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Thursday, July 21,2005
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Reform leaders
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Jewish Learning
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Jewish-themed
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Violence
threatens Gaza
withdrawal
By Din a Kraft and Dan Baron
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip
(JTA) — A pool of blood seeped
over the concrete sidewalk next to a
parking lot blanketed in shattered
glass near where a mortar shell had
exploded, injuring two men,
including an American.
Security officers in armored vehi-
cles drove through Neve Dekalim,
the largest Jewish settlement in the
Gaza Strip, shouting over loud-
speakers to residents to stay indoors.
The barrage of shells that fell
Sunday on Neve Dekalim injured
six people, including two children,
and sent mothers with baby
strollers racing for cover. The streets
of the settlement of 2,500 people
were left empty except for ambu-
lances and police jeeps.
The long-simmering tensions
between Israel and the Palestinians
that recently boiled over into blood-
shed could kill off a truce key to the
orderly handover of the Gaza Strip.
After a Palestinian suicide
bombing and rocket salvos
claimed six lives in Israel last week,
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon unleashed Israel's most
vigorous counterterrorism cam-
paign in months.
By Sunday, nine Palestinian ter-
rorists had been killed by airstrikes
and army sharpshooters. In a sign
that Israel was prepared to escalate
its actions into a full-blown ground
offensive, tanks and troops massed
on the Gaza boundary.
But with U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice due to make a
troubleshooting visit at week's end,
Jerusalem made clear that diplo-
matic prospects had not dimmed
completely.
"We are interested in reaching a
political accommodation, but it is
clear that this is impossible when
such terrorism is wreaked along our
borders," Sharon told his Cabinet.
"1 have therefore ordered the secu-
rity apparatus to act without
see WITHDRAWAL p. 8
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New immigrants to Israel are greeted by Zeev Bielski, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, as they arrive at Ben
Gurion Airport on Wednesday, July 13. The new arrivals were part of a group of the largest-ever single-day aliyah of North
American Jews to Israel. Two El Al planes, sponsored by Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel, brought
500 olim from New York and Toronto. The planes are the first of six dedicated El Al flights this year carrying 3,200 North
American immigrants to Israel. This is the first year since 1983 that more than 3,000 North American Jews will be making
aliyah, and the first time a planeload of olim left from Canada. The immigrants were also met at the airport by Prime Min-
ster Ariel Sharon, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. See related story page 2.
Photo: David Karp
Life care communities5 financial benefits lauded
By Steve Israel
Special to the TJP
If you are an active senior looking
for estate preservation and health
care security, you shouldn't over-
look the advantages of "life care"
communities, a panel of experts
reminded a local audience recently.
Some seniors are even asking, "How
can I afford not to be in a life care
community?"
Relatively new to North Texas, the
life care option is "like retirement
resort living" that supports an inde-
pendent, active, high-quality
lifestyle; access to good eldercare
services, financial independence,
security and estate preservation. Life
care can also overcome some of the
coverage gaps built into Medicare
and long-term care insurance.
That's the informed judgment
of Michael Ellentuck, past
chairman of the Association of
Jewish Aging Services. Ellentuck
now is president of The Legacy
Senior Communities, Inc., parent
organization of the Dallas Home
for Jewish Aged/Golden Acres and
The Legacy at Willow Bend.
"People don't want to continue to
move," and that's yet another reason
behind the growing popularity of
continuing care retirement commu-
nities, Ellentuck stressed at recent
seminars for more than 20 financial
planners and other professionals.
Ellentuck is heading up the effort to
bring The Legacy — a "community
immersed in Jewish tradition" — to
reality on a 24-acre site at Preston
Road and West Spring Creek
Parkway in Piano.
The Legacy at Willow Bend will
include 103 one-, two- and
three-bedroom independent-living
apartment homes with approxi-
mately 900 to 1,800 square feet; 16
villas with 2,200 square feet; 40 one-
and two-bedroom assisted-living
suites; 18 memory support suites;
and 60 private skilled nursing
rooms. Seniors have already
reserved 60 percent of The Legacy's
planned apartment homes and
villas. Groundbreaking is set for late
October, and the campus is due to
open in 2007.
Life care "allows residents to age
in place," Ellentuck said. "That's
what today's senior wants and what
today's child wants — keeping
people active and healthy...yet,
should it become necessary, it's a
place that offers the appropriate ser-
vices or care so you'll never have to
leave the comfort of the community
you call home."
see LEGACY p. 11
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Adam Raskin
assumes Beth
Torah pulpit
By Harriet P. Gross
When Rabbi Adam Raskin con-
ducts Shabbat evening services
tomorrow at Congregation Beth
Torah, it will be his first time as spir-
itual leader of the Richardson
synagogue. But it will not be his first
appearance on this bima.
For two of his student years at the
Jewish Theological Seminary,
Raskin was Beth Torah's student
rabbi during the High Holy Days.
He led the Junior Congregation,
taught adult
study sessions,
gave sermons in
the main sanc-
tuary, and
developed the
family services
that have been
hallmarks of
the synagogue's
holiday wor-
ship ever since.
Rabbi Raskin takes over the Beth
Torah pulpit from Jeffrey Leynor,
who stepped down on June 30 after
16 years in order to concentrate on
the counseling and educational
aspects of his rabbinate.
Rabbi Leynor was one of several
officiants when Raskin married Sari
Levenson in August 1997. Her par-
ents, Richardson residents for more
than 25 years, are long-time mem-
bers of Beth Torah.
These close connections facili-
tated Raskin's somewhat unusual
move from Congregation Shearith
Israel in Dallas, where he had served
for three years, starting as assistant
rabbi after his June 2002 ordination.
The Conservative Movement
deems a young rabbi ready to
assume his own pulpit in a congre-
gation of 400 families or less after
three years of post-ordination expe-
rience. But movement from one
synagogue to another within the
same geographic area is quite rare.
Raskin decided to explore the
see RASKIN p. 7
Rabbi
Adam Raskin
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