JOKE OF THE DAY — A colleague sent me this joke:
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is now available in Israel in the following flavors:
Wailing Walnut
Moishemallow
Mazel Toffee
Chazalnut
Oy Ge-malt
Mi Ka-mocha
Bernard Malamint
Berry Pr’i Hagafen
Choc-Eilat Chip
Simchas T’Oreo
It should be noted that all of these flavors come in either a cup or a Cohen.

WHITE SCHOLARSHIP — The UMKC Bloch School of Management’s Lewis White Real Estate Center and the family of Lewis White announced the formation of the Walter S. Clements Endowed Scholarship to support graduate real estate education at the White Center, specifically the new Master of Entrepreneurial Real Estate. The Lewis White Center is the only provider of graduate real estate education in the region. The family of Lewis White has made a gift of $50,000 for a scholarship named after Walter S. Clements, director of the Lewis White Real Estate Center. Jerry White, son of the late Lewis White, noted one reason the scholarship is named after Clements is because “He brings outstanding experience to the Bloch School and was able to quickly develop a successful real estate program from the ground up, which has been extremely well-received by the real estate community.”

BIPARTISAN PLEDGE — The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee have joined together to encourage other national organizations, elected officials, religious leaders, community groups and individuals to join them in signing the “National Pledge for Unity on Israel.” This initiative aims to rally bipartisan support for Israel while preventing the Jewish state from becoming a wedge issue in the upcoming campaign season.
“If there is one thing candidates for high office, and people of all political stripes can agree on, it is the importance of the long tradition of bipartisan support for our friend and ally, Israel,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris.
“We want the discourse on U.S. support for Israel to avoid the sometimes polarizing debates and political attacks that have emerged in recent weeks, as candidates have challenged their opponents’ pro-Israel bone fides or questioned the current administration’s foreign policy approach vis-à-vis Israel,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. “The last thing America and Israel need right now is the distractions of having Israel bandied about as a tool for waging political attacks.”
Visit www.adl.org/unitypledge to sign “The National Pledge for Unity on Israel.”

JEWS PROTESTING — I regularly read the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy student newspaper, The Academy Voice, and the paper’s writers have contributed stories to The Chronicle. In a story published in the most recent issue (Sept. 24-Oct. 12) Senior Editor Sam Abrams reports that a former HBHA student is among those who have been arrested while taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement protests in New York City. Isaac Wilder, now 21, was arrested on Sept. 21 while leading a group of approximately 85 protesters to the New York Stock Exchange for the opening bell, and then to the Chase Manhattan Plaza. Sam reported that Wilder has been quoted in the New York Times following his arrest, saying that he told police officers “I stood my ground, and said that we were within our rights.” Wilder was also allegedly asked questions about the Israeli stamps on his passports while he was debriefed by police. He was released from custody after a short time with a summons to appear later in court.

SOUND THE SHOFAR — If you are planning a trip to Jerusalem between now and February, our Israeli correspondent Sybil Kaplan recommends a visit to the Bible Lands Museum. Last month it opened “Sound the Shofar — A Witness to History. She said the exhibit is fascinating and shows aspects of Jewish history through the prism of a shofar over the last 3,000 years. A short film about making shofarim can also be viewed, but Kaplan reports that not everything is revealed as some of the techniques of making the shofar are secret.

Correction

The identification of the girls featured in a photo illustrating the Tot Shabbat story published in the Oct. 20 issue was reversed. They girls are Delilah Rose Garcia (left) and Alice Lenz.