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BY TOBY TABACHNICKStaff Writer

For a long time, Marian Allen, a nurse,wanted to travel to Haiti to volunteer tohelp those without access to basic healthcare. Following that country’s devastating

earthquake in 2010, she got seriousabout making it happen.After inquiring with several nonprofit

agencies, Allen finally connected withFunctional Literacy Ministry of Haiti lastJanuary. Through that Pittsburgh-basedChristian group, she traveled to the disas-ter-stricken nation to provide fluoride

treatments, school physicals, and choleraeducation to the people of the mountainhighlands, south of Port-au-Prince.Following that experience, the inspired

healthcare provider decided to broach theidea of a Jewish mission to Haiti with therabbis of Rodef Shalom Congregation.“It was a life-changing experience,”

Allen said. “When I got back, I talked toRabbi [Aaron] Bisno and Rabbi [Sharyn]Henry, and wondered if we could do some-thing like that through the temple.”Now, she and Henry are about to lead a

group of 13 Pittsburghers to Thomassin,Haiti, next month through FLM-Haiti.The Rodef Shalom group, which in-

cludes three teenagers, will embark forHaiti on Feb. 5 for a one-week mission.While there, its participants will providewhatever services they can offer — in-cluding grief counseling — to those stillrecovering from the trauma of losingloved ones in the 2010 earthquake. “Their needs are so low-hanging,” Allen,

a member of Rodef Shalom, said of the ru-ral Haitians in Thomassin. “There is some-thing everyone can do to help people in thiscommunity. We’re not trying to fix all ofHaiti; we’re just trying to do something inthis community.”

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Richard D’Loss is curious about theso-called Muslim group from Kosovothat hacked into the blog of his tiny syn-agogue, Ahavath Achim in Carnegie,over the holidays.But he’s not losing sleep over it.“I’d be curious to find out if there

have been other Jewish organizationsaround the country that have beenhacked by this group, said D’Loss, thepresident of the congregation andbuilder of the blog, known asthecarnegieshul.org.Although, “to me, it’s just a vandalism

kind of thing; it’s not really serious,” headded. “It was just a pain … to clean it up.”The individual or group that hacked

in, which calls itself the Kosova Securi-ty Group, did not manage to post any-thing to the blog, primarily becauseD’Loss had set it up so he must approvecomments before they appear. But asidefrom the group’s emblem, which con-tains the Albanian national symbol of atwo-headed eagle, and a link to a screen,which reads “Muslims for life!”, theemails contained nothing anti-Semitic,according to D’Loss.

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(Editor’s Note: Retro News is a newcolumn that will appear every week thisyear as part of the celebration of theChronicle’s 50th anniversary. Eachweek, Retro News will look at a past is-sue of the Chronicle, encapsulate thenews reported that week and commenton how those items pertain to today’sJewish Pittsburgh.)

Front pageThe Six-Day War was still on when

Jewish Pittsburgh learned that Chroni-cle Executive Editor Albert W. Bloomwas in the country and reporting on thequick conflict.In a front-page column — the front

page was completely devoted that weekto war coverage — Bloom chose to focuson the effects of the war rather than givea straight blow-by-blow of the strugglebetween Israel and her enemies.“The biggest battles are yet to come,”

he wrote, “and they will be fought on adifferent terrain and will demand differ-ent strategies and different tactics.“They are the political battles, and

they have political overtones,” he con-tinued. “Now is the time to begin think-ing about the battle to come — that is,

the struggle to maintain and insure thatEgypt, or any group of Arab countries inleague with Egypt, will never again con-spire to undermine the foundations of Is-rael reborn.”Bloom’s words were almost prophetic.

Though short on details, he accuratelypredicted that the Six-Day War (itwasn’t called the Six-Day War in printjust yet; that moniker would come later)would sew the seeds of future militaryand political conflicts, most notably thesettlements that grew up in the capturedWest Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights; thebirth of Hamas, suicide bombers and theSecurity barrier to keep them out of Is-rael. All these issues, and many others,had their genesis in the Six-Day War.Bloom also wrote more detailed sto-

ries on the war effort, published insidethe paper. Before embedded reporterswere made popular by the wars in Iraqand Afghanistan, Bloom spent time inthe Negev Desert with the IDF’s ar-mored corps and met with its command-ers. Though his writing was far fromstraight news reporting, Bloom capturedthe flavor of the moment, quoting the of-ficers and noncommissioned officers ex-tensively, and giving Pittsburgh readersa perspective on the war they might oth-

erwise have missed through the generalmedia. Also on the front page that week, the

Chronicle reported that Jewish Pitts-burgh had raised more than $500,000within the first 12 hours after an emer-gency fund was established. It reportedthat one man stopped by the United Jew-ish Federation office to drop off a checkfor $1,000 and one anonymous giver con-tributed $100,000. The story creditedAlvin Rogal, Donald Robinson, LeonardRudolph and Saul Shapira for leadingthe drive.

OpinionThe Chronicle devoted its staff editori-

al that week to the passing of AbeBanchek, 63, past leader in the Zionist

Organization of America and the Pitts-burgh Zionist District. Banchek, the edi-torial reported, “indefatigable Pitts-burgh leader and ardent Zionist, nolonger is among us to consult that littlecalendar book that sometimes listed asmany four community service meetingsin one night.” The piece went on to sayBanchek’s experience as a public ac-countant and businessman made him anexpert in analyzing the budgets of thecity’s social welfare agencies.Also that week, the paper carried a

collection of excerpts from Israeli news-paper editorials — all pertaining to thewar.In one excerpt, from Davar, the writer

predicted, “What began as a demonstra-tive move for political purposes may de-velop into a military clash, the dimen-sions of which no one can foretell.”How true.

CommunityOn the community scene, the Chroni-

cle reported that Charles J. Linder wasinstalled for a second year as chair ofthe Western Region of the BBYO Boardof Directors … Rabbi Bernard A. Poupkoof Shaare Torah Congregation would bethe guest speaker at the annual RZADinner at Hillel Academy … Mrs.Leonard Shapiro took over as chair ofthe Women’s Activities Committee of theY-IKC ... and Harold Bigler was electedpresident of the Pittsburgh chapter ofthe American Jewish Committee.

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The Jewish Chronicle recentlyadded three new bloggers to its blogos-phere at thejewishchronicle.net.Danny Brodie, a Pittsburgh native

living in Tel Aviv, is writing the blog“Middle East Conflicts,” in which heanalyzes political issues related to Is-rael and the Middle East in general.Dr. Ann Ruben, a retired psychologist

living at Riverview Towers, writes theblog “Hooray for Happiness,” in whichshe strives to guide readers to a posi-tive and happy outlook on life.Joy Braunstein, the newly hired di-

rector of the Holocaust Center of theJewish Federation of Greater, will soonbegin her new blog “Never Forget,” inwhich she will explore contemporaryissues surrounding, and implications of,The Holocaust.A graduate of Duquesne University in

history with a minor in German, Brodestudied for several years at the VirginiaMilitary Institute, University of theGerman Federal Armed Forces, Ham-burg, and the Hebrew University of

Jerusalem. He graduated with a mas-ter’s degree in security and diplomacyfrom Tel Aviv University and has in-terned as a research analyst at the In-stitute for National Security Studies inthe Military and Strategic Affairs Pro-gram. He also represented Tel AvivUniversity in the Wikistrat Internation-al Grand Strategy Competition.Ruben, at 86, is the oldest of the

Chronicle’s bloggers, uses her profes-sional background to help seniors livemore rewarding lives.Braunstein has an extensive history

in Jewish and Israeli matters. Shestudied environmental issues in Israelwhile a doctoral student at the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh. She was seniormanager of planning and fund distri-bution at the federation from 2006 to2008 and most recently worked as ex-ecutive director of the Rachel CarsonHomestead Association.Visit thejewishchronicle.net to follow

their blogs.

Rodef Shalom Congregationwill hold a congregational town hallmeeting, Thursday January 19, at thesynagogue at the corner of Fifth andMoorewood, Shadyside.The program, which will look at

changes now underway in the Jewishworld at the national level, will featureJonah Pezner, senior vice president ofthe Union for Reform Judaism, whowill Skype with the audience. JeffreyFinklelstein, president and CEO of theJewish Federation Greater Pittsburgh,also will address the gathering.

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About 10 times per year, MenachemSafrai helps pack some 120 crates withwatercolors, serigraphs, woodcuts, oils,prints, tapestry, sculpture and other artforms, as well as many large white peg-board display stands. He then hops on a plane in order to ar-

rive at an overseas synagogue, communi-ty center or organization in time to hangeach piece himself and design a particu-lar presentation for each exhibition.The exclusive artists of his Safrai

Gallery in Jerusalem (safrai.com) createmost of the 1,500 works in his show, “Youngand Old Masters of Israeli Art,” but he of-ten purchases additional items he believeswill appeal to a specific community.Safrai is always on hand to answer

queries about art in Israel, and also giveslectures at the exhibits. The 100-plus con-tributors to his exhibits include estab-lished names like Marc Chagall, ShragaWeil, Abraham Binder, Amram Ebgi, She-muel Katz, Reuven Rubin, RaphaelAbecassis, Slava Ilyayev, David Sharir andTarkai, or lesser-known Israeli artists suchas Michael Kerman and Alexander Kle-van. Safrai aims to give his overseas view-ers a comprehensive, illustrative look atthe Holy Land, through the perspectives ofsome of its most creative citizenry.In Detroit, Sacramento, Houston, Vir-

ginia, Massachusetts and, this past sum-

mer, at Congregation Beth Shalom inPittsburgh, he does it all with vigor —and it’s not hard to see why.A third-generation gallery

owner, Safrai isa man driven tointroduce andexpose Ameri-cans to Israeliart, as well as artenthusiast him-self.The shows of-

fer art pieces forsale and viewing,and Safrai alsohelps synagoguesproduce fundrais-ing events. “The exhibits

provide a uniqueopportunity forAmericans to get aglimpse of the excit-ing and expandingworld of Israeli art,which can only beotherwise seen bytraveling to Israel,”Safrai said in an inter-view with JNS.According to wall

texts at The Israel Museum inJerusalem, old and new themes coveringthe last 100 years of Israeli art reflect asweeping and diverse range of both style

and worldview. The Israel Ministry ofTourism website says, “The art scene in

Israel had its beginnings inthe early part of the 20thcentury, when the rebirth ofa Jewish state in the Landof Israel was beginning totake shape.”Jerusalem’s Bezalel

Academy of Art and De-sign, named for BezalelBen Uri, the first artistmentioned in the Bible andfounded by sculptor BorisSchatz in 1906, originallyproduced Jewish and Bib-lical-themed art works.But as secular trendsmanifested, a “Rebels ofBezalel” movement be-gan to focus on the land-scape and residents ofthe area, with its mem-bers identifying them-selves as “Hebrew”rather than “Jewish”artists. Their influencecontinues to this day,and Bezalel, now locat-ed on the Mount Sco-

pus campus of Hebrew Uni-versity, is currently the leading academyfor art and design in Israel.Safrai sees that the founding of Beza-

lel as a “rebirth of Jewish art in whatwould become Israel.”

The Safrai Art Gallery’s storied historylong predates the establishment of Israel.In 1888, Safrai’s maternal grandfather,Mendel Harrison, moved to Israel fromWeshbelov, Lithuania, where he was a rab-bi. He manufactured mirrors in the old cityof Jerusalem and then moved his family toNew York, where he established a small artgallery that he operated for 37 years. Following his retirement, the family

returned to Israel, where Harrison’sson-in-law, Julius Bookbinder, becameAsher Safrai and opened a gallery in theNachlat Shiva quarter of Jerusalem. Thegallery became popular with emigrantsfrom Western Europe who had fled theNazi threat, but retained an appreciationfor the arts they had formerly enjoyed.After performing nightly guard duty inthe Hagana, Safrai would open thegallery, which also held illegal weaponsfor the defense unit in its basement.British Army officers and government of-

ficials oversaw the area before the War ofLiberation, and frequented the fledglinggallery. In 1949, Asher’s son Dov, who hadalso served in the Hagana as well as the Is-rael Defense Forces as a lieutenant, inherit-ed the management of the gallery, andbrought in his wife, Shoshana. He beganbringing exhibitions of Israeli art to the Unit-ed States and Canada in 1958. Their son,Menachem, who was born in Jerusalem in1963, went on to study art history at the He-brew University of Jerusalem, and contin-ues the legacy.

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According to Senior Rabbi Aaron Bis-no, the town hall will address whatsteps might be taken to ensure the com-munity vitality of Jewish Pittsburgh.He said the goal is to “meet the great-

est number of Jews where they are sothat they and their children might con-tinue to be part of a thriving dynamicJewish community going forward,” hesaid in a prepared statement.He envisions holding future town hall

sessions open to broader audiences.

A 14-panel display depictingscenes from the 100 years history of theJewish Federation of Greater Pitts-burgh will be exhibited at the JewishCommunity Center of Greater Pitts-burgh-South Hills, 345 Kane Boulevard,Scott Township, from Feb 1 to 14.Jeffrey Finkelstein, president and

CEO, and Brian Schreiber, JCC presi-dent and CEO, will speak about the fed-eration’s impact on the South Hills Jew-ish community at an opening reception,Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.at the South Hills JCC. The event andthe exhibit are free to the community.The display presents an overview of

each decade from the 1910s, when thefederation was founded as the Federa-tion of Jewish Philanthropies, to thepresent day. Included are archival pho-tos, excerpts from historical documentsand a timeline of events.The display is part of a series of spe-

cial programs and projects that markthe Jewish Federation’s centennial year,which began in September.Contact Dan Garfinkel, branch direc-

tor, at 412-278-1975, ext. 208, or [email protected] for moreinformation.

Congregation Beth Shalomand Rodef Shalom Congrega-tion will jointly sponsor a 2012 Winterfilm series.The first film, to be screened, Sun.,

Jan. 15, 7 p.m., at Beth Shalom, is“Black to the Promised Land,” a 1992documentary that follows 11 troubledinner-city black youths who spend 10weeks on a working kibbutz in Israel. Atfirst, they struggle to adjust to the longhours and hard work, but they are even-

tually won over by the egalitarianismand cooperative spirit of the communi-ty. Likewise, the kibbutzniks are at firstapprehensive of the kids, whom theyperceive as violent drug-obsessedmalcontents.There is no charge to attend but a do-

nation is suggested. Light refreshmentswill be served.

Jewish Community Center ofGreater Pittsburgh will hold try-outs for this summer’s JCC MaccabiGames, Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 30,at the JCC in Squirrel Hill.Tryouts for boys and girls basketball

will be held Monday at the RobinsonGym.In addition, signups will be held for

boys baseball and inline hockey, girlslacrosse, volleyball and softball, girlsand boys soccer, swimming and tabletennis Monday at the JCC in SquirrelHill and Tuesday, Jan 31, at the SouthHills JCC.The games themselves, for teens ages

13 to 16, will be held Aug. 12 through 17Rockland, N.Y.Contact Alan Mallinger at 412-521-

8011, ext. 272, [email protected] for more infor-mation or to register.

American Jewish Museumwill host an opening reception for itslatest exhibit, “Super Silly! SupermanCreators’ Funnyman Fights Crime withShtick,” Saturday Jan. 14, 6 p.m. at theJewish Community Center in SquirrelHill.The exhibit includes 50 storyboards

for Funnyman, a buffoonish crimefighter — created by the makers of Su-perman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster —who uses gags for weapons, Funnymanis the antithesis of noble Superman. Notonly were both created by The program will include a presenta-

tion “Jews, Humor, and Funnyman” byFunnyman expert comics historian MelGordon, a professor at University ofCalifornia at Berkeley.The program is free. Call 412-521-

8011 ext. 105 for more information.

Noah Bendix-Balgley, concert-master of the Pittsburgh Symphony Or-chestra, will present his first Pittsburghconcert, Sunday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m., at Tem-ple Emanuel of South Hills.Pianist Rodrigo Ojeda, a Carnegie

Mellon University artist lecturer, willaccompany Bendix-Balgley.The Diskin Music Fund presents the

free concert.Contact Tempe Emanuel at 412-279-7600

or [email protected] reservations.

Jewish Residential Servicesand Jewish Family and Chil-dren’s Service will host a workshopon “Long Term Planning for Your Fami-ly Member” Monday, Jan. 23, at 6 p.m.at Jewish Residential Services, locatedat Rodef Shalom Congregation.For most individuals with disabilities,

estate planning is needed to ensure suf-ficient financial resources for personalneeds beyond what a parent orguardian can provide. This workshopbrings in an experienced estate plan-ning attorney to explain trusts for indi-viduals with disabilities and the legalframework that permits individualswith trusts to retain public benefits.The free training is provided by ThePartnership, a network of organizationsthat serves people with disabilities andtheir families.Contact Shani Lasin, 412-325-0039,

[email protected] for more informationor to register.

Pittsburgh Area Jewish Com-mittee presents “Harrisburg – Yearin Review and a Look Ahead” withAndy Hoover, legislative director ofthe American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) of Pennsylvania, at its up-coming board meeting Thursday, Jan.12, at 7:30 pm, in the Falk Library atRodef Shalom Congregation. Theevent is free and open to the public.Visit pajc.net, contact the PAJC officeat 412-605-0816 or at [email protected] more information.

Money Matters: A Jewish Busi-ness Ethics six-week series from thethe Rohr Jewish Learning Institutewill be held Wednesdays, starting Jan.25, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. or Sundays, start-ing Jan. 29, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. atChabad of the South Hills, 1701 Mc-Farland Road, Mt. Lebanon. The series will present Judaism’s

approach to practical economicdilemmas and monetary quandaries inpersonal and professional lives. Theseries is accredited for CLE credits. Call 412-344-2424 or visit

chabadsh.com for registration andmore information.

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NEW YORK — The abhorrent rally inJerusalem’s Shabbat Square on Dec. 31,2011, featuring Haredim wearing yellowstars and simulated concentration campuniforms brings to mind Walt Kelly’s ob-servation in the classic Pogo comic strip,“We have met the enemy and he is us.”“It’s like how it started with the Nazis

— very slowly,” said one of the ultra-Or-thodox demonstrators, an AmericanYeshiva student named Salomon Hober-man, steadfastly insisting on his and hiscohorts’ right to discriminate against andeven physically abuse women and girls.This latest misuse of Holocaust im-

agery and Nazi analogies did not occurin a vacuum. In 1995, posters of PrimeMinister Yitzhak Rabin in a Nazi uni-form were displayed at right-wingdemonstrations opposing any politicalaccommodation with the Palestinians.In December 2004, Gaza strip settlerscompared Prime Minister ArielSharon’s decision to pull out of Gaza tothe Holocaust and announced that theywould start wearing orange stars inprotest. Eight months later, IDF sol-diers were confronted in the Gaza settle-ment of Kerem Atzmona by Jewish chil-dren with yellow stars of David pinnedon their chest, intentionally evoking im-ages of Jews being deported to theirdeath by the Nazis.More recently, in May 2010, left-wing

Israeli, Palestinian and Polish activists, in-cluding one Yonatan Shapiro, a former Is-raeli Air Force pilot, sprayed the words“Liberate all ghettos” in Hebrew and“Free Gaza and Palestine” in English onremnants of the Warsaw Ghetto.No one should be surprised, therefore,

when the ultra-Orthodox, some of whom

have long compared Israel to Nazi Germanychoose to up the ante by employing evermore provocative and evocative tactics.Even more troubling than the Dec. 31 ral-

ly is the silence of so many ultra-Orthodoxreligious leaders in its aftermath. Whilecertain Jewish religious leaders have voicedtheir dismay, most of the prominent Cha-sidic and other Haredi personalities seem tohave developed convenient laryngitis.Unfortunately, politicians and media

commentators eager for a sound bite on theevening news also think nothing of exploit-ing the Holocaust and Nazi terminology, andapparently the crasser the better.The reactionary radio talk show host

Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly likenedPresident Obama to Hitler, with virtually noone in the Republican Party taking him totask. In Limbaugh’s own words, as broad-cast to his nationwide audience, “Obama’sgot a health care logo that’s right out ofAdolf Hitler’s playbook”; “Obama is askingcitizens to rat each other out like Hitler did”;the president “is sending out his brown-shirts to head up opposition to genuineAmerican citizens who want no part of whatBarack Obama stands for and is trying tostuff down our throats”; and “Adolf Hitler,like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.”Others are no better. Participants in Tea

Party rallies have brandished images ofPresident Obama with a Hitler-like mus-tache and signs with “Obama” written un-der a swastika. The president of the Re-publican Women of Anne Arundel County,Md., chose to write on the group’s Website that “Obama and Hitler have a greatdeal in common.” The head of the South-ern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Reli-gious Liberty Commission declared at aChristian Coalition of Florida banquet inFlorida, that the Obama Administration’shealth care reform “is not something likewhat the Nazis did. It is precisely whatthe Nazis did.” And Glenn Beck, anotherradio talk show host, disparaged the pres-ident’s plan to expand the Peace Corpsand its domestic counterpart, Ameri-Corps, as “what Hitler did with the SS.” Not to be outdone, former House Speaker

Newt Gingrich has declared that the Obamaadministration’s policies represent “as

great a threat to America as Nazi Germanyor the Soviet Union once did.” Really?Death camps? Gas chambers? Gulags? Thebrutal massacre of millions? To be fair, Democrats and liberals have

not been blameless in this regard. In Sep-tember 2009, Alan Grayson, then a Demo-cratic congressman from Florida, called thehealthcare crisis “this Holocaust in Ameri-ca.” Last January, another Democratic Con-gressman, Steve Cohen from Tennesseewho, like Grayson, happens to be Jewish,called the Republican rhetoric on health-care “a big lie just like Goebbels. You say itenough, you repeat the lie, you repeat thelie, and eventually, people believe it. Likeblood libel. … The Germans said enoughabout the Jews and people believed it — be-lieved it and you have the Holocaust.”All of these blatantly inappropriate Nazi

and Holocaust analogies, whether made inIsrael, the United States, or anywhere else,undermine our ability to bring the moral au-thority of Holocaust memory to bear when itreally matters. The Shoa and all it repre-sents should only be invoked in our contem-porary political discourse when human be-ings — Jews or non-Jews — are actuallypersecuted or threatened with destruction.It is not enough to condemn the

Haredim who compared themselves toJews in Nazi Europe at the Dec. 31 rally,and then allow the incident to be dis-missed and forgotten as merely anotheroutrage in a succession of many out-rages. Those who organized or took partin this obscene demonstration should bemade permanent pariahs, as should theultra-Orthodox rabbis and other leaderswho refuse to denounce it. Desecratingthe memory of the Shoa is as reprehen-sible as spitting on a girl, and the socialdegenerates who do either have no placein a civilized society.

(Menachem Z. Rosensaft is an adjunctprofessor of law at Cornell Law School, alecturer in law at Columbia Law School,a distinguished visiting lecturer at Syra-cuse University College of Law, and vicepresident of the American Gathering ofJewish Holocaust Survivors and TheirDescendants.)

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Lew was a wise choice

Haredim who desecrate Shoa have no place in civilized society

Menachem Z.Rosensaft

We’re under no illusions aboutPresident Barack Obama’sappointment of Jacob “Jack”

Lew to be the next White House Chief ofStaff.Lew, 56, is an Orthodox Jew, a voting

bloc that trends conservative. And manyOrthodox voters are critical of the presi-dent’s positions on Israel. What betterway to make peace with that voting blocthan to select one of its adherents to bethe president’s closest advisor?So in that respect, naming Lew to suc-

ceed outgoing Chief of Staff William Daleywas politically shrewd, no doubt about it.Having said that, the Lew appoint-

ment is a wise one as well. Here’s why:Economically, the president is on a

roll. The economy has added at least100,000 jobs a month for six months in arow — the first time that has happenedsince 2006, when Republican George W.Bush occupied the White House.

The unemployment rate is edgingdownward, though it’s still too high, andmanufacturing is picking up again. Atthe end of the day, presidential cam-paigns are won and lost based upon theperformance of the economy, not on so-cial issues and not on Israel.So what better man for the chief of

staff position than the current directorof the Office of Management and Budget(OMB), the man who is charged withdrafting the proposed 2013 budget? ForLew, the economy is job one, and he’lladvise the president accordingly.Plus, he has the credentials to do it.A graduate of Harvard University and

the Georgetown University Law Center,Lew, in another life, was the former sen-ior policy advisor to then-House Speak-er Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill. At the time,he served at the House DemocraticSteering and Policy Committee as assis-tant director and then executive direc-

tor, and was responsible for work on do-mestic and economic issues includingSocial Security, Medicare, budget, tax,trade, appropriations and energy issues.During the Clinton administration,

Lew served his earlier stint as OMB di-rector and joined the administration’snegotiating team that help crafted theBalanced Budget Act of 1997.And, as many Washington insiders are

saying, Lew, who is the latest in a longline of Jews to serve as chief of staff, iswell liked on Capitol Hill — more sothan Daley — which is necessary if thepresident hopes to accomplish anythingin an election year. So Lew brings just the kind of back-

ground the president needs at just thetime he needs it. That said, you can bethe will be a strong supporter of Israel aswell. However, you slice it — or howeveryou feel about this president — the se-lection of Lew was a wise one.

Appeal for GrossI am hoping you have heard about the

plight of my friend, Alan Gross. Alan isfrom the Washington, D.C., area and hissituation has received a lot of coveragein our local news. If you have not heard,Alan went to Cuba to bring laptop com-puters and cell phones to the Jewishcommunity on the island.On his last trip, he was taken off a plane

and thrown in a Cuban prison cell wherehe has sat since Dec. 3, 2009. He was nottried until March 2011, was found guiltyof acts against the Cuban government andsentenced for 15 years. The State Depart-ment is negotiating for Alan’s release butafter more than two years, their effortshave been unsuccessful.Two things are being done to help my

friend:• A petition was created on the White

House website to try to get some actionby the White House to bring Alan home(wh.gov/DJO). The petition needs 25,000signatures by Jan. 24, so that it will bereviewed by White House officials andreceive a response.• We were given a link to the Jewish

Issues Outreach Team at the WhiteHouse (whitehouse.gov/webform/con-tact-american-jewish-issues-outreach-team). Messages sent through that linkwill go directly to the appropriate staffat the White House so they can learnhow many people are concerned aboutAlan and want him home. Those peoplecan speak up on Alan’s behalf.I hope your newspaper is willing to

help this wonderful man by asking yourreaders to sign the petition and alsosend e-mails on Alan’s behalf. Alan andhis family need this nightmare broughtto an end.

Lenny LevyGaithersburg, Md.

URJ coverage laudedThank you for reporting and sharing

with others in Pittsburgh who did nothave the opportunity to attend the Unionfor Reform Judaism (URJ) Biennial lastmonth outside Washington, D.C.Your coverage accurately summarized

what I experienced as a participant: Istudied with scholars, learned new ap-proaches to connecting with our fellowcongregants, heard about the URJ’syouth and other new initiatives, sangand prayed with over 5,000 ReformJews from North America (represent-ing more than 900 member congrega-tions and their 1.5 million individualmembers) and shared Shabbat dinner ina room larger than several airplanehangars.Among those in attendance were also

members from liberal Congregations inLatin America, Europe, South Africaand Israel. It was awesome in sheersize! The Biennial was made even betterwith the opportunity to hear from Presi-dent Barack Obama, U.S. House Majori-ty Leader Eric Cantor, Israeli DeputyPrime Minister Ehud Barak and acameo appearance of our belovedTheodore Bikel. Witnessing the reinstal-lation of Lynn Magid Lazar as the Inter-national President of Women of ReformJudaism and standing up for her whenasked for members from her home con-gregation made Shabbat even more spe-cial. Your coverage gave a fair glimpseof what the URJ Biennial had tooffer. Thank you.

Frank SchwarzSquirrel Hill

(The author is a past president of Tem-ple Sinai and new board member of theUnion for Reform Judaism.)

CorrectionWe read with interest the cover story

in last week's Chronicle, "Israeli dancetroupe organizers hope to teach teens astep or two." We applaud the effort to en-gender enthusiasm for Israeli cultureamong local teens and wish the dancetroupe founders much success. We wanted to point out an error in the

story and take this opportunity to sharethe correct information with Chroniclereaders. The article mentions Pitts-burgh's Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration thiscoming spring, but includes the wronglocation and is missing critical


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Isaw the recent photos of ultra-Ortho-dox Jews sending their children to ademonstration wearing yellow stars.We all saw those photos. I opened theNew York Times with a silent prayer:“God, please don’t let one of thosephotos appear in these pages.” But my prayer was not answered.What could be a greater sacrilege thanthose photos? Could my grandparents,Auschwitz survivors, ever, ever imag-ine that Jews would put these stars onthemselves in their own country?Never.The Haredi, ultra-Orthodox, popula-tion claims that it is “a target of perse-cution” in the Israeli town of BeitShemesh, and that it is a victim of dis-crimination. The secularists and na-tional religious claim that they are tar-gets of ultra-Orthodox hatred and dis-respect. No one is backing down, andthe rhetoric is becoming harsher.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahueven suggested creating two separatecities for different types of Jews, ourown self-made apartheid. What is happening to us? At the endof the day, this does not hurt the secu-lar, the religious, or the ultra-reli-gious. It hurts Judaism, because any-one opening up a newspaper acrossthe globe and seeing what is happen-ing makes no fine distinctions. We areall just Jews, just Jews engaged inbaseless hatred and misunderstand-ing. We’re hurting Judaism.Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (1215-1293) was one of the great medievalcommunity leaders and scholars inGermany. He had a fascinating lifeand told the story of his people's suf-fering through responsa literature, le-gal questions he received and an-swered. Rabbi Meir, in protest to lawsinstituted by King Rudolph I that im-periled Jewish political freedoms, leftGermany with his family and follow-ers. He was imprisoned in what is

France today and held for ransom. Hebegged his community not to pay thatransom, fearing that it would lead tofuture kidnappings. As a result, hedied in prison seven years later. Four-teen years after his death, his bodywas ransomed, and a wealthy Jew whois now buried beside him bought hisbody back for a Jewish burial.Rabbi Meir was never in the land ofIsrael, but he knew suffering intimate-ly. He gave his life — literally — on be-half of the Jewish people. And al-though he had never visited Israel, hebelieved that on Israel’s holy soil,every transgression gets magnified.The king’s palace is a reference toGod, of course. We are on holy soilwithout realizing that holy soil mustbe nurtured more carefully. A sinthere somehow is amplified beyondwhat it would be elsewhere. We knowthat’s true in the media attention thatIsrael receives. We’re under the mi-croscope. If you hold yourself up to ahigh standard, people will bewatching.And what are they seeing now? Theyare seeing the long-term bruises of adysfunctional system that allowed asegment of the population to benefitfrom the taxes, welfare and armyservice of others while not having tomake an identifiable contribution be-yond narrow sectarian, internal inter-ests. Is it a wonder that we have whatlooks like a civil war that we cannotafford? Does anyone need to fight Is-rael from the outside when this is whatwe are doing to ourselves on the in-side? It is internal combustion of thehighest order, and without ringingalarms we are unquestionably going toimplode — unless the governmenttakes drastic measures soon.We need to pray, and get a hold ofthis madness before we are engulfedby it. Our very heart is being split intwo. How can we allow it?

(Erica Brown is a writer and educa-tor who works as the scholar-in-resi-dence for the Jewish Federation ofGreater Washington and consults forthe Jewish Agency and other Jewishnon-profits. This article is distributedwith permission of Brown throughJNS.)

information about changes in store forthis year's event.The Jewish Federation of GreaterPittsburgh, which sponsors the commu-nity celebration, is greatly expandingthe event this year in honor of the Feder-ation's Centennial. Set for Thursday, April 26 at SchenleyPlaza in Oakland, the event will, ofcourse, commemorate the founding ofthe modern state of Israel with Israelicultural programs, crafts and activitiesof all kinds. But the event will also be acelebration of all things Jewish, with ac-

tivities highlighting Jewish traditionand culture, as well as a collaboration ofmany local Jewish organizations andsynagogues. Jewish organizations wishing to par-

ticipate are invited to contact Teddi Ja-cobson, Manager, Israel CommunityEvents, at [email protected] or412-992-5207.

Jan Levinson andRoberta Letwin

Squirrel Hill

(The authors co-chair the Israel Com-munity Celebration.)


OPINION

Fight with Haredi acivil war no one wants

Guest Columnist

ERICA BROWN

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Continued from previous page.


SimchasBirths

Farber: Josh and Julie Farber an-nounce the birth of their son, Jacob Irv-ing Farber, Dec. 28. Grandparents areZelda (Dr. Edward) Curtiss and Nancyand Shelley Farber. Great-grandfatheris Donald Manna of Chicago. Jacob is named in loving memory of

his paternal great-grandfather, IrvingFarber.

B’nai MitzvaGabriela Golin,daughter of LilGlaser-Golin andJordan Golin, willbecome a bat mitz-va Saturday, Jan.14, at 10:30 a.m. atTemple Sinai.Grandparents areBeatriz andLeonardo Glaser of

Barcelona, Spain, and Diane Golin ofMiami and the late Norman Golin.

Janna Young,daughter of Lisaand JonathanYoung, will becomea bat mitzva Satur-day, Jan. 14, atCongregation Treeof Life*Or L’Sim-cha. Grandparentsare Iris and MartinNahemow, Fred

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Rabbi Ronald B.B. Symons of Temple Sinai has been elected presidentof the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus. Symons’ election was celebrated at theDecember 2011 International Leadership Assembly and 25th Anniversary Galaof the Gamaliel Foundation in the presence of the Rev.James Forbes of Riverside Church, N.Y., and BenjaminJealous of the NAACP.

The Gamaliel Foundation is an international congre-gation-based organizing network with affiliates in 18states as well as South Africa and Great Britain. Theirwork draws on struggles for justice by people of faithspanning nations, creeds and cultures.

The caucus unites local groups of clergy in each ofthe affiliates who are in ongoing discussion about thetheological underpinnings of their social justice work.As president, Symons hopes to strengthen each of thosegroups by providing them and their leaders with thetools to engage with other clergy caucuses around thecountry. Symons is the first rabbi to serve in this role.

Symons represents Temple Sinai on the executivecommittee of the Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network,the local Gamalielaffiliate.

He also serves as the director of the Tikkun Olam Center for Jewish SocialJustice at Temple Sinai. Rabbi Ronald B.B. Symons of Temple Sinai has beenelected president of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus. Symons’ election wascelebrated at the December 2011 International Leadership Assembly and 25thAnniversary Gala of the Gamaliel Foundation in the presence of the Rev. JamesForbes of Riverside Church, N.Y., and Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP.

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Mr. Memory

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Dale Lazar, a volunteer for the Jewish Association on Aging, has developeda “Creative Memories” program for its seniors. Residents call him Mr.Memory. To enhance their quality of living, Lazar is donating a jukebox forthe Community Room, which will be pre-programmed with ‘30s- and ‘40s-era songs.

Days before my rabbinic ordination, Igot a chance to see my smicha certifi-cate for the first time — and was aghast.The calligrapher had gotten my He-brew name wrong! Not mine, but mydad’s, which of course is part of mine.His name was Chayyim Aharon Leib,and somehow the bet at the end of“Leib” had been written as a dalet in-stead. The registrar didn’t think it wassuch a big deal, but I threw such a stinkthat they made the calligrapher changeit before the faculty signed it and pre-sented it to me at Cincinnati’s historicPlum Street Temple that Shabbat.Why was I so upset? It was just a typo,after all. But to me, the name was im-portant — my name was important:Chanya Reizel bat Chayyim AharonLeib v’ Fruma Rivka. Yes, it’s long. Yes,it takes up two whole lines on thesmicha certificate. But it’s who I am.Chanya Reizel, named after two great-grandmothers, matriarchs from the“Old Country” who held the family to-gether during an era of turmoil and dis-location. Chayyim Aharon Leib, my fa-ther Arthur Lewis, the “Chayyim”added by his family after he survived adeadly disease in early childhood.Though he never would be a totallyhealthy person, his perseverance overthe years compelled my husband to add“Aharon” to his own name after my fa-ther passed way. And Fruma Rivka, Car-ol Ruth, not the woman who bore me butthe woman who has been my true moth-er from my early teens, the woman wholoved my dad with all of his difficultiesfor all those years. Yes, the name had to be perfect.The importance of family names andfamily genealogy in our Jewish traditionis clear from the fact that the biblicalbook we know by its Greek name of Ex-odus is, in the Hebrew, Sefer Shemot,

the Book of Names. And Shemot reallyis a more appropriate title because, be-fore we can get to the story of the Exo-dus, we have some unfinished businessleft from Sefer Bereshit, the stories ofthe matriarchs and patriarchs fromGenesis. But here’s the problem: If weaccept the concept that the Torah neverwastes words, never gives us anythingsuperfluous or without its own meaning,then why would the Torah recapitulatein Shemot chapter one the genealogythat it already gave us (in much moredetail) in Genesis 46?According to Rashi, the difference isthat, in Bereshit, Jacob’s family mem-bers who went down to Egypt were stillalive; here at the beginning of Shemot,they are named in death:“This is to teach us that God so lovedthem that they were likened to the stars,for in their rising and in their settingGod too musters them by number andby their names, as it is written (Isaiah40:26), And who created these? The Onewho sends out their host by number,who calls them all by name.” With this reiteration of genealogy,

then, Torah teaches us that our parentsand grandparents and great-grandpar-ents are no less beloved by God — or byus — after we lose them. And even if wehave not even known them in life, weare linked to them through our familynames, for often we are given thosenames in the hopes that the traits thatmade them beloved in life will surfacein us as well.Nachmanides makes this point, too.He teaches that the stories of the patri-archs and matriarchs in Bereshit areformative for their offspring and hint atwhat is to come; Sefer Shemot brings tofruition the stories of the future genera-tions that stem from these hints and al-lusions. Whoever we are, whatever webecome — a hint of that is always evi-dent in the names on our certificates ofmilah or naming, our ketubot, and — forsome of us — our smicha. So it’s properto insist that they get it right.

(This column is a service of the GreaterPittsburgh Rabbinic Association.)

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The JCC Boys’ Varsity Team defeatedconference foe Auberle 49-37, Thursday,Jan. 5, in Greater Pittsburgh Independ-ent Basketball League play.Leading the way in scoring for the JCC

were their two leading scorers, Ben Katzand Jesse Goleman, with 18 and 15points respectively. Auberle’s QuadrikisTurner netted 16 points.Playing their first game since a Dec.

15 victory over Project Destiny, JCCHead Coach Andy Pakler noted the rustthe team displayed in the first quarter ofthe contest.“Anytime that you have two weeks off,

you’re going to come back and be a littleout of sorts,” Pakler said, “but I think weput it together pretty well and came outwith a win.”Both teams struggled on offensive

during the first quarter until Katzdrilled two consecutive baskets givingthe JCC a 10-9 lead — their first of thegame and ultimately the final score ofthe quarter.“We have a very tall front line and we

like those guys to get in there and get phys-ical,” Pakler said. “We like to get to thefree throw line, we like to block shots, welike to control the boards and with Jake,Ben and Jesse we’re able to do that.”The pace of play picked up in the sec-

ond quarter, though neither team could

pull away. JCC’s Goleman nailed two,three-point shots, but Auberle counteredwith a two pointer at the buzzer to cutthe JCC lead to 25-20 at the half.Auberle stayed on the attack in the

third quarter cutting the lead to threebefore the JCC went on a run of its own,seized the momentum and controlled therest of the game. The run opened up a35-26 lead for the JCC and showed offpoint guard Jacob Kander’s dribblingand passing skills.“That run was pretty much facilitated by

[Kander],” Pakler said. “He basically gaveguys the ball, in a position where they did-n’t have to do anything except make alayup. That’s what a point guard does, andI think he did a great job of that today.”Following an Auberle timeout, the JCC

ran the score up to 43-29 going into thefinal quarter.With the game in hand, Pakler pulled

his starters and slowed down the pace ofplay. Auberle managed to outscore theJCC by two points in the period, but itseffort fell short as time expired.The JCC (5-0) is next scheduled to

play Monday, Jan. 9, and Thursday,Jan. 11, against Career Connectionsand Propel.“So far I think we are exactly where

we should be at this point,” Pakler said.“We’re the defending champions of theleague; we know what this league is allabout, we’ve been in it for seven yearsnow. We have a veteran group of guys in-

cluding eight seniors who played for melast year, who all know exactly what ittakes to win in this league.”

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

JCC overcomes long break to defeat Auberle

HABER: On Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012,Morris Haber; beloved husband ofIrene Haber; beloved father of Judy(Steven) Sheffler, Paul (Sandy) Haberand Ken (Abbie) Haber; brother of thelate Bessie Canter and Rae Solomon;grandfather of Joshua Haber, AdamSheffler, Rebecca Haber, Lisa Sheffler,Blake Haber and Gabrielle Haber; alsosurvived by nieces and nephews. Serv-ices were held at Ralph SchugarChapel; interment Shaare Torah Ceme-tery. Arrangements by Ralph SchugarChapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pitts-burgh, PA 15232. www.schugar.com

HADBURG: On Friday, Jan. 6,2012, Jeffrey P. Hadburg; beloved hus-band of Jane Burdick Hadburg; belovedfather of Madeline Hadburg and thelate Jessica Hadburg; son of the lateMax and Rae Hadburg; brother ofLester Hadburg and Gail (Jay) Pearl-stein; brother-in-law of Thomas (Susan)Burdick; uncle of Tami and JannaPearlstein, Jill (Ryan) Zupancic, Jen-nifer and Jonathan Burdick. Serviceswere held at Ralph Schugar Chapel; in-terment Homewood Cemetery. Contri-butions may be made to AnimalFriends, 562 Camp Horne Road, Pitts-burgh, PA 15237. Arrangements by

Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Cen-tre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15232.www.schugar.com

LIEBERMAN: On Friday Jan. 6,2011, Norman Lieberman; beloved hus-band of Sylvia, father of Frank and Bar-ry, zayde of Moti, Ranit and Eli, broth-er-in-law of Claire Roy. With a caringheart and constant smile, he drew peo-ple to him and to each other. A lifelongPhiladelphian, prior to joining his eld-est son and family in Pittsburgh, he en-riched the Riverview Towers communi-ty for the last year of his life. Contribu-tions may be made to Keren HaRav Ke-hos, 5847 Beacon St., Pittsburgh, PA15217.

MICHAELS: On Sunday, Jan. 8,2012, Norma Barker Michaels; belovedwife of Edgar Michaels; beloved motherof Laura Michaels Rubinoff (EdwardRubinoff), James Michaels (Beth Bier-man) and Gary (Joan) Michaels; sisterof the late Irwin Barker; grandmotherof Matt Rubinoff (Jessie Creel), AllisonRubinoff, Casey Rubinoff, DavidMichaels, Liz Michaels, JeffreyMichaels and Abbey Michaels; sister-in-law of Pauline Michaels and the lateDr. Bernard Michaels; aunt of Susan

and Mark Orringer, Jane Michaels andBob and Susan Michaels. Services wereheld at Rodef Shalom Temple; inter-ment Beth Shalom Cemetery. Contribu-tions may be made to United CerebralPalsy of Pittsburgh, 4638 Centre Ave.,Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or Western PASchool for Blind Children, 201 N. Belle-field Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.Arrangements by Ralph SchugarChapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Pitts-burgh, PA 15232. www.schugar.com

WESCHLER: On Monday, Dec. 26,2011, Charles Lawrence Weschler; Lar-ry was born July 14, 1917 in New YorkCity to Samuel and Anna Weschler. Lar-ry, one of three children (Eleanor andWilliam), grew up in Flushing, Queens,where he was an Eagle Scout, and grad-uated from New York University with adegree in business. In 1942, Larry en-listed in the U.S. Army; he served as a2nd Lieutenant in the Army’s 77th Stat-ue of Liberty brigade, where he wasstationed in Japan, the Philippines, andseveral other Pacific Islands. He earneda Bronze Star for his heroic efforts de-livering munitions and other supplies tothe front lines in Leyte Gulf. Twentyyears later, Larry retired from theArmy as a Lieutenant Colonel. Follow-ing World War II, Larry moved to Pitts-burgh, where he began his career inKauffman's executive training programand met his wife Ruth (Schwartz). Theymarried in 1947, and eight years later,pooled their savings to open CharlesLawrence Casuals, a women's clothing

store in the Jenkins Aracde at the cor-ner of Fifth and Penn Avenues. Theyworked there together for almost 30years, closing the store in 1983. In re-tirement, Larry became a lifetimetrustee of the brotherhood and a mem-ber of the executive board of TempleSinai in Squirrel Hill, where he be-longed for over 50 years. He used hisdecades of retail experience to reinvig-orate and run Temple Sinai’s Jewishfood festival for several years in themid-1980s and early 1990s. Larrywould spend months working with lo-cal vendors and synagogue volunteers,running it as if it were a business. Thefood festival became a major fundrais-er for Temple Sinai and a signaturecommunity event. Larry was also anavid horseman, enjoying regular out-ings to The Meadows, where he ownedseveral successful trotters and pacers.Larry is survived by two children andfive grandchildren: Janice Dash (Dr.Marvin Dashson), Eric and Michelle;Barbara Weschler, (Stanley Levine),Aubra (Justin Garland) and Heather(Nathan Ajiashvili), and Adam.Beloved wife Ruth passed away in2006. Interment at Temple Sinai Me-morial Park. The family requests anydonations be made to Temple Sinai,5505 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA15217-1199, or to Forbes Hospice, 4800Friendship Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15224.For more information, please call hisdaughters: Janice (Weschler) Dash:412-422-1779. Barbara Weschler: 412-421-2599.


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He started to notice something waswrong on Dec. 26 when he began receiv-ing junk email from the blog.“I figured something wasn’t right be-

cause I have a couple plug-ins that aresuppose to inhibit spamming and theywere working fine,” D’Loss said, “but I fig-ured it wasn’t really serious, so I backed-burnered it until the end of the holidays.”Then, on the following Saturday at

Shabbat services, Joel Roteman, the for-mer executive editor of the Chronicleand a member of Ahavath Achim, toldD’Loss that the blog was down. AfterKiddush, he walked home and tried tolog on himself.“Sure enough, it was completely

down,” D’Loss said. He contacted thecustomer service of his provider compa-ny and learned they had locked the blogbecause of “malicious activity” on it.It took about six hours to clean up the

blog and trash corrupted files, he esti-mated. Since then, he has added somenew security measures.He described The Carnegie Shul as a

social blog for past and present mem-bers of the congregation. Political post-ings are rare and generate few com-ments. But entries about old times at thecongregation generate lots of replies.“Recently, someone asked a question

about a [Ahavath Achim] rabbi in the’60s and the thing lit up — ‘I rememberthis,’ and ‘I remember that,’ D’Loss said.“It’s a social thing.”He also posts all the congregation’s

yarhzeits on the blog as a service to itsfollowers.A web search by the Chronicle turned

up several different kids of websites thatwere apparently hacked into by theKosova Security Group. D’Loss has no idea why the blog was

targeted, but he can’t be certain thatanti-Semitism was the motivation. In anentry he posted to the blog after it wentlive again, he wrote:“Was the attack anti-Semitic? Appar-

ently, yes, but not definitely. … Onecould conclude that they surf the netlooking for Jewish websites to dis-rupt. But maybe they also do this toChristian sites as well.”

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

The people of Haiti are poor, and mostare uneducated. The average annual percapita income there is $250, and unem-ployment is at 70 percent. Only half of theresidents know how to read.Founded in 1983 by Haitian-born Leon

Pamphile, FLM-Haiti provides educa-tional and medical services to the peopleof Laboule, Boutilliers, Kenscoff, andThomassin The non-profit organizationhas established both a medical centerand a school there, and is currentlybuilding a technical school to offer nec-essary job skills to the many peoplethere who are unemployed. “The mission of Functional Literacy

Ministry is to help the Haitians makepermanent changes so they can helpthemselves,” Henry said. Allen recalled working in a school with

90 children on her last mission to Haiti.“Sixty of them had lost one or both par-ents in the earthquake,” she said.Another focus of the upcoming mis-

sion will be improving the vision of theHaitians in the community. While on hermission last year, Allen took note thatnobody there wore eyeglasses.“It wasn’t because they didn’t need

glasses,” Allen said, “but because access toeye care and glasses doesn’t really exist.” So, on the upcoming trip, the Rodef

Shalom group will be bringing hundredsof pairs of eyeglasses that it has been col-lecting through the congregation, the Li-ons Club, and Pittsburgh Allderdice HighSchool. Members of the group will per-form vision testing on the Haitians, anddispense the glasses, Allen said. Although FLM-Haiti is a Christian

group, Pamphile has agreed to allowHenry to take the reins on the spiritualside of this particular trip.“We’re going to look at what we’re doing

through a Jewish lens,” Henry said. Because it is primarily a humanitari-

an group, Allen said that the Christianbent of FLM-Haiti is not an issue.“It is a Christian group, but I knew

that on the ground, it really wouldn’tmatter in terms of what the work was, or

tikun olam,” Allen said. “Whenever any-one suffers, a Jew suffers. And it is not amission in terms of conversion.”While people of many different religionshave traveled with various FLM-Haitimissions, this is the first time a Jewishgroup has arranged a trip through theorganization.“The Jewish group that will be going

will be a blessing to Haiti,” said RozellePamphile, a director of FLM-Haiti, andthe wife of its founder. “It is the firsttime a Jewish group is going. It will bevery exciting, and the group that will begoing will be very happy.”While there, the group will celebrate

Shabbat, and has tweaked the itineraryto avoid traveling on that day. Henry also plans to visit Pittsburgh

North Hills native Neil DiBiase, who is amember of the American Foreign Servicethere, to learn about American diplomacyin Haiti. DiaBiase’s family are members ofTemple Ohav Shalom. In addition to its mission work, the

Rodef Shalom group also plans to do abit of travel around the country in orderto get a sense of the whole of Haiti, ac-cording to Allen.“Our goal is to work and to do, but also

for people to get an opportunity to see andlearn and take it all in. Haiti is so close, butit is also so far, and so different. It’s beau-tiful and it’s heart breaking. It’s a lot.”

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


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ADALYN PAKLER BARAFF .......ESTHER PAKLERWEISS

SHIRLEY & MILTON BILDER............ANN BILDERMALLINGER

FAYE BLEIBERG ..................JACK I. MALLINGERFAYE BLEIBERG......................DIANE FRIEDMANFAYE BLEIBERG.................ESTHER MALLINGERREGINA & SANDYCHARAPP..............................MILTON CHARAPP-JERRY COTLOV.............NELSON CARL COTLOVJERRY COTLOV...................ROSABELLE ROSEN

COTLOVSYLVIA ELIAS..............................SAMUEL BRILL

SHEILA FINE .................................LILLIAN COOKBARBARA FLESCH ......................SAM SIROCCADANA GELMAN...............PHILLIP HARMARILYNGOLDMAN & FAMILY....................ALISON BETH

GOLDMANBEVERLY GERBER-KALSON .......DAVID DUGANROSE KAPLAN................................NETTIE EBELJAN & EDWARDKORENMAN .........................FREDA WINERMAN

HAROLD LEBENSON.................PHILLIP HARRISRUSHIE LEFF ...................................JAMES LEFFSTEPHANIE & ALANLETZT ..............................GERTRUDE SCHUGARLILYAN LEINER.................................BEN LIPSITZROSE ORR............................GOLDIE FRIEDMANEVELYN REBB ......................FREDA WINERMANBERT SAMUELS ......................LOUIS SAMUELSREBECCA & HENRYSEINER..................................NOCHIM GELMANREBECCA & HENRY SEINER.......HENRY SCHORHERBERT SHAPIRO...................CLARE DEUTCH..............................................RUTH SOLOMON &EMERSON MILLIGRAM....................MARGARET

MILLIGRAMGERTRUDE W. SUPOWITZ........ALBERT JAMES

SUPOWITZIRENE RUDICK WANDER..................ELI RUDICKHAROLD WEISS.........................MARIAN WEISSLARRY WEISS ............RAYMOND S. WEINBERGLARRY WEISS.....................BERNARD H. WEISS

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15: ISAAC JOSEPH BACHRACH, MOLLIE BARNETT, LENA BARR, HARRY CA-PLAN, LENA DIAMOND, GERALD FIELD, JENNIE FIENBERG, IRWIN FIRESTONE, RAE COHEN FRANK,ISADORE GEDUNSKY, ANNIE GENSTEIN, CLARA SCHUTTE GORDON, SAMUEL HORWITZ, HILDAKRAUSE, ROSE KRAUSE, JACOB KRIMSKY, EDITH KRUPP, ELINORE LEFF, ISADORE LEIBOVITZ, HARRYLEVENTON, MINNIE LEWINE, LEONARD LIPSKY, ESTHER MADEL, LOU MAGLIN, ALEXANDER ZESHAMARKOVITZ, SARAH MERVIS, HARRY MEYER, JEAN MERWITZER NYDES, ZIESEL ORTENBERG, BARRYMILTON PLATT, REV. RUBIN RABINOVITZ, MALKA SHANBLATT ROSENTHAL, LIBBY ROTHMAN, ROSE RU-BINSTEIN, JEFFIE SCHREIBER, RACHEL LEAH SOLWITZ, SADIE SPEISER, YETTA F. WEINBERGER, ROSEWEISMAN, MILTON WIENER, MAX XHERSKY, HARRY YOUNG, CHARLES ZEIGER.MONDAY, JANUARY 16: SARAH ABELS, CELIA BERMAN, LEONA R. BROAD, FLORENCE COHEN,MAX DEAKTOR, DR. ROBERT DIZNOFF, NATHAN FLORMAN, FREDA FRANK, I. LEON FRIEDMAN, REBECCAGOLDBERG, RENA RAY GOLDBLOOM, ALLISON BETH GOLDMAN, ADELE GREENFIELD, BEVERLY HABER,HARRY HARRIS, ESTHER HOROVITZ, HYMAN I. KOPELMAN, LOUIS FABIAN LEFKOWITZ, GERALDINELERNER, LOUIS LEVIN, ANNA LEVINSON, ELLA RUTH LEVY, DR. SHELDON M. LUBOW, RITA LUPOVICH,LOUIS J. MARKS, DAVID C. MERVIS, ETHEL SIFF MILLER, KATIE NELSON, JESSIE R. NEVINS, RACHELNUMEROSKY, SAUL OSACHY, NATHAN OSTROW, PAULINE REZNICK, LOUIS ROBINSON, LOUIS ROSEN,HENRY SCHOR, ALBERT SHAER, JULIUS LEWIS SHAMBERG, MOLLIE SHERMAN, ABRAHAM SIDRANSKY,ELIMALECH SIGMAN, SAM SIROCCA, PFC. SANFORD SIVITZ, LENA SOFFER, ANNA STEINITZ, NORBERTSTERN, ROSE WEISS.TUESDAY, JANUARY 17: HARRY CHATKIN, HYMAN COHEN, MAURICE COHEN, BESSIE COLTIN,KENNETH FRANKEL, JACK GINSBURG, JESSE B. GUTTMAN, IDA KATZ, CECILE G. KLUGER, ABRAHAMKOCH, TINNIE LANGE, BENJAMIN LEVINE, SAMUEL MARKS, LIBBIE MILLER, ARTHUR MOSKOWITZ,JACOB NEIMAN, HOWARD DAVID OSHRY, RUTH FRIEDMAN OSHRY, MORRIS PERSKY, MORRIS PRICE,NATHAN RIPP, ESTHER I. 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RICE,NELLIE E. RUDOLPH, HARRY SCHREIBER, HARRY SELKOVITS, SAMUEL SOLOW, ROSE SZOBEL, SARAHRACHEL TEPLITZ, MORRIS VINOCUR, HANNAH FRIEDBERG WEINSTEIN, ELIAS WEISS, SAMUEL WILSON,EZEKIAL ZECKAUSER, DORA ZEIDENSTEIN.

Marian Allen providing a fluoridetreatment to a young Haitian during hermission last year.

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