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Jewish Herald-Voice
August 16, 2012
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Jewish groups focus on budget in assessing Ryan pick
By RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Partisan
Jewish groups focused on Rep. Paul
Ryan’s leading role in the budget
standoff in assessing Mitt Romney’s
pick as running mate. Ryan,
R-Wis., chair of the U.S. House of
Representatives Budget Committee,
has taken a lead role in the standoff
between the White House and the
Democratic-led Senate on one side
and the Republican-led House on
the other. The standoff has stymied
passage of a budget.
Israel From Page 1
Israeli arts and crafts, played Israeli
games and music, practiced Hebrew,
grooved to Israeli dance and dined on
different indigenous foods.
“It’s been a very exciting adventure,”
said Katy Izygon, Shaar Hashalom’s
director of education, who co-created
and led the camp. “We wanted to give
the kids a taste of Israel. We wanted to
help them find a connection to Israel,
to see how wonderful and fun and
important Israel is.”
Izygon and her staff decked the
synagogue out in Israeli-themed scenery
and props, including a collection of
large landscape murals and a 30-foot-
long map of Israel, provided by the
Jewish Federation of Greater Houston.
The kids began their Israel journey
by boarding an El A1 plane. The
silhouette of a 747 was outlined, in
tape, on the floor of the synagogue’s
social hall. Hebrew letters on the kids’
boarding passes indicated seating
assignments. Teachers’ assistants
served as flight attendants. A projection
screen at the front showed film clips
of an airplane taking off from Houston
and landing at Ben-Gurion Airport.
Over the next five days, the campers
toured Tel Aviv, Haifa, the Galilee,
Jerusalem, Masada, the Dead Sea,
Beersheba, the Negev and Eilat. An
Israeli family visiting the shul helped
serve as tour guides. Each time a
city was explored, the kids walked
to the locale on the large map. Shaar
Hashalom’s Rabbi Stuart Federow read
Torah passages that pertained to each
place, underscoring the Jewish people’s
nearly 4,000-year-old connection to
their homeland.
During their Jerusalem visit,
the campers built a model Kotel out
of shoeboxes and papier-mache. In
the Negev, they took shelter under a
Bedouin tent and also excavated
“Paul Ryan has challenged both
party leaderships in Washington to
face up to growing fiscal problems
that threaten to blight our nation’s
future,” Matt Brooks, the director of
the Republican Jewish Coalition, said
Aug. 11, after Romney, the presumptive
GOP presidential nominee, presented
Ryan as his vice presidential pick at
a rally in Norfolk, Va. “And, while
congressional Republicans have
responded to the challenge, Democrats
have ducked responsibility.”
A National Jewish Democratic
Council statement says Ryan does “not
mosaic tiles that they painted during an
archeology-dig activity.
Slideshows helped illustrate the
adventure. Campers learned some
Hebrew in an ulpan and snacked on lots
of Israeli and Jewish foods. At the end of
each day, the kids made poster collages,
summing up their experiences. Photos
of the days’ activities were posted to the
camp’s website, vacationtorahschool.
org.
“My favorite thing was eating
the Israeli foods and learning what
everything was called in Hebrew,” said
camper Annabelle Heyman, 9.
Another 9-year-old at the camp,
Hannah Better, said she enjoyed the Tel
reflect Jewish community values.”
NJDC President David Harris said
that “Ryan’s signature budget plan
drew the profound concern and even
ire of many in the American Jewish
community because of its plans to
end Medicare as we know it, slash
vital social safety net programs, and
increase the burden on seniors, the
middle class and the poor.”
An array of Jewish groups has
criticized elements of Ryan’s budget
proposals, although without naming
him.
The Jewish Council for Public
Aviv visit. “It was really cool, because
people play tennis on the beach there,”
she said.
Ryan McGuire, 11, said he also
liked Tel Aviv, as well as Jerusalem.
“My favorite activity was building the
Western Wall,” he said.
Abby Kitmacher was one of the
teachers who joined the kids on their
journey. She recently returned from
a nine-month immersion program in
Israel.
“The kids were so eager about
wanting to go to Israel, themselves,”
Kitmacher said. “They asked me
so many great questions about my
experience. It was inspiring to see them
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Affairs (the Jewish public policy
umbrella), the Reform movement
and B’nai B’rith International have
protested proposed GOP cuts to
social safety net programs, including
Medicaid, which provides medical
coverage for the poor, and the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, or SNAP, formerly known as
food stamps.
The Jewish Federations of North
America has maintained a low profile
in the rancorous budget debate
and has not weighed in on Ryan’s
proposals. □
be so enthusiastic about being Jewish
and loving Israel.”
The camp fulfilled a need and a
desire, leaders said.
“Parents came up to us on the last
day of school and said we needed to
have a camp,” Izygon told the JHV.
“There were so many Christian Bible
camps in the area, but they wanted
something Jewish.”
Shaar Hashalom’s social action
chair, David Hirsch, partnered with
Izygon to create the camp. Impressed
with the educational programming
of day schools and synagogues in
Houston, the longtime Clear Lake
resident and parent of two kids wanted
to provide the same for Jewish children
living “outside the Beltway,” he said.
The result was a vacation bible
school at the Conservative synagogue
that brought kids closer to Israel by
bringing Israel closer to them.
Hirsch said planning for next year’s
summer camp already has begun.
“It’s our intent to make this happen
annually,” he said.
“We’d like to involve other
synagogues and attract more people
in the area - from communities in
Pearland, Baytown, Galveston and
even Sugar Land - and turn this into
a community-wide event,” Hirsch said.
Camp leaders credited the
Jewish Federation and Lori Actor
for providing invaluable teaching
materials for the camp, as well as
parents like Kelly McGuire who helped
out.
Camp leaders said they hope the
experience will inspire children,
and their families, to strengthen
their connections to Israel. □
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Campers learn about the Negev under a Bedouin tent. Foreground: Nancy Weiss, Katy Izygon and Bertha Woinsky. First row: Sydney
Kutowy, Jacob Hirsch, Sophia Hirsch, Harrison Muncrief, (hidden from view) James Steinberg, Catherine Steinberg, Patti Nesrsta,
Dylan McGuire. Third row: Xander Freedkin, Preston Kerr, Sarah Kerr, Amy Robertson, (behind pole) David Trant. Fourth row: Julia
Freedkin, Zoe Freedkin, Abby Kitmacher, Hannah Better, Ryan McGuire. Back row: Benjamin Freedkin and David Better.
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