The Jewish Chronicle January 19, 2012

BY TOBY TABACHNICK

Staff Writer

GREENSBURG — “What is the role ofgood people in difficult times?”The words are collaged and encrypted

and printed outright across eight antiquetypewriters on display at the NationalCatholic Center for Holocaust Education(NCCHE). The typewriters are the Shoa-inspired sculpture project of art students.But the question itself remains at the

core of NCCHE, located — of all places —at Seton Hill University, Greensburg.The NCCHE is tucked away in a modest

two-room suite in the administration build-ing of the university, a small, Catholic, lib-eral arts school with a student body num-bering about 2,000. The unassuming quar-ters of NCCHE, however, belie its loftierpurpose: to counter anti-Semitism and tofoster Jewish-Catholic relations.

“It’s important for everybody to studythe Holocaust,” said NCCHE’s founder,Sister Gemma Del Duca, speaking fromher home in Jerusalem, where she haslived since 1975. “But in a special way, forCatholics it is important, because we havea long history with the Jewish people,much of which is a dark history.”After the Catholic renewal prompted by

Vatican II under the direction of Pope JohnXXIII, leaders of the Church encouragedCatholics to study both the Holocaust, andthe role of the Church during that time,said Del Duca.“After Vatican II, we knew we had to

face this history, and to study this historytogether and separately, so a kind of recon-ciliation and dialogue can take place,” shesaid. “Without Catholics studying the Holo-caust, it is hard to have an authentic con-versation with the Jewish people.”Del Duca, who travels back and forth

between Israel and the United States topromote Holocaust education, founded theCenter in 1987, after having lived in Israelfor more than 10 years, working with Fa-ther Isaac Jacob, founder and director ofTel Gamaliel, a small center for Jewish-Catholic relations. “In the summer of 1987 I was back at Se-

ton Hill for the summer assembly of theSisters of Charity,” recalled Del Duca.“Shortly before I arrived, Dr. JoAnne Boylehad been inaugurated as the new presi-dent. And in a meeting with her I discussedthe possibility of a program for educators,and especially faculty and staff fromCatholic colleges and universities, whowould come to Israel for Holocaust study,research, experience.”The NCCHE opened Nov. 10, 1987 — the

anniversary of Kristallnact. Since then, the

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Jews tackleend-of-life issuesthrough book,JHF programBY TOBY TABACHNICK

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Most people have no say in when theydie. But almost everyone has a say inhow they die.The key, as difficult as it may be, is

planning ahead.“I’ve worked with some amazing peo-

ple that have confronted some prettyunimaginable things,” said Dr. MicheleReiss, the Pittsburgh-based therapistwho worked with Randy Pausch (authorof “The Last Lecture”) and his wife, Jai.“We can learn from these heroes.”Reiss has chronicled many of these

stories in her book “Lessons in Loss andLiving.” The book also includes helpfulstrategies for those facing a serious ill-ness, and to grieving family members. Working with Randy and Jai Pausch

inspired Reiss to write her book, shesaid. Pausch was a professor of computer

science, human computer interactionand design at Carnegie Mellon Univer-sity. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancerin his mid-40s, he died 18 months lateron July 25, 2008, leaving behind his wifeand three young children. Yet Pausch maintained a positive atti-

tude throughout his illness, according toReiss, because he always rememberedhis blessings.“He was able to understand that the

proverbial cup is always half empty andhalf full,” she said. “He never lost sightof the half full part.”Although not everyone is a born opti-

mist, Reiss believes one can train one-self to appreciate the good in life, evenin the face of death. She recommendsmaintaining a “gratitude journal” as atool for keeping a positive outlook.

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(Editor’s Note: Retro News is a col-umn that will appear every week aspart of the celebration of the Chroni-cle’s 50th anniversary. Each week,Retro News will look at a past issue ofthe Chronicle, encapsulate the newsreported that week and comment onhow those items pertain to today’sJewish Pittsburgh.)

In the dark early days of the YomKippur War, when Israel’s very exis-tence hung in the balance, the Chroni-cle chose an unusual approach to itsfront-page coverage of the fighting.Instead of publishing stories from

the front lines on page 1, the editorsinstead ran a full-length rough topo-graphical map outlining the some ofthe highlights of the war to date.The map showed where Israeli jets

struck Syria, where Egyptian MIGs hitIsmailia, the location of armor and in-fantry attacks against Israeli positions inSinai, the point where Israeli and Syrianfighters clashed over the Golan and thesite of Egyptian commando raid.The map didn’t come close to cap-

turing the seriousness of the surprisewar or how grim things were for Is-raeli troops in those first days of thefighting, but it was an eye-grabbing

graphic nevertheless, which directedreaders to the coverage of the war onthe inside pages.That coverage included a full-page

ad on page 2 from the United JewishFederation trumpeting:

“IsraelIs fightingfor her life.

YOU CAN HELPNot with gunsNot with lives

You can help with money.CASH NOW”

Thus began the federation’s secondwartime emergency campaign in sixyears.On page 3, the Chronicle published

two side-by-side stories. One, labled“Action,” described the campaign,which was headed up by FederationPresident Donald Robinson. In a state-ment to the Chronicle’s readers,Robinson asked contributors to pay upall current and past contributions “atonce,” to keep tabs on the war news byvisiting a daily open house at the UJFoffice at McKee Place and to make ad-vance payments to the 1974 Communi-ty Campaign.

“The tragedies of the past few days… emphasize what we have known allalong,” Robinson said in his statement.“The Jewish people must always beprepared to help each other. We needIsrael as much as Israel needs us. Is-rael cannot stand alone. Israel mustnot stand alone.”

The second story on that page, writ-ten by Executive Editor Albert W.Bloom and labled, “Why?” was ananalysis of what led up to the conflict.In it, Bloom called the timing of the at-tack — on the holiest day on the Jew-ish calendar — “the biggest blunder ofall!”Bloom wrote, “They (Egypt and Syr-

ia) apparently thought their attackwould catch Israel flatfooted withthousands of Israelis in their syna-gogues and temples during the longday of fasting and prayer, with war farfrom their minds. …”He also noted that Israeli Arabs

were fasting, too, since the war startedduring the month of Ramadan.But Arab hopes for an easy victory

faded.According to Bloom, Egypt and Syria

were claiming huge victories Israel inthe early days of the war, but were“vague” on details. Meanwhile, “Israel’sreports were free of bombast, but indi-cated strong counterpressure and steadyforward movement on both fronts. …”As Israeli reservists at prayer were

called up, “there [were] stories told ofthe young reservists leaping over theirseats tallises … still draped over theirshoulders and their kipot perched ontheir heads as they clambered aboardthe mobilized trucks, buses, sheruts,and taxis and cars,” Bloom wrote.

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Chronicle used maps, numbers, campaign appeals to cover YK War

The October 9, 1973, front page.

This week’s issue: OcTOber 9, 1973

The Kollel Jewish LearningCenter will hold its annual MelavaMalka dinner, Saturday, Feb. 25, 8:45p.m., at the Jewish Community Centerof Greater Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill.This year, Rabbi Dr. Joseph S. Weiss

and Rebbitzin Sara Weiss, will be theguests of honor and recipients of theRabbi Shaul Kagan Legacy Award inrecognition of their dedication to Torahand outstanding service to the Jewishcommunity of Pittsburgh.The Kollel will also present its Com-

munity Service Award to Ovadiah Tol-bert and Zehava Waltzer-Tolbert fortheir community service. To commemo-rate this occasion, the Kollel will pub-lish a tribute journal.Contact Sara Weiss at 412-420-0220

ext. 212 or [email protected] formore information.

Zionist Organization ofAmerica–Pittsburgh District willoffer its Tolerance Education Programthis year.Created by Chairman Emeritus

Zalman Shapiro, the program takes theHolocaust into the classroom and cul-minates with a trip to the U.S. Holo-caust Memorial Museum in Washing-ton, D.C. More than 3,000 area highschool sophomores have visited the mu-seum program. The ZOA is working with the Pitts-

burgh Public Schools to determinewhich schools and students will partici-pate. In addition, the Holocaust Centerof Pittsburgh will assist with the educa-tional component.Trips are scheduled for March 19, 20,

26 and 27. Chaperones are needed forthe trips. Contact Stuart Pavilack at 412-665-4630

or [email protected] more information.

More than 200 participantsare now signed up for the Jewish Fed-eration of Greater Pittsburgh’s Centen-nial Mega Mission to Israel.That tally — 204 registered as of Fri-

day — makes this the largest missionthe federation has sent to the Jewishstate in its 100-year history.The mission runs from June 19 to 28,

and registration will be accepted untilApril 1.Contact the federation at 412-992-

5226 or at [email protected] for moreinformation.

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Rabbi Dr. Joseph S. Weiss and RebbitzinSara Weiss

BY TOBY TABACHNICK

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Religious school students at Tree ofLife*Or L’Simcha have found that reach-ing beyond one’s comfort zone often canlead to big rewards.For the last three years, teacher Anita

Kornblit, along with Director of Educa-tion Shelly Schapiro, have been taking adozen students once a month to PoaleZedeck to learn and socialize with agroup of teens and adults with specialneeds.The program began when the Tree of

Life*Or L’Simcha students were in thethird and fourth grades, and has contin-ued for the last three years, with the

same students. The children, who arenow in sixth and seventh grades, lookforward to their trips to Poale Zedeck,Kornblit said.“Initially, they weren’t sure what to

expect,” she recalled. “But once westarted going, the PZ students and ourchildren began to bond together, so wedecided to take the same children eachyear.”A typical visit includes the two groups

of students joining together in song andworking on an art project. Schapiroreads a story to the combined group.There is also time for socializing.The visits were the idea of Kornblit,

who is a member of Poale Zedeck. Shehad been looking for a mitzva project for

her students, and was familiar withPoale Zedeck’s special needs group,which has been run by teacher HaroldGoldwasser for the past 40 years.“I spoke to Harold, and he said that no

one had ever asked to visit his group,”Kornblit said.After gaining approval from Poale

Zedeck’s rabbi at the time, YisroelMiller, the visits from the religiousschool students began.“The visits have been very success-

ful,” Kornblit said. “Now, we are at apoint where they look forward to ourcoming, and our children enjoy it also.”While Kornblit still teaches third and

fourth grades at Tree of Life*Or L’Sim-cha, she nevertheless travels with thenow sixth- and seventh-graders to PoaleZedeck each month. A teacher from thesixth and seventh grades also accompa-nies the group.The children have learned to see those

with special needs in a different light,said Goldwasser.“The Tree of Life kids can see for later

in life that these are real people, andthat they shouldn’t be avoided,” he said.“They aren’t just a chesed (kindness)project. You can have conversations withthem.”The visits to Poale Zedeck have even

inspired some of the Tree of Life kids toseek out other opportunities to be in-volved in the special needs community.“Many of our children now go to

Friendship Circle as a result, and one of

the seventh-graders thinks she wants towork with people with special needs as acareer,” Kornblit said.“It has definitely helped sensitize

them and give them an understanding ofpeople with special needs,” Schapirosaid. “They were hesitant at the begin-ning, but now they love it. They’vegrown up with it.”And the students at Poale Zedeck love

the visits as well.“Our students look forward to their

coming,” said Goldwasser. “It’s a partyatmosphere. It’s a fun morning forthem.”Goldwasser’s group receives funding

from the Jewish Federation of GreaterPittsburgh, and is open to anyone in theJewish community. Most participants inthe program are not members of PoaleZedeck. The special needs group is usually di-

vided into one section for those in theirteens and 20s, and one for those in their40s through 60s. The two sections cometogether when the children from Tree ofLife*Or L’Simcha visit.The group meets every Sunday

throughout the year for morning servic-es, arts and crafts, stories, and a lessonin Torah, said Goldwasser.“We have general conversations about

being good citizens, and talk about mitz-vas we are all able to do,” he said.

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TOL*OLS students visiting PZ special needs group for three years

Pages 4 and 5 were devoted to newsphotos from the front lines with theheadline, “Wing and a prayer in YomKippur War!” Pages 6 and 7, head-lined “Israel and Arab States — Areaof Populations,” was a two-page mapof the Middle East and North Africawith outlining the population of theArab world compared to Israel. Below

the map a chart detailed the numericsuperiority of Egypt’s and Syria’sarmy, navy and air force comparedover Israel’s.

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(For a more comprehensive look atthe Oct. 9, 1973, Chronicle, visit thejewishchronicle.net and click on“archives” at the top of the page. Backissues of the Chronicle are archivedby the Pittsburgh Jewish NewspaperProject.)

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NA’AMAT USA, PittsburghCouncil lunch and learn program willhave Rich Feder speaking on “TheSquirrel Hill Master Plan,” Wednesday,Jan. 25, at noon at the Labor ZionistEducational Center, 6328 Forbes Ave. Feder is vice president of the Squirrel

Hill Urban Coalition.The program is free and open to the

community. Call 412-521-5253 for moreinformation.

Central Scholarship and LoanReferral Service applications forthe 2012-2013 school year are due byTuesday, Feb. 7. CSLRS staff must in-terview first time applicants. One application, which can be com-

pleted online at centralscholarship.org,gives students access to numerous com-munity scholarships.

CSLRS, a 45-year-old program of theJewish Federation of Greater Pitts-burgh administered by Jewish Family &Children’s Service, coordinates the ef-forts of a group of organizations, agen-cies and scholarship endowment fundswhich provide scholarships to localJewish students enrolled in accreditedinstitutions of higher education. Last year CSLRS awarded $400,000 in

scholarships to 220 area Jewishstudents. Contact Alayne Lowenberger, JF&CS

scholarship program director, at 412-422-7200 for more information.

Rabbi Martin Siegel will be thescholar in residence at Temple Shalom,Wheeling, W.Va., Friday and Saturday,Feb. 3 and 4.Siegel, a retired rabbi and past spiri-

tual leader of Temple Shalom, will de-liver the D'var Torah Friday night, thenlead a communitywide program Satur-day on "The Real Meaning of the TenCommandments."

Siegel is a past chair of the West Vir-ginia State Council on the Arts, a leaderin the effort to restore the West VirginiaIndependence Hall, and the developerof a Jewish studies program at Wheel-ing College (now Wheeling Jesuit Uni-versity). He has written a several booksand has taught at various colleges anduniversities.He is a founder and first president of

the National Alliance to End Homeless-ness and the National Interfaith Al-liance Against Substance Abuse.Since his retirement from congrega-

tional work, Siegel has been a teacherof the Bible and rabbinic literature.In 2008, he was appointed rabbi of the

Baltimore-Washington Conference ofthe United Methodist Church — thefirst time a rabbi has been appointed toan official position by a Christiandenomination.Contact Temple Shalom at 304-233-

4870 or [email protected] formore information.

BBYO is changing the name of itsTeen Connect program to BBYO Con-nect, a division that creates a communi-ty of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-gradersthrough social and meaningfulexperiences. Focused on Judaic, service and social

programming, BBYO Connect builds anetwork of teens across North Americaat a critical age when middle schoolstudents begin to strengthen their iden-tities, form social circles and preparefor high school and beyond. Teens arementored by AZA and BBG high schoolteens to help them prepare for an easiertransition into high school. The next BBYO event is Sunday, Jan.

29, 1 to 4 p.m., at Dave & Buster’s in theWaterfront, Homestead.Contact Chuck Marcus, senior pro-

gram director, Keystone MountainRegion BBYO, at 412-421-2626 or [email protected] for moreinformation.

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WASHINGTON — In 1974, Israelstruck a security deal with Syria that isstill in effect today. The West shouldseek to do the same with Iran in 2012.When the subject of diplomacy with Iran

comes up, the debate in Washington usual-ly centers on whether a deal with Iran onits nuclear program would stick. But Mid-dle Eastern diplomatic history is full ofsurprising twists, including diplomaticbreakthroughs. Israelis understand this.Remember, in 1974, when Israel and

Syria signed their Yom Kippur War“Separation of Forces Agreement,” theyhad just fought a disastrous war thatlasted less than three weeks and killednearly 20,000 people, including severalthousand Israelis. The situation wasgrave for Israel, who was desperatelyfighting for its survival against a neigh-boring country who had a patron — theSoviet Union — with thousands of nu-clear missiles at its disposal. Yet unfortunately, neoconservatives

such as Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.)and Republican presidential candidateNewt Gingrich do not want you to con-template how Israel and Syria negotiat-ed a diplomatic agreement that bothsides have honored for nearly fourdecades, creating security and stabilityon their border. Instead, they want you to believe that

it would be inconceivable that a countrysupposedly bent on annihilating Israelthrough invasion and backed by nuclearweapons could be trusted to make adeal. That was exactly the definition ofSyria in 1974 and it is the definition ofIran today.

The parallel between Syria in 1973 andIran in 2012 is clear. Just like in 1973, awar with Iran today would unleash, ac-cording to pro-Israel commentator JeffGoldberg, massive dangers to both Israeland the whole Middle East. Just like in1973, a war with Iran today would still re-quire a diplomatic deal tomorrow. Importantly, military action with no

clear endgame, as Secretary of DefenseLeon Panetta reminds, would not resolveour concerns about Iran’s nuclear pro-gram. Instead, according to leading Iranexpert Vali Nasr, it would likely acceler-ate the Iranian nuclear activities aboutwhich the West is so concerned.Yet when neoconservative war advo-

cates, such as Max Boot, call for pre-emptive military action against Iran,they often cite the Israeli actions in the1967 Six-Day War and the 1981 Osirakattack against Iraq’s nuclear facilities asevidence that military strikes are theonly path available for the West. That’sengaging, as former national intelli-gence officer for the Middle East PaulPillar explains, selective history.However, engaging in selective histo-

ry — such as ignoring the lessons of Is-rael’s Yom Kippur War and diplomacywith Syria — can lead to major miscal-culations that, in today’s case of Iran,may undercut the goal of preventing anIranian nuclear weapon. A fair reading of Israel’s history with

its adversaries should therefore make uscautious about using military force toachieve this goal.Today’s situation with Iran is perilous-

ly close to Israel’s situation with Syriaprior to the 1973 war, where stalematedominated and diplomacy was in shortsupply. The end result of that experi-ence was that diplomacy was still need-ed to resolve the conflict between thetwo countries.Interestingly, diplomacy with Iran to-

day should be even more plausible than itwas between Israel and Syria in 1974, asleading Israeli national security officialssuch as Defense Minister Ehud Barak

and former Mossad chief Meir Dagan donot view Iran as an existential threat, asopposed to the very real existential threatthat Syria posed to Israel in 1973. And like in 1973, what we currently

have, according to Gary Sick, a NationalSecurity Council official in the Reaganadministration, is a stalemate. Weshould learn from the 1973 stalemate ex-perience and move more aggressivelydiplomatically, so that it doesn’t take awar in the region to show us once againthat, even after a war, we’ll still needdiplomacy to resolve our concerns. This is primarily because a military

attack against Iran — despite theprotests of the war advocates — will alsoproduce a stalemate. �The only way to avoid stalemate —

other than by concluding a diplomaticdeal — is by massively invading and oc-cupying Iran — a country that is threetimes the size of and much more nation-alistic and well-defended than Iraq.Fortunately, Americans wisely do notsupport a repeat of the Iraq war in Iran.Therefore, it is time to obtain security

and stability in the region through con-certed diplomatic activity. Avoiding waris a precursor to achieving such stability,as war will only produce stalemate atbest. At worst, war would be uncontrol-lable, unleashing a scenario where theoverall outcome that we want to avoid —a massive war in the Middle East thatcould threaten Israel’s survival — wouldbecome a reality. So let’s skip the war and just move to

the diplomacy. After all, if the Israeliscould cut a deal in 1974 with a countrylike Syria, certainly the internationalcommunity and the U.S. could seek to dothe same today with a country like Iran.

(Joel Rubin, director of policy andgovernment affairs at PloughsharesFund in Washington, D.C., and a Pitts-burgh native, can be reached [email protected]. His viewsare his own and not necessarily those ofPloughshares Fund.)

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Haredi should act

Israel’s ’74 pact with Syria shows we can deal with Iran

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The Chronicle has received readerfeedback criticizing us for not ad-equately stating that only a small

number of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox)Jews are actually taking part in theseshocking actions in Israel.These actions include attacking girls

they deem to be dressed immodestly andwomen for not sitting at the back of seg-regated buses, not to mention using sym-bols of the Holocaust to paint them-selves as victims for defending their re-ligious convictions.It’s a fair criticism, so we make that

statement now: Only a small number ofHaredi Jews, compared to the total num-ber in Israel, are taking part in these ac-tivities. It’s true.We’ll go even further: A more accurate

picture of Haredi Jews is the membersof ZAKA, the team of emergency respon-ders who travel to disaster areas theworld over to assist people in need — in-cluding many non-Jews. The earthquake

in Haiti is a recent example of their goodwork.That said, the Haredi who are taking

part in these odious activities do not con-stitute a small number in and of them-selves. We’ve seen the pictures andvideo transmitted from Israel. It’s notjust a handful of extremists standing ona street corner. Their demonstrationsmust be taken seriously.The truth is that the actions of this

segment of Haredi, however manythere are, embarrass not just theHaredi, but all Jews. We all share acommon interest in seeing these activ-ities come to an end. Simply condemn-ing them, as Haredi groups have done,isn’t enough.The best way to do something is for

the Haredi community to police itself, tomake it clear that these activities won’tbe tolerated, that there is a price to bepaid, possibly in exclusion from commu-nity or religious activities.

If this sect of the Haredi wants to de-fend the institution of tzenius (modesty),that’s fine. As Agudath Israel Americasaid in its Dec. 28 statement on the trou-bles in Beit Shemesh, “It would be tragicwere the acts of violence to lead Jews to,G-d forbid, reject the culture of tzeniusthat has always been the hallmark of theJewish nation, to regard Jewish modestyas something connected to violence andanger, rather than to refinement and ho-liness.”But defending tzenius can be done

with responsible dialogue, using the me-dia and debating opposing groups — allwithout slinging verbal and symbolicmud at other Jews.Only Haredi can deliver this message

to other Haredi. More liberal Jewish or-ganizations hold no sway with thiscommunity. The Haredi are good people, moral

people, and responsible people; and thisis the time to show it.

Unfair tax system

I cannot imagine a more poignant andmoving letter than Jeffrey Lewin’s(“Food, meds, or taxes,” Jan. 5), a manwho is a longtime disability retiree wholeft the labor market after a long andproductive career in the public sector.

Mr. Lewin notes through his personalexperience the cruel and heartless na-ture of one of the most inequitablelevies, the property tax, a burden that isaccentuated this year through the ex-pensive, inequitable property reassess-ment, which is being forced on the re-gion by a Common Pleas Court judgeand the Supreme Court whose decisionsare made in a vacuum with no regard forthe panic, confusion and fear that theygenerate or for the unfairness of the levythat is imposed.

Even if subjective assessment valueswere largely accurate, which they arenot, given that the “assessors” have noreal estate market acumen and do notenter the home, this is a system that im-poses a burden with no connection to theindividual’s ability to pay. It is not fairnor will it ever be perceived as fair.

We would like to look to our highlycompensated General Assembly mem-bers for help, but there are few profilesin courage there. Those who representareas of the state outside AlleghenyCounty are not willing to substitute amore equitable levy for the albatrosswith which Allegheny County is saddled,and they would not dare insist on unifor-mity in assessments, as it would subjecttheir constituents to the same horrorthat we southwestern Pennsylvaniansare experiencing through their unwill-ingness to act.

I suppose if individuals such as Jef-frey Lewin find themselves on thestreet, it is simply collateral damagethat must be inflicted as we burn the vil-lage to save it. Is it any wonder that con-fidence in government and political apa-thy continue to metastasize?

Oren SpieglerUpper St. Clair

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“In 50 years, Israel will be likeIran,” an Israeli friend wrote to mewhen she forwarded the video of 8-year-old Naama Margolese and the ha-rassment she’s endured at the hands ofsome Haredi Jews in her Beit Shemeshneighborhood.Some Jewish childhood friends of

mine similarly condemned the sameHaredi Jews, using terms such as fa-natics, extremists and zealots. Theywrote on Facebook defining these ul-tra-Orthodox Jews in the same termsas Islamic terrorists who kill andmaim in the name of Muslim purity.As terrible and shocking as the video

might be, however, I think equatingspitting with murder is crossing theline.“Official” Jews have been a bit more

measured in their criticism of the BeitShemesh Haredim. “The governmentof Israel needs to stop being coercedinto allowing the Haredi community to

choose to be poor, uneducated, and ex-empt from serving the country in someform,” declared Rabbi Daniel R.Allen, executive director of the Asso-ciation of Reform Zionists of America.These Jews have removed themselvesfrom Klal Yisrael, Allen seems to besaying, and the solution is Israel’s gov-ernment forcing them back into line.Meanwhile, Jewish journalist Sarah

Wildman defended judging these be-yond-the-pale Jews in The Forward.“When Haredi men and women put

their children in striped pajamas andplace a yellow star emblazoned withthe word “Jude” on their chests andparade in the streets of Jerusalem toprotest the secular world,” Wildmanwrote, “we can call that spitting on thegraves of our ancestors.”So we can call ourselves reasonable

and feel free to condemn some otherJews for forcing Jewish women to sitat the back of the bus and spitting onlittle girls walking to school for al-leged immodesty. After all, we are sup-posed to feel free to criticize ourbrothers and sisters in Israel. That’sshowing our true love and caring forour fellow Jews, right?When the shoe is on the other foot,

however, we tend to react rather badlyto receiving criticism. Think back toDecember when the Israeli govern-ment put out some ads targeting

yordim (native-born Israelis who nolonger live in Israel) suggesting theymove back to their homeland. Thethrust of the ads was that Israelis canlive in America happily but doing sowill mean their kids will assimilate.One ad showed a girl and her parentsSkyping with grandparents in Israel.The conversation turns to the currentholiday and when the grandparentswho have a glowing menora in thebackground ask their granddaughterwhat day it is she replies “Christmas.”In another ad, a boy cannot rouse hisnapping father by calling out “Dad”but the father wakes immediatelywhen the boy whispers “Abba.”To say these ads caused a firestorm

is to put it mildly. The Jewish Federa-tions of North America sent a stronglyworded letter to Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu in Israel demandingthe ads be pulled.“While we recognize the motivations

behind the ad campaign, we arestrongly opposed to the messaging thatAmerican Jews do not understand Is-rael. We share the concerns … that thisoutrageous and insulting messagecould harm the Israel-Diaspora rela-tionship,” JFNA declared in astatement.Meanwhile, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey

Goldberg really blew his top. “Theidea, communicated in these ads, thatAmerica is no place for a proper Jew,and that a Jew who is concerned aboutthe Jewish future should live in Israel,is archaic, and also chutzpadik (if youdon't mind me resorting to the vernac-ular),” Goldberg averred.Only trouble is that the United

States is no place for “a proper Jew,”to use Goldberg’s terminology, and theproof is that most of us don’t choose tolive Jewish lives. Synagogue member-ship, federation participation, dayschool populations are all falling, notrising. Fifty-five percent of us marry

non-Jews. And furthermore, sad as itis to admit, outside the Orthodox com-munity, we are culturally encouragedto allow intermarriage and even con-done it. We aren’t supposed to judgeanyone harshly for choosing to inter-marry. We aren’t supposed to have anegative reaction to those who raisetheir kids in homes where non-Jewishholidays are celebrated. We are sup-posed to be happy that some Jewishpreschools accept children of inter-married parents. We aren’t supposedto proselytize for Judaism (even toother Jews) and, heaven forbid, weeven suggest converting to Judaism.So why shouldn’t the Israeli govern-

ment actually argue that Israelis liv-ing here are losing something whenthey intermarry?The real problem with the ad cam-

paign wasn’t the idea behind it butrather that it didn’t go far enough.There was a distinction made betweenassimilating Israelis and assimilatingAmerican Jews. Assimilating is assim-ilating is assimilating, whether youare Israeli or American. It means de-emphasizing your minority Jewishculture, religion and heritage in favorof prioritizing the majority non-Jewishculture. And why shouldn’t the gov-ernment of the Jewish homeland argueagainst that?Here’s the tough reality: We are one

people — one. What happens amongsome of us has an impact on the whole.If we American Jews have the right tocriticize Israel politically, religiously,however, Israelis have the right andprivilege to do the same. It will helpserve the Jewish whole when we movetoward caring about — not condemn-ing — each others’ fate.

(Abby Wisse Schachter, a Pittsburgh-based political columnist, blogs for the NewYork Post at nypost.com/blogs/capitol.)


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center’s annual Kristallnact commemora-tion has drawn hundreds of people to thetiny Westmoreland County campus, saidWilda Kaylor, its associate director. Area survivors attend Kristallnacht at

Seton Hill, and share their stories with thecommunity. It has become a very popularevent on campus.“The chapel is filled. And with students,”

said Rabbi Sara Rae Perman of Congrega-tion Emanu-El Israel in Greensburg, andvice chair of the National Advisory Boardof NCCHE. “It’s just amazing.”Perman finds it particularly amazing

that the NCCHE is located at Seton Hill.“The first time I came up here — for

Kristallnacht — I said, ‘Why are they do-ing this? Why is this happening here?’This was 25 years ago. Why are they do-ing this on a Catholic campus?” Permansaid. “I think this is one of the hidden se-crets of our community.”Other educational opportunities provid-

ed by NCCHE include an online programin genocide and Holocaust studies, andspeakers and films on campus.

Perhaps most importantly, NCCHEstrives to be a national resource for theCatholic Church.“Our primary focus is to educate

Catholic educators about the Holocaust sothey can teach students to promote Jewish-Christian relations,” Kaylor said. “As aCatholic center, we are dealing with someof the issues of the Church during theHolocaust, and some of the controversy —like, did the pope (Pius XII) do enough tohelp? Did the people of Poland do enough?”Every three years, NCCHE hosts a na-

tional conference, and each summer spon-sors a 20-day educational residency at YadVashem for educators. “We continue to recruit participants for

the summer seminar program at YadVashem, and we try to pass on to educators,and they in turn to their students — a newgeneration — important lessons for better-ing our world in a dynamic, tangible way,”Del Duca said. The center does that, she added, “by dia-

loguing with history, with documents, butabove all with people, Holocaust survivors,Catholic and Jewish leaders, scholars, pro-fessors, teachers and with each other.”

(Toby Tabachnick can be reached at [email protected].)

Center:Continued from page 1.

WASHINGTON — It is time for anoth-er Durban Conference.No, I’m not asking for a repeat of the

U.N.-sponsored festival of Jew-hatred thattook place in South Africa in 2001. The last thing we need is to have Is-

rael demonized by Islamists and theirallies in the West.We do not need another conference

where so-called human rights activistslament the fact that Hitler did not “finishthe job” and where Arab lawyers hand outbooklets with swastikas superimposedover the Jewish Star of David.What we need is a human rights con-

ference worthy of the name. We need a conference that speaks the

truth about the impact of Islamist ideologyand sharia law on human rights, not just inthe Middle East, but in Muslim-majoritycountries throughout the world.

We need a conference where adherentsof the Bahá’í Faith describe the persecutionthey have endured in Iran. We need a conference where Bahá’í

leaders tell the world about the destruc-tion of their national center in Iran withpickaxes in 1955. We need a conference where Iran’s lead-

ers are confronted with the executions ofmore than 200 followers of the Bahá’í faithsince the Islamic revolution in 1979. We need a conference where Assyrian

Christians can tell their story of oppressionat the hands of Islamists in Iraq who aretrying to drive them out of their homeland. We need a conference where Assyrian

Christians can talk about the bombings,the shootings and the abductions theyhave endured on a regular basis over thepast decade. We need a conference where Iraqi Chris-

tians, who numbered 1.5 million in 2003and now number less than 500,000, can ex-plain why they are leaving the country oftheir birth. They need a chance to maketheir case for an autonomous province inIraq where religious and ethnic minoritiescan gather together against Islamists intenton making them disappear.We need a conference where Coptic

Christians in Egypt can describe the hu-miliation and acts of violence they endureon a daily basis in their homeland. We need a conference where Coptic

Christians can describe the ongoing at-tacks on their churches and their verylives.We need a conference where Coptic

Christians can describe the churchbombings, the abductions, the rapes andforced conversions they endure at thehands of Islamists in Egypt.We need a conference where Chris-

tians, whose churches have been de-stroyed in Nigeria and Ethiopia, can de-scribe the attacks they’ve endured at thehands of Islamists.We need a conference where activists

from groups like Open Doors, Voice ofthe Martyr’s and Christian Solidarity In-ternational, testify to the sufferingChristians have endured under Sharialaw throughout the world.We need a conference where women who

have endured beatings at the hands of theTaliban in Afghanistan can tell their story. We need a conference where women

who have been beaten and punished forrefusing to wear burkas can speak of theoppression they have endured.

We need a conference where womenwho have been set on fire or have beensplashed with acid by their relatives cantell their story.We need a conference where victims of

rape who have been charged with adulteryby the police that should have arrestedtheir rapists can testify to the injustice.We need a conference where Christian

men from the Philippines who were cas-trated after marrying Muslim womencan tell their story.We need a conference where gay men

and lesbians can speak of the violencethey have endured under Islamicregimes throughout the world.It is a time for truth. People of good will

throughout the world have a right and anobligation to insist that Muslim leaders of allstripes take an honest look at what is hap-pening in the countries they lead and gov-ern. We need to ask them if this is the type ofworld a loving god would have us live in.

(Dexter Van Zile is the Christian Me-dia Analyst for the Committee for Accu-racy in Middle East Reporting in Ameri-ca, or CAMERA).


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(Editor’s note: This is the last in ayearlong series in which Chronicle Cor-respondent Hilary Daninhirsch reviewedJewish-themed books that have been outof print for decades, or remain in printbut are hard to find.)

It is fitting to conclude the yearlongRetro Review column with a book thatis marking the centennial of its ownpublication.

In 1912, Mary Antin wrote “ThePromised Land,” her memoir and first-hand account of her emigration experi-ence from Polotzk, Russia, to the tene-ments of Boston. I was lucky enough toget my hands on a copy of the original1912 version from the library; in thiscopy, black and white and sepia pho-tographs adorn each chapter. More re-cent paperback printings are available.

Antin was so changed by her immigra-tion experience that she wrote this mem-oir at the young age of 30, explaining inthe opening lines:

“I was born, I have lived, and I havebeen made over. Is it not time to writemy life’s story? I am just as much out ofthe way as if I were dead, for I am ab-solutely other than the person whose sto-ry I have to tell. Physical continuitywith my earlier self is no disadvantage.I could speak in the third person and notfeel that I was masquerading.”

In the first part of the book, Antin de-scribes with frightening clarity what itwas really like to live in Russia under theczar, in a Jewish ghetto called the Pale,where life for the Jews was exceptional-ly unpleasant. Like many Jews, Antin’sfather struggled to support his wife andfour children but was subject to unfairtaxes and other obstacles in place specif-ically for Jews. Antin, whose name was“Masha” back then, was subjected tocruel torments by other children and de-spite a thirst for knowledge, had no ac-cess to books.

Reading this section of the book catapults

the reader into aworld resemblingscenes and charactersfrom “Fiddler on theRoof,” but with aharsher dose of reality.

When Antin wasabout 12, her father,who had several yearsearlier gone to Ameri-ca in search of theever-elusive Americandream, sent for the restof the family.

While her parents werestill struggling financiallyin their new country andhad two more babies (oneof which Antin teasinglycalled “superfluous”),coming to America for An-tin was like a rebirth; sheblossomed in the welcom-ing arms of her new country, takingevery opportunity to learn everythingshe could. She mastered English quick-ly and even attended a prestigiousschool.

Calling herself “retrospectively in-trospective,” she observed: “Americawas bewilderingly strange, unimagin-ably complex, delightfully explored. Irushed impetuously out of the cage ofmy provincialism and looked eagerlyabout the brilliant universe. My ques-tion was, What have we here? — not,What does this mean? That querycame much later.”

On the flip side of her assimilation intoher new country, she shed some of herJewish identity, a process that began inRussia when she secretly witnessed herfather turning off a lamp on Shabbos.

The book is part anecdotal and part

introspection. There are amusingscenes, such as Antin’s utter confi-dence that a Boston newspaperwould publish her school poemabout George Washington (they did,indeed) that she hand-delivered tothe editor and her constant run-inswith the cruel tenement landlady.

Antin’s memoir touches upon is-sues of sociology, assimilation, reli-gious persecution and freedom. At atime when women were still relegat-ed to child care, when Americanwomen still lacked voting rights,when women were not always fortu-nate enough to receive an education,this book is a colossal achievement.

What also makesthis book extraordi-nary is that eventhough the author’snative language isnot English, thebook is poetic inits prose. Attimes, her writingis a little florid,but her intelli-gence and in-sights overridethis minor flaw.

The children’sp i c t u r e b o o k“Streets of Gold”

by Rosemary Wells is based on “ThePromised Land” and includes passagesfrom the original book.

Mary Antin went on to become an im-migration rights activist; she lectured on

political issues and went on to publishother works, though she is best knownfor “The Promised Land.” Though shesuffered from mental illness in the latterpart of her life, she left behind a memo-rable legacy after her death in 1949.

(Hilary Daninhirsch can be reached [email protected].)

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Book Review“The Promised Land”

by Mary AntinHoughton Mifflin, original hardback copy,publication date: 1912, 373 pages.


SPORTS

JCC defeats Pittsburgh ProjectBY ZACHARY WEISS

Chronicle Correspondent

Following a loss to Career Connec-tions, the JCC Boys’ varsity basketballteam downed previously unbeaten Pitts-burgh Project 52-42 Thursday, Jan. 12.The win created a three-way tie for

first place in the Greater Pittsburgh In-dependent Basketball League going intothis week’s contests.Ben Katz led all scorers with 21 for

the JCC, while teammate Jesse Golemanbanked 12 points. Jonathan Blue ledPittsburgh Project with 14 points.“I thought it was really important, espe-

cially now in the season because we wantto make a point about who we are andwhere we stand in this league,” Golemansaid. “Pittsburgh Project beat us twice inour home gym last year, so we just wantedto come out and make a statement.”JCC controlled the tempo — and the

lead — for most of the first quarter, butcould not pull away as Pittsburgh Pro-ject’s Blue kept things close. Two lateshots from Katz allowed the JCC to takea 13-9 lead after one quarter.The JCC’s Scott Horvitz came off the

bench in the second quarter and teamedwith Katz to box out and out jump Pitts-burgh Project for rebounds. The JCC led23-19 at the half.“Scott was one of our top rebounders

today and that’s what we need fromhim,” JCC Head Coach Andy Pakler

said. “If he can continue to do that, he’sgoing to be a huge part of what we do.”Coming out of the break, the JCC went

on offense in the third quarter, frustrat-ing Pittsburgh Project and going on a 7-2 run and taking a 30-21 lead in theprocess.“It’s all about setting the tone and

coming out and being physical,” Katzsaid. “We had to set the tone, just like wedid in the first quarter, come out andplay hard, make your shots and keep thepace going.”With Pittsburgh Project trailing 34-27

going into the final period, the pace ofplay picked up as the JCC ratcheted uptheir physical intensity, staking itself to acommanding 40-30 lead. Pittsburgh Proj-ect, though, switched to a press defense.The look confused the JCC, which com-mitted some turnovers, enabling Pitts-burgh Project to cut the lead to 42-38.But JCC figured out the press leading

to two easy baskets from Goleman and aphysical lay-up by Katz who was fouledwhen he shot the ball. This proved to bethe turning point in the game.When Katz made the free throw the

JCC took a 49-38 lead, their biggest leadof the game, and never looked back.The team next faced Propel Tuesday,

Jan. 17 and visited Urban Impact Thurs-day, Jan. 19.

(Zachary Weiss can be reached at [email protected].)

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(As part the Chronicle’s 50th anniversary celebration, The ChronicleCooks will take an occasional look at recipes and their stories over theyears. To read the full article, visit thejewishchronicle.net and click onarchives.Here is a recipe from the March 22, 1962, edition.)

Looking at the food column and these recipes from 1962 gives us an op-portunity to make a few observations about that period.Soup mixes were a really, really, big thing when they were introduced.

Why use fresh spices when you can throw in some soup mix?No one cared about or even knew about the health problems sodium can

cause. Do you know how much sodium is in soup mixes and canned soup?People liked to make “mock” foods. I have an old recipe for “mock” po-

tato pancakes using cauliflower.Curry equals an exotic flavor.An open-face sandwich can be a miniature work of art.

Fair is fair: No doubt, observations will be made about our eating habits50 years from now.

From the column:

“Thanks to the large variety of kosher soups now available, canned, bot-tled, packaged mix, or compressed cake, there is enough choice to banishany chance of monotony.“These soups may be served without any alteration, but with a few

imaginative additions, they become more like the ones we make at home.A little minced watercress adds novelty to cream of tomato soup. A dashof curry gives exotic flavor to cream of celery. Both soups are equallygood hot or cold. …“Since the soups available are milchig, fleishig, and parve a wide selec-tion of sandwiches can be made to accompany them. The open-facedsandwiches which are the joy of calorie counters can also be made

as decorative as a miniature work of art. At the same time, by toppinga protein food such as meat, fish, cheese, or egg with a vegetable, a well-balanced meal is created.”

MOCK TOMATO BORSHT (HOT)

1 cup finely shredded cabbage2 cups water1 10 ½ ounce can condensed tomato soup1 teaspoon kosher parve onion soup mix1 teaspoon kosher parve mushroom soup mix

Place the cabbage and water in a saucepan, bring to a boil, then simmerfor 10 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients, stir until blended, thenbring to a boil. Taste and add more soup mix if desired. This amountserves 3.

CALIFORNIA DIP SANDWICHES

1 large cucumber2 teaspoons sugar2 tablespoons vinegar1/3 cup dairy sour creamAbout 1 teaspoon parve kosher instant onion soup mix1 cup fine curd creamed cottage cheese2 hard cooked eggs, sliced4 large slices rye bread or pumpernickel

Peel the cucumber and slice thin. Add the sugar and vinegar and mari-nate for 30 minutes. Stir from time to time to coat each slice. Drain thor-oughly, then press lightly to remove remaining liquid. Combine the creamwith the onion soup mix. The exact amount of mix needed will vary withthe brand used and with your own taste. Use enough to give the cream adefinite but not overwhelming flavor. Stir the cream gently into the cu-cumbers. Spread the cheese evenly on the bread and arrange the eggslices over it. Top with the sour cream and cucumber mixture. Cut eachsandwich into quarters for easier eating.

(Angela Leibowicz can be reached at [email protected].)

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Sock puppets for patients

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Keystone Mountain Region BBYO members joined nearly 40 others during a Mitzvah Dayproject where sock puppet monkeys were made for patients at Children’s Hospital.Mitzvah Day offers the volunteers many opportunities to give back to their communities.Pictured from left are KMR BBYO Alum and Advisor in Training Leah Cullen; Abby Neft;Hannah Frank, KMR BBYO regional n’siah; Jenny Park; Leah Marcone; and Leah Popkin.

Lighting the menora

Chabad Fox Chapel photo

Chabad Fox Chapel held its sixth annual menora lighting eventDec. 21 at Fox Chapel Plaza, followed by an indoor festival.Pictured from left are Dr. Marc Rice, Natalie Rice, DebbieWitchel and Bob Witchel.

BY JUDY LASH BALINT

JointMedia News Service

Ask Israelis what first comes to mindwhen they think of Jericho, and ninetimes out of 10, you’ll hear “casino” orperhaps “Area A-off-limits.”It’s the rare Israeli in 2012 who’ll

mention the town half an hour north-eastof Jerusalem as the first place Joshualed the Israelites into the land aftercrossing the Jordan.In fact, Jericho, the oldest continuous-

ly inhabited city in the world, has beendevoid of any normal Jewish presencesince 1994, as the Gaza-Jericho Agree-ment phase of the Oslo Accords mandat-ed that the lush oasis fall under Pales-tine Authority control. Since then, Jericho has borne witness

to various phases of the Israeli-Palestin-ian relationship. Like King David’sbirthplace Bethlehem, now also underP.A. control, Jericho stands as one ofseveral examples of important historicsites whose links with the Jewish peopleare in danger of fading due to a lack ofJewish presence and a strong economicincentive to emphasize Christian sites.Today, one of Jericho’s main sources

of income is Christian tourism. Thesmall, sleepy town of 20,000, which issurrounded by acres of banana groves,welcomes busloads of pilgrims. A cablecar takes them up the hill known as the

Mount of Temptation, where stairs leadto a Greek Orthodox monastery and arestaurant offers spectacular views to-ward Jordan. Less than a 10-minute drive away,

through flat, sandy fields where wildcamels graze, is Qasr al Yahud, the spoton the Jordan River where Christians

believe John the Baptist baptized Jesus.Renovated by Israel’s Ministry ofTourism at a cost of $3 million, the sitewas reopened last July. It now hoststhousands of the faithful who come to bebaptized under the gaze of Jordaniantroops stationed a few yards away on theeast bank of the muddy trickle of river.Very few Jewish groups venture throughthe deactivated minefields to visit theplace named for the Jews crossing theJordan after the exodus from Egypt —Qasr al Yahud in Arabic means the placewhere the Jews “broke” the water.Entry into Jericho itself is forbidden to

Israelis by Israeli law — apart fromgroups with an Israeli army escort, whoare occasionally permitted to visit the re-mains of the Shalom al Yisrael synagogue.The synagogue is believed to date back tothe 6th or 7th century C.E. and sits in thebasement of a nondescript building at thewestern edge of town. An intricate mosaicstill visible on the floor depicts a menoraand a shofar along with the inscription“Shalom al Yisrael” — Peace unto Israel.According to Annex II of the Gaza-Jeri-cho Agreement of 1994, “Religious affairsin the ‘Shalom Al Israel’ synagogue inJericho shall be under the auspices of theIsraeli authorities.” In fact, Israeli au-thorities have taken little interest in thesite, leaving it to tiny groups of yeshivastudents who have intermittently tried topreserve a presence there. Before the

second intifada, Palestinians evencharged admission to Jewish tourists whoventured into the site.Today, the mainstay of concern about

Jericho comes from the few hundred fam-ilies living in several small communitiesoverlooking it. At Mitzpeh Yericho, a pre-dominantly religious community of 400families, longtime resident Moshe Eyalexplains how a mixed group of religiousand secular young people wanted to settleon government land adjacent to Jericho in1977. However, Defense Minister EzerWeizman refused to give permission.Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon sug-gested they move up the hill to the cur-rent site, with its panoramic vistas overthe stark desert. Eventually two commu-nities were formed: on the hill sits MitzpeYericho, a small town that today includesa yeshiva, a wedding hall and an electron-ics business; and Vered Yericho, in thevalley, just south of Jericho. A more recent addition to the Jewish

communities surrounding Jericho isMevo’ot Yericho, a village of 27 familiesfounded in 1999 just north of Jericho inthe Jordan Valley. Evidence of ancientJewish settlement in the area is easy toidentify. Remains of aqueducts from theHasmonean period are visible on thecommunity’s main street, and the re-mains of the 6th century Na’aran Syna-gogue and its beautiful mosaic floor arewithin walking distance.


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SimchasEngagements

Magid/Garcés: Dale and LynnMagid Lazar of Pittsburgh announcethe engagement of their daughter, Jessi-ca Michele Magid, to Juan Patricio Gar-cés, son of Juan Garcés and Ivonne Oli-vares. Jessica is also the daughter ofDr. Warren and Beth Magid of York, Pa.Jessica’s grandparents are Bernice

and Arthur Friedland of Cumberland,Md.; Gertrude Magid of Glen Burnie,Md., and the late Robert Magid.Juan’s grandparents are Rosa Oli-

vares of the 1V Region of Chile, and thelate Osvaldo Olivares; and the late JuanGarces Rubilar y Betsabé HernandezCastro of Santiago, Chile. Jessica graduated with a bachelor’s

degree from Brandeis University and amaster’s degree from Emerson Collegein global marketing, advertising andcommunications. She is assistant regis-trar at the Nido de Aguilas Internation-al School. Juan graduated from the Las Americ-

as University in Santiago with a degreein information technology, and worksfor comScore, Inc. as a software andweb developer. A September wedding is planned.

B’nai Mitzva

LindseyMichelleAranson, daugh-ter of Rick and Nan-cy Aranson of At-lanta, will become abat mitzva Saturday,Jan. 21, at Tree ofLife*Or L’SimchaCongregation.Grandparents are

Patti G. Shensa of Pittsburgh, the lateMichael J. Aranson, and Richard andBarbara Barnett of Jasper, Ga. Great-grandparents are the late Dr. Josephand Mae Greenberger and the late Mil-ton and Pearl Aranson.

Zachary Dylan Fertal, son ofDave Fertal and Suzanne and ChrisNagel, will become a bar mitzva Satur-day, Jan. 21, at Temple Emanuel. Grand-parents are Jamie Blatter, Russell Gries,and Susan and Ron Fertal.

HannahFinestone,daughter of Angelaand Ross Fine-stone, will becomea bat mitzva Satur-day, Jan. 21, at10:30 a.m. at Tem-ple Sinai. Grand-parents are the lateJudy Abbadini and

Eileen and Stephen Finestone of VeroBeach, Fla.

Ellie Jill Levine,daughter of GinaFavish Levine andthe late Stuart M.Levine, became abat mitzva Dec. 27in Jerusalem.Grandparents areEvelyn Favish, thelate Rabbi JosephH. Levine and the

late Dr. Elinore C. Levine.

BrettWeinberg, son ofOscar and LauraWeinberg, will be-come a bar mitzvaSaturday, Jan. 21,at Temple BethEmet in PembrokePines, Fla.Grandparents areMorley and Cheryl

Weinberg of Pittsburgh, Sandra Wein-berg of North Miami Beach, andCharles and Isabelle Troy of LitchfieldPark, Ariz.

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Netanyahu: U.S.sanctions on Iranineffective, more actionneededIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-

tanyahu said Monday that the U.S. sanc-tions imposed on Iran so far have beenineffective, and that the internationalcommunity should impose tougher meas-ures on Tehran’s oil industry and its Cen-tral Bank, Israel Hayom reported.Speaking at a Knesset Foreign Affairs

and Defense Committee meeting, Ne-tanyahu said that Iran was penetratingIraq at a fast pace and that instability inthe country had increased since theUnited States withdrew its forces. Ne-tanyahu said that the situation calledfor a strengthening of Israel’s defensesagainst aerial and ground attacks.Echoing Netanyahu’s remarks,

Deputy Prime Minister and StrategicAffairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said onSunday that the U.S. government wasnot advancing tough sanctions againstIran due to internal political considera-tions during an election year.Ya’alon said that while the Iranian is-

sue remains at the top of the globalagenda, and European leaders inFrance and Britain are taking a hardline against Tehran by understandingthe need for sanctions against it's oilexports and central bank, this was not

the case with the White House.

Pop singer’s fatherapologizes for anti-Semitic comment Rev. Keith Hudson, the father of pop

megastar Katy Perry, apologized for anti-Semitic comments he made, and arguedthat his words were taken out of context,ABC News reported.“You know how to make the Jew jeal-

ous? Have some money, honey. You go toL.A., and they own all the Rolex and di-amond places. Walk down a part of L.A.where we live, and it is so rich it smells.You ever smell rich? They are all Jews,hallelujah. Amen,” he said at a churchin a suburb of Cleveland on Jan. 5.After the Anti-Defamation League

and the Simon Wiesenthal Center bothcondemned the remarks, Hudson re-leased a statement, saying, “I used im-ages about Jews rooted in the worstanti-Semitism in the past, images that attimes led to the persecution and murderof Jews … I used them without everconsidering what they meant.”

Jewish couple narrowlyescapes sinking ship

The Israel National News reportedthat several Jewish passengers, includ-ing Americans and Israelis, were res-cued from the Italian Costa Concordiacruise liner that sank off the coast of

Tuscany last weekend.A young Jewish couple from Florida

was having dinner on the ship when ithit a sandbar and flipped to the side.Joseph Saba, whose son David was onthe ship, said: “They felt something hitfrom below, ‘Bap, bap, bap!’” After being rescued by a lifeboat, the

couple is grateful they got away withtheir lives, although they lost all of theirbelongings.“He doesn't have a passport. They

need to go to the embassy to see whatthey need to do to come back. Theydon’t have any clothes or anything,”Joseph Saba said. As of Sunday fivepeople have been confirmed dead in thedisaster, the BBC said.

Nazi railroads can’t dobusiness with FloridaProposed legislation forces any rail-

road company to reveal whether it par-ticipated in the genocide of the Jewishpeople during the Holocaust before itcan be allowed to do business with thestate of Florida, The News Service ofFlorida reported.Bill S.B. 546 refers to any railroad

company that transported Jews to Naziconcentration camps during World WarII and is now seeking rail contractsfrom Florida. Specifically, however, thebill targets the French national railroadSNCF, which had been used by theNazis for this purpose.SNCF wanted to plan a high-speed

rail project in Florida last year, but Gov.

Rick Scott killed the project. Sen.Eleanor Sobel (D-Hollywood) spon-sored the measure. It was unanimouslyapproved and goes next to the Commu-nity Affairs Committee.

Survey shows mostJewish college studentslove IsraelYoung college Jews strongly support

Israel, a new study sponsored jointly byThe Israel Project and the American Is-raeli Cooperative Enterprise shows.Conducted by Public Opinion Strate-gies, the survey represents the opinionof 400 Jewish undergraduates. AmongJewish students, 66 percent said theyfeel close to Israel. This is comparable to the American

Jewish Committee’s survey of the na-tional Jewish community, in which 68percent said the same.“Our survey found that Jews … be-

lieve that caring about Israel is an im-portant part of being Jewish, thinkAmerican and Israeli Jews share a com-mon destiny and agree American Jewsshould support the policies of the gov-ernment and express any criticism pri-vately,” said Mitchell Bard, executivedirector of the nonprofit American Is-raeli Cooperative Enterprise and co-funder of the research.The survey shows that Jewish college

students feel closer to Israel if they at-tended a Jewish day school, a summercamp, or were involved in a youth group.

BrieflyJointMedia News Service

Prior to the plague of hail, Pharoahand the people of Egypt were warnedthat anything left out in the field wouldbe crushed and destroyed by the hail.

The Torah relates that those whofeared the word of G-d brought theircattle and property inside. Those who“did not pay attention” (asher lo samleebo) left their servants and cattle outin the field to die.

One would have to be quite dense tonot get what was happening. Hail wasalready the seventh plague. By thistime, Moshe had an established trackrecord. How could anyone not takesome precautions, fearing that perhapsMoshe would be right again?

Rav Yissachar Frand offers anexplanation: Those who “did not pay at-tention” were not only ignoring thiswarning about the plague of hail. Theyhad never truly paid attention to any ofthe plagues. They were so numbinglyimmersed in their busy lives that theyfailed to notice that their world wasfalling apart. People like that can bebanged over the head six times and itwill not make a difference. They arepeople who do not stop to think aboutwhat is happening around them.

When we’re done laughing at thoseblind Egyptians we need to turn oursight inward and wonder whether we

don’t suffer from the same disease. Ourlives are full of mechanical and elec-tronic conveniences. Theoretically,each one should make life easier andless hectic. We should have time tospare, but each one ultimately adds anadditional level of speed and stress tolife. The phones never stop, the emailmust be answered, text messages,tweets, carpools, television programsdemand our time. We rush, sleep-de-prived, through our days without paus-ing to notice where we are really going.

This is a terrible disease. It can be-come so bad that one can see six plaguesand it will not make an impression. Ourmarriages and children can be fallingapart. We fail to notice. We entertainourselves to death. Life is flying byunnoticed.

The Talmud [Brochos 43b] states, “Aperson should not take big steps, be-cause big steps diminish one’s eyesightby 1/500th. The remedy is Kiddush andHavdala.” What is the meaning of thisGemara?

Perhaps the Gemara is telling us thatShobbos, which begins with Kiddushand ends with Havdala, is the antidoteto our hectic (big step) lives. On Shob-bos the hectic pace of life stops. It is re-placed with gently burning candles,long meals, leisurely walks, time spentwith family, Torah study and synagogue.Shobbos allows us to pause and think.Shobbos restores our vision and allowsus to notice the miracles happeningaround us every day. Good Shobbos!

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“Once a day, write down three to fivethings you are grateful for,” she said.“They can be little things. And writing itdown is better than just thinking it. Ifyou write it down regularly, you start totrain your brain to think that way.”Having prioritized the important

things in life can also help ease the dy-ing process, Reiss said. And one shouldnot wait until one is dying to do so.“Somewhere in this life — long before

serious issues arise — we should notlose sight of what is truly important tous,” she said. “And what is most impor-tant to us is usually people. You wouldhate to wake up one day, and wish youhad spent your life differently.”Achieving closure with loved ones can

be crucial in lending comfort to thosewho are dying, said Ralph Capone, med-ical director of the Sivitz Jewish Hos-pice. To that end, it is sometimes best tochoose hospice care, providing an op-portunity to spend meaningful time withtheir family and friends, rather than dy-ing in a hospital while undergoing ex-treme life-prolonging treatments.The goal of hospice is to provide

symptom management, Capone said, notto hasten the dying process. At hospice,the emotional, spiritual, and psychologi-cal needs of a patient are treated, andpain management is provided. Hospicecare is not curative.“We have to recognize the limits of tech-

nology, and recognize when technology isno longer serving the patient,” Caponesaid. “Treating human life with dignity isimportant until the end,” he said. In the Middle Ages, Capone noted, peo-

ple died slowly at home, giving them timeto make their final peace with family

members and friends, and to have closure. “Today, we’re robbed of that opportu-

nity,” he said. “And for many patients,it’s important to have that closure.”“Closure,” in fact, is the name of a

five-year initiative, sponsored by theJewish Healthcare Foundation, to helpfacilitate planning for the end of life,and to educate people about the variousend-of-life options available to them.“Our overall goal is to change people’s

expectations for care at the end of life,”said Nancy Zionts, chief program officerfor the JHF.“Closure,” which can be found at

closure.org, provides tools and re-sources for families, allowing them to beproactive in planning for the death ofloved ones.“It’s mostly about conversations,” said

Zionts, emphasizing that people shouldto talk about what they want and don’twant at the end of life. “It’s really im-portant that families think about theseissues when they are not in a crisissituation.”Like Capone, Zionts believes that life-

prolonging technology can rob people ofa comfortable and peaceful end-of-lifeexperience.“Often, we cure someone to death,”

she said, adding that most people, if giv-en the choice, would not wish to die at-tached to machines in a hospital.Hospice and palliative care are what

people want when they are dying, Ziontssaid, but these choices need to be dis-cussed before a death is imminent.“People need to know they have a

right to direct their own care, and toeven refuse care,” Zionts said. “Some-times they find out too late that theycould’ve been more of a player in theirown life — and death.”

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DAVA BERKMAN.......................ESTHER BERKMANCLARYNE & SANFORDBERMAN......................................ARTHUR W. FRIEDCHARLOTTE BLUESTONE..........LEON BLUESTONECHARLOTTE BLUESTONE..........MORRIS VINCOURPAULA CALLIS ..................................MEYER WEISSLOIS CRONE............................DAVID SILVERBLATTSTACEY EISNER..............................LOTTIE GERBERSHIRLEY ESTNER ............................HELEN CITRONWILLIAM FAIRMAN....................GEORGE FAIRMANWILLIAM FAIRMAN ....................FLORENCE STONESHERMAN FARBSTEIN............JULIA P. FARBSTEINROBERTA FELDMAN ...........JOSEPHINE FELDMANSHARON & MORRYFELDMAN ...................................JEFFREY S. WEISSEILEEN FOX...................................MOLLIE SAMUELABE FRIEDMAN ...................................MILTON RIPPSHIRLEY GOLD..........................JACOB J. GORDONSUSAN GOLDMAN...............ISADORE PACHTMANMARK HELLER ...................................ETHEL RUBENBELLA HEPPENHEIMER...............................HELENE

HEPPENHEIMERILENE ISKOE .................MARTHA TRACHTENBERGMARY JATLOW.................................CELIA GLANTZLESLIE & CAROL ANN KLEIN ...........................................ERNESTINE KLEINSHARON KNAPP .........................NETTIE GALANTYSHARON KNAPP .................................LEAH KNAPPLEONARD KOPELSON .............MIRIAM KOPELSON

DR. SEYMOURE KRAUSE......SAMUEL M. KRAUSEJACK LANDIS ...............................RAE G. LEBOVITZJERRY & JUDITHLEBOVITZ ....................................ELSEI P. LEBOVITZMEL & RACHEL LEFF............................JAMES LEFFJAY LIPP...................................................ALICE LIPPIRENE S. LOUIK ......................BERTHA ACKERMANMARY B. MARKS ............................JOSEPH BAKERMARY B. MARKS........................ESTHER R. KARPOIDA JEAN & ROBERTMCCORMLEY.....................BENJAMIN SILBERMANS. SANFORD NEFT........................FLORENCE NEFTMARCIA & JOEL PLATT..............MADYLENE PLATTRONNA ROBINSON ........................MILTON LINDERARLYNE SEGALL ...........HARRY & RAE BERNNARDMR. AND MRS. MARTINSILVERMAN............................MOLLIE GREENFIELDDALE SINGER ................................SAMUEL SLOANJOYCE SINIAKIN &FAMILY .......................................JENNIE MURSTEINJOYCE SINIAKIN &FAMILY ...........................PHILLIP & BESSIE ESCOTTEVELYN SOLOMON ....................JOSEPH & JENNIE

SHRAYERLYNDA LEE STERN .......SYLVIA & EDWARD STERNIRIS TENNENBAUM ......................ABE KOTOVSKTYARNOLD WAGNER..........................TILLIE SCHILLIT

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and Alexa Baer, Owen and CealyFryncko and Nicholas Rodgers. As amember of the Greatest Generation, hewas a World War II U.S. Army TankCommander; he served in armored re-connaissance with the 12th ArmoredDivision. As such, he was one of thefirst soldiers to enter and liberate theDachau Concentration Camp. After thewar, Solomon and his wife were propri-etors of Milligram's General Store inHarwick, Pa. He worked as a mason forover 60 years; Solomon was a memberof the Pollock Lodge in Tarentum, aswell as the chairman of the trustees ofthe Jewish Family Assistance Fund. Aprivate service was held in HomewoodCemetery. Contributions may be madeto Young People's Synagogue, 6404Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or tothe Zionist Organization of America,Pittsburgh District, 6507 Wilkins Ave.,Suite 102, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.Arrangements by D'Alessandro FuneralHome, Ltd., 4522 Butler St., Pittsburgh,PA 15201. www.dalessandroltd.com

TYSON: On Monday, Jan. 9, 2012,Shirley G. (Temeles) Tyson; belovedwife of Harvey J. Tyson and the late Dr.Harold Goldblum; beloved mother ofLee Goldblum, Pamela (Jeffrey Kaiser-shot) Goldblum, Jeffrey Goldblum andthe late Rick Goldblum; sister of Arlen(Marlene) Temeles, the late Roy Teme-les, and the late Bernice (late Joseph)

Geffner; sister-in-law of Evelyn Teme-les; aunt of Jon (Molly) Tyson, Saman-tha (Michael Schwartz) Tyson, MarisaPorter, Gillian Porter, Lisanne (Jeff)Semion, Randy (Rhonda) Temeles,Sherri Temeles, Penny (Ralph Dioletta)Temeles, Tony Brockway, Sam(Gabriela Larios) Temeles, Sam (Mare)Geffner and Debbie (Bill Holcomb)Geffner. Services and interment wereprivate. Contributions may be made toUPMC Shadyside Hospital c/o Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Suite #302,523 S. Aiken Ave., Pittsburgh, PA15232. Arrangements by Ralph SchugarChapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pitts-burgh, PA 15232. www.schugar.com

WEIN: On Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012,Joseph Wein, (four days shy of) 84;beloved husband and best friend of Ros-alyn Eisner Wein; loving father of Cheryl(David) Weisberg, Tedd Wein, and Alisa(Robbie) Oppenheim; son of the lateThomas and Sophie Wein; brother of thelate Morris Wein, Victor Wein, and Ros-alyn Goldberg; brother-in-law of Samand Irwin Eisner; grandfather of Lee,Elana, Robin, Amy, Michael and Sari;also survived by a niece, nephews andcousins. Services were held at RalphSchugar Chapel; interment Beth ShalomCemetery. Contributions may be made toB'nai B'rith, 1824 Murray Ave., Ste. 302,Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or Hadassah-Greater Pittsburgh Chapter, 1824 Mur-ray Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217. Arrange-ments by Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc.,5509 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15232.www.schugar.com

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