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PHOTO BY THE JEWISH JOURNALThe Jewish Federation of Ocean County kicked off the year with its Annual Meeting on September 13, 2012 at FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood. Jerry Silverman (above), President and Chief Executive Officer of The Jewish Federations of North America, was the guest speaker. More photos on page 10.

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The Ted Katzenstein Memorial Post 657 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America in Leisure Village

West in Manchester, New Jersey hosted a musical production of “Fifty Years of Broadway” on September 20th and Sept-

Veterans.Hosted.Musical.Productionto.benefit.New.Jersey.Veterans.Homes.and.Hospitals

ember 23rd 2012.This musical revue with an all star cast was produced and directed by Joan Harary and the piano accompanist was Mr. Bob Rose.The musical performance featured songs

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The entire cast sings “Bring Him Home” from Les Misérables.

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A Hasidic tale is told about a boy that goes to the hills to medita-te and find God. His father asks him, “Why do you go to the

hills?” He replies, “To speak with God.” The father quickly retorts, “God is the same here as there – why go that distance and through those hills and dangers when you could talk to God here?” The boy re-plied, “God might be the same in both pla-ces, but I am not.”Have you ever met someone and just clic-ked immediately! Automatically hit it off, and feel as if you have known the person your whole life, yet, you just met. Have you ever reconnected with a friend from years ago, and when you saw them, you felt like you have been with them every day, even if it has not been for decades?Those are the feelings one gets when visi-ting Israel – you feel as if you have been meant to have Israel in your life, and Israel and you are meant to be together. Being in Israel is like reconnecting with an old friend, who you have lost touch with, but seems like you live next door to each other. Have you ever been homesick? Been away, or moved from a previous home – and you can take a walk in your mind – and be all over your former home, moving from room to room – as if you are really physi-cally there – but really only thinking about being there. That is what it is like to have to leave Israel – you can replay in your mind, your travels, the walks you took, the streets you journeyed through, the moun-tains you climbed. You can nearly taste the food you ate, and the smells you breathed. Because that snapshot in your mind of Is-rael never goes away, but those memories, and thoughts and snapshots, gnaw at you – make you crave to go back. To hope that one day you can snap your fingers and go there in less than 12 hours, for not a fortu-ne. Because once you go to Israel, you just

Our.Unconditional.Love.for.Israel

yearn to be there. To walk the streets; talk to the people; visit our people, our home-land, walk the Bible. See how the people live each day, speaking our holy tongue of Hebrew, and greet each other with Sha-bbat Shalom, even if they are not going to Services, but just hanging out at the beach. For Friday night and Saturday, are Shabbat – a day of rest for all, no matter how many mitzvot you observe.Do your children ever drive you bananas? No matter how old they are. Do you always agree with the decisions they make? But you love them – unconditionally. That is our love for Israel. We love Israel – no matter if we agree with their policies and decisions, or not. We should love Is-rael, like we love our children – no matter how much we may disagree with them – we love them – So too with Israel – our love for them should be unconditional. Did you ever know the person that no matter what their child, or grandchild does – they are the best!? Well, no matter what Israel does, it is the best. Just as you brag about your children and grandchildren – brag about Israel and all it has accomplished!Israel has one of the lowest unemployment rates. Israel is one of the healthiest and ha-ppiest societies. Israel is the second most educated country per capita, right after Canada. Israel has made some of the most monumental scientific breakthroughs, and consistently has Nobel Prize winners, as well as nominations for foreign films. Is-rael is third on the NASDAQ after America and China. We have so much to be proud of in our State of Israel. Each time you go to Israel – you feel a surreal emotion – a feeling like it is so right to be there – and the experience when you have to leave – a literal pain in your heart. Israel will be fine when we leave, but we will never be the same. Once you experience Israel, that love for Israel, and that longing to be there, envelops you, embodies you, and you just can’t get enough of that love.Israel was that long lost friend that I had not visited for 17 years, and the minute we arrived in Israel, I could not believe it had taken me so long to get back. Within the first hour we arrived in Israel, Cameron wanted to move there. Sammy wanted to know when we were going back, and Coby informed me he wants to move next door to our tour guide Eitan, at Kibbutz Eilon, a place of heavenly beauty, and incredible

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It seems like everywhere we turn to-day, it’s about elections.The media is inundated with candi-date advertising and the TV “news”

has non-stop hot and cold running pundits. Yet, Democracy is, as has been pointed out, messy, inefficient, and at times chao-tic. But after thousands of years mankind has yet to come up with a better way to give people a voice in by whom and how they are governed.While we are contemplating who to vote for in November, Israelis will be heading to the polls on January 22 to elect a Knes-set for the 19th time in 63 years. Out of the previous 18 Knessets less than a handful sat for their entire four year term. Almost all ended with the Knesset voting to dis-solve early because an election is called driven by politics like this upcoming vote in January.Both elections are expressions of a demo-cratic system of “one person one vote”. Yet in this case the underlying dynamics are almost totally different.Our American election is shaping up to be a choice between two candidates with di-

A.Tale.of.Two.Electionsfferent world views and differing appro-aches and solutions to what America currently faces. It’s not Federation’s place to discuss the candidates or their respective positions. Suffice to remind you to exercise your civic responsibility and vote.The Israeli election is about something else. It’s about a calculated effort to continue current political leadership and policies.Since Israel was administered for a ge-neration before achieving statehood by a British mandate, its political system bares more than a passing resemblan-ce to the British parliamentary system. The Knesset Israel’s legislature, like the British parliament, is elected by the voters, but the Prime minister can only govern as long as he or she com-mands a parliamentary majority. If the head of the largest party in the Knesset can’t put together a coalition that can obtain a majority vote, one alternative is to go to elections. One of the rules of the Knesset is that the defeat of the State budget as presented by the finance minister automatically causes the fall of the government.That is what Prime Minister Netanyahu is currently facing. His government coa-lition partners are unwilling or unable to come to a consensus on next year’s State budget. Faced with slowing Euro-pean and world economies Israel’s lea-ders understand that to avoid a serious recession they need to trim government spending. None of the parties that form the coalition are willing to allow the

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of lazy summer ice cream and beach-filled ones. Knapsacks laden with a stockpile of new colorful notebooks and sharpened pencils add some excitement to the kick-off of the school year. All too soon though, the excitement wears off as parents and children alike bemoan long evenings spent doing endless hours of homework.For some children, homework is some-thing to get out of the way quickly so that they can spend the afternoon with friends. For many, the mere thought of it evokes groans and the realization that it’s another ten long months till homework-free nights are back again. Evenings in these homes involve children sitting at desks or around the table wiling away the evening hours and ever-so-slowly attempting to get it all done. What strategies can parents put in

Homework.Survival.Kitplace to ease the whole process and per-haps free up some of their evenings?Below are some suggestions that make up what I call the Homework Survival Kit. There is no one size fits all system since each child learns and functions differently but hopefully some of these ideas can be applied to make evenings run more smoo-thly. � Create a designated homework cen-

ter. Assigning a certain spot in the house that the child knows to go to when doing homework. It can be at a desk in his/her bedroom or at a kitchen table. The essen-tial quality necessary for success is that the environment must be quiet and conducive to learning. � Keep supplies organized and readily

available. Having supplies such as shar-pened pencils, pens, glue, scissors, loose-leaf paper, and dictionaries organized and easily accessible helps the child get off to a good start. Keeping supplies handy not only prevents time-consuming searches for the elusive thesaurus, roll of tape or

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run-away highlighter, but it will also help prevent last minute scrambles mid-year of parents running out to the store when the teacher asks for replacement glue bottles or more pencils. � Set up a routine. Creating a schedu-

le, even a loose one, provides children with a basic time frame-work which gives structure to their time off from school and helps them to remain focused. When chil-dren know when dinner time, play time and wash-up before bed is to take pla-ce, it carves out a more specific window of time that is specifically designated for homework. Setting up a time by which homework must be done helps lessen the likelihood of an all-nighter spent with ho-mework. � Take the time to teach study, re-

search, and test taking skills to your child. Providing your child with certain basic skills will alleviate some of the stress associated with studying for and taking tests as well as completing reports and re-search papers. Teaching students how to memorize information using mnemonic devices and other word associations is es-

sential. When learning a second language it is sometimes helpful to think of English words that sound similar and find a con-nection so that it is more easily remembe-red. Teaching children time management skills, process of elimination techniques and pointing out patterns in the teacher’s manner of testing may help facilitate suc-cessful test-taking. � Understand your child. It is essential

to understand what each child’s specific needs are. If one child works better once he’s had twenty minutes of chill-out time then allowing the child the opportunity to relax before tackling homework is es-sential for that child to function properly. Other children won’t settle down once they get involved in a play activity. When working with these types of students, it is necessary to begin homework immediately after school and only allow play time when the homework is complete. � Implement techniques that help the

slow working or unfocused child. What is someone to do if the child doing the ho-mework does not remain focused for more

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On Sunday, September 30, the Sisterhood of Congregation Ahavat Olam hosted a sukkot brunch with special guest John

David Scalamonti, author of “Ordained to Be a Jew: A Catholic Priest’s Conversion to Judaism.” Scalamonti, a resident of Old

Sukkot.brunch

Bridge, shared the journey of his conver-sion from Catholicism to Judaism, a jo-urney that started with his entrance at the seminary where he became an ordained Priest, followed by his encounter with an Orthodox Jewish woman and her family, and finally his decision to switch his faith.

Congregation Ahavat Olam in Howell built a sukkah outsi-de the temple to celebrate the holiday of sukkot with a party for the children of the Hebrew school and the youth group. The sukkah was built by the Men’s Club.

Children.and.youth.celebrated.sukkot.in.Congregation.Ahavat.Olam

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from Oklahoma!, The Phan-tom of the Opera, The Pajama Game, Les Misérables, The Fantasticks, and West Side Story.The two shows were very well attended with nearly 300 guests attending the Thursday performance and a full house of nearly 375 guests atten-ding the Sunday performance. The sale of the tickets earned nearly $2, 950 with all of the money going to the New Jer-sey Veterans Homes and Hos-pitals.The All-Star cast included: Marvin Schuman, Ronnie Schuman, Maddie Goldman, Kathy Brotman, Tom Ray-mond, Paul Rosenblatt, Louise Nellagar, Sal Tozzi, Lorraine Bober, Marie Wilcox, Sid Der-ner, and Joan Harary. Lighting and sound was expertly han-dled by Bud Wolfort and Stan Lechner.

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It’s the time of year again when the philanthropic leadership of the Jewish community of Ocean County will gather on Saturday, November 17 for this year’s Family Circle Major Gifts Function.This significant campaign fund raiser, held annually in the fall, will be at the home of Fred and Muriel Rosenfeld and chaired by Doug Collier, Alan Krupnick and Fred Rosenfeld.The money raised at Family Circle provides for food, rent, medicine, education, as well as emotional and psychological support for Jews in need locally and globally. The assistance offered by the Federation through these donations reach into every corner of the global Jewish community in more than 70 countries around the world, renewing lifelong Jewish connections, breaking the cycle of poverty, and responding to emergencies.For example, a gift of $1,800 provides food and nutritional support for an at-risk child for a year; $2,500 would mean a year of educational enrichment for one Ethiopian-Israeli middle school student; and $5,000 will allow a transition program for one new Israeli immigrant living in an absorption center.This year’s event will start at 7:00 p.m., and will include a cocktail hour, dinner, and a keynote address by Susan Jackson of the Jewish Federation of Toronto.

Family.Circle.Major.Gifts.set.for.November.17

serenity, in the Galilee. After 17 days back in the United States, my whole family craved to go back to Israel. We yearn to once again soak Israel into our bodies, minds, and souls, for the love of Israel is intoxicating, and we need our Israel fix. Israel entered the bloods-tream of our family, and I hope it infects all of Ocean County! As it has become part of our DNA and many others, may the love of Israel become part of all of our DNA, working itself into us, like a drug. And truly, one needs to detox after going to Israel. It is not the jet lag that makes you tired when you return, but rather, the feeling of longing to go back

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Joan Harary and Louise Nellegar in “Together.”

Kathy Brotman and Tom Raymond singing “People Will Say We’re in Love” from Oklahoma!

to Israel. Israel is whole without us, but we are incomplete without being there. Life goes on in Israel. However, once we all go back to our usual homes, life is never the same. One who visits Israel is never again the same. Israel changes you when you vi-sit. Possibly difficult to explain, unless you experience it.As the boy in the Hasidic tale said, God might be the same in both places, but I am not, and as Yehuda HaLevi, the famous medieval rabbi, poet, and philosopher wrote, “My heart is in the East, and I am in the ends of the West.” Libi b’mizrach vanochi b’sof maarv.Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields is the Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Toms Ri-ver and the Chair of the Women’s Commit-tee of the Rabbinical Assembly.


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The Jewish Federation of Ocean County is excited to announce a Passover Art Contest. The Pas-sover Art Contest gives students

the opportunity to use art to express their thoughts and feelings about the Passover holiday.

With this goal in mind the Passover Art Contest will take place within the local sy-nagogue Hebrew Schools and throughout the community. Separated into two age ca-tegories, students ages 5-9 and 10-13, will have the opportunity to create and design an image that will compete to be featured on the Federation’s Annual Passover Card. This card will be mailed to the community before the Passover holiday.

The participating Hebrew Schools will be use this program as a part of their curricu-lum to educate students on tzedakah and

Passover.Art.ContestWinners will be featured on the Federation’s Annual Passover Card.

the concept of giving back to community. The student’s assignment will be to design an image that represents their favorite part or aspect of Passover.

Diane Kitay-Jarrett, Passover Picture Con-test Chairperson explains, “Artists, of any age are responsible for the interpretation of our Judaic history, traditions and futu-re aspirations as they have experienced it. We each have a responsibility to relive, remember and express our culture through art, writings and our voices so that others will learn, understand and hopefully res-pect the riches we all bring to the global canvas.” A panel of art professionals will select a winner from each synagogue and a community finalist. Out of the selected fi-nalists, one overall winner will be selected to be featured on the Passover card mai-ling. Remaining finalists will have their designs featured in a full page spread in

the Jewish Journal.

“The holiday card art contest is a won-derful opportunity to engage our Jewish community’s youth in a fun and meanin-gful way,” said Lauren Rosen, one of the three individuals in Federation’s new lay leadership Executive Team. “We look forward to working with the synagogue Jewish Education Directors throughout Ocean County, and together witnessing the artistic energy and excitement of the kids, and ultimately, the wonderful end results represented in their artwork.”

While this program is being incorporated within the local synagogues, you do not need to be a synagogue member to sub-mit your artwork. Community members can enter by submitting their artwork to “JFOC Art Contest,” 301 Madison Ave-nue Lakewood, NJ 08701. Jason Krane, Annual Campaign Officer of the Jewish Federation of Ocean County said, “I am a believer of giving the younger generation a taste of Jewish programming at an early age. By mixing art and Judaism, it gives the Federation a way to educate about gi-ving back to the community and a sam-pling of what Federation offers.”

In addition to the winning design being featured on the holiday card, submissions will be included in a traveling exhibit for the entire community to appreciate the student’s artwork. Please see the guide-lines below for further instructions. Dea-dline for all submissions is December 3rd, 2012. Any questions please contact the Fe-deration office.

1 entry per student

Junior Division A Grade 1-3

Senior Division B Grade 4-7

Artwork created on white paper in lands-cape/horizontal format, minimum size 9” x 12” and maximum 11” x 14” .

Materials accepted: crayons, markers, pastels, paint colored pencils or a com-bination of any of these. color paper mo-saics are acceptable as long as they are glued down securely. Please no stables or tape. On front of artwork.

All entries must be in by: December 3rd, 2012.

Mail or hand deliver Art entry To:

301 Madison Ave. Lakewood, New Jersey 08701

The Winner will receive a $50.00 gift card and be the Featured Artist on the front of the Federation of Ocean county’s Passo-ver card.

Submissions will be judged by a panel of artist and art educators for originality, creativity and execution.

Submissions will be displayed.

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Art work will be returned if a self-addres-sed with postage is included.

if selected, your artwork will be reprodu-ced and used for the Federation’s Passo-ver cards and exhibit.

Be creative….Is it the chocolate cove-red matzo, the sedar plate, the plagues, the hiding the afekomin or when Moses parted the Dead Sea that reminds you it is time for Passover.

Submission.must.include:

5 ½” x 8” paper taped to back of art work.

Must include: Division A or B, Name of Artist, Age, Town or Synagogue affilia-tion, parent or guardian release/sig-nature and date for permission gran-ted to reproduce art and identify the artist/ child by first name only, age, town or synagogue affiliation. Typed, double spaced or a hand written *Des-cription of the artwork.

*Description: Tell us about your art. How did you come up with the idea or where did you get the inspiration, or explain how your art tells a story about Passover. you can even write a short poem about your artwork.

For Additional information please contact Diane Jarrett or Jason Krane at Jason @OcJF.org or call 732-363-0530.

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SAMPLE.ART/Back

Jewish Federation of Ocean County- Passover art Contest

Underline to identify your: __Division A, Grades 1-3 or __Division B, Grades 4-7

First Name:_______________________Last Name: ___________________

Grade:_________Age:__________Town:____________________________

Synagogue Affiliation*: __________________________________________

Teacher or school administrator*:__________________________________

Parent release: i, ______________parent /guardian give my permission for my child’s art to be reproduced by the Federation of Ocean county and if selected to be used in print, internet and media**

____________return Artwork to Synagogue Office

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Waning white blood-cell counts in chemotherapy pa-tients are commonly taken as a warning of an increased

risk of infection.Now, a new Israeli study suggests that it is critical to evaluate not only the quantity of these “neutrophil” blood cells essential to immunity against infection, but also their quality, which varies from one patient to another.The new model for evaluating infection risk comes out of research by Weizmann Institute of Science mathematicians in co-llaboration with physicians from the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba and the Hoff-mann-La Roche research center in Basel, Switzerland.

Safer.chemo,.thanks.to.Israeli.mathA new study explains why certain patients develop severe infections after chemotherapy and suggests how to avoid this side effect.

Their research, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, may re-present an important step in the emerging field of personalized medicine, leading to a more individualized approach to chemo-therapy.Based on an analysis of each patient’s neutrophils, it could be possible to take better precautions to prevent infection in high-risk patients, while those at a low risk could be spared unnecessary preventive treatments.

Multidisciplinary.approachThe multidisciplinary study was done by researchers with expertise in applied ma-thematics, electrical engineering, oncolo-gy, immunology and pediatrics. The lead author, Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar, heads the Weizmann Institute’s Moross Research School of Mathematics and Computer

Science. The first author, applied mathe-matician Roy Malka, formerly an electri-cal engineer, conducted this research as part of his PhD studies at Weizmann. This year he is a post-doc at Harvard Medical School.The idea for the project was proposed by Dr. Eliezer Shochat, an oncologist trained in applied mathematics at the Weizmann and now working with the Hoffman-La Roche research group at in Basel. Part-ners at the Meir Medical Center included Dr. Baruch Wolach, head of the Labora-tory for Leukocyte Function and chair-man of pediatric immunology at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine; and laboratory manager Ronit Gavrieli, who performed the experiments.“Our study suggests that to achieve op-timal results in applying chemotherapy, and/or in patients with innate neutrophil dysfunction, it is of value to assess the patient’s neutrophils periodically, as well as the bacterial concentration,” said Wola-ch. “Such assessments will help reduce the morbidity and the mortality, as well as the cost associated with unnecessary hospitali-zations and the administration of expensi-ve medications.”He added that by cutting down on the use of antibiotics, these assessments can help prevent the rise of “superbug” bacteria re-sistant to antibiotics.

Helping.to.solve.medical.mys-teriesChemotherapy or bone marrow transplant patients with dangerously low levels of white blood cells, mainly neutrophils, are at risk of severe infections because their

fragile immune system cannot combat in-vasive bacteria.The Israeli model suggests that this is not simply an issue of numbers.In most healthy people, the researchers be-lieve, it doesn’t much matter how effecti-ve their individual neutrophils are against bacteria because the immune system as a whole can function fine. But in patients with compromised immune systems, in-dividual variability can make a difference between life and death.This model helps explain why, after che-motherapy, some cancer patients contract life-threatening infections even when in isolation under sterile conditions: If the neutrophils of these patients are “weak,” even a modest onslaught of bacteria can overpower the immune system.The study also explains why certain pa-tients, following chemotherapy or a bone marrow transplant, may develop acute infections even if their neutrophil levels have returned to relatively normal. Che-motherapy lowers the ability of neutro-phils to fight off bacteria. The bacterial concentrations might increase so quickly that by the time the neutrophil counts rise to normal levels, the rapidly multiplying bacteria have already gained a head start.In addition, Weizmann Institute’s mathe-matical modeling could shed light on the mechanism behind the development of se-vere recurrent infections in some patients. At least some mysterious cases may result from a combination of several mild de-fects, including variation in the function of neutrophils and other immune cells.

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The Jewish Federation of Ocean County kicked off the year with its Annual Meeting on September 13th, 2012 at

FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood. The evening opened with the National Anthem and Hatikvah led by Max Silverstein followed by a D’var Torah from Lakewood Mayor Menashe Mi-ller.

Following his thoughtful words, the Federation recognized its outgoing leadership including now Past Presi-dent Ronen Rotem, Woman’s Division Chair, Barbara Schulman and Board Members Jane Butensky, Linda Novak and Shirley Silverstein.

The most surprised person in the room was the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Annabel Lin-denbaum, in recognition of all her hard work and dedication to the Jewish Federation. After receiving her award she introduced the evening’s keynote speaker, President & CEO of Jewish Federations of North America, Jerry Silverman.

Jerry enthusiastically explained his belief in the Federation and reitera-ted why it is important to be involved from a National perspective.

The evening ended with the installa-tion of a new Board and officers inclu-ding the Executive Leadership Team; Lauren Rosen, Randi Rozovsky and Barbara Schulman to lead the Federa-tion.

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Executive Leadership Team:Lauren RosenRandi RozovskyBarbara SchulmanVice President, JCRC Larry MandelVice President, JFCS Michael BermanSecretary, Alan KrupnickTreasurer, Ross GertnerCampus Planning Committee, David RosenJFNA Board, Annabel LindenbaumPast President, Ronen Rotem

Board:Michael BermanHerbert BirmanDoug CollierJonathan FieldsCyndy FriedlandJoanne GethardRoss GertnerIrene GoldsteinRachael KaufmanAlan KrupnickAnnabel LindenbaumEllyn LyonsLarry MandelShira MeyerShelly NewmanDavid RosenLauren RosenFred RosenfeldRonen RotemRandi RozovskyEric SambolFred SchraggerBarbara SchulmanHarriet SelingerDoran TajfelBob Van BochoveMichael York

2012-2013.SLATEOfficers:

Guest speaker Jerry Silverman, President and CEO of JFNA.

Lakewood Mayor Menashe Miller gave the D’var Torah.

Attendees to JFOC’s 35th Annual Meeting.

Outgoing President Ronen Rotem (right) presented an award to former Women’s Division President Barbara Schulman.

Annabel Lindenbaum received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

JFOC’s Executive Director Danny Goldberg (left) read the inscription on outgoing President Rotem’s Havdalah Set.

Executive Leadership Team, L to R: Randi Rozovsky, Barbara Schulman, and Lauren Rosen.

Mayor Miller (left) presented a Township of Lakewood Proclamation to outgoing President Rotem.

Outgoing Board member Shirley Silverstein.


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Do you know those an-noying nouveau - ri-che neighbors who have more money than

you and love to flaunt it? We may think it’s a modern invention but new archaeological finds show those bothersome neighbors may have been around up to 10,000 years ago.“We found a series of small and delicate bowls made of fine sto-ne and decorated that we belie-

Trove.of.Discoveries.from.the.Stone.Age.Found.in.IsraelLuxury items up to 10,000 years Old

ve was not something that every person in a village would have,” Dr. Ianir Milevski, one of the ex-cavation directors told The Me-dia Line. “There are also beads made of stones and shells, luxury items that we think these items probably belong to a special elite group.”The finds were made at extensive archaeological excavations that the Israel Antiquities Authority is carrying out before widening a highway in northern Israel. Ar-chaeologists said the 50-acre site might be the largest in Israel that goes back to prehistoric settle-ment from the Pre-pottery Neo-lithic Period (about 10,000 years ago) to the Early Bronze Age, around 5000 years ago.“The surprise is how extensive

the site is,” Milevski said. “There are other smaller sites of this cul-ture in Israel or Jordan but this site has millions of items, including pottery shards, beads and shells. We have the remains of the buil-dings and we have all the tools and vessels they utilized for co-oking, storage tools for working with wood, flint axes, sickle bla-des that are made of flint. We have a large repertoire of jars, bowls and cooking pots. They are cha-racteristic of these cultures with very distinctive decoration.”In Israel, before any construction work can be done, the Antiqui-ties Authority must investigate to make sure important finds will not be destroyed. At times it can spark violence such as when Israel’s

PHOTO CREDIT: CLARA AMIT, COURTESY OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHO-RITYAmong the finds from the Ein Zippori site is this stone tablet etched with the figures of two birds, possibly ostriches.Continued on page 14


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interesting for archaeologists. There is a group of small stone bowls. One of the bowls had more than 200 black, white and red stone beds. There are also a group of stone plaques with an elegant carving of two running ostriches.“Beauty is subjective but I find this pla-que with the ostriches very beautiful and I think the people then did too,” Milevs-ki says. “Even though these items were made thousands of years ago, they com-municate to us. I feel excited every time I find something new.”

PHOTO CREDIT: CLARA AMIT, COURTESY OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITYA bowl with stone beads dates to an ancient culture that flourished in modern-day Israel 7,000 years ago.

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than a few minutes? One technique that can be extremely helpful is to break down the homework assignments into bite-sized tasks. Telling a child to copy over the first five spelling words or to do the first section of a math page seems less daunting a task than completing the entire assignment at one time. This continues until the assign-ment is complete.Another technique is to give the child a time after which he/she can take a small break before continuing. For instance te-lling a child “It is now 4:32. At 4:40 we’ll see how much you’ve done and take a two minute break.” This method facilitates the child to remain focused as the stretches of concentration required are never lengthy ones. With older kids who are given more advanced, time consuming assignments the homework may be done over a twen-ty minute stretch before the first break is taken. The breaks then would be a few mi-nutes longer.Sometimes setting a kitchen timer next to the child helps keep the child focused. With this method the child can actually watch the dial and hear the ticking sound until the timer shuts off and the child re-

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3 tablespoons onion powder3 tablespoons garlic powder3 tablespoons paprika1 teaspoon celery salt1 tablespoon salt3/4 teaspoon pepper1 (4-pound) brisket4 tablespoons corn oil1/2 cup water5 (3 cups) yellow onions, chopped2 tablespoons finely chopped or crus-hed fresh garlic

In a bowl, combine the onion powder, gar-lic powder, paprika, celery salt, salt, and

2nd.Avenue.Deli.Brisketpepper, and mix thoroughly. Dredge the brisket in this spice mixture, making sure every part of it is well covered. Place in a deep dish covered with aluminum foil, and refrigerate for 1 to 2 days. Heat 2 tablespo-ons of the corn oil in a large skillet, add the meat, and brown on both sides. Transfer brisket to a Dutch oven. Add water, cover, and simmer on low heat for 1 hour.Meanwhile, heat the remaining 2 tablespo-ons of corn oil in a large skillet, add the onions, and sauté, stirring occasionally. When the onions are nicely browned, add garlic, which browns quickly. Add onions and garlic to brisket pot. Cover, and con-tinue simmering for 2 1/2 hours or until meat is fully cooked. To test for doneness, stick a fork in the leaner end of the brisket; it is done when there is a slight pull on the fork as it is removed from the meat. Cook longer if necessary.Remove the brisket to a plate, and trim all the visible fat. Then place the brisket (on

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As citizens of this wonderful country, gifted with the privi-lege of voting rights, as noted by Lorraine Baronfeld, to cast

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budgets their ministers control, to be cut. They are all hoping that someone else’s ox gets gored. Af-ter all, no politician wants to be the unpopular bad person who cuts benefits or causes prices to increase.Faced with that situation, and a variety of unrelated important po-litical considerations, Netanyahu made the political decision not to fight it out with his coalition partners, instead he has called for elections almost a year early. The key to going to early elections may just be the simple calcula-tion that the potential adversaries for the job - each for their own reasons - are currently politica-lly weak; so why wait, allowing them to use that time to gain mo-mentum?From a policy point of view the elections could provide just what the current Prime Minister needs to face the near future. An elec-tion that plays out the predictions of the Israeli pollsters, gives Ne-tanyahu a stronger majority to govern with and a clearer manda-te to make unpopular and tough choices. That’s a good thing. The list of issues facing Israel’s next prime minister is in fact daunting. To recount just a few: -What to do about a nuclear Iran; a slowing Israeli economy no longer fore-cast to be immune to the world recession; a continuing divide on religious secular issues that inclu-des drafting ultra orthodox yes-hiva students and budgetary su-pport for multiple state religious school systems; the continuing stalemate in the peace process as well as an impasse with the settler movement on the fundamentals of future settlement policy.Are there alternatives to the cu-rrent policies of the Netanyahu government? Of course there are, and more than one alternative at that. Netanyahu is betting that a weak, divided opposition forced into a snap election, without a clear charismatic personality to coalesce around, will not have the time and resources to make a cre-dible case to the voters.Time will shortly tell if his cal-culation pays off or not. In the meantime, stay tuned, it will get interesting.

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Sarah Goldenstein, 25, never imagined she’d go from teaching Sunday school in her home sta-

te of North Carolina to helping build Jewish community among Russian immigrants in Germany, but that’s exactly what she’s been doing for the past two years as a Jewish Service Corps fellow through JDC’s Entwine initiative for inspired young Jews.A one-of-a-kind movement for young Jewish leaders, influen-cers, and advocates who seek to make a meaningful impact on global Jewish needs and interna-tional humanitarian issues, JDC Entwine offers short- and long-term service opportunities in

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Jewish communities worldwide, in Israel, and in countries where JDC is involved in international development work.In her first year as a Jewish Ser-vice Corps fellow, Sarah traveled to Berlin, Germany, where she worked with the Bambinim Fa-mily Club, a JDC early childhood development program centered on the Jewish calendar and life cycle. Diving right in with the three- to five-year-olds, Sarah was charged with co-running the Shabbat playgroup, organizing holiday programs, and creating special events.Her unique, hands-on approach helped her land a second-year fe-llowship, in Duisburg, Germany. This time, working with prima-rily Russian speakers was a very different experience because she was trying to get a myriad of her

own initiatives off the ground: she taught English in the kinder-garten, worked at a youth center for 12- to 18-year-olds, and pre-pared Shabbat and holiday activi-ties to help teach the community about Jewish traditions.Sarah spoke to everyone she en-countered about the meaning of community. “At first I looked for the simple components of Jewish life—going to synagogue, cele-brating Jewish holidays, doing service work, sending kids to religious school—and wondered why people didn’t adopt those. Then I started to see that for im-migrants there are a whole host of other issues: assimilation, having to reform their lives, teaching their kids their language and the language of their new country, learning how to be prosperous. Being Jewish is important but it’s just one component of the whole

experience of their immigration.”Learning through experience and de-veloping perspecti-ve are some of the key take-aways JSC fellows continually speak about. “A lot of people come in thinking ‘I’m going to give so much, I’m going to teach so much,’ but at the end of the day the most important thing that happens is you learn a lot.”With the start of the New Year, Sarah is journeying to her third JSC placement, now in Belgra-de, Serbia, where she’s looking forward to working with young adults in the youth center and doing programming with the ma-

drichim (counselors) who serve in JDC-supported seminars and camps throughout the region.“To me the JSC fellowship is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You get directly implanted into the field with Jewish communi-ties and people who want to work with you. You are supported, gain tremendous experience, and learn so much.”

Sarah Goldenstein teaching Russian-speaking Jewish kindergarteners.


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