Hannah Senesch Group

Volume 14, No 4 – January 2013 6101 Executive Blvd, Suite 130
Published 6 times a year Rockville, MD 20852
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Hannah Senesch Group
Greater Washington Area Chapter Hadassah
Speaker: Barry Collier
Topic: Health and Fitness for the Mature Generation
Barry is the father of three wonderful adult children, with one grandchild and another on the way. He
retired after serving for 38 years as an officer of the Montgomery County Police Department. His last
seven years in the department, Barry taught many academic classes, and also taught physical fitness,
defensive tactics, high speed pursuit training, first aid and CPR, police ethics and nutrition.
He is a certified first aid and CPR instructor, certified personal trainer, certified Pilate's instructor, certified
Cage Fitness instructor, independent business owner offering nutritional products and advice, and he
runs weight loss classes called "New Way, New You". In addition, he recently became the Chief Officer
of Physical Training and Fitness for Castellum Development, Inc. out of Jacksonville, FL.
January 16, 2013
Mykonos Restaurant, 121 Congressional Lane, Rockville, MD
Dinner at 6:00 PM $28.00 per person
RSVP by January 14, to Susan Newman via email or phone and mention your dinner choice of fish or
a Greek vegetarian sampler platter. (appetizer, salad, dessert, coffee or tea also included)
Email: susannewman923@gmail.com and put “RSVP Hannah Senesch” in the subject line.
Telephone: 301-460-9253 Please give both your first and last name. If you have special requests for
dinner, or need to cancel a reservation after the deadline, please call Sue Rudo at 301-598-1153
Please put these Dates on your Calendar!!
Tuesday, January 22, at 11:15: Docent-led tour of the Sackler Gallery exhibit
Sunday, February 10, Hadassah’s First Arts Festival, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Tikvat Israel
Congregation 2200 Baltimore Road, Rockville. Couvert: $30.00, includes brunch. See
attached flyer
Feb. 13 (Wednesday 4:00 pm), An Elegant Tea at Claudine Ostrow’s Home (reservation
required)
Spring Scholar Series Programs, March & April -2013!! Free and Open to the Public
March 10 (Sunday 6:45 pm), in celebration of Purim: Erica Brown, Federation’s Scholar-in-
Residence, Ohr Kodesh, 8300 Meadowbrook Lane, Chevy Chase, MD
April 9 (Tuesday 7:30 pm), Sarah Stern, Founder and President of EMET, Endowment for
Middle East Truth, author of Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network. Cosponsored
by Congregation Beth El Sisterhood, 8215 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda
Spring Senesch Meetings: March 6, May 1
Page 2 President's message; Meet and Greet Teas, Hadassah Spring Walkathon for
Neuromuscular Diseases
Page 3 Senesch High Tea, Chapter Scholar Series details,
page 4 Cards & certificates; Tree of Life information, Youth Aliyah certificates,
Witness to History
More than ever, Hadassah needs your support
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Volume 14, No 4 – January 2013 6101 Executive Blvd, Suite 130
Published 6 times a year Rockville, MD 20852
Dear Colleagues,
President’s Message
What goes around comes around. Two things
were very big in the news in early December
before I left on my trip. Hurricane Sandy
and the cease fire between Israel and Hamas
in the Gaza strip. One item that touches on
both these matters did not reach many
people’s attention. Israel sent volunteers to
the parts of New York and New Jersey
devastated by super storm Sandy and this in
the midst of the worst flare-up between of
the Israel and Hamas in four years. Perhaps
the numbers weren’t as great as aid pouring
in from other quarters, but it was real, it was
there and it was needed. The groups that
helped were IsraAID led by Shahar Zahari,
the same group that was first on the ground
after the Haiti earthquake and alumni of
Mechina Ein Prat, a pre-army academy and
Israeli and Jewish identity program that
seeks to prepare recent high school graduates
for service in the Israeli army’s Elite units.
More than ever, Hadassah needs your support
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Israel helping the U.S., who ever heard of
such a thing? But they were there doing
what they know how to do best, helping with
disaster relief wherever it is needed. Israel is
a grown up country now and aid goes both
ways. When we give to Hadassah the aid
also goes both ways. We not only assure
topnotch health care in Israel, but also push
forward the frontiers of medical science
which helps us all. By treating all comers
regardless of their ethnic or national origin
we set an example to the whole world.
Sometimes that comes back to help us.
Louise Chatlynne (Co-President)
Sources:
IsraAID
http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/08/israeli-aid-missionheads-to-new-york-to-provide-hurricane-sandy-relief/
Ein Prat
http://forward.com/articles/166098/israelis-stunned-by-lack-ofhelp-for-sandy-victims/?p=all
MEET AND GREET TEAS
The November Meet & Greet was hosted by Rita Weisstuch; the December Meet & Greet was hosted by Anne Meth.
Two additional teas are scheduled: Thursday, January 24, at 6 pm (Louise Chatlynne); and Monday, March 11 at noon
(Lin Solomon). Those who attended the HS October meeting have been assigned to one of these. If you are not
scheduled to attend one, or need to change your assignment, you may still do so. Our goal is to get to know one another
better; there is no agenda or fundraising planned. You are encouraged to bring someone who might want to join Hannah
Senesch.
Contact Louise Chatlynne: 301-330-9349, LGChatlynne@gmail.com
Dear Colleagues,
Hadassah Spring Walkathon for Neuromuscular Diseases
We need your help in making our Spring Walkathon for Neuromuscular Diseases on Sunday, May 5, 9:00 am – 12 noon, a huge
success for GWAC and the diseases represented. Our Chairs Ann Barcome and Sue Ellen Hersh would like a representative from
each group to be a part of the committee. It doesn't have to be someone who is on your board or will even participate in the walkathon
(though hopefully they will), just someone who can bring the information back to your group.
The first meeting of this group will be at the Chapter office on Sunday, January 27 at 10 AM. To volunteer, please contact Louise
Chatlynne, LGChatlynne@gmail.com or Anne Meth, annemeth@verizon.net. Many thanks.

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Beth Zimet
Sanddy
Levinson
Annee
Meth
Annee
Meth
Lin SSolomon
Lin SSolomon
Sanddy
Pollen
Sanddy
Pollen
Februa ary 13, 2013 3: ELEGANNT
ENGLISHH
TEA
4:00
pm at Claudine
Ostrrow’s
homee
15115 Interl lachen Drive #223, Silverr
Spring, MDD
20906
$20 per pers son minimum donation. Liimited
to 18 rreservations.
Members s, guests, and prospective mmembers
welccome.
Reservation by check to Claudine C Ostrrow.
Questioons:
301-598--3903
(Edito or’s note: Clau udine is a fabuloous
pastry chef) )
Schola ar Series, Suunday,
Marrch
10, 20133
Ohr O Kodesh Congregatio on, 8300 Meeadowbrook
Lane , Chevvy
Chase 6:445
pm.
Spe eaker: Erica a Brown, Sch holar in Resiidence
at thee
Washingtoon
Jewish Federation
Topic: Wom men’s Leadeership,
from PPurim
to Pessach.
Free & opeen
to the puublic
Hadassa ah will providde
coffee, teaa
and desserrt.
Scho olar Series, Tuesday, AApril
9, 201
Co-spon nsored by Congregation
n Beth El Sisterhood,
82115
Old Georrgetown
Roaad,
Bethesda,
Sp peaker: Sara ah Stern, Foounder&
Prresident
of EEMET,
Endowment
foor
Middle Eaast
Truth
Author r of Saudi Ar rabia and thee
Global Islaamic
Terrorrist
Network,
Top pic: EMET’s s successful mission as a think tank wworking
direectly
with Coongress.
Free & opeen
to the puublic
Hadassa ah will providde
coffee, teaa
and desserrt.
MITZV VAH and RE EMEMBRANNCE
COLUMMN
In memory m of my y father, Abra aham I. Saweelson
In memory m of my y husband, Allan A Levinsonn.
In memory m of my y mother, Sylvia
Weber, annd
mother in--law,
Blanchee
Meth.
Wh hat a blessing—My
twin gra andchildren, AAvery
and Saam,
turn 5.
Tha ank you to Sa andy Pollen fo or a wonderfuul
day of learnning.
In honor h of the speedy s and co omplete recovvery
of Buddyy
Sislen
In honor h of Anne e Meth’s wond derful Meet aand
Greet lunccheon.
In appreciation a
of o the several l Senesch meembers
who hhelped
make the Decembeer
Sch holar Series program p a suc ccess: Toby AAltman,
Marilyyn
Cohen, Annne
Meth, Sue
Rudo,
Viviane Pescov P
REMMINDER:
: Tuesday, , January 22, 2013 at
11:15: Doocent-led
toour
at the Sackler GGallery,
Roaads
of Ara abia: Archa aeology an nd History y of the Kiingdom
of f Saudi Araabia.
Baseed
on
archheology
fin nds of the last 10-15 years, y the ancient trrade
routees
that inccluded
Petrra.
$10.00
donnation
requ uested. Co ontact San ndy Pollen: : pollen1223@verizonn.net,
301-9933-3254
More e than ever, Hadassah Ha needs ds your support rt
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HA ADASSAH CARDS C BY PHHONE
6 ca ards/$10: for Birthday, Ann niversary, Ne ew Baby, Mazzel
Tov, Blankk
Cards, Sympathy
Cards;
Small certif ficate: In Hon nor or In Memory
$ 5.00, CCall
Sylvia Glaaser,
301-2166-9838:
Cards are $3.00 $ each; small
certificat tes In honor oof
or In Memoory
of are $6.000
each
YOUTH ALIY YAH CERTIFFICATES:
Please contact Shar ron Cadoff, sjcadoff@aol.c
s
com, 301- 8881-3703,
or (inn
winter) 561-496-3672
The T WASHINGTON
CHAP PTER'S DOR L'DOR: TREEE
OF LIFE
This beautif ful Tree of Life e is a stunning
mural at thee
Hadassah OOffice.
Purchhase
a leaf forr
any
occasion, to o honor or to remember r a Dear D One. It'ss
a very meanningful
way too
help Hadasssah!
For
donations & details: please
contact Ca aroline Fierst, , clfierst@aol.com
or 301-6649-3156,
or call the
office: 301-8 881-8203 and d mention our r HS group.
WITNES SS TO HISTTORY
Pers spectives on the Hebraic c Book, Editeed
by Dr. Pegggy
Pearlmann.
pu ublished in celebration
of th he Centennial
of the Hebraaic
Section off
the Library oof
Congress
The earliest printed
Hebrew books came e from Italy and a Constanntinople.
Thhe
Soncino fa family, nameed
for a town n
in Itaaly
in which they t were ac ctive, established
the firs st Hebrew ppress
in Italy in 1484. Thhe
Jews whoo
were
expeelled
from Sp pain and Portugal
becam me the prima ary Hebrew book printerrs
in the Ottooman
Empiree,
beginning g
with the Nahamia
family, 1493-1522.
The Nahamia br rothers took their printing g equipment t with them wwhen
they wwere
expelledd
from Spainn,
and within n
a year
and a half,
they had set s up their press, p purch hased paper, , and made a connection
with one oof
the
greaatest
scholar rs of the Otto oman Empire e, Rabbi Elia ah beRabi BBinyamin
ha-Levi,
a Rommaniote
rabbbi,
who
preppared
the boo ok for printin ng and read the proofs of o an eight huundred
pagee
Halakhic ccode,
Sefer aarba’ah
turim m
(Thee
Book of Fo our Columns).
Printing ra aised Halakhic
questionns
about the format – forr
example, wwhether
or
not ttexts
printed on paper were
as sacre ed as those traditionally written by sscribes
on paarchment
Withh
the exception
of the He ebrew press,
no printing presses exiisted
in the eempire
until the seventeeenth
century.
The firs st attempt to o establish an
Arabic pre ess in Constaantinople
waas
in 1727; tthis
press waas
active for r
only fifteen years s and produced
fewer th han twenty books. b Withhin
the Musliim
society, the
reverencce
for the
handdwritten
word d, the involv vement of nu umerous seg gments of thee
schooled ccitizenry
in bbook
copyingg,
the
religious
establis shment, social
conserva atism, and fe ears of the innfluence
of pprinting
all coonspired
to rrepress
the
Arabbic
press. Th he Greek pre ess failed be ecause of re eligious politiics
within thee
Christian wworld,
and thhe
political
intriggues
of the great g Catholic
and Prote estant power rs and the Greek
Churchh,
as well ass
ideological differences. .
In coontrast
to this,
there was s no known opposition o to o Hebrew prrinting
either r in Constanttinople
or elssewhere
in
the eempire.
The e Jews were given licens se to print their
own boooks.
It may bbe
assumed that an explicit
decree
(ferm rman) was issued
by the e central gov vernment au uthorizing Heebrew
pressses.
Moreovver,
there waas
extensive e
and openly cond ducted trade in Hebrew books b betwe een Venice aand
Constanntinople.
The Jewish com mmunity of the
Ottoman Empire E in the e sixteenth ccentury
wass
composed of both longtime
residdents
and im mmigrants. The T veteran residents we ere Romanioote
Jews whho
had comee
from Byzanntium
and
livedd
in the areas s ruled by th he Italian city y-states thro oughout the MMediterraneean
basin; the
Karaites, wwho
lived in
the ccentral
and eastern e parts s of the emp pire (in Europ pean Turkeyy
and Anatollia),
and the Mostarib Jeews
in the
eastern
regions (natives of the
cites of Syria, S the Land
of Israel, , and Egypt) ). The formeer
spoke mainly
Greek,
and the latter ma ainly Arabic.
By thhe
end of the e fifteenth ce entury the majority m of Ot ttoman Emppire
Jews weere
the immiggrants
from Spain and
Portuugal
who ha ad been drive en out of the e Iberian Pen ninsula by thhe
Expulsionn,
and who sspoke
Ladinoo.
Addiitional
immig grants came from Ashka anaz, Italy, Provence, P annd
Hungary.
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