who access its educational programming. 

“Our objective is to let the Forest Hill Jewish community 

know about our great events, as our planning is essentially 

to expose kids to the awesomeness of Judaism,” 

said Weisbrod. 

It has taken awhile for the Temmy Latner Centre to 

establish a place within the community. Since 2000 “the 

little community that could” has defied the odds against 

gaining a prominent place in a city that already has es- 

Rabbi Elie Karfunkel, left, 

with Toronto councillor 

Joe Mihevc at picnic 

tablished religious centres of every denomination 

Weisbrod said the centre aims to offer programs that 

people can enjoy. “We offer social programs, serious and 

fun programs,” he said. 

Dalia Appelrouth stressed that the centre is committed 

to making Judaism exciting and available to all Jews, 

and specifically those in Forest Hill. “We want to engage 

the community to become inspired and 

further educated about their rich Jewish 

heritage in bite-size, fun, intellectually 

stimulating programs,” she said. “We strive 

for a warm environment where we are not 

judgmental of anyone who walks thorough 

our doors.” 

The Temmy Latner Centre also offers 

unique outreach services such as two weeks 

of delivering daily hot dinners to members 

with newborns, as well as the “mezuzah 

doctor,” who will make house calls to the 

members of the Jewish community, en- 

suring parchments and lettering of mezuzahs 

are in good condition, and positioned 

properly on outdoor doorways. 

From tots to teen programs, including 

hosting Torah High, the centre’s educational programming 

is relevant to everyday life. At a recent open-to-thepublic 

event the centre held in a Forest Hill home, school 

phobia was a hot topic shared by concerned parents. 

And then there is the romantic nature of Temmy Latner 

Centre. It is a big singles scene, especially during the 

weekly Saturday morning kiddush. Weisbrod isn’t joking 

when he suggests that a “lot of couples have met their 

significant other over the chicken fingers.”


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The Israel Defence Forces’ first female 

major general, Orna Barbivay, was in Toronto 

last week to talk about the demographic 

challenges facing Israel’s army 

and to appeal to the Jewish community to 

support its soldiers. 

Barbivay, the keynote speaker at the 

annual fundraiser for the Association for 

the Soldiers of Israel – Canada 

(ASI-Canada) on Sept. 9 at 

Beth Tzedec Congregation, 

spoke to The CJN about the 

importance of the relationship 

between the Diaspora 

and Israeli Jewish communities, 

as well as the significance 

of organizations such 

as ASI-Canada. 

Although there are many 

people in Israel and abroad 

who are eager to serve their 

country, the army struggles 

with a growing number 

of citizens – particularly women – who 

seek exemptions, said the 50-year-old 

Barbivay, who made history in June 2011 

when she was appointed as head of the 

IDF’s manpower directorate and became 

Israel’s first female major general. 

Many of those who seek exemption do 

so for religious reasons, she said, adding 

that she hopes more haredim will choose 

to enlist and that the IDF will be able to 

accommodate them without compromising 

the quality of the army. 

Barbivay stressed the army’s connection 

to the Diaspora. 

“The IDF doesn’t just represent Israelis, 

but Jews all over the world,” she said. 

“It’s important that everyone does their 

part, whether they’re Jews 

in Israel or living abroad, in 

whatever way they can.” 

She noted the “bond 

that we have with Canada, 

that is one of unity and a 

shared ambition to see Israel 

thrive.” 

During her time in Toronto, 

Barbivay addressed 

students at the Anne and 

Max Tanenbaum Community 

Hebrew Academy of 

Toronto’s Richmond Hill 

campus, as well as students 

at Bialik Hebrew Day School, and she met 

with ASI-Canada’s young leaders. 

Barbivay, who conducted the interview 

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There have been many political changes 

in the Middle East and the IDF needs to 

be ready to deal with those challenges 

and changes.” 

ASI-Canada is a non-profit organization 

that supports Israeli soldiers on active 

duty by offering social, educational, 

cultural and recreational programs. 

Among the many programs is one designed 

for “Lone Soldiers,” or soldiers 

who don’t have family support in Israel – 

whether they’re orphaned or have chosen 

to leave their families behind and move to 

Israel to volunteer in the army. 

According to Barbivay, about half of 

the 5,000 lone soldiers come from the 

Diaspora. 

“We try to give them everything they 

need, because they are coming as volunteers. 

We want to do everything we can to 

make them comfortable.” 

Barbivay, a mother of three, added, “I 

want their parents to know that if they 

send their kids to Israel to serve that 

they’ll be taken care of.” 

Speaking about the issue of the decline 

of females enlisting in the army, she said 

42 per cent of women don’t enlist. “In my 

eyes, that number is really bad. We talk 

about everyone needing to enlist, and we 

see that 42 per cent aren’t going.” 

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claim religion as the reason, and some 

make that claim falsely, she said. 

According to an agreement between 

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“For those who claim religion as a reason, 

if they are thought to be using it as an 

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to go… We’re trying to make everyone go, 

even if it means changing the law,” Barbivay 

said. 

She added that for each young woman 

who falsely claims to be religiously observant 

in order to escape service, there 

is another who actually is religiously observant 

but chooses to serve despite the 

difficulties. 

“There are religious women who even 

get to the rank of officer, so when we see 

them succeeding, it makes me think that 

all religious women can,” she said. 

In recent years, 90 per cent of military 

jobs, with the exception of core fighting 

units, have opened up to women. 

“Women have all the opportunities to 

advance if they want to,” she said. 

Demographics suggest that the difficulties 

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On Yom Kippur, we are supposed 

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People who drink several 

cups of coffee a day taper to half 

decaf and half regular a week or so 

ahead of time. Then they gradually 

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coffee by Yom Kippur.” 

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• Eat a big breakfast: Start the 

day with a large breakfast based on 

cereals, breads and fruits, which can 

provide the energy you need during 

the day. These high-fibre foods will 

Many people ask me about the piyutim. 

What are they, where do they 

come from, and are we obligated to 

sing them? 

Piyutim are liturgical songs composed 

as early as the eighth century 

and sung during the High Holidays, 

as well as Shabbatot, yamim tovim, 

and lifecycle events. The rabbis who 

composed them were 

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who wrote them to 

help us to immerse ourselves 

in the themes of the 

holidays and to elevate 

our tfillah (prayer) and 

our attempts at tshuvah 

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Kohelet. Ibn Ezra himself composed 

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fasting is dehydration. Drink plenty 

of fluids throughout the day. [http:// 

bit.ly/fastip5] 

•And cool down: Make sure you 

are in a well-ventilated area especially 

if it’s hot out. Keeping your 

body temperature normal will help 

keep you hydrated. [http://bit.ly/ 

fastip6] 

During the pre-fast meal… 

• Don’t stuff yourself: Eat a 

normal meal that balances car- 

Jewish & Digital 

Mark Mietkiewicz 

bohydrates, fibre and protein. 

“The temptation to stuff oneself 

with as much food as possible 

before a fast may seem appealing, 

but in truth it is unwise,” explains 

chef Lauren Braun Costello. “The 

more you eat, the more you want to 

fill your belly the next time around. 

So it is recommended to eat a normal-size 

meal… [Avoid] particularly 

salty foods that will make you 

thirsty or dehydrated. Complex carbohydrates 

and proteins are ideal.” 


• Make that meal tasty: That pre- 

tan, as was Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gabirol 

(1021-1058). Rabbeinu Bachya (d. 

1340) quotes stanzas from famous 

piyutim in his Chovat Halevavot. 

Rabbi Yosef Ibn Migash (1077- 

1141), the Rambam’s father’s teacher, 

gave a responsum in which he states 

that the inclusion of piyutim in the 

holiday liturgy is an old and universally 

accepted custom. Even 

earlier, Rav Saadiah Gaon 

(882-942) includes piyutim in 

his siddur and states that he 

has selected what were in his 

opinion the best ones, implying that 

many others were already in circulation 

by this time. 

One of the classic piyutim in the 

Sephardi tradition, Shema Koli, was 

written by Rav Hai Gaon (969-1038) 

himself. 

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur 

are days where we attempt to achieve 

the mental and emotional state of lifnei 

HaShem (standing before God). 

Once in this state, we begin, through 

fast meal doesn’t have to be bland. 

Spices such as lemon or herbs are 

fine for fasting, but salt and monosodium 

glutamate should be reduced 

as much as possible. [http:// 

bit.ly/fastip4] You can go with 

the tried-and-true chicken soup 

and potatoes or consider Sautéed 

Porcini Chicken and Arugula Salad. 

[http://bit.ly/fastip8] According 

to the Talmud, eating before the 

fast is a mitzvah equal to the mitzvah 

of fasting on the day of Yom 

Kippur. [http://bit.ly/fastip9] 

• Take extra care 

if you have a special 

medical need: 

Speak to your doctor 

and rabbi if you 

are diabetic [http:// 

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[http://bit.ly/ 

fastip11] or nursing. 


Several websites warn people 

with eating disorders about the 

dangers of fasting. “These women 

do not have to be put at risk,” says 

Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser of Congregation 

Bais Yitzchak in Brooklyn, 

N.Y. “God’s most important commandment 

to the Jewish People is to 

respect their bodies.” [http://bit.ly/ 

fastip12] 

Have a tzom kal – an easy fast. 

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The role of piyutim in tshuvah 

Sephardi Window 

Rabbi Ilan Acoca 

prayer, to focus on repentance and 

the purpose of our lives. Thus, we 

see that prayer is the central mitzvah 

(commandment) during the Yamim 

Nora’im (Days of Awe) and that the 

piyutim prepare us emotionally for 

this special experience. 

While all Jews have piyutim in 

their liturgy, they are integral to, and 

especially so, in the Sephardi tradition. 

The piyutim serve to connect us 

to God and to our fellow Jews as well. 

One of the most powerful and inspirational 

moments of the year is 

Neilah, the final prayer of Yom Kippur, 

when I hear my congregation 

sing the well-known piyut, El Nora 

Alila, written by the famous poet Rav 

Moshe Ibn Ezra (father of Avraham 

Ibn Ezra cited above). It is a moment 

that reminds me of my childhood 

and brings me to tears of hope and 

promise for the new year. This piyut 

is such a profoundly moving way to 

conclude Yom Kippur. 

The beauty of our piyutim in these 

Days of Awe, and indeed throughout 

the year, fosters a closeness to God. 

Let each of us strive this year to tap 

into the power of the piyutim in order 

to realize the tshuvah that each of us 

is seeking.


Rabbi Erwin Schild 

Rummaging through some old 

files, I came across a printed program 

from an important event in our 

Jewish community, the dedication 

of a new synagogue. It was the new 

building of the Shaarei Shomayim 

Congregation on St. Clair Avenue 

West in Toronto. 

The date was Sunday, 

Nov. 27, 1949. 

Shaarei Shomayim, 

often called “the St. Clair Shul,” 

was then, as it is now, a prominent 

Orthodox synagogue whose membership 

included a galaxy of leading 

“baalei-batim” of Jewish Toronto. 

Its spiritual leader was Rabbi Judah 

Washer, whose name appears several 

times on the program and who 

delivered the dedicatory address, in 

the presence, among others, of the 

lieutenant governor of Ontario, Ray 

Lawson, the president of the University 

of Toronto, Sidney Smith, and 

Rabbi Samuel Belkin, president of 

Yeshiva University in New York. Rabbi 

Abraham Price, head of the Yeshivah 

Torath Chaim, delivered the invocation. 

My name also appears (which 

is probably the reason that I kept the 

program), and so do the names of two 

of my colleagues, fellow graduates of 

the yeshiva: Rabbi Abraham Kelman 

and Rabbi Gedalia Felder. David A. 

Newman, a highly respected lawyer 

and stalwart of the younger Orthodox 

generation, was chairman of the 

event. 

Now comes the surprise. 

Among the active participants in 

the “religious service” was not only 

Rabbi Reuben Slonim, one of the 


Can such tolerance ever be again? 

Guest Voice 

In collaboration with professors 

Alex Pomson and Howie Deitcher of 

Hebrew University, for the past two 

years, I have been listening to Jewish 

high school students describe 

their views on Israel and Zionism. 

In total, we’ve interviewed and videoed 

nearly 100 day school students 

as they recount their developing relationship 

with Israel and the various 

factors that weigh into forming 

their opinions. 

We’ve learned 

more than I can 

possibly recount in 

this column, but I 

will use this space 

to tackle one particularly 

intriguing 

issue. 

Among the American 

teens we interviewed, 

about one-third either flatly 

rejected the label or wavered about 

whether to call themselves Zionist. 

When asked, “Do you consider yourself 

a Zionist?” we heard responses 

like that of Rachel, who stated, “I don’t 

really know, because I’m all for the 

State of Israel and all for Jerusalem 

and I support Israel no matter what... 

I would just not put the specific label 

and the restrictions on saying that I 

am a Zionist.” 

These are not teens estranged 

from Israel. In addition to attending 

day schools, many travel frequently 

to Israel, read news from Israel, and 

attend Zionist camps and youth 

movements. So why do they dither 

when asked if they’re Zionists? 

Listening closely, we found a difference 

in the way they view a Zionist’s 

engagement with Israel and 

their own. 

In defining a Zionist, they described 

politically motivated engagement 

– public activity motivated 

by instrumental consider- 

ations. For example, Mike stated, 

“A Zionist is someone… who 

always supports Israel no matter 

what, who ensures that Israel, 

and acts to ensure that Israel, has 

security and stability in the world 

and will always be around for Jews 

to go to. They will build it up, they 

will protect it, and they will advocate 

for it.” 

When defining their own relationship 

to Israel, however they 

spoke of a civically motivated engagement 

– public activity motivated 

by a sense of duty, regardless of 

the outcomes. 

first Conservative rabbis in Toronto, 

who offered the “Prayer for King 

and Country,” but also the spiritual 

leader of Holy Blossom Temple, 

Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, who 

led the Congregation in the responsive 

reading of Psalm XXX! Rabbi 

Feinberg was known for his classical 

Reform orientation. And if that 

was not enough, the closing benediction 

was given by Rabbi Aaron 

Kamerling, also a Reform rabbi, 

who worked with Jewish students at 

U of T. 

Can you imagine such an example 

of trans-denominational toleration 

in our community today? 

Would an Orthodox rabbi dare to 

demonstrate such religious inclusiveness? 

Yet that was the strength 

of our unity at the time. 

Religion can divide and religion can 

unite. I think back with a great deal of 

melancholy to the days when our commonality 

outweighed divisiveness. It 

was not due to a lack of commitment 

to belief. It was due to greater love and 

deeper understanding. 

Alas, what was, was. Can it ever be 

again? 

Rabbi Schild is rabbi emeritus of 

Adath Israel Congregation in Toronto. 

Asking teens, ‘Are you a Zionist? 

Class Act 

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When Jordana describes a Zionist 

she says, “They go to rallies. 

They express their opinions. They 

tell it to other people and try to convince 

them that [Israelis] deserves 

their own state.” But in describing 

her own relationship to Israel she 

states, “To me, Israel is a home for 

me, personally, and I think for every 

Jew… I think the whole beauty of 

Israel is that when people go to Israel, 

even if they don’t want to make 

aliyah, I think they still feel some 

kind of connection to the land, so 

although it’s not necessarily their 

home-home, it’s still a type of home 

for them.” 

Initially we were puzzled and 

troubled that so many highly engaged 

Jewish teenagers would waver 

when it came to defining themselves 

as Zionists. 

But upon closer inspection, we 

realized that their hesitation is not 

an indication of a distanced relationship 

to Israel, but a nuanced 

understanding of their relationships 

to Israel vis-a-vis their conception 

of Zionism. By understanding these 

two underlying relationships to Israel 

– politically and civically motivated 

– we can begin to address 

what and how we teach about Israel 

and Zionism and tailor our pedagogy 

to develop the desired deep and 

rich relationships. 

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Program helps students become leaders 

In an effort to keep Jewish student leaders involved in 

Jewish community life following graduation, UJA of Greater 

Toronto’s Community Connect launched a pilot program at 

the University of Western Ontario called CORE. 

CORE – which stands for capacity, opportunity, return, 

engage – is a leadership development initiative that aims 

to transition Jewish student leaders into Jewish community 

leaders once they leave campus and enter the workforce. 

The pilot program, which involves staff and students 

from Western Hillel and Israel on Campus (IOC), is also 

meant to reach out to students uninterested in or unaffiliated 

with organized Jewish campus life, said Western Hillel’s 

executive director Naomi Mazer. 

“When they came to us with the idea to have Western be 

the pilot campus for the launch of this leadership rollout, 

we were very excited about that,” Mazer said. 

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She suspects Western was chosen as the site for the pilot 

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come from Toronto and live on campus. 

Mazer said the strategy is to use the CORE objectives to 

implement a program called the Campus Entrepreneurs 

Initiative (CEI). 

Through CEI, Hillel hires student interns with leadership 

skills – particularly Jewish students who are not involved 

in Jewish campus life – in the hope that they will connect 

with other Jewish students who operate beyond the Hillel 

bubble. 

“We’re going to use CORE to focus on the needs of those 

engagement interns, but we’re going to open it up to other 

leadership students who are doing similar type of work in 

Canadian Friends of the 

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Western’s Israel on Campus president Jordan Magidson, 

left, Western Hillel executive director Naomi Mazer 

and Western Hillel president Noah Fenyes are going 

forward with the CORE pilot program designed to help 

Jewish graduates stay connected to the community. 

other clubs as well,” Mazer explained. 

“As interns they’re responsible for creating 40 new relationships 

and having Jewish discussions and tracking the 

Jewish journeys of students and go through leadership development 

training along the way.” 

Monthly sessions will be provided to any student interested 

in Jewish leadership, with a focus on networking and 

relationship building. 

Stephen Shedletzky, a consultant who worked with UJA’s 

National Young Leadership assistant director Lior Cyngiser 

to help develop the program, said he would have wanted a 

program like this when he was a Western student. 

“When I was at Western, I was involved in starting a Jewish 

fraternity there, Sigma Alpha Mu,” Shedletzky said. 

He said it was through his involvement with the Jewish 

fraternity that he formed relationships with Hillel staff, including 

Mazer. 

Although he grew up in a family that he considers more 

traditionally Jewish than religious, he said when he attended 

Western, “I really resonated with Jewish values. When I 

came home, I didn’t really have that outlet anymore. I had 

the outlet of friends and going out to Jew-dos and whatnot, 

but I didn’t have a meaningful outlet to get involved in 

community or religion.” 

Once he graduated from Western’s Richard Ivey School 

of Business in 2009 and entered the corporate world, he 

said he didn’t feel a sense of fulfillment. 

“So I decided to go it on my own.” 

He started a business coaching organization and, soon 

after, connected with UJA Federation to serve as a consultant 

for the pilot program. 

“It was so appealing because I had such a rich and meaningful 

experience as a Jewish leader on campus… and I saw 

this as such a fantastic opportunity to approach a student 

like me and say, ‘Hey, when you come back to Toronto and 

you’re looking for a way to contribute to a meaningful cause, 

here’s how you can develop yourself as a Jew and a leader.’” 

In addition to focusing on relationship building, team 

dynamics is another priority. 

“You operate both as an individual and as a team working 

together and also across other organizations… I think 

that’s something the Jewish community in general can benefit 

from,” Shedletzky said. 

For more information, contact Mazer at Naomi@jewishwestern.org. 

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CAMPUS 

BGU president works for gender equality 

Carmi a member of ‘class’ of 1948 

Rivka Carmi was a “child of the state,” 

an Israeli who was born in 1948, the year 

David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s 

statehood in the teeth of Arab threats to 

invade the newly established nation. 

“We were told we had a special role 

to play in Israel’s development,” said 

Carmi, a native of Zichron Yaakov, one of 

the first Jewish settlements in pre-state 

Israel. “I took it seriously.” 

Carmi, the daughter of European immigrants 

who arrived in Palestine in the 

early 1930s, has the distinction of being 

one of the most distinguished members 

of the “class” of 1948. 

A physician who has campaigned for 

gender equality in Israel, she was the first 

woman to be the president of an Israeli 

university. She was appointed president 

of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev six 

years ago. Based in Be’er Sheva, it is Israel’s 

newest institution of higher learning. 

Prior to this, as dean of Ben-Gurion 

University’s faculty of health sciences, 

she was the first female director of an Israeli 

medical school. 

Two years ago, in yet another breakthrough, 

she became the first woman to 

serve as chair of the Committee of University 

Heads in Israel. 

“I never dreamed of becoming the 

president of a university,” said Carmi, 

who was recently in Toronto on an official 

visit on behalf of Canadian Associates 

of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 

“I wanted to go back to my clinical 

work and research.” 

Although she was flattered to be offered 

the position, Carmi was not even 

sure she wanted it. Nor was she certain 

she was the right person for the job. 

But after deciding that the presidency 

would be the fulfilment of a life-long 

dream and ambition to help develop the 

Negev, which accounts for two-thirds 

of Israel’s pre-1967 land mass but holds 

only 10 per cent of its population, she 

relented. 

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of the Negev, is the place to be. “I 

came here in 1975 with a mission,” said 

Carmi, a graduate of the Hebrew University’s 

Hadassah Medical School. “I wanted 

to be part of Ben-Gurion University’s 

new medical school, which was only two 

years old.” 

Carmi’s mother, Zipporah, 

a Polish Jew who 

admired Ben-Gurion, Israel’s 

first prime minister, 

was delighted when 

she joined the Soroka 

University Medical Center 

and the faculty of the 

university. 

“Ben-Gurion was a 

central figure in my childhood,” 

she said. “Ben- 

Gurion’s vision of settling 

the Negev was a serious 

concept for me. The future 

of Israel was and is 

in the Negev. It’s the only 

region where Israel can 

physically expand as a 

country. I expect its population to double 

within about a generation, though we 

must preserve its natural beauty. What is 

Zionism if not settling the Negev? If we 

can conquer the Negev, we can do anything.” 

Since becoming its president, Carmi 

has worked to upgrade its academic stature, 

both in Israel and abroad, and make 

it an integral and indispensable part of 

Be’er Sheva, the gateway to the Negev. 

“My goal is to invest in research and 

getting the university much more involved 

in Be’er Sheva and in the development 

of the Negev,” she explained in an 

interview. 

The university has a student body of 

more than 20,000 students, and employs 

about 5,000 teachers, researchers and 

administrative and support workers. 

More than half of its students are enrolled 

in undergraduate courses, but in 

the future, four out of 10 students will be 

on the post-graduate level, Carmi said. 

Close to 1,300 of its students are Israeli 

Arabs, of whom about half are Bedouin. 

During her presidency, Carmi has made 

special efforts to bring in Arab students. 

Spread over five campuses in six different 

schools, the university has eight 

research institutes, including the Jacob 

Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, 

and a host of interdisciplinary research 

centres from the Ben-Gurion National 

Solar Energy Center to the S. Daniel 

Abraham International Center for Health 

and Nutrition. 

At present, the university is building 

an advanced technology park, a collaborative 

effort between industry and academia 

that is expected to provide em- 

Rivka Carmi 

ployment opportunities in the Negev. 

Its first building is scheduled to open 

next June, and the entire complex will be 

up and running within eight to 10 years, 

Carmi said. “It will have a tremendous 

impact on the Negev,” she noted. 

A leader in desert research, the university 

played a major 

role in developing drip 

irrigation, a cutting edge 

technique, and has made 

important contributions 

to dry land agriculture, 

solar energy, water purification 

and desalination 

and the cultivation of 

dry-climate exotic fruits. 

“Our research is geared 

to turning the desert into 

a place that can sustain 

life,” she said. “In this 

respect, we have really 

managed to make the 

desert bloom.” 

The university, too, 

has striven to promote 

the advancement of the 

Negev in terms of education, culture and 

health. 

She added, “Without us, Be’er Sheva 

would be a small village. By our mere 

existence, the city has been positively affected.” 

The university has been affected by 

government cutbacks in funding, Carmi 

said, but is trying to work around them. 

Although she no longer has the time 

to conduct hands-on research in such 

fields as neonatology and medical genetics, 

she remains a consultant and a scientific 

reviewer for various international 

journals and funding agencies. 

A believer in free speech and a middle-of-the-roader 

in her political beliefs, 

Carmi defended the right of Neve Gordon, 

a faculty member, to publicly support 

the boycott, divestment and sanctions 

movement against Israel and to 

brand Israel as ‘an apartheid state.’ 

“He’s entitled to these views as an 

individual,” she said. “But I loathe his 

views.” 

Carmi’s term of office ends in May 2014, 

but she is still contemplating whether to 

accept an extension. “I really don’t know 

yet,” said Carmi, the mother of a 34-yearold 

daughter who works as a management 

consultant in New York City. 

Whatever her decision may be, Carmi 

can rest assured that her career has 

already had a significant effect on the 

cause of gender equality in Israel. 

“There is a lot of light at the end of the 

tunnel,” she said, suggesting that another 

Israeli university may soon be on the 

cusp of appointing a woman as its next 

president. “This would be really good 

news,” she said, savouring the prospect.

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ORT Toronto is proud to announce 

that Tom Mihalik will be honoured on 

November 7, 2012, at the 

Sixth Annual ORT Toronto Hero 

award dinner, in recognition of his 

contribution as a philanthropist, 

entrepreneur, and community leader. 

ORT is one of the largest, non-governmental educational 

organizations which is committed to strengthening 

communities throughout the world by overcoming 

obstacles and barriers to education for young people. 

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This is a biography of Tom Mihalik. 

Tom’s journey begins as a child 

immigrant assisting at his father’s 

used clothing store in Kensington 

Market. When he took over the 

business he transformed it into an 

upscale, prosperous clothing shop. 

Now Tom gives back to Canada and 

his community wherever he can. 

TOM 

THE BOY 

FROM 

KENSINGTON 

MARKET 

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“I would like to propose to you this evening that that 

conversation about whether or not it is worth it – and, 

more important, why it is worth it – is a conversation we 

are not having… the conversation about Zionism has effectively 

been hijacked, and we have allowed it to be hijacked,” 

he said. 

In the past, when Israel 

was thought of only 

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the Jews considered 

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he added. 

Today’s Jews are 

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which I remind myself why does the country matter… 

Our obligation tonight and beyond, as people who care 

deeply about Israel, is to re-frame the conversation.” 

Because of the State of Israel, Jews around the world 

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by such a small country even in the midst of 

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The campaign kickoff, held Sept. 9 at Centrepointe 

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and Adam, chaired the event. 

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women’s division chair Susan Viner-Vered, urged members 

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99-year-old Winnipegger 

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Myron Love 

Prairies Correspondent 

WINNIPEG — When Sophie Shinewald 

first received the call informing 

her that she was to be a recipient of the 

Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for 

volunteerism, she thought it was a joke 

and almost hung up. 

“[But] I was very excited to have received 

the honour,” says the still active 

and energetic Winnipeg Jewish senior, 

who, at 99, was the oldest recipient of 

the award. “My children and grandchildren 

were very proud.” 

The new medal, created last year 

to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th anniversary 

on the throne, was presented 

to her Aug. 22 by her member of Parliament, 

Kevin Lamoureux. 

Shinewald noted that she was nominated 

for the award by her grandson, 

Benjamin Shinewald, a lawyer in Toronto 

who served as national executive 

director of and general counsel to Canadian 

Jewish Congress from 2008 until 

last year. (He is currently president 

and CE0 of the Building Owners and 

Managers Association of Canada.) 

“I didn’t know anything about it,” 

Sophie Shinewald said. 

She said her first volunteering experience 

came when she was 12 and 

her older sister volunteered her to 

teach sewing to students at the Peretz 

School. 

Shinewald is a qualified teacher 

who worked in the fur business in her 

early years. After marriage, when her 

two children started school, she began 

a 16-year career as a supply teacher in 

north Winnipeg. She also served as a 

member of the school board at Luxton 

School while her children were attending 

school there. 

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aNd crematioN ServiceS act, 2002. Any 

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copies. By-laws or amendments may be reviewed 

or copied at 37 Dundurn Crescent, Thornhill, ON. 

These by-laws are subject to the approval of the Registrar, 

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(Tel: Cemeteries Regulation Unit (416) 326-8399) 

In her apartment, Sophie Shinewald holds up her Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 

Medal. [Myron Love photo] 

It was after her husband died 25 

years ago that Shinewald began volunteering 

in earnest. Her volunteer work 

has focused mainly on two areas. For 

the past 20 years, she has manned the 

front desk at the Gwen Secter Creative 

Retirement Centre, a program for seniors. 

“For many years, I used to go in early 

on Tuesdays and put up the tables 

for bridge, too,” she said. “I have really 

enjoyed all the people I have gotten to 

know at the Gwen Secter.” 

Twelve years ago, Shinewald sold her 

house and moved into the Rosh Pina 

Co-op, a largely Jewish seniors apartment 

block affiliated with the nearby 

Etz Chayim Synagogue (formerly Rosh 

Pina). For many years, she took it upon 

herself to organize movie nights Saturday 

evenings for the residents of the 

block and some outside visitors. 

“Every week, I would take the bus 

to the local library and select a DVD to 

show,” she says. “A lot of people over 

the years enjoyed the evening.” 

The movie nights came to an end 

about 18 months ago when the block’s 

caretaker suddenly died. By that time, 

the number of people attending had 

dwindled, and Shinewald decided to 

“retire” from the project. 

Shinewald attributes her good 

health and energy to good genes. She 

is looking forward to her 100th birthday 

next April. 

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Columnist accuses Israel 

of pulling Canada’s strings 

Canada’s sudden decision earlier 

this month to sever diplomatic 

ties with Iran elicited a huge 

amount of media attention. 

Reports, analyses and commentaries 

were everywhere, and their quality 

varied greatly. 

On what we might call a higher level 

according 

to Reports 

By 

PAUL MICHAELS 

of analysis, CBC’s 

Wendy Mesley 

interviewed three 

experts – Aaron 

David Miller, 

Hooman Majd 

and Janice Stein – 

on the Sept. 9 The 

National about 

the reasons behind Canada’s move. 

Stein, director of the Munk School 

of Global Affairs, provided a three-part 

explanation: 

• The Canadian embassy in Tehran had 

been unable to function. Embassy staff 

had been “totally shut out” by Iran and 

were ”absolutely unable” 

to do anything for Canadians 

in Iranian jails. 

• There was a growing 

concern here about the 

Iranian embassy’s “monitoring” 

of Iranian Canadians. 

• The Harper government 

wanted to send a 

clear message, following 

the meeting in Tehran 

earlier this month of 

the 120-member Non- 

Aligned Movement, that 

the decision of the international 

community to isolate Iran 

must be taken seriously. 

That was the considered judgment 

of one of Canada’s most respected academics. 

By contrast, on the lower level of 

analysis (if that word even applies 

here) was the unidimensional view of 

Toronto Star columnist and Ryerson 

University journalism professor Tony 

Burman. Canada cut its ties with Iran 

because, he claimed, Canada takes its 

marching orders from Israel. 

As Burman put it: “Canada’s abrupt 

actions against Iran seem to confirm 

that the Harper government’s outsourcing 

of Canada’s Middle East policy to 

Jerusalem is now complete.” 

According to Burman it’s not an assessment 

of our national interests and 

Iran’s outrageous behaviour that drives 

our Middle East policy – at least not in 

this case. Rather it’s that we’re a puppet 

at the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin 

Netanyahu’s strings. “There is 

little else to conclude,” Burman wrote, 

meaning there is nothing else to conclude. 

Such is the depth of his analysis. 

An exasperated Burman was left to 

Tony Burman 

ask “what in God’s name” led us to lose 

our “honest broker” standing? – apparently 

forgetting that he’d already answered 

his own question: Israel. 

Did it not occur to Burman that his 

thesis, unsupported by any actual evidence, 

is an insult to Canadians? Apparently 

not. 

Burman’s presumptuousness is not 

uncharacteristic. 

Last January he boldly, if mistakenly, 

predicted that, “within the next several 

months,” having entrapped U.S. President 

Barack Obama into joining it, Israel 

would launch a war on Iran. To Burman, 

the clever entanglements Israel 

foists on other countries, great and medium 

powers alike, seem boundless. 

* * * 

To be taken more seriously is the 

Globe and Mail’s Doug Saunders. In 

his Sept. 8 column, he was also critical 

of Canada’s decision, downplaying 

the Iranian nuclear threat by claiming 

that even Benny Gantz, 

Israel’s chief of the armed 

forces, doesn’t believe 

that Iran is “pursuing” 

nuclear weapons. 

Saunders got this 

wrong. Gantz certainly 

believes that the Iranian 

leadership is pursuing a 

nuclear weapons capacity 

that is very dangerous, 

and not only to Israel. 

Gantz argues only that 

Iran has not yet “decided” 

to go the final step of 

producing the weapons 

themselves. 

As Gantz explained a few months 

ago in a much-discussed Ha’aretz 

interview: “If the supreme religious 

leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wants, 

he will advance it to the acquisition of 

a nuclear bomb, but the decision must 

first be taken. It will happen if Khamenei 

judges that he is invulnerable to a 

response.” 

In contrast to both Burman and 

Saunders was Margaret Wente in the 

Sept. 11 Globe. She acknowledged the 

grave risk that a nuclear Iran poses and 

commended the principled stand that 

our government took in breaking ties: 

“Instead of doing nothing,” she wrote, 

“Canada is using what moral force it 

has to condemn a pariah state. Iran 

probably doesn’t care. But other countries 

will take note, and some might 

even follow suit. It’s possible that the 

force of international opinion might 

even affect Iran’s behaviour. So good on 

us. We did the right thing.” 

Paul Michaels is director of research 

and senior media relations for the Centre 

for Israel and Jewish Affairs. 


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Congratulations to the Scholarship 

and Award Recipients 

HENRY AND BARBARA BANK FELLOWSHIPS IN JEWISH STUDIES 

Irit Amar Evan Goldenthal Belinda Keshen 

BENARROCH-HAZAN SEPHARDI STUDIES AWARD* 

Denise Handlarski 

BENARROCH-HAZAN BOOK PRIZE 

Mordechay Benzaquen 

TOM AND MARY BECK JEWISH STUDIES AWARD 

Elizabeth Friedman Gabrielle Kneller David Wallach 

HY & HELEN BERGEL PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN JEWISH STUDIES 

Sheva Strauss 

JOSEPH & JACK BITTON AWARDS IN SEPHARDI STUDIES 

Inbal Varsano 

DAVID & LOIS BUCKSTEIN BURSARY 

Laella Saffer 

MICHAEL & RENA BUCKSTEIN AWARD IN JEWISH TEACHER EDUCATION 

Morris Herskovits 

CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS* 

Osama Butt Binyamin Cohen Cristiana Conti 

Melanie Eini Shoshana Elharar Natasha Guslitser 

Talia Herzstein Riva Mintz Daniel Navy 

Sarah Navy Chris Royle Nicole Simon 

Mendel Weisbrod 

CANADIAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY BERDIE & IRVIN COHEN AWARD* 

Riva Mintz 

CANADIAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY VERA DOLLY DENTY AWARD* 

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CANADIAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY MARNIE KIMELMAN AWARD* 

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CANADIAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY LOUIS MANPEL AWARD* 

Riva Mintz 

HELEN & LOUIS EISENSTAT JEWISH TEACHER EDUCATION AWARD 

Morris Herskovits 

ESSAY PRIZE IN CANADIAN JEWISH STUDIES 

Marissa Richler 

FLEISCHER AWARDS 

Jordana de Bloeme Mark Celinscak Serhiy Hleybman 

Maxa Sawyer Tanhum Yoreh 

EVELYN GOLLIN BURSARY IN JEWISH STUDIES 

Ariella Markus Dina Safran 

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Lesley Simpson 

JOSEPH & KATIE KLASNER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN JEWISH STUDIES 

Nadine Sheinberg 

KLEIN-ROSMARIN AWARD IN JEWISH TEACHER EDUCATION 

Tova Rosenzweig 

SHOSHANA KURTZ BOOK PRIZE 

Dale Gold 

METRO TORONTO LODGE B’NAI BRITH PRIZE 

Natalie Birk 

ISRAEL MIDA & FAMILY AWARD IN JEWISH STUDIES 

Stephanie Agyei-Kudom Robert Laughton Sarah Veale 

ALYCE ORZY AWARD IN JEWISH TEACHER EDUCATION 

Binyamin Cohen Ariella Morel 

HERSHEL & MICHAEL RECHT GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD IN JEWISH STUDIES 

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YORK UNIVERSITY-HEBREW UNIVERSITY EXCHANGE SCHOLARSHIP 

Sarah Navy 

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Elissa Grossman 

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR RECENT PhD RECIPIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2012-2013: 

Mark Celinscak – U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum – Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship 

Mia Spiro – SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship 

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Sara Horowitz, Director, Centre for Jewish Studies 

Barbara Bank, Chair, Advisory Committee 

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THE MICHAEL JOHN HERMAN LECTURES 2012 

by Prof. David Novak, University of Toronto 

Thursdays 7:30 PM at Beth Tzedec Congregation 

A series of eight presentations previewing chapters in 

his forthcoming book on a new philosophy of Zionism. 

September 27 Zionism: Is it Jewish? 

October 4 Secular Zionism: Is it enough? 

October 11 Democracy: Is it compatible with Judaism? 

October 18 Jews: The chosen people? 

November 1 Land: Is it holy? 

November 15 Residence: Is it required? 

November 22 Others: A place for non-Jews? 

November 29 End-game: realpolitik or salvation? 

Plan to attend any or all of the sessions; each lecture covers an 

independent topic 

Rabbi Dr. David Novak, prolific author and acclaimed scholar, 

holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies 

as Professor of Religion and Philosophy in the University of 

Toronto, where he is a member of University College and the 

Joint Centre for Bioethics. 

The Michael John Herman Lectures are sponsored by Mary Ellen 

Herman and her children in memory of their husband and father, 

a committed life-long learner and a questioning lover of 

philosophy, Judaism and Israel. 

Open to all. Refreshments will be served. Admission free. 

Presented in 

partnership with: 

Beth Tzedec Congregation 

1700 Bathurst Street Toronto, ON 

Tel 416-781-3511 Email info@beth-tzedec.org 

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Compiled by CJN Staff 

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Winning designs for this year’s second 

annual Sukkahville competition will be displayed 

at a ceremony and family event, Sept. 

Harvest Wave 

New York, NY 

Hegemonikon 

Houston, TX 

Creative sukkot help less fortunate 

Robert Miller 

Raymond Bourraine 

Craig Deebank Andrew McGregor 

Teresa Cacho 

30, noon to 4 p.m., at Mel Lastman Square. 

The competition is sponsored by Kehilla 

Residential Programme, a UJA Federation 

of Greater Toronto agency that helps those 

who need affordable housing in the Jewish 

www.sukkahville.com 

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Sukkahville 2012 finalists 

Sukkanoe 

New York, NY 

Houston, TX 

Woven Sukkah 

San Francisco, CA 

Christina Zeibak 

Gregory Marinic 

Ion Popian 

Daphne Dow 

Nicolas Herrera 

Kevin Pham 

Michelangelo Sabatino 

community. 

Serge Ambrose 

Daphne Dow, Houston, Texas; Sukkanoe 

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be used to supplement Kehilla’s new rental Pham, Michelangelo Sabatino and Serge 

assistance program, which bridges the gap Ambrose, New York, N.Y. and Houston, 

between market rates and what the poor in Texas; Woven Sukkah by Ion Popian of San 

the Jewish community can afford to pay. Francisco. 

info@sukkahville.com 

From 42 submissions, which Kehilla came Facebook in The five sukkot will Ken be put Greenberg up for sale at 

from architects, artists, design specialists the end of the exhibit, Christopher and each will Hume carry a 

and students from as far away as India and retail price of $3,600, the Anna amount Simone that each 

Tunisia, five finalists have been chosen by submission received from Sarah the Milroy organization 

Sukkahville a panel 2012 of judges, Video and given a stipend Kehilla with Twitterto 

build the structure. Donald Schmitt 

which to erect their structure. 

The event at Mel Marianne Lastman Square McKenna will 

The five finalists, whose submissions are include the awards ceremony, a hands-on 

seen above from left, are: Embryonic Canopy build a sukkah opportunity by Habitat for 

by Craig Deebank, Toronto; Harvest Wave by Humanity, and music by Klezconnection. 

Andrew McGregor, Robert Miller, Raymond Visitors can meet the artists and walk 

Bourraine and Teresa Cacho, New York, through the structures, which will remain 

N.Y.; Hegemonikon by Christina Zeibak and on display until Oct. 3. 

Finalists selected by 

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Funds raised will 

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APPLE SCIENCE: Kate Sable, a Grade 5 teacher at the Paul Penna Downtown 

Jewish Day School, right combined Rosh Hashanah learning and the study of 

science in an open-ended lesson. Students came up with their own questions 

– Have you ever wondered which type of apple browns most quickly? Do you 

know if lemon juice, vinegar or honey slow the discoloration or speed it up? – 

and then designed and performed their experiments. Pictured with Sable are, 

from left, Amy Arnold, Jessie Schnoor, Noah Kriss and Ezra Rosenberg. 

MUSICAL MEETING: Bialik Hebrew Day School senior kindergarten 

students, from left, Eliana H., Charlie M., Cole K., Abby M., and Leah S. meet 

the Israeli soldiers who visited Bialik and performed as part of the IDF Music 

Ensemble. The soldiers were in Toronto on an offi cial visit ahead of the 

Association for Soldiers in Israel Canada gala. 

SHOFAR SOUNDED: Rabbi Noam Katz of 

Leo Baeck Day School sounds the shofar celebrating 

the month of Elul and opening day at 

the school’s newly inaugurated south campus 

on Arlington Avenue. Seated next to him is 

head of school Eric Petersiel, and looking on is 

teacher Ted Liss and student Ethan Milavsky. 

THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS 

CLASS ACTS 

Mazel Tov 

Mazel tov to Neda & Stephen 

on your engagement! Wishing you 

all the best. Lots of love from the 

Kanani and Links families. 

Happy fi rst birthday to our 

precious Charlotte, daughter of 

Sandy & Shawn Blankier. Mazel tov 

with love from the grandparents. 

Martin & Emese: 

Wishing you both a very 

happy fi rst anniversary and many 

happy, healthy returns. 

The Oseni Family. 

Mazel tov to the Rabinovitch 

and Lichtman families on the 

marriage of Iris & Andrew. 

Email your digital photos to cblackman@thecjn.ca or go online to 

www.CJNews.com and click the “Family Moments” 

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Gayla & Jeff, along with big brother 

Jake, are thrilled to announce the 

arrival of their son, Liam Cohen, 

named in honour of Lily Polon. 

Mazel tov on the birth of 

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416.638.7200 

Deadline reminder: Due to the holidays, deadlines have 

changed. Sept. 21 is the deadline for the issue of Oct. 4. Sept. 24 

is the deadline for the issue of Oct. 11. All deadlines are at noon. 

Phone 416-391-1836, ext. 269; fax 416-391-0829 or send an email 

to: whatsnewcjn@gmail.com. 

Saturday, Sept. 22 

PRE-HOLIDAY LECTURES 

Rabbi Avrohom Plotkin discusses 

“Must I Forgive Everyone 

Before Yom Kippur?” at Chabad 

of Markham, 905-886-0420; www. 

chabadmarkham.org. 

Sunday, Sept. 23 

OVARIAN CANCER FORUM 

The GTA Ovarian Cancer Peer 

Support Network holds a forum 

Your time is 

our treasure 

Let’s make a difference together 

At Circle of Care, help comes in many 

ways. When you volunteer, you make 

a difference to your community. 

Whether delivering a Kosher meal 

or spending time with a senior, 

volunteering is a rewarding and 

invaluable experience. 

Become a Circle of Care Volunteer 

circleofcare.com 

(416) 635-2860 

4211 Yonge Street, Suite 401 

on “Living with Ovarian Cancer,” 

YMCA Central, 20 Grosvenor St. To 

register, www.ovcaPeers.com. 

YIDDISH CLASSES 

Yiddish classes, all levels, will 

be offered at Beth David Synagogue, 

starting today. Fun Yiddish 

classes for children begin Oct. 14. A 

Yiddish conversation class will also 

be offered Thursday afternoons 

starting Oct. 18. Call Ester Klimitz, 

416-635-2883, ext. 5189; committeeforyiddish@ujafed.org. 

What’s 

New 

By LILA SARICK 

SECULAR SUNDAY SCHOOL 

Morris Winchevsky School, 

a secular Jewish community 

school, begins classes today at 

918 Bathurst St. To register, visit 

www.mwstoronto.org or call 416- 

789-5502. 

GENEALOGY WORKSHOP 

Jewish Genealogical Society 

of Canada (Toronto) holds a 

workshop for beginners, 1:30 p.m., 

Edithvale Community Centre, 131 

Finch Ave. W. Please register at 

program@jgstoronto.ca 

Monday, Sept. 24 

HIGH SCHOOL IN ISRAEL 

Ramah Jerusalem High School 

and USY High hold an information 

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109 Codsell Ave., 7:30 p.m. Speaker 

will be Daniel Laufer, school 

director. To RSVP, email: ramahisrael@jtsa.edu. 

RABBI KROHN 

Rabbi Paysach Krohn discusses 

“Reaching Upward, Searching 

Inward,” 8 p.m., Beth Avraham 

Yosef Synagogue, 613 Clark Ave., 

Thornhill. 

BETH TZEDEC HAVERIM 

Fern Dworkin sings the music 

of George Gershwin, Cole Porter 

and Irving Berlin, 1:30 p.m. at 

Beth Tzedec synagogue. $5. For 

info, contact Dorion Liebgott, 

416-781-3514, ext. 23, museum@ 

beth-tzedec.org. 

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Other News 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED 

Circle of Care needs volunteer 

drivers for kosher meals-on-wheels 

delivery and visitors, especially 

people who speak Hebrew, Yiddish, 

Russian or Hungarian. Call Lysa 

Springer, 416-635-2900, ext. 496. 

Reena, a social service agency 

supporting people with developmental 

disabilities, needs administrative 

volunteers for its Thornhill 

offices. Call Millie Chadwick, 905- 

889-2690, ext. 2112, or mchadwick@ 

reena.org. Baycrest needs volunteers 

of all ages (over 13) to escort 

residents to evening and weekend 

programs and be companions. Call 

416-785-2500, ext. 2572. 

Continued on page 31 

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Continued from page 30 

Hospice Thornhill needs volunteers 

to help families dealing 

with serious illness and for fundraising. 

905-764-0656. 

SUKKAHVILLE 

Five architecturally unique 

sukkahs will be on display at Mel 

Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St., 

Sept. 30, noon-4 p.m. There will 

be free snacks, family activities 

and music by The Klezmatics. 

The exhibit will be on until Oct. 

3. www.sukkahville.com. 

HIGH HOLIDAY TICKETS 

High Holiday tickets for services 

at Shaar Shalom Synagogue are 

now available to the public. Call 

905-889-4975. 

Chabad of Markham is offering 

tickets for non-members. Call 

905-886-0420, ext. 221. 

A secular, humanistic observance 

of Yom Kippur will be 

held at the Winchevsky Centre, 

585 Cranbrooke Ave. For tickets, 

call 416-789-5502 or email info@ 

winchevskycentre.org. 

B’nai Shalom Congregation of 

Halton-Peel is holding services 

in Oakville. Call 905-901-9889 or 

email info@bnaishalom.ca. 

Oraynu Congregation for 

Humanistic Judaism is holding 

services at The Avenue Banquet 

Hall, 1600 Steeles Ave. W. For 

tickets, 416-385-3910; roby@ 

oraynu.org. 

Am Shalom Congregation, a 

Reform synagogue in Barrie, has 

tickets available for the High Holidays. 

Call 705-792-3949 or www. 

amshalom.ca. 

Rabbi Gedalia Zweig leads 

High Holiday services at Cedarvale 

Terrace Shul, 429 Walmer Rd., no 

cost. Call to reserve a place, 416- 

707-3161; 416-967-6949. 

JVS CAREER SERVICES 

JVS offers career counselling 

for people making an educational 

plan, a career change or who 

need focus in their career search. 

Call 416-649-1629, email careercounselling@jvstoronto.org. 

HOLOCAUST RESOURCES 

Baycrest Holocaust Resource 

Program is offering support 

groups for child survivors of the 

Holocaust and adult children of 

survivors starting this month. Call 

Shoshana Yaakobi, 416-785-2500, 

ext. 2271, or email syaakobi@baycrest.org. 

LET THERE BE LIGHT 

New Voices for Yiddish presents 

the musical Let There Be 

Light, Oct. 14, 2 p.m., at the City 

Playhouse Theatre, Thornhill. For 

tickets, call 905-882-7469. 

FALL LECTURE SERIES 

Registration is open for 

Temple Emanu-El’s fall lecture 

series, Mondays at 2 p.m. starting 

Oct. 15. Speakers include 

Iain Scott (on Marilyn Horne); 

Doug Purdon (on Norman 

Rockwell’s America); Rick Phillips 

(on Chopin); Adam Chapnick 

(“Foreign Aid in the 21st 

Century”); Nelson Wiseman 

(“Canadian Multiculturalism”). 

$45 for the series/$10 per lecture. 

Call 416-449-3880. 

JF&Cs GRoUPs 

BEREAVED PARENTS 

Bereaved Jewish Families of 

Ontario provides 8-week selfhelp 

groups. Call Beth Feffer at 

JF&CS, 416-638-7800, ext. 6244, 

or bfeffer@jfandcs.com. 

FoR seNioRs 

Association of Jewish Seniors 

meets Sept. 20 at 9:30 a.m., 

Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue. 

Dr. Samir Sinha, director of geriatrics 

at Mt. Sinai Hospital, 

discusses “Ontario’s Senior Care 

Strategy.” Oct. 4, AJS holds its 

sukkot lunch with entertainment, 

$20/$25. RSVP needed. Tammy 

416-635-2900, ext. 458. 

Charming Earl Bales Seniors 

Club in the Park. (60+). Valerie, 

416-395-7881. The clubhouse is 

temporarily closed for renovations. 

All activities are in the Earl 

Bales Community Centre. Casino 

Rama, Oct. 17. Lunch and leaves 

trip, Oct. 23. Sunday night dance, 

Oct. 14. Tuesdays, gentle exercise, 

10 a.m. first class free; Wednesdays, 

social bridge, 12:30 p.m.; 

Thursdays, line dancing, 10 a.m.; 

social bridge, 12:30 p.m. 

Bernard Betel Centre, 1003 

Steeles Ave. W. 416-225-2112, 

ext. 124. Sept. 23, open house 

with free classes and programs, 

10 a.m.-3 p.m. 

Seniors Gentle Fitness classes 

offered at Edithvale Community 

Centre, 131 Finch Ave. W. 416- 

665-9050. Feldenkrais awareness 

through movement, Mondays; 

Tai Chi Chih, Thursdays. Register 

before Sept. 27. 

Earl Bales Seniors Woodworkers 

has state-of-the-art equipment 

and is open to seniors interested 

in woodworking and crafts. Call 

Morty, 416-783-6078, 416-630- 

6487. 

Seniors Bowling group is 

looking for members, meets 

Tuesday afternoons at Playtime 

Bowl. Call Gerry, 416-633-7594. 

Seniors Cultural Club meets 

Tuesdays, 10 a.m., Borochov Cultural 

Centre, 272 Codsell. 416-630- 

9444. 

New Horizons is a Jewish Hun- 

SINGLES EVENTS wILL RETuRN 


garian seniors club that offers 

kosher food, card games, casino 

trips. 416-256-1892. 

Adath Israel Congregation. 

Wednesday afternoon socials. 

Bridge, mah-jong, Rummikub. 

Refreshments $2. Call Pearl, 416- 

635-6317, or Marcia, 416-932- 

1229. 


welcomes new players 

for mah-jong and Rummikub 

Monday and Wednesday afternoons. 

416-633-3838. 

Active Seniors & Boomers, 

Miles Nadal JCC, 416-924-6211, 

ext.155. Oct. 4, Harold Troper 

discusses Judy Feld Carr and the 

secret rescue of the Syrian Jews, 

1:30 p.m. Iain Scott’s opera series 

begins Oct. 16. 

Active 55 Plus Fitness, Miles 

Nadal JCC, 416-924-6211, ext. 

526, Colin Blayney. Enjoy a free 

leisurely bike tour of downtown 

Toronto, Sept. 23, 9:30 a.m. 

Circle of Care/Baycrest has 

expanded and has some spaces at 

its day centre for seniors with dementia. 

Meals and transportation 

provided. Call 416-635-2860. 

PRosseRMaN JCC 

S h e r m a n C a m p u s , 4 5 8 8 

Bathurst St., 416-638-1881, www. 

prossermanjcc.com. 

Toddler daycare spots available, 

call Kailah, ext. 4351. 

Red Cross babysitter’s course 

Oct. 7. Call Danya, ext. 4235. 

Chai Dancers, a multicultural 

folkdance performing group, 

has openings for new members. 

Dance experience required. Call 

Teme Kernerman, ext. 4364. 

A new social club for people 

over 55 is being formed. Call 

Bernice, 416-633-7034 or Terrie, 

905-709-1090. 

Beginners Israeli folkdance 

starts Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. Intermediate 

Israeli folkdance starts Sept. 

24, 8:30 p.m. International folkdance 

starts Oct. 10, 8 p.m. 

Miles Nadal JCC 

750 Spadina Ave. 416-924-6211, 

www.mnjcc.org. 

Stay and Play at the fitness 

centre, Sept. 23; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free 

demos of classes, ext. 500. 

An exhibit by Ira Moscowitz, 

Spiritual Routes, is on display at 

the gallery until Sept. 25. 

End Shabbat and kick off Nuit 

Blanche with a musical, rooftop 

Havdalah, Sept. 29, 8 p.m. 

For information about the 

adult daytime choir, email gillians@mnjcc.org. 

No experience 

needed. 

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Media Mondays, film studies, 

lectures with clips, returns with “The 

Social Cinema of Sidney Lumet.” 

Starts Oct. 15. Call ext. 606. 

A new theatre group, led by 

L.J. Nelles, starts Oct. 18. Actors 

rehearse pieces from new Canadian 

Jewish theatre. Call ext. 606. 

The Michael Bernstein Chapel 

holds services Thursdays at 7:15 

a.m. and Sundays at 8 a.m. Call 

Coleman Bernstein, 416-968- 

0200. 

sCHWaRTZ 

ReisMaN CeNTRe 

9600 Bathurst St., Vaughan. 

905-303-1821. www.srcentre.ca. 

The daycare is still accepting 

registrations. 

ESSAY CONTEST WINNER: Akiva Malamet, left, a graduate of 

the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of 

Toronto, recently came in first in the Morris J. and Betty Kaplun 

Foundation Essay Contest. Aaron Seligson, right, president of the 

Kaplun Foundation, presented Malamet with prize money, a cheque 

for $1,800, at a luncheon in New York City recently. This year’s essay 

topic was Remembering the Holocaust: what Can You Do So That we 

Never Forget. For next year’s topic, visit www.kaplunfoundation.org.

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to doing to you what and she yours, 

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loves. 

mother and mother-in-law of 

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Susan, George 

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Debbie Simon Sep 3/12 589 Balliol Street 

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memory and really to and all feel 

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she says. “It just feels 

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What started as a personal healing journey 

in memory of his father, the late Rami 

Peled, has become a philanthropic mission 

to help fight cancer. 

Rami Peled died at age 58 in January 2011, 

after an eight-year battle against a rare form 

of stomach cancer. Now, his son, 

Tom, a 24-year-old Israeli, has 

partnered with the Israel Cancer 

Research Fund (ICRF) and is biking 

across the United States to 

raise funds for cancer research. 

Tom Peled felt he could best 

work through his bereavement 

last year by moving out of his 

comfort zone and challenging 

himself physically and mentally. 

So, last summer, he embarked 

on a 3,000-mile bike trip through six European 

countries. 

After his European tour, he formed an international 

cycling charity, Bike for the Fight 

(BFF), of which he is now CEO, as a way to 

honour his late father and fight the disease 

that robbed them of so many precious years 

together, by raising awareness and financial 

support for ICRF. 

As part of this year’s bike-trip fundraiser, 

ICRF Toronto is sponsoring its first annual 

BFF Spin-A-Thon on Sept 23. 

Peled began his 3,000-mile American 

journey with a team of three others Aug. 1 

in Los Angeles, continuing through several 

U.S, states. He will end his trek in New York 

City Oct. 24. At the end of each day’s ride, 

Peled shares his personal story with those 

he meets. He hopes to encourage others to 

join his cause by donating money or accompanying 

him on part of his trip. 

“One can’t measure with one’s eyes the 

rewards that biking across the 

country has provided. The 

people and friendships made 

along the way [are like] planting 

seeds. We may not see the effect 

immediately, but suddenly we 

learn of acts of kindness that 

have sprouted,” Peled said in an 

interview. 

Thirty-five spinners will be 

taking on the challenge at the 

ICRF BFF two-hour Spin-A- 

Thon. Each spinner will have a personal 

fundraising page. The goal is to raise a total 

of $20,000. 

Peled will be taking a break in his bike 

trip to fly to Toronto to participate in the 

BFF Spin-A-Thon, which will be followed 

by a reception to celebrate his accomplishments 

hosted by Jeff Bly, executive board 

member of ICRF. 

Not a spinner? Let Tom spin for you by 

signing up to be a virtual spinner. Registration 

is $36, with a suggested minimum fundraising 

goal of $500. Prizes are awarded for 


top fundraisers. Registration is still open. 

Peled, who is a student at the Lauder 

School of Government, Diplomacy and 

Strategy at the IDC college in Israel, has already 

attracted a number of partners and 

co-sponsors, including El Al Airlines, Hillel 

in Israel, Maccabiah 2013, the Embassy of 

Israel and Microsoft Israel, which has developed 

a facebook and smartphone app 

for the project where supporters can track 

Peled’s progress. (www.facebook.com/Bike- 

ForTheFight) 

Peled has received support from a number 

of Israeli leaders, including Israeli President 

Shimon Peres and Jerusalem Mayor 

Nir Barkat. 

Peled and his team – Eran Rozen, 24, 

Roey Peleg, 27, and film student Luca Seres, 

23, who is making a documentary about the 

journey – are all students who have chosen 

to quit their summer jobs and devote their 

energy and time into this project. They will 

be starting school one week late this year, as 

well. 

Asked if they celebrate Shabbat on the 

road, Peled said, “Our team’s core principle 

is to not bike on Shabbat… We celebrated 

HEALTH 

Spin-A-Thon to raise funds for cancer research 

CHABAD OF MISSISSAUGA 

THE TURK FAMILY JEWISH DISCOVERY CENTRE 

invites you to join them as they celebrate 

their 10th anniversary at a tribute dinner 

HONOURING 

MR. LARRY ROBBINS 

Celebrating the inauguration of the 

LARRY AND MIRIAM ROBBINS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE 

Living Legacy Award presented to 

THE TURK FAMILY 

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10th • Anniversary • Dinner 

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Shabbat at the Chabad in Boulder City, 

Colo., with some 150 college students who 

were excited to hear about our project.” 

He feels that their message is getting 

through. “After biking some 75 miles each 

day, we open our computers. We are very 

moved by emails from people who have lost 

a loved one to cancer, and who tell us that 

they have been inspired by us and want to 

make a difference by donating to our cause. 

These rewards are what keep the forward 

momentum,” he said. 

Peled is selling blue BFF wristbands and 

hopes to make BFF a brand for the Jewish 

world. “I want to encourage others to follow 

my lead,” he said. 

All funds collected will be donated to 

ICRF, a North American organization with 

six chapters, including one in Toronto and 

one in Montreal. Founded in 1975, ICRF 

gives grants to top Israeli cancer researchers 

in scientific institutions across Israel. 

To date, BFF has raised $40,000 – almost 

half of Peled’s $100,000 goal. The ICRF BFF 

Spin-A-Thon in Toronto takes place from 12 

to 2 p.m. at Mayfair Club West. For more information 

and to register, visit bff.icrf.ca. 

Aikins Law is very pleased to announce that the Honourable Martin H. 

Freedman, Q.C., C.Arb., has rejoined the Firm as Counsel, following his 

recent retirement as a Judge of the Manitoba Court of Appeal. 

Prior to his appointment to the Court in July 2002, Mr. Freedman carried 

on an extensive arbitration practice in Manitoba and other provinces, 

resolving labour relations and other disputes in both the public and 

private sectors. He will resume his arbitration practice and will also be 

Counsel to the Firm in litigation, administrative law, corporate law and 

business law matters. 

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Caring for caregivers 

Program teaches how to cope when loved ones have dementia 

Carolyn Blackman 


Living with Dementia is getting ready to start up again 

this October. This unique program, which was launched 

in the spring, is in partnership with Holy Blossom Temple 

and Mount Sinai Hospital’s Reitman Centre. 

The program is the fi rst satellite community-based 

program coming out of the partnership, and is aimed at 

family members who are caring for loved ones with dementia. 

Gerry Richman, who co-leads the program with Esther 

Zeiler and Sandy Atlin, said that it offers a component for 

both caregivers and their loved ones. 

An adult educator and professional life coach, Richman 

said she has an interest in helping those in the community 

who are often overlooked, “and family members 

and caregivers need a lot more attention. They are trying 

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to cope with [a situation] that is very new to them. We help 

them develop skills to help cope with the challenge.” 

The seeds for the partnership were planted, said Richman, 

when Dr. Joel Sadavoy, head of geriatric psychiatry 

at the Reitman Centre for Alzheimer’s support and training, 

and head of community psychiatry services at Mount 

Sinai, came to speak to a group at Holy Blossom about the 

Reitman Centre’s Carers program, which provides practical, 

skill-based tools and emotional support for family 

members caring for loved ones with dementia. 

A concurrent arts-based program for cognitive and interpersonal 

stimulation is provided for the family member 

with dementia. 

“We discussed the possibility of a satellite program at 

Holy Blossom, and after months of meetings and conversations, 

we recruited volunteer staff who were trained by 

Mount Sinai,” said Richman. 

They launched the 10-week program in the spring, and 

offered simultaneous sessions with caregivers and their 

loved ones. 

Part of the program for caregivers includes role-playing 

based on their own challenging situations. “We ask 

them to journal their situations, and bring them to each 

session,” said Richman. 

After a two-hour session, she said, everyone comes 

together, and they have a Judaic component to the program. 

“We have a rabbi or cantor come in and they lead 

us in music and prayer.” 

She said the spring session was “highly successful. Participants 

bonded, and discovered they were not alone.” 

Sadavoy said that caregivers have never been identifi ed 

as a population in need. “Dementia care will fail unless 

the caregiver can adequately manage their loved one at 

home. Almost everyone with dementia has disturbances, 

which disrupt relationships and impair communication. 

Caregivers are highly vulnerable to breakdown under the 

burden of care.” 

For information on the program, email templemail@ 

holyblossom.org. 

The Committee for Yiddish is proud to present: 

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SPICE OF LIFE 

After a day of fasting, nothing is better 

than an inviting, nourishing 

meal that takes a minimum of effort. 

These appetizing Yom Kippur recipes 

can be made in advance so that you can 

spend less time in the kitchen and more 

in the company of friends and family. 

At the end of the fast, serve a tray of 

freshly sliced apples with honey. Meanwhile, 

you can have everything else ready 

and on the table within an hour. The 

Cheese and Vegetable Strata is packed 

with carbohydrates and protein, so there 

is no need to pair it with meat or fish to 

satisfy your hunger when breaking the 

fast. Enjoy this selection of delectable 

Yom Kippur recipes 

APPLE AND RAISIN SALAD 

Dressing 

2 tbsp. canola oil 

Break the fast with make-ahead recipes 

1/2 cup white balsamic vinegar 

1/2 cup water 

1/4 cup golden raisins (soak in warm 

water for one hour, drain) 

2 tbsp. honey 

1 large clove garlic 

1 tsp. basil 

1 tsp.oregano 

zest of one lemon 

1 tbsp. lemon juice 

Combine all ingredients in a blender or 

food processor and process on high speed 

until smooth. Refrigerate. Stir or shake 

well before using. 

Salad 

5 cups romaine lettuce, chopped 

2 cups shredded red cabbage 

2 Granny Smith apples, chopped 

1 cup shredded carrot 

1/2 cup chickpeas, (from a tin, rinsed 

and drained) 

1/4 cup chopped walnuts 

1/4 cup raisins 

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A strata is a layered casserole dish 

similar to a quiche or a frittata. The difference 

is that the ingredients are not all 

mixed together. A strata is made with an 

egg mixture poured over layers of bread. 

The casserole needs to be left between 

one hour and overnight before baking. It 

is then served warm as an entrée. 

8 eggs, beaten 

2 1/2 cups skim milk 

2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 

4-5 garlic cloves, minced 

1 tbsp. dried oregano 

1/2 tsp. salt 

1/4 tsp. pepper 

1/2 tsp. dry mustard 

1 tbsp. dried parsley 

1 loaf of challah, crusts removed 

3 cups shredded cheese, part mozzarella, 

part cheddar 

3 medium-large zucchinis, thinly 

sliced 

1-2 red peppers, thinly sliced 

1 1/2 tbsp. chopped chives 

Spray a 15x10-inch, 4-quart, Pyrex 

baking dish with canola oil or olive oil. 

In a large bowl, combine eggs, milk, oil, 

garlic, oregano, salt, pepper, mustard and 

parsley. Place one layer of bread in dish, 

top it with one-third of the zucchini slices 

and then cover that with one-third of the 

cheese. Spoon about one-third of the egg 

mixture over this first layer. 

Repeat this step for second and third 

layers.* Arrange red pepper slices over 

top and sprinkle with remaining cheese 

and chives. Using a pastry scraper or a 

large sharp knife, score the strata. Push 

right down to the bottom of the Pyrex 

dish, forming 12-16 pieces. 

Cover tightly with plastic wrap and 

refrigerate overnight. Bake strata in a 

350-degree oven for one hour. Then, using 

the pastry scraper or knife, cut along 

score lines and remove individual pieces 

Cheese and Vegetable Strata 

from dish with a large offset spatula. 

*If the challah is very thickly sliced, 

make Strata in two layers rather than 

three. 

MALIBU COCONUT CHEESECAKE 

9- or 10- in. springform pan 

3 cups light cream cheese 

circle of parchment paper 

1 cup sugar 

12 oz. package of shortbread cookies 

1 cup coconut 

1/4 cup coconut rum 

1 tbsp. sugar 

3 eggs 

1/2 cup light coconut milk 

3 tbsp. margarine, softened 

1 cup coconut, toasted* 

Crust: Spray springform pan with 

cooking spray and line with parchment 

paper. Process cookies in food processor, 

or place in a large plastic bag and crush 

with a rolling pin to make crumbs. Add 

coconut, 1 tbsp. sugar and margarine, 

and mix. Press crumb mixture firmly into 

base of spring form and up the sides. Refrigerate. 

Preheat oven to 350. 

Filling: Mix cheese and sugar until 

smooth. Add eggs, rum and coconut milk 

and blend well. Pour into crust. 

Fill an ovenproof dish with water and 

place on lower rack of oven. Place cheesecake 

on middle rack. Bake for 50 to 60 

minutes. Edges will be set, but centre 

will wiggle. Turn off heat and let cheesecake 

sit in oven with door partly open for 

1 hour. Refrigerate. Remove cheesecake 

from springform pan when cold, at least 

4 hours or overnight. Top with toasted coconut. 

*To toast coconut: preheat oven to 300. 

Place coconut on a parchment paperlined 

baking sheet. Bake approximately 

10 minutes until coconut becomes golden 

in colour. Watch carefully as it burns 

quickly. 

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diplomatic installations in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. The Libya 

attack left the country’s U.S. ambassador, J. Christopher 

Stevens, and three other diplomats dead. 

The filmmaker appears to be an Egyptian Christian rather 

than an Israeli Jew, as he had claimed in interviews. 

The Associated Press tracked down an Egyptian Coptic 

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with the film’s logistics, and whose middle name 

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name – Sam Bacile – used by the filmmaker. 

A federal law enforcement official, speaking on condition 

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concluded the 55-year-old Egyptian man, Nakoula Basseley 

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A 14-minute trailer for the crudely produced film ridiculing 

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The deadly attack followed angry protests at the U.S. 

Embassy in Cairo, where rioters breached the compound’s 

walls and destroyed its American flag. 

On Thursday, protesters stormed the grounds of the U.S. 

Embassy in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a. There were also 

more anti-American demonstrations in Cairo and other 

capitals of Muslim countries. In the wake of the initial violence, 

several media outlets interviewed a California man 

who gave his name as Sam Bacile who reportedly had produced, 

directed and written Innocence of Muslims. The 

man said he was an Israeli-American real estate developer 

hoping to help Israel with the film, which he said was financed 

with $5 million by 100 Jewish donors. 

While media outlets, including JTA, widely repeated his 

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to have been no such person by that name involved in film 

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local Israeli community failed to turn up a single person 

who knew a Sam Bacile. 

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NETANYA, Israel — On a street off Independence 

Square, storefronts advertise La 

Creperie Galette, Nouvel’hair and Agence 

Immobiliere. 

Families lounging under parasols at cafe 

tables chat in French and enjoy a sunny afternoon. 

Nearby, the Mediterranean waves 

lap up against tranquil beaches. 

But in the local language, Independence 

Square is called not La Place de 

l’Indépendance but Kikar Ha’atzmaut. And 

this scene takes place not in Nice or Cannes 

but in Netanya, a coastal Israeli city about 

halfway between Haifa and Tel Aviv. 

The scene is not unique. 

From Netanya to Jerusalem and all the 

way south to Eilat, Israel’s French community 

is growing and leaving its mark on Israeli 

society. Some 2,000 French Jews have 

arrived in Israel annually since 2009. 

French immigration first spiked above 

2,000 in 2002 and reached nearly 3,000 in 

2005. The French Consulate in Tel Aviv estimates 

that as many as 150,000 French Jews 

live in Israel, although only about 70,000 

are officially known to the consulate. Many 

split their time between Israel and France. 

“The kids were small and we said, ‘It’s 

better to come’” to Israel, said Avraham 

Doukhan, a French real estate broker who 

made aliyah 15 years ago. Doukhan says 

the younger generation of French immigrants 

is generally integrating well. 

“The kids, they aren’t French, they’re 

Israeli. They know Hebrew better than 

French,” he said. 

With 600,000 Jews, France is the world’s 

third largest Jewish community behind 

Israel and the United States. The immigration 

levels of the past few years mean that 

one of every 300 French Jews is making aliyah 

– more than five times the annual rate 

of U.S. residents moving to Israel. French 

Israelis say that antisemitism in France 

motivates Jews to come to Israel, as the 

growing French community here becomes 

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2012 Annual Membership Meeting 

The 2012 Annual Membership Meeting of 

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada 

will be held in Toronto, Ontario at: 

4600 Bathurst Street 

Goldstein Showroom (Room 415) 

on Sunday, November 18th, 2012 at 9:30a.m. 

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increasingly attractive. 

“They began to understand that they 

are less than one per cent of the [French] 

population and Arabs are larger,” said Avi 

Zana, director of Ami, an Israeli organization 

that aids French immigrants. “The 

only option is to close ranks in the community, 

to express themselves less as Jews. 

Jews feel comfortable, safer in Israel.” 

Attacks against Jews and Jewish sites 

have made the country’s Jewish community 

insecure, from the crashing of stolen 

cars into a synagogue in 2002, through the 

abduction and subsequent death of Ilan 

Halimi, 23, in 2006 and to the Toulouse 

shooting at a Jewish school in March in 

which four Jews were killed. The SPCJ, the 

French Jewish community’s protection 

service, documented more than 90 antisemitic 

incidents in the 10 days that followed 

the Toulouse shooting. 

In 2004, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel 

Sharon called for French Jews to immigrate 

en masse to Israel, causing controversy in 

France. But Christophe Bigot, the French 

ambassador to Israel, praised France’s fight 

against antisemitism and said that positive 

feelings, rather than fear of attacks, should 

drive immigration to Israel. 

“Real immigration should be driven by 

Zionism, religious beliefs, familial reasons, 

but not by fear,” Bigot said. “On the French 

side we’ve taken every action to ensure the 

security of the French Jewish community. 

That doesn’t mean it’s always successful, 

of course.” 

The French Consulate has taken notice of 

the growing expatriate community here and 

provides myriad services including financial 

assistance, French-Israeli schools and cultural 

events such as film festivals or theatre. 

For all its growth, though, the French 

community in Israel has remained insular, 

settling in concentrated areas and establishing 

centers of French culture, as in 

Netanya’s Independence Square. Many 

French citizens here speak no Hebrew. 

“They want to be like they are in France, 

to not be mixed,” said Barbara, 26, who 

Population nears 8 million 

Israel’s population is nearing 8 

million, up almost 100,000 from 

the end of 2011, according to data 

released on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. 

The Central Bureau of Statistics 

reported the population of Israel 

stands at approximately 7,933,200. 

At the end of 2011, it was at 7.837 

million. The new figure includes 

approximately 5,978,600 Jews, or 

75.4 per cent of the population, and 

about 1,636,600 Arabs, or 20.6 per 

cent. The 318,000 people categorized 

as “others” include 203,000 

foreign workers, of whom some 

60,000 are African migrants. 

Teens charged 

Hebrew Shades sells out 

The first Hebrew printing of the 

A Jerusalem baker makes baguettes using old-fashioned techniques. 


moved to Israel from France eight years 

ago. “If they stay with only the people 

they know, they won’t know how the state 

works,” she said, asking that her last name 

be withheld because of job concerns. 

French immigrants’ behavior, however, 

is not unusual among immigrant populations 

in Israel, as Russian and American 

expatriate communities also have formed. 

Also, French Jews do not feel completely 

rooted to life here, expatriates say. 

France is a quick flight away, and a salary 

in euros rather than shekels is tempting. 

And unlike Russian or Ethiopian immigrants, 

French Jews can return to a safe, 

democratic country. 

Many French Jews thus have chosen to 

purchase apartments here for a potential 

future immigration, as well as for vacations. 

Coastal cities have proven popular 

for French buyers both because they recall 

the French coast and they already have 

large French communities. The purchases, 

however, may have made buying a home 

more difficult for Israelis, according to real 

estate agents in Netanya. 

French immigrants feel “like the city is 

popular novel Fifty Shades of Grey 

sold out in a day. The 50,000 copies 

of the book by British author E.L. 

James, which went on sale Sept. 9, 

were sold out by the next morning, 

the Israeli business daily 

Globes reported. The book, 

the first of a trilogy and 

initially published in English 

in June 2011, has sold 

40 million copies in the 

United States and 10 million 

in Britain, according to 

Globes. The novel details a 

sadomasochistic relationship 

between a female student and 

an older businessman. 

2nd-most educated country 

Israel has the second-highest 

percentage of adults with a posthigh 

school degree among mem- 

theirs, but it’s not theirs,” said Myriam Luzon, 

a French resident of Netanya. “They do what 

they want, but there are Israelis here, too.” 

A few French Jews in Netanya said they 

expect the majority of France’s Jews to move 

to Israel within the next decade. Zana said 

the community already here does not get 

enough respect from native-born Israelis. 

“The Israeli people laugh at the French 

accent,” said Zana, who has lived here for 

35 years. “They look at them as tourists. 

The Israeli approach is not right, not responsible.” 

But Zana hopes that French Israelis, who 

tend to be traditionally observant and politically 

to the right, will become more involved 

in Israeli politics and society. He notes that 

they have already contributed much to Israel, 

from a solid work ethic to a democratic 

tradition and better taste in food. 

“The boulangerie, patisserie, all of the 

fine food, that’s not Ethiopian or Russian 

influence, it’s French,” he said. “The falafel 

is not more Israeli than the baguette. It just 

got to Israel before the baguette. I don’t 

think in another 20 years we’ll be eating 

baguettes less than pita.” 

Israel 

Briefs 

ber states of the Organization 

for Economic Co-operation and 

Development (OECD), according 

to an OECD education report released 

last week. The Education at 

a Glance 2012 study re- 

vealed that 46 per cent of 

Israeli adults have a university 

degree, the second-highest 

percentage 

after Canada, at 51 per 

cent. The OECD average 

is 31 per cent. In Russia, 

which isn’t an OECD nation, 

54 per cent of adults 

have obtained a higher degree. Israel 

also has a very high percentage 

of high school graduates, standing 

at 92 per cent in 2010, compared to 

the OECD average of 84 per cent. 

Files from JTA and TimesofIsrael.com



Meeting would send message of partnership 


The Israeli low came on Sept. 11, when 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complained, 

at a press conference with his Bulgarian 

counterpart, that “the world tells 

Israel to wait because there is still time [to 

thwart Iran by non-military means]. And I 

ask – wait for what? Until when? Those in the 

international community who refuse to put 

red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right 

to place a red light before Israel.” 

Netanyahu said “the world,” but it was the 

United States – whose Secretary of State Hillary 

Clinton had two days earlier dismissed 

the idea of giving Iran an ultimatum on halting 

its program – that he was accusing of 

“moral” failure. 

The Iranian challenge is more acute for 

Israel than it is for the United States. We are 

closer and more immediately threatened, 

and our capacity to inflict substantive military 

damage on Iran’s nuclear facilities is 

more limited than that of the United States. 

Our “window of opportunity” to stop Iran 

thus closes sooner than does America’s. 

But this U.S. administration has vowed 

to stop Iran attaining nuclear weapons. It 

has argued that an Israeli strike could not 

destroy the Iranian program but would 

prompt Iran to rebuild and accelerate its 

drive to the bomb, and would shatter the 

sanctions effort. Many wise and experienced 

Israeli figures share those assessments 

and muster additional arguments 

against an Israeli attack. 

The Israeli government may not be confident 

that a second-term President Barack 

Obama or a first-term president Mitt Romney 

would actually send in the bombers. It 

may dispute the American assessment that 

there would be sufficient time for a U.S.-led 

coalition to act if Iran made a breakout bid 

for the bomb. It may feel 

that a solo Israeli strike is 

necessitated, now, even 

though this might merely 

delay an Iranian bomb – 

because who knows what 

else might change if a delay 

of a year or two can be 

achieved. But asserting 

that America’s contrary 

position is not “moral” 

is unjustified and counterproductive, 

the more 

so when the prime minister has repeatedly 

acknowledged that the United States recognizes 

Israel’s sovereign right to take the decisions 

it feels necessary to ensure its security. 

The Israeli tactic that has played out over 

recent months – whereby Israel has worked 

strenuously to create the impression that it 

is poised to strike at Iran – galvanized the 

international community, focused attention 

on Iran and may have helped intensify 

sanctions pressure. But it now appears to 

have been overplayed. But in addition to the 

Americans, almost the entire leadership of 

The iranian 

challenge 

is more acute 

for israel 

than it is for 

the United states 

the Israeli security establishment, past and 

present, is cautioning against military action 

at this stage. 

For Israel to allow that window of military 

opportunity to close – as the window will, we 

are told by the security chiefs, sometime in 

the next few months – is to subcontract the 

nation’s security to the United States. Doing 

so may be Israel’s best op- 

tion. It may prove to be 

a catastrophic mistake. 

Whichever is the case, 

it would require an immense 

– existential – degree 

of faith and trust, by 

Israel, in an ally that has 

proved supremely steadfast, 

but that ultimately 

acts according to the balance 

of a vast array of its 

interests, not only Israel’s. 

The prime minister has said several times 

that he will not place Israel’s security in the 

hands of its friends, even the best of them. 

But ultimately he may conclude that he has 

to do precisely that. As he agonizes over this 

most fateful of decisions, phone conversations 

with the leader of that best of friends 

are doubtless helpful. But the phone is no 

substitute for face-to-face conversation. 

For the president not to find an hour to 

meet with the prime minister during his U.S. 

trip, and for the prime minister not to adjust 

his schedule as necessary – whether in New 

international 

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York or Washington, D.C., or anywhere else – 

would be unforgivable. 

However much they may dislike each 

other, mistrust each other, privately accuse 

each other of narrow and unbecoming political 

machinations, what other meeting on 

the presidential schedule could possibly take 

precedence over a tête-à-tête with the prime 

minister of a major ally whose small country 

is being threatened with destruction and 

whom you are imploring to hold his fire and 

place his nation’s destiny in your hands? 

It is surely not beyond the skills of the 

keepers of the presidential and prime ministerial 

diaries to find that treasured hour early 

one morning or late one night – or to apologetically 

shift or cancel a previously scheduled 

Obama meeting with a world leader 

whose nation’s demise is not being sought 

daily by the would-be nuclear Islamists. 

A meeting, at this critical juncture, would 

give leaders who are responsible for the wellbeing 

of millions of people the opportunity 

to explore in person central aspects of the 

life-and-death decisions they are weighing 

right now on behalf of those millions. 

And crucially, too, after the unfortunate, 

unnecessary exchanges of derogatory rhetoric, 

an Obama-Netanyahu meeting would 

send out a clear and important message of 

U.S.-Israel unity, co-ordination and partnership 

– a message to Americans, to Israelis 

and to the Iranians. 

Timesofisrael.com



JTA 

international 

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 

ordered the transfer of some $63 million to the Palestinian 

Authority to help ease its economic crisis. 

The transfer on Sept. 11 came after Netanyahu consulted 

on the issue with Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, and then 

asked his special envoy, Isaac Molho, to co-ordinate with 

the Palestinian leadership, according to a statement from 

the Prime Minister’s Office. The money is an advance on tax 

revenues collected for the PA by Israel. 

“We are working on several fronts in order to help the 

Palestinian Authority cope with its economic problems,” 

Netanyahu said on Sept. 11. 

“We have made several changes in the taxation agreements. 

We are advancing certain transfers. We have also 

helped with Palestinian workers and with a series of other 

steps in order to make things easier for them. 

“Of course, there is a global reality and it is also related 

Solomon Schechter Academy, located in 

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Originally founded in 1969 and accredited by 

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israel transfers money to Pa 

Principal 

to the internal management of every economy, but for our 

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This is in our common interest.” 

Palestinians have been staging demonstrations in the 

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hardship. The protests turned violent and destructive 

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PA Prime Minister Salam Fayad announced measures to 

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Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate against the high 

cost of living. The signs read, “Why does our government 

force us to rummage for food? No to raising prices.” 


Chris stevens 

remembered 

Philip Podolsky 

Times of Israel 

JeRUsaLeM — American Ambassador to Libya Chris 

Stevens, killed along with three other embassy staffers 

in Benghazi where protesters stormed the U.S. Consulate 

Sept. 11, was a noble person, harbouring deep 

empathy for both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, said 

those who knew him during his stint as political section 

chief at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. 

Stevens was killed when 

gunmen stormed the U.S. 

Consulate in Benghazi in 

what officials now believe 

was a planned terror attack. 

Ehud Yaari, Israel’s Channel 

2 Arab affairs analyst, 

described the late envoy as 

a likable person and one of 

the most talented American 

diplomats of his generation. 

Attorney Daniel Seidemann, 

an expert on Jerusa- 

lem, knew Stevens well and 

cultivated a friendship with 

him. “This was a man everyone loved, the intrigues and 

machinations of the world of diplomacy notwithstanding,” 

he told Ynet news. 

Stevens, who was fluent in French and Arabic, reportedly 

“fell in love” with the Middle East when he taught 

English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the 

1980s. His other overseas assignments included Damascus, 

Cairo and Riyadh. 

“If there is such a thing as a noble American, it was 

he. He was able to sit in a room with Israelis and Palestinians 

and to empathize with both sides,” Seidemann 

said. “He had an ability to see the bigger picture, and he 

was very open-minded. Israel was never just a job for 

him. He had a connection with it, he was committed to 

the Middle East.” 

According to the U.S. State Department, Stevens is the 

eighth U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty. 

TimesofIsrael.com 

Chris Stevens


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books 

A bumper harvest of books from all over 

When Beth Kaplan’s Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: 

The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin first came out in 

hardcover several years ago, a review in these pages 

lauded it as a “wonderful and meticulously researched 

book” and concluded: “Although Finding the Jewish 

Shakespeare does not convince us that Gordin deserves 

the epithet of ‘Jewish Shakespeare,’ it easily demonstrates 

that he has found the biographer he deserves, and shall 

certainly find no better.” 

A great-granddaughter of Gordin, Toronto resident 

Beth Kaplan wrote the book as a labour of love and used 

it as her master’s thesis in creative writing. Also praised by 

Aaron Lansky, Tony Kushner and other notables, the book 

was recently released in paperback by Syracuse University 

Press, making it accessible to a new audience of readers. 

Finding the Jewish Shakespeare should be essential 

reading for everyone interested in Yiddish theatre, past 

and present. 

Beth Kaplan lives in a heritage home in Cabbagetown 

and teaches memoir and personal essay writing at both 

the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. She 

‘KOSHER’ LABEL IN ADVERTISING 

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency 

Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising 

reads as follows: 

“In the labelling, packaging and advertising of a 

food, the Food and Drug Regulations prohibits the 

use of the word kosher or any letter of the Hebrew 

alphabet, or any other word, expression, depiction, 

sign, symbol, mark, device or other representation 

that indicates or that is likely to create an impression 

that the food is kosher, if the food does not meet the 

requirements of the Kashruth applicable to it. 

The terms "kosher style" and "kind of kosher" are 

not allowed, unless they meet the requirements of 

the Kashruth. "Jewish-style food" or "Jewish cuisine" 

are not objected to, although the foods may not 

necessarily meet the requirements of the Kashruth. 

Rationale: "Kosher style" is considered to create the 

impression that the food is kosher, and therefore the 

food must meet the requirements of the Kashruth. 

"Jewish style" food may not necessarily create this 

impression.” 

The CJN makes no representation as to 

the kashruth of food products in 

advertisements. 

maintains a blog of her creative writing (www.bethkaplan. 

ca) and recently published Yours Truly: a Book of the Blog, 

a collection of her online pieces. The book came into 

being after some of her readers suggested she put her 

online chronicle into more permanent form. “Wouldn’t 

that defeat the purpose? I wondered. A blog’s advantage 

is its fluid immediacy; could that up-to-the-minute zap 

translate to print? And yet, though I love and depend on 

my little white laptop MacZine, books will always mean 

much more. A book is a perfect package of thought and 

feeling, just the right heft to slip into a pocket, open on the 

beach or in the bathtub, read in bed. The only battery a 

book needs is the reader’s brain.” 

The author writes of her own personal world. She 

discusses art, literature, music, politics, writing and other 

topics. The prose offers realistic characters and incidents. 

Although her entries won’t appeal to a universal audience 

and may be of most interest to a limited range of readers, 

Kaplan writes well. Niche books like this one may be the 

future of book publishing. 

* * * 

Just as good things often come in small packages, 

good books often come from small presses. Consider The 

Old Blue Couch and Other Stories, a collection of seven 

short stories from Ottawa poet-writer Seymour Mayne. 

Published by Ronald P. Frye & Co., these stories are small 

in scope but well put together. 

The title story, for example, concerns the eponymous 

sofa that was spirited away from the author’s front porch 

in the dead of night by persons unknown. Trying to undo 

their larcenous deed, the same persons returned the old 

blue couch to its former resting place in broad daylight. 

The message? Even thieves have consciences. 

From Inanna Publications of Toronto comes Barbara 

Klein-Muskrat Then & Now, a collection of a dozen short 

stories by Sharon Abron Drache, formerly of Ottawa, now 

back in her hometown of Toronto. These linked stories 

combine memoir writing and fiction in interesting and 

unusual ways. 

The title piece, Reaching for Mordecai Richler, is so 

unmistakably about the real Richler that Drache evidently 

saw no point in cloaking him in a “roman-a-clef”-type 

literary disguise. This realistic Richler has been pulled 

into Drache’s fictitious world, a realm that likely parallels 

Drache’s own but actually belongs to her alter ego, 

Klein-Muskrat. Although the blurred 

line between memoir and fiction is 

often disconcerting, one appreciates 

Drache’s subtle satire of the various 

literary personalities she is jibing, 

herself included. 

* * * 

I know of Toronto-based Ethel 

Harris as a fine abstract painter. Her 

recent poetry volume, Tremolo, is 

my first encounter with her poems 

(Hummingbird Press). They are direct, 

moving, and surprisingly good. The 

theme is fall, winter, spring – that is, 

the coming death of a loved one, the 

blackness when it occurs, and the 

slow revitalization of new shoots of life 

pushing through the soil. The book is 

dedicated to the poet’s late husband, 

Milt Harris (1927-2005). 

Kudos also to 97-year-old poet 

Lawrence Sandy, a resident of The Terraces at Baycrest, 

who recently published Winter’s Tales, a collection 

of poems, after joining a poetry class four years ago. 

(Wordrunner Press) 

* * * 

Blockade: The Story of Jewish Immigration to Palestine 

(1933-1948) by Gerald Ziedenberg is an impressive work 

of historical nonfiction. Published by Authorhouse, 

the book tells the heroic story of Jewish immigration to 

British Mandate Palestine, detailing the many ships that 

participated in this struggle from tiny sailboats to the illfated 

Struma to the legendary Exodus 1947. The author 

is a retired Toronto pharmacist who earned an MA in 

history late in life. 

Toronto author Pearl Goodman has written Peril: 

From Jackboots to Jack Benny, in which she reconciles her 

handed-down experience as a child of survivors with her 

experience growing up in Toronto the Good. Or, in her own 

words: “The unison beat of thousands of pairs of jackboots 

clicking and echoing on pavement so many years before 

my time, and the little girl that I was, 

listening to the insipid whining of Jack 

Benny on TV.” (Bridgeross) 

* * * 

I have yet to read Toronto author 

Anne Dublin’s most recent novel, The 

Baby Experiment (Dundurn) but if 

it’s anything like her previous awardwinning 

titles (Bobbie Rosenfeld: The 

Olympian Who Could Do Everything, 

or The Orphan Rescue) it’s bound to be 

good. A work of historical fiction for 

young people, The Baby Experiment 

focuses on a 14-year-old Jewish girl in 

18th-century Hamburg who discovers 

a terrible secret at the orphanage where 

she works. 

* * * 

This column concludes with two 

more small-press titles, both written by 

this reviewer and both, in my humble 

opinion, deserving of note. The History of the Jewish 

Community of London Ontario (248 pages, hardcover) was 

published by Now and Then Books in 2011. The other title 

– The Story of Beth Lida Forest Hill Congregation: A Toronto 

Synagogue’s First Century (1912-2012) – appeared from the 

same press this month to mark Beth Lida’s 100th anniversary. 

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HUMOURIST JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN 

TO APPEAR AT AUTHOR’S FESTIVAL 

Montreal humourist and CBC radio 

host Jonathan Goldstein has a new 

book coming out – I’ll Seize the Day 

Tomorrow – on the coattails of which 

he has been invited to appear at the 

2012 International Festival of Authors at 

Toronto’s Harbourfront (Oct. 16 to 31). 

Goldstein writes a weekly self-satirical 

column in the National Post and recently 

hilariously divulged that he spent more 

than a decade invading people’s privacy 

as a telemarketer while trying to further 

his writing career. His big break came 

in 2000 when he was hired to work as a 

producer on the popular American radio 

show This American Life. Several years 

later he began his own show, WireTap, for 

the CBC. 

Besides the National Post, Goldstein 

has written for a score of publications 

including The Walrus and the New York 

Times. He is the author of several novels. 

Scheduled to be published by Penguin 

in October, I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow 

is a collection of short stories hilariously 

recounting the highs and lows of his last 

year in his 30s 

Goldstein is now famous enough to 

have his own Wikipedia entry, which 

relates that he also co-scripted Schmelvis: 

In Search of Elvis Presley’s Roots. Featured in 

the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, the 2001 

film followed a band of Jewish schlemiels 

who drive through the American Bible Belt 

and visit Israel attempting to document 

Presley’s connections to Judaism 

(including, believe it or not, a Jewish 

great-grandmother). Ultimately the boys 

end up in a Christian revival meeting – 

just the sort of ironic humour that has 

become Goldstein’s trademark schtick. 

Goldstein reads from his new book 

and is interviewed at IFOA on Oct. 20, 

9 p.m., along with his CBC colleagues 

Jian Ghomeshi and Nora Young. He also 

appears in a separate event at noon the 

same day. www.readings.org 

* * * 

Cinema of Sidney Lumet: Film maven 

Shlomo Schwartzberg discusses 

”Intelligent Art and Meticulous 

Craft -- The Social Cinema of Sidney 

Lumet,” focusing on 12 Angry Men, 

The Pawnbroker and Network (with 

clips). Lumet’s films “displayed a social 

conscience that still reverberates today 

in the Occupy Wall Street movement 

and in the corridors of political power.” 

Miles Nadal JCC, eight Mondays from 

Oct. 15 to Dec. 3. Series $90, drop-in $12; 

students and Toronto Jewish Film Society 

members, $6. esthera@mnjcc.org, 416- 

924-6211, ext. 606. 

* * * 

Arts in Brief 

• Active Seniors and Boomers presents 

Harold Troper discussing Judy Feld 

Carr’s secret rescue of more than 3,000 

persecuted Syrian Jews as chronicled in 

his book The Rescuer. Miles Nadal JCC, 

Thursday Oct. 4, 1:30 p.m. 

Marla Freedman’s Lily Teacup part of her Beyond Borders exhibit in New York. 


• Acclaimed short-story writer Nathan 

Englander, whose latest book is What 

We Talk About When We Talk About 

Anne Frank, is being featured in the 

opening night program of the upcoming 

32nd annual Holocaust Education 

Week. The event is scheduled for the 

Royal Ontario Museum on Nov. 1. www. 

holocaustcentre.com. 

* * * 

At the Galleries 

• TIEd Together, a photo exhibit by 

PhotoSensitive of images of prostate 

cancer survivors, is on view in the Miles 

Nadal JCC Gallery, Sept. 29 to Oct. 21. 

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• Echo Sculpture Studio has resumed 

its evening classes, now with instructor 

Kathryn Ellis. The studio, at 3906 

Chesswood Dr., is equipped with 

pneumatic, electric and hand tools. All 

skill levels are welcome. The first session 

runs Oct. 2 to Dec. 4, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. 

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“It’s an incredible story,” said Tom Powers, a Toronto 

International Film Festival programmer a few minutes before 

No Place On Earth was screened last week. 

He was not engaging in hyperbole. 

Janet Tobias’ 84-minute documentary film documents 

an amazing and unique tale of stamina, courage, grit and 

survival during the Holocaust. 

For 511 days, from 1942 onward, 38 Jews from five extended 

families saved themselves from certain death at the 

hands of the Nazis by retreating into two gypsum caves in 

western Ukraine. 

“Our situation was desperate,” wrote one of the survivors, 

Esther Stermer in her memoirs, We Fight to Survive, 

published in 1960. “Where can we survive? Clearly, there 

was no place on earth for us.” 

Stermer, the resourceful matriarch of the family, devised 

the idea of hiding in a cave, knowing that it was their only 

hope of getting through the Nazi occupation unscathed. 

Stermer and her family lived in the village of Korolowka. 

They planned to immigrate to Canada on Sept. 8, 1939, but 

with the outbreak of war, they were unable to leave. 

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union their lives 

were imperiled. Stermer, a strong and resolute woman, 

convinced her sister, Leiche Wexler, and her two sons to 

seek safety in a cave known as Verteba. There they were 

joined by other Jews from the region. 

Although they had candles and kerosene lanterns, they 

lived mostly in the dark, subsisting on dripping water from 

rocks and food bought or stolen from peasants. 

In the spring of 1943, they were discovered by a German 

patrol, but most of them managed to escape through a secret 

exit. 

Miraculously, the Stermers found another cave, the 

priest’s grotto cave, in which to hide. Along with a group of 

other Jews, they remained in that cavernous cave until the 



arts & travel tIFF 

Dror Moreh’s riveting documentary, The 

Gatekeepers, which screened at the Toronto 

International Film Festival, gives viewers an 

unprecedented peek into a usually secretive 

and murky world. 

Six former directors of the Shin Bet, Israel’s 

well-oiled internal intelligence agency, 

speak candidly about their jobs in counterterrorism. 

They are surprisingly open as 

they discuss their missions and methods 

and express their personal views of the Arab-Israeli 

conflict. 

“No one understands the conflict between 

Israel and the Palestinians better than 

these six men,” said Moreh in an interview. 

“When they speak, leaders listen. They’re 

highly respected and their views count.” 

He spent about 100 hours with them over 

a three-year period. “I was startled, but also 

thrilled, when they agreed to speak to me,” 

said Moreh. “They were generous with their 

time and information. I thought they were 

as honest as they could be without revealing 

state secrets.” 

Not one former Shin Bet director declined 

to be interviewed, though one died 

before he could meet him. 

Avraham Shalom (1980-1986), who was 

Red Army liberated the area in April 1944. 

“We beat the odds,” says one of the survivors who lives 

in Montreal today. 

By living underground for so long, they broke a world 

record for uninterrupted underground survival, a record 

that still stands. 

Tobias, an American television journalist and producer 

who launched her career on CBS’ 60 Minutes, got wind of 

the story a few years ago when a friend brought it to her 

attention. 

Initially, she was reluctant to pursue the tip, she admitted. 

“There are so many great Holocaust dramas and documentaries 

that have been done.” 

She changed her mind after reading a National Geographic 

article by Chris Nicola, an avid American caver of 

Ukrainian ancestry who had explored the priest’s grotto 

cave and had found objects there such as buttons and ladies’ 

shoes. These artifacts belonged to the Jewish families 

who had found a haven there. 

Nicola’s account so aroused Tobias’ interest that she 

met with him and the Stermers. “I just thought, ‘This is really 

a special story about family and friendship and a belief 

in the faith to do the impossible.’” 

Once Tobias, a history buff, was convinced the Stermers 

were good storytellers, she went ahead with the project, recruiting 

producer Rafael Marmor to coordinate it. 

No Place On Earth unfolds through on-camera interviews, 

wartime footage and reenactments. 

Tobias wanted to shoot the dramatic recreations in 

Ukraine, but could not due to practical issues. She and her 

colleagues looked for substitutes and settled on Hungary. 

“We needed, from a cinematic standpoint, a location 

with caves which were visually appropriate, and one with 

nearby historical villages which would fit our story,” she 

explained. 

The caves had to be big enough so that the Hungarian 

actors could easily fit inside. 

One of the most poignant moments in the film occurs 

part of the Israeli undercover team that 

tracked down and kidnapped Nazi war 

criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, says 

that morality has no place in the war against 

terrorism. A proponent of a two-state solution, 

he suggests that Israeli governments 

have generally not addressed the Palestinian 

issue seriously enough. 

Shalom, forced to resign in the wake of 

an incident in which two Palestinian terrorists 

were killed after being captured alive, 

bemoans Israel’s “brutal occupation” of 

the West Bank and talks about a “bleak and 

dark” future. 

Yaakov Peri(1988-1995), who was instrumental 

in setting up a vast network of Palestinian 

informers and collaborators in the 

early years of Israel’s occupation, admits 

that Israel did not foresee the first Palestinian 

uprising, which broke out in 1987, and 

claims it was a spontaneous rather than a 

manipulated manifestation. 

Peri believes that Israel should have 

reached a political agreement with the 

Palestinians and withdrawan from the 

territories. He charges that a succession 

of Israeli governments “coddled” Jewish 

settlers and looked the other way as 

they built their settlements. After Yitzhak 

Rabin’s assassination, he claims, Israel 

had no real desire to reach an accommo- 

dation with the Palestinian leadership. 

Carmi Gillon (1994-1996), who shifted 

the Shin Bet’s focus to Jewish terrorism, 

says that a plot by Jews to blow up the 

Dome of the Rock in eastern Jerusalem 

could have touched off a war between Israel 

and the Muslim world. Fearing that 

Jewish extremists wanted Rabin dead, Gillon 

advised the Israeli prime minister to 

wear a bullet-proof vest and increase his 

security detail. Rabin refused. 

Ami Ayalon(1996-2000), whose task was 

to rehabilitate the Shin Bet after Rabin’s 

murder, says he saw deep divisions and 

currents of hatred in Israeli society after 

that catastrophic event. Calling targeted 

assassinations of Palestinian leaders not 

necessarily effective, Ayalon says they may 

actually increase terrorism by radicalizing 

Palestinians. 

Avi Dichter (2000-2005) led the agency 

after the eruption of the second intifadah, 

initiated the construction of the separation 

barrier and supervised the assassination of 

Hamas’ most accomplished bomb maker. 

His observations on the dangers of “collateral 

damage” – the unintended deaths of 

innocent Palestinian civilians during Israeli 

raids – is instructive. 

And Yuval Diskin (2005-2011), who destroyed 

Hamas’ military infrastructure in 

Filmmaker Janet Tobias and Holocaust survivor Saul 

Stermer. 

when some of the survivors and their children and grandchildren 

return to the Verteba cave in a sentimental journey. 

“The idea of bringing them back to this place would certainly 

stir up some strong emotions,” she said. 

Dark places usually repel people, but the Jews who 

found refuge in these caves considered them nothing less 

than heavenly havens. 

“They were free people inside the caves,” said Tobias. 

“This is a story about how heaven and hell trade places. 

They found safety in the caves. The monsters were outside. 

The world was turned upside down.” 

Tobias and her associates have received offers for theatrical 

distribution in the United States, but have yet to decide 

which one to accept. 

She said that No Place on Earth will be broadcast on the 

History Channel after its theatrical debut. 

Doc peeks into the secret world of the Shin Bet 

the West Bank and perfected the doctrine 

of targeted assassinations, talks about the 

split-second decisions he was forced to 

make. He acknowledges the Shin Bet hit 

bottom in terms of efectiveness during the 

post-Oslo era. 

In Moreh’s judgment, Israelis like Shalom, 

Peri and Diskin are neither dovish nor 

hawkish. “They are realists,” he said. “They 

know that, beyond a certain point, you can’t 

achieve anything by military means.” 

He added, “They are the people in Israel 

with the greatest knowledge of the Palestinians, 

and the message they send is clear: the 

occupation has to stop.” 

Moreh claims that Ariel Sharon, the former 

Israeli prime minister, decided to withdraw 

unilaterally from the Gaza Strip after 

four former heads of the Shin Bet concluded 

that Israel’s presence there was counterproductive 

and no longer in its national 

self-interest. 

Moreh has a message for the Jewish community: 

“Listen to them. They understand 

the Arab-Israeli conflict better than politicians 

and journalists. Listen to them.” 

He is clearly glad that his interviewees 

liked The Gatekeepers. “They were happy 

with it,” he said. 

The 97-minute film is scheduled to open 

in theatres in Canada in 2013.


Kathryn Kates 


Divorce is truly a laughing matter at Stage West Theatre 

Restaurant, at least from Sept. 20 to Nov. 25, when 

Divorce Party the Musical: The Hilarious Journey to 

Hell… and Back! takes to the stage. 

One of the creators of the show is Mark Schwartz, 

who produced the Off-Broadway hit Menopause the 

Musical. 

“Don’t get mad – get everything!” is the mantra for 

Divorce Party the Musical, 

The play is about Linda, played by local actor Alison 

J. Palmer, who is reeling from the demise of her 

marriage. She is content with sitting around eating another 

bowl of Chubby Hubby ice cream until her three 

friends throw her a divorce party. 

“Divorce parties are a growing global trend – they’re 

huge,” says Amy Botwinick, who is one of the creators 

of the musical. A chiropractor, she is the author of 

Congratulations on Your Divorce: The Road to Finding 

Your Happily Ever. 

Botwinick, once divorced, is now remarried to Boca 

Raton, Fla., attorney Gary Betensky, who is the president 

of the American Jewish Committee of Palm Beach 

County. He was also divorced, and between the two of 

them, the couple has six kids. 

“They [divorces] are an important ritual that help 

people move powerfully forward with their lives. Over 

the last few decades, our views on many social issues 

have changed, and for me, right now divorce is centre 

stage and proud to show her face,” Botwinick says. 

“Divorce used to be the evil stepchild who needed to 

be locked up in their room. Our parents and grandparents 

would whisper the big bad ‘D’ word. 

“Now, entertainment banks on the latest and greatest 

marital breakup. Major newspapers and magazines 

write cover stories to chronicle how millions of families 

each year are adjusting to their divorce transition 

and beyond. 

“And I think most married couples, if they are honest, 

think about divorce at least once during their relationship. 

This situation creates the perfect platform 

to tell the real-life stories of women, warts and all, and 

create some great comedy,” Botwinick says. 

She used her own divorce experience in her work. 

On the suggestion of her therapist, she started keeping 

a journal. “As I looked back at my entries, I thought this 

might be helpful to people because it is really helping 

me,” she says. “That is what began this whole transition 

of becoming author, coach and playwright, from 

a chiropractor, which is really bizarre to me, but that’s 

life!” 

After writing her first 

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their divorce team and giving them a strategy for how 

to get through this very difficult transition with a minimum 

amount of stress. 

“That was serious business,” Botwinick says. “But, 

what sprouted from that were workshops to help them 

tap into their power. In my interactions, they shared 

with me their stories, their successes and stuck points. 

It was so much fun for me to hear their triumphs, challenges 

and how they were able to spin some of the 

trauma drama into funny by looking at it in a different 

way, and that’s a gift right there. 

“What do women going through divorce really 

need… they need to laugh. I think you can squeeze 

humour from any difficult situation, and if you can do 

that, you can survive.” 

But Divorce Party the Musical isn’t just for divorced 

people. Botwinick says that all of us who have had relationships 

will relate to the show. She wants the audience 

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alone and to get some courage, and to remember how 

important laughter is when they are going through a 

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and how she grew up. “It’s the good, the bad and the 

guilt. It is how I think and how I interpret the world. 

Being Jewish was a big part of the play for me, and invoking 

some Jewish humour into it. One of the characters 

in the play is Jewish – Hyman Finkelstein, named 

and based on my mother’s first boyfriend.” 

The director and choreographer of Divorce Party 

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includes Jewelle Blackman, Allison Sommerville, Jodi 

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The 87-year-old Modell, a pioneer of the 

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television networks, died Sept. 6 of natural 

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TEL AVIV — Israel’s national soccer team 

suffered one of the worst home defeats in 

its history last week, losing 4-0 to a vastly 

superior Russian national side coached 

by Fabio Capello. 

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CHICAGO — The start time of a Major 

League Baseball game between the Chicago 

White Sox and the Cleveland Indians has 

been changed due to Yom Kippur. 

The Sept. 25 game will 

now start at 1:10 p.m. instead 

of 7:10 p.m., the Chicago 

White Sox organization 

announced Sept. 12. 

The game will be played in 

Chicago. 

The time change came 

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game’s conflict with Yom 

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in 1984, breaking the hearts of Baltimore 

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to Steve Biscotti, who eventually 

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Modell died last October at 80. 

Russia blows out Israel 4-0 

in World Cup qualifier 

Alexander Kerzhakov scored twice in the 

first half, while Alexander Kokorin and 

substitute Viktor Fayzulin also scored for 

the Russians. 

Many fans began to file out of Ramat 

Gan Stadium well before the final whistle. 

Prior to the game the mood among the 

supporters was one of pessimism following 

the lacklustre performance last week 

in the away 1-1 draw with Azerbaijan, 

considered the group’s weakest team, yet 

few predicted the extent of the fiasco. 

Israel is still searching for its first win 

in Group F, which also includes Portugal, 

Luxembourg and Northern Ireland. 

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White Sox change game 

start due to Yom Kippur 

Kevin Youkilis 

Chicago White Sox third baseman Kevin 

Youkilis, who is Jewish, told the Chicago Tribune 

that he was pleased with the switch. 

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the playoff stretch.” 

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Boston Red Sox. 

He reportedly has never 

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This is not the first time a 

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In 2009, the Yankees and Red Sox moved a 

Sept. 27 game from evening to afternoon 

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Tarion warranty. Call David 

Eichorn* (416) 787-1712. 

BATHURST / HILLMOUNT 

Architectural masterpiece! Spacious 5 + 2 bdrm family home on 50 

x 137 ft lot in most desirable location close to all amenities. 6 baths, 

custom design & fi nishes, dream gourmet kitchen, large principal 

rooms ideal for entertaining, sep entry to in-law suite. PRICED TO 

SELL Forest AT $1,749,000 Hill downtown — ACT CJN NOW! Horizontal Call David Ad Eichorn* - 1 (416) 787-1712. 

Because every 

From my new 

home to yours... 

Shana Tova. 

house starts 

with a 

solid foundation 

Best wishes for a happy 

and healthy new year. 

384 Queen Street East, Toronto Ont. M5A 1T1 

foresthilldowntown.com 

REAL ESTATE 


Section 

SERVICE DIRECTORY 

Section 

CLASSIFIED 

SOLD 

*BROKER OF RECORD 

T Page 47 

Best Wishes for a Healthy, Happpy, Peaceful 

New Year to my Family and Friends 

Lillian Cooper 

Cell: 647.822.7665 

Email: lilliancooper@rogers.com 

www.lilliancooper.ca 

*Independently Owned And Operated ® Registered Trademarks of Century 21 Real Estate LLC Used Under License. 

Not intended to solicit buyers or sellers currently under contract. 

Section 

FOR 96%OF 

ASKING PRICE 

BATHURST / LAWRENCE 

Spacious 4+2 bdrm family 

home on 55 ft lot E of 

Bathurst. Steps to TTC, 

shops, schools, park. Open 

options for user, builder, 

renovator++. Call David 

Eichorn* (416) 787-1712. 

HOUSE, CONDO & COMMERCIAL RENTALS 

BATHURST / GLENCAIRN Large retail store, $1,500 / mo +. 

BATHURST / COLDSTREAM Bright, spacious 3 bdrm home, 2 baths, 

generous yard, close to TTC, shops, schools, $1,695 / mo. 

BATHURST / GLENGROVE 2 + 1 bdrm home, $1,800 / mo. 

3000 BATHURST Spacious 2 bdrm, 2 baths, $1,850 / mo. 

Cheryl Berger B.A., LL.B. 

Real Estate Broker, Managing Partner 

416.363.3473 

Salesperson 

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Real estate Inc. - BRokeRage 

PRestIgIoUs 1717 aVenUe RoaD, neW PRIce $748,000! 

1 Bed + Den, Large South Facing Terrace. Top of Line Finishes. 

Adele Aston* 416-785-1500 

locatIon! tHoRnHIll - WestMoUnt cUl-De-sac. $1,188,000 

Sought After Executive 4 + 1 Bedroom With Circular Stairs Open 

to Finished Basement. Adele Aston* 416-785-1500 

PRIMe tHoRnHIll WooDs! $939,000! 

Bright+spac. open concept 4+1br 5bth exec residence! 52’corner landscaped 

lot! Fab flow for entertaining Fam living! Geoffrey Korn* 416-226-1987 

att. all BUIlDeRs 2acRe FoResteD lot-ReaDY to go! 

Only 3 lots left. Fab locale surrounded by protected park land. Asking $699K. 

Surrounded by multi-million $$ homes. Gary J. Pollock* 416-226-1987 

tHe DoMUs at UPPeR YoRkVIlle. aWaRD WInnIng! $665,000! 

2 Br, prkng, locker, upgraded w/ flair. Walk to Yonge, Bloor, Yorkville. 

Boutique bldg. A must see! Deal!! Olga Guvenal* 416-226-1987 

elegant skYMaRk $569,000 aPRoX. 1900 sQ Ft 

Fabulous 2 Bdrm, 3 Bth Suite, Hrdwd flrs, Granite, Halogen Pot 

Lights, 2 Prking. Faithe Sversky** 416-488-2875 

*tHe ZenItH oF skYMaRk* aPPRoX. 1711 sQ. Ft-coRneR 

$424,900 2 bdrm & den, Updated eat-in kitchen. Master suite has 5 

piece ensuite. Beautiful facilities! Marty Wagman** 416-226-1987 

FaBUloUs toWnHoMe In keg MansIon DIstRIct $369,000 

Renovated 2 Bdrm, 2 Bths, Hrdwd Flrs, Large Rooftop Terrace, 

Steps to TTC, Parks, Shops. Faithe Sverky** 416-488-2875 

FaBUloUs ceDaRVale $4000/Mo. 

3 Bdrms, 3Bths, Mn Flr Fam Rm + Pwdr Rm, Nov 1. Steps to All. 

Lynne Elkind* 416-488-2875 

**Broker * sales Representative 

www.foresthill.com 

noRtH PRoPeRtIes 

Rental PRoPeRtIes 

conDoMInIUM PRoPeRtIes 

centRal PRoPeRtIes 

Village – 416-488-2875 • central – 416-785-1500 

Bayview – 416-226-1987 • North – 905-709-1800 

solD 

Muskoka – 705-765-1200 • Yorkville – 416-975-5588 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAKEFRONT LUXURY 

CONDOMINIUM $899,000 

TO VIEW Contact Owners: 

gino_6@hotmail.com 

LUXURY LAKEFRONT CONDO 

$899,000 – MINUTES FROM TORONTO! 

OPEN HOUSE 

September 23, 2012 . 2 pm – 4 pm 

pdgoodm@rogers.com . 416-315-8207 

, including Gold Club membership. 

HOUSE FOR RENT 

Bathurst/Sheppard – 2 bdrms, 

liv & din comb, updated kit, stove, 

fridge, built-in dshwshr, rec rm. 

FiNcH/WiLMiNGTON 

3 bdrms, 2 baths, eat-in kit, good 

size liv & din rm, fin bsmt, dble 

drive, garage. 

416-633-7373 

real estate limited brokerage 

416-633-7373 

Looking for company on 

Life’s journey? me too! 

Unpretentious soft spoken, unattached 

male, 68, with integrity, good sense of 

humour, introspective, good listener, 

seeks to balance life with spirited, 

perceptive, petite, slim, unattached 

female, age 60 to 65, who is com- 

municative and good humoured. I 

enjoy pop music of the 50’s, 60’s & 

70’s, pop-oriented jazz, movies and 

warm sunny days. Please reply to 

cjn Box #5341. 

bathurst-sheppard 

ElEgant twin Blds. 

Very lrg. 1, 2, 3 Bedrooms, 

2 & 3 Bdrms. w/2 balconies 

and 2 baths. 

Ample closets plus cedar, 

Roof laundry, pool, 

ravine setting, 

6 Apts. per flr. 

canyon@greenwin.ca 

416-631-9377 or 416-631-0388 - Super 

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Caregivers/Nannies/Housekeepers 

Filipino, Local & Europe. Live in/ 

live out. 416-932-3042. 

Reliable, hard working and expe- 

rienced caregivers available. 

Please call 416-546-5380. 

Certified caregiver with 15 yrs. 

exper. avail. to care for elderly. 

References. Avail. evenings and 

overnight. Call 416-829-1440. 

Are you looking for someone 

who is reliable, trustworthy, 

dependable and caring. I provide 

these svcs. for seniors. Call 

416-663-2903. 

Nannies and Elderly 

Caregivers for you! 

Passionate care 

for your family! 

Visit: www.supremecccc.com. 

Call: 647-996-2273. 

Email: supremeccc@yahoo.com 

Jamaican woman seeks sponsor 

to work in Canada as a nanny or 

caregiver for the elderly. Call 

Andrea Black, 1-876-440-0025 or 

416-667-0307. 

Hard working & reliable caregiv- 

er/PSW seeks job with Senior or 

disabled. Call 647-830-2481. 

Companion/Driver: Jewish woman 

seeks position as a live-in 

companion for a senior lady. I am 

a positive, organized, patient 

personality, reliable driver for out- 

ings, shiurim, doctor's appts. 

Have nutrional knowledge. 

Refs. avail. Reply Yona email: 

companion.driver.toronto@gmail.com 

SJM, youthful in mind & appear- 

ance), prof., mid-60's, widower, 

semi-observ., involved in the music 

industry, loves music, dancing, 

antique cars, lakeside drives 

& quiet intimate evgs. at home. 

Seeks (down-to-earth), sincere, 

caring, understanding, attr., 

energetic SJF, 55-60, for serious- 

lasting & loving relationship. 

CJN Box #5348. 

Young spirited, fit, early 70's lady, 

looking for male to share outings, 

dinners, music, plays.....in same 

age group. Reply CJN Box # 5347. 

Ben Buys Book Collections, 

manuscripts, diaries, letters, doc- 

uments & militaria. 416-890-9644. 

250 DOMESTIC 

HELP AVAILABLE 

275 PERSONAL 

COMPANIONS WANTED 

257 HEALTHCARE 

AVAILABLE 

245 EMPLOYMENT 

WANTED 

Replying to an ad 

with a 

CJN Box Number? 

Address your mail to: 

The Canadian 

Jewish News 

1500 Don Mills Rd. 

Suite 205 

North York, Ont. 

M3B 3K4 

Don’t forget to put 

the Box Number on 

your envelope. 

CJN Box #’s are valid 

for 30 days. 

305 ARTICLES 

WANTED 

Conservatory - 333 Clark, lrge. 

PH, 3 bdr., 2.5 bth., lrge. kit., 

huge terr., marble & hrdwd. 

905-881-8380. 

Bath/Steeles - Lux. lge. 1550 s.f. 

2 bed. 2 bth. corner unit, all around 

windows, laund., storage, 2 prkgs., 

all amenities, 24/7 concierge. 

$2200/mo. Sep. 1. 647-299-0371. 

NAPLES - Beach/Golf home & 

condo SALES. Discover soft 

white sand beaches, fine dining, 

boutique shops, art galleries, 

museums, symphony hall, opera, 

kosher grocers, 3 shuls & SW 

Florida Holocaust Museum! 

Contact Rickie Klein, Premiere 

Plus Realty. 239-404-2618. 

RickieKlein@comcast.net or 

web: www.RickieNaples.com 

Boca Raton, Florida: Condo- 

minium (Boca Pointe) two 

bedrooms/bathrooms and eleva- 

tor. For details contact: Liliane 

Weinstein (561)715-3181 or 

lperezw@gmail.com 

Pembroke Pines/Hollybrook. 

Seasonal or annual rental. 2 bed., 

2 bth., decorator-furn'd., fresh 

paint, upgraded kitchen, lake/golf 

view, tennis, pool, clubhouse. Golf 

included. 631-860-1515. 

Boca Raton, Whisper Walk, 

2 BR., 2 Bath., Garden Condo. 

Furn., Attached Garage, Laund. 

Clubhouse pool, tennis, work-out. 

$1,650 U.S. min. stay req'd. pics 

avail. Michael 416-949-4750. 

Delray Bch. condo, King's Pt. 

2/2, comp. furn'd. Seas. $6K or 

annual $9K. Call 850-893-6740. 

Singer Island, 2 bdr. condo, on 

the ocean. John, 905-850-1597 

(night), Peter, 416-789-5381(day). 

Century Village, Boca Raton. 

Lovely, newly renovated/decorated 

condo. Two bedrooms, 1 1/2 

bathrooms. Ground Floor. As of 

February 1st. $1800 monthly. 

514-947-7408; 514-747-9476. 

Boca CV: 1 br. -1 1/2 ba., 3rd flr., 

lake from screened patio, 12 min. 

walk to clubhouse, shuls, $1500/mo. 

US, 3 mth. min. 416-787-1962. 

Boca Raton CV. Lovely 2 bed., 

2 bth. luxury kosher apt., close to 

shul, beautiful view, avail. immed. 

$1900/mo. for season. David - 

347-262-4501. 

Lake Worth, Florida. Fountains 

Country Club. 3 Months minimum. 

2b/2b fully furnished. First floor. 

1-973-831-6165. 

Boca Raton, beaut. renov. lrge. 

2/2 condo, 55+. 3 mo. min. The 

longer you stay the less you pay. 

35 CONDOMINIUMS 

FOR RENT 

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416-663-2903. 






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$2200/mo. Sep. 1. 647-299-0371. 









Plus Realty. 239-404-2618. 














included. 631-860-1515. 









annual $9K. Call 850-893-6740. 









514-947-7408; 514-747-9476. 




US, 3 mth. min. 416-787-1962. 





347-262-4501. 




1-973-831-6165. 




5 mins. from JCC. 905-597-2754. 


FOR RENT 

125 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR SALE 

130 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR RENT 

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250 DOMESTIC 


275 PERSONAL 



AVAILABLE 


WANTED 


with a 






Suite 205 


M3B 3K4 





for 30 days. 

305 ARTICLES 

WANTED 




905-881-8380. 





$2200/mo. Sep. 1. 647-299-0371. 









Plus Realty. 239-404-2618. 














included. 631-860-1515. 









annual $9K. Call 850-893-6740. 









514-947-7408; 514-747-9476. 




US, 3 mth. min. 416-787-1962. 





347-262-4501. 


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Please call 416-546-5380. 









416-663-2903. 






Call: 647-996-2273. 






416-667-0307. 




























250 DOMESTIC 


275 PERSONAL 



AVAILABLE 


WANTED 


with a 






Suite 205 


M3B 3K4 





for 30 days. 




905-881-8380. 





$2200/mo. Sep. 1. 647-299-0371. 









Plus Realty. 239-404-2618. 












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125 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR SALE 

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130 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

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416-663-2903. 






Call: 647-996-2273. 






416-667-0307. 































250 DOMESTIC 


275 PERSONAL 



AVAILABLE 


WANTED 


with a 






Suite 205 


M3B 3K4 





for 30 days. 

305 ARTICLES 

WANTED 




905-881-8380. 





$2200/mo. Sep. 1. 647-299-0371. 









Plus Realty. 239-404-2618. 














included. 631-860-1515. 









annual $9K. Call 850-893-6740. 









514-947-7408; 514-747-9476. 




US, 3 mth. min. 416-787-1962. 





347-262-4501. 




1-973-831-6165. 




5 mins. from JCC. 905-597-2754. 


FOR RENT 

125 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR SALE 

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PROPERTY 

FOR RENT 

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annual $9K. Call 850-893-6740. 









514-947-7408; 514-747-9476. 




US, 3 mth. min. 416-787-1962. 





347-262-4501. 




1-973-831-6165. 




5 mins. from JCC. 905-597-2754. 

130 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR RENT 

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great 

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416-663-2903. 






Call: 647-996-2273. 






416-667-0307. 































250 DOMESTIC 


275 PERSONAL 



AVAILABLE 


WANTED 


with a 






Suite 205 


M3B 3K4 





for 30 days. 

305 ARTICLES 

WANTED 




905-881-8380. 





$2200/mo. Sep. 1. 647-299-0371. 









Plus Realty. 239-404-2618. 














included. 631-860-1515. 









annual $9K. Call 850-893-6740. 









514-947-7408; 514-747-9476. 




US, 3 mth. min. 416-787-1962. 





347-262-4501. 




1-973-831-6165. 




5 mins. from JCC. 905-597-2754. 


FOR RENT 

125 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR SALE 

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130 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

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annual $9K. Call 850-893-6740. 









514-947-7408; 514-747-9476. 




US, 3 mth. min. 416-787-1962. 





347-262-4501. 




1-973-831-6165. 




5 mins. from JCC. 905-597-2754. 

130 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR RENT 

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great 

416-834 

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live out. 416-932-3042. 



Please call 416-546-5380. 









416-663-2903. 






Call: 647-996-2273. 






416-667-0307. 































250 DOMESTIC 


275 PERSONAL 



AVAILABLE 


WANTED 


with a 






Suite 205 


M3B 3K4 





for 30 days. 

305 ARTICLES 

WANTED 




905-881-8380. 





$2200/mo. Sep. 1. 647-299-0371. 









Plus Realty. 239-404-2618. 














included. 631-860-1515. 





FOR RENT 

125 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR SALE 

4 

A 

130 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR RENT 

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PHOENIX/ 

SCOTTSDALE 

Specializing in Unique 

Residential Properties 

Neil Schneider 

Prudential Arizona Properties 

602-571-4586, NeilAzCa@gmail.com 

www.OpeningAZDoors.com 

Serving the GTA since 1986 

ROYAL LEPAGE GOLDEN RIDGE REALTY INC., Brokerage 

7100 Woodbine Ave. #111, Markham 905-513-8878 

Award-Winning Building. 1,540 s.f., 2 bdrms. plus solar., sepa- 

rate dining, sunken liv. rm., enormous eat-in kitchen, ensuite 

locker, pkg., 24 hr. secur./concierge, 7 appls., parquet. Maint. 

$1,062. (inclusive). All for $457K. View Anytime. 

Yonge/Sheppard - Manhattan Place 

@ 131 Beecroft Rd., Suite 1004 

For info. call André 

Cell: 416-346-7770 

André Tarjan 


Helping You Is What I Do! 

FOR ALL YOUR REAL ESTATE 

NEEDS IN SOUTH FLORIDA 

Cell: 954-257-6176 

Office: 305-933-1626 

Fax: 954-894-4003 

Email: dlapco@bellsouth.net 

Website: www.prsflorida.com 

Dina Lapco 

Realtor-Associate 

Shana Tova 

2490 NE Miami Gardens Drive Aventura, FL 33180 

PROFESSIONAL 

REALTY SERVICES 

COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE 

MORTGAGE • TITLE & CLOSINGS • INSURANCE 


135 FLORIDA PROPERTY FOR RENT/SALE 

124 ARIZONA 

PROPERTIES 

75 APARTMENTS 

FOR RENT 

30 CONDOMINIUMS FOR SALE 

130 FLORIDA 

PROPERTY 

FOR RENT 

275 PERSONAL 

COMPANIONS 

WANTED

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industry, loves music, dancing, 404 FLOORING 


& quiet intimate evgs. at home. Hardwood Floor sanding, stain- 

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‘It’s a challenging life’ 


Asked about his feelings on being 

posted to Canada, Schneeweiss said that 

on the one hand, growing up in a Commonwealth 

country has made his transition 

here relatively easy, since much of the 

culture, values and speaking patterns are 

similar. 

But he said he immediately felt the 

presence of Canada’s Jewish community 

of some 375,000 people – about 200,000 of 

whom live in the Toronto area – whereas 

in China, the community numbers in the 

low hundreds. 

That difference is both inspiring and 

comforting, he said. 

“When you get the nod for a job like 

this [in Canada], you immediately realize 

the size of the responsibility you have,” 

Schneeweiss said. “The Canadian Jewish 

community stands tall among others and 

you can feel that strength.” 

On a personal level, he knows his job 

is sometimes hard on his family, but the 

rewards outweigh the detriments. 

“It’s a challenging life,” he said. “You 

shlep your family around the world and 

force change on them… but it’s rewarding 

and enriching as Zionists,” he said. 

His wife, a special needs teacher, is also 

still getting acclimatized and searching 

for potential work opportunities, while his 

twin children recently entered the Jewish 

school system in Toronto. 

T Page 49 

Aside from his excitement about figuring 

out the best way to contribute to the 

community and serve Israel during his 

term here, Schneeweiss said the Toronto 

posting also brings full circle a family history 

that traces back to World War II. 

“My mom and grandmother were evacuated 

from England to Toronto in 1943. 

My grandmother, Eileen Jackson, lectured 

for Youth Aliyah while living here in those 

years,” he said. 

But many of the details about his 

grandmother’s activities have become lost 

with the passage of time. 

Schneeweiss said he’s hoping to have 

time to do research in the city’s old Jewish 

neighbourhoods to see if he can find out 

more about his grandmother. 

In the meantime, he said as he settles 

into life in Toronto, he’ll continue to listen 

to the concerns of the community, evaluate 

its strengths and weaknesses and decide 

on “where my skills will be best deployed.” 

Those skills, based on his background, 

will likely translate into an infusion of 

fresh anti-BDS strategies that the community 

can use to strengthen the case for 

Israel in Canada. 

“We will find ways to articulate and rearticulate 

the Zionist message in the eyes 

of the world. We have to fend off those 

who are hostile to Israel’s existence. But 

we do ourselves a disservice if we allow 

ourselves to be defined by that battle.” 

LEMONADE FUNDRAISERS : Ilana Aben, left, and Olivia Horlick, Grade 

3 students at Associated Hebrew Schools’ Posluns Education Centre on Neptune 

Drive, submit the money they raised with their lemonade stand in support 

of Jacob’s Ladder, an organization that supports children with neurodegenerative 

diseases.



Paul Lungen 


business 

Grafstein launches online startups in news business 

When Jerry Grafstein left the Senate 

after nearly 26 years, he knew he wanted 

to get back into the world of newspapers 

and media. 

He’d been involved in a number of 

start-ups, including Citytv and YTV, and 

soon was involved in a consortium bid 

to take over CanWest assets including 

the National Post, the Gazette and the 

Ottawa Citizen. 

When that venture fell through, he 

looked elsewhere, and at one point considered 

a suggestion that he launch a 

website geared to Liberal policy wonks. 

That seemed too narrow an audience, 

but it led to the creation a year and a half 

ago of the Wellington Street Post, an online 

news aggregator that offers content 

to people of all political stripes. 

“That did reasonably well,” Grafstein 

said. “We attracted a fair amount of attention.” 

Its success spawned the creation of 

a similar venture geared to those eager 

to consume news from and about Washington, 

called the Penn Ave Post. 

More recently, Grafstein and his partner, 

Adam Miron of Ottawa, launched 

our cause is the jewish people. 

HollyPost, which does for Hollywood 

what the other websites did for politicos 

in Canada and the United States. 

The sites don’t provide original content 

– there is no news staff beating the 

bushes for stories. Instead, sophisticated 

software developed by Miron and 

Director of Marketing 

UJA Federation is seeking a creative and flexible thinker with 

a deep understanding of fundraising marketing to be the 

Director of Marketing for the Annual Campaign. The successful 

candidate will not only create the strategic marketing plans, 

but also coordinate and manage large marketing projects from 

onset to successful completion. This self starter and excellent 

communicator will need to take initiative and maintain the 

marketing focus of the Annual Campaign while simultaneously 

working collaboratively with different teams. 

requirements: 

` successful completion of post-secondary education; 

` minimum 5-7 years of experience in the marketing field; 

` ability to develop and implement strategic marketing plans; 

` excellent communication skills, oral and written, with a good 

understanding of integrated marketing principles; 

` experience using social media as a marketing tool; 

` strong interpersonal skills; 

` a self starter and creative thinker, with the ability to multitask 

and meet deadlines. 

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. 

If you are an experienced Marketing professional with a passion 

for improving the lives of the vulnerable both here and in Israel, 

please submit your resume by October 1, 2012 to: 

hfinder-guttman@ujafed.org. 

Only those considered for interview will be contacted. 

Jerry Grafstein 

Sherman Campus , 4600 Bathurst Street, 

Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V2 416.631.5705 

his team scans the online world for new 

content – largely from blogs – and puts it 

on their web pages. The site then hosts 

the content’s headline and opening 

paragraph or so, sometimes including 

a photograph, along with a link to the 

original story. 

The Penn Ave Post has been up for a 

few months and “it’s doing well,” Grafstein 

said. 

HollyPost should do even better, he 

said, considering that the audience for 

news about Hollywood, its stars, its gossip 

and even its lawsuits, is global, he 

added. 

Grafstein believes the “Post” model 

he’s introduced is perfect for today’s harried 

news consumer. Where once people 

leisurely sat down with newspapers 

to gather their information, they don’t 

anymore. “The problem with papers is 

time,” he says. “People don’t have time.” 

The software Miron developed “seeks 

the information, organizes it and puts it 

into order,” doing what is traditionally 

an editor’s job. 

The software was road-tested against 

the New York Times. They found that a 

story originating out of the Middle East 

appeared on the Times’ website 45 minutes 

after it did on theirs, Grafstein said. 

Michal Shmulovich 


TEL AVIV — A U.S.-Israeli consortium 

is considering selling up to 30 

per cent of the huge Leviathan natural 

gas field off the coast of Israel. 

The field – considered the country’s 

largest fuel reserve – is located 

about 130 kilometres off Israel’s 

coastline. It contains 17 trillion cubic 

feet of natural gas. Its discovery 

in 2010 was one of the world’s biggest 

offshore discoveries in a decade. 

The partnership in charge of exploration, 

Houston-based Noble Energy 

and Israeli partners Delek Drilling 

and Avner Oil & Gas Exploration, 

also hopes to find some 600 million 

barrels of oil beneath the gas. 

The consortium said it received 

letters from “leading international 

companies” in an announcement to 

the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, according 

to Reuters. The partners, who are 

seeking strategic partners to help 

finance the continued development 

of the gas field, are studying the offers 

and looking into starting negotiations. 

He said he and Miron monitor the 

sites regularly throughout the day to ensure 

it’s working properly. 

Revenue is generated through ads. 

The Posts have an arrangement with 

Google and “they match up clients who 

want exposure,” he said. 

“Rates are determined by the number 

of eyeballs… and how long they stay. 

We find people are staying longer than 

we thought, so there’s more value and 

that is part of a math formula for the ad 

rates.” 

So far the Wellington Street Post is 

breaking even and Grafstein said he 

expects Penn Ave Post to do the same 

“shortly.” 

He has greater expectations for profitability 

from HollyPost, because of its 

larger audience. 

Grafstein has plans for further expansion. 

Sometime this month he expects to 

launch the China Star News and later the 

India Star News. 

Further down the line, Grafstein said, 

he plans to indulge his passion for Jewish 

information and create the City of David 

Post, an aggregation of Jewish news from 

around the world. 

“My passion is to take ideas and put 

them into action in the media,” he said. 

Consortium considering sale 

of stake in massive gas field 

HSBC has been hired to sell the 30 

per cent stake, according to Nasdaq. 

In May, the group had to stop 

drilling due to technical difficulties 

after it reached 6500 metres — the 

deepest-known penetration in the 

eastern Mediterranean Sea. With a 

higher cash flow, the project can be 

expected to begin producing gas in 

2017. 

Leviathan’s discovery raised political 

tension between Israel and 

Lebanon because it is near the disputed 

borderline between the countries’ 

territorial waters. 

According to the U.S. Geological 

Survey, the subsea area, or the Levantine 

Basin, that runs northward 

from Egypt to Turkey contains more 

than 120 trillion cubic feet of natural 

gas – and Israeli waters account for 

some 40 per cent of that total. If the 

reserves are confirmed through discoveries, 

Israel, a country that currently 

imports all its fuel, stands to 

profit very handsomely. 

Noble Energy has a 39.66 per cent 

share in the Leviathan gas field. Israel’s 

Delek Group has a 45.34 per cent 

stake. Ratio Oil Exploration holds 

the remaining 15 per cent.


Measurement can 

lead to change 

It is once again a time of beginnings 

A new cycle for 5773 has begun. We are 

now in the High Holiday season, a time to 

refl ect on our activities over the past year 

and a time to better understand how we’ll 

move forward in the year to come. 

We have just passed through the start of 

a new school year, as students, 

staff and teachers begin another 

cycle of teaching, learning and 

testing. 

Soon we will begin a new 

cycle of Torah reading, starting 

with Bereshit. In a way, we’re all 

starting over. 

And when we start something 

new, perhaps it’s a good time to 

measure and compare so 

we can fi nd ways to improve. 

A number of organizations 

in the Jewish community 

are moving into 

new facilities over the next few months. 

Leo Baeck Day School recently opened 

its new southern campus on Arlington Avenue. 

The DANI Centre, which focuses on 

developing and nurturing independence 

of young adults with special needs, is in 

the midst of refurbishing a new space at 

the west end of the Garnet Williams Centre 

in Thornhill. 

Moving into new spaces gives each organization 

a fresh opportunity to understand 

how their operations affect energy 

consumption and to start measuring and 

capturing information. 

In most cases, when you move from a 

rental property to one you fully own, you 

gain the opportunity to be master of your 

own house. You get to control what you 

connect to, whether it be fi xtures connected 

to water or devices connected to electricity 

and natural gas. 

Do you remember the jaunty talks we 

used to have late at night that inevitably 

ended with the question, “Do you believe 

in God”? 

The conversation would continue, generally 

egged on by a person who might present 

one of Maimonides’ proofs of 

God’s existence: “Only one Being 

derives its existence from itself, 

and this Being is God. Since God 

is self-caused, everything that derives 

its existence from an external 

source must ultimately derive 

its existence from God.” 

At that point, some people 

would begin feeling shaky, almost 

panicky. They’re the ones who naturally 

think in images or have been trained to 

see past the sinews and muscles that keep 

us stuck together. They’re the ones who as 

children became nauseous upon learning 

that a mosquito deposits some of its saliva 

You get to control the amount of time 

devices are on or off, or how high or low 

you want your temperatures to be. 

And with that control, you also have the 

opportunity to measure the impact of your 

operations, fi rst from month to month and 

then, eventually, from year to year. 

If you’re in a rental situation, 

you may not end up with as 

much fl exibility or motivation to 

control your consumption, or infl 

uence what devices are plugged 

in, how often they’re used and 

what level they’re set to. 

Some landlords have the 

ability to have tenants separately 

metred for electricity and/ 

or natural gas. With the 

ability to see consumption 

levels and the costs 

they drive, the tenant has 

a motivation to monitor, 

and adjust. 

Without that knowledge, the tenant is 

usually subject to a formula based on the 

percentage of the building they occupy. How 

can recording these measurements month 

by month help to reduce consumption? 

By measuring, you end up with a better 

chance to manage. By knowing facts, you 

gain a better understanding of what you 

can and can’t control. Where possible, you 

can take steps to change energy consumption 

patterns – both what you use and 

how long you use it. Once you make those 

changes, you look for an impact in your 

monthly bills. 

During the period from Rosh Hashanah 

to Yom Kippur, we become more introspective. 

We list out our sins and vow 

to do better. Whether with energy or personal 

actions, measurement can lead to a 

change on many levels. 

winegust@gmail.com 

Sustainable Jew 

Fred Winegust 


APPLE DUMP CAKE 

Looks like a cake, but tastes like an apple pie 

• 5 medium apples, peeled, cored, sliced 

• 4 tsp cinnamon, divided 

• 1 tsp ground nutmeg 

• 1/2 c sugar 

• 1-1/4 c apple cider or juice 

• 18 oz. box yellow cake mix 

• 3/4 c butter, melted 

• 1 c chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts) 

Preheat oven to 375° F. Lightly grease 9”x13” pan. In 

pan, mix apples with 2 tsp. cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar. 

Spread evenly in pan. Pour apple cider over apples. 

Sprinkle dry cake mix over apple mixture. Sprinkle with 

remaining cinnamon. Pour melted butter over top. Bake 

45 min. or until golden brown and bubbly. 

The CJN’s French-language reporter 

in Montreal, Elias Levy, writes 

about: 

Some volunteers from the Combined 

Jewish Appeal Sephardi Campaign’s 

telephone fundraising committee 

who talk about why they fi nd 

their involvement in the effort so 

worthwhile. 

Montrealer Nethanel Benzaquen 

who talks about being a civil engineering 

student at the Technion – Israel 

Institute of Technology in Haifa, 

where he has been studying for two 

years. 

Exclusive to cjnews.com 

Hebrew web columnist Yossi Tas- 

Yom Kippur: shaky and anchored 

in our arm when it stings us. They’re the 

ones who understood how Charlie Brown 

mystifi ed our reality and the reasons for 

his queasiness on the baseball fi eld, seeing 

it as a mirror of truth. 

The others in the group would remain 

sturdy and anchored. They’re the 

Urban Writer 

Avrum Rosensweig 

ones who somehow understood 

Lucy’s fi ve- cent psychotherapy 

booth as a practical and reasonable response 

to the childhood angst that accompanies 

a kid on the 10th day of forgetting 

to take their eggshells to art class. Proofs 

of God mean little to them, because God 

is the proof. 

And so is Yom Kippur. 

There are those of us who sing the words 

to Unitaneh Tokef, “who shall be at peace and 

who shall be pursued… who shall live and 

who shall perish” and entertain it as a metrical 

composition and fi ne piece of balladry. 

And then there are those among us who 

believe in infi nite possibility and that we 

should live each day as though it might 

end without us. 


It’s 25 hours of holy devotion. It’s a day 

of great protest, when we put on our fancy 

dress and rail against God for Her reminder 

that we are created in Her image. 

It’s the time when we imagine what really 

is behind the curtain and in our minds pull 

it back to reveal something outside of us, 

much bigger than us. Yom Kippur is that 

moment when we are crystal clear about 

how a Jewish woman in Auschwitz could 

fast on the Day of Atonement, and equally 

INSIDE BACK 

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tassa talks about why Israeli teachers 

are paid 300 percent less than Canadian 

counterparts. 

A memorandum of agreement for 

future exchange was signed between 

the Board of Trade of Metropolitan 

Montreal and the Federation of Israeli 

Chambers of Commerce (FICC) 

during the weeklong economic mission 

to Israel and the West Bank led 

by Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay. 

After a day of fasting, light appetizers 

are often easier to digest, says 

food writer, Beverly Levitt. 

Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, talks 

about the importance of confessing 

our sins on Yom Kippur – and 

remembering to act nobly. 

understanding of the other person in the 

Holocaust who spat at her memories: the 

image of the rabbi standing confi dently 

holy in his kittel, his white robe. 


We don’t eat. We don’t drink. We don’t 

anoint ourselves or have intimate relations 

or wear leather shoes. We abstain from all of 

these things because on this day we suspend 

the things that paste our muscles and sinews 

to our spirit, our soul. And with that, some 

of us will nearly fall over from the weight of 

the Book of Life on our shoulders, and some 

of us will assertively strut forward as if no 

heavenly judgment was passed at all. 

Most of us on Yom Kippur, however, will 

do both. We will, because at the core of our 

humanness we are the long, fi nal haunting 

blow of the shofar – the tekiah gedolah, the 

one that goes on forever, and the one that 

we know will eventually stop. 

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