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LATKES & L IGHT. . .A CHANUKAH DEL IGHT! A COMMUNITYcelebration of Chanukah! Every year the Morris Winchevsky School cel-ebrates the Festival of Lights holiday. People of all ages enjoy fun andinteractive activities including: Chanukah stories, dreydel games &Chanukah gelt and the school’s secular candle lighting ceremony. Thisyear’s highlights included Chanukah songs led by talented Toronto musi-cians David Wall and Josh Engel and a special Chanukah art project ledby community artist Naomi Kates. The above photo and the one on page 2are from last year’s Chanukah celebration. For more information on theMorris Winchevsky School readers are invited to visit www.winchevsky-centre.org or call 416-789-5502. The school is located at 918 BathurstStreet, two blocks north of Bloor at Barton Avenue.

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of Judas Maccabee, his father andthe other stalwarts of theMaccabean line, has been cele-brated in song and story for overtwenty centuries. There are fewJewish children who have notbeen thrilled by the heroism oftheir ancestors and few Jews whohave not been fortified by the glo-rious victories of the Maccabees.

The celebration ofChanukah is a yearly re-affirma-tion of the conviction that neitherdiscrimination nor persecutioncan destroy the racial and reli-gious identity which has been pre-served over centuries. The storyof Chanukah, its miracles andmartyrdoms, is our inspiration inthe long and painful struggle topreserve our faith and traditions.

Some twenty centuries ago,the ancient Jews resisted theattempts of AntiochusEpiphanes to substitute thepagan religion of the Greeks forthe monotheism of the Hebrews.Stubborn in their allegiance tothe faith of their fathers, wiselyled by the heroic Mattathias andJudas the Maccabean, the Jewsfinally won the unequal conflictand in a spirit of reverence anddevotion rededicated the Templein Jerusalem to the worship ofGod.

The history of those days,interwoven with rich and colour-ful legend, has been a flamingtorch lighting the way to the hopethat no attempt to destroy theJews can ever succeed. The story

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our society and in our gov-ernment. I have a deeprespect for the Jewish peo-ple and their history, andhope to strengthen thatrelationship in the future”.

One would hope thatTaylor will impress upon hisconstituents that phrasessuch s these must beremoved from the recessesof their minds. He should

committee hearing today, Iinadvertently used a phrasethat many people find offen-sive. I corrected myselfimmediately. I regret mypoor choice of words andsincerely apologize for anyharm they may havecaused”.

“Anti-Semitism andintolerance”, Taylor wrote tothe Anti-DefamationLeague, “have no place in (Please turn to page 25)

THE MUNICIPALITY OF JERUSALEM, IN COOPERATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH,recently opened a new Infant Care Center in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Infant CareCenter is the 30th of its kind in Jerusalem and provides free services to families, from doctors, nurses,and social workers including tests and lessons on health, safety and nutrition. The center in Silwan isthe first to open under Mayor Nir Birkat’s administration and is part of his strategy to close gaps inArab neighborhoods throughout Jerusalem in the areas of education, infrastructure, community ser-vices, culture, permitting process, and welfare services. “Opening the Infant Care Center in Silwan”said Birkat, “ is just another step forward in our duty to invest in the Arab residents of Jerusalem. Wemust close the gaps that are a result of decades of neglect by the Municipality of Jerusalem and theGovernment of Israel. The city of Jerusalem will continue to invest in Arab neighborhoods in coopera-tion and coordination with the Arab residents of Jerusalem in order to improve their quality of life.”

He has apologizedfor what he knows was an“anti-Semitic” slur but it’s aphrase someone runningnext year for State Senate,even in Texas, should knownot to use.

Texas state repre-sentative Larry Taylor told alegislative hearing concern-

ing a quasi-public windinsurance agency that itneeds to pay its claims ontime. “Don’t nitpick”, hetold the agency. “Don’t tryto Jew them down”.

No sooner had thewords come out of hismouth when he realizedthat “that’s probably a badterm”, In a written state-ment following the hearingTaylor said, “At a legislative



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It looked as if some-one had broken into thecentral casting wardroberoom and handed out thejalabiyas and kaffiyyehsmarked “Arab sheiks” tothe two dozen unshavenmen lounging on a grassyknoll, puffing on waterpipes and looking bored. Alarge, blue United Nationsflag flutters in the wind.

Suddenly, a groupof young men, faces hid-den by masks, rushes intothe compound shoutingAllahu akbar and theshooting begins. Out fromunder the robes of the“sheiks” come automaticweapons, as they springinto action. One man, asuicide belt strapped to

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Most AmericanChristian leaders stronglycondemned theKristallnacht pogrom thatthe Nazis carried outagainst Germany's Jews 73years ago, in which hun-dreds of synagogues weretorched, the windows ofthousands of Jewish busi-nesses were smashed, onehundred Jews were mur-dered, and 30,000 morewere dragged off to concen-tration camps.

But words of con-demnation were not alwaysaccompanied by calls foraction. When it came toadvocating steps such asopening America's doors to

Jewish refugees, or severingU.S. relations with NaziGermany, Christian voicestoo often fell silent.

The liberal Catholicpublication Commonwealcalled for suspendingAmerica's immigration quo-tas in order to admit morerefugees. The largerCatholic weekly magazineAmerica, however, took adifferent line. America head-lined its post-Kristallnachtissue “NAZI

Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of The David S. WymanInstitute for Holocaust Studies, which focuses on issuesrelated to America’s response to the Holocaust -(www.WymanInstitute.org.) The material in this article isbased on the Wyman Institute's ongoing research project onAmerican Christian responses to the Holocaust. - The Editor

CRISIS." But the two fea-ture stories did not focus onthe plight of Hitler's Jewishvictims. The first was areport about the mistreat-ment of nuns by Nazis inAustria. The second articlecharged that protests byAmerican Jews against theNazi pogrom were generat-ing "a fit of national hyste-ria" intended "to prepare us

for war with Germany." The issue did

include an editorial titled"The Refugees andOurselves"--but it wasabout the "grave duty" ofAmerican Catholics to helpEuropean Catholicrefugees. Jewish refugeeswere not even mentioned.

An editorial in theleading Protestant maga-zine, Christian Century, didaddress the Jewish refugeeproblem: it argued thatAmerica's own economicprob lems necess i ta ted


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INDONESIA, THE WORLD’S MOST POPULOUSMuslim country, has no diplomatic relations withIsrael. Despite this gulf, five medical experts fromIndonesia were among the representatives whowent to the Rambam Medical Centre in Israel tolearn how to build a system for treating victims ofcatastrophe, both natural and manmade. AtRambam, 27 doctors and nurses from 17 countriestook part in a unique simulation. This stagedMass Casualty Event (MCE) is not unusual initself. What is special is the human mosaic of par-ticipants from Albania, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Burma,Georgia, India, Vietnam, Jordan, Nepal, Kenya,Nigeria, Chile, Peru, Kosovo, Thailand, Ghana andNew Zealand. The full story of the event willappear in the next edition of The Jewish Standard.

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It is still unclear andappearing increasinglyunlikely that the popularArab uprisings of last springwill amount to any signifi-cant progress towards thecreation of free and opensocieties. The elementarymistake that so many seemto make is that 'electionsequal democracy,' but, asNatan Sharansky writes inhis famed book The Case forDemocracy, "elections arenot the true test of democ-racy, and are never thebeginning of the democraticprocess." What value is anelection with one choice onthe ballot, or many choicesbut a terrorized electorate,alternatively, less terror,more choices but complete-ly controlled access to infor-mation?

He writes, what isfirst necessary before free

elections can be held, is"free press, the rule of law,independent courts andpolitical parties." Of thesepreconditions, free media isthe first and most importantin securing a smooth transi-tion to democracy, as itspurpose is to serve as thetool by which all the othersare guaranteed.

As has been welldocumented, the organiza-tion and coordination of thevarious groups of revolu-tionaries throughout theArab world was largelymade possible as a result ofthe relatively recent democ-ratization of information. Itwas applied through vari-ous social media platformssuch as Facebook and twit-

ter. Simply put, whereas inthe past, media tools wereonly available to a selectfew, today everybody hasaccess to them.

It follows, that inseeking to ascertain thedirection in which the 'ArabSpring' is headed, and thelikelihood of the emergenceof true democratic societiesin the three countries thathave implemented regime




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R E V I E WART SPIEGELMAN AND THE HOLOCAUST

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My first encounterwith Art Spiegelman’sunconventional, yet searingaccount of his fatherVladek’s survival of the NaziHolocaust in his nativePoland, which he calledMaus, was quite by acci-dent.

It happened 35years ago in 1976, when Istumbled upon the originalthree-page work whichappeared in an under-ground comic anthologycalled “Comix Book”. Whatintrigued me was hisunique approach to thememoir of a Holocaust sur-vivor, in which the Jewswere mice and the Naziswere cats (in a more tragicversion of the classic cat-and-mouse confrontation).How Spiegelman used thecomic book medium, andtwo cartoon animals that Iwas used to seeing in Tom &Jerry cartoons so dramati-cally, stayed with me for along time.

Imagine my sense ofanticipation when I orderedvolume one of the book ver-sion of Maus from theQuality Paperback BookClub 10 years later. To mysurprise, Spiegelmanexpanded that three-pagecomic strip story to a bookthat not only pioneered thegraphic novel genre, buthas become one of the pre-mier works in the long list ofimportant books dealingwith the horrors of theHolocaust. The novel hasreached out to future gener-ations who might otherwisehave forgotten the broadtragic scope of the Nazis’“Final Solution” forEuropean Jewry.

To Spiegelman, themega success of both Mausbooks have been a blessingand a curse, both personal-ly and professionally (aPulitzer Prize, best sellerstatus and translated intoat least 20 languages). Butnow, he has produced abook that is a perfect com-panion piece to Maus (whichis being reissued in a 25thanniversary edition singlevolume), called Meta Maus.

Meta Maus effective-ly answers the three mainquestions that Spiegelmanhas been constantly askedby fans, critics and themedia alike: why theHolocaust, why mice andwhy comics?

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“It’s not the besttime for rabbinical employ-ment”, says Rabbi RichardHirsch, the executive direc-tor of the ReconstructionistRabbinical Association.Adds Rabbi Steven Fox,chief executive of theCentral Conference ofAmerican Rabbis, theReform movement’s rab-binical association, “Rabbisare working as chaplains, inhospitals, at Hillels on col-lege campuses, at dayschools and in the military”.Few do so by choice. Mostgraduates are hoping thateventually a pulpit job willopen up.

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his body, moves forward,his hands clenching twogrenades. Two of the menin robes fly at him andwrestle him to the ground,knees in back, as they dis-arm him.

It looks like a scenefrom a low-budget actionfilm, complete with smokegrenades and onlookersslipping into the frame likeloose boom microphones.But it’s the final drill in aweek-long course for pro-tection specialists learninghow to behave in the high-risk Middle East environ-ment. The participantswere reenacting a realincident at a UN installa-tion not long ago, exceptthat it was staged nearIsrael’s border with theGaza Strip.

“When you neutral-ize a suicide bomber, youdon’t need to kill them.You don’t need to give hima bullet if he is still aliveand, anyhow if you have togive him the bullet, it hasto be in the right placebecause otherwise youmight hit the explosives,”explains instructor MirzaDavid.

With unrest in theArab world now in its sev-enth month and no end insight, there’s growingdemand for personal secu-rity experts from govern-ment officials and busi-ness people. Over twodozen people came toIsrael to learn from formermembers of the country’ssecret services. They gotinstruction in not only howto carry a weapon and dis-arm an attacker but howto look and act like a local.

But don’t call thembodyguards.

“It’s a protectioncounter-terrorism special-ist and, no, we don’t dobody guarding. We doguard VIPs, but that isjust one aspect. A small,small aspect to what wedo. It can go all the wayfrom guarding convoys inthe Middle East to guard-ing an actor or actress inHollywood. It’s verybroad,” says Daniel Hout,an American currentlyworking in Afghanistan.

Mirza David, chiefexecutive officer of theInternational SecurityAcademy (ISA), the compa-ny running the course,believes the chaos will last“more than a decade.” Inthe meantime, countriesneed to keep their govern-ments and economiesfunctioning, whichrequires experts such asbusiness people, engineersand policy makers to bethere on the ground.

“Without protectionspecialists, nobody willenter,” David says. “Youcannot improve the econo-my in a developing area ifnobody is protecting you.”

On this trainingbase run by ISA, they aretapping into Israel’sunique experience in deal-ing with these threats andlearning counter-terrorismtechniques like convoy andVIP protection. The week-

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long course on familiariza-tion with the Arab-Islamicworld was preceded bythree weeks of armed andunarmed tactical responsetraining.

While learning howto look and act like anArab, the students havegone unshaven and dressthe part. They even weretaken on a ride on thedesert “Ferrari,” a gruntingcamel, and learned rudi-mental Arabic phrasesthat will allow them to dotheir job.

David, a chunky,gregarious former high-ranking Israeli securityofficer, struts into theBedouin tent and says inhis booming voice: “Repeatafter me, ‘Amn al-ard.’”

The crowd of mostlyEuropeans with a smatter-ing of Africans and Asiansreply, “Amn al-ard.” It’sthe Arabic for security onthe ground.

“You repeat this tolet people know you arethere when you secure anarea,” David says.

Out here, far awayfrom prying eyes, ISAinstructors teach Israelitactics. It is based on an

aggressive philosophy, onethat requires you firstneutralize the threat andthen evacuate the VIP.

With this kind ofaudience, representativesof Israel MilitaryIndustries (IMI), the state-owned weapons manufac-turer, couldn’t pass up thechance at making a salespitch. Tossing about themicro-Uzis and Tavorassault rifles of varioussizes, they demonstratedtheir lethality and offeredthem loaded to students topop off a few rounds.

Some of these menalready work as close-pro-tection bodyguards for theworld’s leaders or leadingbusiness people.

Feti Fanaj, 31, aformer bodyguard forAlbania’s prime minister,says he sought out exper-tise for his new securitybusiness and was drawnto the course due toIsrael’s reputation.

“We have Albanianinvestors working in Iraqand Afghanistan. The idea ofclose protection in high-riskzones makes them feel con-fident with us,” Fanaj says.

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THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TOpermit additional housing units in Ma’aleAdumim, Israel’s third largest West Bank com-munity, has again sparked the usual outrage inRamallah and been criticized in Washington as“not being helpful” to the chances of the resump-tion of talks.

tatorial governments havefallen very recently, andthat’s going to create newchaos and confusion in themarket and is also going tocreate some instability inthe market so I think therewill be more incidents ofterrorist attacks andsuch,” says Venky Raman,CEO of Singapore-basedHomeland Security andDefense, who also takingthe course.

Their backgroundis diverse, from police tomilitary, even a formerFrench Legionnaire. Theywill go on to work for gov-ernments and privatesecurity contractors.Julian Douet, 37, anAustrian who was bornand raised in Lebanon,says he left his family’srestaurant business toanswer a calling.

“For this profes-sion, you have to do it withheart and soul and thebody for sure. It’s aninstinct which had lay dor-mant inside me. I neededsomeone to wake it up and

they did it,” Douet says.Multilingual, Douet

is confident his meagerresume isn’t going to pre-vent him from getting ajob.

“There are a lot ofEuropean business peopleand they would like tocome and continue theirbusiness in the MiddleEast. Now it’s impossibleto go alone and that’s whythey need our protection,”he says.

Hyacinth Turnoe, abodyguard for Nigeria’sminister of commerce,says he’s anxious to sharewhat he learned with hiscolleagues back home.

“Israel has broughta standard of training thateveryone in the world willhave to emulate. I will takewhat I learned from Israeland impact on my fellowcolleagues to make themperfect,” Turnoe says.

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fession earning thousandsof euros a day. Just don’tcall them mercenaries.

“This has nothingto do with soldiers of for-tune. We aren’t mercenar-ies, nothing like that. Weare here to protect againstglobal terror, from sea tosea and from country tocountry. This is what weare here for,” says theAmerican Hout.

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fession that has existed forthousands of years. Onceit was called a musketeer,or a samurai. Today, it‘s amodern protection andcounter-terrorism special-ist,” he says. “Those whocall these guys mercenar-ies really don’t appreciatethe risk these people aretaking in order to protecttheir interests in thisworld.”

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mittee's budget.Christian Scientists,

although small in number,

"that instead of inviting fur-ther complications by relax-ing our immigration laws,these laws be maintained oreven further tightened."

A few months later,refugee advocates proposedlegislation to help GermanJews that could not be con-strued as underminingAmerica's economy. TheWagner-Rogers bill wouldhave admitted 20,000 chil-dren--too young to competewith American citizens forjobs. Yet even then,Christian Century found areason to oppose helpingthe Jews: "AdmittingJewish immigrants”, it said,“would only exacerbateAmerica's Jewish problem."

One notableChristian response toKristallnacht was an initia-tive by the U.S. branch ofthe Young Women'sChristian Association(YWCA). Less than twoweeks after the pogrom, itestablished a Committee onRefugees, which undertookinformation campaignsaimed at persuading thepublic that refugees wereloyal and hardworking.Unfortunately, the YWCA'snational board soon lostinterest in the project anddeclined to fund it.According to Prof. HaimGenizi, the AmericanJewish Committee ended upproviding much of the com-



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had the opportunity to exer-cise influence through theirmass-circulation newspa-per, the Christian ScienceMonitor. But true to theirchurch's emphasis on thepotential of prayer to healall ills, the Monitor's editorsargued that in response toKristallnacht, "prayer...willdo more than any amount ofordinary protests to heal thehate released in the last fewdays and to end injusticesand excesses practiced inthe name of anti-Semitism.”

The Monitor didacknowledge that "findinghavens for [the] refugees"was a necessity, butrefrained from suggestingthat America should serveas one of those havens.

One of the few con-sistently strong Christianvoices in the aftermath ofKristallnacht was that ofUtah Senator William King,a former missionary whowas arguably the most

prominent Mormon inAmerica at the time. WhilePresident Roosevelt onlyrecalled the U.S. ambas-sador from Germany tem-porarily for “consultations,”Senator King urged theadministration to complete-ly break off U.S. diplomaticrelations with Hitler. WhileFDR said that liberalizationof America’s immigrationquotas was “not in contem-plation,” King introducedlegislation to open Alaska toJewish refugees.

Sadly, SenatorKing's initiatives attractedalmost no support fromAmerica's churches. Theresponse of most Christianleaders to Kristallnacht, likethe response of theRoosevelt administrationand most of the Americanpublic, was, in the words ofProf. Henry Feingold, "nomore than a strong specta-tor sympathy for the under-dog."

the situation is unique.Dr. Adel Iskandar, of

the Center forContemporary Arab Studiesat Georgetown University,considered an expert onArab media (he is also aman with whom I stronglydisagree on a number ofissues) told me that in allthree countries, "the gov-ernment's effectiveness incontrolling information hasdecreased, and there is apopularity of messages thatare of a dissident nature."

Tunisia has high lit-eracy rates, and about 30%of the populace has accessto the internet. There are norestricted websites, and 20-30 independent newspapershave been launched withinthe past 6 to 8 months. Twoof the newspapers areowned by the new govern-ment. Iskandar scores thefreedom of information levelat 90% (Ten points abovehis score for the UnitedStates). Based on this ev-


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aluation it is fair to say thatthe fledgling democracy islikely to thrive.

In Egypt, the Statemedia formerly controlledby ousted President HosniMubarak is now in thehands of the SupremeMilitary Council. In-famously the TV networkblatantly attempted tocover up a massacre ofCoptic Christians perpe-trated by the controllingmilitary. Iskandar saysthat this was an "act of sui-cide" for the station andwill result in "continuedloss of credibility." A tug ofwar persists between theInterim Government andthe Military, the outcome ofwhich remains to be seen.Some 25% of the populacehas internet access andover 5 million people haveJoined Facebook in the lastyear. The future ofEgyptian democracyremains a tossup, leaningslightly in favor of open-ness with a current 60%freedom of informationscore.

The situation inLibya is far less clear asthere is little media comingout of the country in gener-al. Whilst infrastructure fornew TV networks hassprouted, the NationalTransitional Council hastaken control of state mediaand there is no criticism ofthe current government.There are a number of clan-destine news networks thathave sprung up, as well assome newspapers, internetaccess is intermittent anduncertain. Iskandar putsLibya's freedom of informa-tion score at 40%.

The real questionhowever, is how all this willimpact the Arab-Westernrelations. In a general sensethere is an assumption thatif democracy takes hold inArab countries, peace willflourish. Sharansky strong-ly makes the case for this inhis book, saying “democra-

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There have beenhowever a number of strongindicators that whereas rig-orous internal discourse inthe Arab media may allowfor more critical publicdebate, there are otherinfluencing forces that donot bode well for the West.

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HIS NAME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH TZEDUKAHand once again Seymour Schulich has shown hiscommitment to Canada and Israel. The SchulichLeader Scholarships is a $100 million investmentdesigned to ensure that Canadians and Israelisyoungsters become our future leaders in globalscientific research and innovation. All graduatinghigh school and CEGEP students in Canada andIsrael planning to study STEM subjects, science,technology, engineering and mathematics in uni-versity, will be eligible to become a SchulichLeader. Each candidate chosen will receive a$60,000 four year-scholarship with annual pay-ments of $15,000. “My hope” says Schulich, “isthat after a successful pilot this initiative will helpensure Canada and Israel are at the forefront ofexcellence and research for generations to come.”Twenty Canadian and five Israeli universities willbe invited to participate in the program. Each willaward one Schulich Leader in the first year for atotal of 25, the number rising to 75 students by2014. Sixteen hundred high schools in both coun-tries will send in their nominations. Ultimately theendowment will generate $5 million annually andbe indexed to inflation.



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street, and although takingcontroversial positions on anumber of internal Arabissues, it is almost uni-formly anti-Western.Iskandar confirms that "ifAl Jazeera were to changeits coverage, it would loseits following." A formeremployee tells me that fromWashington DC based pro-gram editors, there is "verymuch a feeling of 'let's crit-icize what the US is doingnow,' and they often usethe line 'let's hold their(American policy makers)feet to the fire.'"

The US governmentlaunched an Arabic mediachannel called Al Hurra,which according to a recentZogby poll has capturedless than 1% of the market.

The above men-tioned institutionalizedmassacre of CopticChristians in Egypt and thepronounced lack of objec-tion from the general popu-lace serve as a strong indi-cation that Islamist reli-gious prejudices are by nomeans diminished. This isalso indicated by the rise ofthe Muslim Brotherhood inEgypt and the election of a“moderate” Islamist party inTunisia.

In truth, even if rig-orous internal debate is fos-tered, a society that doesn'taccept the fundamentalhumanistic principle thatall men are created equal,regardless of race religion orcreed has not yet earned thetitle 'democracy.'

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The hotel has a nicepool, connected to an out-door patio and an amazingworkout gym open 24 hoursa day. Its treadmills havesmall television monitors

attached, with headphones,making one’s workout somuch more pleasant. Thereis an onsite restaurantcalled Trader Duke’s.

We were greetedwith hot chocolate chipcookies upon checking in.General Manager RickMilliken has been in thelocal hotel industry for 33years and converted thehotel from a Clarion to aDoubletree in 2005, atwhich time 33 suites wereconstructed. There are 161in all. The hotel also has abeautiful banquet and con-ference centre.

DINING OUT: TheSadie Katz Delicatessen(www.sadiekatzdeli.com) islocated at 189 Bank Street,just off Church. It is theclosest thing the city has toa kosher restaurant. Myfamily and I thoroughlyenjoyed our lunch there.Owner Glenn Walter openedthe establishment two and ahalf years ago and theJewish-style diner has aloyal following. You canenjoy Meredith Mann’sMatzoh Ball Soup, achopped chicken liver plate,latkes and knishes. Freshdeli sandwiches are theirspecialty. There is also anice breakfast menu.

We were thrilled tofind an OutbackSteakhouse (www.out-back.com) only minutesfrom our hotel at 150Dorset Street. This hasalways been one of myfavorite chains. Montreal’sWest Island had a franchisefor about a two year periodwhich we happily frequent-ed. Why it shut down I stilldo not understand. Well, ifyou want to experience thisspot, best known for grilledsteaks, chicken andseafood, then Burlingtonrepresents the closestopportunity forMontrealers. Torontonianscan experience the Outbackin Niagara Falls.

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JEWISH COMMUNI-TY: The state of Vermonthas about 5,000 people ofJewish faith – 3,000 inBurlington and 500 each inMontpelier-Barre andRutland. There are a num-ber of synagogues, includ-ing Temple Sinai (Reform),Ohavi Zedek (Conservative)and Chabad. Beth JacobCongregation is located inMontpelier. The latter is notaffiliated with any move-ment and carries out pro-gramming for reform,reconstructionist, JewishRenewal, and conservativefollowers Kosher food canbe found at t h e P r i c eC h o p p e r Supermarketat 595 Shelburne Road.

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of English Hilary Chute overthe course of four years,Spiegelman answers thesethree main questions, toprovide those who haveread and been fascinatedwith Maus, the story behindthis monumental literarycreation and its painful evo-lution.

Readers are given afascinating first-handaccount of this evolution inboth words and pictures.We find out why Spiegelmanchose to portray Jews asmice (based on the Nazis’“dehumanization” of theJews, whom they saw asnothing but vermin); hisdecade-long quest to get hisfather Vladek to recall allthose painful memories ofsurviving the Holocaust,especially as an inmate ofAuschwitz (the completetranscripts of those inter-views are included in thebook); how he careful ly

constructed the illustra-tions (which were influ-enced by the drawing stylesof early 20th century car-toonist Winsor McKay andMAD magazine creatorHarvey Kurtzman); the reac-tions to Maus by readersand critics after it was pub-lished; and the meticulousresearch he conducted tomaintain the historicalaccuracy of Vladek’s first-hand accounts. As well, thebook contains many prelim-inary sketches and draw-ings that have never beenseen before, which gives astark testimony to thepainstaking workSpiegelman went through tomake Maus such a vividsurvivor memoir with a dif-ference.

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ter understanding of theunspeakable horror of theHolocaust and the pain thathis parents were forced toendure.

‘The Holocaust justwasn’t part of the publicconversation,” writesSpiegelman. “As a kid, I canremember my friends ask-ing my mother about thenumber on her arm, andher saying it was a phonenumber she didn’t want toforget.”

That all changedduring the highly publicizedtrial of Nazi war criminalAdolf Eichmann in 1961.Speigelman discovered apaperback book aboutEichmann and his warcrimes, giving him his firstexposure to the many pho-tos that were taken of theatrocities in the concentra-tion camps. This led him todo further reading and con-duct research on theHolocaust. He pouredthrough the many Polishlanguage booklets aboutthe Holocaust his mothercollected after the war. Hevoraciously read many ofthe important nonfictiontomes and novels that werereleased during the 1960sand 1970s and quicklybecame part of theHolocaust canon, such asPrimo Levi’s Survival inAuschwitz, LucyDawidowicz’s The WarAgainst the Jews andTadeusz Borowoski’s ThisWay For the Gas, Ladiesand Gentlemen. Oncearmed with all that infor-mation, Speigelman feltready to confront his fatherin 1972 and conduct aseries of harrowing firsthand account interviewsthat would form the basis ofthe Meta Maus.

As well, the bookcontains a bonus DVD thatcontains many special fea-tures, including digital ver-sion of both Maus booksthat can be downloaded,essays, Spiegelman’s Maus


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THE DRUZE VILLAGE OF MAJDAL SHAMS ONthe Syrian border. The Druze have long beenconsidered to be loyal to Israel. They serve inthe IDF, but there have been some disquiet-ing signs lately. During the spring Nakba andNaksa protests, when 200 Palestinians livingin Syria, crossed the border into Israel andwent to the town center, some Druze in MajdalShams voiced their support for the protesters.O thers in the community were more concernedabout the loss of tourism revenue during acritical season. As for the trouble in Syriaitself, it appears most Druze in Israel supportthe current regime.

search trip to Auschwitz in1987 and the audio record-ings of his interviews withVladek Spiegelman.

Meta Maus is a bookthat fans of Maus have beenanxiously awaiting for avery long time. It’s a cathar-tic look back at a very tal-ented artist’s quest to tell adifficult story by using the

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national director of place-ment, “is that there is a lotof unutilized talent andtraining. There are rabbiswho don’t have the opportu-nity to build a Jewishfuture.”

Even the Orthodoxmovement has not beenimmune to the economicdownturn. ”There is noquestion that the market is

difficult”, says Rabbi RonaldSchwarzberg, director of theMorris and GertrudeBienenfeld Department ofJewish Career Developmentand Placement at YeshivaUniversity’s Center for theJewish Future. Many grad-uates, Schwarzberg says,have to work at odd jobswhile hoping to find a posi-tion. Some have gone back

to school to wait out thepoor economy.

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use his stage to make itabundantly clear that his“slip of the tongue” is not,as the ignorant believe, acompliment to Jews forbeing “good at getting whatthey want in negotiations”.

It’s worth noting,too, that Taylor has actuallybeen to Israel and, as such,should have known better.

Greek JewsAsk for Help

It’s not just thecountry that needs to bebailed out. Greece’s Jewish

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It will be some timebefore Jews will be con-vinced of its sincerity butthe Guardian newspaperhas acknowledged thatthose who claim that thepaper is “carrying materialthat either lapses into lan-guage resonant of anti-Semitism or is, by itsnature, anti-Semitic” mayin some cases have a validpoint.

Chris Elliot, thepaper’s readers’ editor,admitted that there werethree articles in the pastfew months which “couldbe read as anti-Semitic”.The articles included“References to Israel/U.S.‘global domination’ andthe term ‘slavish’ todescribe the U.S. relation-ship with israel; and in anarticle on a lost tribe ofMallorcan Jews, what Iregarded as a gratuitousreference to ‘the islands’s

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about 3000 Jews in Athens- and some 6000 in Greecealtogether - and Albelas’organization runs a syna-gogue, a school and a muse-um.

The new propertytax, levied by the govern-ment in an effort to raisemoney, has been particular-ly onerous. The Jewishcommunity’s biggest sourceof revenue is income fromreal estate. The problem iscompounded by the factthat a lot of property isvacant because people can-not afford it, or tenants aredemanding large reductionsin rent.

Greek Jews haveappealed to the AmericanJoint DistributionCommittee for help. TheJDC, which played a majorrole in Argentina in 2001,has begun auditing thecommunity’s finances. Aloan may very well dependon the Greek Jewish com-munity’s own willingness tobalance its books. The clos-ing of a summer camp forJewish children is an indi-cation of how painful thecuts will be.

“chosen” on an item onthe release of Gilad Shalt.“Chosenness in Jewishtheology”, Elliot wrote inhis column, “tends torefer to the sense in whichJews are ‘burdened’ byreligious responsibilities;it has never meant that

the Jews are better thananyone else. Historicallyit has been antisemites,not Jews, who have read‘ c h o s e n ’ a s a c o d ef o r Jewish superracism”.

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ISRAEL’S SECURITY BARRIER NEAR THE WESTBank village of Bil’in. Israel’s Supreme Courtruled that the route of the barrier near this villagemust be modified as it infringes on Palestinianland.



the paper did not deliber-ately publish anti-Semiticmaterial, But even ifthese examples are merely“read as anti-Semitic” theGuardian has to be morecircumspect. He wants“reporters, writers andeditors to be more vigilantto ensure our voice in thedebate is not diminishedbecause our reputationhas been tarnished.”

Kosher Cateringin U.S.Senate

We are not sure how“kosher” U.S. SenatorsRichard Blumenthal,Barbara Boxer, Ben Cardin,Dianne Feinstein, AlFranken, Joe Lieberman,Bernie Sanders or the othersix Jewish senators are, butin all likelihood they wouldprefer to see more than thefamous bean and ham soupserved in the Senate cafete-ria.

Well, it could be thattheir “prayers” have beenanswered. RestaurantAssociates, the contractorthat runs the chamber’sfood service, is looking intooptions for kosher food withdifferent vendors. No finaldecision has yet been madebut it does appear that forSenators who want thoseJewish delicacies, chickenand kreplach soup are onthe way for the winter.

Romney’s“Jewish” Connections

Republican presi-dential candidate MittRomney is hoping to appealto Jewish voters dissatisfiedwith Barak Obama’s posi-tion on Israel. While hisMorman background maydisturb some Jews, he doeshave a couple of “Jewish”tidbits in his personal biog-raphy which might over-come resistance amongJewish voters. First, hisfather, former Michigangovernor George Romney,

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NATAN SHARANSKY MADE THE WISH OFnine-old Racheli Berger come true when he metwith her at the Jewish Agency office in New YorkCity. Racheli, who suffered a stroke in July 2009,was recently approved by the Make-A-WishFoundation, an organization that grants wishes tochildren with life-threatening medical conditions.Her wish was to go to Israel to meet her hero,Natan Sharansky. When the family was informedthat due to State Department travel advisories theFoundation does not send children to Israel, theJewish Agency stepped in. Mr. Sharansky, whohad recently participated in the JewishFederations of North America's General Assemblyin Denver, came to visit Racheli in New York. Howis it that a nine-year-old child's hero is one of thegreat human rights activists of modern times?Racheli's mother, Miriam, has the answer. "WhenI was growing up, I was very involved in causesworking to free Soviet Jews, and NatanSharansky was perhaps the best-knownrefusenik. I told my children the story of theactivist who spent nine years in the Gulag fordefying Soviet authorities and demanding the rightto emigrate to Israel." Racheli was enamored withSharansky’s story. She has dolls named after himand his wife Avital. She reenacts their reunionafter he was freed from prison and met up with hiswife in Frankfort, Germany. She even reenacts themoment when, in a final act of defiance to theSoviet regime, Sharansky walked in a zigzagtowards the car that would take him to freedom,despite being told by his captors to walk in astraight line. At Racheli’s insistence, Miriam readssections of Sharansky’s memoirs aloud to her chil-dren, and they have watched him in dozens ofvideos online.

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Benjamin Netanyahu fromtheir days in the late 1970swith the Boston ConsultingGroup. And for better orworse, it was Romney whointroduced the currentIsraeli leader to Fleur Cates,Netanyahu’s second wife.

Barak Obama willlikely still capture much of theJewish vote next November.But if Romney is theRepublican nominee, he willnot give up without a fight.

“Hebrew Hammer”Wins MVP

Milwaukee Brewers’outfielder Ryan Braun maynot be Jewish in the eyes ofsome. But he shares withHank Greenberg and AlRosen the nickname“Hebrew Hammer” and hasbeen called a “significantJew” by one Jewish sports-writer. He is the son of anIsrael-born Jewish father,whose family was destroyedduring the Holocaust, and aCatholic mother. For mostJews that’s good enough tobe called the first Jewishbaseball player in nearly 50years to win the NationalLeague Baseball’s covetedMost Valuable PlayerAward. Braun was alsoRookie of the Year in 2007.

Braun plays on theSabbath and acknowledgesthat he has never beenobservant. He did not have

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