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Mim’s Litter Box We all know what a kitty litter box

is so I won’t go into detail. But did you know that Mim Chenfeld told me about her litter box? Of course, it’s not a kitty’s? Hey, don’t jump to any conclusions. Mim and I were talking in my living room, just catching up on various and sundry. She and I are both devoutly disorganized. Mim often says she cannot get from oy to vey. Neither do I. And so it was that she blurted out that her litter box was overflowing. When we finally stopped laughing, let me just say this. She misspoke and meant to say letter box.

Stop laughing.We have all seen signs that ask us

not to litter. And we have all seen litter floating around outside. If not, visit New York City where it’s a sure thing. But how many of us have a litter box overflowing with receipts, junk e-mail, stamps (remember those), some change, etc.? A box to hold household debris is by another name just that. Or be like Mim, and call it what it is: a litter box. Her comment was inadvertent, but it was very funny! We laughed so hard it’s possible we would have required a litter, not a bunch of puppies or kitties, but a stretcher.

Litter is one of those words with several meanings. And English has

The Cleveland-based Mandel Foundation awarded more than $13 million to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

The gift from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation includes a $10 million capital grant to construct the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute for Social Leadership building and $3.1 million to establish the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Honors Program in Social Leadership, which will be housed in

the new building, the university announced on Tuesday.

The 40,000-square-foot building, designed by Plesner Architects of Tel Aviv, will house classrooms, studios, offices, auditoriums and research facilities.

“This gift represents our desire to support Ben-Gurion University, the city of Beersheba, and the advancement of social leadership in Israel,” Morton Mandel, the foundation’s

chairman and CEO, said in a statement.The foundation has had a longstanding

relationship with Ben-Gurion University.The Mandel Honors Program in Social

Leadership is designed to teach business and management students relevant business administration, social responsibility and social leadership skills.

U.S. Holocaust survivor urges SNCF, parent companay of U.S.-based Keolis, to pay reparations for transporting victims to Auschwitz

As a rail company seeks to expand its business in the United States by bidding on several commuter rail projects, one Holocaust survivor in Maryland is speaking out, demanding that the company’s parent corporation in France pay reparations for its role in transporting tens of thousands of victims to Nazi concentration camps.

92-year-old Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz launched a Change.org petition this week, demanding that SNCF -- the

French parent company of U.S.-based rail corporation Keolis -- pay restitution to victims of the Holocaust for its role in shuttling more than 76,000 victims to concentration camps like Auschwitz during World War II. In just a few days, more than 58,000 people have signed Leo’s petition, making it one of the fastest growing petitions on Change.org this week.

“In 1942, after years of hiding from the Nazis because I am a Jew, I was put on a

train bound for Auschwitz,” Bretholz said. “That train was part of SNCF, the French railway company that transported 76,000 people -- including 11,000 children and many American pilots shot down in France -- toward Nazi death camps. SNCF was paid by the Nazis per person, and per kilometer. And as of today, SNCF has never paid one cent of reparations to Holocaust survivors like myself.”

Bretholz escaped from the train before it arrived at Auschwitz, hiding in Europe

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Ask any Jewish family that sends their children to both a private Jewish day school and a Jewish summer camp about the affordability of such endeavors and they’ll use words such as “sacrifice,” “hardship” and “priorities.” With the cost of Jewish day school tuition for one child varying from $10,000 all the way up to $40,000 per year, more Jewish families who desire a day-school Jewish education for their children are finding it cost prohibitive even with financial aid.

Add to those rising costs, the additional expense of a month or two at a Jewish summer camp and families are having to just say “no” to their kids. In the new economy, the Jewish middle class has virtually vanished. Many families who once would be considered upper middle class are forking over their tax returns hoping for subsidies to make day school and camp tuition affordable. New organizations like the Affordable Jewish Education Project (AJEP) are sprouting up seeking to imagine alternative solutions to the economic crisis. Plain and simple it’s becoming cost prohibitive to raise a Jewish family according to the values of day school and summer camp.

While Jewish day schools continue to solicit large endowment gifts to offset the tuition costs, the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) has announced a new affordability initiative. In an effort to put a Jewish summer camp experience in financial reach for most families, FJC has launched BunkConnect, a new program that matches eligible families with high-quality nonprofit Jewish summer camps at a more affordable price. This philanthropic business venture has been developed in collaboration with forward-thinking business executives and leading philanthropists.

What Sheldon Adelson, founder of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., has done for Birthright Israel with his largesse, the president and COO of the same corporation is now doing for Jewish camping. A former camper and counselor himself, Michael Leven, president and COO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., is the program’s key funder. Said Leaven:

BunkConnect marries best practices from the business world, new technologies and learnings from the hospitality industry, and takes a fresh approach to addressing affordability in Jewish life. I am excited

for what this can achieve in getting more kids to have an experience that was so meaningful to me many years ago.

Studies have shown that Jewish overnight camp offers Jewish children the opportunity to build connections to the Jewish future. The Jewish summer camp experience is widely viewed as an essential part of fostering Jewish identity in children and creating a stronger Jewish community in the Diaspora of North America.

The program’s process is simple. After income-eligible families of all Jewish backgrounds supply some basic, confidential information into the new online tool, BunkConnect matches them with available camp sessions at low introductory rates. This initiative is modeled after the success of FJC’s One Happy Camper program -- a need-blind grant initiative for first-time campers. Said Jeremy J. Fingerman, CEO of FJC:

Families want to send their children to Jewish camp. By matching their desire with available summer experiences, we

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LITTER FROM PAGE 1many such words. The official name for them is homographs. One such is pool. There is the pool table, swimming pool, football pool (for all you gamblers), pool as a verb” to pool your money i.e. pitch in with others. Or skate, as in to skate over (skim), ice skate, roller skate, hockey skate, to skate (v.)—well you get the idea.. Or chair (v.) to conduct the meeting, chairwoman, chair person and the chair (n.) I sit on while writing this column on the computer.

A simple word like table takes on many meaning, the v., to table an issue or set it aside, multiplication tables, a chart, where you place plates for dinner

(unless you eat out of the carton or pot.) And this leads to another word, pot, as in a container or as in marijuana. Sorry, I couldn’t resist that one.

Mim inadvertently gave litter box another meaning. My litter box is an old Zabar’s basket that now holds junk. It used to be a fancy shmancy basket filled with babka, rugelach, coffee, jam, cream cheese and napkins from the world famous deli, (it was a gift). Maybe I should call it a litter basket. Now that we described what was originally in the basket, take one of the words, jam. This could be jelly/preserves, or being in trouble (a jam). The verb, to jam,

play music together, to jam your finger or hurt it against a wall, or to force something i.e. jam the last shoe into the closet.

Many words with many meanings are out there. I issue a mea culpa if there are errors about the few I’ve chosen since I didn’t check with the dictionary, thesaurus or Google.

The next time you think, litter box, remember the new meaning Mimi has given it.

We are approaching the end of today’s column, but wait - end has many meanings, such as bookend, completion of a story, end zone (football), end of a pencil or other object and, to wrap up, the end of

this column. But wait. See what you can do with wrap. Try your hand at homographs. Start with wrap or hand.

I conclude with OY!!! It has only one definition! OY!!!!!

Bebe Lavin has written the Bubbe Misehs column for many years. She wishes to credit Mim Chenfeld as the initial inspiration for today’s column. After her blurt, the story grew and seemed to write itself as stories often do.

before eventually fleeing to Maryland. Of the 1,000 people on board the train Bretholz was on, only five survived the Holocaust.

SNCF’s U.S.-based subsidiary, Keolis, has been bidding on numerous high speed rail projects in the United States, including a recent successful bid for commuter rail construction in Boston, as well as proposals in California, Florida, and Bretholz’s home state of Maryland. In Maryland this week, new state legislation was announced, following Keolis’

efforts to bid on the construction for the state’s Purple Line, that would require all companies connected to those responsible for deporting Holocaust victims to Nazi death camps to pay reparations to survivors and their families in order to be eligible to participate in Maryland public-private partnerships.

“My life has been forever changed by the actions of SNCF,” said Bretholtz. “It is simply unconscionable that SNCF’s American subsidiary is now

competing to build and operate the Purple Line in my home state of Maryland—one of the single biggest contracts in state history—while refusing to be held accountable.”

The legislation in Maryland, Senate Bill 754, was announced by State Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-Baltimore) and House Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Montgomery County). The legislation requires any entity that intends to enter a public-private partnership in the State of Maryland to disclose

any involvement it or its affiliated companies had in the deportation of individuals toward e x t e r m i n a t i o n camps or death camps during the Holocaust. The entity must also disclose whether it or its affiliated c o m p a n i e s have paid any reparations to the victims of such d e p o r t a t i o n s .

Failure to make these certifications or to certify that reparations have been paid will disqualify the entity from entering into a public-private partnership.

“SNCF’s actions during the

Holocaust were a failure of humanity,” Del. Reznik said. “It would be a further tragedy for the company or its affiliates to thrive in the very communities many Holocaust survivors call home without first owning up to its past and making things right.”

The legislation was announced

as Bretholz’s Change.org petition reached more than 58,000 signatures this week. Family members and friends of Holocaust survivors and victims continue to sign and leave comments of support on the petition page.

“I am almost 93 years old now.

If I hadn’t jumped off that SNCF train, I would have died when I was 21,” Bretholz said. “In whatever time I have left, I will keep telling my story, and keep fighting for what is right.”

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Congregation Torat Emet had a recognition dinner for Sima Gellman, Fred Needham, and Rachel Metz. It took place on February 9. They were all presented with the Nediv Lev Award (The giving Heart).

Fred and Sima are a long married couple who met in art school back in the 1970’s. “We used to be the 1-2 punch for the Congregation. I’d be the chairperson or co-chair of an events, and Fred would do the graphics for the invitations and other

publicity,” said Sima. Before the new building

on Main Street was built, Fred did a lot of cleaning and repairs to keep it going. He regularly attends the programs given by Rabbi Zac and Rabbi Epstein.

Rach Metz works with the children during the Sabbath morning and during the service. She initiated a program called kinder-congregation. Metz believes children are never too young to start learning about the Torah.

Torat Emet presented Nediv Lev Award Feb. 9

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Stroll past the kosher section of most large supermarkets in America and you could be forgiven for thinking that Jewish diets consist mainly of jarred gefilte fish, unsalted matzahs and Tam-Tam crackers.

Not so at the Winn-Dixie supermarket in this affluent South Florida suburb.

There’s a kosher bakery with fresh pizza and dairy and pareve desserts; a meat and deli counter with hot foods like chicken wings, potato kugel and meatballs; a refrigerated case with cold salads; pre-packaged Winn-Dixie-branded matzah balls, chicken soup and carrot “tzimmise,” and even a kosher sushi chef who makes rolls to order.

The remodeling in 2013 of Winn-Dixie’s Boca Raton store to focus on kosher has attracted numerous Orthodox employees. (Uriel Heilman)

The whole operation is supervised by a team of kosher supervisors, or mashgiachs, who work for Winn-Dixie and are certified by the Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach Counties, known as the ORB.

“I’ve lived in a lot of Jewish communities, especially in New Jersey, and no standard supermarket has the breadth of merchandise that Winn-Dixie has,” Chanie Kirschner, a mother of four who moved to the area a year and a half ago, told JTA. “It’s a huge convenience. At their full-service deli you can walk up to the counter and get your meat cut for you, which is something even the local kosher supermarket doesn’t have.”

The Winn-Dixie in Boca is one potent illustration of the growing U.S. market for kosher food and the lengths to which major grocery chains are going to cater to kosher consumers. It’s also a sign of the rising demand for kosher food in South Florida, where Winn-Dixie, a chain with more than 480 stores in five states in the South, now has three stores with in-store kosher operations — in Boca, Aventura and Tamarac.

The Jacksonville-based company, which is owned by BI-LO Holdings, spent nearly $3 million revamping its store at 7024 Beracasa Way in Boca Raton last year to focus on kosher (the store also carries non-kosher items). Company officials say the investment is paying off: Since the turnover was completed last fall, business in the store’s newly kosher departments has tripled.

“We knew it would be a successful store. That’s what you get when you build what the community wants,” said Deborah Shapiro, Winn-Dixie’s director of loyalty marketing and the person who spearheaded the company’s expansion in the kosher market. “We want to make ourselves a one-stop shop.”

The Winn-Dixie in Boca is hardly the only big-box supermarket in the country with in-store kosher facilities. A Kroger in Atlanta has its own kosher Chinese restaurant. There are large kosher deli counters at Jewel-Osco in the Chicago area, Ralphs in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla and Acme in central New Jersey. Stop & Shop bakeries all over the Northeast are kosher.

What makes the Boca Winn-Dixie unique is the unusual volume and variety of its offerings, including a kosher nonperishables section that’s larger than many kosher-only supermarkets. The store also has many yarmulke-clad stock boys and checkout clerks.

Supermarkets first began experimenting with in-store kosher operations two decades ago, mostly with kosher bakeries, but over the last 10 years the market has expanded dramatically, says Menachem Lubinsky, an expert on the kosher food industry and CEO

of Lubicom Marketing Consulting.“Supermarkets are recognizing that it

just makes economic sense to court this particular constituency,” Lubinsky said of kosher consumers. “It’s a lead-in to keep the customer shopping the rest of the store, which sometimes is more lucrative than what they’re buying in the kosher sections.”

A lot goes into turning a supermarket kosher. First, there’s the market research, which in Boca’s case meant surveying a three-mile radius around the store to assess demand. The company collected data from Jewish federations, institutions and local synagogues; interviewed Jewish community leaders; convened focus groups of shoppers and even considered the local Muslim community, whose needs for halal meat can be satisfied by kosher.

Winn-Dixie, which went into bankruptcy for a year in the mid-2000s, already had figured out that niche markets could be a big win — not just kosher, but Hispanic and organic too.

Winn-Dixie’s first successful kosher operation was a small deli counter that opened in 2004 in a store in Aventura, near Miami. That was followed in 2007 by the opening of a kosher deli and bakery in its Tamarac store, and then an expansion in 2011 of the Aventura store that doubled the kosher deli’s size and added a meat cutting room and bakery. Business soared. Within months, Winn-Dixie was adding specialty items from Israel and New York and drawing up plans for Boca, which would be its biggest-ever kosher operation.

Meanwhile, Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew who was Winn-Dixie’s kosher category manager at the time, was leading a companywide kosher expansion, getting kosher certification for as many Winn-Dixie private-label products as qualified for it. In the last eight years, the company’s kosher brand presence has grown by 80 percent, according to Shapiro.

The company also launched a Winn-Dixie-branded kosher line of pareve (non-dairy) baked goods, including black-and-white cookies, linzer tarts, macaroons, rainbow cookies and challah. Today, customers can walk into any Winn-Dixie store in the five states the company operates — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi — and buy challah or have the store order it for them.

One of the biggest hits at the flagship store in Boca has been the kosher pizza, which at $9.99 for a pie with toppings is a steal by kosher standards. Some customers take home unbaked pies; others have the store bake the pizzas for them and then eat them at the store’s small seating area.

“The kosher pizza is so popular that even in our stores where we don’t have kosher pizza it doesn’t go as fast as the kosher pizza in Boca,” Shapiro said. “The loss that we get from not having pepperoni doesn’t outweigh the gain we get from offering kosher pizza.”

Despite the scope of its kosher offerings, Shapiro says Winn-Dixie is not trying to drive kosher-only markets out of business. The owner of the closest local kosher grocer in Boca declined to discuss the impact of Winn-Dixie’s expansion on his business.

“We’ll never be able to carry 100 percent of what they offer,” Shapiro said. “He can have four different cuts of veal and five different cuts of lamb; I might have just a lamb chop.

“We are there for the convenience of a one-stop shop, so if you decide you want to make spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, we have the basics — plus a little bit extra.”

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The 45-member delegation of businesspeople, politicians and interfaith leaders is leaving Argentina on Tuesday for its trip to Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. The group is scheduled to meet with King Abdullah of Jordan, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres.

A meeting with the pope in Rome on Feb. 27 will finish the trip.

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An Orthodox Jewish candidate for the European Parliament has caused a stir by refusing to shake women’s hands.

Shneur Odze told the members of the right-wing populist UK Independence Party, or UKIP, that he will not shake women’s hands due to his religious beliefs, which proscribe physical contact with any woman other than his wife, The Times of London reported.

Some party activists told the newspaper that they are offended by Odze’s stance and say it will alienate half the electorate.

Senior party officials have called the activists “rude” and “wrong” for not respecting Odze’s beliefs, according to The Times.

Ozde, 31, is fourth on the UKIP’s candidate’s list for member of the European Parliament from the North West of England.

The Europe-wide election to the parliament is scheduled for late May.

A party regional organizer, Fred McGlade, resigned from his position with the party to protest the decision to include Odze on the list.

“We have a policy of tolerance for and acceptance of people’s own religious observance,” UKIP chairman Steve Crowther told the Times. “We do not consider it grounds for complaint. It harms no one.”

In a tweet on Monday, Ozde said, “Thanks for all the supportive emails, calls, texts, its been rather heartwarming Recon it’s had the reverse effect?”

A supporter also tweeted, referring to former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: “Pretty standard among very Orthodox Jews. The Chief Rabbi didn’t shake Queen’s hand when he became a Lord.”

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We are living in “interesting” times, especially when it comes to Israel. There is an unprecedented attempt to delegitimize Israel culturally, economically and politically (the Palestinian BDS movement is the organization behind this shift). All this while almost all of the autocratic regimes that exist near Israel have failed, and are in utter turmoil. Israel currently is a sea of tranquility. It is virtually the only stable country in the entire region.

It is for that reason that I am so frustrated, upset and angry at some in our community.

Iran is only weeks - or months - away from becoming a threshold nuclear state. Let’s not ignore the lessons we’ve learned in the past few years: there is no indication that they are going to abide by the temporary agreement that the Obama administration (behind closed doors, and with no discussions with our ally Israel) foisted on the world. There is no indication that this deal will even be close to being worked out within the six month period allotted. There is now even talk by EU high representative Catherine Ashton to extend these “talks” for 18 months. This is no small issue when all indications are that Iran is months away from becoming a nuclear state.

Even with the effort to add more sanctions. Sanctions after the six month “negotiation” are ended with Iran to ensure compliance was met with criticism and even derision.

A local clergyman called the sanctions bill an “unnecessary Bronx cheer promoted by Aipac and others.”

Egypt has a new government that deposed the Obama administration and supported Muslim Brotherhood. Our government has declined to support this new secular, friendly government forcing it to buy billions of dollars worth of military hardware from Russia.

Lebanon has been virtually taken over by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah. Hezbollah has over 100,000 missiles in place which are now able to threaten all of Israel. Many of these missiles are hidden in citizens’ homes, mosques, schools and hospitals. This should be considered to be a war crime.

Our leadership? Crickets. Nada. Nothing.

Syria is being depopulated by the civil war. Huge streams of refugees are pouring over its borders and the Assad Government has killed over 140,000 of its own citizens. The deal brokered by Russia to rid this regime of chemical weapons has failed miserably. This, after the Obama administration reneged on an election year promise to draw a “red line” in the sand at the use of weapons of

mass destruction by Syria.None of this turmoil has anything to

do whatsoever with settlements, land disputes, or Bibi Netanyahu.

All of this is the background noise of the campaign by John Kerry and the Obama administration to force an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority: an agreement that may risk the secured existence of Israel.

It should be noted that the Palestinian Authority didn’t even want to talk to Israel about peace until Israel was forced (by Kerry) to release terrorists (not political prisoners) who had blood on their hands. Once released these prisoners were met with parades, road naming, and congratulations for fighting the “Zionists.” Most were convicted of murder, attempted murder or acting as a legal accomplice in lethal assaults.

Some examples of prisoners released: Abu Mohsin Khaled Ibrahim Jamal

who was convicted of stabbing to death 76-year-old gardener Shlomo Yahya whom he ambushed in a public park in 1991. Muammar Ata Mahmoud and Salah Khalil Ahmad Ibrahim, who were convicted of murdering 64-year-old Stern. Stern was a history professor and a winner of the prestigious Israel Prize and was stabbed to death while walking to work in 1989.

Now comes the fun part. John Kerry who has been obsessively pressuring Israel with fake time limits, is now threatening them (albeit indirectly). Recently, Kerry said “you see for Israel there is an increasing DE legitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it; there is talk of boycott and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?”

There is only one major problem with this “threat.” Remember the huge controversy regarding Scarlett Johansson and OXFAM, because Johansson is a spokesman for Soda Stream - an Israeli company. Soda Stream employs Israelis and Palestinians in a factory that is near one of the settlements. Both Palestinians and Israelis enjoy equal pay and rights and it has been a boon for local employment. OXFAM publicly admonished Johansson for supporting such a company. ‘Scar Jo’ resigned her position at OXFAM, and bravely continued to be a spokesperson for Soda Stream. OXFAM is the major promoter behind the BDS movement. They do not want ANY trade with Israel, not just the territories, ANY TRADE.

Here is the problem, while Kerry threatens Israel with the potential consequences of not signing a peace deal that he is foisting on them, his wife Theresa Kerry has given millions and millions of dollars to OXFAM. George Soros, through the Tides foundation, has also given millions of dollars and is a major supporter of OXFAM.

So when Kerry casually brings up the potential “threat” of continued boycotts of

Israel he has his wife who gives millions to OXFAM which in turn promotes the BDS movement and he has the administration who has praised OXFAM behind him.

I have spent many years fighting the lies that are written in our newspapers. I write letters to the editor I call into talk shows all to make sure that the truth is spoken about the situation in the Middle East. I view this as a responsibility for certainly every Jew and every moral person to do. Israel is a just cause, the world owes us.

That is why I was so upset when I heard that a local Cantor started a chapter of an organization that pretends that it is Pro-Israel. ‘J Road,’ being promoted as a “Pro Israel “organization, has about as much credibility as “Jews for Jesus” opening a synagogue. George Soros and a who’s who of Israel bashers are the main supporters of ‘J Road.’ That in itself doesn’t make them anti-Israel, but their support of and lack of support of certain issues belies advertising themselves as Pro Israel. I have abbreviated this organization to ‘J Road’ as I do not want to give them any publicity.

Here are some facts published about the organization.

•‘J Road’ political action committee (PAC) receives funds from the Saudi Arabian embassy’s attorney, Nancy Dutton.

•‘J Road’ receives more than $10,000 per year in contributions from Genevieve Lynch, a director of the National Iranian American Council, which is a pro-Iranian lobby.

•‘J Road’ PAC has received tens of thousands of dollars from one of the leaders of the Arab American community, Richard Abdoo.

•‘J Road’ PAC repeatedly took contributions from a Turkish American, Mehmet Celebi, who had helped produce Valley of the Wolves, a viciously anti-American and anti-Semitic Turkish film.

•‘J Road’ recently sponsored a speaking tour for John Ging, head of the Gaza-based UNRWA, an entity whose raison d’être is to perpetuate the Palestinian refugees’ status, thus encouraging their “right of return.”

•‘J Road’ visit to Israel in February 2010 was co-sponsored by an anti-Israel group called Churches for Peace in the Middle East, an organization which supports the boycott, divestment, & sanctions (BDS) efforts against Israel.

•Daniel Levy (Jeremy Ben-Ami’s partner in founding J Road) stated at a conference in Abu Dhabi that “the creation of Israel” was “an act that was wrong.”

•‘J Road’ welcomed BDS lobbyists to its national conference, where BDS ran a session on strategies and justifications for boycotting Israeli products.

•In March 2012, ‘J Road’ lobbied the U.S. Congress against a resolution condemning the blatant incitement and anti-Semitism in Palestinian schoolbooks

and the Palestinian media. Moreover, ‘J Road’ refused comment on the Palestinian Authority’s school curriculum which openly promoted the violent struggle to “liberate” all of “Palestine.”

This is wrong on so many levels but let me just throw out a few.

What is a member of the local clergy doing opening up a chapter of a political organization? Especially a political organization that claims to be Pro-Israel yet doesn’t support (most of the time) the democratically-elected Government of Israel?

I believe that one of the major reasons that this organization was born was to cause a rift, to split up our community and effectively neuter our support for Israel. Don’t believe the propaganda; Soros and friends are NO friends of Israel. The BDS movement claims it is about settlements, a two-state solution (which the Prime Minister and most Israelis believe in) and oppression. While this organization and others (who support our administration blindly) will say publicly that they don’t support OXFAM and the BDS movement their tacit approval, not speaking out and blind support of people like Kerry, tell another story.

Letting BDS lobbyists have training sessions at your national convention is also indicative of their support.

I believe it is all a ruse, yet another obfuscation to divide and conquer our community.

I can assure you that no sane person wants to rule over other people (most of the Palestinians are now governed by themselves, look it up). You do however have to have another partner that truly wants peace not just to take yet another step in its goal of destroying their “peace” partner. This is how organizations can suck well-meaning people in.

This doesn’t mean that our community needs to be lock step in unison (Jews are never in unison on anything) with all Israel issues. American Jews are involved in many of the social discussions in Israel. These are all fair issues to discuss, but to help promote the divestment, the lies, and the diminishing of the health and security of and safety of Israel is UNACCEPTABLE.

To use the pulpit to promote ones political agenda is UNACCEPTABLE.

Supposedly this organization was opened up independently of the synagogue, however when it is advertised as being led by a Cantor, it gives the appearance of being supported by that synagogue. It is disconcerting to say the least to fight the lies, dedicate yourself to a just cause, only to have your own community actually join the fight against us.

So I ask you those who started this chapter and blindly support this administration’s policies towards Israel: Whose side are you on?

LARRY LEVINE

You are entitled to my opinion File this under “Whose side are you on?”

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It’s hard to believe, but summer camp is just around the corner. If you’re looking for a good summer camp experience for your child, the Jewish Community Center is a place to consider. It’s a place where campers can have fun, form new friendships, and gain an appreciation for their Jewish heritage and traditions.

Halle Schwartz, Director of Children, Youth, Teen and Camping Coordinator of Special Needs/ Yachad explained all the programs available for your child this summer. Schwartz has been with the JCC since 2007, and held various positions including: Early Childhood teacher, Judaics Specialist, Communiteen Director, Mother’s Circle Facilitator, Birthday Party Coordinator and Camp Counselor. She spoke about the camping program with energy and enthusiasm.

There are different camps for different ages, and each camp has a director. This year’s theme for all the camps is “We are Family.” ‘We decided that theme because it’s through the lens of the family that we view the past, live the present and hope for the future. JCC is the second home for a lot of people and this is their family,” said Schwartz.

The JCC starts out their camping program with preschoolers. The name of the camp for children 2-3years 8 months is Camp Yeladim. There are three indoor camps for the preschoolers. The main locations are in Columbus, New Albany and Dublin. The counselors do different activities with the children including dramatic play, art and water play, movement and music.

The other camps for primary aged children are held at the JCC on College Avenue, but free transportation is provided. Camp Ora is for children 3 years 9 months

through Kindergarten. The children are outdoors from 9-1. Each day starts out with an opening in English and Hebrew. These children get supervised swim lessons, arts and crafts sports, spray ground and water play.

A paid kosher lunch will be provided for children who don’t want to pack their lunch.

Camp Chaverim is for children K-3rd grade. The children have dress up and theme days. They also choose daily activities which include bikes, scooters, drama, jump rope, soccer, and arts and crafts.

The children really enjoy the Shabbat program. They light candles, talk about mitzvahs (good deeds) of the week, and enjoy a musical program by Marc Rossio, a local children’s musician.

Camp Hoover is for children from 4th to 8th grade. The outdoor adventure camp is located on a 28-acre rustic woodland

bordering Hoover Reservoir. Activities include a high ropes course, a zip line, outdoor survival training, heated swimming pool, canoeing, kayaking, a basketball courts, bike trails, sports and an archery range. This year they are encouraging the kids to cook their Wednesday lunch over an open camp fire.

For the first time, Camp Hoover, is collaborating with Jewish Sleep-away camps. “We’ve set up a program with Camp Wise, Camp Livingston, and Camp Emma Kaufman. For an extra fee, kids can go away for 2 nights and 3 days,” explained Schwartz. JCC counselors will accompany the kids, but programs are run by the sleep away counselors. Although these camps are sometimes looked at as competition for the day camps, Schwartz doesn’t look at it that way. “I don’t look at it as losing them, but

giving them an extended experience at an overnight camp.”

Most camps have specialists that teach Judaics, sports, art, nature, science, music and Israeli culture. This year the JCC is collaborating with The Columbus Children’s Theatre and including an acting performance camp. This will take place on June 16-27. It includes two weeks working with professional actors from the Columbus Children’s Theater. “They will explore all aspects of creating a first-rat performance. That includes acting, singing, dancing, script writing, set and costume designing and directing. They will perform a variety show at the JCC. This will be for anybody from 1-8th grade. It will cost $315.00/ week.

Schwartz talked about the counselors that the camp hires.” We have 700 campers and hire over 100 staff members. What’s beautiful about our camp is that some of the staff members start out as campers and come back as counselors. Kaley and Sam Rosenthal are examples of this. Their dad directed one of the summer camps. Now Kaley is in her second year directing Camp Chaverim and Sam is in his fourth year as a counselor.” Said Schwartz.

It’s amazing, as much as the kids are affected by the counselors, it’s the same for the counselors. Some of the staff who work in the special needs camp, decide to work with people with special needs as their career.

Schwartz recommends camp if your children want to have fun, and learn in an outside informal setting.

If you want more information about the camp, visit www.columbusjcc.org, or call the camp office at 559-6251.

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Black River Farm and Ranch 5040 Sheridan Line Croswell,

Michigan 48422(810) 67-2505

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Since 1962 girls have come to Black River Farm and Ranch, “the BR,” to have fun with friends and horses and enjoy a variety of camp activities in a safe and stress-free environment. The BR is a family owned and operated camp. At Black River you will be able to experience being a horsewoman. Each camper will share in the duties of bringing in the horses, feeding, grooming, and saddling them.

The BR has more than 80 horses, so each girl will find a horse to call her favorite. You will have an opportunity to go on trail rides, mounted lessons, ground lessons, and vaulting. The activities program at Black River is full of adventure, creativity and fun! During the afternoon the girls are free to go swimming, boating, visit the small animals, play field activities, jump on the trampolines, and more. Black River hires only exceptional girls who exhibit leadership potential, caring personalities, positive attitudes, and the love of camping. All riding instructors are Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) Certified Instructors. The staff and program exceed the standards set forth for American Camping Association accreditation. The BR is licensed by the State of Michigan, Accredited American Camp Association, and Certified by the Camp Horsemanship Association.

Camp COSI

333 West Broad StreetColumbus, OH, 43215

(614) 228-2674www.cosi.org/families/camp-cosi

Camp COSI means super-cool science for students in kindergarten through eighth grade! COSI’s science camps include hands-on activities, COSI’s incredible exhibitions, Extreme Screen films, and much more. Camp COSI isn’t just a summer experience, either! Our School’s Out Camps are the perfect way to spend school holidays like Spring Break and Memorial Day. To register, please call (614) 228-2674 or www.cosi.org/families/camp-cosi/ for complete details.

CAMP GAN ISRAEL6220 East Dublin-Granville Rd.

New Albany, OH 43054(614) 235-9395, (614) 939-0765

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Entering our 16th summer, Camp Gan Israel, Columbus, Ohio, was created in order to provide Jewish children with acomprehensive and meaningful summer program, fostering their growth individually, socially and Jewishly.

Using the beautiful New Albany Middle School facilities, Camp Gan Israel provides children with a rich and holesome summer vacation of fun and excitement along with friendship and eaningful educational experiences. Our experienced counselors are known for their personal warmth and ability to care for each child as an individual.

Camp Wise 13164 Taylor Wells RdChardon, OH 44024

(440) 635-5444www.campwise.org

Located on 325 wooded acres near Cleveland, Ohio, Camp Wise offers an overnight camp that makes kids feel a world apart. Wise offers full sessions and “mini-camps” that allow kids to ease into the overnight experience—a perfect place for kids to engage in a vibrant and caring Jewish community. Camp has activities like horseback riding, waterskiing, ropes course, arts and crafts, camp fires, sports, and much more! Campers gain independence, confidence, and return with friends that last a lifetime.

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We offer more than 20 different camps that run from June to August, and give kids the opportunity to explore their creative side with camps such as “Silly Shakespeare,” “Film Creation,” “Comedy Club,” and our summer show “The Revenge of the Space Pandas.” In the summer of 2013, more than 750 children participated in our summer camps and classes, resulting in more than 13,000 hours of interaction with performing arts educators!

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Columbus Academy’s Summer Experience

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Columbus Academy’s Summer Experience offers weeklong day camp programs in Academics, Arts & Sciences, and Athletics. We have programs for children birth through 12th grade, as well as courses for high school credit. There are 10 weeks to choose from starting June 2 and ending August 8, including both before and after care options. Check out our Explore With Me programming for children birth to 3 years and their caregivers. Visit us at columbusacademy.org for

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Columbus School for Girls

56 S. Columbia AvenueColumbus, OH 43209

(614)252-0781, ext. 333www.csgsummerprograms.org

CSG Summer Programs offers a variety of coed educational opportunities designed to help students develop new interests and friendships in a fun, learning-centered environment. We offer enrichment classes, physical activities, and art courses ages 3 – grade 12. An experienced faculty, provide a supportive atmosphere where each student’s academic progress and sense of personal worth are fostered.

Emma Kaufmann Camp(412) 521-8011 EXT. 318

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Emma Kaufmann Camp is located along Cheat Lake in Morgantown WV. Owned and operated by the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, EKC is a kosher, Co-Ed residential camp

with an emphasis on Jewish values, informal education, Shabbat celebrations and premiere programming and activities. This child-centered environment includes campers ages 7-16.

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By Julie FinkelsteinTHE WEXNER FOUNDATION

Last Shabbat I danced Israeli rikkud with 300 teens on the banks of the Delaware River in New York. A week later I joined a different set of campers in song and prayer deep in the woods of Yosemite National Park. I baked

challah a few days earlier with a cabin of middle school children in rural Wisconsin, and just up the road I studied what Judaism has to say about independence around July 4th while riding a pontoon boat out on the lake at sunset with a group of counselors. I love Jewish camp.

My coast-to-coast Jewish camp tour is

sponsored by the Foundation for Jewish Camp, where I am privileged to serve on the faculty for their Cornerstone Fellowship, a leadership program for veteran bunk counselors and their senior staff supervisors. Now in its 11th year, cohorts of Cornerstone Fellows from nearly 60 Jewish camps are given the opportunity to network and idea

share with 400 of their peers from other camps and learn from expert educators – in order to see themselves as Jewish educators in their own communities. Fellows are tasked with mentoring younger staff members and implementing new Jewishly contented programming at camp during the summer. As an advisor for the program, I get to visit

eight of these camps and to support the Fellows in their professional growth as they successfully execute their visions.

Much research has been done about the impact of camp on Jewish identity and future Jewish affiliation, including on the lives of young camp staff. Young adults are regularly the recipients of resources, attention and a whole lot of worry from the Jewish community. The Jewish camp field, and Cornerstone specifically, similarly invests in these 19 and 20 year old staff members, but differently – instead of treating these young adults as passive participants and recipients of Jewish experiences, camp challenges them to be producers of Jewish life for themselves and literally thousands of other young Jews. The Cornerstone Fellows across the country are “in the trenches,” creating high quality, meaningful and incredibly fun opportunities for others to engage Jewishly every day.

It’s not often that the Jewish community so heavily invests in its direct service program providers, but selection for programs like Cornerstone shows a staff member that their camp believes in his or her capacity as a leader today and in the future. Fellows begin to see themselves as more than just childcare providers, but at change agents and leaders. At each camp I visited, Fellows were starting to think about camp from a big picture perspective and beginning to understand their parts in making camp work. They also were starting to articulate how their camp experiences would translate to their real world career trajectories – very often entire cohorts of Fellows return in subsequent summers to serve in roles with increasing levels of supervisory responsibility at camp, and at least one fellow from each camp expressed serious interest in working in the Jewish community in the future. Programs like Cornerstone are not simply camp staff retention tools, but mechanisms to invest in our most promising talent for the future of the entire Jewish community.

It is personally meaningful to be a small part of the transformational work happening at Jewish camps across our country this summer. My first job was as a Jewish camp counselor, and in many ways it’s because of the investment my camp director made in me that I continue to work in the Jewish community today.

We know some of the most influential Jewish experiences are happening in the woods, on the lake, and in the

Counselors: The Cornerstones of Jewish Camp

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Campers will create a mini-show in just one week! Each week covers a different theme, and all will participate in a final “in-formance!”

Questions? Call 614-464-9400.To register, call 614-469-0939.

Summer Theatre Camps549 Franklin Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215

June–August 2014for ages 4–18Fees range from $25–$150 per class.Class size is limited, so register early!

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are opening new avenues of access. BunkConnect has the power to change how we look at scholarship, affordability, and capacity for Jewish camp and beyond.

Len Leader, former president of the Venture Group of AOL Time Warner Investments and BunkConnect funder, said:

By using sound economic principles and leveraging market dynamics, we are seeing in BunkConnect an exciting new philanthropic business form. This is a model designed to be ‘the gift that keeps giving’ to all parties involved, especially the campers.

Len Leader, former president of the Venture Group of AOL Time Warner Investments and BunkConnect funder, said:

By using sound economic principles and leveraging market dynamics, we are seeing in BunkConnect an exciting new philanthropic business form. This is a model designed to be ‘the gift that keeps giving’ to all parties involved, especially the campers.

BunkConnect is already set to pilot this month in the Northeast, New England and Mid-Atlantic regions with 35 participating camps, representing various movements and denominations. The program is for first-time campers only and bases eligibility on a family’s adjusted gross income, number of dependent children, and place of legal residency. For example, through BunkConnect, a family with two children living in Pennsylvania with a maximum adjusted gross income of $142,000 can

realize the dream of Jewish camp. Jewish day-school families are welcome.

BunkConnect is a collaborative program between the Foundation for Jewish Camp with The Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy (CEJP). In addition to the Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation, significant gifts were made by The AVI CHAI Foundation, The Leader Family Foundation and The Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund. What’s unique about this new project is the business approach that was used, which is a new philanthropic giving model. The philanthropists challenged FJC to create an outcome-driven business approach which capitalizes on the enormous impact of Jewish camp. Joseph Hyman, the president and founder of CEJP explained:

“The philanthropists we advise challenged us to create an outcome-driven business approach that capitalizes on the enormous impact of Jewish camping,” said Joseph Hyman, president and founder, CEJP. “BunkConnect is potentially a game-changing initiative that sets a standard for other philanthropists and organizations to follow.”

Many Jewish families who spend close to six figures a year on the combination of Jewish day-school education and a summer camp experience for their children may begin to see that burden ease a bit with this new initiative. While there will still be sacrifice (less vacations and waiting another year to remodel the kitchen), fewer families will have to forgo a meaningful summer experience for their children.

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Please visit www.cgicolumbus.com for schedules, programming and registration

Limited scholarships available. A project of The Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center

6 WEEKLY SESSIONS BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 23Utilizing the incredible New Albany Middle School facilities as our campsiteMONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 9:30 am - 4:00 pmTransportation available from specific areas; pre-care/after-care offeredPHONE: (614) 235-9395 / (614) 939-0765 EMAIL: [email protected] RATES: $185 Weekly | $995 Full Summer

“We see our children off every summer morning to a wonderful Jewish Day Camp, FULL of its wonderful daily explorations and activities and are able to open our arms to see them every night. AND at a fraction of what our parents would have paid. The kids LOVE Camp Gan Israel so very, very much!” ~ Dan & Cindy Wolt

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EKC is a co-ed camp for ages 7-16 located in Morgantown,WV, with an emphasis on Jewishvalues, Shabbat celebrationsand premier programming and activities.

Register now: (412) 521-8011, ext. 318, or [email protected] • www.emmakaufmanncamp.com

Emma Kaufmann Camp• One-week First Experience for Grades 2-5: August 4-10

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• For campers Grades 2-101 week (Specialty Camps): August 4–103 weeks (Session II): July 13–August 34 weeks (Session I): June 15–July 117 weeks: June 15-August 3

Adventures that inspire possibilities.At Camp COSI kids in kindergarten through eighth grade explore animals, space, archaeology, roller coasters and more in half-day and full-day weeklong camps that are both fun and smart!

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