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By Maximillien de Lafayette, Editor-in-Chief of the World Jewish News Agency, Bureau Chief of the International Herald Daily news http://www.internationalheralddailynews.org

August 2005

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLE: AMERICA'S 100 GREATEST JEWISH WOMEN. BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE. Read the full article and see their photos!

The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. Jewish women take the lead (2004-2005)...USA MOST POWERFUL WOMEN (National Influence, 2004-2005)...Read the full article in "Fancy Living" Magazine

THE HONORABLE JOHN D. NEGROPONTE, UNITED STATES NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE CHIEF, TO GIVE CHIEF ADDRESS AT THE APPEAL OF CONSCIENCE FOUNDATION’S. 40^th anniversary dinner

Rabbi Arthur Schneier

Photo: Rabbi Arthur Schneier

NEW YORK – The Honorable John D. Negroponte, United States National Intelligence Chief, will give the chief address at the Appeal Of Conscience Foundation’s 40^th Anniversary Dinner on Wednesday, September 21, at 6pm at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, 1535 Broadway, New York City, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, President of the Appeal of Conscience, announced today. This international gathering brings together leaders of business, public and religious life, members of the diplomatic corps, and prominent religious leaders of the Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim communities. The Honorable John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, will be honored with the World Statesman Award from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation; Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation, will receive the Appeal of Conscience Award; and The Honorable Peter G. Peterson, Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group, will receive the Appeal of Conscience Public Service Award. Several of the Dinner’s Honorary Co-Chairmen, including The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger and The Honorable Paul A. Volcker, will also be present.

Photo: Jorma Ollila.

The Dinner’s Co-Chairmen are Paul J. Fribourg, Chairman and CEO, ContiGroup Companies, Bruce Mosler, President and CEO, Cushman Wakefield, Dr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG; Hon. John C. Whitehead, Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Martin JG Glynn, President and CEO, HSBC USA and HSBC Bank USA; and J. Willard Marriott, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Marriott International, Inc. Since 1965, The Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an interfaith coalition of business and religious leaders, has been actively involved in furthering religious freedom, human rights and tolerance in Russia, China, the Balkans, Central Europe, Argentina and Cuba. The Foundation has been active worldwide, energizing religious leaders of the major faith communities for dialogue and coexistence. ACF recently brought together leaders of the Serbian Orthodox, Muslim and Catholic communities of South East Europe and Kosovo in order to advance reconciliation, peace and stability. For additional dinner information call Pat Amerman at (212) 843-8049, and for ticket information call David Rosenstock at 212-838-2660, ext 13

THE WORLD LOST A GREAT LADY: GLORIA HANNAH USISKIN STEINBERG.

Photo: The late Gloria Steinberg. She had class, beauty, human warmth and special aura about her. She contributed to many charitable causes and offered her heart to all those who needed a strong shoulder to lean on and a friend who cares to listen. She will be missed. "Gloria! Gloria to you, my dear friend. You will never depart from our hearts. And Maximillien here, will always remember you with respect, affection and gratitude.

It is with profound sadness that we must inform you of the sudden and unexpected death of the great Gloria Steinberg, on Friday 19 August. She lost consciousness at the onset of the fatal attack, never regained it; and was gone within a half hour of the start of it. I'm told she never felt any pain. Gloria's generous and warm heart was larger than life! She was adored by friends, relatives and even those who met for the first time. I was blessed and honored in chatting with Gloria Steinberg during my last visit to the United States. I was deeply touched by her goodness, lovely way of using words and telling stories. At that time, I needed a friend to talk to . And Gloria was there for me. She comforted me and "put a tiger in my tank". She lifted up my soul when I passed through moments of life hardship and difficult time. Once, Gloria said: "To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active-memoried, and persistently experimental. Without inwardness there can be no external world, and without imagination there can be no reality.

This was Gloria Hannah Usiskin Steinberg; even as it was her challenge to us all. I just learned about this tragedy from her son, Dr. Richard Steinberg, a friend and an American hero himself. Richard suggested that in lieu of flowers, please consider contacting John Carney, Edie Rosenthal, or Steve McCleary at the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (813-805-9400 or warrior@specialops.org ) to arrange a donation or to help them help the children of our heroes from the Special Operations Community in some other way. Richard, on behalf of his older sister (Sister Clare Edith de la Croix) and himself, thanked us all for our friendships and kindnesses to his mother in her life, and for taking this moment to remember her at the moment of her death. Richard added his email to me with his usual wisdom : Remember, my friends: second star on the left, and straight on till morning."-Maximillien de Lafayette.

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The High Atlas Foundation Honors the Jewish Scholar and Peace-Dialogue Advocate, André Azoulay, Counselor to His Majesty the King of Morocco, and his Excellency Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States.

Photos from L to R: #1. Mr. André Azoulay, Counselor to His Majesty the King of Morocco,. #2. His excellency Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States.

The High Atlas Foundation Hosts a Reception honoring Moroccan Dignitaries Thursday, September 15, 2005 from 6:30pm to 8:00 pm at Le Souk, in NYC. This event is a kick-off to a Gala Awards Dinner set for September 2006 where they will honor the Jewish scholar André Azoulay, Counselor to His Majesty the King of Morocco, and His Excellency Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States. It is a chance to bring together people who love Morocco and also benefit the High Atlas Foundation (HAF), which supports development projects in rural Morocco that local communities design and manage. Counselor Azoulay and Ambassador Mekouar have been extremely supportive of HAF’s efforts to promote rural development in Morocco. At the 2006 Awards Dinner, they will present to Counselor Azoulay with the "Moroccan Cultural Heritage Award," for his years of dedication to advancing unity, diversity, and shared destiny for the Moroccan people. Ambassador Mekouar will receive the first ever "Hassan II Award for Dedication to Moroccan Prosperity," to recognize his many years of service to the people of Morocco. Honorary Chairs of the reception include Haja Jamila Agzit (Forester at the High Atlas Management of Waters and Forests), Carol Bellamy (CEO of World Learning and former Director of UNICEF and US Peace Corps), Charles Benjamin (Professor at Williams College and former Director of the Near East Foundation in Morocco), Alon Ben-Meir (Middle East Project Director at the World Policy Institute), John Entelis (Professor at Fordham University and Editor of the Journal of North African Studies), Edward Gabriel (former US Ambassador to Morocco), Marc Ginsberg (former US Ambassador to Morocco), Hassan Hami (former Deputy Chief of Mission at the Moroccan Embassy in Washington), Kevin Quigley (President of the National Peace Corps Association), Tim Resch (President of Friends of Morocco), and Margaret Tutwiler (Executive Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange and former US Ambassador to Morocco)

WHO IS ANDRE AZOULAY?

Photo: Azoulay at "Le Festival International Gnaoua et Musiques du monde 2003".

.Azoulay is an outstanding human being. A patron of the arts, culture, and music, a scholar, an international peace advocate, president-founder of "l'Association Essaouira - Mogador".

Jamal Amiar* wrote in the Maghreb Mirror (October 1991, Page 22): Andre Azoulay: Setting Examples for Arab-Jewish Coexistence

Andre Azoulay left Morocco to start a new life in Paris in 1966. But, as a Jew who grew up in an Arab land, he has never forgotten that coexistence was possible. He was born half a century ago, in 1941, in the town of Essaouira, 150 miles south of Casablanca on Morocco's Atlantic coast. As an emigrant in the 1960s, he was one of the thousands of Moroccan Jews who left for North America, Europe or Israel. Despite all the political problems between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East since then, ties between Moroccan Jews and the land of their birth have remained strong. One idea that kept coming back during all these past years of conflict in the Middle East is that if coexistence was possible between Arabs and Jews in Morocco, that should be possible elsewhere in the Middle East. And the more so if hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews themselves lived in Israel.

Azoulay: "The Israelis realized that the Arab world had a civilization, an artistic and a cultural life; the Arabs realized that the Israelis had a human face."

Photo From L to R): Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, actress Amina Rachid and André Azoulay, president of "Festival International du Film" (International Film Festival)

Setting Up "Identiti et Dialogue": In the fall of 1976, Andre Azoulay took the lead in Paris in organizing Moroccan Jewish friends into a group that became known as "Identity and Dialogue," based upon the Sephardic Jewish history and culture that flourished in Morocco throughout the 500 years that have passed since the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain. "This Sephardic culture has, for a very long time, been neglected, unknown, and ill-known, and also often ill-treated in the Jewish world and in Israel itself, where it has long been considered as a kind of second-rate culture, Azoulay explains. Identity and Dialogue's first concern, therefore, was to correct such negative images. Fifteen years later, he considers that the goal of recovering Moroccan Jewish identity has largely been met. "I think that today all over the world, in the Jewish world in Israel, and on the Israeli political scene no one can deny the political, social and cultural reality of Moroccan Judaism," Azoulay explains. "In recovering and defending their identity, Moroccan Jews have become stronger." Today more than 700,000 Israelis, one out of six of the population, are of Moroccan origin. What few Americans realize, however, is that every year thousands of Moroccan Israelis visit the land of their origin. Another surprise is that, among Jews from Arab countries, Moroccan Jews are the only ones who have a federation of all the Moroccan Jewish associations around the world. It was established in 1985 in Montreal, Canada, with leading roles taken by David Amar of Morocco and Rafi Edry of Israel. The following year, then-Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres visited Morocco.

Photo: Mr. Azoulay.

Only 15 years ago, when Identity and Dialogue was set up, recalls Andre Azoulay, "Moroccan Jews living in Israel would change their names to make them more French-sounding than Arab-sounding, and tell their neighbors that they had come from Marseilles or Nice, rather than 'confess' that they came from Casablanca or Marrakesh. " Because that is no longer the case, Azoulay says, his organization is no longer so concerned with the problem of identity. What remains, however, is the issue of dialogue with the Arabs, the other reason for which Identity and Dialogue was set up 15 years ago. As a leader of a Jewish group of Arab origin, Azoulay felt that he should try to help Jews on the one hand, and Arabs and Palestinians on the other, come to know each other better. Since its founding, therefore, Identity and Dialogue has systematically promoted such cross-cultural communication. As a widely recognized professional in the fields of communication and public relations, Andre Azoulay was certainly the perfect man for the job. Before leaving Morocco, he had worked as editor of the daily newspaper Maroc-Informations. Later, in Paris, he headed the public relations department of the Peribas International Bank, a job for which in 1990 he received a prestigious French professional award. Earlier this year, Andre Azoulay moved on to head the Paris-based Eurocom Corporation, the world's seventh and Europe's first firm in the field. A tall and soft-spoken man, he put all that public relations experience to work to bring Arabs and Jews together. He confesses that he knew that "the task of bringing those Semites together was not going to be easy," but his faith in the future was reinforced by his understanding of the past, and particularly the Moroccan Jewish past. "Moroccan Jewish memories are many centuries old, " he says. "We know it has not all been rosy. There are black pages. But the Moroccan Jewish past has nothing to do with the history of the Jews during that same period in the West. In Morocco we have seen no deportations, no Nazism, no concentration camps and no inquisition whatsoever. Rather, we have seen Jews and Muslims living together and respecting each other. "We have seen a relationship develop that was globally positive," he explains. "We want to tell the world that something other than just war and bloodshed is possible in Arab-Jewish relations. Our examples can be found among our fellow Moroccans. Among the Arabs of Morocco, many share the goals of Identity and Dialogue. They consider that what they have experienced with their fellow Moroccan Jews is part of the national heritage, and therefore must be protected." In the past, Identity and Dialogue has organized many meetings between Moroccan and Israeli opinion leaders, particularly between Israeli politicians of Moroccan descent and Moroccan government officials in Rabat. Thanks also to the efforts of Identity and Dialogue, Israeli journalists such as Matti Golan and Yehud Ya'ari have been able to visit Morocco and report on their visits to their Israeli and international readers.

Photo: Mr. Azoulay with his Majesty Mohammed VI.

Andre Azoulay believes these meetings and visits, which have had a great media impact in Israel, have contributed to changes in the image of the Arab world among Israelis. "Those meetings," Azoulay says, "destroyed cliches and negative stereotypes on both sides. The Israelis realized that the Arab world had a civilization, an artistic and a cultural life; the Arabs realized that the Israelis had a human face." Azoulay considers himself an ordinary Jew, or, as he puts it, "a Jew concerned with Israel's security. " But, he adds, "I am not a Jew taking only my biological origins into account. I am also a Jew in philosophical and moral terms. I will not be satisfied until the Palestinians have recovered the whole of their rights. I will not be faithful to my own values until then." Azoulay's most significant experience in meeting with Palestinians was in what he recalls as walking the "common path" with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Issam Sartawi. For approximately eight years, Azoulay met regularly with the prominent Palestinian moderate, and arranged for Sartawi to meet with various other Israeli and Jewish personalities. Issarn Sartawi was assassinated in Portugal in April 1983, allegedly by Abu Nidal extremists, but this did not prevent Identity and Dialogue from carrying on meetings with other Palestinian officials. This year, Andre Azoulay and his Identity and Dialogue have set up a working group composed of 60 French and European Jewish personalities to meet once a month in Paris with a PLO delegation from Tunis. In 1989, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the French revolution, Azoulay received the "Legion d'Honneur" from the government of France. For the last few years, also, he has held the position of vice president of the Tel Aviv-based International Center for Peace in the Middle East, a group presided over by moderate former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. As Identity and Dialogue celebrates its 15th anniversary, Azoulay is particularly proud of its most recent months. The war in the Gulf brought Paris-based Jewish and Arab organizations together to work to avoid Arab-Jewish conflicts on the French scene, where, Azoulay notes, "Most of the Arabs and most of the Jews are of North African origin." The effort was successful, he reports, and again it augurs well for future cooperation on a wider scene. "Thanks to tremendous efforts and goodwill from both sides," Azoulay says, "we have been able, together, to look beyond the war in the Gulf and keep in perspective that what mattered most was the quality of Arab-Jewish relations." Now, like millions of Arabs and Jews in and out of the Middle East, Azoulay looks forward to the convening of the Middle East peace conference scheduled for fall. "Of course it is not enough, but at last we are talking about peace," he says. " Palestinians and Israelis are discussing the terms and the conditions to be fulfilled, so that, finally, when everyone sits around the same table, psychologically and culturally things will already be different."

* Jamal Amiar is a US-educated radio journalist based in Tangier, Morocco.

The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to establish community-based projects in Morocco that local people design in partnership with government and non-government agencies. Former Peace Corps Volunteers created HAF in order to use their professional relationships, friendships and knowledge gained during their years of Peace Corps service for the continued benefit of the Moroccan people.

Jason Ben-Meir is President of the Board of Directors of the High Atlas Foundation, an American nonprofit organization founded by former Peace Corps Volunteers and dedicated to establishing community development projects in rural Morocco that local people design and manage. He is also pursuing a Doctorate in Sociology at the University of New Mexico.

Photo: Mr. Jason Ben-Meir.

Mr. Jason Ben-Meir is also a fellow at the American Institute of Maghrib Studies. A former Peace Corps volunteer and Associate Peace Corps Director who served in Morocco, he and other former volunteers created the High Atlas Foundation in 2000 to utilize their professional experience and knowledge gained during their years of service for the continued benefit of the Moroccan people. Mr. Ben-Meir is also a founding member of the Diversity Institute, a nonprofit that promotes ethnic reconciliation and community development in the United States. Jason Ben-Meir's publications mostly focus on strategies for implementing community development in the Islamic world and how that can enhance relations with the West. He holds a Masters degree (1997) in International Development and Social Change from Clark University, Massachusetts, and a Bachelors degree (1991) in Economics from New York University. He lives in New York City

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PARSHAS DEVARIM – CRITICIZING WITHOUT HURTING
Beginnings are Most Important. They are starting The Book of Deuteronomy.

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HAVALIGHT EVENINGS SPARKLE!

HavaLight series of sparkling and cozy evenings will be exploding on Sunday, August 14 at GARDEN PARTY @ VILLA from 6:30pm to 11:30pm. Each Sunday, this most delightful group gathers the hippest and best crowd from the international Jewish community: Europe, Israel, Asia, South Africa, North and South America. But who in heavens, is HAVALIGHT?

Photo: Guests having the best time of their lives at Havalight evenings.

What we do know so far is that Havalight is the perfect place, medium and occasion to meet your perfect mate, mingle with the cultured and the curious, the intellectual and the adventurer, the classy and bohemian snob, the elegant and the existentialist, the refined and the delightful rebel all under the umbrella and rainbow of excitement and social delight. Well, here is an excerpt from an article published by the New York Jewish Week:

Dating, Ex-Pat Style byGabrielle Birkner

Paris native Georges Benoliel said, until recently, New York’s Jewish social circuit inspired, well, ennui. “At so many Jewish singles parties, people are desperate to meet someone within the first five minutes,” said the 24-year-old investment banker. “The conversations are ‘Oh, you live on the Upper West Side,’ ‘What do you do?’ ‘Where do you go to the gym?" Back in France, Benoliel said, it’s harder to meet people initially, but friends tend to form tighter bonds. “Here it’s easy to have 100 people in your cell phone, and not be able to rely on any of them,” he said. “In Europe, a good friend will mortgage his house to help you; he’ll take off a day of work to pick up your kids.” Last month, tired of what he considered shallow conversations at Jewish community-sponsored events, Benoliel, and his friend and fellow Frenchman, Gilles Amsallem, 40, decided to launch Havalight (www.havalight.com).

The social group sponsors weekly invitation-only film screenings and cocktail parties for young, Jewish expatriates and their friends. “These are open-minded people,” Benoliel said. “It’s possible to talk with them for two hours, without even knowing their names or what they do.” Party organizers ask that email invitations to the weekly parties, held at Midtown’s Bryant Park Hotel, not be forwarded to the masses. “We want to keep it intimate,” Benoliel said.

On Sunday, scores of well-coiffed, and often scantily clad, women mingled with Jewish metrosexuals at the hotel, after a private screening of the French animated feature, “The Triplets of Belleville.” The group spoke — in French, Spanish, Hebrew, Persian and English — about cinema, art, and their respective homelands. Havalight is an outgrowth of French Tuesdays, champagne-laden social gatherings for the French and Francophile communities in New York and Miami, of which Benoliel is an organizer. “People were saying to me, ‘Georges, we love your crowd; we love the music; we love the venues, but it’s uncomfortable to ask people if they are Jewish,’” he said. Nicole Hakimian, a 24-year-old Persian Jew now living in Manhasset, L.I., said Havalight was a welcome contrast from Jewish events with matchmaking directives. “This is an upscale Jewish crowd,” said Hakimian, who works in the fashion industry. “It’s an international group of business professionals. It’s not like they’re letting just anybody in. These are people with good jobs, who are good looking.”

Contact Information: online: www.havalight.com
Phone: 917-455-2200. email: georges@havalight.com Location: Villa Giardinetto, 735 2nd Avenue between 39th and 40th street.

HADASSAH’S ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION TO TAKE PLACE IN WASHINGTON, DC, THIS SUNDAY.
“What So Proudly We Hail” salutes Hadassah’s love of country and Israel

New York, -Close to 2,000 Hadassah members from all over the United States will gather in Washington, DC for the annual national convention of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, to be held Sunday. The 91st annual convention will bring together the two most important concepts to Hadassah members: American patriotism and love of Israel, perfectly captured by this year’s convention theme, “What So Proudly We Hail.” Over the course of three days, a roster of government officials, academic experts, and medical professionals will serve as keynote speakers and on discussion panels, empowering delegates to advocate with their national and local representatives on an array of American and Israel-based issues. “There is a certain energy in 2,000 Hadassah members arriving in the nation’s capital that always makes a Washington convention especially exhilarating,” said June Walker, National President. “This year, we are particularly energized by the recent vote in the House of Representatives in favor of stem cell research and by our activities this past spring to promote positive stem cell legislation.

Ambassador Daniel Ayalon Photo: His Excellency, Ambassador Daniel Ayalon.

We plan to take that message - and the message of preserving a strong, safe Israel - to our representatives on the Hill.” The national convention serves as an educational and motivational forum to launch and enhance volunteer programs that delegates will use in their chapter and unit activities throughout the upcoming year. Attending delegates comprise the governing body of Hadassah, and during the convention they elect officials and pass policies and resolutions on Zionist and American issues. Socializing, networking, and rejuvenating one’s spirit are also major components of Hadassah conventions. The chairs of the 91^st National Convention are Joyce Rabin of Woodmere, NY, and Judy Palkovitz, of Pittsburgh, PA.

Photo: Prof. Shlomo Avineri.

91st Hadassah National Convention program highlights:

What So Proudly We Hail will be perfectly expressed in the plenary session, The State of the Union, which will examine the alliance between the U.S. and Israel and feature The Hon. Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and Sen. Joseph R. Biden (D-DE). In keeping with the convention’s capital theme, it will be run like a political convention with a series of caucuses and plenaries addressing issues of concern:

Israel on the Hill will feature Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University; Ester Kurz, of AIPAC; Tamara Cofman Wittes, Saban Center for Middle East Policy.

The First Amendment: Are Your Freedoms at Risk?: Gloria Feldt, past president, Planned Parenthood; Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky (D-Il); Nadine Strossen, president, ACLU.

The Future of Advanced Medical Research: Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE); Prof. Benjamin E. Reubinoff, Director Hadassah Research Center of Human Embryonic Stem Cells; Daniel Perry, president, Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research.

Heart Disease Doesn’t Care What You Wear: Dr. Nieca Goldberg, Lenox Hill Hospital; Dr. Vivian W. Pinn, NIH; Judy Palkovitz, convention Co-Chair.

Politics & Policy - Why Women Matter: Ellen Malcolm, president, EMILY’s List; Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author; Linda Chavez, political analyst; Dee Dee Myers, political commentator.

Photo: Tamara Cofman Wittes.

Some 1,500 delegates will spend an entire morning on Capitol Hill advocating on U.S. and Israeli issues with their own senators and representatives. The Henrietta Szold Award, Hadassah’s highest honor, will be given to the Hon. Daniel Kurtzer, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and Mrs. Sheila Kurtzer, president, Corps Diplomatique. Delegates will be fully briefed on Hadassah’s medical and educational projects in Israel and entertained by Israeli singer Dudu Fisher and the political satire musical group, the Capitol Steps. To register for the 91^st National Convention, please call the Convention hotline at: (877) 790-2676 or visit convention@hadassah.org.

Founded in 1912, Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America is the largest women’s, largest Zionist, and largest Jewish membership organization in the United States. In Israel, it supports medical care and research, education, and youth institutions, and reforestation and parks projects. In the US, Hadassah promotes health education, social action and advocacy, volunteerism, Jewish education and research, Young Judaea and connections with Israel. For complete information about Hadassah, visit www.hadassah.org

Family Holiday Celebration Featuring Singer/Guitarist Shira Kline at the Museum of Jewish Heritage- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust .

New York- Experience the fall holidays of Rosh Hashanah (New Year), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Sukkot (The Fall Harvest Festival), and Simchat Torah (Rejoicing in Torah) through music and art - featuring a sing-along with Shira Kline and her band. Make memories with us as we look forward to 5766 and remember the joys of the past year. Create meaningful, new, holiday traditions for your family.

Photo: Shira Kline.

The program will include craft activities for all ages and a sukkah building project for tweens and teens. A light lunch is included. Shira Kline is a Jewish musician, educator, and performer living in New York City. For the past 14 years, she has worked with a diverse array of Jewish communities in New York and throughout the country. Starting at age 14, Kline began teaching Jewish music in Monroe, Louisiana. She continued her teaching while attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Over the years, Kline has developed an approach to Jewish learning that uses music, dance, prayer, tradition, and Torah. Who: Musician Shira Kline and the Jewish Community Project of Lower Manhattan (JCP) What: Family Holiday Celebration Featuring Singer/Guitarist Shira Kline. Where: 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280 Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaus. When: Sunday, October 2, 11 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. Cost: $10 per person/$25 per family/free for Museum family-level members

The Jewish Community Project of Lower Manhattan (JCP) is an inclusive, diverse, grass roots community center fostering Jewish community in Lower Manhattan. JCP connects people to one another by offering educational, recreational, social, and cultural programs, meeting the needs of children and adults of all ages. The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, located at 36 Battery Place in Battery Park City, uses a core exhibition of more than 2,000 historic photographs, 800 historical and cultural artifacts, and 24 original documentary films to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life over the past century-before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Museum develops special exhibitions and public programs to examine more closely specific areas of Jewish history and heritage. The Robert M. Morgenthau Wing contains the state-of-the-art Edmond J. Safra Hall, Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones, catering hall, classrooms, and expanded gallery space for special exhibitions. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The Museum is a founding member of the Museums of Lower Manhattan. For more information, visit www.mjhnyc.org or call (646) 437-4200. Contact: Ari D. Geller, Public Relations Manager, Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place - New York, NY 10280, P. 646.437.4339 - F. 646.437.4341 ageller@mjhnyc.org or AGeller@mjhnyc.org

KLEZMER FESTIVAL REVIVING JEWISH TRADITIONS IN UKRAINE

NEW YORK- The sixth annual International Klezmer Festival, popularly known as "Klezfest," and the largest to date, will be held from August 21 to 26 in Kiev, Ukraine. The festival is being organized by the Center for Jewish Education and sponsored by the Jewish Community Development Fund of American Jewish World Service (JCDF), UJA-Federation of New York and other local sponsors. Organizers are calling this year's Klezfest the largest and most diverse in the festival's six-year history of revitalizing Jewish life in the region by reviving Jewish culture and traditions. This year's collection of performances, lectures and master classes will feature a variety of klezmer styles from the traditional to the avant-garde, with 64 performers and teachers from 13 countries ranging in age from 9 to 85. Its high point will be a gala concert at Kiev's "Dom Khudozhnika" hall on August 25.m "In just six short years Klezfest has become a vital institution in preserving and reviving Jewish life in Ukraine," said Martin Horwitz, JCDF director. "Not only has it has created a fertile environment for musicians and scholars to collaborate, it is also bringing back Jewish culture to the communities it came from in the first place." A special addition to this year's festival is performances of century-old Yiddish "Purimspils" which were documented by Russian Jewish folklorist Moshe Beregovsky in the early 20th century. These vibrant musical satires were once a common fixture in the region on the festive holiday of Purim, and with the support of Klezfest organizers, funders and participants, this Jewish tradition is also reviving in the region. Yiddish classes will be offered at the festival in addition to the choral and instrumental master classes that will be taught by accomplished klezmer musicians from around the world. Participants from the U.S. and Canada are Joshua Horowitz (Berkeley, CA); Michael and Sonya Isard (Philadelphia, PA); Marilyn Lerner (Toronto, ON); and Lorin Sklamberg (New York, NY). For more information the public is invited to visit http://klezmer.com.ua (some English, mostly Russian) or call Rena Aghayeva at (212) 273-1643. Contact: Mike Blasenstein, 212-356-2963 mblasenstein@ajws.org

About JCDF: The Jewish Community Development Fund (JCDF), a project of American Jewish World Service, supports grassroots Jewish renewal and human rights programs in Russia and Ukraine. Its work is driven by recognition of the need for independent, creative and diverse approaches to rebuilding Jewish life through the revival of Jewish religion, education and culture, and the need to support efforts toward building civil society. For more information, visit www.ajws.org/jcdf.

About AJWS: American Jewish World Service supports over 200 development projects in 35 countries and provides emergency assistance when disasters strike. Whether through its work on women's empowerment in Afghanistan, income-generation programs in Peru, HIV/AIDS prevention in South Africa, or Jewish community development in Ukraine, AJWS works to alleviate poverty, hunger and disease regardless of race, religion or nationality. For more information, visit www.ajws.org.

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THE HEBREW HOME AT RIVERDALE ANNOUNCES FIRST ANNUAL “GRAND PARENT OF THE YEAR” CONTEST

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Riverdale, N.Y. – The Hebrew Home is proud to announce the first annual “Grandparent of the Year” contest, which will honor one grandparent who has made a difference in a family’s life. The Hebrew Home will announce the winner of the contest during its annual Grandparents’ Day celebration on September 18, 2005. Grandparents’ Day, a national holiday created to honor and appreciate our grandparents, originated at The Hebrew Home at Riverdale in 1961 under the leadership of the late Jacob Reingold. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed Grandparents’ Day a national holiday. The day was created to help preserve the relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren, and to officially recognize the critical role grandparents play in family life, especially with respect to grandchildren. In that spirit, The Hebrew Home is holding the first-ever “Grandparent of the Year” contest. Submissions can be made online by visiting www.grandparentoftheyear.org or www.hebrewhome.org or by mail (5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale, N.Y., 10471). The entry must include a 150-word essay that demonstrates why the applicant should be the “Grandparent of the Year.” The essays will be judged by their sincerity, originality, clarity, and emulation of the critical role grandparents play in family life. The nominee must be a grandparent living in New York City, Long Island, or Westchester County. The nominator need not be related to the nominee, but must live in the areas mentioned above. Applications will be accepted through September 11, 2005. The winner of the “Grandparent of the Year” award will be announced during the Grandparents’ Day celebration on September 18. The winning grandparent and nominator will receive a night on the town in New York City, including a limousine ride, a meal at the restaurant of the grandparent’s choice, and tickets to a Broadway show. The Grandparents’ Day celebration will be held from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM on September 18 on the Great Lawn, located at 5901 Palisade Avenue (rain or shine). The event will include children’s games and activities, music, food, and entertainment. The legendary Cousin Brucie will host the annual “Rhythm on the River” concert that day. Contact: Sabrina Tanenbaum Goodman Media for The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, 212-576-2700, x236 stanenbaum@goodmanmedia.com

About The Hebrew Home at Riverdale: The Hebrew Home at Riverdale is a non-sectarian, not for profit geriatric care center that provides a continuum of care to more than 3,000 older people in the Bronx, Manhattan and Westchester County, New York. Founded in 1917 as a shelter for homeless elderly in Harlem, the Hebrew Home now includes three long-term care residential facilities, two senior apartment communities, and ElderServe, the Hebrew Home’s community services division. For more information, please visit: http://www.hebrewhome.org.

“Disengaging from the Disengagement”: 130 Israeli children sick with cancer to attend overseas summer camp during the Disengagement.

Photo: Zichron Menachem volunteers remain at the young cancer patients' side from morning until late at night, 365 days a year, keeping them busy and cheering them up in the hospital and at their homes from morning till night. They work alongside a staff of art, music and other teachers. Zichron Menachem's library of games books and are at the children's disposals at all times. Contact them at: info@zichronmenachem.org

The “Zichron Menachem 2005 Summer Camp for Children Sick with Cancer” (our 46^th camp of this kind) will take place this year in Amsterdam and Paris during the anticipated difficult days of the Disengagement. Every year for the past 15 years Zichron Menachem has made a summer camp for 130 cancer-stricken children, and the summer camp usually took place at the start of July. This year, however, it was decided to “disengage” the children from the anticipated Disengagement, by having the Jerusalem-Amsterdam-Paris summer camp begin mid-August in order to prevent extra crises among the cancer-sick children during the time of the planned Disengagement. A crew of volunteer doctors and nurses will accompany the children during the entire camp, together with Zichron Menachem’s special mobile hospital unit that goes with the children everywhere. After a two-day start-off in Jerusalem where the 130 children – ages 6-20, from all over Israel – will become coalesced into a unified group, they will take off to Holland and Paris for ten action-packed, fun-filled days. The children’s volunteer camp counselors are young men and women – including National Service girls – who give the children support and assistance every day of the year whether in the child’s home, in the hospital, and at the newly opened Zichron Menachem Day Center in Jerusalem, where a wide variety of social-educational-rehabilitation activities and programs are offered to the children and their families. The Zichron Menachem camps are very popular among Israeli children sick with cancer, and are well-known among oncology doctors and social workers treating the children. This knowledge makes it possible for the doctors to plan the children’s series of cancer treatments as much as three months in advance of the camp’s starting date, thereby doing the utmost to ensure that the young patients will be able to participate in this special ten-day overseas event. When a child knows that s/he is scheduled to take part in the camp, it serves as a bright beacon of light to which the child eagerly looks! For months before the camp’s actual starting date, the cancer-stricken children draw together all their physical and emotional reserves in order to be strong and healthy enough to “get outside” their disease and to receive their doctor’s permission to attend the camp. The Zichron Menachem camps, which take place in the winter in Eilat, in the Galilee in the spring, and in Europe during the summer, are well known for their great success in achieving their one basic aim: the camps enable the children to forget that they are sick with and struggling against cancer. A great part of the success of the Zichron Menachem camps is due to the 15 years of experience that this organization – a pioneer in its field – has accumulated in all areas dealing with support programs and activities aimed at assisting Israeli cancer-stricken children and their families. For more details about the August 2005 Zichron Menachem Summer Camp in Israel and Europe, call (02) 643-3001, or 052-457-6348. Micky Wasserteil, “Zichron Menachem” mickyw@zichron.org Leah@zichron.org

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