of mobile art for the city.
Following the Dec. 1 bombing,
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert decid-
ed to organize holiday festivities in the
center of town, both in memory of the
victims and to raise people's spirits,
Ben-Asher said.
Vocational rehabilitation & training
Senior adult volunteer opportunities
Adult day care
School-to-work-programs
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Refugee employment services
Career & educational counseling
Employment services and seminars
Retirement activities
Supports coordination
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Site Of Blast
At the bottom of Ben-Yehuda, next to
Zion Square, dying flowers and the
empty tins of memorial candles com-
memorate the site of one explosion. A
sign propped in a nearby tree reads,
"The nation of Israel is alive and
strong." The sound stage sits on the
site of the other explosion.
"It's a lot nicer to pass by and create,
listen to music and watch performers,
than to pass by and look at all the can-
dles and feel an ache in the heart,"
Ben-Asher said.
Tuesday was the first day Rina
Cohen Sabari, 44, had been in town
since the attack. "I'm afraid for my
son," she said, stringing beads next to
Lidor, 5, who was doing the same.
"It's a shame to miss out" on the fes-
tivities, Cohen Sabari said of her deci-
sion to come to the city center, yet
she's not relaxed about the decision.
"I'm telling him, 'Hurry up, hurry
up, let's go,' she said.
Others also refused to change their
routines. Inbar Goshecsini, 22, adopt-
ed a fatalistic approach. "If I'm des-
tined to die, I'll die," she said. "My
father tells me not to go out for fun.
What's the difference? I can also die
when I go to work."
Soon after the attack, Goshecsini, a
beauty consultant, lit candles at the
site. Now she wants to get back to her
normal life.
"No one's going to lock me up in
the house," she said, standing across
the street from the Sbarro's pizzeria,
where another major attack took place
in August. "I want to live normally."
Ora and Moshe Chayat came into
Jerusalem from the town of Kochav
Yair with their baby and 13-year-old
daughter. "It doesn't deter us," said
Ora Chayat, 40. "On the contrary,
every place you don't go to is just a
reward for terrorism." Further away
from downtown, Tamar Hacohen, 24,
expressed the combination of fear and
determination that characterized many
responses. "There is some fear, yes,"
she said, standing with her husband
and two daughters. "But I don't think
it causes us to change our routine."
"It could be that we think twice,"
she said about traveling into town,
"but then we go."
Jewish values at work
Tatyana Levina and her family fled their homeland to begin
life anew in the Detroit area. Through JVS job readiness classes
and referrals, Tatyana's husband gained work as a mechanical
engineer. Tatyana found it more difficult because she spoke
almost no English. At JVS, she explored her career options,
bettered her English and learned to use a computer. Her skills
won her job advancement and now she is considered by her
employer as, "a valuable worker we are fortunate to have." It
shows again, how Jewish values make life better in so many ways.
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