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Monessen synagogueremains activedespite diminishedmembershipBY TOBY TABACHNICK

Staff Writer

(This is the latest in a continuing se-ries of stories about synagogues that areoutliving their congregations.)

While other congregations struggle tofind ways to get people in the door onShabbat, Temple Beth Am in Monessencan boast that it consistently has almost100 percent attendance of its membersat its Friday night services.Never mind that this Mon Valley con-

gregation is down to 20 member fami-lies. Once a month, nine times a year,they all gather to worship and breakbread in honor of the Sabbath.The driving force that is literally

keeping the congregation alive and well— if diminishing — is Mon Valley na-tive, and lifelong member of the congre-gation, Phyllis Ackerman.“We’re small, but viable,” Ackerman

said of Beth Am, which is led by aAvi Ohayon photo/GPO

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as freed soldier Gilad Shalit is embraced by his father, Noam, at Israel’s TelNof Air Force Base shortly after Shalit’s release from more than five years of captivity, Tuesday, Oct. 18.

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Israel isn’t the only place where peo-ple are celebrating the return of cap-tured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.“I’m sure, like everyone I’m thrilled at

the news,” said Deborah Fidel, execu-tive director of the Pittsburgh Area Jew-ish Committee. “I hope and pray that heis in good health both physically andmentally.”Shalit has become an Israeli national

symbol since his capture by Hamas inGaza in 2006. He was released Tuesday,as part of prisoner exchange betweenHamas and Israel. The deal, which was

struck last week between the two partiesto release Shalit, includes 1,027 Pales-tinian prisoners held by Israel.Although excited by the news of his

impending release, some Pittsburgherswere waiting to fully celebrate untilShalit is back home. “When I see that he’s released, I’ll be

ecstatic,” said Stuart Pavilack, executivedirector of Zionist Organization ofAmerica — Pittsburgh District.As part of the deal, Israeli President

Shimon Peres pardoned the Palestinianprisoners, some of whom were trans-ferred by Monday to prisons nearer totheir release sites. Families of terror vic-tims petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court

to cancel the swap while Shalit’s father,Noam, told Israeli media that he had notyet received proof that his son is alive.The terms of Shalit’s release are also

raising concerns among Pittsburghresidents.“The problem is, when these 1,027

prisoners are set free, how many of themhave been rehabilitated,” asked LaurieZittrain Eisenberg, a modern MiddleEast historian at Carnegie Mellon Uni-versity. “How many of them are comingout with different views and politicalaims and how many of them are going toget right back to the business of plottingterrorist attacks on Israel?”

Please see Gilad Shalit, page 13.

At last — the reunion

Please see Monessen, page 23.

Israeli jazz artist Alon Yavnai will bringan Israeli music ensemble to theManchester Craftsmen's Guild theweekend of Oct. 29. See story, page 12.

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The Jewish Healthcare Foundation(JHF), the Pittsburgh grant-making or-ganization whose mission is to improvehealth care outcomes not only locallybut nationally, is marking 20 years ofservice.Over its first two decades, the JHF,

which was created out of the proceeds ofthe sale of the former Montefiore Hospi-tal, has approved more than $100 millionin grants, including $70 million in grantsto the Jewish community.Created in 1991 with the $75 million in

proceeds from the sale of Montefiore toPresbyterian University Hospital, theJHF has made a difference in the stan-dard of care to the indigent and under-served, supporting innovative medicalpractices.“The original vision was to create

something that builds on the assets thatwere sort of our inheritance from Mon-tefiore, but doesn’t rely on them, andalso to create an organization, the im-pact of which was larger than the sum ofits grants, ” said JHF President andCEO Karen Wolk Feinstein.Montefiore Hospital opened in 1908,

addressing the needs of a Jewish com-munity that was underserved by thearea’s existing hospitals. Jews were not

allowed treatment in most other areahospitals. Those that did accept Jewishpatients did not provide kosher meals,and other services that Jews required.Moreover, Jewish physicians wererarely permitted to train or practice atthose hopsitals. Through the 1970s, Montefiore ex-

panded both its physical facilities andrange of services. It became the firsthospital in Pittsburgh to set up commu-nity health clinics and offer home care,and the first area hospital to have blackdoctors on its staff. Eventually, it be-came a qualified teaching hospital, andknown for pioneering research. But by 1990, the future of Montefiore

as a stand-alone hospital appeared grim.Like other faith-based hospitals, it strug-gled to compete with larger institutions,recruit doctors and provide the qualityof care that had become its standard.When the decision to sell the hospital

was made, Jewish Pittsburgh wanted theproceeds used to continue Montefiore’smission: responding to the health-relat-ed needs of elderly, underprivileged, in-digent and underserved persons in boththe Jewish and general communitythroughout western Pennsylvania.Looking back over the last 20 years, Fe-

instein noted that the impact of the JHFon health reform has been “large, andprobably not proportional to our size.”

“From its first year, we wanted tomake something unique and distinctivethat, in the best possible way, would sur-prise people with what you can do withan endowment,” she said. “We had high-er aspirations than just grant-making.”In its early years the JHF became a

leader in addressing breast cancer, andfunded the first Race for the Cure inPittsburgh. It got involved early with thecampaign to encourage women to getregular mammograms. It even funded anotebook, still used at the Hillman Can-cer Center, facilitating a patient’s track-ing of her type of cancer and treatment,according to JHF Chief Program OfficerNancy Zionts.Expanding on women’s health, the

JHF got involved in managing women’scardiac care, Zionts added. It also in-vested $35 million to form the JewishAssociation on Aging.“We work to help create a vigorous life

for seniors,” Feinstein said. “Women’shealth and seniors are the hallmark ofour foundation.”JHF is also the fiscal agent for State

HIV/AIDS funding in Pennsylvania.On the international level JHF is

working with Clalit, one of the majorhealth systems in Israel, where they are

making strides in improving the qualityand safety of care, Feinstein said.Additionally, the foundation has pub-

lished many books, and Feinstein travelsthroughout the country and abroadspeaking about health care advances.It also played a role in developing the

controversial Affordable Care Act, ac-cording to Feinstein, noting that JHFhelped to “shape the quality and careprovisions” of the law.“Our commitment to health reform

has been formidable,” she noted. “Weare not where we should be as a nationin quality of care. It’s woeful, the num-ber of regrettable instances that happenevery day. It breaks our hearts. This isan area where we are constantly learn-ing and growing.”Locally, JHF continues to give a

$900,000 block grant every year to theJewish Federation of Greater Pitts-burgh, which is distributed to agenciesin the Jewish community that deal withhealth and social services.The JHF was also one of the initial

funders of both the Squirrel Hill HealthCenter and the Squirrel Hill FoodPantry, Zionts said.Thus, the vision of Montefiore is per-

petuated, according to Zionts.“Two-thirds of all human services

funding [of the Jewish community] issourced to the JHF, and thereforesourced to Montefiore,” she said.To mark its 20th anniversary, the JHF

has published a report, reflecting on thedetails of its accomplishments over thatperiod. “I think that I really would love to

have people read the 20-year report,”Feinstein said. “I think they would takepride. We are such a resourceful Jewishcommunity. We knew when it was timeto go from one strength to another.”

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

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20 yearsJHF officials reflect on work accomplished in first score of existence

Bill Shore, author of “The Imagi-nations of Unreasonable Men,” will bethe guest of theFaith WeinsteinBook & AuthorProgram, Mon-day, Nov. 7, 7p.m., at theJewish Commu-nity Center ofGreater Pitts-burgh, 5738DarlingtonRoad, SquirrelHill. In addition to his writing, Shore is a

philanthropist and businessman whowrote about scientists’ quest to find acure for malaria. He currently serveson the board of directors of the Timber-land Company and Venture Philanthro-py Partners.Shore has been an adjunct professor

at New York University’s Stern Schoolof Business and is currently the pro-gram advisor for the Reynolds Founda-tion Fellowship program at the John F.Kennedy School of Government’s Cen-ter for Public Leadership. Participants are asked to bring a non-

perishable food item for the SquirrelHill Community Food Pantry. Ticketsare available in advance or at the door.There is a charge, and the program willinclude a dessert reception and booksigning.

Jewish Family & Children’s Serviceand the Jewish Federation of GreaterPittsburgh Foundation are co-sponsor-ing the program.

The Jewish Community Cen-ter of Greater Pittsburgh-South Hills, will host its annual FallFamily Open House Sunday, Oct. 23,from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., at 345 KaneBlvd., Scott Township.The afternoon of free activities and

special membership and summer campoffers is open to the community. Activities include a petting zoo, timed

obstacle course for ages 2 and older,raffles, popcorn, arts and crafts, guidednature walks on the Scott ConservancyTrail and use of the JCC facilities.Contact Ann Haalman (412) 278-1975

or [email protected] for moreinformation.

Rodef Shalom Brotherhoodwill sponsor a pancake breakfast Sun-day, Oct. 23, from 8 a.m. to noon, on thecorner of Fifth and Morewood avenuesin Shadyside. Funds raised from thebreakfast will support several charita-ble causes.Contact breakfast chairman John

Spear at (412) 953-2127 for moreinformation.

NA’AMAT USA, Pittsburgh Coun-cil Lunch and Learn program will fea-ture Marsha Fuge, office manager andassistant vice president of FirstCommonwealth Bank, Wednesday, Oct.

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B’nai Abraham hires cantor

Gray-Schaffer’s journey to Judaism started in ShushanBY HILARY DANINHIRSCH

Chronicle Correspondent

It’s quite a distance from Shushan toPittsburgh, but that was the startingpoint of the decades-long journey for alocal, newly invested cantor.This Shushan, however, is a hamlet

in upstate New York, not a city in an-cient Persia, and it’s the birthplace ofMichelle Gray-Schaffer, or CantorMichal as she is known to hercongregants.Gray-Schaffer is the new cantor and

spiritual leader of Congregation B’naiAbraham in Butler. She replaces Can-tor Gary Gelender, who left over ayear ago. A Syracuse University graduate,

with a degree in fashion design andtheater costume design, Gray-Schafferand her husband, Eric, moved to Pitts-burgh in 1980 to further Eric’s law ca-reer. Her husband eventually becamepresident of Rodef Shalom’s juniorcongregation, and she became activewith it as well.Gray-Schaffer is a Jew-by-choice,

though she did not convert until aftershe was married. In the early 1990s,she began studying and taking Hebrewclasses at Rodef Shalom. “The more I studied, the more I

loved Judaism. I came to the realiza-

tion that I had a Jewish soul and I hadalways been a Jew; I just didn’t knowit.”By the time she converted 24 years

ago, she had already been living as aJew for quite a while. Although she had experience

singing in choirs and in musical the-ater, and studied operetta and classi-cal voice, Gray-Schaffer’s Jewish mu-sical education came later. After sheconverted, she re-started Rodef

Shalom’s volunteer choir. By the late1990s, when the congregation waslooking for a cantor, they asked her tofill in. “The more I did this, the moreI loved it,” she says. “It just fit all ofmy skills.”Becoming invested as a cantor was

the natural next step for Gray-Schaf-fer. Although the process took nineyears, including commuting to NewYork to complete her certification pro-gram and studying with CantorRichard Berlin of Parkway JewishCenter, she became western Pennsyl-vania’s first fully invested Reformcantor in September 2009.She and her husband are the parents

of three grown children: Abigail,Ethan and Gregory. She says her fam-ily has supported her every step of theway.Gray-Schaffer is enthused about her

new role with B’nai Abraham. “I knowthat the board really wants me to bringlife back into the synagogue and toreach out to the community,” sheadded.In that vein, she plans to represent

B’nai Abraham in a Butler interfaithreligious group as well as a Christiansfor Israel support group that is form-ing in the area.“She’s got a beautiful voice,” said

Phil Terman, who, along with his wife,

is co-president of the congregation.“She’s very outgoing, and connectswith congregants on an individual lev-el. She’s extraordinarily enthusiastic,and she’s been warmly received.”Terman said he is enthused about

how the children in the congregationhave already connected with her. Gray-Schaffer plans to grow the 70-

plus family congregation, both musi-cally and spiritually.“I want to form a little congregation-

al band with the religious school,” shesaid. “It tends to be the kids who playinstruments, so I want to involve themin some way.” She already has four congregants

signed up for a conversion class, andshe is offering a program called “TheDecember Dilemma.” “It’s a programand discussion about helping inter-faith families deal with the proximityof Christmas to Chanuka and decidinghow to celebrate each holiday.” “I really love every aspect of this

job. I love singing, I love teachingkids, I love writing sermons. I like be-ing able to be creative. I love helpingpeople through life cycle events,” shesays.

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

Michelle Gray-Schaffer

26, at noon at the Labor Zionist Educa-tional Center, 6328 Forbes Ave. She willdiscuss online banking.The program is free and open to the

community. Call (412) 521-5253 formore information.

Jacob’s Ladder Fund of TempleEmanuel of South Hills will present aseminar with Dr. Mindy B. Hutchinson,board certified child, adolescent andadult psychiatrist, on “When To WorryAbout Your Child’s Worries,” Thursday,Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. at Temple Emanuel,1250 Bower Hill Road, Mt. Lebanon. Admission is free and the seminar isopen to the community. Make reserva-

tions by Monday, Oct. 24, by [email protected] orTemple Emanuel at (412) 279-7600.

Chabad of the South Hills an-nounces two classes. The Teen JLI se-ries begins with “Life on the Line: YouMake the Call,” which will run six con-secutive Thursdays at 6 p.m., startingNov. 10. There is a charge. ContactShaina at (412) 680-9593 [email protected] for more infor-mation. “Fascinating Facts: Exploring the

Myths and Mysteries of Judaism,” willrun Wednesdays, starting Nov. 9, from 8to 9:30 p.m. or Sundays, starting Nov.13, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. There is acharge. Contact (412) 344-2424 [email protected] for more infor-mation.


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The Jewish Federation of GreaterPittsburgh and Community Day Schoolcombined to raise $264,894 in the re-cently completed Pittsburgh FoundationDay of Giving. That translated into$38,409 in matching funds combined.The two entities finished in the top 10

of area organizations, which took part inthe annual daylong charitable event.They were among many Jewish agen-cies, charities and schools that partici-pated. Broken down, the federation raised

$141,472 ($20,513 in marching funds),while Community Day School raised$123,422 ($17,896).All told, Day of Giving generated

funding for local nonprofits at the rate ofnearly $75 per second over the 24-hourgiving period, according to a statementfrom the Pittsburgh Foundation. The to-tal raised for charitable organizations inAllegheny and Westmoreland countieswas $6.4 million, almost double com-pared with Pittsburgh’s Day of Giving in2010.More nonprofits than ever participat-

ed in the event — 654 local charities hadcompleted or updated profiles on theFoundation’s PittsburghGives on-linesite. And over 96 percent of those re-ceived credit card contributions from atotal of 13,643 individual donations, upfrom the 7,788 donations in 2010.Following the completion Monday of

financial reconciliations by foundationstaff, the amount of matching funds fornonprofits in Allegheny County was con-firmed at 14.5 cents for every dollarthey received. In Westmoreland, whichhad a separate match pool, the match is23 cents on the dollar.Nonprofits received a record outpour-

ing of support from the community, themajority reporting significant increasesin the number of contributions and theamounts of money raised during theevent. For most of them, social mediatools were central to their successfulcommunity outreach, engaging new andexisting donors and increasing publicawareness.According to the foundation’s state-

ment, the federation and CommunityDay School placed third and fourth interms of funds raised during the eventby individual organizations. The leadingorganization in Allegheny County was

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, whichreceived donations amounting to$221,925 ($32,179 in matching funds),followed Central Catholic High School,$145,426 ($21,086); then the federationand Community Day.Rounding out the top 10 were Pitts-

burgh Public Theater, $109,645($15,898); Greater Pittsburgh Commu-nity Food Bank, $98,595 ($14,296); ThePittsburgh Cultural Trust, $88,866($12,885); Reformed Presbyterian Theo-logical Seminary, $83,535 ($12,112);Carnegie Library, $74,165 ($10,753) andPittsburgh Opera, $72,515 ($10,514).For Westmoreland, the top ten non-

profits for funds received were: Ligo-nier Camp and Conference Center,$31,505 (plus match of $7,246); SaintVincent College, $27,455 ($6,314); Mur-rysville Community Library, $22,290($5,126); Valley Points Family YMCA,$19,620 ($4,512); Ligonier ValleyYMCA, $17,190 ($3,953); WestmorelandCultural Trust, $15,610.Public donations for Allegheny Coun-

ty during the Day of Giving amounted to$5,162,849 which combined with thematch pool of $750,000 - an increase of50 percent against 2010 - created a totalof $5,912,849. In Westmoreland, publiccontributions were $435,599, which re-ceive matching funds of $100,000.All donations receive an equal pro-rat-

ed share of the match pools which forAllegheny nonprofits was provided byThe Pittsburgh Foundation, supportedby funding from the Foundation’s JackG. Buncher Charitable Fund and localfunding partners, including The BuhlFoundation, The Heinz Endowmentsand the Leonard C. Grasso CharitableFoundation.

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NEW YORK — Two years into makinga full-length documentary, which had itsNew York premiere last Saturday, film-maker Tiffany Shlain realized what wasmissing.“I watched all the footage” for the

project, about what it means to be con-nected in the 21st century, “and saw thatit was all about ideas, it was all about thehead and not about the heart. I wasn’texploring emotional connectedness.”Shlain, 42, is founder of the Webby

Awards and perhaps best known in theJewish community for her 15-minute film,“The Tribe,” described as “an unorthodoxhistory of the Jewish people.” That film fo-cuses on the story of the Barbie doll and itsJewish creator, Ruth Handler.In working on the new film, “Connect-

ed,” Shlain was using similar techniques— a mix of archival footage, animation,stream-of-consciousness ideas, humorand a thought-provoking narrative — totackle existential questions about howour society has become so dependent ontechnology and where it is leading us.While making the film, Shlain was go-

ing through a difficult time in her per-sonal life, facing a difficult pregnancyafter five miscarriages and worriedabout the failing health of her father,Leonard Shlain, with whom she wasvery close. A brilliant brain surgeon,Leonard Shlain was also the best-sellingauthor of books combining and juxtapos-ing art and science.“I was thinking constantly of connec-

tion and loss,” Shlain explained in an in-terview from her home in California.

She said she realized that she needed tocombine the abstract ideas about sci-ence and technology with her own per-sonal story to humanize and deepen thefilm.“I felt that if I speak my truth it will be

a universal truth,” she said.She started consulting with her father

and filming him, chronicling hisprogress after doctors gave him ninemonths to live, and describing her owndifficult pregnancy. Suddenly Shlain’sexploration of science and technologyhad become very personal, a matter oflife and death.The result, two more years in the mak-

ing, is a remarkably ambitious andprovocative film of ideas and feelings —half documentary, half memoir and com-pletely engrossing.It opens with Shlain addressing us di-

rectly on camera, confiding that she re-cently flew across the country to dinewith a dear friend, only to find herselffaking a trip to the restaurant restroomduring the lunch so she could check here-mails.What’s happened to us, she asks,

that we’ve become so dependent ontechnology?Following her father’s advice that she

go back to the beginning of civilizationand look for patterns of behavior, Shlaindescribes the evolution of mankind in thefilm. She focuses on a theory advanced byher father in his writings, that the gradualemergence of left brain characteristics —logical thinking and reasoning — overright brain traits like art, creativity andimagination, led to the dominance of menover women in society.Another theory explored in the film is

the scientific approach to breaking downproblems categorically rather than see-ing them as an inter-related whole, andof viewing humanity as independentfrom nature. Shlain, following her fa-ther’s ideas, makes the case that all liv-ing things are interconnected throughnetworks of relationships, and need eachother to survive.Theories and images come at you

quickly in “Connected,” but somehow itall hangs together, reinforced and mademore poignant by the parallel story ofDr. Shlain’s battle with a stage-4 braintumor, and the director’s efforts to com-plete the film before he dies.It’s also a family story, including

Shlain, her husband, daughter and sib-lings, as they deal with the illness ofsomeone central to their lives.Inevitably, “Connected” concludes

with a death, and new life, and the hope-ful challenge that if people recognizedtheir ability to harness their collectivebrainpower, they could change the worldin wondrous ways.Tiffany Shlain makes the point in her

film, implicitly and at times explicitly, that“survival depends on our connecting toeach other deeply,” a reference to mankindas a whole as well as to individuals.In exploring what we lose and what we

gain as technology rewires our brainsand speeds up the pace of our existence,she came to appreciate and embrace theconcept of Shabbat, especially of “un-plugging” for a day each week.She said she recently gave a talk on

the power of technology and surprisedher audience by extolling the virtues ofturning off from the world.“People think it’s harder than it really

is, but there’s a time to unplug,” shesaid, adding: “Shabbat is beautiful be-cause we are able to be fully present. Weneed to do things that bring us back” toour real selves.Shlain is hoping that her film will get

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a film that is a tribute to the mind andspirit of her late father, and a challenge

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It’s not overIsraeli army Sgt. Gilad Shalit’s releaseafter more than five years as a hostageof Hamas came as joyful news to Jews

the world over, even more so to the Shalitfamily, which has been dwelling in aprotest tent outside the prime minister’sresidence in Jerusalem for a year to drawattention to their son’s plight.But let’s not let our joy go to our heads;

the Shalit episode is far from over. Therepercussions of this prolonged incidentwill be felt for years to come. The price of Shalit’s release was high —

more than 1,000 Palestinian security pris-oners, many of them murderers. Many ofthem could come back to haunt Israel, andDiaspora Jews, with a new round of ter-rorism. To be sure, past Israeli govern-ments have released even more prisonersin similar swaps. But this is not aboutprecedent; this is about security.Shalit was captured in a cross-border

raid in June 2006. Now that that action has

born fruit for Hamas, are other Israeli sol-diers guarding the border with Gaza atrisk? How will the government protectthem? What will the cost be? Diplomatically, we may never know

for sure what pressure the Obama ad-ministration placed on Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to make the deal,or on Egypt to broker it. But now that it’sover, what might the White House ex-pect in return?Arguably, with Israel more isolated in

the region than at any time since the YomKippur War, now may have been the lastserious chance to secure Shalit’s freedom.Before long, Egypt could elect a govern-ment openly hostile to Israel and the long-standing peace treaty between the twocountries. Had that happened while Shalitremained a hostage, what border couldthe young soldier have crossed on his wayto freedom, as he did on Tuesday?But that doesn’t mean his release

creates a new chance for peace. For now,Israelis are euphoric about Shalit’shomecoming. That euphoria could turnto rage if it is determined that formerPalestinian prisoners are conductingterrorist activities against the Jewishstate. What will that mean for publicsupport for any future peace effort? Willnew governments take risks for peace orwill they take hard lines?We’re not saying Netanyahu should

not have made this deal. Judaism isclear on the subject of pidyon shvuyim(redemption of hostages). Perhaps thatis why there have been so many lopsidedprisoner swaps in the past. Besides, noone can argue that Shalit and his familyhaven’t suffered enough.But let’s temper our joy with sobering

reality. Difficult issues lay ahead directlyor indirectly linked to Shalit’s captivity.For those challenges, Israel, and Jewseverywhere, must be prepared.

A declaration of interdependence

Please see Rosenblatt, page 9.

Jewish youth arepreparedAs the youth director at Congregation

Beth Shalom in Squirrel Hill, I foundLee Feldman’s letter to the editor onSept. 29, “Give teens responsibility,”particularly disturbing. Feldman claims,“Nothing is being done to cultivate theleaders we will need in the future. … Weare not doing anything to create lead-ers.” This is simply not true.At Beth Shalom, and dozens of other

synagogues in Pittsburgh and aroundthe country, teens do practice leadershipskills and cultivate strong Jewish identi-ties with great creativity and enthusi-asm. By participating in our four syna-gogue youth groups, taking on a varietyof Jewish responsibilities (such as dav-ening Shacharit in our adult services,

reading Torah and Haftarah and run-ning their own teen services, and plan-ning their own fundraising events), ouryouth are already demonstrating theircommitment and honing the skillsthey’ll need to guide our Jewish commu-nity in the future.All congregational committees at Con-

gregation Beth Shalom, including Reli-gious Services, Membership, the YouthCommission, and more, have at least oneteen member on the committee, if notseveral. These teens participate along-side our adult congregants by promotingevents, providing input and feedback forsynagogue life, and bringing their owncreative, new ideas to fruition.Nearly 100 youth participate in our

youth programs here, taking on great re-sponsibilities, developing their leader-ship skills, and actively contributing tosynagogue life.Feldman writes, “Give [teens] real re-

sponsibilities within the Jewish commu-nity. … Expect that they will succeed.Help them succeed.”At Beth Shalom, we do this every sin-

gle day.

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SAN FRANCISCO — To establish itsindependence, Israel had to win a waragainst the combined might of the Arabnations in 1948. The Arab failure to de-stroy the nascent Jewish state becameknown, in Orwellian Arab vernacular, as“Nakba,” a catastrophe. For the next 20years, neither Jordan nor any of the oth-er Arab states even spoke of givingPalestinian Arabs their independence,concentrating instead on boycotting anddelegitimizing Israel.Only some years after the Six-Day

War of 1967, when Israel, beating backthe annihilation attempt by Egypt, Jor-dan and Syria, found itself in possessionof the West Bank and Gaza Strip did theArabs suddenly develop a passion forPalestinian statehood.Even though Arab national aspirations

in Palestine are little more than a centuryold and developed in response to Zionism,Israel, whose Jewish roots in the land goback thousands of years, repeatedly hassought a negotiated settlement so that Is-rael and a Palestinian state could live sideby side in peace. Generous Israeli offers

were made at Camp David and Taba un-der President Clinton’s aegis in 2000-01,but Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatwalked out on the talks. Prime MinisterAriel Sharon pulled all Israelis out ofGaza, but instead of developing into anembryonic Palestinian state, the regionbecame a Hamas-ridden launching padfor anti-Israel terror.Subsequent Israeli attempts to restart

negotiations have met a wall of Palestin-ian refusal to recognize it as a Jewishstate and insistence on a refugee “rightof return” to Israel proper — both posi-

tions clearly intended to keep up theconflict, not solve it.Combining this with the demand that

anyone claiming to be a descendant of aPalestinian who left what is now Israelshould be allowed to return confirmsthat the Palestinian strategy is indeed tosnuff out the Jewish state demographi-cally, turning Israel into a second Pales-tinian state alongside the one to be cre-ated in Gaza and the West Bank.Hamas, classified by the United States

and the European Union as a terroristorganization, condemned the killing of

Osama bin Laden and has categoricallyrejected any acceptance of Israel. Com-ing at a time when the Palestinian Au-thority is allied with Hamas, passage ofa U.N. resolution backing the creation ofa Palestinian state could put an abruptend to any hope for the resumption ofpeace talks with Israel. It also could re-verse Palestinian economic progress bytriggering a cutoff of the annual $400million that the Palestinian Authoritygets in American aid and possibly leadto violence in the West Bank when thePalestinians realize that an empty U.N.declaration makes not an iota of differ-ence to the situation on the ground.While it is tempting to imagine that

the United Nations can magically createa Palestinian state, only a return to thepeace table and negotiations with Israelcan do that. While it may take a littlelonger, a settlement reached that way isthe only kind that can last, preparing thegroundwork for an agreement wherebya new Palestinian state and the existingJewish state agree to an end of the con-flict. Once such a deal is reached, Israelshould be the first to propose U.N. mem-bership for the democratic and peace-loving Republic of Palestine.

(Mervyn Danker is the regional direc-tor of the American Jewish Committee’sNorthern California office. This columnpreviously appeared in j weekly ofnorthern California.)


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A Palestinian state should be the result of negotiations

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MERVYN DANKER


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to each of us to step back and thinkabout where we’re going and what’s ourhurry.“Connected” was screened at The An-

gelika Theater in Manhattan for oneweek, starting Oct. 14, with evening dis-

cussions around the film, including anOct. 15 Jewish-themed talk with direc-tor Tiffany Shlain and representativesfrom Reboot, Jumpstart and Natan. Seeconnectedthefilm.com for details.

(Gary Rosenblatt, editor and publisherof The New York Jewish Week, can bereached at [email protected]. Thiscolumn previously appeared in theWeek.)

Roberto Paternostro, conductor of theIsrael Chamber Orchestra, is proud thathe brought his orchestra to Bayreuth, thecult festival de-voted toRichard Wagnerthat is still runby the Wagnerclan in Bavaria,Germany.Paternostro

brushes awaythe notion thatWagner shouldbe subjected toan informalban in Israel.In interviewshe reminds usthat many oth-er Nazi iconsare alive and well here in the JewishState, among them Siemens, Volkswa-gen, composer Carl Orff, psychiatristCarl Jung, philosopher Martin Heideg-ger, and many other companies and per-sonalities that were tied to Nazism orwho were active collaborators. Therefore, the problem with Wagner

is not Wagner in itself.The multitalented and brilliant Wagn-

er died in 1883, long before Nazism. Hewas an anti-Semite, as his essay “DasJudenthum in der Musik” (The Jewish-ness in Music) condemns the Jews forpolluting the pure Germanic music.But Wagner can’t really receive a cordon

sanitaire for his paltry works of anti-Semi-tism in a country like Israel, where no oneshrugs a shoulder before reading the fanati-cal anti-Semite Karl Marx or the Naziphilosopher Martin Heidegger. It can’t real-ly be argued that Wagner must be bannedbecause he was Hitler’s favorite composer.To ban him on that account would mean, log-ically, banning all the other things Hitlerliked: German shepherds, mountain re-treats, homely women, vegetarianism, ha-tred of smoking and uniforms.The Wagner problem in Israel is not

about Wagner. It is actually about some-thing else that is more tragic and morepernicious to the Israeli-Jewish conscious-ness. One could understand if the conduc-tor of the Israeli Chamber Orchestra sim-ply felt that Wagner should be part of thepantheon of great composers. But in fact,what Paternostro and others who playedWagner in Israel, like Daniel Berenboim,have done is deliberately set out to pro-

voke the public. They not only love Wagn-er, but they want Wagner jammed downour throats. They want Israelis to join inthe weirdo cult antics at Bayreuth, and inthe case of Berenboim, they wanted tobring Wagnerian opera to the Palestinians.Perhaps they would like Wagner playedfor Israeli Independence Day. Furthermore, Paternostro and Berenboim

exploit their Jewishness and the Holocaustin order to justify their Wagnerization of Is-raeli music. Paternostro speaks about walk-ing through Yad Vashem with his mother(who saw how her aunt was murdered bythe Nazis) and how his mother shouted“Wonderful!” at the notion that he would beplaying Wagner. Paternostro thus attemptsto tell us “See, even those intimately affectedby the Holocaust love Wagner.” But this is anexploitation of the Holocaust for masochisticreasons. If we take the “my relatives sur-vived the Holocaust and they like Wagner”argument out of the equation, what are wethen left with? The purposeful desire to pro-voke, to use Wagner as a tool against Israel.The conductors who bring Wagner to Is-

rael do it completely with an understandingof its political-racist overtones, rather than anaïve love for the music itself. Paternostrosays that this “is the beginning of a reconcil-iation, a step on a new path … it was mygreatest conviction to bring together thesetwo sides — Israel and Wagner … the con-flicts and emotions associated with the histo-ry of Wagner are exactly those which makeit so special for us.” Berenboim, who loathesIsrael and has a Palestinian passport andlikewise exploits the Holocaust to excuse hishatred of the country and love for Wagner,played a piece by Wagner in 2001, duringthe intifada no less, at the Israel Festival. Argentinian-born Berenboim and Vien-

nese-born Paternostro are crusaders in theattempt to bring Wagner to the shores of Is-rael. In the latter’s case at least his champi-oning of Wagner is not paired with a hatredfor the state. Both composers have receiveda lot of support among the intellectual audi-ences that are partial to chamber music inIsrael. It is a shame that many people likemyself, who instinctually oppose the politi-cal imposition of Wagner, are not classicalmusic lovers. We cannot boycott the con-certs, since we don’t go to them anyway.But the least we can do is understand

what is happening. Wagner is not beingfoisted upon Israel merely because it isgood music. It is being pushed upon usbecause of a very clear understanding ofthe goal; the Jews are being asked to“appreciate” anti-Semitism and the typeof music that was played in the concen-tration camps. It would be akin to askingArmenians to listen to Turkish music attheir weddings or demanding Palestini-ans fall in love with the tune of “Hativ-ka” and ignore its national message.

(Seth J. Frantzman is a writer, journalistand scholar residing in Jerusalem.)

The Wagner problem in Israel:It’s not about Wagner

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SETH J.FRANTZMAN

Rosenblatt:Continued from page 6.

Richard Wagner

BY TOBY TABACHNICK

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Alexandra’s 28-year-old daughter,Alina, did not have trouble meeting eli-gible men to date; she was just havingtrouble finding the right one, her beshert.

So, as Jewish mothers have been doingfor centuries, Alexandra decided to takematters into her own hands.

After reading in her local Jewish pa-per about TheJMom.com, an Internetsite designed for Jewish mothers tryingto find matches for their children,Alexandra logged on, creating first aprofile about herself, and then uploadinginformation about Alina.

“I first asked my daughter if it wasOK, because she was negative about In-ternet dating,” said Alexandra, who wasborn in Ukraine and moved to New Jer-sey with her family in 1996. “She said‘OK,’ to please me.”

That was in December 2010. Alexan-dra checked the site periodically, look-ing for a potential match for Alina. InMarch 2011, Alexandra found him.

“I happened to see this guy. He wascute and he had a lot of similarities tomy daughter,” Alexandra said. “I toldher if you give me your permission, I’llsend his mom an e-mail.”

After Alexandra and Anatoly’s mommade their own connection, they sharedphotos and other information with their

children. Alina and the young man, Ana-toly, who lived in Texas, soon began e-mailing each other directly. Four andhalf months later they met, and Anatolyproposed shortly after that.

They were married last month.“Kids don’t have much time for dat-

ing,” Alexandra said. “And it’s hard tomeet people. I think the website is agreat thing. Parents should be involved.Kids may be busy and not have thetime.”

The JMom is the brainchild of Chicagosiblings Brad and Danielle Weisberg,who had the idea for the site one daywhen they were visiting their mother.She was unhappy with Brad’s relation-ship status (i.e., single), and she askedBrad if she could look at his JDateprofile.

“I had just turned 30,” Brad Weisbergsaid. “And I just let her do it.”

He and his sister left the house forabout an hour, and when they returnedthey found their mother glued to thecomputer screen, pencil and paper inhand, with the names of 10 girls shethought might make a good match forBrad.

“We were laughing hysterically,”Weisberg said. “Then my sister said,‘Wait. This is not a bad idea.’ ”

Realizing that moms often have moretime — and money — to spend on perus-ing dating websites than their busy off-spring, Brad and Danielle decided to set

up a network of Jewish parents all want-ing their children to find Jewish mates.

The Weisbergs also realized thatsometimes, in matters of love, mom doesknow best.

“My mom was looking at much morethan the pictures [when perusingJDate], which is pretty much all I lookat,” Weisberg said. “She was looking atcommon interests, and for an emotionalconnection.”

Family comes first on TheJMom, withmoms posting photos and informationabout their families, as well as photosand information about their singlechildren.

Alexandra believes that informationabout a child’s family is invaluable whenlooking for a match.

“If it’s a nice family, the kids are usu-ally good, too,” she said.

The mothers using the site do not ac-tually arrange the dates for their chil-dren, but rather make suggestions oncethey have pre-screened eligible men andwomen and their families.

“The moms don’t actually set up theirkids,” Weisberg said. “But when bothmoms feel they have found a match, theypress a button on the site with their con-tact information and profile information.It’s then 100 percent up to the kids tocontact each other and go on a date.”

Busy singles have been turning to In-ternet dating sites for years. Seventeenpercent of couples that were married in

the last three years met on an online dat-ing service, and one out of every fivesingles in the United States has datedsomeone he or she met online, accordingto a study done in 2010 by ChadwickMartin Bailey.

“It’s hard to meet people, particularlyin bigger cities,” Weisberg noted. “But Iam open to being set up. Using the Inter-net is one way to have Jews meet otherJews.”

TheJmom, which currently has over1,500 members from the United States,Israel and Canada, is now free of charge,although Weisberg says there will soonbe a small fee to join.

The site has been well received, Weis-berg said.

“One mother said, ‘This is like givingme the key to the bank vault,’” he re-counted. “This is every Jewish mother’sdream.”

As for Alexandra, she believes thatany Jewish mother hoping to find amatch for her son or daughter should en-courage her child to be open to the Inter-net concept.

“I would say don’t give up,” she ad-vised. “Sometimes you have to push. If Ididn’t push, my daughter wouldn’t havemet this guy she loves. If you are Jewish,and you want to marry Jewish, this is thebest way.”


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Frank’s book an informative read on Democratic Socialism in Israel

The Israel of today is the so-called“start-up” nation with a free marketand high-tech industries that employthousands around the world.In other words, it’s a capitalist’s

dream come true.So it may surprise many younger

Jews, whose collective memorydoesn’t reach beyond the Six-Day War,that Israel’s origins are largely rootedin socialist experiments. Modern Zion-ism inspired many starry-eyed ideo-logues from Russia, eager to put theirdemocratic-socialist ideologies intopractice on start-up collective farms inlate 19th and early 20th century Pales-tine. Often, their high ideas clashedwith the harsh realities of their newcountry, but out of those collectivescame the Jewish state that we knowtoday.Pittsburgh author and professor

Ivan C. Frank seeks to chronicle thisperiod in his new book, “Origins of

Democratic-Socialism in Israel: Foun-dations and Leadership.” In it, Franklays out in minute detail the history ofthe socialist groups, collective farms,workers unions, their leaders and theconflicts they experienced as theytried to make their utopian ideas for aJewish homeland a reality.Many of the players and groups Frank

looks at in this book will be unfamiliar tomany Jews, making this thin 108-pagevolume a challenging read. That said,Frank also reminds us that some of themost famous names in Israeli history —David Ben-Gurion, Berl Katznelson,A.D. Gordon, to name a few — had theirorigins in this movement.Frank also writes that the aliya

movement of the 19th and 20th cen-turies was not one period, but three,each broken down into three individ-ual chapters explaining their ownunique challenges.Chronicling the development of the

kibbutz and moshav systems of agrariancommunities and their varying philoso-phies, Frank sheds light on the issuesthese settlements dealt with, includingdistribution of food and other resourcesto the members, the equality of women(or lack thereof) in day-to-day life andthe question of using Arab workers incollective settlements.Israelis continue to wrestle with

some of these questions even today.While the book pays scant attention

to the drama and individual lives ofthese communities, and the peoplewho chose to live in them (this is clear-ly an academic work), Frank doesmake an effort to describe the hard-ships with which the early settlers ofthese communities wrestled. For in-stance, the reader learns about thehardships in obtaining the equipmentneeded to till the land and scant med-ical supplies beyond quinine powderworkers sprinkled on their food.

Socialists took many forms, fromMarxists to Tolstoyans. Frank alsonods to the cultural Zionists such asAhad Ha’Am and Chaim NachmanBialik.Strictly speaking, though, this is not

a book about socialist Zionism in Is-rael. Frank introduces readers to ef-forts to establish these movementswithin the Russian Pale of Settlementand even efforts to start autonomousJewish collectives in the Soviet Union,however unreceptive Soviet leaderswere to the idea. An educator for more than 50 years,

Frank’s adult life is steeped in the so-cialist Zionist idea. He lived the kib-butz life in the 1950s and again withhis family from 1977-1982. He is amember of Ameinu, a Labor Zionist or-ganization and has worked for His-tadrut, an Israeli federation of tradeunions.To the unindoctrinated reader, the

book can be difficult to follow and iscertainly not meant for a mass audi-ence, but for those students of Israelihistory keenly interested in the coun-try’s socialist roots, the book is a valu-able resource.

(Lee Chottiner can be reached [email protected].)

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Alon Yavnai, as many of his fans say,is an accomplished jazz musician, butYavnai himself might disagree.

About the jazz part, that is.“I don’t describe myself as jazz mu-

sician,” the Israeli pianist and compos-er told the Chronicle. “It’s not possi-ble; the music is going on in so manydirections and not just mine, but manymusicians.”

In fact, Yavnai, who will performwith a quintet of Israeli artists at theManchester Craftsman’s Guild fromOct. 29 to 30, sees it as part of his mis-sion to teach how all genres of musicinfluence one another. He will takepart in a workshop at Oberlin Collegefrom Nov. 2 to 4 to bridge perceivedgaps between classical music and oth-er styles not normally associated withit, especially Cuban and other Latinstyles.

“They come from the same roots,close roots and they complete each oth-

er,” he said of classical and otherstyles.

But first in foremost, Yavnai, whohas a new CD out, “Travel Notes,” is acomposer, heavily influenced by Cubanand African styles.

“Travel Notes,” includes big bandarrangements, a musical rendition of alove poem by Israeli poet Yonatan Gef-

fen, Latin rhythms, and other Israeli-influenced ballads.

In other words, the music on the al-bum can’t be pegged to any one genre,and that’s just how Yavnai likes it.

The son of an Argentinean motherand Israeli father, Yavnai grew up in ahome where both parents played mu-sic, so it’s no wonder he started playing

the piano at age 4 and performing pro-fessionally by age 14.

After his stint in the Israeli army, hemoved to Costa Rica, beginning a peri-od in his life that heavily influencedhis music style.

“I heard Latin music in the house[back in Israel]; my mother is Argen-tinean, [so] I heard it and it kind ofpenetrated,” he said. “But in CostaRica, I started to get this concentra-tion, and it really stayed with me.

While there he formed a trio calledOrpheous. The band toured andrecorded for three years.

And it was Costa Rica where Yavnaimet Paquito D’Rivera, the famousCuban-born jazz artist who would havea profound effect on Yavnai’s career.Yavnai soon joined D’Rivera’s LatinJazz Quintet in 2001 and became an in-tegral member of the ensemble, play-ing with the likes of cellist Yo-Yo Maand performing works by Brahms andthe 19th century Cuban composerIgnacio Cervantes. The band, includ-ing Yavnai, won a 2008 Grammy Awardfor its album “Funk Tango.”

Of Yavnai, D’Rivera said, “among allthe pianists I’ve worked with, AlonYavnai is the most versatile musician.”

(Lee Chottiner can be reached [email protected].)

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From Cuban to classical

Israeli jazz musician Alon Yavnai plays at MCG

Want to go?What: “Alon Yavnai Presents Jazz & WorldRhythms”When: Saturday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Oct.30, 2:30 p.m.Where: Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, (412)322-0800, mcgjazz.org.

Alon Yavnai believes classical music has more in common with other styles thanlisteners think.

At synagogue, MajorityLeader Cantor respondsto Obama on jobs billSingled out by President Barack Oba-

ma during a speech in Texas for oppos-ing economic reform, House MajorityLeader Eric Cantor(R-VA) responded tothe president at aManhattan syna-gogue Sunday night,The Daily Beastwebsite reported.Obama said last

week that he“wouldlike Mr. Cantor tocome here to Dal-las and explainwhat exactly in thisjobs bill does henot believe in, what exactly he is op-posed to.”Cantor answered just that at the West

Side Institutional Synagogue on Sunday,explaining that the bill’s proposed capitemized deductions at the 35 percenttax bracket would hurt the cause ofnonprofits.“It doesn’t make any sense to me to

pursue what the president is talkingabout in the economy we’ve got,” Can-tor said, according to The Daily Beast.“Why would you do something thatmakes it less attractive to give to chari-ties when so many people are in need?”

— JointMedia News Service

Al Davis, legendaryJewish NFL owner, dieson Yom KippurAl Davis — longtime owner of the

Oakland Raiders National FootballLeague franchise who also served as acoach, general manager and leaguecommissioner — died at age 82 on Yom

Kippur last Saturday.Davis, who was born to a wealthy

Jewish family in Brockton, Mass., andwent on to spend his childhood in theFlatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn,guided the Raiders organization tothree Super Bowl Championships andwas known for the mantra “Just win,baby.”“He was an innovator, a pioneer with

a deep love and passion for the game offootball,” the Raiders said in a state-ment on Davis. “His contributions tothe game are innumerable and his lega-cy will endure forever through genera-tions of players, coaches, administra-tors and fans.”Davis hired Art Shell, one of the first

black coaches in NFL history, amongother trailblazing moves.“As a Jewish person, he understood

discrimination,” Eric Golub wrote ofDavis in the Washington Times.On the Silver & Black Pride Raiders’

blog, Raymond St. Martin noted the re-ligious significance of the timing ofDavis’s passing.“Can it get any more Jewish than dy-

ing on the day of atonement?” St. Mar-tin wrote.

—JointMedia News Service

ADL: Anti-Semiticincidents rise for firsttime since 2004The Anti-Defamation League’s annual

audit for U.S. anti-Semitism, unveiledlast week, revealed a rise in anti-Semit-ic incidents for the first time since2004.Incidents went up from 1,211 inci-

dents in 2009 to 1,239 in 2010, followinga decrease in the occurrences each yearsince 2004’s U.S. record of 1,821, ac-cording to ADL. The audit tracks “inci-dents of vandalism, harassment andphysical assaults against Jewish indi-viduals, property and community insti-tutions across the U.S.,” using reports


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What Zittrain Eisenberg found mostinteresting about the deal was thetiming.“Hamas and Israel are kind of respond-

ing to the same catalyst, which is Mah-moud Abbas’s [United Nations] bid,” shesaid, referring to the Palestinian Authoritypresident’s petition to the world body forrecognition as a state. “Both Israel andHamas are unhappy with that action byAbbas, and I think they’re both looking tosubvert it and they have found a quite im-pressive distraction from it.”The swap, she explained, gives Israeli

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu away to take attention away from theUnited Nations and gives Hamas a tan-gible accomplishment to show the Pales-tinian people.Although both sides may see gains

from this deal, Pavilack said they’re notnecessarily even.“A win-win? I don’t know, but it’s certain-

ly very good in light of everything goingon,” he said. “It gets this young guy home.”However, “there are some people to

be released who have blood on theirhands, and you hate to see that,” Pavi-lack added, “but you’re not negotiat-ing with a friend. You’re negotiatingwith an enemy.”The Community Relations Council

(CRC) of the Jewish Federation ofGreater Pittsburgh, which helped or-ganize a pilgrimage to Rome and Is-rael last year for 28 Jewish andCatholic leaders from Pittsburgh, in-cluding Bishop David Zubik and RabbiAaron Bisno, released a statementMonday welcoming the then-pendingrelease.While in Israel, members of the pil-

grimage team visited Noam and AvivaShalit in the tent where the parentswere holding a vigil for their son.The CRC “has waged a persistent

campaign to focus and sustain atten-tion on Gilad Shalit's plight,” the state-ment read. “Only six weeks ago, on

Aug. 30, the CRC worked with Pitts-burgh City Councilman Doug Shieldsto have Gilad named an Honorary Cit-izen of Pittsburgh, a rarely bestowedform of recognition.”It continued, “also this year, on June

28, CRC teamed with JFilm on a spe-cial Pittsburgh screening of the docu-mentary film ‘Family in Captivity,’which chronicles the Shalit Family'stireless efforts to secure their son's re-lease.Added CRC Chair David Ainsman,

“the treatment of Gilad Shalit at thehands of Hamas violates every inter-national law governing the treatmentof prisoners. It is a crime against allcultures that celebrate life. But now isnot the time to dwell on that. Now isthe time to celebrate his freedom.”

(Ilana Yergin can be reached [email protected].)

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Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu greets Israeli soldier GiladShalit at the Tel Nof Air Force Base inIsrael shortly after his release fromcaptivity, Tuesday, Oct. 18.

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Larry Good came downstairs onemorning and asked his youngestdaughter, Heidi, if she wanted a bagel.She did. Heidi didn’t know that this was not

your ordinary bagel run. The Goodslived in Wheeling, W.Va., and thebagels Good had in mind were in NewYork City. The day trip included a visitto the Metropolitan Museum of Artand the Modern Museum of Art.Apparently everyone who was close

to Good had their own unique story totell.His son Jay took a trip to Israel with

Good. While there they visited Mt.Sinai. As they descended the slope,Good took a bottle of aspirin from hispocket and pulled out two tablets.“Take my picture,” he told Jay.Seriously, Good, a successful retail-

er who, together with his brother, Sid-ney, ran L.S. Good & Co., a chain withdepartment stores throughout theeastern and Midwestern United States,was a civic leader, a philanthropistand activist in Jewish life. But hisfriends and family remember himmost for his generosity, kindness andsense of humor. Good died Wednesday, Oct. 12, at his

home in Wheeling. He was 79.Good’s most significant gift to the

city of Wheeling was the Good Zoo atOglebay Park, which he founded withhis first wife, Barbara Mayer Good, in1977, in memory of their son Philip,who died at age 7.“What was most important to him

about the zoo is that it is a space that is

used and loved by a full community ofpeople, and that is what makes it whatit is,” said daughter Heidi. “[It’s] aspecial place to be with family, and toexplore, to play, to learn new things.That Philip's memory sparked this,and is known by those who visit,brought it full circle for Dad andMom.”The Goods also donated funds for

flowers and gardens for Good’s moth-er, Jeannette Good, at Wheeling Hos-pital. And they supported Faith in Ac-tion, Oglebay Institute, American Can-cer Society and the United Jewish Ap-peal, to name just a few projects.Civically, Good served on the boards

of the Oglebay Institute, the WheelingSymphony Society, Wheeling Develop-ment Conference, the Ohio Valley In-dustrial and Business DevelopmentCorp. and West Liberty State College.One of his most significant affilia-

tions was the NAACP where Good wasa charter member.After closing L.S. Good & Co., he was

the director of the Office of Gift Plan-ning, Medical Park Foundation; the ex-ecutive director of Wheeling Works,Inc.; and he worked as a life underwriterand employee benefit specialist.In Jewish life, Good was the

archivist of Temple Shalom, where thearchives still bear his name (Kraft-Good Archives) and served as chair of

the finance committee.Born Laurance Frederic Good Sept

26, 1932, in Wheeling, Good later grad-uated from Phillips Exeter Academy,Brown University and served twotours of duty in the Navy before re-turning to the family business.The Good family has been in Wheel-

ing since 1873. Good’s grandfather,L.S. Good, started the departmentstore chain as a dry goods business in1884.Good created “My Lifetime Book” and

founded Personal History Systems toshare his love of genealogy with others. He was an avid gardener and a

skilled photographer. Among his best-known shots were some of his friend,Rabbi Jacob Rader Marcus, founder ofthe American Jewish Archives inCincinnati, who grew up in Wheeling.In 1976, Good became a charter re-

cipient of the Distinguished West Vir-ginian award.He is survived by his second wife,

Ellie Good; two sons, Jay and Paul(Carolyn) Good; and two daughters,Jenny (Gary Brozek) and Heidi(Harouna Boncana) Good; threegrandchildren, Lauren, Henry, andPaloma Good; one brother, David(Jane) Good; and one sister Ruth(Allen) Miller. Services were held Sunday in

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Fong-Cohen/Diamond: Ellenand Mark Diamond of Mt. Lebanon an-nounce the engagement of their son,Jonathan Lee Diamond, to NatashaFong-Cohen, daughter of Laura and BudCohen of San Francisco. Jonathan’s grandparents are Selma

Jackson of Mt. Lebanon, Hilda Dia-mond of Squirrel Hill, the late MelJackson and the late Saul Diamond.Jonathan graduated from WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis and Natashagraduated from University of CaliforniaSan Diego. Natasha and Jonathan are candidates

for master’s of business administrationdegrees at the George Washington Uni-versity School of Business. Natasha and Jonathan are planning

an October 2012 wedding in SanFrancisco.

Weddings

Reiber/McKenney: Mitch andDebbie Levy McKenney of Pittsburghannounce the marriage of their son,Ethan Benjamin McKenney, to LauraMercedes Reiber, daughter of Bar-bara Reiber of Webster, N.Y., andDavid Reiber of Rochester, N.Y., Sept.10 at Sonnenberg Gardens inCanandaigua, N.Y.Ethan’s grandparents are Joan and

Maurice Levy of Pittsburgh and Lor-raine and George McKenney of War-wick, N.Y.Laura graduated from the State

University of New York College atFredonia and is vice president ofsales at Nik Entertainment Company.Ethan graduated from the Universi-

ty of Rochester and is currently a stu-dent in its Simon Graduate School ofBusiness. He is a certified financialplanner with Manning and NapierAdvisors. Laura and Ethan reside in

Rochester.

BirthsMelnick: Susie (Chernoff) and Brad

Melnick announce the birth of their son,Ethan James, Sept. 15. Grandparentsare Isabel and Herb Chernoff, Les andIna Melnick, and Carol Adelman. Ethanis the brother of Joshua and Reese.Ethan is named in loving memory of

his great-great-aunt, Ethel Briskin, andhis maternal great-grandfather, JeromeChernoff. Ethan’s Hebrew name, Fivel,is in loving memory of his maternalgreat-grandmother, Florence Chernoff.

B’nai MitzvaJonah SatchelBerger, son ofRachel and AdamBerger, will becomea bar mitzva Satur-day, Oct. 22, at Treeof Life*Or L’SimchaCongregation.Grandparents areAlan and MarciaBerger and Sol

Pardes and Joan Weinreich.

Melinda Ritter,daughter of Marcieand Steven Ritter,will become a batmitzva Saturday,Oct. 22, at 10:30a.m. at TempleSinai. Grandparentsare Renee Ritter ofJericho, N.Y., andthe late Seymour

Ritter and Constance Wallace of Coop-erstown, N.Y., and the late LavinderWallace.

Eli Roth, son ofNadine Kruman andAndrew Roth ofPittsburgh, becamea bar mitzva Oct. 15at Rodef ShalomC o n g r e g a t i o n .Grandparents areEstelle Kruman andthe late Jack Kru-man and the late Ina

and Melvin Roth.

Allie RachelRyave, daughterof Judy and DavidRyave, will becomea bat mitzva Satur-day, Oct. 22, atTemple Emanuel.Grandparents areGail and the lateArnold Ryave, andDolly and the lateDonald Landay.

Maya BalkSchaer, daughterof Judy Balk andAndy Schaer, willbecome a bat mitzvaSaturday, Oct. 22, atBeth El Congrega-tion. Grandparentsare Phil and BetteBalk and CookieSchaer, all of Pitts-

burgh, and the late Sidney Schaer.

Zachary AaronZeff, son ofMichelle and Ken-neth Zeff, became abar mitzva Satur-day, Oct. 15, atTemple Sinai.Grandparents areGail Murman ofPittsburgh and thelate Leonard Mur-

man and the late Sandy and GeraldZeff.

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I was flipping through some other Jewish news-papers from around the country that we get in theoffice and found these recipes in the holiday edi-tion of The Reporter. The article accompanying itwas by Sybil Kaplan, Jerusalem, for JTA.Although I have not made either recipe yet, they

are both easy and sound delicious – and still perfectfor the holiday season.

CHICKEN WITH HONEY FRUIT SAUCE

¾ cup apricot jam1 ½ cups orange juice1 ½ cups red wine1 tablespoon ginger2 teaspoons garlic powder1 ½ teaspoons thyme2 tablespoons honey2 teaspoons corn starch2 teaspoons cold water6 ounces apricots6 ounces prunes3 to 4 pounds cut-up chicken

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a bakingdish. Place chicken parts in dish. Set aside.Place apricot jam, orange juice, red wine, ginger,

garlic powder, thyme and honey in a saucepan.Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer to reduceto 3 cups.Stir in corn starch and water and blend. Add

apricots and prunes. Pour over chicken. Bake inpreheated oven 45 minutes or until chicken is done.

POPPYSEED HONEY DRESSING

¼ cup honey2 tablespoons Dijon mustard2 tablespoons cider vinegar½ cup oil2 teaspoons poppy seeds

Beat honey, mustard and vinegar in a bowl orshake well in a jar with a lid.Add oil and poppy seeds and shake some more.

Use in a salad with mixed greens and fruit such asgrapefruit.Makes about 1 cup.

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Marc Elliot, posing with members of The Friendship Circle’s teen leadership board, spoke to the Jewish community Sunday, Oct. 9. Some 400 people attendedthe program, “Get Over It! Everyone is Different.”

Becoming friends

Marvin S.Lieber has beenincluded in BestLawyers in Amer-ica. He is a part-ner in the Ober-mayer RebmannMaxwell & Hip-pel LLP Pitts-burgh office andmember of thefirm’s health carepractice groupand businessand financedepartment.

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BEERMAN: On Friday, Oct. 14,2011, Arthur “Art Mann” Beerman;beloved husband of the late Dava“Babe” Beerman; devoted father ofCelia Beerman, Margy Beerman and

Brian (Molly) Beerman; loving grand-father of Michael; also survived bynieces and nephews. Services wereheld at Ralph Schugar Chapel; inter-ment private. Contributions may bemade to Hebrew Free Loan Associa-tion, 4315 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh,PA 15217. Arrangements by RalphSchugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 CentreAve., Pittsburgh, PA 15232.www.schugar.com

COHEN: On Thursday, Oct., 13,2011, Margaret “Peg” Cohen, age 93;Peg went suddenly and gently intothat good night. She was the proudand beloved godmother of Abby,Ethan, and Gregory Schaffer, andbeloved friend of their parents,Michele Gray-Schaffer and EricSchaffer. She was predeceased byparents Philip and Fannie, and sistersLillian and Ruth. Peg’s loving friendswere devoted and attentive to herduring her final illness, and she willbe sorely missed. In addition to theSchaffer family, they include LynneMorrow, Gary and Karen Sinwell,Donna and Larry Blanchard, LindaBuccina, Judy Robinson, LoisBlaufeld, Posy and Jack Brill, ConniePelmon, and Sara and Meir Shur andchildren. She also leaves behind de-

voted aide Tierra Fitzgerald andcousins Roz and Mitchell Yankowitzof Los Angeles. Peg was a careerwoman who was the office managerfor the Pittsburgh office of the Na-tional Labor Relations Board. Shewas widely travelled, with Paris hold-ing a special place in her heart. Sheadored all things French. She was alifelong gardener, and her garden is aplace of magic and beauty. She culti-vated and coaxed the best out of bothplants and friends. Services and in-terment were held at Poale ZedeckMemorial Park Cemetery. Contribu-tions can be made to the Biblical Gar-den at Rodef Shalom Temple, 4905Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 orHadassah-Greater Pittsburgh Chap-ter, 1824 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh, PA15217. Funeral arrangements byRalph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15232.www.schugar.com

HOLZER: On Wednesday, Oct. 12,2011, Charlotte “Lottie” Holzer;beloved wife of the late Max Holzer.beloved mother of Sy (Cathy) Holzer,Dennis (Adrienne) Holzer and thelate Ronald Holzer; mother-in-law ofMargaret Ann Holzer; grandmother ofBrian (Lucy), Jodie (Jarrod), Brittany,Lindsey, Dayanna and Alicia; great-grandmother of Jacob, Tyler and Kay-la. Services were held at RalphSchugar Chapel, Inc; interment MountLebanon Cemetery, Beth El section.Contributions may be made to Beth ElCongregation, 1900 Cochran Road,Pittsburgh, PA 15220 or HolocaustCenter of Greater Pittsburgh, 5738Darlington Road, Pittsburgh, PA15217. Arrangements by RalphSchugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 CentreAve., Pittsburgh, PA 15232.www.schugar.com

MINSKY: On Wednesday, Oct. 12,2011 Howard “Buddy” Minsky, age80; Buddy was Joan’s true love andtreasured husband of 58 years, theadored and adoring father of threechildren and six grandchildren. Hisfriends and relatives and colleagueswill also remember Buddy as alawyer, president of his congregation,supporter of his synagogue, Navyman, poker player, fraternity brother,minyan regular, filmmaker, word-smith, devoted Steelers and Piratesfan. Wherever he travelled, he nevermissed a sunrise or a sunset. He tookpictures of everyone and everything,and has the photo albums to prove it.He made epic Halloween costumes,drove convertibles, deeply appreciat-ed a good steak and his wife’s choco-late chip cookies. He loved hisyorkies, and all technological gadgets,even the 8-tracks and the Betamax.He had an extraordinary talent with ayo-yo, which none of his children in-herited. He once caught a bank rob-

ber and never tired of telling the sto-ry. Buddy was known for his warmthand affection, he was an inveteratehugger, tickler and nuzzler. He livedby the motto: Life is uncertain, sostart with dessert. Buddy is survivedby his wife Joan, his children Terri,Jeffrey and Maura, his grandchildrenSam, Anna, Lucy, Sasha, Edie andDasha, and by his brother Jay. Servic-es were held at Beth El Congregation;interment Mount Lebanon Ceme-tery/Beth El Section. Donations inBuddy’s memory may be made toBeth El Congregation, 1900 CochranRoad, Pittsburgh, PA., 15220.Arrangements entrusted to RalphSchugar Chapel, Inc.www.schugar.com

POSTER: on Saturday Oct. 15,2011, in Springfield, Va., Vivian Spec-tor Poster, 93; beloved wife of the lateMilton Poster; mother of Dr. MarshaPoster of Bonita Springs, Fla., DebraPoster (Stephen L.) Altman of FairfaxVa.; grandmother of Judd Poster Alt-man of Arlington, Va., Leah MeredithAltman and her fiancé, Todd D.Soiefer of New York City; sister of thelate Jack Spector and the late MolleyeSimon. Services were held at B’nai Is-rael Cemetery in Hempfield Town-ship. Contributions may be made tothe Greenspring Benevolent CareFund, attention: Kimberly Nelson,7410 Spring Village Drive, Spring-field, VA 22150. Arrangements by theGalone-Caruso Funeral Home, 204Eagle St., Mt. Pleasant, PA 15666.www.galone-carusofuneralhome.com

ROSEN: On Wednesday, Oct. 12,2011, Richard I. Rosen; loving son ofGloria and the late Norwin Rosen;loving brother of Barbara J. Rosen(Ilkka Ikavalko) and the late JudyRosen; cousin of Adrienne and DennisDrapkin, Dr. Jan Miller Schwartz,Abby and Dr. Chuck Hyman, Myrnaand Joe Strapp and their children.Services were held at Ralph SchugarChapel; interment Beth Shalom Ceme-tery. Arrangements by Ralph SchugarChapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pitts-burgh, PA 15232. www.schugar.com

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visiting student rabbi from the HebrewUnion College - Jewish Institute of Reli-gion in New York.Ackerman, born in 1936, remembers a

time when the congregation thrived, ac-comodating more than 100 children inits religious school.But times have changed. “Now, we have no children here at

all,” she said. The building on Watkins Avenue that

is now Temple Beth Am was constructedin 1952. Originally a Conservative con-gregation, it replaced the Kneseth Israelsynagogue that was built in downtownMonessen in 1908. The congregationchanged its name to Temple Beth Am af-ter it merged with Charleroi’s TempleRodef Shalom.While Beth Am used to have services

biweekly, the tiny congregation now onlybrings in its student rabbi once a month.“That’s what we can afford,” Acker-

man said.Once a month the sisterhood, under

the leadership of Ackerman, prepares aFriday night dinner for about 20 people. “Phyllis does the cooking,” said her

husband, Sidney Ackerman, who grewup across the river in Donora. “Whenshe doesn’t cook, we order pizzas, orItalian food. Most of our memberscome.”Beth Am also has services on the

High Holy Days, this year drawingmore than 30 people, some fromneighboring towns that no longer havea synagogue. Ackerman saw to it thatthere was a festive break fast at theconclusion of Yom Kippur.“We have flowers, and colored table-

cloths,” she said. “People are shocked tosee how nice we do these things.”Back in its heyday, in the 1940s and

1950s, Monessen’s only Jewish congre-gation had about 150 member families,recalled Jack Bergstein, who was bornin Monessen in 1940 and still lives there. “You went [to the synagogue] on Fri-

day nights and Saturday mornings,” hesaid. “There were services on a weeklybasis. It was a pretty traditional congre-gation, with everyone walking on theHigh Holidays.”“We had an AZA chapter, and B’nai

B’rith, and a very active sisterhood,”Bergstein continued. “We had a unique

pre-AZA and BBG organization calledthe Saturday Nighters Club for 10- and11-year-olds. We would meet for socialfunctions.”Nearby Donora had an Orthodox syna-

gogue that closed its doors for goodabout 10 years ago, Bergstein said. Thattown also had a kosher butcher.“There used to be a big Jewish com-

munity in Monessen,” said Phyllis Ack-erman. “We used to have a lot of dances.After Yom Kippur, there was a dance.Now we just don’t have the people.”While Beth Am’s finances are not suf-

ficient to make needed improvements tothe synagogue, the building is nonethe-less well kept. The carpeting in the sanc-tuary looks brand new, although it wasinstalled about 10 years ago for the con-gregation’s last bar mitzva. The socialhall is clean and tidy, having just beenused for the break fast. Siddurim areneatly lined up on the wooden shelves,ready to be used for the next monthlyShabbat service.But at Beth Am, the past seems almost

as alive as the present. Tacked on thewalls of the Sunday school classroomsare photographs of students enjoyingpicnics and holiday parties; the photosmust be at least 20 years old. Hebrewlessons remain written on the chalk-boards, although the rooms have notbeen used for ages.“The whole valley has changed,” said

Sidney Ackerman. “Everybody hasmoved away. The whole town hasshrunk.”The Jewish community began to leave

Monessen before the mills began shut-ting down in 1967, said Sidney Acker-man. He worked in a mill for 27 years,while also operating a furniture re-salebusiness. Most of the Jews in town,though, were merchants, he said. Theyleft when the Monessen economy beganto slump, and when big stores such asA&P and K-Mart proved too competive.But Phyllis Ackerman is trying her

best to keep Judaism alive in the MonValley.“I want to keep it [Beth Am] going, be-

cause we are the only Jewish presencein the Valley, and that’s important,” shesaid.“I try to talk her into going away for

the holidays,” husband Sidney said ofhis wife. “But she won’t leave.”



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RHODA BROWN........................LILLIAN BROWNSHERRI COHAN &DAUGHTERS.......................MIRIAM M. GLANTZMARIAN C. COHEN...................MY DEAR ONESPHYLLIS R. COHEN .....JUDITH KOCHIN COHENCORRINE DENMARK...............MARY LEVINSON

COHENSYLVIA ELIAS.......................SADIE MOLDOVANWILLIAM FELDMAN ...........ISADORE FELDMANNORMAN H. GLANTZ..........MIRIAM MAGADOF

GLANTZLUCILLE C. GORDON ..............MARY LEVINSON

COHENRENA B. HANKS........................LEO BERKOVITZPAULA GLICK HILL ........................JENNIE ROSECORINNE KRAUSE ..........................LOUIS AZENEVELYN B. LEVIN ........................ANNA BERGER

SOLOMONJOEL A. LICHTENSTUL........................EDWIN E.

LICHTENSTULMARSHA LIEB ....................SIDNEY LEFKOWITZDR. STANLEY M. MARKS ......HERBERT MARKSSANDRA S. MILLER ...............RAY PAUL LAZIEREMERSON N. MILLIGRAM...................REBECCA

WEINBERGFAYE M. NICKEL..................SYLVIA R. MELNICK

ROSE ORR ......................BERTHA HANDELMANHOWARD PERLMAN .............RUTH I. PERLMANSYLVIA REZNICK ........................GRACE MILLERNEIL ROSENSTEIN FAMILY WILLIAM "BUB-

BLES" ROSENSTEINARTHUR J. RUBEN................MEYER ELI RUBENSANDY E. SCHLLESINGER ..........................SAM

SCHLLESINGERMARCIA SEMPER .......................SYLVIA ISRAELMARCIA SEMPER....................MORTON ISRAELMARCIA SEMPER ........................NATHAN LEVYMARCIA SEMPER...........................JENNIE LEVYMARCIA SEMPER........................JULIA BAROFFFRANKLIN Z. SIEGEL...................FREDA SIEGELCHARLOTTE SPERO-SUKOLSKY..............................SIDNEY S. SPEROARLENE M. STROMBERG ........LILLIAN MASONRONALD M. TEPPER..................HARRY TEPPERJUDITH SHADDENTORRANCE................FLORA MAY K. SHADDENSYBIL WEIN & FAMILY .................MORRIS WEINDAVID H. WEIS .........................PETER SHAFFERHAROLD C. WEISS ..............DR. ALFRED WEISSCAROLE K. WOLSH.............ESTHERITA COHENDOROTHY WOLOVITZ ............MARY LEVINSON

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23: SIMON J. ANATHAN, ISADORE E. BINSTOCK, JACK CITRON, MARY LEVINSONCOHEN, ETHEL DAVIS, SARAH SILVERBLATT EPSTEIN, BELLA HADAS, MARY JOSSELSON, EDWARD L. KLEIN,RACHEL KOPP, ESTHER ROGOW LANDAU, HARRIS LANGE, ANNA LEVINE, JOSEPH LEVY, SIDNEY LEWIS, ADELELEYTON, RUTH LIEPSITZ, DR. PAULINE NEIMAN, PAULINE DR. NEIMAN, BESSIE PERSKY, PETER RIESBERG,SOLOMON S. ROSENFIELD, ANNA LEVENTON RUBEN, SAM SCHWARTZ, YETTA STEIN, LOUISE COMINSWAXLER, DR. ALFRED L. WEISS, SAMUEL J. WISE, MILTON WITTEN, EMMA REBECCA ZOBER.MONDAY, OCTOBER 24: E. LOUIS BRAUNSTEINDAVID BURGER, TOBIAS COHEN, HARRY COOPERMAN,JACK FIENBERG, DOROTHY HARRIS, BARNEY HOLTZMAN, CHARLOTTE DEBRA F. KAWOLSKY, DR. ALEXANDERA. KRIEGER, SIDNEY H. LEFKOWITZ, JACK LEVINSON, LOUIS LEVINSON, LAZOR LEWIS, IDA LINDER, HELEN A.MARKOWITZ, HARRY P. MEYERS, HARRY P MYERS, ADOLPH NEWMAN, DAVID S. PALKOVITZ, JOSEPH WILLIAMPARNES, RACHEL POVARTZIK, ROSE PUDLES, CELIA RAKUSIN, EMANUEL RANDALL, LOUIS H. ROSENTHAL,SALI PILLER SCHECHTER, SOPHIE SCOTT, FLORENCE SHRAGER, SARAH SILVERBERG, RITA JO SKIRBLE, HARRYS. SMIZIK, SEYMOUR SPIEGEL, WILLIAM STERN, HARRY E. SUSSMAN, HANNAH WEINSTEIN, SAM WEINSTEIN,HAROLD B. WEISSMAN, BORIS WINSTON.TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25: ZORACH CHAIM ABRAMS, JONAS ADLER, JOSEPH ADLER, MIRIAM BANDEL,SHIRLEY BARR, JEAN SINGER CAPLAN, SAUL EISNER, MILDRED ESKOVITZ, MARVIN S. FRIEDBERG, LOUIS FRIED-MAN, SAM GOLDBERG, PEARL COHEN GOODMAN, JACK GREENBERG, SADYE R. KANTOR, MAX LANDO, CHARLESLEEFER, HYMAN LERNER, MARY LEVITT, GOODMAN LEVY, LOUIS LEVY, IGNATZ MARKSTEIN, REGINA MARX, VI-OLET C. MILLER, LOTTIE MOGILOWITZ, NATHAN A. MOSS, ABRAHAM RADEN, JONAH RAPPORT, JOSEPH RAUH,ALEXANDER REICH, FREDA DAVIS SEEGMAN, FLORA MAY SHADDEN, BERTHA ETHEL SHAMBERG, ANDREW H.SHAPIRO, GRACE G. SHAROVE, ELLA SIEFF, WILLIAM SIMON, RICHARD STUTZ, E. ROBERT TITELMAN, ADOLPHWEINBERGER, HARRIS WEINSTEIN, JOSEPHINE SOLLOSY WEIS, BERNARD WEISS, BERTHA P. WEISS, NAT H.WINKELMAN, ESTHER H. WINKLER, NELLIE WISEMAN, ADA MARIE WOLFE, SARAH SABLE YOUNG.WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26: WILLIAM ABRAMS, MARY ASTROV, LUCY CAPLAN, SARAH N. COHEN,PETER DAVIDSON, EDWARD A. FEINERT, SOLOMON GLICK, ABRAHAM HANSELL, SYLVIA B. KARPO, HARRY M.LASDAY, HYMAN LEFF, ALICE LEVINE, WILLIAM S. LICHTENSTUL, HARRY D. LINDER, EDWARD MANDELL, RAEMONT, I. EDWARD PLESSET, PHILIP REICHER, HARRY ROFEY, JESSE ROGERS, MORRIS ROSENBLUM, FRANKSAMOWICH, ROSE SHERIN, ISADORE SIEGAL, LENA SILVERMAN, SARA SADIE SOBEL, ANNA SOKOL, DR.DANIEL SOLOMON, ALBERT SOMERMAN, FANNIE STEIN, JACOB STERN, MARY STOLLER, ALBERT I. TOBIAS,HARRY ULANOFF, ANNA WEDNER, NATHAN WEINER, SAMUEL WELLS, DONALD ELI WITKIN, ROSE ZASLOFF.THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27: SARAH BERMAN, JACK CAPLAN, MORRIS CHAIMOVITZ, ISAIAH COOPER,LAUREL B. DEVON, ROSE K. FREED, HARRY FREEDMAN, PAULINE J. ISAACS, SARAH JACOBSON, ROSE BIGMANKALMANOWITZ, DR. PAUL KAPLAN, ANNA KLEE, ETHEL I. KRAUSS, IDA MAGDOVITZ KROUSE, JACOB JOSEPHKURTZ, MILTON LEHMAN, PEARL LEVY, JESSIE LICHT, LEON E. MARKOWITZ, DR. LEONARD M. MONHEIM, SYD-NEY REITER, ROGER E. RESNICK, RUTH RIZIKA, ROSE ROLNICK, ROSE ROSEN, SAMUEL ROSENFELD, EMANUELROSENTHAL, ETTA SASLOW, EDITH F. SIMON, DR. HENRY SLOAN, SIMON SOLOW, JOSEPH WEINTRAUB, FLORALANGE WOLF, LOUIS WOLF, I. LEROY (LEE) YAHR, DAVID ZERELSTEIN, SONIA GROSSMAN ZION.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28: EMMA G. ALLEN, HARRY BARASH, BELLE BEIGEL, JACOB BELINKY, BERNARD M.BENNETT, HELEN BERKMAN, HANNAH BLAUFELD, RUBIN BRENNER, JACOB L. CAPLAN, RUTH MERMELSTEINCRAMER, MINNIE BELLMAN FOX, JACOB FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM GOLDBERG, RHODA FISHER JONAS, FRED KIT-MAN, ELLA PINCUS KURTZ, MORRIS LAPIDUS, DR. SAMUEL I. LEBEAU, FREDA LEFF, JACOB LEVENSON, HYMENLIFF, CHARLES S. LINDNER, LILLIAN B. MARTIN, CHARLES MONHEIM, TRACI MICHELE PERILMAN, WILLIAMRICHTER, SAMUEL ROTHMAN, JACOB H. SCHLESINGER, SADIE SCHNITZER, JACOB SCHWARTZ, SAMUEL M.SEGEL, ROBERT SHENSON, DR. SAUL YORK, JANE BRAND ZINS.SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29: DR. RALPH H. BAUM, BENJAMIN BERMAN, FAGIE COHEN, OSER COHEN, ED-WARD DOBRUSHIN, I. LOUIS ECKHOUSE, ELLA C. FEINBERG, NATHAN G. FISHER, PEARL FISHKIN, MORRISFREEMAN, ROBERT R. GERBER, ISRAEL GERSHON, FANNIE GORMAN, ALBERT HENDEL, JACOB KATZ, SIMONKLEIN, DR. I.A. LASDAY, JACOB LAZIER, SAMUEL LEDERMAN, CHARLES LEUIN, DAVID MILLER, EUGENEMOSKOVITZ, MORRIS PECHERSKY, MAX PERER, SAM PERLUT, PETER PINK, SAMUEL PRELUTSKY, JACOB M.PRICE, MARY RAPPORT, SARAH RUTH SAUL ROSENBERG, ANNA RUBENFIELD, SARAH RUSKIN, BERDE S. RUT-TENBERG, DR. ALEC RUZEWICH, SARAH SABLE, CELIA SILVER, MYER SKIRBOLL, MILTON SLESINGER,GERTRUDE STEINMAN, LOUIS STERN, FANNIE SUROVITZ, SARA MIRIAM TOLOCHKO, KATIE WEISMAN, ROSEWYATT, BERTHA COOPER YOUNG, HENRY L. ZACKS.

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