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{Owner of slaughterhouse charges allegations are a big 'lie'
BV BEN HARRIS a third of its employees on immigration
VTA charges in a May 12 raid of its Iowa
plant, Rubashkin flatly denied allega-
NEW YORK — Aaron Rubashkin, the tions of worker mistreatment and plant
owner of the embattled kosher slaugh- mismanagement.
: et'house Agriprocessors, denies he has "Everything is a lie," Rubashkin told
engaged in unethical labor practices JTA.
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»ies the failure of U.S. immigra- In a more than hourlong interview
policy for his mostly illegal work- May 30 outside his Brooklyn butcher
shop in the heavily Orthodox enclave of
til the first substantive comments by Borough Park, the 80-year-old
I n Agriprocessors representative since Rubashkin was visibly angered by the
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business, the country's largest kosher
slaughterhouse.
The raid has reduced Agriproces-
sors' output significantly and sparked
fears of a national shortage of kosher
meat,
A government affidavit cites claims
that the drug methamphetamine was
being p r o d u c e d at the c o m p a n y ' s
Postville plant, that u n d o c u m e n t e d
workers w e r e paid $5 per hour and that
a Jewish kosher supervisor duct-taped
Please see Rubashkin, page 27.
for suspect who
grabbed young girls
BY S U S A N J A C O B S
Associate Editor
Pittsburgh police believe the man
who allegedly groped a 14-year-old
student near Colfax school on Monday,
J u n e 2, is the same person who ap-
proached a group of girls walking on
H o b a r t Street in February, and
grabbed one of the their skirts.
"The actions of the actor are all the
same," said Commander Kathryn De-
gler of the Zone 4 police station in
Squirrel Hill.
In addition, the description of the
person is the same: a young man in his
early 20s, about 6 feet tall and slender,
and driving either a silver or gray car.
"What he normally does, he passes
the girls in walking and brushes up
against them," said Degler. "It's al-
ways a very casual contact with them,
not an aggressive 'I'm going to attack
you.' Some of the girls, they didn't
think anything of it at the time."
Since some of the incidents have
been subtle, some girls have not re-
ported them to the police immediately,
and have only done so after hearing
about other incidents and realizing in
retrospect that the same suspect tar-
geted them.
Altogether, there have been five or
six incidents in the last few months,
said Degler.
The suspect has not tried to lure the
girls into his car, and has not physical-
ly harmed any of them, but police are
still anxious to find him and stop him.
"There's something wrong with this
kid, there's no doubt about it," said De-
gler. "We're asking people to be on the
lookout for anything that looks suspi-
cious in the neighborhood."
Police also ask parents and others to
immediately report any unusual en-
counters.
In addition to the incidents on Ho-
bart Street and near Colfax, the sus-
pect has approached girls near Mi-
nadeo Elementary School.
The suspect's success in avoiding ar-
rest so far leads police to believe that
he lives in Squirrel Hill or nearby and
blends in with other pedestrians.
"We believe he is from somewhere
in the neighborhood," said Degler. "He
Please see Suspect, page 27.

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Milestone
Rodef to celebrate 150th anniversary
BY T O B Y TABACHNICK
StaffWriter
Memories of Rodef Shalom's long and
rich history will be shared by hundreds
of the congregation's former confir-
mands, from the 1930s to the present, as
they join together to celebrate Rodef's
150th anniversary at a cocktail and din-
ner reception on Saturday evening, June
14, at the synagogue.
The celebration will also mark the
100th anniversary of the congregation's
landmark building on Fifth and More-
wood avenues.
Confirmation class of 1932 alumna,
Dorothy Grinberg, who has been active
at Rodef Shalom her whole life, and con-
tinues to serve on the board of its sister-
hood and as a hostess for its Biblical
Gardens, recalled the significance of
confirmation at Rodef Shalom until the
mid-1960s.
"When I was in Sunday school," Grin-
berg said, "Rodef was the only Reform
congregation in western Pennsylvania.
There were no bar or bat mitzvahs there
then," she recalled. Instead, teenagers
were confirmed.
"Today, the confirmation classes have
very few people. But at that time, be-
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cause there were no bar and bat mitz-
vahs, classes were huge — about 130 in a
class. Now there are only about eight in
a class. Confirmation was where the em-
phasis was put. This was 'classic' Re-
form Judaism."
It was not until 1967, according to
Grinberg, that "bar and bat mitzvahs
were part of the curriculum, if you were
Correction
A headline in the May 29 Chronicle
incorrectly used the word ingenue ("Is-
raeli musical ingenue to perform here,"
page 4). The word is properly used to
refer-to a young female, but was mistak-
enly used to describe a young man.
J e s s e Lieberman, the paralyzed
so inclined."
Rodef Shalom, the oldest Jewish coj
gregation in western Pennsylvania, an;
the largest Reform congregation in %
area, was chartered by the Common,
wealth of Pennsylvania in 1856. Tht
congregation has not only been a pillar ti
the Pittsburgh Jewish community, but
has also played a key role in the develop-
ment of the Reform movement, national-
ly and internationally, throughout thj
years.
First established as an Orthodox syna-
gogue, the congregation embraced Re-
form Judaism following a visit by Rate
Isaac M. Wise, founder of Reform Jn-
daism in America, in 1863.
By 1885, the congregation was read)
to assume its role as a leader in the
movement, and, in that year, was centre
in the construction of the Pittsburg;
Platform, in which members of the Na-
tional Reform Movement defined its firs
major tenets.
Please see Rodef, page, i.
doctor who is coming to Pittsburgh b
complete a fellowship, will be train-
ing primarily at UPMC South Sid;
Hospital, not Shadyside Hospital, a;
was reported in a May 29 articl;
("Paralyzed doctor coming to 'Burg:,
for fellowship," page 2). Liebermai
will also receive some training at
UPMC's Oakland campus.

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Bracelets raise money for diabetes research
B Y ILANA YERGIN
Staff Writer
In J u n e 2005, when R a c h e l Tobin
learned she had type 1 diabetes, she be-
gan making and selling h e r own
bracelets, donating all of the money to
the Juvenile Diabetes Research Founda-
tion.
The project, called "Designs for a
Cure," began as Rachel's bat mitzvah
project. "I wanted to do something to
give back to the community," she said,
"and people j u s t started buying the
bracelets and everyone loved them."
Rachel is now a 15-year-old student at
Shady Side Academy and "Designs for a
Cure" has raised well over $22,000; all
of it has been donated to JDRF.
The bracelets a r e all designed by
Rachel and carry a special hope charm
that signifies the hope for a cure for dia-
betes. The demand for the bracelets has
gotten so big that Rachel no longer has
time to string t h e m all, so the Tobin fam-
ily relies on the help of family friends to
get the job done.
When she began the project, she never
imagined it would get this big. Carabella,
URJ meeting here focused on Torah study
B Y ILANA YERGIN
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a women's clothing store in Oakmont,
was the first store to carry Rachel's
b r a c e l e t s in N o v e m b e r 2005. The
bracelets are now being sold out of state,
because of the help of a family friend,
Bobby Chajson, who is 17. H e began an
organization called " E m b r a c e Hope,"
and has placed Rachel's bracelets in re-
tail locations and hospital gift shops in
Pittsburgh, New York and Florida. Dur-
ing the five months that Chajson has
been working on this project he has do-
nated more than $2,500.
David Tobin, Rachel's father, said that
since Rachel began "Designs for a Cure"
the J D R F has become a big part of the
lives of the whole family. David and his
Wife Linda have both become very in-
volved with the cause. David is on the
board of directors of the J D R F and Lin-
da co-chaired the Family Team Walk, a
charity walk that benefits the JDRF.
Rachel will be selling her bracelets in
a booth outside of Littles Shoes on
Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill this Sat-
urday afternoon, J u n e 7, for $25 each.
(liana Yergin can be reached
pittchron@gmail. com.)
Judaism spent a fair amount of time en-
gaged in Torah study during its biannual
meeting, which was held from May 28 to
June 1 at the Omni William Penn Hotel in
downtown Pittsburgh.
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at Rachel Tobin
The organization held a meeting
about a y e a r and a half ago t h a t was
devoted to Torah study, but only 40 to..
50 of t h e 275 board m e m b e r s w e r e
able to a t t e n d , a c c o r d i n g to R a b b i E r i c
Yoffie, t h e p r e s i d e n t of the U R J . A f t e r -
w a r d , it was decided t h a t t h e T o r a h
s t u d y would be i n c o r p o r a t e d into al-
r e a d y existing m e e t i n g s to m a k e s u r e
e v e r y o n e would be able to p a r t i c i p a t e .
Board m e m b e r s "have e x p o s u r e to
t h e top t h i n k e r s in t h e m o v e m e n t , "
said Emily Grotta, the d i r e c t o r of m a r -
keting and communications for the
U R J . Those top t h i n k e r s led t h e T o r a h
s t u d y l a s t w e e k e n d , i n c l u d i n g two
n o t e w o r t h y events.
R a b b i Aaron Panken, a f a c u l t y m e m -
ber and f o r m e r d e a n of t h e H e b r e w
Union College-Jewish I n s t i t u t e of Re-
ligion in New York, spoke to t h e b o a r d
over l u n c h on Friday. The title of his
s p e e c h was, " W h a t ' s a R a b b i to Do? A
T a l m u d i c A p p r o a c h to t h e Relation-
ship of Clergy and Congregation."
Panken playfully acknowledged that
he was s p e a k i n g to a room f u l l of s o m e
of t h e top s c h o l a r s in t h e R e f o r m
m o v e m e n t , so he had to s e a r c h e x t r a
h a r d to f i n d a l e s s o n f r o m w h i c h
e v e r y o n e would be able to l e a r n . H e
decided to look at a section of t h e
Palestinian Talmud, also known as t h e
J e r u s a l e m T a l m u d , which is studied
less f r e q u e n t l y t h a n the Babylonian
T a l m u d . T h e p a s s a g e t h a t he discussed
is w h a t he c o n s i d e r s to be t h e f i r s t job
d e s c r i p t i o n for a r a b b i . The s p e e c h
k e p t the e n t i r e room captivated.
L a t e r on in the evening, a f t e r Shab-
bat s e r v i c e s at Rodef Shalom, t h e r e
was a discussion b e t w e e n R a b b i s Eu-
g e n e Horowitz and R i c h a r d Levy t h a t
was moderated by Yoffie. T h e
e v e n i n g ' s event was titled " W h e r e is
R e f o r m J u d a i s m Today?" The r a b b i s
spoke about the d i f f e r e n t p l a t f o r m s
and s t a t e m e n t s c r e a t e d over t h e y e a r s
t h a t have shaped the m o v e m e n t . Yoffie
said this topic would be of p a r t i c u l a r
i n t e r e s t to P i t t s b u r g h e r s s i n c e so
m a n y of t h e i m p o r t a n t p l a t f o r m s w e r e
c r e a t e d in this city.
" P i t t s b u r g h was t h e place where we
adopted our first platform,"
Yoffie, " a n d P i t t s b u r g h was the plac
w h e r e we adopted our most recer.:
platform."
Both the P i t t s b u r g h Platform, whick
was adopted in 1885, and the Pitts
b u r g h P r i n c i p l e s , c r e a t e d in 1999, ait
i m p o r t a n t d o c u m e n t s used to define
Reform Judiasm.
" T h e c h a n g e s b e t w e e n the first an;
t h e most r e c e n t w e r e d r a m a t i c a n d k
w h a t w e ' r e going to do is talk with tw
of the o u t s t a n d i n g s c h o l a r s and acade
mic l e a d e r s , " said Yoffie. "We're goini
to e x a m i n e this p r o c e s s of adopting
s t a t e m e n t s , how it h a p p e n s , w h a t
m e a n s and how t h e y d i f f e r from on;
another."
Although some of the weekend wai
devoted to learning, t h e r e was s
plenty of b u s i n e s s t h a t needed to
a d d r e s s e d . One of the biggest issue;
t h a t n e e d e d to be dealt with was hot
t h e U R J is going to a d a p t to and us;
t e c h n o l o g y A c c o r d i n g to Grotti.
" t h e r e ' s a b o u t a million dollars is
technology e x p e n s e s in this b u d g e t I
help us a c c o m p l i s h our goals."
T h e U R J j u s t l a u n c h e d a new bloi
t h e "News and Views of R e f o r m Jews
at rj.org. Grotta hopes t h a t the bit;
will e n a b l e m o r e people to voice ttejj
opinions.
"We w a n t t h e i n d i v i d u a l R e f o r P
J e w s , " s a y s Grotta. "You don't have''1
be a p r e s i d e n t , you don't have to be!
m e m b e r of your congregational bom
you don't h a v e to be a regular synt
gogue-goer, but we want you to have-
p l a c e w h e r e you can express ft-
opinions, you can c o n v e r s e with otl#
and w h e r e you can r e a d about wh-
e t h e r people a r e doing."
(Ilana Yergin can be reached •
pittchron@gmail. com.)
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Today, more than 1,150 families are as a place that's solid. It has evolved,
members of Rodef Shalom, and the con- but it still has its foundation and roots
gregation continues to remain a leader for you."
in the Reform movement. The 150th anniversary celebration on
The key to the temple's staying power, June 14, which is open to the communi-
according to Barbara Mendlowitz, pub- ty, is a culmination of a year's worth of
licity chair for the anniversary celebra- commemorative activities including
fon, is its leadership. children's parties, historical sympo-
Former rabbis "[Solomon B]. Freehof
and [Walter] Jacob were involved
hroughout the United States, and were
siums and community service projects.
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Opinion
Think critically about candidates
T
uesday's p r i m a r i e s sealed t h e
deal: Barack Obama will be the
Democratic nominee for presi-
dent.
While some Jews are likely to be very
pleased with this result, others will see it
as a cause for concern, since many Jews
worry about whether Obama will be
good for Israel.
Although he has a very strong voting
record on Israel, some are convinced
that privately he really is more sympa-
thetic to the Palestinians. As evidence,
they note that he has attended events
sponsored by various Arab groups,
which included other guests such as the
late Edward Said, who was famously
anti-Israel.
Of course, if one looks closely enough
into the past experiences and associa-
tions of any politician, one will certainly
find that they .attended events in which
some of the participants were anti-Israel
When to negotiate: a study in confusion
GARY
We need a scorecard these days to
keep track of which enemies Israel is ne-
gotiating with, which it isn't and why.
And the same goes for the United States.
A couple of weeks ago came news that
the Olmert government was in talks with
Syria, its longtime intractable enemy to
the north, through the mediation of
Turkey. Proponents of the negotiations
point out that by ceding the Golan
Heights — a given, if the talks are to go
anywhere — Israel could draw Syria
away from the orbit of Iran, which would
be a major accomplishment, and could
have Damascus curtail its support of
H a m a s and Hezbollah.
Critics insist, though, that there is no
indication that Syrian President Bashar
Assad is willing to do any of the above,
and that t h e r e is no point in giving up the
strategic benefits of the Golan Heights
without such firm assurances. Besides,
such talks have been held before by the
last several Israeli administrations and
nothing has come of it — so why now?
The Syrian news comes on top of the
ongoing negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinian Authority, r e n e w e d
amidst much fanfare in Annapolis, Md.,
last November. P r e s i d e n t George W.
Bush keeps saying that a peace deal is
possible this year, but wishful thinking
has not brought about any signs of real
progress to date, and the clock is ticking.
Is this just another exercise in futility
and worse than no talks at all?
Meanwhile, Israel refuses to deal with
Hamas, the terror group that controls
Gaza and remains committed to Israel's
destruction. I s r a e l ' s policy seems to
make sense, and is supported and held
by the United States. Yet we keep read-
er harbored other views that are offen-
sive to the Jewish community.
Obama's candidacy, and all the nega-
tive buzz about his positions on Israel, il-
lustrate the tendency in our political sys-
tem to oversimplify a candidate's ideas
and to rely on r u m o r and innuendo to
make a decision about whether someone
is fit for office.
That is a shame. As Jews we should be
especially sensitive to the use of uncor-
roborated information and r u m o r s to
judge someone. Rather than relying on
the information supplied by Internet
junk mail and misinformed neighbors,
voters owe it to themselves and their
country to do their own research about
the candidates and to think critically
about what they hear and read.
The same goes for presumptive Re-
publican nominee John McCain, who
also faces plenty of r u m o r s about how he
would handle Middle East policy as
ing about a deal being worked out be-
tween Israel and Hamas, with Egypt as
the go-between. It would bring about a .
lengthy hudna, or respite from rocket a t - .
tacks on Israel, and return hundreds of
jailed H a m a s m e m b e r s in exchange for
kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
And there were reports this week of a
deal between Israel and Hezbollah that
would f r e e the killer of a 4-year-old Is-
raeli girl and her father in exchange for
kidnapped soldiers Ehud Goldwasser
and Eldad Regev, dead or alive.
So what's the story?
As for the United States, Bush stirred
the American political pot during his re-
cent visit to Israel when, in his Knesset
speech, he decried those who "seem to
believe we should negotiate with terror-
ists and radicals," asserting that "we
have an obligation to call this what it is
— the false comfort of appeasement."
"Appeasement" is a loaded word, of
course, harking back to British P r i m e
Minister Neville Chamberlain ceding
part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler as part
of the Munich Pact of 1938, now seen as
a foolish and futile act of political cow-
ardice in an attempt to halt the Nazi
leader's aggression.
White House officials said Bush was
referring to those like former President
Jimmy Carter, who recently met with the
head of Hamas. But Democratic leaders
a s s u m e d Bush m e a n t D e m o c r a t i c
f r o n t r u n n e r Sen. Barack Obama, and
they blasted the president for playing
politics while overseas.
Complicating the issue f u r t h e r is that
the United States, under Bush, has gone
from shunning North Korea to re-enter-
ing negotiations, while continuing to
r e f u s e to talk to Iran, another m e m b e r of
the "axis of evil." And Washington
seems annoyed that Israel is talking to
Syria again, since the United-States still
lists Syria on its terror list. But why
should the United States object to such
talks if Israel, with far more at stake, is
willing to negotiate?
Which leads us to ask: Is there any log-
ical pattern or consistent policy in all of
this? Does a nation show strength and
commander in chief.
Both O b a m a and McCain have shown
strong support for Israel in the paS|
though the two men espouse very differ
ent foreign policy philosophies am
would certainly handle diplomacy and
when necessary, military action in vastli
different ways.
That does not mean that either oni
would be good or bad for Israel, just a.
one could look at the records of both Bil
Clinton and George W. Bush and find de
cisions that one likes or dislikes with re
gard to Israel.
By the time Election Day rolls around
in November, voters owe it to themselves
to be knowledgeable about the difference
between the candidates. However on:
casts a vote, the decision should be basei
on what the person really stands f o r , not:
knee-jerk reaction based on falsehoods o:
kernels of truth that have been distortec
by those with ulterior motives.
flexibility by sitting down with its ene-
mies, or is it always a sign of weaknesi
and fear?
On the one hand, one only make-
peace with enemies. On the other hand,
making concessions — in Israel's case in
recent years, giving up land by leaving
southern Lebanon and Gaza — will
nothing to show for it, only emboldens
on.e's foes.
Obama has had a hard time convincing
people of his distinction between holding
talks with enemy states like Iran, Syria
or Cuba "without preconditions" while
refusing to talk to groups like Hamas or
Hezbollah because they are not states
and crave legitimacy. He's been criti-
cized by Sen. John McCain for appear-
ing too naive in his willingness to talk ti
autocratic leaders, but it turns out Mc-
Cain favored talking to Hamas after ii
won the Palestinian elections in 21
And he may have been right, though lie's
taken a tougher stand since.
All of this is confusing, but the bottom
line is that when it comes to negotiation:
with the goal of reaching peace, prag
tism t r u m p s principle. If the risks matt
sense, proceed cautiously, but each case
is unique and should be based on its own
merits. That's why it is wise to never
"never," as in, "we will never negotiate
with terrorists."
Decisions about who to talk to and whl
not, and when, and under what condi-
tions, are extremely difficult and deli-
cate, and are usually best seen in tta
light of hindsight. In the end, then, theft
is no hard-and-fast rule for whom to de$
with and When, other than what will be»
serve your interests. And it's import28'
to keep in mind that even failed talks
be worth the effort, proving that a gof
ernment tried to negotiate with an ene-
my before concluding that a more ai
gressive approach was necessary.
In the world today, talk is always
preferable, but the use of force musttf
main an option.
(Gary Rosenblatt is the editor andP1'1
Usher of The New York Jewish Week-)
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South African Jews aid refugees under attack
B Y S U Z A N N E BELLING
JTA
i and c h u r c h halls.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
She stood outside on the sidewalk be-
tween the kosher r e s t a u r a n t and shop
in a Jewish a r e a of J o h a n n e s b u r g , ply-
ing her h a n d i c r a f t . To the housewives
sipping t h e i r c o f f e e or b u y i n g gro-
ceries, she could have been any other
s t r e e t vendor, save for t h e r a g g e d
clothes and the pain and f e a r etched on
h e r face.
Joyce — not h e r real n a m e — f r o m
the b e l e a g u e r e d neighboring state of
Zimbabwe, was j u s t one of thousands of
v i c t i m s of x e n o p h o b i c a t t a c k s on
r e f u g e e s in South Africa who mistaken-
ly thought they would find a b e t t e r life
here.
Instead thousands have been hunted,
beaten and torched in a wave of vio-
lence against r e f u g e e s f r o m neighbor-
ing c o u n t r i e s , i n c l u d i n g Z i m b a b w e ,
who have fled economic and political
turmoil in their homeland.
Dozens have been killed by mobs
seeking out " f o r e i g n e r s " in a m a n n e r
akin to the pogroms of E u r o p e in the
1930s and '40s.
"They b u r n t my home, they took all
my possessions," Joyce said. "I, with
m a n y o t h e r s , fled t h e t o w n s h i p of
Alexandra and a m living in a c h u r c h
hall. But I cannot go back."
She said P r e s i d e n t Robert Mugabe's
regime in Zimbabwe " t o r t u r e us, perse-
cute us — and they gouged out the eyes
Belarus, by helping to restore cemeteries, takes steps to right Holocaust wrongs
B Y G R A N T SLATER
JTA
DOKSHITSY, Belarus — A smattering
of the 7,500 residents of this village
where Jews once lived huddle under
their umbrellas as the rain falls.
They p e e r over t h e i r shoulders to
catch a glimpse of Aaron Ginsburg, who
t r a c e s his ancestors here, reciting a
speech through tears.
"Dokshitsers made new lives in the
United States, Canada, South Africa, Aus-
tralia and what would become Israel,"
Ginsburg tells the crowd as a camera from
Belarusian state television focuses on him.
"Few came back. Those who did found all
they had loved gone. We are their children
and grandchildren."
Behind Ginsburg stand 170 grave-
stones etched with faded Hebrew in-
scriptions, the most recent reincarnation
in a patchwork effort by local authori-
ties, local Jewish communities and re-
turning descendants to restore Jewish
cemeteries across Belarus.
Ginsburg, a pharmacist and amateur ge-
nealogist in Rochester, N.Y., played a vital
role in the Dokshitsy project that is being
marked on this May day.
Few, if any, Jews remain in Dokshitsy.
Some 2,800 were rounded up and shot dur-
ing World War II in a field across from
where the cemetery stands. More than
800,000 Jews were slaughtered in Belarus
during the Holocaust.
Now the Belarusian government — often
referred to as the last dictatorship in Eu-
rope — appears to be taking a new direc-
tion to honor the victims.
The country maintains "troubling" ties
with Iran that bear little benefit in econom-
ic or political spheres, says Jonathan
Moore, who currently heads the U.S. Em-
bassy in Minsk after the ambassador was
forced to leave the country earlier this
THE J E W I S H CHRONICLE J U N E 5, 2 0 0 8
WORLD
Zimbabwean refugees on June 2, at a temporary refugee camp in a police station
south of downtown Johannesburg.
of two of my relatives."
The Jewish community has respond-
ed overwhelmingly to appeals for help
for the victims f r o m South Africa Chief
R a b b i W a r r e n Goldstein, t h e South
African Jewish Board of Deputies and
other J e w i s h organizations.
"We know f r o m c e n t u r i e s of bitter ex-
p e r i e n c e what it m e a n s to flee f r o m
your home in fear," Goldstein said. "In-
deed, South African J e w s a r e descen-
dants of r e f u g e e s who fled the bar-
barism and anti-Semitism of E u r o p e . "
year in a diplomatic tit-for-tat.
Last October, President Alexander
Lukashenko made anti-Semitic comments
during a radio broadcast. But a month lat-
er, Lukashenko met with Lev Leviev, the
diamond magnate and ardent financial
supporter of the Chabad-Lubavitch move-
ment in the former Soviet Union.
Since the sit-down, local officials —
with Jewish community leaders — have
taken some initiative in restoring several
Jewish cemeteries that were threatened
by construction, including Dokshitsy, ac-
cording to American Jews interested in
reconstructing hundreds of cemeteries
across Belarus.
In Gomel, a city of 500,000 in southern
Belarus, construction workers stumbled
across hundreds of Jewish remains during
a stadium expansion earlier this year.
Moore said city officials consulted with
Jewish leaders and recruited local Jewish
students to relocate the remains in a "sign
of wanting to do the right thing."
"The bar of expectations of the local
community is low," Moore said.
Olga Baskina, a physician and member
of Hillel Minsk, says the youth group has
started making summer trips to clean up
cemeteries. They have cleaned up eight in
recent years, she said.
Ginsbug has spent the better part of a
decade tracing his family back to Dok-
shitsy, a two-hour drive north of the cap-
ital Minsk.
Touring the village, it is easy to imagine
rows of shtetl houses lining muddy roads
in the early 20th century before the Nazis
purged the town. Ginsburg says many of
the Jews already had left by then for the
United States or what would later become
Israel. Hundreds of others met their tragic
fate in the field.
The monument on the spot where the
2,800 were murdered memorializes the
"victims of fascism" but does not mention
Ulan Ossendryver photo
H e said the Talmudic p r e c e p t to love
and not oppress the s t r a n g e r was the
most oft-repeated Torah command-
ment.
In a call for donations of clothing,
blankets, toiletries, medical supplies
and food, R a b b i Aharon Hayon of the
Green and Sea Point H e b r e w Congrega-
tion in Cape Town said his synagogue,
the Herzlia Jewish day schools and t h e
Board of Deputies w e r e t e m p o r a r i l y
housing 200 destitute r e f u g e e s in a
building belonging to his congregation.
the Jewish background of the victims.
The Jewish cemetery was demolished
in 1965, a time of religious repression
across the Soviet Union. Tombstones
were removed or buried, and the park
lay fallow for 40 years.
Upon u n e a r t h i n g t h e gravestones,
town officials decided to preserve the
cemetery and sought someone to help. In
February 2006, Ginsburg received a let-
ter from city officials saying the town
wanted to right a wrong against the Jew-
ish citizens of Dokshitsy.
G i n s b u r g c r e a t e d the n o n p r o f i t
Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy and raised
m o r e than $28,000 to help f u n d the
cemetery's reconstruction.
What had been a field of gravestones
buried or strewn about is now a fenced-
off area with more than 100 gravestones
standing upright and a marble monu-
ment with inscriptions in Hebrew and
Belarusian.
A smooth stone pathway leads from the
road to the cemetery gate. All of it was
built by the Dokshitsy city government.
For the trip, Ginsburg united 14 people
with ancestors from Dokshitsy and
brought them to the cemetery, where they
recited the Mourners' Kaddish. The de-
scendants came from South Africa, Israel,
Russia and the United States.
The grandfather of Mark Izeman, an
American lawyer who is currently based
in Moscow for the Natural Resources
Defense Council, was born in the Belaru-
sian village.
As Izeman spoke to local residents in a
City Hall ceremony and at a school as-
sembly, he showed a portrait of his
g r a n d f a t h e r as his hand rested on the
head of his young son.
"I wondered why they did all this,"
Izeman told JTA. "Is it guilt? But after
being here, I think they are happy to help
close the circle."
In the o t h e r m a j o r centers, mafI
w e r e given shelter in police station
Wendy Kahn, the national directory
the Board of Deputies, called on a|
communities to stand against the hj
man rights violations of refugees.
"As a people who have been the targe
of h a t e crimes, genocide and prejudice
for centuries, the J e w i s h commui*
a p p e a l s to all citizens to treat ft
s t r a n g e r s in our land in the great spin,
of ' u b u n t u , ' " she said, using the ten;
for h u m a n e n e s s .
J e w i s h y o u t h g r o u p s , includiij
H a b o n i m Dror, rallied to t h e cause, %
did the J e w i s h schools in Johanna
burg. The South African Union of Jet.
ish Students s p e a r h e a d e d a collect®
and joined a m a r c h for peace.
J e w i s h doctors volunteered then-
vices for medical t r e a t m e n t , while thj
Union of Jewish Women, the Jew!
Women's Benevolent, t h e United Sister-
hood, and Orthodox and Progress^
congregations coordinated collection!
of goods.
" P a r t of the m i r a c l e of our country)
transition to a multiracial democrat;
was how, virtually overnight, violent,
between South Africans ceased," sai:
Zev Krengel, the national chairman o
t h e Board of Deputies.
H e said t h e status quo continued fa
the past 14 y e a r s until the underlyiiii
feelings of hostility against foreign ml
g r a n t s " e r u p t e d into w h a t can only Ik-
described as a xenophobic pogrom."
Town officials at receptions and officii
introductions for the 14 visitors tied &
plight of Dokshitsy's Jews to a staple offe-
larusian national pride — the remeifc
brance of World War II.
"The fate of the Belarusian people
of the Jewish people are one," said (
Pinchuk, the chairman of the DokshiH
region. "We have gone through sin#
tragedies."
That spirit of shared struggle is a far cij
from when Michael Lozman led his
group of American college students to Be-
larus for a cemetery restoration project i
2002. The group was detained by the KG!
and questioned about their activities k
fore being released.
Last week, Lozman led his latest gro|
of 20 students and professors from Sid
College in Albany, N.Y., to a pictures#
hillside on the outskirts of R u b y a z i *
vich, a village about 45 minutes soli-
west of Minsk.
The group f r o m the Francisco-
Catholic school u n e a r t h e d some 3-
gravestones and cut through more
50 years of overgrowth.
Lozman, an orthodontist with
rough and worn from seven years of vc*
ing cemeteries across Belarus, shook r-
head as he looked across the stones, e |
of which had been marred by a :wi"™
scrawled in white paint by an earl'1
cemetery restoration effort.
"There's a difference between doing
and doing it well," he told JTA.
For eight hours, the Siena group aw
cal children hacked away at the
growth and tugged at gravestones we>
ing hundreds of pounds.
They transformed one cemetery;
the hill were another 100 stones to dig1-
"Every time I complete a cemeteQ
take some joy," Lozman said. "But n # -
think about the fact that there are l lt
dreds more out their waiting."

LETTERS T O T H E E D I T O R
Continued from page 7.
year Iraqi e x p e r i e n c e and t e c h n i q u e s
used to m e d i a t e i n t e r e t h n i c d i s p u t e s
in Bosnia, B u s h ' s I r a q i fiasco c a u s e d
over 4,000 U.S. d e a t h s , 100,000 I r a q i
deaths and 2 million r e f u g e e s . 9/11
did not " c h a n g e e v e r y t h i n g . " B u s h
and Cheney a d m i t t e d I r a q had noth-
ing to do with 9/11. T h e D e m o c r a t s
didn't "lose f o c u s on t h e e n e m y " by
fighting Bush. Bush "lost f o c u s " by di-
verting our f i n a n c i a l and h u m a n re-
sources f r o m A f g h a n i s t a n to I r a q .
Bush, no " i n t e r n a t i o n a l i s t , " i g n o r e s
international t r e a t i e s like Kyoto and
the Geneva Convention.
Attacks on O b a m a f o r " e n g a g i n g
anti American dictators" ignore
JFK's talks w i t h K h r u s h c h e v on
Cuban missiles a n d t e s t b a n s , a n d
Reagan's with G o r b a c h e v on a r m s
limitations and B u s h ' s own talks with
^hadaffi and North K o r e a .
People opposed t h e w a r s in Vietnam
and in Iraq b e c a u s e , given t h e p r e w a r
history, t h o s e w a r s w e r e likely to
bleed our c o u n t r y ' s people and t r e a -
sure without m a k i n g us m o r e s e c u r e ,
[t is a disgrace f o r L i e b e r m a n to slan-
der those patriotic citizens as "anti-
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End of the road

Early elections in Israel likely as signs point to Olmert's ouster
B Y LESLIE S U S S E R
JTA
JERUSALEM — The media and the
political establishment in Israel already
have decided: P r i m e Minister Ehud
Olmert is through.
The cover on Ma'ariv's weekend polit-
ical magazine shows a f r a m e d portrait of
a sad-looking Olmert on the wall of a
g o v e r n m e n t office with the caption
"Ehud Olmert — Prime Minister 2006-
2008."
Now his Kadima Party is preparing for
a new leadership contest and the country
could be heading toward new elections.
The political fallout comes in the wake
of the latest corruption scandal involving
the prime minister, this one alleging that
Olmert took improper f u n d s f r o m an
American fund-raiser.
There is wide consensus that Olmert's
legal team made a m a j o r strategic blun-
der in not cross-examining the American
fund-raiser, Morris Talansky, immedi-
ately after his damning pretrial testimo-
ny May 27 against the prime minister.
Talansky painted a p i c t u r e of en-
velopes stuffed with dollars for Olmert's
personal use. The p r i m e m i n i s t e r ' s
lawyers claim they can explain or dis-
prove each and every item, that Olmert
did not commit any crime and that he
only did what all Israeli politicians legit-
imately do to finance election campaigns
or speaking engagements abroad.
But the fact that the lawyers decided
to defer their cross-examination of Ta-
lansky until July 17 left a pall of unchal-
lenged allegations in the air. This led to
scathing press against Olmert and de-
mands in the political echelon for his
resignation or, at least, temporary leave
of absence.
Tainted by unrefuted allegations of
corruption, Olmert no longer has the
moral authority to make major decisions
on peace or war, the critics charged.
L a b o r leader Ehud Barak fired the first
shot in the political arena. The day after
Talansky's testimony, the defense minis-
ter issued an ultimatum: Kadima must
change its leader if the party wanted to
continue its coalition partnership with
Labor.
"I don't believe the prime minister can
simultaneously run the government and
deal with his personal issues," Barak
said.
Although Barak did not place a dead-
Brian H e n d l e r photo
line on his ultimatum, his move was
enough i:o trigger a process that almost Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, shown at the Knesset in May, is facing a
certainly will lead to Olmert's ouster. probable ouster that is expected to end his political career.
With the defection of Labor or some oth-
Two possibilities emerge for a govern- Likud's most astute politicians, already
er disaffected coalition partner a distinct
ment without Olmert: The new leader of has put forth a bill for the dissolution of
possibility, Kadima has been left with no
Kadima could form a coalition based on the Knesset, with Nov. 11 as the favored
alternative but to gear up for a new lead-
the parties in the current Knesset, or election day.
ership primary.
there could be new elections. Although there are several candidates
Given the huge wave of public senti-
The Likud Party, which is leading in to succeed Olmert, the front-runners are
ment against him, it is obvious that
the polls, wants new elections immedi- Livni, Barak and the Likud's Benjamin
Olmert cannot run. That has cleared the
ately. Labor and Kadima p r e f e r building Netanyahu.
way for a four-way race with Foreign
a new coalition and putting off elections Livni, who would become Israel's sec-
Minister Tzipi Livni, Transportation
for as long as possible. ond female prime minister after Golda
Minister Shaul Mofaz, Internal Security
Shas is the problem for Labor and Meir, is perceived as squeaky clean and
Minister Avi Dichter and Housing Minis-
Kadima. The Orthodox party has indicat- thus would have a head start at the polls
ter Meir Shetreet.
ed it would not be happy to serve u n d e r a f t e r t h e public revulsion over the
Kadima's 65,000-plus m e m b e r s will
Livni, the front-runner to take over for Olmert-Talansky scandal.
choose a new leader probably sometime
Olmert. Shas also is d e m a n d i n g in- Although her opponents denigrate her
in September. Olmert has asked only that
creased child allowances as a condition experience, she has a long record of pub-
the moves be delayed sufficiently to give
for joining any new coalition, which lic service. Livni served in the Mossad
him a chance to clear his name, enabling
without Shas is not possible. intelligence agency in the- early 1980s,
him to leave office and a political career
So the smart money is on elections and later as the director of the Govern-
spanning more than 40 years with some
within the next six months. Former For-
dignity. Please see Olmert, next page.
eign Minister Silvan Shalom, among the

'Tommy' Lapid, a brash political and media figure, dies at 77

BY ROY EITAN
JTA
TEL AVIV — Yosef Lapid, among the
most politically incorrect figures of Israeli
pohtics, died of cancer Sunday. He was. 77.
Known to friends and foes alike as Tom-
my, a nickname f r o m his native Yu-
goslavia, Lapid was a dominant figure
among Israel's intelligentsia. As play-
wright, journalist and commentator, he
brought an old European brio to the
nascent Jewish state.
Memories of the Holocaust, in which his
father died, gave Lapid a keen sense of the
importance of Zionism. But though he
came to Israel as a refugee immigrant,
Lapid vociferously championed a secular
Ashkenazi ideal, to the exclusion of many
fellow citizens.
He was especially disdainful of fervently
Orthodox Jews, seeing their religious dog-
ma, large-family benefits and exemptions
from mandatory military service as
threats to the future of a democratic Israel.
Lapid was particularly infuriated that
the most potent religious political move-
ment, Shas, catered to Sephardim.
His puffy appearance and witty trucu-
lence drew comparisons to Archie Bunker,
the bigoted hero of the 1970s American
television show "All in the Family."
"He was a man with a sense of humor,"
Aryeh Deri, a former Shas leader, said on
Army Radio. "He always said what was on
his mind. You knew what he thought about
you — he'd tell you straight to your face."
The eruption of Palestinian violence in
2000 sharpened middle-class Israeli bitter-
ness at having to shoulder a security bur-
den largely shirked by Arab and fervently
Orthodox citizens. That prompted Lapid to
run for parliament at the head of the secu-
larist Shinui party in 2003.
His campaign openly mocked religious
Jews in terms that some Israelis found dis-
tasteful, even anti-Semitic, but the strategy
worked. Shinui ("Change") became the
sixth-largest party in the Knesset.
Lapid served as justice minister in the
coalition government of Ariel Sharon,
memorably advocating that Israel's securi-
ty fence should run closer to the West Bank
boundary in order to avoid talcing in too
much Palestinian land.
Shinui eventually quit the government in
a funding dispute and, shorn of executive
powers, found itself marginalized as a
protest party with little in the way of a pos-
itive policy to offer its electorate.
Many commentators also faulted Lapid
for not toning down his invective, which in-
cluded referring "May those bloodsuckers choke," he told
to fervently Or- Israel Radio in reference to investigative
thodox Jews as journalists who accused Olmert of finan-
"parasites" and cial misdeeds or called for his resignation
dismissing a hit in the wake of the costly Second Lebanon
song by a War.
Sephardi croon- Lapid died in a Tel Aviv hospital with
er as "the sound Olmert at the height of a bribery investiga-
of Tulkarm" — tion that could force him from office.
an especially vio- "Here, today I would like to say that
lent Palestinian Tommy Lapid was a Jew through and
town. through," Olmert told his Cabinet 3
Shinui was Brian H e n d l e r p h o t o broadcast remarks. "True, he never as-
decimated in the Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, cribed importance to the ceremonial as-
2006 election, shown in a 2003 pects of Judaism, and more than once was
and Lapid re- photo, was a staunch sharply critical and found himself in con-
turned to the me- defender of Prime frontations with public and political fig-
dia, hosting a Minister Ehud Olmert. ures connected to this.
weekly radio "I am certain that I speak on behalf of
show and making regular television ap- the decisive majority of the residents of the
pearances. He also served on the board of State of Israel, who feel that Tommy Lapiii
Yad Vashem, a position that gave weight to placed his special stamp on public life i"
his frequent verbal attacks on radical West the State of Israel as a brilliant journalist
Bank settlers. Their treatment of Palestini- and minister. We have lost a dear m a n , a
ans, he said, recalled the anti-Semites of dear Jew and an irreplaceable friend."
prewar Europe. Lapid is survived by his wife, Shulamit
In recent months, Lapid dedicated an in- a playwright; a daughter, Meirav; and a
creasing amount of energy to defending son, Yair, who followed his father in be-
his longtime friend, Prime Minister Ehud coming a major media personality. Anoth-
Olmert, against corruption allegations in er daughter, Michal, died in a 1984 road ac-
the press. cident.

Briefly
JTA
Ehud O l m e r t p r o m i s e d Mah-
moud Abbas that peace negotiations
would continue despite an alleged
bribery scandal. The Israeli prime minis-
ter and the Palestinian Authority presi-
dent met in Jerusalem Monday afternoon
in a routine meeting as part of the ongo-
ing peace negotiations. They were joined
during the first hour by Israeli Foreign
Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian
chief negotiator Ahmed Qureia, and met
alone for a second hour. Some have
called for Olmert's ouster following rele-
vations that he allegedly accepted
$150,000 in cash handouts over a 15-year
period from American businessman Mor-
ris Talansky. Olmert has promised to re-
sign if he is indicted.
Responding to Abbas' comments earli-
er in the day decrying Israel's announce-
ment that it would construct housing in
two Jerusalem communities that Pales-
tinians claim as part of a future state,
Olmert said that construction would con-
tinue in Jewish neighborhoods in eastern
Jerusalem as well as in areas expected to
remain part of Israel after a final agree-
ment. Olmert is scheduled to leave later
Monday for Washington, where he will
address the AIPAC annual policy confer-
ence's gala dinner. During the five-day
visit he is scheduled to meet with Presi-
dent Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney,
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and
the two Democratic Party presidential
contenders, Barack Obama and Hillary
Rodham Clinton.
Israeli A r a b s are being allowed to
visit Jenin as part of confidence-build-
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ISRAEL
ing measures by the Palestinian Author-
ity. Scores of Israeli Arabs streamed
into the West Bank town Monday as part
of a trial arrangement between Israel
and the Palestinian Authority, which has
been deploying police in a bid to prove
it can provide security in areas under
its control. Israeli military officials said
that Arab citizens, but not their Jewish
compatriots, are being allowed to make
day trips to Jenin to shop or meet Pales-
tinian kin. The visitors, currently limit-
ed to approximately 100 per day, are ex-
pected to return by nightfall and could
be subject to questioning and searches.
Jenin was long a hotbed of Palestinian
terrorism and saw a bloody Israeli secu-
rity sweep in 2002. Since PA. President
.Mahmoud Abbas broke with Hamas last
year, the town has been among the areas
in which he has ordered a law-and-or-
der drive.
I s r a e l i s c e l e b r a t e d 41 years
since the reunification of their capital,
Jerusalem. Thousands of visitors
flocked to Jerusalem late Sunday for 24
hours of festivities marking the Hebrew
anniversary of the Six-Day War, when
Israeli forces captured the eastern part
of the holy city from Jordan. Traditional
thanksgiving prayers were held at Mer-
caz Harav yeshiva, intellectual home of
the religious Zionist movement, and
hundreds _of youths, Israeli flags in
hand, danced in the streets and pre-
pared to take part in an annual march
through the Old City to the Western
Wall. This year's Jerusalem Day comes
as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
and Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas try to hash out a peace
accord before the end of the Bush ad-
ministration. Abbas has demanded that
"1 w a n t e d t o m a k e
a f i l m rooted in
Rachel's real world -
a w o r l d t h a t is
full of i n t e r e s t i n g
contradictions"
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JSTJjf
East Jerusalem become the capital of a
future Palestinian state, but Olmert,
while signaling flexibility over the fu-
ture jurisdiction over outlying Arab
neighborhoods, has vowed to keep the
city's core areas under Israeli control.
T h r e e Israeli A r a b s were indicted
on suspicion of plotting to kidnap a sol-
dier as ransom for jailed Palestinian ter-
rorists. The Shin Bet announced Mon-
day it had arrested in May three Arab
residents of Lod. The three, allegedly
out of radical Islamist motives, had
Olmert:
Continued from previous page.
ment Companies Authority.
She entered politics in 1999 and has
been the minister of immigrant absorp-
tion, of justice and of foreign affairs.
Livni is committed to peace with the
Palestinians and is conducting negotia-
tions with the former Palestinian prime
minister, Ahmad Qureia.
Livni comes from a revisionist back-
ground. Her father, Eitan, was an Irguri
fighter and a Herut Knesset member
from 1973 to 1984.
She is Olmert's official deputy, but lost
points with the prime minister when she
said the prime minister should resign
after the first interim Winograd report
on the 2006 Lebanon War was published
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Postville fallout
Conservatives adopt religious ruling on paying workers a living wage
BY B E N HARRIS
JTA
NEW YORK — Just days after the
Conservative movement became the
only Jewish denomination to speak out
against alleged worker abuse at the
largest kosher slaughterhouse in the
United States, the movement's legal au-
thorities voted to recommend that Jew-
ish-owned businesses pay their employ-
ees a living wage.
The Committee on Jewish Law and
Standards, the movement's highest legal
body, endorsed a religious ruling, or
teshuva, on May 28 saying that Jews
should "strive to" hire unionized work-
ers and pay them a living wage. The
teshuva earned 13 votes in favor, with
one opposed and three abstentions.
The decision comes just five days after
the movement urged kosher consumers
to consider the appropriateness of pur-
chasing meat from Agriprocessors, the
Postville, Iowa, company whose workers
have alleged gross mistreatment in the
aftermath of a May 12 immigration raid.
A joint statement from the movement's
rabbinic and synagogue organizations
stopped short of calling for a boycott of
Nation
the company.
"For sure it was in the air," Rabbi Jill
Jacobs, who authored the teshuva, said
of the controversy surrounding
Agriprocessors. "I think that everything
going on in Postville has for sure raised
people's consciousness of how important
workers' issues are."
Both decisions point to the rising as-
sertiveness of Conservative rabbis on so-
cial justice issues, but they also have laid
bare the tensions between activist rabbis
who want to see the movement take firm
positions and those that remain cautious
about the potential fallout from such ac-
tions.
Among the three rabbis who abstained
in the living wage vote was Rabbi
Jerome Epstein, the outgoing executive
vice president of the United Synagogue
for Conservative Judaism, the move-
ment's synagogue association.
Epstein told JTA that while in princi-
ple he favors paying workers a decent
wage, he is concerned that if companies
raise their salaries they also may be
forced to reduce their work force. He
also worries about putting Jewish em-
ployers at a competitive disadvantage.
"Is it better to have 100 percent of peo-
ple earning a wage in which they can
sustain themselves, but not at the appro-
priate level, or is it better to have 50 per-
cent of the people unemployed?" Epstein
asked.
A living wage is generally considered
to be the money needed to support one-
self on a 40-hour-per-week job, taking
into account basic expenses such as
housing, food, health care and trans-
portation.
Jacobs in her teshuva offers several
methods for calculating a living wage.
Invariably they result in figures above
the federally mandated minimum wage
of $5.85 an hour and vary from city to
city. In New York City, for example, a liv-
ing wage would be more than $10 an
hour.
"I am all for the basic principles that
Jill was articulating," Epstein said. "I
just felt uneasy about putting some peo-
ple in a difficult situation where they
would have to lay off individuals in order
to meet the conditions of that teshuva."
Similarly, while some in the movement
wanted a boycott of Agriprocessors, oth-
ers favored a softer approach so as not to
discourage observance of kosher laws by
making approved meats harder to ac-
cess. Epstein, who favored the latter ap-
proach, also noted that allegations
against the company remain unproven.
Rabbi Leonard Gordon, who chairs the
Rabbinical Assembly's Social Action
Committee, told JTA that both issues re-
flect the careful balancing of competing
values that rabbis must perform as they
apply religious strictures to contempo-
rary social issues.
"I think what will typify an emer-
gent Conservative approach to this is
going to be an understanding of the
complex lessons of Jewish history and
of how Jewish communities have dealt
with analogous situations, along with
understanding more narrowly the his-
tory of a specific halachic issue," Gor-
don said.
Or as Jacobs put it, "Law codes are
written in a vacuum, but teshuvot
aren't."
Jacobs, the rabbi in residence at Jew-
ish Funds for Justice, first submitted her
teshuva to the committee in 2003, and
undertook extensive revisions before its
final adoption. She added a detailed eco-
nomic analysis to address concerns that
a living wage might lead to a loss of jobs
and thus hurt workers overall.

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J o h n M c C a i n a t t a c k e d Barack
Obama's Iran and Iraq policies in his
address to the AIPAC policy confer-
ence. McCain, the presumptive Re-
publican presidential nominee,
opened the American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee parley Monday morn-
ing with a speech emphasizing the
closeness of the U.S.-Israel relation-
ship, In promoting a policy of contin-
ued isolation of Iran until the country
ends its suspected nuclear weapons
program, the Arizona senator said that
Obama's proposal to meet with Iran-
ian leaders is a "serious misreading of
history." McCain also attacked Sena-
tor Obama, D-Ill., his likely Democra-
tic opponent in November, for oppos-
ing a bill last year that would have
designated the Iran Revolutionary
Guard Corps as a terrorist entity.
"Holding Iran's influence in check,
and holding a terrorist organization ac-
countable, sends exactly the right mes-
sage to Iran, to the region and to the
world," McCain told the crowd of 6,500,
which gave him a standing ovation. Mc-
Cain also said that maintaining force in
Iraq was the key to containing Iranian
influence and securing Israel.
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JONATHAN
The Chosen 1s
There's an old "Saturday Night Live"
skit, one of those spoofs of a game show.
It was called "Jew or Not a Jew!" and
contestants would be given various
celebrities and had to guess whether
they were or weren't Members of the
Tribe.
It shouldn't surprise you to discover
that I love playing that game with ath-
letes across the spectrum of sports. In-
vestigating a player's possible Jewish-
ness is one of my favorite pastimes.
When I get to play the game with one of
the sport's brightest stars, it's like win-
ning the lottery.
There have been whispers about Pen-
guins star Evgeni Malkin's religious
background e v e r since he was a
prospect. It's time to put the Sherlock
Holmes hat — or maybe kipah? — on to
try to find out definitively if Malkin is in-
deed a M e m b e r of the Tribe and not just
the Penguins. Using my good friend
Google, it's amazing what can be found out.
The first mention of Malkin's possible
Jewishness is on a bulletin board HF-
boards.com back in 2004. The entire
thread is titled, believe i t or not, "Is
Malkin Jewish?" The discussion, unfor-
tunately, proves inconclusive.
h there wore to 'Zohan' than a bunch ofAdaw Sandler jokes 1
BY TOM TUGEND
JTA
LOS ANGELES — At age 60, when
even the more virile tend to slow down,
Israel has replaced Italy as the native
habitat of the sex stud.
That's the uplifting m e s s a g e f r o m
"You Don't Mess With the Zohan," star-
ring Adam Sandler in the title role of an
Israeli s u p e r c o m m a n d o - t u r n e d - N e w
York hairstylist.
Co-script writer Robert Smigel says,
"I wrote the Israeli characters as horn
dogs," roughly translated as really, RE-
ALLY horny persons of either gender.
The film's Zohan Dvir is Israel's super
counterterrorist agent who can leap tall
buildings, swim faster t h a n a motor
boat, bend opponents into pretzels, save
burning buildings by spraying hummus
on the fire and wipe out H a m a s with his
bare hands.
Zohan is also a great disco dancer,
skilled chef, muscle man (shot on Tel
Aviv beaches) and a nice Jewish boy
who loves his parents.
Yet with all these accomplishments,
he harbors a secret dream — to become
a hairstylist in Manhattan.
The film opens J u n e 6 in the United
States and is scheduled for its Israeli
THE J E W I S H CHRONICLE J U N E 5, 2 0 0 8
Stifle
Evgeni Malkin
Fast-forward to 2007 and the Interna-
tional Hockey Forums. There's a whole
area for Israel and the World Jewish Cup
from last July. There's a discussion on
"elite Jewish hockey players" who could
make up the rosters for that event. Some-
one mentions Malkin and with certainty
states: "You also have a few guys from
Russia, who don't promote their Judaism
premiere in mid-June. No Arab country
has yet bid for the movie.
During a r e c e n t news conference,
Smigel, four of the actors and director
Dennis Dugan assured the media that
beneath the f u n and games was a loftier
message.
"Life would be easier if we all got
along," said Sandler, acknowledging that
his was not an entirely original thesis.
H e noted that as a Jewish child, Israeli
soldiers were his heroes.
Dugan said he wanted to explore "the
'West Side Story' of life." Rob Schneider,
who plays an aggrieved Palestinian,
talked about "peace through laughter."
The getting-along theme is apparent
nearly from the start, as Zohan breaks
the news about his career aspirations to
his mother, played by the veteran Israeli
actress Dina Doron.
"When will we have peace?" Zohan
asks plaintively. "How much longer will
we have to fight?"
His mother responds, "We've been
fighting for 2,000 years, so it should be
over soon."
But not before Zohan has to match
muscle and wits — sort of — with his
nemesis, a wily terrorist who operates
under the nom de guerre The Phantom.
The Phantom, played by John Turtur-
Gregory S h a m u s / P i t t s b u r g h P e n g u i n s
because of all of the anti-Semitism there.
One major player is Evgeni Malkin, who
is at least half Jewish. That is confirmed,
as m e m b e r s of the Federation [Federa-
tion of Jewish Communities] met with
his family m e m b e r s in a shul in Russia."
Now, I'm not one to believe something
just because it's on the Internet, so I fig-
ured it was time to look into Malkin's
ro, wears dark shades, a glittering cos-
tume and gold teeth. Like Zohan, he
speaks in heavily accented English.
Zohan finally breaks in at a Brooklyn
salon owned by Dalia, an exquisite
Adam Sandler as Zohan prepares to give one of his matronly customers the "do" of
her life.
home and the origins of his name. He
hails from Magnitogorsk, a Ural region
city of about 400,000 or so people. It's a
city the Federation of Jewish Communi-
ties claims is "a city in the Chelyabinsk
Region that has one of the largest Jewish
communities in the Ural region."
Magnitogorsk's history is interesting
as well. Under Stalin's Five-Year Plan,
the city was built under the supervision
of Jews. Jewish engineers, agronomists
and technicians flooded into the area to
oversee t h e development. Sounds
promising, doesn't it?
And what about the n a m e Malkin!
While names can come from just about
anywhere, in my selective research, I
like this definition of the origin of the
n a m e f r o m ancestry.com:
"Jewish (from Belarus): metronymic
from the Yiddish female personal name
Malke (from Hebrew Malka 'queen') +
the Slavic metronymic suffix -in."
All of this, of course, lacks direct evi-
dence. There's enough to make a case
that there's some Jewishness somewhere
in his background, but I wanted to go
right to the source. Or at least as close to
the source as I could get: his agent. But
J.P. Barry was traveling with Malkin and
the Pens for the Cup final (the nerve) and
could not be reached for verification or
denial.
So, to answer the question, "Jew or Not
a Jew?" we can only say: To be continued
... stay tuned for the next episode where
hopefully, we can find out for sure.
(Jonathan Mayo can be reached at
mlbmayo@aol.com.)
Palestinian girl played by French-Mo-
roccan actress Emmanuelle Chriqui.
At a place patronized mainly by elder-
ly ladies, Zohan makes a n a m e for him-
See Zohan on page 16.
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STYLE

Zohan:
Continued from page 14.
self by employing the innovative tech-
nique of following each haircut with a
special client service in the backroom —
so vigorously that the whole salon shakes.
Word quickly spreads and soon long
queues of mature ladies line up in front
of the salon. Business becomes so good
that Dalia is able to fend off the evil de-
veloper who wants to tear down her place.
The neighborhood is populated mainly
by Israeli and Palestinian expatriates en-
gaged in cab driving and various dubious
enterprises.
Trouble looms when The Phantom,
who now runs a Middle Eastern restau-
rant, reappears to settle scores with Zo-
han. However, Jewish and Arab support-
ers are busy building up their own busi-
nesses and are in no mood to resume the
old battles.
In the end, the factions join hands
against a common enemy. Take a guess
what happens with Zohan and Dalia.
The film caricatures both Israelis and
Palestinians, with plenty of material to
offend both sides, though Arabs absorb
slightly more insults.
An advance screening of the film pro-
duced some laughter, though less than
one might expect given the plot line and
the talented cast.
Sandler engendered snickers with the
frequent barings of his backside, as well
as his energetic servicing of the mother
of a hospitable friend and the grand-
motherly clients at the salon.
The picture is rated PG-13; perhaps
we are fortunate to be spared the R-rat-
ed version.
"Zohan" features a cast of 175, includ-
ing large contingents of Israelis and
Palestinians. Refreshingly, actual Is-
raelis and Palestinians portray them-
selves. Extensive auditions were held in
Tel Aviv and among the expat communi-
ties in New York and Los Angeles.
One of the plum roles went to Ido
Mosseri, 30, a Tel Aviv native who has
acted on stage and screen since he was 8.
He plays Oori, an Israeli expat in New
York who becomes Zohan's sidekick and
introduces him to the ways of the big city.
During an interview following the
news conference, Mosseri still couldn't
believe his good luck.
"Some of the best Israeli actors audi-
tioned for the role," he exulted. "The last
four months have been the best of m y
life. I feel as if I had made the NBA."
Mosseri, who he says is "half Egypt-
ian, one-quarter Polish and one-quarter
Russian," warmly praised Sandler as a
"very giving guy."
"He hugged me when we first met, and
we played basketball together on the
set," Mosseri recalled.
In the film, Mosseri plays a clerk in a
Brooklyn electronics store in which the
staff's sales techniques match the store's
official name, Going Out of Business.
Apparently, the "can't we all get along"
theme of the film rubbed off on the cast.
"We Jews and Arabs ate together at
the same 'peace table' and really became
good friends," Mosseri said. "After the
film wrapped, we all went on a 'creative'
trip to Las Vegas."

Finding Judaism in the great outdoors: Two new guidebooks show how
B Y S U E FISHKOFF
JTA
BERKELEY, Calif. — There were
about two dozen people on Rabbi Mike
Comins' Torah Trek in Tilden Park here.
Most members and friends of
Chochmat HaLev, a Jewish Renewal-
style community, had hiked a lot. Many
had prayed or meditated. Some had done
both together.
But none, the hikers were to learn, had
done it quite this Jewishly.
Comins, 51, now based in Los Angeles,
connects to God through nature. He
leads groups on Jewish spiritual hikes
via Torah Trek Spiritual Wilderness Ad-
ventures, the company torahtrek.com he
founded in 2001.
His Reform colleague Rabbi Jamie
Korngold, 42, in Boulder, Colo., created
her Adventure Rabbi program adventur-
erabbi.com that same year. She leads
those hiking, skiing and biking their way
back to Judaism.
Both rabbis have published books to
help others do it on their own.
Comins' book, "A Wild Faith," came
out last fall; Korngold's "God in the
Wilderness" appeared in April. The
books, filled with biblical wisdom and
practical exercises, are small enough to
fit in a back pocket — while one is hiking,
for example.
Their messages come across so well
because they developed their rabbinates
to answer their own needs.
Comins, ordained in 1996 by Hebrew
Union College in Jerusalem, was leading
spiritual treks in Israel's deserts but felt
his own Judaism had become sterile.
"I'd become a spiritual wannabe," he
says. "I was taking people into the
desert, but we did the same things we'd
do in the city — we'd take out the text
and study, we'd take out the siddur and
daven."
He moved back to Los Angeles, took a
two-year spiritual sabbatical and devel-
oped what he describes as a personal re-
lationship with God.
Korngold, a skier, mountain climber
and ultra-marathoner, says she was lan-
guishing in Calgary, Canada, after her
1999 ordination. Then she took a group
of students to the Grand Canyon for a
baby-naming ceremony for a daughter of
one of the students. On the trip she real-
ized her real gift lay in bringing Judaism
to the unaffiliated through the sports she
loved.
"My dad goes to shul every single
week, but my peers, if they have to
choose between going skiing or going to
synagogue, they'll choose skiing every
time/' says Korngold. "So I say, I'll go
with you, and we'll make this a holy day
and a Jewish day."

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great-grandmother, Esther Roudman; Leah son of Elana Bloom U r e t s k y , son of Su-
is named in loving memory of her great- and Jeffrey Garrett, san and Steven Uret-
grandmother, Edith Kandell Silberman. will become a Bar sky, will lead ser-
Mitzvah on Saturday, vices, along with the
W a s s e r m a n : Samantha and Scott June 7, at Congrega- rabbi and cantor at
Wasserman of Newbury Park, Calif., an- tion Poale Zedeck. Adat Shalom on Fri-
nounce the birth of Max Henry Wasser- Grandparents are day, June 6. Connor
man on April 25. Grandparents are Bev- Evelyn Glick Bloom will become a Bar
erly and Ronald Wasserman of Allen- of Pittsburgh and the Mitzvah on Thurs-
town, Pa.; Elizabeth Buchanan and late Albert W. Bloom day, June 19, on
Roger Henderson of Tucson, Ariz.; and and the late Evelyn and Paul Garrett. Mount Masada in Israel. Grandparents
Barbara Wenders of Snohomish, Wash. are Lee and Saul Simon and Faye and the
Great-grandparents are the late Beat- Madison late Albert Uretsky. Great-grandparents
rice G. and Samuel A. Lichter and the P o l l o c k , daughter are Lillian and the late Ben Simon and
late Dorothy R. and Milton Wasserman. of Phyllis and Blanche and the late Carl Margolis.
Big sister is Ruby Ellese. Herky Pollock, will
Max Henry is named in loving memo- become a Bat Mitz- Rabbi
ry of his great-grandfathers, Milton vah on Saturday,
R o t h / J a c o b o v i t z : Drs. Ellen and
Loren Roth announce the engagement of
Wasserman and Frank Henry Thomas. June 7, at Rodef L Mordecai
Shalom. Grandpar-
their daughter, Elizabeth Shalhevet As-
cherman Roth, to Andre Scherb Ja-
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B'nai Mitzvah Jim Glick and
cobovitz, son of Marcia and Isio Ja- Gayle Teplitz. 1 Cwtiji&cL Mokel
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Dorothy and Herbert Ascherman Sr. of Brown, will become a of Sharyn and Gary
Potomac, Md.; and the late Lenore and Bat Mitzvah on Satur- Protass of Roslyn,
Dr. Arthur Roth. day, June 7, at 10:30 N.Y., will become a
Andre's grandparents are Annita a.m. at Temple Sinai. Bat Mitzvah on Sat-
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B'nai Emunoli Congregation (O) 4315 Murray Ave., 15217
Friday 6:30 a.m., 5:55 p.m.; Saturday 8:55 a.m., 5:30 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.; Monday-Thursday
6:30 a.m., iMaariv 7:45 p.m.
(412) 521-1477 * bnaiemunohpgh@nelzero.net
Beth Hamcdrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob (O) 709 Forbes Ave., 15219
Saturday 9 a.m.; Sunday Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 8 a.m.; Monday, Thursday, Rosh Chodesh
7:45 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv 5:30 p.m. • (412) 471-4443
Beth Shalom Congregation (C) 5915 Beacon St., 15217
Friday 7 p.m.; Saturday 6:30 a.m., Family 9 a.m., Library Minyan 9:30 a.m., Shabbat Shalom
Family Circle 11 a.m., Mincha 8:50 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m., Shavuot 8 p.m.; Monday Shavout
6:30 a.m., 9 a.m., Tols 11 a.m., 8 p.m.; Tuesday Shavuot, Yizkor 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. Yizkor, 9
p.m.; Daily Wednesday-'lliursday 7:30 a.m., 7 p.m.
(412) 421-2288 • bethsiiaJompgh.org • office@bethslialompgh.org
Bet Tikvah (U) P.O. Box 10140, 15232
First Friday of month 7:30 p.m. at Rodef Shalom
(412) 362-7025 • bettikvah.org • info@bettilzvah.org
Cliabad House on Campus 4 7 1 0 Wallingford St., 15213
(412) 683-7770 • chabadpgh.org • chani@chabadpgh.org
Charles M. Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Weinberg Village (U)
15217
Daily 9:30 a.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. • (412) 420-4000 * eseidman@jaapgh.org
Dor Hadash Congregation (RC) at Community Day, 6424 Forward Ave., 15217
Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. Labor Zionist Center; Sunday Shavuot 7:30 p.m.
(412) 422-5158 ' iJorluidash.net • dh 15217@verizon.net
Hillcl Jewish University Center (U) 4607 Forbes Ave., 15213
Sunday 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday 8 a.m. * (412) 621-8875 • hilleljuc.org
Kctlier Torah Congregation (O) 5706 Bartlett St., 15217
Saturday 9 a.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.; Monday-Friday 7 a.m. • (412) 421-2087
Kollel Jewish Learning Center (O) 5808 Beacon St., 15217
(412) 420-0220 • kollelpgh.org • mail@kollclpgh.org
Lubavitch Center Synagogue (O) 2 1 0 0 Wightman St., 15217
Friday Mincha 10 minutes before sunset followed by Maariv; Saturday 10 a.m.,
Mincha followed by Maariv 20 minutes before sunset; Sunday 9:15 a.m.;
Daily 7:30 and 8:30 a.m.; Sunday and daily Mincha 10 minutes before sunset and
Maariv 25 minutes after sunset
(412) 422-7315 • yeshivaschooh@aol.com
New Light Congregation/Ohr Chadash (C) 1700 Beechwood Blvd., 15217
Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:45 a.m.; Sunday 9:15 a.m.
(412)421-1017 • newlightcong.om
Or L'Simcha (U) 1620 Murray Ave., third floor, 15217
Saturday 9:45 a.m., Children's programming 10:45 a.m.
(412) 521-1818 • orlsinicha.com • raicJitwh@yalioo.com
Poale Zedeck Congregation (O) Corner Shady & Phillips avenues, 15217
(412) 421-9786 • poalezedeck.org • admiti@jioalezedeclz.org
Biverview Towers (U) 52 Garctta St., 15217
Friday Oneg 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.
(412) 521-7876 * rivervieivtowers@!earthlink.net
Rodef Shalom Congregation (R) 4905 Fifth Ave., 15213
Friday 5:30 p.m., Tot 6 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m., Levy Hall Minyan 10:30 a.m.;
Monday Shavuot 10:30 a.m.; Thursday 5:30 p.m.
(4 12) 621-6566 * rvdefiluilotn.org • info@rocUfihalom.org
Shaare Toraii Congregation (O) 2319 Murray Ave., 15217
(4 12) 421-8855 * shaaretorah.net • shaarctora@aol.com
Sulthat Shalom (U) First Unitarian Chureh, 605 Morewood Ave., 15213
Friday 5:30 p.m. * (412) 967-0488, (412) 828-3997 • SiikkatShalomPgh@aol.com
Temple Sinai (R) 5505 Forbes Ave., 15217
Friday Musical 7 p.m.; Saturday 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.; Sunday Shavuot 7:30 p.m.;
Monday Shavuot 10:30 a.m. Yizkor; Thursday 7:30 p.m.
(412) 421-9715 • templesinaipgh.org • office@templesinaipgh.org
Tree of Life Congregation (C) 5898 Wilkins Ave., 15217
Friday 7:30 a.m., 5:45 p.m. or 8:15 p.m. first Friday of month; Saturday 9:45 a.m., 5 p.m.;
Sunday 9 a.m., 7:30 p.m.; Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m.
(412) 521-6788 • tolpgh.org • tolpgh@aol.com
Young Israel Congregation (O) 5831 Bartlett St., 15217
Friday Mincha five minutes after candle lighting, no later than 7:30 p.m.;
Saturday 9 a.m.; Maariv 10 minutes before end of Shabbat; Sunday 8 a.m.; daily 6:30 a.m.;
Rosh Chodesh 6:20 a.m.
(412) 521-6542 • yowtgisraelpgh.org • youngisraelpgjh@yahoo.com
Young Peoples Synagogue (VPS) (T) 6404 Forbes Ave., 15217
Friday 6:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m., 8:15 p.m.; Sunday Shavuot 8:30 p.m.; Monday, Tuesday
Shavuot 9:30 a.m., 8:40 p.m. • (412) 521-1021 • youngpeoples.org
C - Conservative O - O r t h o d o x II - Reform RC - R e e o n s l r a c t i o nisi T - Traditional U - U n a f f i l i a t e d
For c o m p l e t e c o n g r e g a t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n r e g a r d i n g c h i l d care, c l a s s e s , programs, religions s c h o o l and m e e t i n g s , c o n t a c t t h e c o n g r e g a t i o n s .
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Gemilas Chesed Congregation (O), 1400 Summit Street, White Oak, PA 15131
Rabbi Boaz Miller (412) 487-1481
Saturday 8:45 a.m., Mihcha 10 minutes before sunset; Sunday 8:15 a.m., Mincha/Maariv 10
minutes before sunset; Monday-Friday 7 a.m., 3 p.m., 8 p.m.
(412) 678-8859 • GetnilasChesed@cotttcast.net
Parkway Jewish Center (C) 300 Princeton Drive, Eastmont-Wilkins Township,
15235
Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m.
(412) 823-4338 • parkwayjeivishcenter.com • hazmnrick@earthlink.net
Temple B'naHsrael (R) 2025 Cypress Drive, White Oak, 1-51-31
Saturday 10 a.m., Sunday Shavuot 8 p.m.; Monday Shavuot 10 a.m.
(412) 678-6181 • tbhvhiteoak.org • tbioffice@pghinail.com
Temple David (R) 4415 Northern Pike, Monroeville, 15146
Friday 7 p.m.; Saturday Torah 9 a.m., 10 a.m.; Sunday Shavuot 7 p.m.; Monday Shavuot 10
a.m. Yizkor • (412) 372-1200 • templedavid.org • templedavid@nb.net
South
Ahavath Achim Carnegie (T) 500 Chestnut St., 15106
Saturday 9:20 a.m. • (412) 279-1566 • ihecartiegieshul.org • info@thecarnegieshul.org
Beth El Congregation of the South Hills (C) 1900 Cochran Rd., 15220
Friday 6 p.m.; Saturday 9:15 a.m.; Sunday 8:30 a.m.; Monday Shavuot 9:15 a.m., Tuesday
Shavuot 6:45 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. Yizkor; Daily: Monday-Friday 7 a.m.; Monday-Thursday 6
p.m.; • (412) 561-1168 • bethelcong.org • belhell900@juno.com
Beth Israel Center Pleasant Hills (C) 118 Gill Hall Road, Jefferson, 15236
Friday 7:30 p.m. * (412) 655-2144 • bethisraelpgh.org
Chabad of the South Hills Jewish CenterforLiving and Learning (O)
1600 Bower Hill Rd., 15243
Saturday 10 a.m. • (412) 278-3693 • chabadsh.com • chabadsh@verizon.net
Temple Emanuel of South Hills (R) 1250 Bower Hill Rd. at Covenant Drive, 15243
Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday Torah 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:30 a.m., Shavuot 7:30 p.m.;
Monday Shavuot 9 a.m. Yizkor
(412) 279-7600 • templeemanuelpgh.org • tetnpleemanuel@templeemamielpgh.org
North
Adat Shalom (C) 368 Guys Run Rd., 15024, Fox Chapel area
Friday 7:15 p.m.; Saturday 9:15 a.m.; Sunday Shavuot 7 p.m.; Monday Shavuot 9:15 a.m.
Yizkor • (412) 820-7000 •goadatslialom.org •jrook@goadatshalotn.org
Beth Samuel Jewish Center (RC) 810 Kennedy Drive, PO Box 219, Ambridge,
15003
Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.; First Friday of month 7 p.m.
(724) 266-5238 • bethsamuel.org • office@bethsamiiel.org
Fox Chapel CenterforJewish Life (U) 1320 Freeport Road, 15238
Friday 7 p.m.
(412) 781-1800 • FoxChapelJewish.com • Rabbi@FoxChapelJewish.com
Temple Ohav Shalom (R) 8400 Thompson Run Road, Allison Park, 15101
Friday 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. • (412) 369-0900 • tetnpleohavshalom.org
Surrounding areas
BUILER - B'NAI ABRAHAM ( C ) 5 1 9 N . M a i n S t . , 1 6 0 0 1
Friday 7:30 p.m. • (724) 287-5806 • adalah@verizon.net
GREENSBURG - Congregation Emanu-El Israel (R) 222 North Main St., 15601
Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 8:30 a.m.
(724) 834-0560 • congregatiotiemanuelisrael.org • ceimain50@aol.cotn
JOHNSTOWN - Beth Sholom Congregation (C) 700 Indiana St., 15909
Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m.; alternate Thursdays 8 a.m.
(814) 536-0647 • bethsholomjohnstown.org
LATROBE - Beth Israel Congregation (C) 416 Weldon St., 15650
(724) 537-6888 • mkess@wpa.net or milton.radman@verizon.net
MORGANTOWN - Tree of Life Congregation (R) 242 South High St., 26501
Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. (304) 292-7029 • etzhaim.org • ravdfeder@adelphia.net
NE\V CASTLE - Temple Hadar Israel (R/C) 403 Moody Ave., 16103 • (724) 658-9708
STEUHENVILLE - Temple Beth Israel (R) 300 Lovers Lane, 43953 • (740) 264-5514
Friday 8 p.m.
UNIONTOWN - Temple Israel (R) 406 West Main Street, 15401
templeisraeluniontown.com • xwphys@aol.com
UNIONTOWN - 'li'ee of Life Congregation, P.O. Box 264, 15401 (C)
Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. • (724) 438-0818 • treeoflifesynagogue@hotmail.com
WASHINGTON - Beth Israel Congregation (C) 265 North Ave., 15301
Friday 7 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m.; Tuesday Shavuot 9 a.m. Yizkor
(724) 225-7080 • mybethisrael.org • bisrael@pulsenet.com
WHEELING - Temple Shalom (R) 23 Bethany Pike at Edgewood St., 26003
Friday 8 p.m. • (304) 233-4870 • info@templeshalotmw.org
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Community Calendar-
Community Congregations Workshops/Learning (continued)
Thursdays in June June 12 June 18
More Than Just Learning, Homeland and Computer Se- Temple Sinai, Nine Mile Watershed, speaker Lisa Brown, Namm Business Center of the Carnegie Library of Pitts-
curity, speaker Casey Dunlevey, hosts Shirley and Morris 8 p.m. burgh Squirrel Hill, Use a Smart Approach to Investing,
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Jewish Residential Services, Rachel Is, screening, film- Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, English as a Sec- before an event or program. The Calendar runs from
maker Charlotte Glynn, 7 p.m., Rodef Shalom; (412) 325-0039 ond Language, tutor workshop, East Libert); 6-9 p.m.; Peggi Friday to Thursday. Send listingstoAngela Leibowicz at
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Confirmands
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Adat Shalom Beth El Community Day 8th-Grade Boys Cory Goldhagen GRADUATES
Congregation of Yehoshua Bachrach Melanie Mallit ^ ^Harrison Gottlieb
CONFIRMANDS t h e South Hills GRADUATES Brian Kohanbash Aubree Rosenberg Rebecca Lerman
Benjamin Cohen Ethan Abramson Avraham Langer Evan Rosenberg Erica Levin
Benjamin Forstate GRADUATES Joshua Ascherman Yaakov Moses Alex Rudel Justin Rogalsky
Robin Wein Samantha Ballengee Gali Blumenthal Zalman Moses Samantha Saltzman
Tara Dervin Daniel Brusilovsky Yitzchak Nemoy Asher Saperstein May18
Sunday, June 8 Amanda Diaz Jacob Cohen Yehuda Saxon Margo Shear
7 p.m. Sam Felser Meir Engel Michael Supowitz Jordan Tobe Yeshiva Schools
Nicole Friedman Amelia Fisher Max Ungar David Wagner of Pittsburgh
Charlotte Frischman Tobyn Gelman
GRADUATES Alec Gelb Jesse Goleman Wednesday, June 18 Sunday, June 8 GRADUATES
Emily Brourman Sam Gerson Eliot Golin 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m. llth-Grade Boys
Sylvia Forstate Hannah Harris Daniel Grill Reuven Chaim Deray
Josh Goodman Rebecca Kerman Edgar Grinius 12th-Grade Girls • Yonaton Eleff
Gavriel Hirsch Gavi Krohner Alexander Josowitz Adina Bachrach Pinchas Huberman
Adam Indianer Aaron Lipsitz Tamar Kaminski Rebecca Coherr- Temple Emanuel Yitzchok Jenkelowitz
Artie Newman Katie Massarsky Jacob Kander Melamed of S o u t h Hills Yeshaya Karp
Erica Rappaport Ezra Nepo Evan Kimel Haviva Garrett Levi Yitzchok Small
Sam Schanwald Erin Perelstine Emily Lamm Rebecca Hertzberg CONFIRMANDS Avrohom Leib Toron
Noam Taasan Alana Rascoe Elizabeth Landis Jill Joshowitz Daniel Scott Blaushild AriWitkis
Connor Uretsky Jacob Recht Melanie Levine Sarah Lebovits Jillian Lee Breit
Meryl Warshafsky Jeremy Rosinger Adam Livingston Talya Seidman Scott Corbin Dreifuss Wednesday, June 18
Gabe Silverman Evan Lutins Jessica Swedarsky Talon David Godin 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 18 Joshua Simmons Jesse Mendelson Jennifer Ungar Hannah Jane Gross
Barry Snyder Aron Minkoff Miriam Weinberg Jacob Ryan Inserra 8th-Grade Boys
Felicia Tissenbaum Jacob Pasternak Elisabeth Jordan Kane Mendel Barrocas
Salomon Zundel Jonathan Perlin Sunday, June IS Richard Feldman Karp Mo Braun
• Maya Rosen Amy Nicole Katz Ohad Pihchas Einav
Elan Rosenfeld 12th-Grade Boys Jay Benjamin Louik Bentzion Eisen
• • Kenneth Schneider Jacob Brent Rachele Elizabeth Yaakov Fakiro
A g e n c y for Benjamin Schwartz Josh Corcos Palmieri Aaron Gould
J e w i s h Learning Jamie Scott Edenzeev Einav Aaron Wayne Pollon Shmuel Kamensky
Beth Shalom Ryan Seiavitch Yehuda Gutman Joshua Thomas Pollon Doniel Osher Miller
GRADUATES Judah Sklan Yochi Naiditch Joshua Tyler Schake Simcha Miller
• Jack Stein Joe Segal Carly Small Yehuda Ringler
J-SITE Sarah Yalowich Micha Stiebel Mendy Weiss
Scott Caplan GRADUATES Michelle Yurovsky Ephraim Weinberg Sunday, June 8 Shragi Weiss
Kara DiBiase Jonah Baron 7:30 p.m.
Emily Feder Sarah Gamble Thursday, June 5 Wednesday, June 18
Jessica Gold Marissa Karp Congregation 6 p.m. • 7:30 p.m.
Margalit Goldschmidt Wendy Levenson Emanu-EI Israel
Arlen Greenberg , Hannah Moritz • Temple Sinai 12th-Grade Girls
Liz Hoffman Jennifer Moritz CONFIRMANDS Chaya Mushka Deren
Jeffrey Hurwitz Danielle Plung Zachary Virshup CONFIRMANDS Chaya Mushka Epstein
Julia Hurwitz Jonas Portillo Parkway J e w i s h Benjamin Allen Shterna Feigelstock
Arielle Kroser Alexandra Sarner Friday, May 23 Center Alexander Brillman Avital Flohr
Marsha Levenson Andrew Brown Leiba Shayna Herman
Ann Levenson May 18 GRADUATES Gayle Forman Yael Hurwitz
Melody Mostow . Dor Hadash Gabriel Adam Max Aaron Gelemter Miriam Hyman
Isaac Munro CONFIRMANDS Religious S c h o o l Bloomfield Eric Johnson Chaya Mushka Itkin
Samuel Oshlag Alberto Altshuler Sam Kazman Pia Zehava Marcus
Andi Perelman Ben Altshuler GRADUATES Friday, June 6 Erika Lutins Doba Raiza Rosenblum
Max Reisman Eli Bezner Leanna Goldman 8 p.m. Jesse May-Stein Sara Adina Schulman
Amitte Rosenfeld Morgan Blumenfeld Anna Grandis Evan Miller Rachel Spangenthal
Robin Scheimer Sasha Brusilovsky Shana Leshko • Jacob Minden Rozi Varon
David Schlesinger Brian Caplan Lillian Claire Rafson Esther Wayne
Lisa Schuster Jonathan Cohen Sunday, June 8 Steven Rubin Golda Miriam
Noah Simmons Zachary Ernstoff 7 p.m. Rodef Shalom Natalie Shribman Weinstein
David Stein Eli Fisher Danielle Trauth-Jurman
Natalie Stewart Jake Gillis CONFIRMANDS Jessica Wein Tuesday, June 17
Reggie Tabachnick Joshua Grill Jane Cavalier Hannah Zaremsky 7:30 p.m.
Danielle Zionts Ben Kline • Gabrielle Dinkin
RyanKundin David Gordon Sunday, June 8 8th-Grade Girls
Sunday, May 4 Zoe Levenson Tessa Hochberg 7:30 p.m. Adina Rochel Barber
Joel Mackler Katia Korzeniwsky Ghana Ita Mushka
Julie Mangurten Hillel A c a d e m y Spencer Lieber
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Zachary Myers of Pittsburgh Elyse Ostrow Tree of Life Adina Bracha Cohn
Elisa Portillo Jacob Palnick Congregation Sara Simcha Deray
Florence Melton Shira Rascoe GRADUATES Sarah Pugliese Rivka Bentkia Deray
Communiteen High Lauren Rubin Noah Salama CONFIRMANDS Nechama Deren
School Jessica Savitz 8th-Grade Girls Rebecca Sufrin Matthew Abramson Ghana Feigelstock
Matthew Abramson Eugene Shuster Vitya Felder Daniel Childs Baila Hyman
Dan Cohen Adam Silver Penina Francus Saturday, June 14 Max Eichner Liba Kaila Goldwasser
Devon Elovitz Mitchell Stein Sari Joshowitz 10:30 a.m. Andrew Goldman Chaya Mushka Laine
Joshua Grollman Miriam Steinberg Shoshana Macey Joseph Hoffman Chaya Mushka Lilove
Tessa Hochberg Paige Tuckfelt Liora Posin • Evan Myer Leah Liba Pekkar
Jessica Kurs-Lasjy Molly Weiner Maayan Shimon Phillip Schermer Sara Rochel Poller
Max Reisman Anna Weitz Bayla Silver Temple David Daniel Schulman Yehudis Miriam Poller
Daniel Stang Jaison Wilson Tamar Skaist Rebecca Tanner Rikel Rosenblum
Rebecca Sufrin Jordana Yahr Tamar Wasserman CONFIRMANDS Zachary Weiss Esther Ghana Shollar
Aaron Ungar Nicholas Barron
Sunday, June 8 Tuesday, June 17 Laura Beck Sunday, June 8 Tuesday, June 17
Sunday, May 4 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Abbie Ferry 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
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TORAH
Appreciating rabbinic interpretation
Portion of the Week
RABBI BETH JACOWITZ
CHOTTINER
Temple Shalom, Wheeling,
W.Va.
Naso, Numbers 4:21-7:89
Parshat Naso, t h e longest in t h e
Torah, contains one of the most well-
known blessings of our people, the
three-fold p r i e s t l y b e n e d i c t i o n t h a t
asks G-d to bless and p r o t e c t , deal
kindly and graciously, and bestow fa-
vor and p e a c e upon us. This w e e k ' s
Torah portion also contains a l e s s e r -
known e p i s o d e , r e f e r r e d to in t h e
Mishnah and T a l m u d as sotah (a sus-
pected w a y w a r d wife), t h a t i n s t r u c t s
a jealous h u s b a n d — who s u s p e c t s his
wife of a d u l t e r y — on how to r e s p o n d
to his suspicions.
The v e r s e s t h a t r e f e r to this ordeal,
Numbers 5:11-31, d e s c r i b e w h a t is to
happen when a h u s b a n d s u s p e c t s his
wife of b e i n g s e x u a l l y u n f a i t h f u l
(whether s h e is or not), a fit of jeal-
ousy comes over him, yet t h e r e a r e no
witnesses to t e s t i f y against her. The
Torah instructs t h e h u s b a n d to b r i n g
his wife to the p r i e s t w h e r e an offer-
ing will be m a d e for her. The p r i e s t
will put s a c r a l w a t e r into an e a r t h e n
vessel, add some e a r t h f r o m t h e floor
of the T a b e r n a c l e , and give it to the
wife to drink. T h e " w a t e r of bitter-
ness," as it is called, will e i t h e r have
no effect on t h e w o m a n , proving h e r
innocence, or it will c a u s e h e r belly to
distend, h e r thigh to sag, leaving h e r
infertile.
Based on the r e a d i n g of t h e Torah
verses alone, this p r o c e s s can a p p e a r
quite unfair, not to mention misogy-
nistic. A w o m a n is a c c u s e d , t h e r e a r e
no witnesses to s u p p o r t the a c c u s a -
tion, yet she m u s t stand b e f o r e the
Tabernacle and m e m b e r s of h e r com-
munity — p r e s u m a b l y h u m i l i a t e d —
and all she can say is "Amen, A m e n , "
after the p r i e s t a d j u r e s her.
However, we h a v e b e f o r e us a p e r -
Generations of Torah
BY RABBI STEPHEN STEINDEL
The Festival of Shavuot h a s b e e n
known as Z'man M a t a n T o r a t e n u at
least as long as our p r a y e r s a r e old —
longer than a n y o n e can r e m e m b e r .
The association of this season with the
giving of Torah at Mount Sinai is an
anniversary t h a t u n i t e s all J e w s
across the g e n e r a t i o n s , and indeed all
religious m o v e m e n t s and inclinations.
The popularity of Tikun Leil Shavuot
~ the first night of Shavuot — as a
study opportunity, t h e t h e m e s of con-
firmation and g r a d u a t i o n in religious
schools, and the r e a d i n g of t h e Ten
Commandments in the synagogue ser-
vice all bespeak t h e u n i q u e c e n t r a l i t y
° Torah to our p e o p l e and our t r a d i -
tion.
Prom generation to g e n e r a t i o n the
children of I s r a e l h a v e c h e r i s h e d the
words and teachings of Torah as our
'Bious "road m a p " to a fulfilled hu-
wan existence. T h e gift of l e a r n i n g ,
oM >3nC^ i n t e r p r e t i n g application
lorah's m e s s a g e has been a byword
pnnc ^ =ii/n ir ^ qHT
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE JUNE 5, 2 0 0 8
fect e x a m p l e of how r a b b i n i c litera-
t u r e can help us a p p r e c i a t e the value
of r a b b i n i c i n t e r p r e t a t i o n , for it ap-
p e a r s t h a t the rabbis w e r e also trou-
bled by this passage. In ancient N e a r
Eastern cultures, adultery accusa-
tions w e r e often settled by o r d e a l s or
tests. T h e Laws of H a m m u r a b i re-
quired a wife s u s p e c t e d of a d u l t e r y to
throw herself into a r i v e r to d e t e r -
m i n e h e r i n n o c e n c e (she lives) or h e r
guilt (she drowns). O t h e r c u l t u r e s al-
lowed a s u s p e c t e d wife to be publicly
h u m i l i a t e d , b e a t e n , d i v o r c e d or
killed. Relative to t h e s e methods,
coupled with t h e s t r i n g e n t stipula-
tions set f o r t h by t h e r a b b i s , one
m i g h t w o n d e r if J e w i s h w o m e n w e r e
actually p r o t e c t e d by this "trial by or-
d e a l " (if it e v e r actually o c c u r r e d ) .
According to t h e r a b b i s , if a hus-
band s u s p e c t s his wife of being un-
f a i t h f u l , he m u s t w a r n h e r about be-
ing alone with this m a n and this w a r n -
ing m u s t be given in the p r e s e n c e of
two w i t n e s s e s . Then, only if two wit-
nesses t e s t i f y t h a t t h e y saw t h e wife
alone with t h e s u s p e c t e d m a n long
enough to h a v e had s e x u a l relations,
can the w o m a n be f o r c e d to d r i n k the
" b i t t e r water." The only court, how-
ever, t h a t can issue this directive is
the S a n h e d r i n in J e r u s a l e m , not a lo-
cal court. Additionally, a m a n may
only b r i n g this accusation if he, him-
self, h a s n e v e r b e e n u n f a i t h f u l to his
wife.
T h e s e r e q u i r e d stipulations, decid-
ed upon by our sages, s e e m e d to o f f e r
p r o t e c t i o n to J e w i s h w o m e n and
shield t h e m f r o m the actions of an en-
raged, jealous husband. There were
m a n y hoops, if you will, t h a t a suspi-
cious h u s b a n d had to j u m p t h r o u g h in
o r d e r to t a k e action against his wife.
While this Torah p a s s a g e is h a r d to
s t o m a c h (no pun in te n d e d ) w h e n r e a d
without r a b b i n i c i n t e r p r e t a t i o n , the
v i r t u e s of J u d a i s m c o m e t h r o u g h
w h e n studied b e n e a t h the s u r f a c e .
(This column is a service of the
Greater Pittsburgh Rabbinic Associa-
tion.)
of t h e r a b b i n i c t r a d i t i o n f o r over
2,000 y e a r s .
J u s t one g e n e r a t i o n back, 40 y e a r s
ago, t h e r a b b i s of P i t t s b u r g h em-
b a r k e d on a public c a m p a i g n to b r in g
the insights and values of the weekly
Torah portion to the e n t i r e c o m m u n i -
ty by c o m b in in g e f f o r t s and commit-
m e n t to a r e g u l a r weekly s e d r a col-
u m n in T h e J e w i s h Chronicle. R a b b i
Walter J a c o b of Rodef Shalom was
c h a i r of this auspicious project for
m a n y y e a r s . Now we can proudly look
back collectively on 40 y e a r s of con-
t i n u o u s Torah glory — 2,080 columns,
give or take, by the m a n y r a b b i n i c
p a r t i c i p a n t s who h a v e k e p t the f l a m e
of T o r a h b u r n i n g for the w e e k l y
Chronicle column.
As we c e l e b r a t e Shavuot 2008, let us
e x t e n d a most h e a r t y y as h e r ko-
c h a c h e m to the c o m m u n i t y - m i n d e d
r a b b i s who h a v e blessed us all with
t h e i r c o m m i t m e n t "to e n h a n c e and
glorify Torah in our m i d s t . "
Chag Shavuot S a m e a c h .
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OBITUARIES

F I R E M A N : On Tuesday, May 27, band of Roslyn Leff Hurwitz; beloved
2008, David W. Fireman, beloved hus- father of Francine (Ethan) Royce of
band of Madge Fireman; beloved father Carlisle, MA and Lee B. (Beverly) Hur-
of Richard and JoAnna Fireman of Mars witz of Pittsburgh; brother of Gerald
Hill, NC and Laura and J e f f r e e Lee of Hurwitz of FL; brother-in-law of Barry
Santa Cruz, CA; brother of the late Leff and Lorraine Hurwitz Shore;
Bertha Kapner, Sylvia Slone and Milton beloved Papa of Sam and Mia Royce
Fireman; grandfather of Brian and Ge- and Alexis, Amanda and Ashley Hur-
offrey Fireman; great-grandfather of witz; also survived by one niece and two
Sophia Fireman; also survived by nieces nephews. Services were held at Ralph
and nephews. Graveside services and Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave.,
interment were held at B'nai Israel Shadyside. Interment B'nai Israel Ceme-
Cemetery. Arrangements by Ralph tery.
Schugar Chapel, Inc.
K R O N E N F E L D : On Thursday, May
H U R W I T Z : On Tuesday, May 27, 29, 2008, William Kronenfeld, beloved
2008, Melvin H. Hurwitz, beloved hus- husband of Frances Weinstein Kronen-
William
feld of Sunrise, FL and the late Eve
Sandelstein Kronenfeld; beloved father
of Lisa (Rabbi Stephen) Steindel of
Pittsburgh and Frani Kronenfeld of
Erie; cherished Papa of Sara (Dr. An-
drew) Dauber, Shiri (Joshua) Friedman,
Sivya (Keith) Leventhal, Avi Steindel,
Tibor Solymosi, Miklos Solymosi and
Ranen Solymosi; great-grandfather of
Boaz Dauber. Services and interment
were held in Erie. Arrangements by
Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc.
R O S E N : On Friday, May 30, 2008,
Isadore Rosen, beloved husband of the
late Sylvia Miller Rosen; beloved father
of Ross Rosen; brother of the late Rose
Rosen Singer, Hyman Rosen, Fred
Rosen, Morris Rosen and Elsie Rosen
Iskowitz; also survived by nieces and
Z I M A N : On Wednesday, May 28,
2008, Jack Ziman, 88, of Baltimore, MD,
formerly of Butler; husband of the late
Rita Green Ziman; father of Sheldon of
MD, Barry of VA, Sam of TX and Har-
vey Benjamin of MD; son of the late
Louis and Sarah Ziman; brother of Bob
Ziman of IL; also survived by eight
grandchildren, one great-grandchild,
and nieces and nephews. Graveside ser-
vices and interment w e r e held at Con-
gregation B'nai Abraham Cemetery.
Arrangements by Thompson-Miller Fu-
neral Home.
Unveilings
J O S H O W I T Z : A m o n u m e n t in
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nephews. Graveside services and inter-
m e n t were held at Homewood Cemetery.
Contributions may be m a d e to a charity
of the donor's choice. Arrangements by
will b e u n v e i l e d on Sunday, J u n e 15,
2008, at 10:30 a.m. at New Gemilas
Chesed Cemetery. R a b b i Boaz Miller
will o f f i c i a t e . R e l a t i v e s and f r i e n d s
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Care years. In 1980 the business moved to its
current location on the North Side.
In 1994, Hurwitz's son, Lee, joined the
business.
"My husband worked alongside his fa-
"The caring support of ther-in-law, and then his son. He never
had an argument with either one," said
Roslyn. "It was truly remarkable they
got along so beautifully."
"My dad was a pleasure as a business
partner," said Lee. "He was a good
mentor."
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tended Peabody High School. He grad-
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strong businessman."
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thropist, and was very supportive of
Jewish institutions including the United
Jewish Federation and Adat Shalom.
"He was very charitable," said Roslyn.
"We had to start hiding the solicitations.
H e never turned them down."
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a worker's eyes and abused him with a
meat hook.
In the weeks since the raid, workers
have also charged that female employees
were offered improved working condi-
tions in exchange for sexual favors and
that underage workers were employed at
the plant in defiance of Iowa labor laws.
"We got 21 or 23 i n s p e c t o r s , "
Rubashkin said in a t h i c k Yiddish a c c e n t .
"Every m i n u t e t h e p l a n t is open, t h e r e is
USDA inspector. We got maybe 30 rab-
bis. H o w c a n w e d o s o m e t h i n g w h i c h i s
wrong? If I w a n t t o , G o d f o r b i d ! W e a r e
ethical people. We don't do no injustice
to n o b o d y , n o t t o a c a t . "
Dressed in a blue cotton shirt and
black fedora, Rubashkin acknowledged
that he was concerned the company may
be brought up on criminal charges, but
said he was "a hundred percent confi-
dent" that he would prevail in court.
"I believe in the American system, and
I did nothing wrong," said Rubashkin,
who opened his shop in 1953, the same
year he emigrated from Russia.
Asked why he was replacing his son
Sholom as vice president if the charges
are phony, Rubashkin threw back his
shoulders and arched his eyebrows.
"For the business," he said. "In order
to enforce, after such a shock, we want to
beef up management — change manage-
ment, change rules, to do d i f f e r e n t
ways."
Rubashkin emphasized that the man-
agement change was for the sake of the
company, "not for the people."
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"We treat people — I wish everybody
should be treated like we treat people,"
he said.
Agriprocessors sells m e a t products
u n d e r various labels that include
Aaron's Best, Ruhashkin's, Shor Habor,
Iowa's Best Beef and Supreme Kosher.
Federal authorities have not brought
criminal charges against the company or
its executives. The bulk of the accusations,
particularly those concerning worker mis-
treatment, remain unsubstantiated.
But nearly 300 former employees have
pleaded guilty to various forms of fraud
involving fake work documents and are
facing deportation. The affidavit cites
claims that Agriprocessors had assisted
workers in securing false documentation.
Rubashkin denied underpaying his
workers, saying that all new hires start at
$8.60 per hour — above the federal mini-
mum wage of $5.85, that workers are paid
time-and-a-half for overtime and that they
are provided with paid vacation and
health care. H e further said he had no
idea that his workers were illegal and that
they had produced what appeared to be le-
gitimate work documents.
The affidavit states that Agriproces-
sors received five separate notices from
the Social Security Administration of 500
Social Security n u m b e r discrepancies.
"People coming there looking for jobs
— they bring ID with a photo, with a
n u m b e r , " Rubashkin said. "With t h e
same card the person go to the bank.
With the same card he got his credit
card. With the same card he bought a
car."
"Nineteen million illegals here? I don't
bring 'em here. I pay taxes and the gov-
ernment supposed to control the stuff."
Rubashkin also had harsh words for
may be the key to finally catching him.
"We need some help f r o m the commu-
nity," said Degler. "We really want to get
this kid off the street. We think he needs
help."
(Susan Jacobs can be reached at sja-
cobs@pittchron.com.)
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the media, which he mockingly r e f e r r e d
to as the " f r e e press" and twice com-
pared to the Soviet, state-run media.
to that of Jonathan Pollard, the former
U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who was
slapped with a harsher sentence — life
"A lynching press," he called it. imprisonment — for spying for Israel
H e accused the media of harping on the than others who had spied for enemy
negative and ignoring the good he has states.
done for the Postville community. "Everything is the same," Esther said.
Rubashkin said he offered full medical Other customers offered different the-
coverage to workers and their families, ories to explain the controversy swirling
paid for cancer treatments for sick work- a r o u n d t h e i r longtime neighborhood
ers at the renowned Mayo Clinic 100 miles butcher.
to the north and helped set up a day care "I think they took him as a scapegoat
center for the children of employees. because he's a big company," said a Bor-
Rubashkin sees himself as a victim of ough Park resident who identified him-
an immigration system that Washington self as Motti. "All the big guys suffer at
has steadfastly refused to fix. H e has bit- the end. What's his name, Mike Tyson,
ter words for the Jewish social justice was put into jail because he had too
activists who have spoken out most vig- much money. O.J. Simpson was nailed in
orously since the raid. some ways because he has a lot of money.
The Conservative m o v e m e n t has And on and on."
urged kosher consumers to "consider" Though their explanations differed, all
whether they should purchase agreed that they would continue to pa-
A g r i p r o c e s s o r s ' products, while Uri tronize Rubashkin, even if the charges
L'tzedek, a social j u s t i c e initiative against him were proved to be true.
launched by liberal Orthodox rabbinical The Orthodox Union, by contrast, one
students, circulated a petition threaten- of twQ kosher certification agencies su-
ing a boycott of the company. pervising Agriprocessors, has said it
"I'm against tzedek?" R u b a s h k i n would withdraw supervision if charges
asked, using the Hebrew word for jus- are brought against the company.
tice. "It's a very nice word, but what kind "I would have a problem, but I again
: of tzedek? Tzedek is when you give a per- realize that the world has come to that,"
son what to live. Tzedek is when you give said customer Shaya Mayer. "Nobody
'em a salary he should be able to pay cares about somebody else. The meat's
rent. Tzedek is when you sick, you nice, the meat's good, I'm going to con-
should have a doctor. This is tzedek." tinue to buy it."
Long prominent in the Chabad-Lubav- Unlike his customers, Rubashkin re-
itch movement, Rubashkin was interrupt- fused to endorse the anti-Semitism the-
ed several times during the inteirview by sis as the explanation for his troubles —
well-wishers, including a bearded man but he didn't seem entirely unconvinced,
who used a Hebrew expression to wish either. Several times he invoked classical
Rubashkin success in his business. And anti-Semitic canards, like the infamous
while the butcher himself was loath to libel that Jews used the blood of Christ-
speculate on why he was being singled ian children to bake matzah, to under-
out, his customers were not so reticent. score what he sees as the baselessness of
"It's only anti-Semitism," said a the claims against him.
woman who identified herself only as Es- "We got a big mess, no question about
ther, as she wheeled a half-dozen it," he said. "Why? Because somebody
Rubashkin's bags to her vehicle. say I was 15 years when I came to work
Esther compared Rubashkin's plight there."
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TOBI E. SMITH MANUEL S O L O M O N
RUTTENBERG
S U Z A N N E LEIBOWITZ . . M O R D E C I A T O P A Z ABE STEIN PAUL STEIN
M R S . N O R M A LEVIN MORRIS ROBERT & S U S A N
SHAKESPEARE WOLF .CLAIRE B. LICHTENSTUL
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GIANT

Kosher Meats

All-natural poultry — Empire Kosher

whole chickens, breasts,
wings and more Turkey Breasts
Frozen
All-natural, corn-fed b e e f —
steaks, roasts, ground beef
and more

Variety of deli meats and franks

lb.
Available at select Giant Eagle stores.
Visit GiantEagle.com for location Save up to 20< lb.
information.
Price effective Thursday, J u n e 5 through Wednesday, J u n e 11, 2008.

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