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Bubbe Misehs column and 

Yiddish 

By Bebe Lavin 

THE NEW STANDARD 

A few weeks ago, this Bubbe 

Misehs column began as a column 

about Yiddish speakers and listeners. 

With sadness, today I dedicate the 

column to the memory of Ann Rubin 

who passed away on June 20 just 

a few days after the seeds of this 

column were planted. The seeds of a 

Bubbe Misehs column for The New 

Standard surface in many places. 

Paul and I stopped in Block’s Bagels 

for lunch one day a few weeks ago. 

While we waited for our sandwiches, 

mine always the same, whitefish 

salad on a toasted onion bagel, I 

looked for a booth and met Ann 

Rubin and her friend enjoying lunch. 

Ann and I chatted for a bit while 

Paul waited in line. 

Our conversation took a turn 

when Ann, a longtime leader of a 

Yiddish club at the JCC, asked me 

if I was fluent in Yiddish. I replied 

that I wasn’t, but I understood the 

language. I went on to tell her that 

my American-born parents spoke 

Yiddish when they didn’t want my 

older brother and me to understand 

what they were saying. Ann finished 

my sentence about how I wasn’t 

fluent but understood Yiddish 

because she often had heard this 

from others. She remarked that I 

was a Yiddish listener (rather than a 

Yiddish speaker), her coinage as far 

as she knew. 

What a terrific way to express 

the relationship of many Americanborn 

Jewish people in our generation 

to the Yiddish language — “Yiddish 

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Susie Blair is a modern day matchmaker. 

She doesn’t arrange marriages, but she does 

match volunteers with programs at Jewish 

Family Services (JFS) as the Volunteer 

Specialist. 

Blair enthusiastically discussed some 

JFS programs. They include The Friendly 

Visitor Program, Leah’s List, food drives, 

and the Holiday Gift Drive. 

The Friendly Visitor Program matches 

volunteers with Jewish senior citizens in 

the Jewish community. It gives the senior 

citizen a friend outside their family. Blair 

considers the personalities of the senior 

citizen and the visitor when she puts the 

match together. All that’s required is that 

the visitor make a commitment to visit 

the senior citizen on a regular basis. “It’s 

wonderful when I make the right match,” 

said Blair. 

“It’s a challenge to find out who is 

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out there, and needs the service. It can be 

anyone in a nursing home, assisted living, or 

living on their own. Because of their living 

situation, they might feel isolated from the 

Jewish community,” said Blair. 

One volunteer, Sandy Roseman, 

described the woman she visits. 

“My 101-year-old c l i e n t 

beat me in Scrabble t h e 

other day. She reads 

the Smithsonian 

magazine, and is 

sharp. She is in 

a wheelchair 

and is thrilled 

to have 

company 

and go outside. It’s a win-win situation. I 

enjoy it as much as she does.” 

In these challenging economic times 

some people can use a helping hand. 

“Bonei Mishpachot” (Builders of families) 

is a program that reaches out to Jewish 

individuals who are facing challenging times. 

When you’re out of work or in financial 

straits, it doesn’t take long to be unable to 

afford specialists like attorneys, doctors, 

dentists, and opticians and car and home 

maintenance workers. 

Leah’s List can come to the rescue. It 

lists people the client can contact when they 

26 of Tammuz, 5770 

July 8, 2010 

Volume 7 :: No. 18 

With BP’s spill in mind, Israel considers 

delivery of natural gas 

By Dina Kraft 

JTA NEWS SERVICE 

More than a year after a massive natural 

gas find in the Mediterranean Sea off the 

Israeli coast sparked hopes in Israel of a 

new era of energy independence, the project 

is running into concerns about how the gas 

can be delivered safely. 

The BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has 

raised concerns in Israel about processing 

the gas and its delivery within the country. 

“You don’t just open the valve and 

everyone’s happy,” said Zeev Aizenshtat, a 

fossil fuels expert who works as a chemistry 

professor at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. 

“In a country that has security problems, 

especially with the imminent threat of 

missiles coming in, you need to makes sure 

the pipes are well protected.” The question is 

how to bring the gas, which was discovered 

in February 2009 one mile below the sea 

floor approximately 50 miles off the Haifa 

coast, to Israel, and then how to distribute 

it throughout the country. Natural gas is 

highly flammable, and Israel also lacks the 

infrastructure of piping needed to distribute 

the gas nationwide. 

If Israel finds a way to deliver it safely and 

Jewish Family Services Volunteer 

Specialist Susie Blair makes a difference 

Susie Blair 

run into such an emergency. These Jewish 

professionals do the work pro bono, or charge 

a small fee. “It’s Jews helping Jews,” Blair 

said. She is always on the lookout for more 

professional people to join the list. 

Want to have fun, and help the community 

at the same time? Volunteers are needed for 

one of the JFS’s food drives that take place 

on the High Holidays and Passover. Blair 

is already planning for the High Holiday 

food drive. Celebratory foods and holiday 

cards are put in gift bags. More than 100 

volunteers are needed to put the food bags 

together and deliver them to more than 400 

individuals in the community. “People who 

participate include all generations: children, 

adults, and senior citizens. The preschool, 

and day school children make cards for the 

holiday food drives,” said Blair. 

The December Holiday Gift drive is 

another time of year when the community 

is asked to help. Volunteers wrap gifts, 

and others can sponsor a family during 

Chanukah and Christmas. The JFS also 

serves clients who are not Jewish. Blair 

gives the volunteer details about the family, 

and the caseworkers take gifts to the families 

that are sponsored. Sometimes organizations 

and their employees also participate. 

Blair is passionate about all these 

projects. “Doing volunteer work is rewarding 

and fun. Doing a mitzvah for the Jewish 

community ― isn’t that what we’re here for?” 

asked Blair. 

If you’re interested in being a part of any 

of these projects, contact Susie Blair at the 

Jewish Family Services at (614) 559-0184. 

The Jewish Family Services Web site is 

www.jfscolumbus.org.

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efficiently, the treasure trove of some 

24 trillion cubic feet of natural gas 

could be Israel’s ticket to energy 

independence, providing the country 

with some 70 percent of its energy 

needs for the next 20 years, according 

to experts. 

The trove is a combination of two 

major gas fields — called Leviathan and 

Tamar, named for the granddaughter of 

Israeli energy mogul Yitzhak Tshuva. 

It was Tshuva’s Delek Group and a 

U.S. partner that were responsible for 

the drilling that led to the finds. 

Israel’s energy needs are now 

provided mostly by coal. Israel imports 

natural gas from Egypt via a pipeline, 

and it imports coal and oil from 

countries around the globe, including 

Russia, Mexico and Norway. 

“This discovery is nothing short 

of a geopolitical game changer,” Gal 

Luft, executive director of the Institute 

for the Analysis of Global Security, 

a Washington-based NGO that deals 

with energy and security issues, wrote 

earlier this month in the Haaretz 

newspaper. 

But several challenges come first. 

Lebanon claims it has rights to the 

Leviathan find because they say the 

northern part of the find is in Lebanese 

territorial waters Israel dismisses the 

claim, saying it is firmly within its own 

maritime boundaries. 

“We will not hesitate to use our 

force and strength to protect not only 

the rule of law but the international 

maritime law,” Minister of National 

Infrastructure Uzi Landau told the 

Bloomberg news agency, responding to 

the Lebanese claims. 

Then there is the question of how 

to deliver the gas and avoid accidents 

like the BP spill especially if, as is 

now being considered, Israel builds a 

natural gas processing plant in the sea 

rather than on land. 

The underwater plant has two 

potential benefits. It could offer the 

processing plant additional protection 

from attack by terrorists or enemy 

aircraft, and it could circumvent 

the not-in-my-backyard syndrome 

that stands as an obstacle to the 

construction of a processing plant near 

Israeli population centers along the 

coast. Local opponents already have 

emerged against each of six potential 

sites for the plant on land. 

Israelis are concerned that the gas 

power plants could become military 

targets or turn into fireballs, said 

Amit Bracha, executive director of 

the advocacy group Adam Teva V’Din, 

The Israeli Union for Environmental 

Defense. 

“The not-in-my-backyard syndrome 

takes on new meaning in Israel, which 

is so small,” Bracha said. 

Adam Teva V’Din supports the 

alternative option of establishing the 

plant underwater. 

“No one can bomb it,” Bracha said, 

“and it’s safer because it’s not near any 

neighborhoods.” 

But safety concerns attend to that 

option, too. 

A spill in the water would cause 

serious environmental damage, albeit 

less than a toxic oil spill. Even on land, 

Israel would have to build a network 

of pipes that would be secure and able 

to shut down automatically if there is 

a leak. 

The government is conducting a 

survey to determine the best option for 

constructing the natural gas processing 

plant. In any case, the gas itself won’t be 

tapped until 2012 because it takes time 

to set up a distribution infrastructure. 

In a statement to JTA, the National 

Infrastructure Ministry wrote that 

even if a decision is made to build an 

underwater plant, it does not preclude 

the possibility that one might also be 

built on land. 

Aizenshtat said the natural gas 

find could help Israel achieve newfound 

independence. 

“We were promised a land of milk 

and honey by God, but nothing was 

ever said about petroleum,” he said. 

“But the moment you do have it, people 

start looking at you differently. 

“Energy today is a commodity that 

countries live and die by,” he said. 

“Whoever has control of the faucet can 

have a strong influence on the world. 

Politically this find is very important.” 

Stuart Levey: The man 

trying to make anti-Iran 

sanctions work 

By Ron Kampeas 


Stuart Levey was given a big 

stick when the Bush administration 

made him the first under secretary 

of the Treasury for terrorism and 

financial intelligence. But the stick 

only started to hurt its targets — 

terrorist groups and rogue nations 

— when he figured out how to softtalk 

nations and private businesses 

into going along. 

Levey is that rarity — a senior 

government official who has 

transitioned not just between two 

administrations, but between two 

presidents with profound foreign 

policy differences. 

President Obama’s decision 

to keep Levey and his office in 

place has less to do with ideology 

and more with how Levey has 

made the office into a tool that 

has effectively squeezed Iran and 

North Korea and hindered the 

ambitions of terrorist groups. 

Most recently, on June 16, 

Levey had the floor in the White 

House press room when he 

outlined new sanctions targeting 

an Iranian bank, a number 

of shipping companies and 

individuals associated with the 

Iranian Revolutionary Guard 

Corps, which is believed to control 

the Islamic Republic’s suspected 

nuclear weapons program. 

“Stuart has been the chief 

architect of our strategy to impose 

growing financial costs on Iran 

for its continued defiance and he 

has played a major leadership 

role on this issue internationally,” 

Obama’s Treasury secretary, Tim 

Geithner, said in introducing 

Levey. 

The strategy, in fact, predated 

the Obama administration. 

Levey told The New York Times 

in a 2008 story that he came upon 

the idea when he was in Bahrain 

in January 2006, shortly after 

he assumed his position. Upon 

reading read in a newspaper that 

a Swiss bank was pulling out of 

Iran, it occurred to Levey that the 

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YIDDISH 

FROM PAGE 1 

listener.” Yiddish listener became 

the subject of this column, and 

I smile even as I write this. I 

understood Yiddish from the 

age of five, but I never told my 

parents until I was out of college. 

Looking back to those long ago 

days, it would have been good to 

have spoken Yiddish as a second 

language. 

It is sometimes claimed 

that Yiddish, the mama loshen 

(mother’s language), is dying out 

from lack of use. Despite this 

dire prediction, Yiddish seems to 

be having a renaissance in the 

United States. 

Many universities, including 

Ohio State, offer courses in 

Yiddish. In 1980, Aaron Lansky 

started the National Yiddish Book 

Center, now housed in Amherst, 

Mass. Volumes of Yiddish are 

continually donated to the center. 

It is a hugely successful enterprise 

and speaks to the Yiddishe 

neshamah’s (Jewish soul’s) wish 

to maintain and encourage a 

continuum and revival of Yiddish 

usage. 

There are the Yiddish 

listeners like me, Paul and many 

of the readers who frequently 

use Yiddish expressions in our 

everyday English speech. Many 

of these expressions have entered 

the English dictionary, but the 

nuance is often lost in translation. 

One has to have the feeling for 

the expression or word. For 

example, neshama doesn’t have 

the same emotional weight when 

translated into the English as soul. 

Translation into other languages, 

French, Spanish, Danish, etc. 

likely have the same experience. 

Fluency in languages other 

than the indigenous one is 

important to one’s education and 

participation, particularly in 

today’s world. Yiddish can be part 

of this for it has been the lingua 

franca of Jews throughout the 

world for centuries. In Europe, 

where countries are side by side 

as in our states, it is common for 

people to speak many languages. 

In the United States, second and 

third language acquisition is now 

being taught in many public and 

private schools beginning as early 

as pre-school. How about parents 

learning the specific language 

along with their children so that it 

is actively spoken at home? With 

Yiddish, we have a head start 

since many Yiddish expressions 

are already used among English 

speakers. Why not have programs 

offered in the community setting 

so that we are Yiddish speakers as 

well as Yiddish listeners. 

As I close today’s column, I 

remember Ann Rubin who had 

total fluency in the mama loshen 

and actively sought to encourage 

the use of Yiddish. 

Bebe Lavin/Pink writes the 

Bubbe Misehs column in The New 

Standard. So far, she is a Yiddish 

listener. 

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Beth Tikvah gardening group 

Anyone who is interested in gardening 

at Beth Tikvah is invited to join the Beth 

Tikvah gardening group on Monday 

mornings from 10:00 a.m. until noon. 

There is no gardening in the rain or 

in cold weather. Bring your own tools 

— hats, gloves, pruners and shovels. 

Members of the group enjoy gardening 

and talking and sometimes going out 

The 2nd Annual Jewish Community 

Day at Huntington Park will take place 

on Sunday, August 22. The Columbus 

Clippers will play the Toledo Mud Hens. 

This event is presented by the Columbus 

Jewish Community Brotherhoods and 

Men’s Clubs. More than 300 attended 

last year’s inaugural Jewish Community 

C i t y B r i e f s 

for lunch afterwards. Gardeners enjoy 

the beautiful Beth Tikvah grounds and 

having others to talk to about gardening. 

Beth Tikvah needs more hands to keep 

the grounds looking great. 

If you are interested, contact Judy 

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Ohio State summer class: Jewish Art and 

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The class will run from June 21-July 21 

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6:00 p.m. Field trips and studio projects 

related to local Jewish artists and 

artwork will be part of the coursework. It 

is a three-credit class for undergraduates 

and graduates without a prerequisite 

and taught by Dr. Patty Kahn. 

The course will address such questions 

as: 

What were the early day logos in 

Ancient Israel? 

How did a national art, the first 

Jewish art school in the world, and art 

industry develop in Pre-State Israel? 

What iconic symbols and meanings 

were used in Zionistic art? 

How were art and architecture in the 

Venetian Ghetto influenced by Venetian 

Racial laws? 

How are politics, nationalism, 

propaganda, or identities tied to 

cartoons? 

How does Alfred Tibor’s sculpture 

tie into Holocaust Art and its 

memorialization? 

2nd Annual Jewish Community Day at 

Huntington Park 

Day. Tickets are limited and include both 

the game and a kosher lunch. Lunch will 

begin approximately two hours before 

the 5:05 p.m. game. Watch for more 

information. If you have questions or wish 

to order tickets, contact Jeff Wasserstrom 

at (614) 760-0026 or jeffwass@yahoo. 

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Congregation Torat Emet presents “Spring 

into Summer in Monte Carlo” 

Congregation Torat Emet presents a 

Spring into Summer silent auction with 

cocktail reception and games. The event 

will take place on Wednesday, July 21, 

6:30 p.m. at the Schottenstein Stores 

Corporation “Signature Café,” 4300 E. 

5th Ave. Admission is $36. 

RSVP by July 12 to Congregation 

Torat Emet at office@toratemet.org or 

(614) 238-6778. 

YAD Professional Development event 

YAD Professional Development event 

featuring Steven Schreibman, VP of 

Advertising at Nationwide Insurance 

On Thursday, July 22, at 5:30 p.m. 

(location TBA), Steven Schreibman, VP 

of Advertising at Nationwide Insurance, 

will discuss advertising branding and 

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industry as well as his experience within 

the Limited and Nationwide companies. 

Wine and snacks will be served. 

For more information about YAD’s 

Professional Development events, contact 

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Achim 

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Ohio,will meet at Congregation Agudas 

Achim on July 25, 5-7 p.m. A light dairy 

YAD Happy Hour at Mezzo’s 

YAD’s last Thursday of the month 

happy hour will be at Mezzo Italian 

Kitchen and Wine on Thursday, July 29, 

6-9 p.m., 130 Creekside Plaza, Gahanna. 

Mezzo’s captures the essence of Italian 

decor and lifestyle in a blend of old world 

and new world. You can dine on the 

outdoor patio by the stone pit fire, in the 

Congregation Agudas Achim, 2767 

E. Broad St., is cleaning closets for its 

upcoming “Garage Sale” which will be 

held Sunday, August 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 

“So while we are cleaning our 

closets, you can too,” said Agudas Achim 

volunteer and coordinator for the garage 

sale, Shaaron Fisher. “We are taking 

donations of “gently” used items for the 

sale, however, no clothing, through July 

26. If anyone has furniture items that 

they cannot bring in, we will arrange for 

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to the community. Call Carol Cohen at 

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sophisticated dining room overlooking 

Big Walnut Creek, or in one of the 

Hollywood-style booths in our trendy bar. 

Bring your friends! 

For more information about YAD 

happy hours, contact Dina Kay at dkay@ 

tcjf.org or (614) 559-3227. 

Congregation Agudas Achim garage sale 

pickup.” 

The entire community is invited to 

the sale that will feature a large variety 

of kitchen and household items and “odds 

and ends” of glassware, dishes, kitchen 

utensils, small furniture and children’s 

toys. 

For more information about the sale or 

to donate items,contact Bobbie Shkolnik 

at (614) 237-2747, ext. 11, or bshkolnik@ 

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Little Minyan Schedule 

Friday, July 9, 7:30 p.m., Shabbat Evening Service 

Covenant Presbyterian Church 

2070 Ridgecliff Rd., Upper Arlington 

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LEVEY 

FROM PAGE 2 

tendency of governments to confine 

their actions to what they could 

accomplish directly was overly narrow 

and that he could do more by talking 

private enterprise into isolating bad 

actors. 

U.S. laws and executive orders 

clearly ban U.S. business dealings 

with Iran, with a few exceptions; 

getting third parties to comply is more 

complex and vexed. Levey’s innovation 

was to transition from law enforcer to 

diplomat, and to make his case through 

watertight presentations. 

“A lot of it was urging international 

allies to adopt a more effective 

international standard,” said Rob 

Nichols, who was an assistant 

secretary of the Treasury and the 

communications director when Levey 

moved to the department in 2005. 

By April 2008, Levey was successful 

enough to have become a bete noire in 

Tehran. 

“They had assigned one of their 

Zionist deputies to halt the Iranian 

economy,” said Davoud Danesh Jafari, 

a former finance minister in Iran. “This 

person would personally travel to many 

countries around the world. He would 

use incentives and encouragement to 

request cooperation against Iran, and 

if he failed to get any results he would 

use threats to pursue his goal.” 

Levey’s Jewishness clearly was 

significant to Jafari, but though 

Levey’s children attend a Jewish day 

school and he is involved in school 

activities, he does not wear it on his 

sleeve at work. 

Levey tells Jewish friends that 

he has never personally encountered 

anti-Jewish hostility on his travels in 

the Muslim and Arab worlds, and feels 

equally driven to pursue Iran as he 

does North Korea or the drug dealers 

and money launderers he went after at 

the Department of Justice. 

And contrary to Jafari he does 

not threaten, although Levey’s 

interlocutors have told the media 

that they understood the threat of 

U.S. action underpins his outreach. 

Instead, Levey would task his staff to 

come up with unimpeachable evidence 

of wrongdoing by an entity and then 

make the case to his interlocutors, 

often with charts. 

“Stuart shared facts,” said Molly 

Millerwise Meiners, his spokeswoman 

until 2009, who accompanied Levey on 

his overseas trips and now works as a 

spokeswoman for Citigroup. “He was 

very straightforward and worked side 

by side with these individuals, be they 

government or private sector.” 

Jonathan Schanzer, an analyst for 

Levey in the middle of the decade who is 

now a vice president at the Foundation 

for the Defense of Democracy think 

tank, said Levey was exacting and 

probing in assessing evidence. 

“The system that has been created 

involves layers of lawyers,” Schanzer 

said. 

In making his case for sanctioning 

shipping companies, Levey at times has 

attracted headlines with a spectacular 

find — notably in 2008, when his 

agency helped linked the owners of 

a building in New York’s financial 

district to an Iranian bank with ties to 

weapons dealers. But Levey generally 

keeps his victories under wraps, partly 

because he does not want to exercise a 

threat option. 

“He understands that he cannot 

make waves in the financial 

community,” Schanzer said. 

“Slinging around threats would not 

induce financial stability.” 

Levey’s single major brush with 

controversy was his role in accessing the 

database at SWIFT, the international 

grouping that coordinates interbank 

transactions. President George W. 

Bush authorized such access after 

the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and The 

New York Times revealed the U.S. 

Treasury’s use of the access in 2006. 

Levey vigorously defended his 

use of the database, saying it was 

subject to independent audits for any 

inappropriate privacy breaches. The 

Belgium-based grouping objected, but 

the story — unlike other revelations of 

Bush-era privacy incursions — slipped 

out of sight. 

Before joining the Bush 

administration in 2001, Levey was 

in law practice for 11 years at the 

Washington firm Miller, Cassidy, 

Larroca & Lewin, where he worked 

with Nathan Lewin, well known for 

his work on behalf of Jewish groups. 

Levey, 47, the son of an Akron, 

Ohio-area dentist, is plugged into 

Washington’s Republican network. 

After graduating from Harvard 

Law School in 1989, he clerked with 

Laurence Silberman, a conservative 

judge on the Washington federal 

appeals court. In private practice, as a 

white collar criminal defense lawyer, 

he contributed only to Republicans. 

Levey joined the incoming George 

W. Bush administration at the 

Department of Justice in 2001, and 

made enough of a splash as part of 

the team transferring responsibilities 

to the then-new Department of 

Homeland Security that he seemed 

a natural pick for the new Treasury 

terrorism financing office when it was 

established in 2005. 

Despite his GOP and conservative 

credentials, Levey has emerged as 

nonpartisan to the extent that when 

Obama’s nomination of Geithner hit 

a glitch over back taxes, Levey was 

appointed acting secretary. 

“We were absolutely delighted 

when the Obama administration 

chose to ask him to stay in office,” said 

David Harris, executive director of the 

American Jewish Committee, which 

honored Levey with the organization’s 

2009 Public Service Award. “That 

really spoke to the reputation Stuart 

established.” 

Levey welcomes submissions 

from nongovernmental groups, like 

the Foundation for the Defense of 

Democracy, that track sanctions 

busters and terrorist financing. He 

tells colleagues that people behave 

better when they know they are being 

watched. 

“He is a very sturdy, organized, 

rational guy,” said Jeff Kupfer, 

who was deputy chief of staff at the 

Treasury when Levey transferred and 

helped select him. “He’s not in it to 

make a big name for himself.” 

Levey’s colleagues cite his ready 

smile and good-natured approach to 

his work. 

Meiners recalled a 10-course dinner 

in China in Levey’s honor. The first 

course was shrimp: Levey declined, 

saying it was not kosher, but adding 

that he was sure he would enjoy the 

other offerings. 

The waitstaff swept the shrimp 

away and brought Levey a heaping 

plate of broccoli. 

“Enough to feed a family of six,” 

Meiners recalled. 

Levey dug in — then Meiners 

spotted a menu and showed it to Levey: 

All 10 items were not kosher. 

The waitstaff insisted it could 

substitute every item — and did, each 

time with more broccoli. Levey gamely 

delved into each plate until he was 

stuffed — at about the sixth plate. 

“He couldn’t look at broccoli for 

another year,” Meiners said. 

Notably, Levey in interviews has 

counted the Chinese as among the 

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Nu’ Ma? Observations from Israel 

NOAM 

SHPANCER 

It’s tough to break away from “The 

Situation” when you’re in Israel. “The 

Situation” is what Israelis call their, 

well, situation. It is the shape of fluid 

things. 

The Situation is in part like the 

weather — something you can talk much 

of but do little about; it shifts a lot, and 

often quickly, and often for the worse; 

people seem to enjoy complaining about 

it; when it’s good, people know it can’t 

last. 

The Situation is also in part your 

favorite sports team. When you ask, 

“What’s the situation?” you’re asking, 

“What’s the score? Are we winning?” 

with the implicit assumption that your 

team is — or will be soon — trailing and 

running out of time. 

Sometimes your team does win, and 

there’s euphoria and the sense that the 

winning will last forever. When it loses 

again, you are always torn between 

blaming the ref, the other team’s dirty 

play, or despairing of yourself, wishing 

your team would be as well-managed 

and coached and financed as the other 

teams. 

Hasbara Forgotten founding father 

LARRY S. 

POLLAK 

August 4, 2010, marks the 70th 

yahrzeit of a great Jewish hero you 

probably never heard of. Let me tell you 

his story again. 

He was the heir to Theodor Herzl. He 

was the founder of the Jewish Legion 

in World War I, and the Rosh Betar, 

leading a youth movement with many 

hundreds of thousands of members in 

pre- World War II Europe. He was a 

zealous freedom fighter for the cause of 

Jewish nationalism. 

This man was one of the finest orators 

of his time; a poet, novelist, philosopher, 

linguist, political organizer and 

intellectual. He was the Zionist visionary, 

(Vladimir) Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940). 

He helped to liberate the Holy Land 

from the Turks, and then in 1920, defended 

the Jews of Jerusalem from Arab attacks. 

The British imprisoned him and exiled 

him. Ultimately, of course, the British 

were finally driven out of Palestine by 

Jabotinsky’s Irgun Zvai Leumi. (“Etzel,” 

the National Military Organization). 

Jabotinsky did not live to see the reestablishment 

of the Jewish state, but 

he played a key role in making that 

momentous event possible, in reviving 

the Hebrew language, and inspiring the 

revolt that led to Israeli independence. 

Today, most American Jews have no 

idea who Jabotinsky was. There was a 

time when virtually every Jew in the 

world knew his name. 

He was hated by his enemies, who 

The Situation is also in part a 

diagnostic process, like a post-physical 

conference with your physician, if you’re 

middle-aged. There’s always some halfjustified 

reason for worry; always a need 

for some obnoxious lifestyle change and 

a futile plan for minimizing — but not 

eliminating — pain. The news is always 

not-quite-good, even when it is not 

catastrophic. And everyone knows one of 

these days it’s going to be catastrophic, 

even if no one says so. 

I could talk about The Situation all 

day. But by the end of the day The 

Situation might have changed. As of now, 

though, The Situation is not good. The 

weather forecast is bad; our team is in 

a slump; results from the latest physical 

aren’t pretty either — the heart races in 

sudden bouts of panic; memory lapses 

and mood swings abound; and the bad 

knees? That’s not getting better. Ever. 

Israel, a traumatized nation, feels 

threatened, and so it hunkers down, 

scowls, and exposes its teeth, like a 

cornered street dog. Right now it feels 

that the whole world is ganging up on it 

unjustly; that the world is hypocritical 

and worse, anti-Semitic — which is of 

course what Israel has suspected all 

along, a suspicion that has historically 

guided the very actions that have in part 

led to the world’s resentment of it. It’s 

classic self-fulfilling prophecy. And they 

know all about the prophecy business 

here. 

falsely called him a fascist. In fact, he was 

a democrat and European-style liberal. 

He led the Revisionists, who competed for 

Zionist support with David Ben-Gurion. 

In 1931, Jabotinsky wrote: “All of 

us, all the Jews 

and Zionists of all 

streams, want the 

good of the Arabs 

of Eretz Yisrael. 

We do not want to 

remove even one 

Arab from the east 

or west bank of the 

Jordan. We want 

them to thrive, 

both economically, 

and culturally. 

We envision the 

government of the 

Land of Israel in this 

way: the majority 

of the population 

will be Hebrew, 

but not only will 

equal rights for all 

Arab citizens be 

promised, they will 

also be realized; 

the two languages 

and all religions will 

Ze’ev Jabotinsky 

have equal rights, and every nation will 

receive broad rights of cultural self-rule, 

the question is; however, will this be 

enough for the Arabs?” 

Ze’ev Jabotinsky was beloved by the 

masses of the Jewish people, and he 

provided leadership at critical junctures. 

Now, unfortunately, many Israelis do not 

know their own history. 

However, in many families, the story 

of Ze’ev Jabotinsky is passed down from 

generation to generation. It is the kind 

of story that grandparents want to tell 

There’s also a feeling here these days 

that the bonds are fraying on the inside. 

What keeps this troubled tribe together is 

no longer apparent. Large chunks of the 

Israeli public do not see the government 

as theirs. Do not sing the anthem or 

waive the flag. Do not see those around 

them as real Israelis, or real Jews, or 

even real people. Very little seems to 

bind the different constituencies that 

make up the Israeli body politic. 

Still, inside The Situation, life goes 

on. This in fact is a characteristic aspect 

of Israeli life, the ability to go on despite 

the grim toils of The Situation. As I 

travel around, trying to keep my mind off 

the situation, I pay attention instead to 

some striking cultural elements. 

Honking your car horn, for example, 

is not only acceptable, but expected, even 

necessary. Other drivers will routinely 

cut into your lane assuming that when 

they get too close, you’ll honk. If you don’’, 

they may run right into you, claiming, 

with some justification, that it was your 

fault. 

Mall security these days looks like a 

tired relic. Israel’s enemies have figured 

out recently that flotilla-style political 

warfare is more effective than suicide 

bombing in the battle that really matters 

— the one for global legitimacy. So the 

malls are safe. And the bored security 

guard will all but waive you past before 

even eyeing you fully. 

At the restaurant, no one will refill 

grandchildren. 

The late Prime Minister of Israel, 

Menachem Begin, effusively praised 

Jabotinsky: “He wrote of Jewish might 

even before it came into being; of Revolt 

before it took place; of 

a Jewish Army while 

its weapons were still 

a dream; of a Jewish 

State when many of 

our contemporaries 

derided its very 

mention...” 

Ze’ev Jabotinsky 

steadfastly advocated 

for a Jewish state in 

an undivided Land of 

Israel, Eretz Yisrael 

Hashlemha. For 

Jabotinsky, Judea and 

Samaria — “the West 

Bank,” was part of the 

Jewish homeland. The 

truth is, he considered 

the East Bank to be 

part of the Jewish 

homeland as well. 

According to Harry 

Hurwitz’s biography 

of Begin, “Menachem 

Begin proudly 

acknowledged that his life was molded by 

Jabotinsky, whom he continually honored 

as the greatest man he had ever met.” 

More than seventy years ago, 

Jabotinsky admonished the Jews of 

Poland to leave for Palestine, warning 

that “they live on the edge of the 

volcano” and predicting “super pogroms.” 

It was Jabotinsky who first called for 

the “evacuation” of Eastern European 

Jewry, and who organized the first illegal 

immigration. 

He was like a prophet, telling people 

your water glass. No one will even ask 

you if you’d like a refill. No one will 

approach. It doesn’t matter how long you 

sit, or how prominently your empty water 

glass is placed at the edge of the table. If 

you want something, you have to ask for 

it — better yet, demand it — directly. 

The food is better here and so is 

the coffee. There are many possible 

explanations — the weather, the local 

fresh ingredients, the regional influences 

on cuisine, the fertile mix of cultures 

and tastes — but I see a different one. 

It involves The Situation. On one level, 

gathering establishments reflect it. 

Every coffee place feels like an argument, 

in which the Jews, being Jews, disagree; 

and so they create a plethora of unique 

places, each convinced it is the only right 

one. 

On another level, coffee houses in 

Israel appear to be conceptualized in the 

mind of their owners and patrons alike 

as places of refuge from The Situation. 

You see little in the way of TV’s. You 

see little in the way of the corporate 

handbook. Israeli places of gather have 

more of the oasis feel. Informal, quirky, 

cozy, idiosyncratic sensibilities rule. 

And your coffee will always be served 

in a mug, no Styrofoam here; and they 

like to make shapes in the cappuccino 

foam. Mostly hearts, but you can get the 

ying-yang circle, a baby, or a leaf, which 

makes your heart sing. 

that the Holocaust was coming. 

Ze’ev Jabotinsky believed that every 

Jew is a prince. The ideal Jabotinsky 

identified with Zionism is hadar, a Hebrew 

word without a precise translation that 

invokes honor and splendor, glory and 

impeccability. 

Now, it seems, the prophet is virtually 

without honor in his own country. He has 

become the forgotten founding father of 

the Jewish state. 

Betar still exists all over the world. 

There is an active Betar chapter in 

Cleveland, with many dedicated young 

Zionists involved in the cause that 

Jabotinsky championed. However, I think 

it is fair to say that most Jews could 

use some more information about this 

extraordinary personality. 

Jabotinsky’s secretary and biographer, 

Shmuel Katz, wrote the definitive 

biography. (“Lone Wolf,” Volumes 1 

and 2) Readers wanting to learn more 

about Jabotinsky can also read Joseph 

Schechtman’s “The Life and Times of 

Vladimir Jabotinsky.” 

In these times, Jabotinsky transcends 

partisanship. He belongs to the common 

heritage of the Jewish people, and the 

shared history of all Israelis. No pantheon 

of Israel’s iconic figures is complete 

without including Ze’ev Jabotinsky. 

The next generation has a right to 

know about their heritage. Teach your 

children about Jewish heroes that deserve 

to be remembered, like Ben-Gurion and 

Begin, and Jabotinsky. 

For those of us who appreciate his 

pivotal role in the unfolding of Jewish 

destiny, his brilliance still shines; his 

life’s work continues to inspire, and his 

memory remains a blessing for the ages. 


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Slice of life recipes 

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I was raised like any good 

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Smoked Salmon and 

Fresh Grapefruit Salad 

(fish and pareve) 

1/2 cup mayonnaise 

1 tablespoon honey Dijon mustard 

1/2 teaspoon grated grapefruit peel 

1 teaspoon fresh grapefruit juice 

3 Granny Smith apples (about 1 1/4 

pounds), unpeeled, cored, cut into 1/2inch 

pieces 

3/4 cup chopped celery 

3/4 cup chopped radishes (optional) 

1/2 cup dried cranberries 

3/4 cup raisins 

1/2 cup diced fresh grapefruit sections 

1/4 cup finely chopped red onion 

3/4 cups chopped pecans, toasted 

1 cup chopped fresh parsley leaves 

2/3 to 1 pound smoked salmon, flaked 

In a bowl combine the mayonnaise, 

mustard, grapefruit peel and grapefruit 

juice. Whisk until smooth. Season to 

taste with salt and pepper. Cover and 

refrigerate 20 to 30 minutes. In a large 

salad bowl combine the apples, celery, 

radishes (if using), cranberries, raisins, 

grapefruit, red onion, pecans, watercress, 

and smoked salmon. Fold in the dressing 

and mix to coat. Refrigerate for 30 

minutes before serving. 

fish was the fish course before any 

yontif meal. My mom, balabusta that 

she is, made it from scratch. While I 

can make it from scratch, thanks to 

all those years of chopping and mixing 

Smoked Trout and Potatoes 

(fish, dairy or pareve) 

3 ounces smoked trout fillet skinned, 

boned and flaked 

2 teaspoons oil 

6 green onions, chopped 

1/2 sweet red bell pepper diced 

4 cups frozen hash brown potatoes, 

defrosted 

1/2 cup milk or non-dairy creamer or soy 

milk 

3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill, divided 

salt and pepper, to taste 

2 tablespoons sour cream or pareve sour 

cream (optional) 

Heat oil in a skillet. Add the green 

onions and red pepper and cook until 

they are soft, about 3 minutes. Add the 

potatoes and cook, stirring, until they 

brown in spots and become crusty, 7 

to 8 minutes more. Stir in milk and 

cook, scraping up any browned bits, 1 

to 2 minutes. Stir in the trout and 2 

tablespoons dill and cook until heated 

through. Season with salt and pepper. 

Serve immediately, topped with sour 

cream and remaining 1 tablespoon dill. 

Serves 4. This recipe can be doubled. 

It can be made ahead of time and 

reheated. 

the stuff for my mom, I have updated 

my recipes to utilize the frozen buy at 

the grocery store variety. I have also 

found that by opening my mind to the 

possibility that another type of fish as 

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1 cup fresh chopped parsley 

7 tablespoons olive oil 

2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon fresh lemon 

juice, divided 

1/2 teaspoon finely shredded lemon zest 

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more to 

taste 

1 pound cooked potatoes, cut into 1/4-in.thick 

slices 

1/2 to 1 pound yellow summer squash or 

zucchini, very thinly sliced 

3 large tomatoes cut into chunks 

4 stalks of celery, diced 

black pepper 

1/2 to 1 pound smoked trout, broken into 

flakes 

In the bowl blender or food processor, 

combine the parsley, olive oil, 2 

tablespoons of lemon juice, lemon zest, 

and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Process to 

combine and set aside. In a bowl combine 

the potatoes, celery and squash with a 

little of the dressing and toss to coat. Add 

the tomato wedges, 1 teaspoon lemon 

juice and a little more dressing. Gently 

toss to coat. Divide the salad between 6 

plates and sprinkle the trout on the top. 

Drizzle a little more dressing on top and 

serve immediately. Serves 6. This recipe 

can be doubled or tripled. 

May 22, 2008 :: 17 of Iyyar, 5768 :: 9 

a first course my family and friends 

have actually started taking bets as 

to how “different” and “outrageously 

wonderful” (their words, not mine) 

each fish course would be. 

Salmon Wontons 


24 wonton wrappers 

8 ounces grilled salmon, cold and flaked 

(leftovers are great) 

2 green onions or shallots, chopped 

1 teaspoon minced garlic 

2 teaspoons soy sauce 

2 teaspoons rice vinegar 

1 cup olive oil 

4 cups peanut oil for deep-frying 

salt and freshly ground black pepper to 

taste 

In a bowl combine the flaked salmon 

with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Mix to 

combine and add the green onions, 

garlic, soy sauce, and vinegar and mix 

to combine. Season with a little salt and 

pepper. Working with one wrapper at a 

time, place 2 teaspoons of the mixture 

in the center of the wrapper, brush the 

edges with water, close them, pressing 

well on the edges. Make sure that they 

are tightly sealed. Keep the wontons 

covered with a damp kitchen towel as you 

are working. Heat the oil in a wok and 

deep-fry the wontons for about 2 minutes 

on each side until they are golden. Serves 

6. This recipe can be doubled or tripled. 

It can be made ahead of time but undercook 

them slightly and then reheat them 

on a cookie sheet until they are bubbly 

and golden brown. Serve with a sweet 

and sour dipping sauce. 



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New Zealand Jews plan to fight for shechita 

By Dan Goldberg 


Barring a last-minute policy reversal, 

Jewish leaders in New Zealand appear 

certain to launch legal action against the 

government over its controversial new 

law banning kosher slaughter. 

Six Jewish leaders were granted a 

30-minute meeting with Prime Minister 

John Key, the son of a Jewish refugee, 

to discuss the fallout from the May 

27 decision to outlaw kosher slaughter, 

or shechita. The meeting in Auckland 

concluded with the delegation informing 

Key, who does not practice Judaism, 

that the small Jewish community would 

be left with “no option” but to take 

legal action “if there was no solution 

forthcoming.” 

The prime minister “acknowledged 

that this may be the only course open to 

us,” New Zealand Jewish Council chair 

Geoff Levy said in a statement. 

It now appears likely that Key will 

face a potentially embarrassing legal 

showdown that has been described as a 

test case for shechita. 

The controversy erupted in late May 

when Agriculture Minister David Carter 

overruled advice from the National 

Animal Welfare Advisory Committee to 

exempt shechita from a new animal 

welfare commercial slaughter code. 

Whereas shechita previously had been 

listed as exempt, just as it is under 

the Humane Slaughter Act in America, 

Carter decided to annul all exemptions. 

Under the new code, which was made 

effective immediately, all commercially 

killed animals must be stunned before 

slaughter to “ensure that the animals are 

treated humanely.” 

The move shocked the New Zealand 

Jewish community, which numbers fewer 

than 7,000. Although kosher meat can be 

imported from Australia, no chicken is 

allowed in. Fewer than 100 beef cattle 

and lambs and several thousand chickens 

were slaughtered by shechita annually. 

Sydney-based Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, 

who supervises kosher certification of 

products in New Zealand, described the 

ban as “outrageous.” 

“Hunting is still permitted for deer 

and ducks, and that is certainly not 

humane,” he said. “The government, 

using flawed science, institutes a new 

code and the only people affected by this 

are the Jews. People are wondering what 

their real motivation is.” 

His comments came as the European 

Parliament voted to mandate that all 

kosher meat on the continent be labeled 

“meat from slaughter without stunning” 

— a move blasted by some Jewish officials 

as discriminatory. 

Meanwhile, the dustup in New 

Zealand over shechita has sparked a rift 

with Australian Jewish leaders over its 

crisis management strategy. 

“I’m terrified they’ve mismanaged it,” 

a senior Australian Jewish organizational 

leader said of New Zealand Jewry on 

condition of anonymity. “They just don’t 

have the expertise.” 

In a diplomatically worded statement, 

the Executive Council of Australian 

Jewry said, “They are handling things 

in their own way and we are closely 

monitoring the situation. The denial of 

fundamental rights to kosher consumers 

in New Zealand has the potential for 

adverse effects further afield, including 

Australia.” 

Shechita UK chair Henry Grunwald 

said his organization, as well as British 

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, had been 

asked to assist with religious, legal and 

scientific advice. 

Describing the new code as “an 

insult,” Grunwald wrote in the Jewish 

Chronicle, “It succumbs to the popular 

myth that shechita is painful, ignoring 

ample evidence to the contrary. 

“The risk of other Western democracies 

following New Zealand’s example is real,” 

he warned. 

Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence, a former rabbi 

of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation, 

told JTA, “The decisions made in New 

Zealand will have ramifications on how 

shechita is viewed the world over. This is 

a significant test case which is important 

we do not lose.” 

Levy said attempts to resolve the 

crisis were continuing. 

“If we can settle the matter politically, 

so much the better,” he said. 

A number of legal avenues remained 

open, he noted. The ban appears to violate 

New Zealand’s Bill of Rights, which 

protects freedom of religion. It also could 

be in breach of the Animal Welfare Act, 

which contains provisions for religious 

rights, as well as the Human Rights Act, 

which protects against discrimination. 

Carter reportedly apologized to the 

Jewish community for his June 14 speech, 

in which he said, “We may have upset a 

relatively small religious minority, and 

I do appreciate their strong feelings for 

this issue. But frankly I don’t think any 

animal should suffer in the slaughter 

process.” 

Other countries that have banned 

shechita include Iceland, Norway, 

Sweden and Switzerland. 

Moscow exhibit gives a voice to Jewish Red Army soldiers 

By Anna Rudnitskaya 


Lev Fein, a Jewish soldier in the 

Red Army, returned home to Minsk in 

1945 to find a letter about his family 

being wiped out by the Nazis and the 

dire consequences of the occupation for 

Belarus Jews. 

“Father and Uncle Fein died on the 

third day of being in the ghetto, the 3rd 

of August. Mother, Manya and Bellochka, 

and Aunt Fein and her daughter died on 

the 20th of November 1941, in the second 

mass pogrom. By the beginning of 1942, 

I was the only one left,” reads part of 

the letter, written by a friend’s wife who 

miraculously had escaped. 

The letter to Fein, now 95 and living 

in the United States, is part of an exhibit 

of soldiers’ letters and excerpts from 

their World War II diaries that opened 

this week at Moscow’s Central Museum 

of the Great Patriotic War. 

Titled “Writings and Reflections 

of Jewish Soldiers in the Red Army,” 

the month-long exhibition is part of a 

documentary project whose authors 

have gathered accounts from nearly 900 

veterans living in 10 countries, many in 

the United States. The exhibition also 

contains photos and video. 

“This war in Soviet history has for a 

long time been a war of gods and heroes. 

Its main characters were generals and 

political leaders,” said Oleg Budnitsky, 

director of the International Research 

Center for Russian and East European 

Jewry, at the opening ceremony of the 

exhibition. “Now it’s time to give voice to 

its ordinary participants. More than 30 

million people were soldiers of the Red 

Army during World War II; 450,000 of 

them were Jews.” 

Demographers estimate that nearly 

150,000 Red Army Jewish soldiers were 

killed during World War II. There were 

also more than 2 million Jewish civilian 

victims — more than 10 percent of the 

Soviet war loss, although Jews constituted 

just 2 percent of the population. 

The project is being carried out by 

the Blavatnik Archive Foundation, a 

nonprofit group created by Leonard 

Blavatnik, an American billionaire of 

Soviet origin. He came to Moscow to 

participate in the opening ceremony. 

“I wanted to somehow document the 

role of Jews in the history of war, not 

only as victims, but also as heroes,” he 

told JTA. “It’s important to gather these 

witnesses now because these people are 

dying. 

“This exhibition presents a small part 

of our archive. We want to share the 

information we collect with the Center 

for Jewish History in the U.S., and 

with many more organizations like 

universities, schools and libraries.” 

Most of the 900 interviews were 

carried out over five years by a fatherdaughter 

duo of expatriate Soviets, 

project coordinator Julie Chervinsky and 

interview director Leonid Reines. They 

are not yet finished with their work. 

“The majority of people we interviewed 

had never been interviewed before,” 

Reines said. “They would recite poems 


and cry, and pause, and say ‘Sorry dear, 

it was so long ago, I don’t remember …’ 

And then they would tell me, ‘Say thank 

you to the people who sent you for the 

fact that they remember.’” 

Among those on hand for the opening 

ceremony was Boris Stambler, who was 

sent to the Bryansk front in 1941 when 

he was 16. He and his father both fought 

in the war and returned. 

“When I was interviewed for this 

exhibition, they asked me whether there 

was anti-Semitism during the war,” 

recalls Stambler, who lives in Moscow. 

“I answered that there were about 30 

nationalities in our company. We often 

ate from the same kettle, and our blood 

was of the same color.” 

Chervinsky says that about 99 percent 

of the veterans said they did not feel 

anti-Semitism at the time, but often add 

that they felt they had to be braver and 

stronger than the others “not to let the 

others say that Jews were cowards.” 

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OBITUARY/HARR 

Steve Harr, age 65, passed away on 

Tuesday, June 29, 2010, at home 

surrounded by his family. He is 

preceded in death by his parents, 

Stanley and Serene. Survived by his 

wife, Michelle; loving sons, Jeremy and 

Nicolas; sister, Jenny (Dennis) Walsh 

and niece and nephews. Steve was an 

avid Cleveland and OSU sports fan, he 

enjoyed music, reading, playing poker 

and his pets. He served honorably in 

the United States Air Force. Memorial 

service was Thursday, July 1 at the 

Epstein Memorial Chapel, with Rabbi 

Emily Rosenzweig officiating. In lieu 

of flowers, donations may be made 

to Columbus Metropolitan Library 

Foundation at www.foundation. 

columbuslibrary.org. 

OBITUARY/KATZ 

Mina (Theeboom) Katz, 92, died 

peacefully and surrounded by loved 

ones June 28, 2010. She was preceded 

in death by her parents, Moses and 

Sara Theeboom; beloved husband, 

Leonhard Katz, and sisters Judith 

Theeboom and Rika Schuit. She is 

survived by daughter, Fanny (Sheldon 

R.) Schulte; son, Richard (Jorinda) 

Katz; daughter Sally (Martin) 

Daner; nine grandchildren; and 14 

great-grandchildren. Born 1918 in 

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mrs. Katz 

emigrated to the United States in 1949 

and settled in New Jersey where she 

raised her family, as well as worked 

in the family bakery and in retail 

for many, many years. In 2000, she 

relocated to central Ohio to be closer to 

her family. She was an avid reader and a 

talented knitter and crocheter. She was 

a long-time member of Congregation 

Ohav Emeth in Highland Park, New 

Jersey. Her warm smile, wry sense of 

humor and special soup will be missed. 

Funeral service was Tuesday, June 29, 

at the Epstein Memorial Chapel, with 

Rabbi Howard Apothaker officiating. 

Burial at the Elmwood Cemetery in 

New Brunswick, N.J. 

OBITUARY/KOFMAN 

Boris Kofman, age 73, passed away 

on June 27, 2010. He is survived 

by his wife, Sofiya; sons, Stanislav 

(Eleonora) and Anatoliy; sisters, 

Faina, Yelena, Zinaida, and Lilya; 

grandchildren, Anna, Genny, Allan, 

ENGAGEMENT/ZIMBECK-PADUA 

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Sloin announce 

the engagement of their daughter, Shira 

Michelle Zimbeck, to Benjamin Paul 

Padua, son of Roberta Losinski and Paul 

Padua. A graduate of Gahanna-Lincoln 

High School, Zimbeck is a screenwriter, 

actress and correspondent for Film 

Fanatics for which she covers Cuba 

and Europe. A graduate of Northern 

Michigan University, Padua works in 

film production and as an independent 

producer. The couple met three years 

ago on the set of Gossip Girl. An October 

wedding is planned in New York City, 

where the couple will reside. 

O b i t u a r i e s 

and Angelina. Burial at New Agudas 

Achim Cemetery. 

OBITUARY/SCHWARTZ 

Linda Schwartz-Swain, formerly of 

Columbus, Ohio, and last residing in 

Hawaii, passed away unexpectedly 

on June 18, 2010. Linda graduated 

from the University of Cincinnati and 

continued on to Capital University 

to become a special needs educator. 

She also graduated from Columbus 

State Community College and became 

a registered nurse. She worked at 

Children’s Hospital before moving to 

South Carolina to pursue her nursing 

career, ultimately moving to Hawaii for 

her husband’s career in the U.S. Army. 

Her mother, JoAnn, precedes her in 

death. Survivors include husband, 

Robb; son, Daniel; father, Fred; sister, 

Barbara and several aunts, uncles and 

cousins. Graveside service was Friday, 

June 25 at Forest Lawn Memorial 

Gardens – Temple Israel section with 

Rabbi Misha Zinkow officiating. In 

lieu of flowers, donations may be 

made to Melissa’s House at www. 

melissashouse.org or to the American 

Heart Association. 

OBITUARY/SKILKEN 

B. Lee Skilken, age 80, passed away 

peacefully on June 23, 2010. He was 

preceded in death by his parents, Morris 

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grandchildren, Michael (Delia) Gold, 

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