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                               Today's Postings

Shoshana Bryen
in Washington: "Gates sees U.S. consensus on Iraq"

Donald H. Harrison
in San Diego: "
Acts of kindness, large and small, characterize response to fires"

J. Zel Lurie
in Delray Beach, Florida: "Watching the media and the media watchers"

Joe Naiman
in Lakeside, California: "Youkilis
sets two LCS records,
ties mark for most LCS hits"

Ira Sharkansky
in Jerusalem: "Jewish American success stories"


                                The week in Review
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Monday, October 22

Shoshana Bryen in Washington DC "Gates underscores threat of Iran and the jihadists in speech to JINSA"

Donald H. Harrison
in San Diego: "
Jewish community rallies to help victims, as wildfires sweep San Diego County"

Ira Sharkansky
in Jerusalem: "
Abbas' response to plot on Olmert's life raises questions about Palestinian intentions"


Sunday, October 21, 2007

"Cynthia Citron
in Los Angeles: "Divorce, Jewish playwright style"

Donald H. Harrison
in San Diego: "
Partying at the Air & Space Museum for Seacrest Village Retirement Communities"

Joe Naiman
in San Diego: "
Horseracing debuts as Hall of Champions' featured sport"

Sheila Orysiek in San Diego: "
Yiddish still alive, tickling"


Saturday, October 20

Shoshana Bryen in Washington DC: "Glad he spoke, but JINSA doesn't agree with all that Gates had to say"

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego:
Comedian ponders relations between U.S. Jews, Christians"

Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem: "He thinks he shall never see a peace conference as lovely as a tree"

Eileen Wingard in San Diego: "A golden baton winner looks back on TICO's endorphin-filled season"

Larry Zeiger in San Diego: "Book of David grows tiresome with its extended biblical metaphor."




                       

Friday, October 19, 2007

Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles: "Braille Institute honors near blind reader, 101, now an author herself"

Garry Fabian
in Melbourne, Australia: "How B'nai B'rith lit its menorah in Australia and New Zealand."

Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "
Evan Almighty mighty good way to spend quality time with grandson, 6"

Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego: "A kiss at a bris"

Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego: "'And you shall be a blessing...'"



Thursday, October 18

Dora Klinova in La Mesa, California:  "America?  Just a joke"


Wednesday, October 17


Sherry Berlin in San Diego: "Sammy Spider's webmaster coming to SD Jewish Book Fair"


Peter Garas in Gordon, Australian Capital Territory: "Jewish Memories: Australian BBYO activists designed intensive Jewish camp experience"


Donald H. Harrison in San Diego: "
Whistling right up to the bully"




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The Jewish Citizen
             
by Donald H. Harrison
 




PIZZA PARTY—Residents of Seacrest Village are served by volunteers and staff at Congregation Beth Israel, to which they were evacuated as a precaution against the advancing wildfire . CBI photos
Acts of kindness, large and small, characterize response to fires

SAN DIEGO—Both as a community and as individuals, Jews have been responding to the fire disaster that has displaced more than a half million people and destroyed more than 1,000 structures in San Diego County.  The mitzvahs being done are both large and small, but all of them are important.

One of the most immediate challenges facing the Jewish community was transferring to safety the seniors living in the two Jewish retirement homes known as the Seacrest Villages.  Although they are separated by many miles, both homes were threatened by the Witch Creek fire in the central portion of the county.  The first to come under threat on Monday morning was Seacrest Village at Rancho Bernardo, a northern inland section of the City of San Diego bordering the city of Poway.

Pam Ferris, executive director of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities, barely had arranged for some 37 Rancho Bernardo seniors to be transported to the sister facility at Encinitas, when she learned on Monday afternoon that safety officials were issuing a voluntary evacuation advisory for Encinitas as well.  Although the fire hadn't reached that area, winds were blowing in that direction.

Ferris decided to have the Rancho Bernardo seniors continue on buses to Heritage Pointe, another senior facility which is located in Mission Viejo in neighboring Orange County.  But that still left the problem about what to do for the seniors in the facility in Encinitas, a coastal city north of San Diego.

It was decided to transport approximately 20 Encinitas residents to a skilled nursing facility in Laguna Hills, close to Heritage Pointe in Mission Viejo.  Another 100 were evacuated to Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform congregation that occupies a large campus in the La Jolla section of San Diego.  There, two social halls were transformed into dormitories and lounges. 

That left 32 patients who require the most acute care still at the Encinitas facility. Until such time as authorities declared evacuation from Encinitas to be mandatory, that was deemed the safest place for them—close to all the medical equipment that they require, Ferris said.

She noted that on Monday when Poway was under evacuation orders, ambulances were sent
on a priority basis for the patients at Pomerado Hospital. If mandatory evacuation were ordered for Encinitas, the acute care patients at Seacrest Village would have received similar priority for transfer to area hospitals.  Especially now that the other residents have been safely transferred, "if we do have to evacuate them (the acute care patients), we will be able to do it in a calm and systematic way," Ferris explained.

A local furniture company donated mattresses for the cots at Congregation Beth Israel and other donations—such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, and other hygienic items—also were gathered. 

Pizzas were delivered, making the seniors' first night at Congregation Beth Israel a pizza party night.  Volunteers from the Reform congregation came in to play games, entertain, and just be with the residents.

Ferris said she saw one resident seated with a blanket on a couch at Beth Israel.  When she asked the resident if she could help her pull the blanket over her, the resident responded that there was no hurry, that she was imagining that she was at the beginning of a long flight similar to the one she had taken from South Africa to the United States.

Lesley Mills, acting executive director of Congregation Beth Israel, said although it is likely that some members of the congregation were among the half million evacuees in the county, most had made arrangements to stay with friends or relatives and therefore didn't need to take shelter at the congregation.

"We did have one family show up last night, but they have since moved to be with their family in Palm Springs," Mills said.

Elsewhere, Chabad at San Diego State had eight families answer its published invitation to evacuees to stay at its facilities in the College area of San Diego.

Jewish agency and synagogue directors, as well as observers from the national United Jewish Communities, participated this morning in a conference telephone call to assess how the fires had affected an estimated 120,000 Jewish community members in San Diego County.

As a first order of business, they decided that Jewish Family Service would set up a Fire Support Hotline at (800) 295-4254 and an email line at firesupport@jfssd.org.

Which community members have had their homes destroyed by fire is not yet known, as information is sketchy between the fire lines and the evacuation centers.  However, plans were made to draw up a master list of Jewish  communal members who have suffered such losses, and to notify them of their eligibility for assistance.

Four years ago, when the Cedar fire destroyed 500 homes in San Diego County, the community raised about $375,000 both for short-term and long-term needs, according to Charlene Seidle, associate director of the Jewish Community Foundation.

Since the creation on Monday of an emergency fund in response to this year's fires, more than $60,000 already has been raised, she said.  In addition, Jewish Family Service is accepting donations of non-perishable food, diapers, baby formula, and personal hygiene items, according to Jill Borg Spitzer, JFS executive director

Seidle said each of 40 Jewish families who had been burned out of their homes in 2003 was given a $1,000 grant from the Jewish community as an expression of solidarity and to help  defray some immediate costs such as new clothes, temporary lodgings and replacement of business equipment.  "I remember we bought one lady a sewing machine, because that was how she earned her living," Seidle said.

Thereafter, she said, under the direction of a case manager hired to work with fire victims, more grants were given out to assist those families in their recovery.

In addition to creating a new data base and preparing to administer financial relief, the communal leadership surveyed each other to determine if the fires had thus far caused any property damage. 

There was some smoke damage at the Lawrence Family JCC, Jacobs family campus, requiring the rental of four air scrubbers, according to Michael Cohen, the executive director.

"We've had them going and today the air is pretty good," Cohen said.

No synagogues or other communal buildings were known to have suffered fire damage, although some were closed because they were in evacuation areas.

Michael Rassler, chief executive officer of the United Jewish Federation (who himself was evacuated from his home with his family), described the response of both the Jewish community and the larger general community to the fires to be "personally and professionally very uplifting. There are so many people who are doing so much to help strangers.  Everyone is coming together to do what they can; it is very inspiring.  The mood of the community, while somber and very concerned, is one of caring and action for and in behalf of those in need.  We know that the emergency will go on for a while, so it will take a sustained response and sustained compassion."

Schools throughout San Diego County, including the Jewish schools, were closed today, with some planning to reopen on Thursday.



MITZVAH RANGERS—In top photo, Shor Masori, right, makes a sword for three young evacuees at Qualcomm Stadium. In bottom photo, he and Tayo Rhodes, a fellow first grader at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, share a moment of elation after they give bags of toys to Officer Cylnthia Long.  Sandi Masori photos

Among the pupils who had the day off today from Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School were first graders Shor Masori, who is my grandson, and his friend Tayo Rhodes.  With their mothers, Sandi Masori and Denise Rhodes, they collected stuffed animals, action figures, and other barely used toys from their rooms, stuffed them into large black plastic bags and loaded them into their car.

Then the mothers and sons drove to Qualcomm Stadium, one of San Diego's evacuation centers, where Shor and Tayo, calling themselves "the Mitzvah Rangers" distributed their toys to children of their own age and younger.  They also made simple balloon swords and dogs for their peers.

Asked why they were willing to give away so many of their possessions, Shor responded simply, "there are some kids who don't have any."

Tomorrow, although there are no formal classes, Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School students who want to go to school will host their contemporaries from Chabad Hebrew Academy in a 10 a.m. to noon play date.

Although there are justifiable feelings of good will among San Diegans, members of the Jewish community who lead San Diego's law enforcement community are not taking any chances.  Sheriff Bill Kolender says evacuated neighborhoods are being patrolled to guard against possible looting, and District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said anyone caught looting will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

 

 


 


Letter from Jerusalem
                                By Ira Sharkansky

Jewish American success stories

JERUSALEM—Our visits with family spread from a water front home on Cape Cod to a gated
community north of Los Angeles. We spent time with two older children, one grandson, six cousins, their children and grandchildren, spouses and friends. We are sorry to have missed others, but the delicate health of Varda's mother caused us to limit our time away.

We enjoyed opulence on some occasions, saw and heard about lots of success. Almost everyone else I know about is well educated, comfortable or better financially. Several have made it to the pinnacles of major corporations, private enterprise, or their professions. We have come a long way from a 20 year old peddler and a 14 year old apprentice tailor who arrived in the United States toward the end of the 19th century, and later became my grandfathers. During the 1950s I aspired to a steady income of $100 a week as a teacher.

I wonder about the source of the success: good genes, the
 

opportunities available in the United States, or just a couple of
Jewish families left alone for four generations.

It is not possible for me to celebrate our own accomplishments without thinking about Varda's family. In the 1920s, when my grandfathers were struggling in Fall River, her family was comfortably middle class or better in Weimar Germany. They included veterans from the German Army of World War I, who may have been posted against the young American soldier who came to be my father. Now most of Varda's relatives are here. It is a much smaller family than mine.

There are no guarantees.


 


Gates sees U.S. consensus on Iraq

[Ed. Note: This is the third of a three-part series covering the speech delivered by Secretary of Defense Gates to JINSA on October 15
.  His comments are in italics]

By Shoshana Bryen

WASHINGTON, D.C.—How we got to this point, whether and what kind of mistakes were made, will undoubtedly be the subject of historical analysis for a long time to come. Right now though, members of both parties are realizing the full extent of the challenges we face - how dangerous a failed state in Iraq and an ascendant al Qaeda would be, not just in the short-term, but for decades to come. And, despite the sometimes acrimonious debate, I believe that members of both parties are slowly coming to the same conclusions about our future course in Iraq - even if they disagree on dates and details.

Bravo. One of our ongoing complaints has been the inability of either party to focus on the present or the future in Iraq and the implications of failure. Too much time has been wasted considering who said what to whom under what circumstance in the past. Secretary Gates focused on changes in the U.S. deployment and the circumstances that will enable us to draw down our forces in a manner consistent with security for Iraq, the region and the United States.

Over the last few months, there have been a series of public expectations about what the President should do in Iraq. It started with asking him to say he would draw down our forces; then it was a date to begin the drawdown of forces; then it was a timetable for the drawdown of those forces; and then it was asking him to state that there would be a change of mission.

The President has moved on all of those. He has announced that there would be a drawdown; he announced when it would begin - and that was a few weeks ago; he accepted General Petraeus's schedule through next July with a review in March to see what to do beyond July, a conditions-based timetable; and the President announced that this December would mark the beginning of a transition of mission.

Most people now are focused on whether the drawdown is swift enough, whether the timelines should be binding, and so forth. It is not, it seems to me, a debate, however, about the overall trajectory of the President's plan.

He couldn't resist a dig at Congressional critics:

I would only add that I hope those who have alleged that the views of our generals were neglected at the start of this war will not now dismiss the unanimous recommendations of our generals for the next steps.

Dr. Gates left JINSA with a clear statement of American goals in the region:

  • A unified and stable Iraq;

  • A just and comprehensive peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people, including, as the President has said, a two state solution;

  • An Iran that does not attempt to dominate the region by subverting its neighbors, by building nuclear weapons, or by holding Israel hostage with the threat of attack, and;

  • A reversal of the growth and influence of extremist networks and sectarian militia organizations that have become, in the words of our former theater commander, "the curse of the region."

We would broadly agree, with the caveat that the United States and its allies - including, surely, Israel - will find determined opposition on all fronts. America should be prepared to rein in the inevitable frustration and not push our allies for concessions when concessions are due from our adversaries.

Bryen is director of special projects for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)



 

Watching the media and the media watchers

DELRAY BEACH, Florida—Front page, top right, the lead article in  the Sunday New York Times of October 14, featured this double column headline:

Analysts  find Israel struck
A Syrian nuclear project
                  
Readers of  the Jewish Journal and the San Diego Jewish World  read the same story in greater detail and accuracy three weeks earlier. The headline on my column in the Journal was: “Israel Bombs Syria, but Please Don't Mention It.

 

To this day Bashar Assad has not admitted that anything was bombed besides an empty building “connected to the military.”
The Israeli press has been operating under strict military censorship. But they are allowed to publish what has been reported abroad. The Times article was fully reported in Monday’s Israeli  papers and TV.

The Times report was gleefully greeted by the Israeli public. With the lack of authentic news in the media the rumor network had a field day.

One of their fantastic stories had been picked up by the Spectator, a London weekly, and was reprinted in Israel. According to the Spectator the site of the Syria’s potential nuclear plant in Deir as Zawr a town in Northeastern Iraq, had been under intense surveillance by Israel’s Ofek spy satellite,

Soon after the North Korean freighter, the Ali Hamad,  had delivered its cargo of “cement,” the Spectator reports, “a band of elite Israeli commandos had crossed into Syria and headed for the town. Soil samples and other material they collected there were returned to Israel. Sure enough they indicted that the cargo was nuclear.”

Is  this story  true or is it a concoction to emulate the raid on Beirut many decades ago by the elite commandos, headed at the time by Ehud Barak, the current Minister of Defense? The raid, showing Barak dressed as a woman, is memorialized in Stephen Spielberg’s Munich.

My belief is that this account is factual. It would not be too difficult for the elite commandos to cross into Syria from Turkey or Iraq without detection.

Another unknown at this time is why the Times comprehensive account does not mention the Ali Hamid. Perhaps it is because the ship had passed through the Suez Canal last summer and had been wandering around the Eastern Mediterranean for several months.

Israeli intelligence could have told the Times that North Korea had shipped the blueprints and other material needed to build the reactor by air. The Ali Hamid’s cargo was too large for an air shipment and the freighter had wandered around until the reactor builders were ready for its cargo,

The North Korean ship had docked on September 3. The air strike that destroyed the reactor occurred in the early morning of September 6.

The operation  itself  was a breeze. The sophisticated equipment of the stealth bombers blinded the Syrian anti-aircraft guns. Not a shot was fired. No Syrian fighters were scrambled.

The big question remains.  Why has the world treated this operation so differently than Israel’s destruction of the French-built Iraqi reactor in 1981? Then every Arab country and every Western nation.  including the United States, denounced Israel. This time not a peep has been heard from any country except North Korea.

CAMERA vs. CNN

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) placed a full page ad in the New York Times on October 17 attacking Christina Amanpour’s “GOD’S WARRIORS’ —three hours  on the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Moslem and Christian fundamentalists and terrorists.

First of all the ad is neither  accurate nor fair just like all CAMERA diatribes. The ad quotes several small right-wing papers such as the New York Sun, the Jerusalem Post, the American Spectator and a couple of others.  There is, of course, no mention of the myriad of accolades that Christina Amanpour received from leading American newspapers, such as the New York Times, for a job well-done

Secondly, unfortunately I missed the series. I’m waiting for CNN to repeat it. It cost much money. It got a big audience. Another showing would get even more viewers. CNN what are you waiting for? The best answer to CAMERA would be to show it again.

Thirdly, a breakfast buddy, who supports CAMERA,  gave me a DVD of the first hour on the Jews so I am able to criticize how Amanpour handles this sensitive topic witch CAMERA found abhorrent..

Amanpour  falls down in the first section. It is titled Murder in Hebron. I expected to see a replay of the Jewish American arch-terrorist, Dr. Benjamin Goldstein, who shot in the back over a hundred Moslems while they were praying in the Hebron mosque, killing 29 and wounding the rest. When he stopped to reload he was killed by an Arab wielding a fire extinguisher.

The Orthodox Jews in Hebron and vicinity, “God’s Warriors,” have made a shrine of  Dr. Goldstein’s grave. But Amanpour doesn’t mention his foul deed or his shrine.

Neither, of course, does CAMERA. What Amanpour calls Murder in Hebron is devoted  to the stabbing of a Jewish settler by an Arab terrorist.

Aside from this solitary lack, Annapour performs a generally fair, comprehensive workman like job. The second segment is titled  Two Soldiers. They are Hanan Porat, a leader of the Orthodox settlers and Yaacov Barnea. A secular musician. Both fought for Jerusalem in 1967.

Since this is about God’s warriors, she doesn’t point out that secular Jews, who built Israel’s economy, universities and museums, outnumber the Orthodox settlers by a thousand to one. I doubt this is what bothered CAMERA,

Amanpour does not neglect the American Jewish and Christian  organizations who raise millions of dollars for Jewish settlements.

Theodore Meron, a lawyer, who was working for the Israel Government when the West Bank was conquered in 1967, wrote a top secret memo forbidding settlements in the West Bank as contrary to the Geneva Convention. He told Amanpour Israel can do what is necessary in the West Bank to protect its security but planting civilian settlements is absolutely illegal.

There are about 250 settlements in the West Bank today.

Come on CNN. Show this again, With CAMERA’s publicity helping it would educate a substantial audience of millions of Americans.




Youkilis sets two LCS records,
ties mark for most LCS hits


By Joe Naiman

LAKESIDE, California—Kevin Youkilis set two League Championship Series records and tied the mark for most hits in a League Championship Series.

The Boston Red Sox hitter and first baseman had 14 hits in
28 at-bats for a .500 average while scoring ten runs.  His
.500 average in a seven-game League Championship Series
broke the previous record of .455 set by Bob Boone in the
1986 playoffs.  His ten runs eclipsed the figure accumulated
by Hideki Matsui in 2004, while his 14 hits tied the standard previously recorded by both Matsui and Albert Pujols in 2004.

Ironically, the previous record-holders had all faced the
Red Sox in post-season competition.  Boone was with the
California Angels during their seven-game loss to the Red
Sox and Matsui was with the New York Yankees team which
led the Red Sox 3-0 in the playoffs before Boston won the
final four games.  Pujols, who was with the Cardinals,
faced the Red Sox in the 2004 World Series.  Other
than Youkilis, Pujols is the only one of the record-holders to
have accomplished his League Championship Series record
with the winning team.

That 2004 comeback against the Yankees was also the previous instance of a team trailing three games to one in the
post-season before pulling out a championship.  When the
Red Sox overcame the 3-1 deficit to defeat the Cleveland
Indians in seven games this month, they became the
twelfth team to overcome such a margin in the post-season
(including the 1903 Boston team, which was down 3-1 to
Pittsburgh in the World Series and came back to win the
best-of-nine classic five games to three) and the sixth
team to achieve that comeback in the league playoffs.  The
1986 Red Sox were one of those predecessors, as they overcame the 3-1 Angels lead to reach the World Series.

The Red Sox and Indians began the League Championship Series October 12 at Boston's Fenway Park.  Youkilis had two hits in four at-bats and a walk in Boston's 10-3 victory.  He
also scored the first Red Sox run of the series in the
bottom of the first inning to tie the game at one run
apiece.

The Indians took the second game of the series, scoring
seven runs in the eleventh inning October 13 to win
13-6.  Youkilis had a hit in four at-bats and a walk.

The series moved to Cleveland for the next three games,
and the Indians took a 2-1 lead in the playoffs with a
4-2 victory October 15.  Youkilis had a hit in three
at-bats along with a walk.

The Indians' 7-3 win in Game Four put the Red Sox on the
brink of elimination.  With the Red Sox down 7-0, Youkilis led off the sixth inning with a home run. That was followed by home runs from David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, marking only the second time in the history of Major League Baseball post-season play that three consecutive batters hit homers.  Youkilisfinished the game with two hits and four at bats,
including the run and run batted in from his homer.

Boston's 7-1 victory in the fifth game October 18 saw Youkilis homer with one out in the the first inning for the game's initial run.  Youkilis also tripled in the top of the seventh inning to give Boston a 3-1 lead and drew a bases-loaded walk in the eighth inningto end the game with three runs batted in.  The homer and triple accounted for his two hits in four at-bats,
and he scored twice.

The series returned to Fenway Park for Game Six, and on October 20 Youkilis had three hits in four at-bats along with a walk during the Red Sox's 12-2 victory. Youkilis also scored two runs in the sixth game and drove in one runner.

The showdown October 21 in Fenway Park saw Youkilis garner three hits in five at-bats, including a double and a home
run in the eighth inning with a runner on base.  Youkilis
scored two runs and also had the two runs batted in.

In addition to his .500 batting average, ten runs scored, and 14 hits in 28 at-bats, Youkilis' League Championship Series statistics also included one double, one triple, three home runs, seven runs batted in, and five walks.

The Red Sox begin the World Series tomorrow against the Colorado Rockies.