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A New York community devastated by Hurricane Sandy is still rebuilding.

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Holidays The choices and questions faced on Yom Kippur; recipes for Sukkot meals.

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Campaign chai-lightsA look at what the Federation Campaign supports locally, in Israel and throughout the world.

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As part of the Super Sunday Fun Day program on September 29, the Jewish Federation will serve, at no charge, a cold boxed lunch to those attending between the hours of noon-1:15 pm. During the event, attendees will be able to donate blood at a Red Cross blood drive and to spend an hour at the UJA Phone-a-thon

Plans are being made for the Scranton Hebrew Day Schools bi-annual Chinese auction and melave malka to be held at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Scran-ton on Saturday evening, November 16. A melave malka featuring a buffet will

Box lunch to be served at Federations Super Sunday Fun Day on Sept. 29

to solicit funds for the 2014 UJA Campaign.

Sue Severe, committee chair-woman, said, Each box will include a choice of tuna salad, egg salad or turkey sandwich on rye, with fruit, chips and a drink. She and her commit-

tee will prepare the boxes and distribute them in the Jewish Community Center lobby on a first-come-first-served basis.

Tables will be set up in the Koppelman Auditorium

and, after lunch, families can enjoy live music by the Hester

Street Troupe in the Goodman Lounge, as well as activities for the children in the JCC gym.

Organizers of the program thanked com-mittee members Nancy Friedman, Millie Myers, Theresa Shonis, Nancy Rainey, Emily Trunzo, Katherine Smith, Natalie Milano and Carol Fishbein.

SHDS bi-annual Chinese auction and melave malka to be held at the Radisson in Scranton

also be part of the program.Fraidel Tzuker is event coordinator and

has stated that her committee is working diligently on obtaining prize packages from local and national businesses. The packages will include family amusement

park tickets, supermarket gift cards, dish-ware, electronics, Waterford crystal, a la-dies package and more. Gifts and prizes are being obtained on a daily basis.

As more information becomes available, it will be printed in The Reporter.

By Ben SaleSLOD, Israel (JTA) The airplane landed

on the tarmac, Ethiopia emblazoned in red on its side. A few government officials trickled down the airplanes steps. They were followed by groups of Ethiopian Jews descending to the runway, some falling to their knees and kissing the ground. Inside the terminal building, shouts in Amharic greeted the new arrivals as friends and relatives, some separated from the immi-grants for years, welcomed them to their new home.

We are finishing an exile of 2,500 years, Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel told the crowd. But the work is not over. Now we have to make sure these new immigrants integrate into Israeli society, learning from the mistakes that were made in the past.

ethiopian immigration is over, but integration obstacles persist

Ethiopian Jews kissed the ground upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport as part of Operation Wings of Dove, which ended the Ethiopian immigration to Israel, on August 28. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90/JTA)

New Ethiopian immigrants to Israel reunited with their relatives at Ben Gurion Airport on August 28. (Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images/JTA)

Three decades of Ethiopian immigration to Israel culminated with the arrival of two planes at Ben Gurion Airport on August 28, the 450 immigrants on board representing the last of more than 125,000 Ethiopians who have come during that period. Ethiopian immigrants have been celebrated in Israel since the first waves began arriving in the early 1980s, and government ministers and dignitaries gathered in force to welcome the final arrivals. But while the crowd was mostly Ethiopians, all but one of the speak-ers at the welcoming ceremony was either Russian or Ashkenazi.

The split illustrates the challenge that Israel has faced in absorbing the Ethiopi-ans, who have faced a range of integration obstacles. Ethiopians lag native Jewish Israelis in a wide range of socioeconomic

metrics that have remained largely resistant to govern-ment efforts at budging them. Earlier this year, the govern-ment parried allegations that it coerced Ethiopian women into receiving a long-term contraceptive injection.

In terms of how were integrated, were far from satisfied, Shimon Solomon, one of Israels two Ethiopian members of Knesset, told JTA. In education, work and soci-ety were at the bottom of the bottom. We dreamed of com-ing to Israel. We didnt dream of coming here and being at the bottom of the ladder.

According to Israels Central Bureau of Statistics, only 43 percent of Ethiopian stu-dents passed their high school matriculation exams in 2011; only 22 percent scored high enough to go to college. Among all Jewish Israeli students, those numbers are 58 and 50 percent, respectively.

Ziva Mekonen-Degu, who directs the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews, says that many Ethiopian parents are themselves uneducated and have little means. The par-ents cant give the help that other parents can, Mekonen-Degu said. Ethiopian parents

arent involved or influential enough.The problems continue into the army.

Although Ethiopians have an above-average enlistment rate, theyre also more likely to end up in military prison or to drop out early.

Ethiopians comprise 2 percent of Israels population, but made up only 1 percent of Israeli college students in 2011. The average

See Ethiopian on page 14

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The barbarians didnt appear out of thin air; they have always been around.

They have been operating in sleeper cells within the mock civilization that was left behind by the European colonialists as World War I drew to a close in the Middle East. With Syrias lid blown off, President Bashar al-Assads tribe and its various af-filiates have been fighting the Sunni tribes that were in power before November 1970, when Assads father staged a coup and had his loyalists appointed to senior positions in the military and the government. Do the various tribes in Syria have anything in common?

My heart goes out to the average Syrian who has found himself in the crossfire, a victim of a war among the barbarians. That said, Israel should not get involved. Its help should be limited to humanitarian aid. We must not accept the simplistic narrative that there are good guys vs. bad guys in Syria. Each side in this conflict is just as barbaric as the other. Perhaps even more so.

Those who eat their opponents heart (I am not making this up) and then rationalize this cannibalistic act, could ultimately use weapons of mass destruction. They are no different from Assad and his allies, Hezbol-lah and Iran.

There is one area where there is no daylight between the two warring fac-

who still thinks israel could have left the golan Heights?

tions: they both have an unlimited supply of hatred toward Israel. If those sides see an opening, they might try to increase the number of incidents that encroach on Israeli territory.

We have no dog in this race. Should Israel decide to back one side or another, it will have provided the Arabs in the Middle East and leftists all over the world with what they

had been searching for all along (where it was most convenient): a way to blame Israel for the Syrian civil war.

The Bible tells us, He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears (Proverbs 26:17). According to the biblical commentator Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki), this is akin to making a dog bite you for nothing. In other words, the Syrians will tell us, This is none of your

business; we are now going to combine forces against you.

But despite all that, you cannot just ignore the helpless victims. So we can intervene through nonmilitary methods, like conveying to the Russian Embassy our displeasure with the Kremlins support of the evil Syrian regime. The Russians are very sensitive when it comes to the way

they are perceived; international pressure on Russian embassies around the world could make Russian President Vladimir Putin pressure Assad and he, in turn, would scale back some of his actions.

Despite all of what has been described above, there are some wise Israelis who have already decided that Israel is the culprit. One of them is Yediot Ahronot analyst Shimon Shiffer, whose recent column defended U.S. President Barack Obamas wavering

Should Israel decide to back one side or another, it will have provided the Arabs in the Middle East and leftists all over the world with what they had been searching for all along (where it was most convenient): a way to blame Israel for the Syrian civil war....Why didnt we let the Golan Heights come under the control of the Assad family and forsake our security? Had a deal been signed with Assad, the bloody encounters of the Syrian civil war would have taken place right above the Sea of Galilee; no Israeli/Jewish community would have been safe.

on Syria and continued deliberations on the matter. Toward the end of the column, Shiffer inserted a passage that matches the rhetoric of those advocating territorial con-cessions, the same people who have until recently wanted Israel to hand the Golan Heights over to the Assad family, who would in turn provide for Israels security needs.

I dare to assume, Shiffer wrote, that had the two parties [Israel and Syria] reached an accord, we would not have witnessed this civil war, whose outcome is anyones guess. Eureka! The Syrian conflict is Israels fault.

Why didnt we pursue the path Shiffer and his friends had advocated? Why didnt we let the Golan Heights come under the control of the Assad family and forsake our security? Had a deal been signed with Assad, the bloody encounters of the Syrian civil war would have taken place right above the Sea of Galilee; no Israeli/Jewish community would have been safe. Pro-Syrian sleeper cells would become active, too. This is all just common sense.

But the lefts orthodoxy is still wedded to the dogma that the conflict with our en-emies is mainly about territory. There are still many among us who accept this folly; they are awarded airtime and column inches. Jews have always had a knack for being the devils advocate.

Dror Eydar is a columnist for Israel Hayom.

By JoSHUa SaFRan(JTA) I know now that my family tree is

adorned with rabbis and Hebrew novelists, Yiddish auctioneers and shtetl folk healers. But as a kid, I didnt know a thing about it. I didnt even know I was Jewish.

My mother, Claudia, pulled up her roots as a teenager and came west to San Francisco in the Summer of Love trying to find a new family one based on a shared vision of communitarian love, not tribal bloodlines or ancient texts. She still hadnt found what she was looking for by the time I was born at the end of the Vietnam War, and my early childhood was spent wandering the American West in search of an elusive utopia.

By the time I was 10, my mother and I had hitchhiked for thousands of miles and be-friended hundreds of exceptionally strange people. We had danced around bonfires and lived in vans, buses and an ice cream truck. Some nights we slumbered blissfully under the stars; others I lay awake paralyzed by the howling of wolves.

Our quest for utopia stalled out in rural Washington state when Claudia married Leopoldo, a former Salvadoran guerrilla fighter who brought with him demons from the civil war in Central America and a serious drinking problem. My mother was convinced that he was a messianic revolu-tionary hero she had foretold in clairvoyant visions. I was pretty sure Leopoldo was going to kill us.

In the summer of 1986, we moved to a temperate rainforest on one of the San Juan Islands. Leopoldo told us he was go-ing to build us an ancient Egyptian-style pyramid to live in, but his plan failed when he threatened to kill the property owner. As the winter rains fell, we found refuge in a dilapidated little apartment in the town of Stanwood, WA.

I found refuge in the local public library, where I began researching the Jewish legacy Id just learned was my birthright. The ancient spirituality of the land of Is-rael inspired me, and the rich tradition of the ancestors made me feel like I finally

For a free spirit, a new look at lifebelonged somewhere.

But my mothers political condemnation of Israel gave me pause until I finally got access to a television after my seventh-grade teacher assigned watching the nightly news as homework. Claudia wouldnt throw down $50 for a used television of our own, but she reluctantly agreed to let me watch elsewhere.

I had to admit that the moving color pic-tures gave me a new perspective on certain news stories. The Midwestern drought that Claudia had dismissed as a corporate scam to gain more farm subsidies sure looked like a bona fide disaster to me. And despite his evil policies, Reagan actually moved and talked like a nice old man, not a demon loosely draped in human skin.

But the most startling difference was my take on the intifada. This was an issue that kept me awake at night. How was I supposed to take pride in being Jewish with genocide being committed in my name?

But now the intifada was being tele-vised. Instead of a still, grainy picture of a Palestinian boy holding his leg in pain, I was presented with broad pans of hun-dreds of men hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at almost impossibly restrained Israeli soldiers. I peered in to look at their skin color.

Claudia had characterized this conflict as a redux of the civil rights movement, except this time the dark-skinned, oppressed minority wasnt just being denied its basic human rights and dignity, but also being targeted for extermination. But that wasnt what it looked like on camera.

When presented with my thoughts on the issue, Claudia assured me my conclusions

were all the result of selective editing and government manipulation of the media. But I wasnt so sure.

Claudias grip on my worldview be-gan to erode in front of the television, quickly disintegrating entirely. On one thing after another, I realized my mother was wrong.

Maybe the Israelis were actually decent people trying to make the best of a compli-cated situation. And if this were true, maybe the same could be said for America.

Maybe the police and the government and the corporations everyone Id been taught to hate and fear were all funda-mentally good people trying to do their best in complex times. And what if black and brown people werent morally supe-rior to white people? What if we were all just individuals who should be judged by the content of our character? Wasnt that what Dr. King had been talking about anyway?

And if that were the case, maybe your politics shouldnt define your moral worth. Maybe you could be an uber Republican, but still be a good person. And maybe, just maybe, you could believe in the revolu-tion and the people, and still be a terrible person.

I walked back thinking about the river of ideas Id been swimming in my whole life. All of the life choices my mother had made, all of the deprivations I had suffered were they all premised on delusions?

The walls of my room were plastered with protest posters Id picked up over the years, and I looked at them now with new eyes. First, I tore down Israel Out of Palestine! And then I tore down U.S. Out of North America! And then I ripped at my political wallpaper with the zeal of a recently deprogrammed cult survivor until all that remained was one anti-nuclear war poster. Then I tore that down, too. Who knew? Maybe you could hug your child with nuclear arms.

This was excerpted from Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid, to be published by Hyperion Books.

What if we were all just individuals who should be judged by the content of our character? Wasnt that what Dr. King had been talking about anyway?

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Temple Israel will host The Dearly Departed Play-ers in their original theatrical production, An Evening at Fords Theatre, on Saturday, November 9, at 8 pm, and on Sunday November 10, at 2 pm, in the temples main sanctuary.

Best known for the Dunmore Cemetery Tour, the Dearly Departed Players will portray lingering friendly and often quirky spirits of Fords Theatre in Washington, DC. In the one-act play, based on eye-witness accounts, the spirits

Marvin Bader at the Jewish Fellowship of

Hemlock FarmsBy JUDy HaMeR

The guest speaker at the monthly Sisterhood meeting on July 28 was Hemlock Farms resident Marvin Bader.

A World War II buff, he pre-sented a review of the war and how the outcome might have been different. He discussed Adolph Hitlers rise to power and how if certain events had been different, Germany might have won. For instance, he dis-cussed what may have happened

By JUDy HaMeRJewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms

member Marcia Guberman was the guest speaker at the Sisterhoods monthly meeting on August 14.

Guberman, who is a member of the Pike County Economic Development Council, discussed economic development in Pike County. In 2012, there were 56,800 people residing in Pike County. Two-thirds of the land in Pike County is comprised of state or federal forests. The main industry is

temple israel of Scranton to present an evening at Fords theatre

The Dearly Departed Players will present An Evening at Fords Theatre at Temple Israel on November 9 and 10.

describe the events of April 14, 1865, when John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.

An Evening at Fords Theatre will be followed by musical selections by Cantors Vladimir Aronzon and Marshall Wolkenstein. Thomas Costello, the great-grandson of Scranton master penman and embosser P.W. Costello, will present P.W.s works relating to the Lincoln assassination in the lobby of the temple before and after the performance.

Marcia guberman spoke at the Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms

Marcia Guberman listened to questions from the audience at the Sisterhood meeting on August 14.

tourism and construction.Pike County has the highest unemploy-

ment rate in the state, at 10.7 percent. To bring businesses into the area, the county created a tax incentive program for busi-nesses. As a result, a gun manufacturer is coming to a local business park, bringing 120 high-level jobs. Additionally, Ding-man Medical will expand and a Kayak Park will also come to the area.

Gubermans presentation was called very informative and interesting.

erin Dickins and Stef Scaggiari performed at the Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms

L-r: Stef Scaggiari and Erin Dickins performed for the Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms on August 17.

After the performance, congregants spoke to Erin Dickins. L-r: Sandy Steinlauf, Dickins and Roberta Nelson.

By JUDy HaMeRJazz singer Erin Dickins and accompanist Stef Scaggiari

performed at the Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms on August 17.

An award-winning jazz vocalist and founding member of The Manhattan Transfer, Dickins presented her rendi-tion of many lesser known songs with the accompaniment of Scaggiaris jazz piano. Among the more notable pieces were Dickins Java Jive, which was originally sung by The Manhattan Transfer, and Scaggiaris Sometimes Im Happy. His piano playing was called effortless, smooth and sensitive, with his vocalization described as equally as moving.

The program ended with a standing ovation for the two musicians.

Marvin Bader was the guest speaker at the monthly Sisterhood meeting on July 28.See Bader on page 13

The congregation of Temple Israel has invited the public to attend. Reservations for the performances can be made by contacting the office at 342-0350. Ticket prices will be $5 for students and seniors, $7.50 if bought in advance or $10 at the door. All proceeds will benefit Temple Israel.

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By talia lavinNEW YORK (JTA) Nine months ago,

Natalia Demidova crouched on the second floor of her Staten Island home and watched her neighbors SUV race a 10-foot wave down the street. The wave crashed through Demidovas quiet residential block in the South Beach neighborhood and flooded her home with more than two feet of water.

Demidova is among the many residents of South Beach still struggling to restore the life she had before Hurricane Sandy hit the northeastern United States last October. For most of the past year, she has been living with her family in a hotel while working to repair her severely damaged home. She had hoped to be able to move back before the holidays, but instead will be spending the High Holidays in the hotel.

My 6-year-old, sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night asking, will it happen again? Will there be another storm? Demidova told JTA.

Like so many communities devastated by the superstorm, the Jewish community of South Beach has spent nearly a year rebuilding. Still, much remains to be done.

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The devastation in the South Beach neighborhood of Staten Island immediately after superstorm Sandy hit in October 2012. (Photo by Natalia Demidova)

In the last week of August, the Jewish Rus-sian Learning Center, a Chabad-affiliated synagogue that opened in the neighbor-hood less than a year before Sandy, held an information session that aimed to guide homeowners through the maze of funds, tax breaks and remunerative opportunities available to the storms victims. The center also held a benefit concert in early August for itself.

In the beginning, we gave out clothing and tried to help with emergency efforts, said Esther Kushnirsky, who founded the center in Staten Island, a New York City borough, with her husband, Zeev. Now there are different things to consider, like debt and trauma. Everyone is just trying to manage.

Since the storm, Rabbi Zeev Kushnirsky and his wife have found themselves serving many roles in the communitys revitaliza-tion, from emergency response to guiding families through the financial challenges of rebuilding. Childrens events at the center have featured counseling from Project Hope, a program of Ohel Childrens Home and Family Services that helps children heal

from the trauma of the storm.Shlomi Yagur, a South Beach resident

and tugboat operator who worked in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, said the damage to his neighborhood was one of the worst things I have ever seen.

Yagur said the Kushnirskys have been very helpful in the aftermath of Sandy. He and his neighbors continue to rebuild and

renovate after the storm, doing everything from replanting destroyed gardens to ripping up and rebuilding water-ravaged basements. The Jewish Russian Learning Center, he says, has helped his community come together.

The Kushnirskys are making accom-modations for a community saddled with the crushing debt associated with Sandy,

See Sandy on page 13

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By MiCHael gReenSteinThe Jewish Federation of Northeastern

Pennsylvania is the parliament of the Jewish communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania and includes Lackawanna, Pike, Monroe and Wayne counties.

Metaphorically speaking, the Federa-tion is the garden and its funded agen-cies in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Israel and around the world are the flowers within the garden, and each one fulfills a role in defining the community. In short, we are family.

The Federation raises funds through its annual UJA Campaign and allocates the funds locally, regionally and for Israel and overseas Jewish needs through the Jewish Agency in Israel and the Joint Distribution Committee in New York in 59 countries throughout the world.

locally and regionallyLast year, the Federation allocated

$616,014 (or 69 percent) of the funds raised during the annual 2013 UJA Campaign to many educational, social, cultural, rec-reational and family service agencies in Northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Scranton Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service of Northeastern Pennsylva-nia, Scranton Hebrew Day School, Yeshiva Beth Moshe, Bnos Yisroel of Scranton, Bais Yaakov of Scranton, Scranton Ritualarium (mikvah), Jewish Resource Center of the Poconos (Stroudsburg), Jewish Discovery Center/Chabad of the Abingtons, Temple Hesed Religious School (Scranton), Temple Israel Religious School (Scranton), Con-

UJa dollars at work in northeastern Pennsylvania, israel and throughout the Jewish world

gregation Bnai Harim Religious School (Pocono Pines), Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms Religious School (Lords Valley) and Temple Israel of the Poconos Hebrew School (Stroudsburg).

Funds were also allocated to many other programs, projects and services, such as:

Humanitarian relief efforts The Federation has participated in disaster-relief efforts, including the Israel Wildfire Relief Fund for the Carmel fire, the hurricane disaster relief efforts in Haiti, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the South Asian tsunami disaster and, most recently, it provided extensive financial, material and volunteer resources to the victims of Hurricane Sandy in How-ard Beach, Belle Harbor, Rockaway Park, Arverne, Far Rockaway and Breezy Point, NY, under the director of the Hurricane Sandy Project Project, Sandra Alfonsi.

Missions to Israel last years 2012 Mis-sion to Budapest and Israel was held from October 23-November 7. More than 240 members of the communities have attended one of the Missions throughout the past de-cade. Each has been called the experience of a lifetime for those present.

Israel Emergency Campaigns includ-ing Operation Defensive Shield (2002), the Second Lebanon War (2006), Operation Cast Lead (2008-09) and Operation Pillar of Defense (November 2012). Campaign activities included the development and coordination of Letters to the Editors for regional public newspapers, hosting com-

munity rallies, participating in Northeastern Pennsylvania radio talk shows on the subject, contacting senators and con-gressmen, producing war-re-lated videos for mass audiences, maintaining media contacts, sponsoring Buy Israel Goods (B.I.G.) Day each March 30 and generally fostering support for Israel in times of crisis.

Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City The Jewish

Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania is the only Pennsylvania-based Federation that has chosen to participate in the parade annually. Each year, the tens of thousands of people who line New Yorks 5th Avenue respond in appreciation as the Federation and JCC participants pass by with their ban-ners. This year, the Federation/JCC took a full bus of 45 participants to the parade.

The annual Federation Mission to Har-risburg Participants have discussions with state-elected representatives on matters that affect the Jewish communities of the region, and participate in the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, the Jewish lobby group in Harrisburg.

Sponsorship of the 2007 and 2009 Northeastern Pennsylvania Jewish Film Festivals under the chairwomanship of Carol Nelson Dembert.

The development of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Jewish Film Lending Library, which is advertised in each and every issue of The Reporter and available at no change to members of the community.

Funding for the Scranton JCCs Teen Leadership Seminar last December that brought nine teenagers from Northeastern Pennsylvania on an Israel visit.

The development of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Jewish Federation Business and Trade Alliance (www.jewishnepabta.org) to promote Jewish business growth throughout the region.

The establishment (with the Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania and Jewish Family Service) of the Jewish Resource Center of the Poconos (Stroudsburg), which provides programs for the Jewish communities of the Pocono region.

Partnership with the Scranton JCC, Jewish Family Services, Temple Israel and Temple Hesed in determining the financial feasibility of constructing a new Jewish Community Campus.

Issuing grants to JFS for Russian Jewish resettlement.

Underwriting the travel expenses of Jewish Family Service personnel to and from the Jewish Resource Center and the Jewish Fellowship of Hemlock Farms to conduct JFS-related programs and interviews for members of the Pocono Jewish communities.

Underwriting the cost of a Management Study (the Ryan Report) concerning the development of economies of scale between Federation agencies.

The retention of a community grants writ-er for the 25th Anniversary of the Holocaust Symposium in May and many programs, including Holocaust-related exhibits and

Michael Greenstein

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teacher enrichment courses sponsored by the Holocaust Education Resource Center. The Campaign has thanked Tova Weiss, Mary Ann Answini and their committee of volunteers for making all of this possible.

Funding for JCC Purim Carnivals, Chanukah events, Yom Haatzmaut/Israel Independence Day programs, Israel volunteer programs like Sar El and holy day-re-lated programs.

Sponsorship of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Artists Street Fair (Stroudsburg).

Sponsorship with the Sherman Theater (Stroudsburg) of the Matisyahu Festival of Light concert last December 11.

Financial assistance for the Scranton Hebrew Day Schools participation in the New York-based OU Job and Relocation Fair, designed to attract Jewish families and business persons to the region.

Participation in the Breast Cancer Awareness Program at Elan Gardens in Clarks Summit.

The analysis of Jewish demographics in Pike, Wayne, Monroe and Lackawanna counties.

Special reports (biographies) in The Reporter on success-ful Northeastern Pennsylvania Jewish business persons.

New Federation projects The successful completion of a three-year, $375,000 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg grant that allowed the Federation to reimburse part of its Campaign and operating expenses relating to its annual Missions to Israel, the Northeast Pennsylvania Jewish Film Festivals of 2007 and 2009, the expansion of Federation services to the Jewish communities of the Poconos and reimbursement to the Federation Endowment Fund for expenses relating to the introduction of many new creative and innovative programs and its annual UJA Campaigns.

Hebrew school education funding for the full and part-time Hebrew schools and yeshivas (locally and regionally), the Scranton JCC and Jewish Family Service.

The Reporter The Federation funds The Reporter, the regional Jewish newspaper, at a cost of $26,000 per year, but at no cost to the community other than voluntary contributions made through its annual Friends of The Re-porter Campaign. These contributions total approximately $10,000 annually.

Holocaust educational programs As noted previously, for the past 25 years, the Federation has sponsored Ho-locaust Symposia at Marywood University in Scranton, at which thousands of middle and high school students from throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania learn of the

Campaign Continued from page 5Holocaust through films and hold discussions with survi-vors and liberators. The Holocaust Education Resource Center also sponsors teacher training seminars throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania, such as the Echoes and Reflec-tions program late last year, and has hosted exhibits on Holocaust-related subjects throughout the region as well. As noted above, this year was the 25th anniversary of the Holocaust Symposium.

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Sukkot is the early Thanksgiving, that perfect season when we might still have access to late tomatoes and zucchini, but the winter squash is coming in as well, heralding the impending chillier autumn.

While Sukkot is not associated with specific foods or dishes in the same way as Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah or Passover are, vegetarian (or, at least, vegetable-based) dishes can still be enjoyed in the humble, makeshift setting of a sukkah, embracing this holiday as a celebration of the garden and of the spirit of impermanence and deli-cious relinquishment.

Both of the following squash-based dishes come from my new book, The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation, which is being published this September by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

These dishes go well with a simple tomato salad: thickly sliced heirlooms (of various colors, if available), drizzled with extra-vir-gin olive oil and seasoned lightly with salt and pepper. A possible shower of herbes de Provence would top it off nicely.zUCCHini-RiCotta CloUD CaKeS

Puffy savory pancakes are always a pleasant surprise for dinner. And these are among the fluffiest and most savory in my repertoire. Consider making these in two large pans or on one large griddle, so that more people will be able to enjoy the result at the same time.

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zucchini, sliced into very thin circles and quartered

tsp. salt Black pepper

Sukkot and squash make for a lovely pre-Thanksgiving meal

1 tsp. white wine vinegar (in with the zucchini at the end of the saut)

3 large eggs, separated and at room temperature

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be more)A touch of butter (optional)Separate the eggs far enough ahead of

time to allow them to get to room tempera-ture. Place both yolks and whites in bowls large enough to accommodate additional ingredients and unabashed mixing, and cover them (plate or plastic wrap) while they stand.

In the unlikely event that you are faced with leftover batter, it will keep for about a day in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator. Second-day cloud cakes will still be delicious just a whole lot less inflated.

Place a medium-sized (eight- to nine-inch) skillet over medium heat and wait about a minute, then add one tablespoon of the oil and swirl to coat the pan. Toss in the onion and cook, stirring often, for about five minutes, or until the onion becomes soft. Stir the garlic, zucchini and teaspoon of the salt, and continue to cook (with a few stirs) for about five minutes longer, or until the zucchini is wilted. Toss in the vinegar and some black pepper, and set aside.

Use a handheld electric mixer to beat the egg whites until they form soft, firm peaks. Set aside, keeping the mixer handy (no need to clean it at this point).

Add the ricotta to the egg yolks, and begin mixing with the electric mixer at medium speed. After a minute or two, lower the speed, and keep it going slowly as you sprinkle the flour plus another teaspoon salt. When the dry items are completely incorporated, put aside the mixer, and use a rubber spatula to fold in the cooked veg-etables and the minced mint.

Spoon the beaten egg whites on top, then fold them in gently but assertively, with a few quick strokes of the rubber spatula, circling down to the bottom of the bowl and around the sides. It doesnt need to be uniform just be sure the whites are reasonably distributed.

Place a large (10- to 12-inch) skillet over medium heat and wait about a minute. Add a scant tablespoon olive oil and swirl to coat the pan, and then melt in about a Zucchini-Ricotta Cloud Cakes (Photo by

Mollie Katzen) See Sukkot on page 13

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THE REPORTER sEPTEmbER 12, 201310 DvAr TOrAH

By RaBBi MaRJoRie BeRMan, SPiRitUal DiReCtoR, ReConStRUCtioniSt RaBBiniCal College in PHilaDelPHia

Yom Kippur, Leviticus 16:1-34This past summer, my family and I traveled West, visiting

friends and family and camping in some of the amazing landscapes that make up this beautiful country. We stood in awe at the stone arches in Utah, marveled at the astonishing variety and incredible rainbow hues of the mountain flowers in Bridger National Forest, picked wild blackberries on the alpine slopes of the Rockies and saw moose and elk and antelope alongside the road from Colorado to Wyoming. On our last day before heading back east, we decided to go back country camping in Yellowstone. Armed with bear spray, a water filter and a permit, we set out.

As it turned out, we had driven to the wrong trailhead, a strap on one of our backpacks broke and then it started to rain. When we finally started hiking, it was hours later than we had planned and the first mile was pretty much straight uphill. It was only a few hours from sunset, and we were still two and a half miles from our campsite. We were all having a tough time managing with our somewhat jerry-rigged packs, the trail was tougher than we had imagined and my husband and I started to get worried. Would we get there before dark? What if we didnt? We couldnt camp in a place without a bear pole (to hang our food out of reach) and we had no cell phone reception if we got stranded after nightfall. Most of all, would our daughters first experi-ence of being in the real wilderness be a complete bust something she never wanted to repeat again? Despite the stunning views and fields of wildflowers, it was an anxious trip. Would we make it? Would we be OK?

We spend a lot of our lives wondering if well make it, wondering if well be OK. For many of us, when we set out into the unknown, we allow fear and anxiety to be our companions. This is perfectly natural and, for Jews, as for many other peoples with a long history of persecution, there is almost an inherited tendency an ancestral memory, if you will to regard the unfamiliar with apprehension and distress. But in reality, we have a choice. It turned out that we did make it to our campsite it was spectacular, our daughter wanted to live there for the rest of her life and my husband and I felt like we were in Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden). We saw wolf prints and big pieces of petrified wood, and we drank from the crystal stream that ran through our site. We were sad to leave it, but the hike back was lovely my daughter danced in the fields of wildflowers with her arms thrown wide and we admired every mushroom and berry and breathtaking overlook along the way. It seemed that in no time we were back in civilization.

Ive often noticed that the way back almost always seems quicker and easier than the way there. But, of course, they must be the same. Why the difference? It is simply a trick of the mind. When we are on our way to something, there are variables of uncertainty; we are unsure of what lies ahead, we are afraid of being late, we feel unprepared, were not

the choice before us: a question for yom Kippur

certain well measure up. On the way back, we feel weve seen it all before and were returning home. It is the lack of fear and the sense of security, trust and competency that make the way back seem short and easy.

This seems to make complete sense we fear what we do not know and we feel secure in the known. But in reality, we never know what is ahead. Not on the way there and not on the way back. During the famous Unetaneh Tokef prayer that we recite during these Days of Awe, we ask, Who will live and who will die? We ask to be written for good in the Book of Life, but we dont receive a note in the mail or a message in our inbox telling us the outcome of our prayers. A favorite story of mine from the movie Charlie Wilsons War goes like this: One day, an army officer on a fine horse came riding into a small village. When he came to a young boy working in the fields, he dismounted and, without giving any reason, gave his magnificent steed to the boy. All the villagers we enthralled How lucky you are! they said to the boy. A Zen master who lived in the village had observed the whole scene. Well see..., he said. Some years later, when the boy was out riding on his beautiful horse, a tree fell in front of them and the horse reared in panic, throwing the boy from his saddle. He was so badly injured that it was clear that he would be crippled for the rest of his life. How unlucky you are! all the villagers cried. The Zen master had again seen all that took place. Well see..., he said. The following year, a devastating war began in the region, and all of the young men were called away to fight. None returned. The boy, now a young man, had stayed home, too crippled to serve. How lucky you are! the villagers mused. The Zen master looked on. Well see..., he said.

The truth is, our lives can change in an instant, and we have no idea what direction they will take, nor where that new direction will lead us. Much as we like to believe that we are in control, and that money or possessions can keep us safe, we never know what life has in store. As the Yiddish expression goes, der mentsh trakht un Got lakht man plans and God laughs. The only thing we actually have control over is the way we choose to approach life with fear, apprehension and anxiety, or with curiosity, expectancy and hope. Certainly we will be disappointed. Certainly we will be betrayed, hurt and wronged not once, but many times in the course of our days. But as my aunt, who will turn 94 this year, is fond of saying, Its not how you fall down; its how you get up. We can meet each difficulty in life with resentment, or we can meet it with a renewed resolve to keep our hearts open, no matter what we are confronted with. As novelist Carlos Casteneda writes, We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. We can spend our time and effort in striving to understand how to learn and grow and become more compassionate in our lives, or we can take each new challenge or misfortune as yet another misery that has been laid upon us.

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Preheat the oven to 400F, then line a baking tray with parchment or foil, and slick it all over with a tablespoon of oil. (You can use a piece of cut squash to do this.)

Spread out the squash in a single layer and roast in the center of the oven for about 30 minutes, or until fork tender and nicely browned around the edges. (Check in on the roasting squash beginning at around 10 minutes; shake the tray from time to time and/or use tongs or a spatula to loosen and move the pieces around during roasting. You dont want the bottom surfaces to burn.)

When the squash is done, remove the tray from the oven and sprinkle the hot squash with two tablespoons of the lemon juice. Let it sit and soak this up as it cools. Meanwhile, proceed with the other items.

Place a soup pot, large saucepan, or Dutch oven over medium heat and wait about a minute. Add the remaining two tablespoons oil, swirl to coat the pan, and then add the onion, dry mustard and teaspoon of the salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, for about eight to 10 minutes, or until the onions become very soft.

Stir in the garlic, mushrooms, and another teaspoon salt. Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring often and covering the pot in between.

Add the beans to the vegetable mixture, along with the remaining tablespoon of lemon juice, plus the vinegar. Taste to adjust the salt (it could need a touch more) and also shake in a generous amount of black pepper. Stir from the bot-tom of the pot gently, so as not to break the beans but thoroughly enough to get everything coated with everything else. If it seems dry, add up to cup water (ideally the reserved bean-cooking water) and cook over low heat for 5 minutes or so just long enough to heat through.

Stir in the squash (actually fold it in very carefully, to

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Many people in our community are Russian immigrants, with the Russian mentality of not needing help from any-one, Esther Kushnirsky said. But they lost their mezuzahs during Sandy or never had one in the first place, and after their homes were destroyed in the storm, they want that kind of spiritual protection over the house. So we have a very long waiting list for mezuzahs.

Rabbi Zeev and Esther Kushnirsky, shown at a Jewish Russian Learning Center of South Beach trip from Staten Island to Brooklyns Crown Heights neighborhood. (Photo courtesy of Jewish Russian Learning Center of South Beach)

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if Hitler hadnt declared war on the United States, or if Germany had been able to develop the atomic bomb first. A discussion followed Baders presentation.

At right: Marvin Bader spoke to Sis terhood members on July 28.

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teaspoon of butter, if desired. Tilt the pan to distribute the butter, and when its hot enough to instantly sizzle a crumb, use a 1/3 or cup measure with a handle to scoop batter onto the hot pan, and fry for about two to three minutes on each side, or until golden and puffy. Serve right away, fresh from the pan.

Yield: 3-4 servings (6-8 big, puffy pancakes)BlaCK-eyeD Pea, SqUaSH anD SHiitaKe Stew

Creamy black-eyed peas and chewy mushrooms play off beautifully against golden, sweet cubes of perfectly roasted butternut squash, while lemon and mustard infuse everything with sparkle and edge. I just love this recipe truly one of my favorites.

The black-eyed peas can be cooked and the squash can be roasted simultaneously, and well ahead of time. You can also use two 15-ounce cans black-eyed peas, rinsed and thoroughly drained, instead of soaking and cooking dried ones. Your call.

Serve these with your favorite homemade biscuits or with crackers and cheddar.

1 cup ( lb.) dry black-eyed peas, soaked (see note above)

1 medium-sized butternut squash (about 3 lbs.) peeled, seeded and diced in -inch pieces (5 to 6 cups)

3 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice3 Tbsp. olive oil 2 cups minced red onion2 tsp. dry mustard1 tsp. salt (possibly more, to taste) 1 tsp. minced or crushed garlic20 medium-sized (2-inch cap) fresh shiitake mushrooms,

stemmed and thinly sliced2 Tbsp. cider vinegarBlack pepper to tasteLemon wedgesDrain and rinse the soaked black-eyed peas, then trans-

fer them to a saucepan and cover with water by at least 2 inches. Bring to a boil, turn the heat way down and simmer, partially covered, until pleasantly tender (but not too, too

Black-Eyed Pea, Squash and Shiitake Stew (Photo by Mollie Katzen)

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I am not saying that we should not grieve when loss comes to us, or that we should not get angry when we wit-ness injustice. The question is, once we have been thrown to the ground, do we stay there? Do we figure that were safer keeping our heads low? Do we nurse grudges and fears? Or do we stand up again and again with courage, optimistic despite all evidence? Do we, for the first time or the hundredth, approach ourselves and those in our lives with forgiveness and willingness, or with a mind and heart that are closed? The interesting thing is this: the more we make it a practice to approach the world with chesed and rachmanas loving-kindness and compassion, the more it seems that the world returns the favor. I am not saying that there is a magical transformation of reality, but more simply that we tend to see what we are looking for.

The work of Yom Kippur is teshuvah turning, or re-turning, to our truest selves. If we choose to return to our truest, deepest self, we will find that our soul is always hungering for hope, always seeking trust and forgiveness. If, like in a trust fall, we release ourselves into the open arms of life, we will be caught and held. It takes great courage to take the chance, especially if we arent used to it. But the Jewish teaching of repentence on Yom Kippur is not that we are striking out on a new path, but that we are returning to our selves. And remember, the return trip is always easier! Shanah tovah umetukah. May your New Year be sweet and filled with hope.

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annual salary for an Ethiopian in 2009 was $23,000; the average Israeli earned $34,000.

In addition, virtually all Jews born in Ethiopia are ineligible for vocational training programs offered by the Economics Ministry because nearly no one has a formal education. Instead, the absorption centers where Ethiopians live after immigration often connect them with service jobs such as cleaning or factory work. Those jobs, in turn, make it harder for Ethiopians to purchase homes. As of 2010, Ethiopian homes were worth half that of the average Israeli home.

Many of them were illiterate in Ethiopia, said Jack Habib, director of the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, a government-funded think tank that studies Ethiopian Israelis. Youre not going to take people like that and get them into higher-level jobs. You cant elevate the quality of jobs unless you equalize educational distribution.

The Israeli government, along with several nonprofit organizations, provides a range of services and benefits to Ethiopian Israelis. The Absorption Ministry offers free college tuition, tutoring, loans and lower mortgage rates to Ethiopians. Solomon is pushing to enforce a law mandat-ing that Ethiopians comprise 1.5 percent of all government employees. And Mekonen-Degu is lobbying the government to provide stipends for Ethiopians who enter vocational training programs.

If I give [students] tools to deal with issues, theyll succeed, said Roni Akale, director-general of the Ethio-pian National Project, a program that provided tutoring and youth activities for 4,500 Ethiopian teens last year. What I can do is make them feel confident academically and socially.

Government projects for Ethiopians, though, have a mixed record. Homesh, a $230 million program for Ethiopian ad-vancement run by five government ministries, was declared a failure by an official report earlier this year. According to the report, the program was disorganized, lacked account-ability and failed to formulate a workable budget.

The answer to Ethiopian woes, says Solomon, lies not in government subsidies, but in combating racism. According to Myers-JDC-Brookdale, about one in three Ethiopians has experienced discrimination. This has to come from the top; it has to be a clear message, Solomon said. The government needs to pass laws and place heavy punish-ments so that racism wont happen.

Even with the obstacles, a sense of optimism prevailed at the welcoming ceremony. Some veteran Ethiopian im-migrants said that despite hardships they face in Israel, theres no place theyd rather be. I found what I was looking for here, said Ezra Eschale, who moved to Israel three years ago. We were like this once. Everything will work out.

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New Season ofFilms!

Non-Feature Films Blessed is the Match - In 1944, 22-year Hannah Senesh parachuted into Nazi- occupied Europe with a small group of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. Theirs was the only military rescue mission for Jews that occurred in World War II.

*Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy - This entertaining documentary, narrated by the award winning Joel Grey, examines the unique role of Jewish composers and lyricists in the creation of the modern American musical. There are interviews alongside standout perfor-mances and archival footage.

Budapest to Gettyburg - The past and present collide as a world-renowned historian confronts a history he has refused to study-his own. Gabor Boritt is an expert on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. But it took his sons urging to get him to return to his native Hungary and learn about the Jewish experience there from the time of his childhood until, together with his family, he escaped to the United States.

Constantines Sword, is a 2007 historical documentary film on the relationship between the Catholic Church and Jews. Directed and produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Oren Jacoby, the film is inspired by former priest James P. Carrolls 2001 book Constantines Sword.

Inside Hanas Suitcase - A real-life Japanese schoolteacher, who appears throughout the film, sparked this entire story by gathering artifacts for a Holocaust educational center she was developing along with a group of girls and boys called The Small Wings. After applying to receive Holocaust artifacts, a large box arrives with a handful of artifacts, including a battered brown suitcase labeled with Hana Bradys name. The teacher and her students begin searching for the story behind the suitcase. What they discover will surprise you. They wind up unlocking--and showing us in the film--a whole series of deeply moving memories and other related artifacts and photos. Finally, Hanas surviving brother George travels to Japan to meet the Japanese students.

Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story - This excellent documentary, narrated by Dustin Hoffman, portrays the contributions of Jewish major leaguers and the special meaning that baseball has had in the lives of American Jews. Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story was shown at the Opening Event for the 2012 UJA Campaign.

The Case for Israel: Democracys Outpost - Famed attorney, Alan Dershowitz, presents a vigorous case for Israel- for its basic right to exist, to protect its citizens from terrorism and to defend its borders from hostile enemies.

*The Flat - This gripping autobiographical documentary tells the story of the filmmaker, Arnon Goldfinger who travels to Tel Aviv to clean out the apartment of recent deceased German-born Jewish grandmother. Goldfinger discovers, while going through her belonging, he finds evidence that his grandparents were good friends with Leopold von Mildenstein, a leading official within the Nazi propaganda agency and that they remained friends after World War II. He journeys to find out the details of this disturbing revelation.

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg - As baseballs first Jewish star, Hammering Hank Greenbergs career contains all the makings of a true American success story.

*Orchestra of Exiles - This riveting documentary tells the story of how Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, watched Jewish musicians being fired from classical orchestras when Hitler came to power. Huberman decided to build a new orchestra in Palestine encountering many obstacles along the way. He ultimately succeeds and the Palestine Symphony gave its first performance December, 1936. (When Israel gained independence in 1948, the orchestra was renamed the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, which remains to this day a world class orchestra.)

Feature Films A Matter of Size - Winner of numerous international awards, this Israeli comedy is a hilarious and heart-warming tale about four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling. (not rated)Avalon- Sam Krichinsky and his extended family arrive in American to find the American dream in a place called Avalon. We watch the Krichinsky family move from poverty to prosperity,facing their changing world with enduring humor and abiding love.

Crossing Delancey - This is a warm comedy taking place in New York City. Isabella Grossman desires to rise above her familys Lower East Side community but her grandmother has other matchmaking plans.

Footnote - The story of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors who have both dedicated their lives to work in Talmudic Studies departments of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Though the father shuns overt praise for his work and the son is desperate for it, how will each react when the father is to be awarded the most sought after prize, the Israel prize? This Oscar nomi-nated film will entrance from the start.

Frisco Kid - Its 1850 and new rabbi Avram Belinski sets out from Philadelphia toward San Francisco. Cowpoke bandit Tom Lillard hasnt seen a rabbi before but he knows when one needs a heap of help. Getting this tenderfoot to Frisco in one piece will cause a heap of trouble- with the law, Native Americans and a bunch of killers.

Good - In an attempt to establish its credibility, the new Nazi government is seeking out experts to endorse its policies and they come across Johnnie Halders novel of a husband who aids his terminally ill wife in an assisted suicide. Because of this the Nazis flatter Johnnie arranging for high paying and prestigious positions. Never evil, Johnnie Halder is an Everyman who goes along, accepts what he is told without question until he is an unwitting accomplice to the Nazi killing machine.

Hidden In Silence - Przemysl, Poland, WWII. Germany emerges victorious over the Russians, and the city comes under Nazi control. The Jewish are sent to the ghettos. While some stand silent, Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska chooses the role of a savior and sneaks 13 Jews into her attic. Every day, she risks detection--and immediate execution--by smuggling food and water to the silent group living above her. And when two German nurses are assigned to her living quarters, the chances of discovery become dangerously high. This is the true story of a young womans selfless commitment and unwavering resolve in the face of war.

Noodle (PAL version- can only be played on computer NOT regular DVD players) - At thirty-seven, Miri is a twice-widowed, El Al flight attendant. Her well regulated existence is suddenly turned upside down by an abandoned Chinese boy whose migrant-worker mother has been deported from Israel. The film is a touching comic-drama in which two human beings- as different from each other as Tel Aviv is from Beijing- accompany each other on a remarkable journey, one that takes them both back to a meaningful life.

Operation Thunderbolt - The true story of the Entebbe hijacking and rescue. Operation Thunderbolt, was filmed in Israel with the full cooperation of the Israeli government, and is an exciting re-creation of the events of those tense days. We see the full scope of the story, from the original hijacking to the passengers captivity in Uganda to the agonized debates at the highest levels of the Israeli government over a diplomatic vs. a military solution. Operation Thunderbolt is the thrilling and true story of how one small country refused to let their people be killed by terrorists and took action to prevent it. People who claim that Israel is a terrorist state should see the film and be reminded who the real terrorists are.

Orthodox Stance (documentary-2007) - Dimitriy Salita, a Russian immigrant, is making history as a top professional boxer and rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional boxer, ORTHODOX STANCE is a portrait of seemingly incompatible cultures and characters working together to support Dmitriys rare and remarkable devotion to both Orthodox Judaism and the pursuit of a professional boxing title.

Playing for Time - An outstanding cast brings life to this Fania Fenelon autobiography about a Jewish cabaret singer and other Jewish prisoners whose lives were spared at Auschwitz in exchange for performing for their captors.

The Angel Levine - Things couldnt get worse for Jewish tailor Morris Mishkin (Zero Mostel). His shop has gone up in flames, his daughter has married outside the faith and, worse yet, his wife is slowly dying. But just when he decides to give up on God, a mysterious man (Harry Belafonte) appears, claiming to be his Jewish guardian angel! Doubtful that the stranger is Jewish, never mind an angel, Mishkin must overcome his skepticism if he wants one last chance at redemption.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Set during World War II, this is the story of Bruno, an innocent and nave eight-year old boy who meets a boy while romping in the woods. A surprising friendship develops.

The Couple - Based on the true story of a Jewish Hungarians desperate attempts to save his family from the Nazi death camps. Mr. Krauzenberg (Martin Landau) is forced to hand over his vast wealth to the Nazis for the safe passage of his family out of occupied Europe, only to find his two remaining servants are left trapped in a web of deceit and danger. Their only hope for survival relies on the courage of Krauzenberg.

The Debt - Academy Award winner Helen Mirren and two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson star in The Debt. In 1966, three Mossad agents were assigned to track down a feared Nazi war criminal hiding in East Berlin, a mission accomplished at great risk and personal cost or was it?

*The Other Son - The dramatic tale of two babies switched at birth, The Other Son creates a thoughtful presentation of what could be a soap opera type event. Instead, director Lorraine Levy and a wonderful screenplay takes the viewer down a very different path allowing each to come to his/her own conclusions.

*The World of Sholom Aleichem - Three of Sholom Aleichem short stories are adapted for the stage and broadcast on the 1959 televi-sion series The Play of the Week.

Wallenberg: A Heros Story - Wallenberg: A Heros Story is an incredibly riveting, Emmy award-winning, fact-based story about a hero who helped over 100,000 Hungarian Jews escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

September 2013

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Dutch firm quits eastern Jerusalem project

A major Dutch engineering company pulled out of a project in eastern Jerusalem. The pullout, announced on Sept. 6 by Royal HaskoningDHV, came after the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs reportedly advised the firm to terminate its involvement in the planning of a sewage treatment plant because the project was based beyond Israels pre-1967 borders. Royal HaskoningDHV is one of Hollands largest infrastructure firms. In the course of the project, and after due consultation with various stakeholders, the company came to understand that fu-ture involvement in the project could be in violation of international law, the companys statement read. This has led to the decision of Royal HaskoningDHV to ter-minate its involvement in the project. Han ten Broeke of Hollands ruling party, VVD, the week of Sept. 4 asked Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans of the Labor party to explain why the ministry was discouraging companies from participating in projects that provide clean water to Palestinians, according to ANP, the Dutch news agency. Timmermans replied that his office did not pressure the company, according to the report.

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