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ITS NEVER TOO LATE FOR PURIM page 10
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Blood moon rising
lAnd I will show wonders in the heav-
ens and in the earth, proclaimed the
prophet Joel in Gods name. Blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke.
That verse Joel 3:3 is familiar to
many from its place in the traditional
Haggadah.
Less well known is the next verse:
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood, before the
great and terrible day of the Lord
come.
As it happens, this year if your sed-
er runs late you will be able to expe-
rience part of that prophecy: A lunar
eclipse is scheduled for the first night
of Passover, beginning 2 a.m. here
on the East Coast, with the moon ap-
pearing totally eclipsed by the Earths
shadow and glowing a dull red at
around 3 a.m. That sight will take place
at midnight in California.
Unusually, this full lunar eclipse will be
followed by three more in quick succes-
sion, on the first nights of next Sukkot,
next years Pesach, and the following
Sukkot as well.
So for those who follow the practice of
Bnai Brak, staying up all night to discuss
the Exodus from Egypt dont forget to
take a break to look up at the sky.
Weather permitting, of course.
LARRY YUDELSON
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CONTENTS
LETTERS
In regard to the Noah movie... I am sorry to say
that a whole generation of children will now
grow up with the wrong story.
ROSALIE GREENBERG, TEANECK
Candlelighting: Friday, April 4, 7:05 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, April 5, 8:06 p.m.
Diamonds are a Jewboys best friend?
lSometimes it
takes a rabbi to
bring out the worst
in a televangelist.
On Monday, that
rabbi was Dan-
iel Lapin, and the
televangelist was
former Republican
presidential candi-
date Pat Robert-
son.
Rabbi Lapin
was appearing on
Reverend Robert-
sons 700 Club, pitching his book,
Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Command-
ments for Making Money. Evidently
designed to cash in on the age-old
Jewish stereotypes held by conser-
vative Christians, the book promises
to explain why Jews throughout
the ages flourish economically, and
how you can benefit from this Jew-
ish wisdom.
What is it about Jewish people
that make them prosper finan-
cially? Reverend Robertson said in
introducing the rabbi. You almost
never find Jews tinkering with their
cars on the weekends or mowing
their lawns.
Thats what Daniel Lapin says
and theres a very good reason for
that, and it lies within the business
secrets of the Bible.
Later, Reverend Robertson said
Jews are too busy polishing dia-
monds to do weekend chores.
But Rabbi Lapin wasnt upset.
When you correctly said in Jew-
ish neighborhoods you do not find
Jews lying under their cars on Sun-
day afternoons, no, I pay one of the
best mechanics around to take care
of my BMW, Id be crazy to take my
time doing it myself, he said during
the interview.
Back in 1991, Reverend Robertson
was criticized for relying on anti-
Semitic sources for his best-selling
book, The New World Order. The
book connected Jewish bankers to
the Bavarian illuminati to the Bol-
shevik revolution to the Council on
Foreign Affairs. Among the authors
he cited in his bibliography were
some who reprinted the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion.
More recently, Reverend Robert-
son has argued that Just like what
Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so
liberal America is now doing to the
evangelical Christians. Its no differ-
ent.
Tactfully, Rabbi Lapin did not
address his hosts repeated claims
to have heard prophecies directly
from God prophecies that did
not come true, and therefore, under
Biblical law (Deuteronomy 18:20-
22), are a capital offense.
LARRY YUDELSON
Land of dates and honeys?
l Heres the question
the Jewish National
Fund is asking 30- to
45-year-old singles
it is recruiting for its
July Singles Trip to
Israel, cosponsored
with Jdate: One
hump or two?
The risqu question
was posed in ad that
ran on page A8 in
Tuesdays New York
Times. It sits a bit
uneasily with the JNF
tagline: Remember
the family Come
home for a visit on
any JNF trip.
Closer to home, the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey has
been promoting its two free sum-
mer Birthright trips to Israel one
for 18- to 22-year-olds, the other for
people between 22 and
26 more tastefully.
Note that Birthright has
loosened its rules about
who qualifies for a free
trip to Israel; among the
beneficiaries of the rule
change are would-be
travelers who took an
organized high school
trip to Israel. For details,
call Liran Kapoano,
who heads the federa-
tions Center for Israel
Engagement, at (201)
820-3909, or email him
at lirank@jfnnj.org
And for the record:
The answer to the ques-
tion is one hump, as it is the one-
humped dromedary that is native
to Israel and the Middle East. The
two-humped Bactrian camel lives in
central Asia. LARRY YUDELSON
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Te Yeshiva has survived many serious fnancial cri-
ses for many years, and I am sure it will survive
many more serious fnancial crises for many more
years to come. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, speaking to Rabbi Tzvee Zahavy in 1971; last
week Moodys warned that Yeshiva University could run out of money by 2015.
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Novak, a journalist, had
been shot and killed be-
cause he leaked White
House info. DAN BUCA-
TINSKY, 48, who played
Novak, won a 2013
Emmy for best guest ac-
tor in a drama series for
portraying Novak.
No, Bucatinsky wont
have to draw unemploy-
ment benefits. He has
long had a flourishing
dual career as an actor
and producer. He already
is filming a comedy pilot
in which he stars. He and
his friend LISA KUD-
ROW, 50, co-produce
Web Therapy and
Who Do You Think You
Are?
Fans of the hit CBS
series The Good Wife
were blown away when
star character Will Gar-
dener, played by JOSH
CHARLES, 42, was killed
in the episode that aired
on March 23. The char-
acters impending death
was a big secret that
managed to stay a se-
cret. Charles and his co-
star, JULIANNA MARGU-
LIES, 47, spoke to Charlie
Rose on the CBS Morn-
ing News on March 26.
Charles explained that he
was getting fried in the
role and wanted some-
thing new.
Margulies said she
used (her words) Jew-
ish guilt last year to
coax Charles to stay for
15 more episodes. He
agreed after Margulies
pointed out that he was
about to get married and
the money from those
episodes could help
with future child-rearing
expenses. (Charles wed
dancer SOPHIE FLACK,
30, last September.)
N.B.
Mila Kunis
BABY MAKES THREE:
Kunis, Kutcher
are engaged
Sam Woolf
Josh Charles Julianna Margulies
Youve probably
heard that MILA
KUNIS, 30, and
Ashton Kutcher, 36, have
confirmed that she is
pregnant and that they
are engaged to be mar-
ried. The odd thing is
that Kutcher, who isnt
Jewish, knows more
about Judaism and Jew-
ish religious practice
than Kunis does.
Kunis, who is Jewish,
didnt have much of a
formal religious back-
ground, while Kutcher
has picked up a lot
of Jewish knowledge
(including some real flu-
ency in Hebrew) while
attending the Kabbalah
Centre for the last de-
cade. He has also visited
Israel a number of times
on religious and business
trips.
Call it a hunch but
my sense, based on a lot
of Kutcher/Kunis watch-
ing, is that Kutchers af-
filiation with the contro-
versial Kabbalah Centre
will result in Kunis and
their child being quite
involved in mainstream
Jewish religious practice.
You also probably
have heard that GWYN-
ETH PALTROW, 41, and
her husband of 10 years,
Cold Play rock musician
Chris Martin, are get-
ting a divorce. Paltrow
was raised in her fa-
thers Jewish faith, and
she has indicated she
is raising her two chil-
dren with Martin in the
Jewish faith. Reports
are already buzzing that
she and Martin had, in
effect, an open mar-
riage for the last year.
During the past year, she
has been spotted, in a
possibly romantic way,
with two Jewish guys:
big-time entertainment
lawyer KEVIN YORN
(brother of pop musi-
cian PETE YORN and top
talent agent RICK YORN
the Yorns grew up in
Morris County) and
DONOVAN LEITCH, 46,
the actor son of 1960s
British rock star Donovan
(who isnt Jewish). The
younger Donovan was
raised by his American
Jewish mother.
Heres hoping
that by the time
you read this that
American Idol contes-
tant SAM WOOLF, 17,
still is in the running to
win this seasons com-
petition. (Fox, 9 p.m.,
Wednesday and Thurs-
day). Woolf is from Flor-
ida but has strong family
roots in the Detroit area.
His late paternal grand-
father, SAMMY WOOLF,
was a prominent Detroit
bandleader. Sam likes to
write music and he wrote
the song he sang in the
second round of Idol
competition. (Woolf sur-
vived the round ending
on March 27. However, he
was in the bottom 3.)
The March 20
episode of the hit
ABC series Scan-
dal revealed that recur-
ring character James
Marvel-ous Johansson
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is another
entry in the recent series of blockbuster hit ilms (Cap-
tain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers)
featuring the famous comic book character. Chris Evans
again plays Steve Rogers/Captain America. The ilm
opens today with Rogers living quietly in Washington,
D.C., but when a colleague comes under attack, he once
again assumes his superhero identity. The Black Widow
(SCARLETT JOHANSSON, 29) and a new superhero,
the Falcon (Anthony Mackie), help him. Johansson, by
the way, is now a hero to Israel supporters worldwide for
refusing to buckle to pressure to renounce her endorse-
ment contract with the Israeli company SodaStream
because it has one factory on the West Bank. I think
that the Jewish media, which largely has celebrated her
stance, might do her the small favor of not referring to
her (as many do) as ScarJo. Its a gossip-page-created
nickname that she says she hates.
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California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
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For $99 you can give the gift of screen-
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Josh and Shoshana, a married couple
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at risk for having a child with the disorder.
(For instance, two carriers of cystic fibrosis
have a 25 percent chance of conceiving a
child with the disease.)
The JScreen website looks very profes-
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appointment in a month. It seemed like a
lot of headaches and was more expensive.
Josh said that he and Shoshana went to
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of the other disorders in the panel.
It puts you a little more at ease, Josh
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When you meet someone that you want to
make a life with, you should know [your
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Shira (a pseudonym), a physician from
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that her children should know their carrier
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If youre not a carrier, then nobody else
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I would offer it to college age kids before
theyre thinking about getting married, she
said. I was tested in pregnancy. They did it
for five common genes, and I was negative.
Shira reported that her husbands par-
ents were Holocaust survivors. Because his
uncles, aunts, and cousins were murdered
in the Shoah, theres so much missing
information. How would you know about
anyone who had any disease? The nieces
and nephews didnt grow up. Were left with
a blank.
Its not even a blood test, she contin-
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do it in your house, all
for $99, and it tests for
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Her three children, in
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20s, were tested through
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Im not one who likes
any surprises, she said. Id rather know.
Even if you test positive, the person you
marry could be tested and test negative.
And with knowledge also comes the power
to intervene medically for some conditions.
For instance, she said, with maple syrup
urine disease, if you find out right away, you
can do something early on that helps the
babies not get the symptomoloy.
Ms. Kener said that JScreen was launched
in the fall of 2013. Randy and Caroline Gold,
a prominent Florida couple, had been
screened by their physician, but still they
had a child with mucolipidosis Type IV.
JScreen.orgs website recounts how they
learned they were only screened for eight
of a possible 19 known diseases.
They also learned that there is no stan-
dard testing panel, the narrative contin-
ues. In response, the Golds founded Jew-
ish Gene Screen to promote awareness
among rabbis, doctors and young couples
about the need for Jewish Genetic Disease
screening.
Karen Arnovitz Grinzaid, a genetic coun-
selor who is JScreens program director,
reported that the Golds daughter now is 5
years old, and, thanks to a new reproduc-
tive technoloy, preimplantation genetic
diagnosis, the Golds have had two other
healthy children.
Prior to screening theres a manda-
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to watch, Ms. Grinzaid said. There is
an informed consent form that describes
the limitations of the testing. You choose
between panels: the Ashkenazi panel [of 19
genes] or an expanded panel of 80 diseases,
including the Jewish diseases.
As the technoloy develops it has become
possible to get more in-depth information
about inherited mutations. Theres a new
JScreens Hillary Kener, left, and Karen Grinzaid stress the
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sequencing option, Ms. Grinzaid said, refer-
ring to tests that report the exact DNA code of
each gene. Instead of the standard genotyp-
ing, in case people want more information,
they can pay $299 for the sequencing option.
It gives sequences of all of the genes except
for four. This can be helpful, as different vari-
ants of some genes may lead to more or less
severe forms of a disorder.
Ms. Grinzaid said that samples are sent
to a lab in California, which reports the
results to the Emory University Depart-
ment of Genetics. If someone has a posi-
tive result, they get a message that they
have to have a phone call [genetic counsel-
ing session], or a HIPAA compliant video
counseling session with a genetic coun-
selor, she said. The [counselor] would
recommend screening of the partner.
If they get a negative result, since we
already sent them a knowledge-based quiz
that they answered correctly, they dont
need genetic counseling.
In addition, she said, If we get into a sit-
uation where we have a carrier couple and
feel they would benefit from face to face
counseling, we have a network of genetic
counselors and we would refer them to
someone in their area.
Because the screening program is online, it
is accessible from all 50 states, Ms. Kener said.
Through word of mouth weve received kit
orders from everywhere.
Ms. Grinzaid added, Even if a person has
only one Jewish grandparent, screening is still
important for them. They are at an increased
risk. She added, Coming out of the Holo-
caust, some of us dont know our full ances-
try. There are a lot of people who have Jew-
ish ancestry who dont know they have those
roots.
On the other hand, people whose back-
grounds are not only Ashkenazic should talk
to a genetic counselor to learn if there are
other tests they should take along with this
one.
The truth is, everyone is a carrier for
genetic alterations regardless of their ethnic
background, the JScreen website warns. It
continued: individuals with no Jewish ances-
try, or both Jewish and non-Jewish ancestry,
are encouraged to pursue the 80+-disease
Expanded Panel It is a common misconcep-
tion that individuals without Jewish ancestry
are not at risk to be carriers for the 19 genetic
diseases found most commonly in the Ashke-
nazi Jewish population.
The expanded panel of genes includes
Sephardic diseases. Sephardic communities
come from different parts of the world, Ms.
Grinzaid said. They are not as homogeneous
as Ashkenazi Jews are. We recommend that
Sephardic Jews choose the expanded panel.
For instance, Sephardim from different parts
of the Mediterranean basin may be at higher
risk for thalassemia, Fanconi anemia, and
familial Mediterranean fever.
Karen Grinzaid has two college-age chil-
dren. Their background is Ashkenazi on all
four sides, and she is encouraging them to be
screened. Hillary Kener said that she is of the
age where her friends are starting to get mar-
ried. Because she has four Ashkenazi grand-
parents, she decided to get screened with the
expanded panel, and is awaiting the results.
She said that a recent survey revealed
that only 24 percent of Ashkenazi Jews of
reproductive age are aware of the risks. Ms.
Grinzaid reflected that many people have
not heard of these diseases; in the case of
Tay Sachs, that is successful screening in the
1970s reduced or eliminated it from the Jew-
ish community.
Our goal is to have people tested precon-
ception, she said. If we tell them before
they have a family, they have many options,
Ms. Grinzaid said. We are using social media
publicity to create awareness for people with
even one Jewish grandparent. Were doing
things with interfaith families.
Ms. Kener recommends giving a pres-
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brides- and grooms-to-be. For $99 you can
give a Genotyping gift certificate and $299
buys Sequencing gift certificate. The gift cov-
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More information on JScreen is at
www.JScreen.org. Information on Jewish
genetic diseases is at www.jewishgenet-
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Dr. Miryam Wahrman, the Jewish Standards
science correspondent, is a professor of biology
at William Paterson University. The author of
Brave New Judaism, which addresses Jewish
bioethics issues such as genetic screening,
she has developed and teaches the graduate
bioethics course at WPUNJ.
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Lighting up Africa
Frisch raises money for
solar technology with
fashion show
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
W
hat do the students at a
New Jersey Jewish high
school and 450,000 resi-
dents of rural African vil-
lages have in common?
Since 2008, the nonprofit agency called
Innovation: Africa iA has brought Israeli
solar technology to provide clean water,
drip irrigation, and refrigeration to villagers
in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia.
And for the last three years, this UN-award
winning program has been a focal point for
the Frisch School in Paramus.
An African Encounter Night and Africa-
themed fashion show held last month
exposed students and parents to iAs work
and raised another $3,300 toward Frischs
goal of contributing $10,000 to light up a sis-
ter school in East Africa using solar panels.
The fact that Frisch has decided to
educate children on wider global issues is
remarkable and demonstrates a break from
the norm, said Emma Goldman, Innovation:
Africas outreach coordinator.
Orthodox Jewish schools tend to be more
insular and one-dimensional, largely focus-
ing on community-related concerns, she
continued. But Frisch has realized the value
of teaching the students the plights of other
communities even as far-flung as Africa.
Theyve done an impressive job of integrat-
ing iA into history lessons, geography and
science.
Tikvah Wiener, who is the head of Frischs
English department and the director of edu-
cational innovation there, is responsible for
implementing the student-driven RealSchool
initiative of which the iA project is a part. She
describes it as project-based learning and
passion-based learning trying to get kids
out of their desks and engaged in learning by
connecting hand, head, and heart.
The multi-disciplinary Frisch Africa
Encounter uses iA as a way to deepen stu-
dent knowledge about the African continents
problems and the various solutions that have
been making a difference in recent years.
Learning about iA is particularly rel-
evant for the students of Frisch, as they
discover not only their obligation as Jews
to better the world, but also to see how
Israel is working to advance the world in
ways that are impressive and laudable,
Ms. Wiener wrote in her blog.
At the African Encounter night on March
12, students guided parents through interac-
tive activities, including a jerry-can station to
replicate the long walk for water that many
rural Africans still endure today, and exhibits
on imperialism, the slave trade, and Western
colonialism. They also demonstrated drip
irrigation, an Israeli-pioneered technology
that is used across the world to grow crops
more efficiently with less water.
We did research on the technology and
learned it was developed in Israel, said Zach-
ary Abraham of Teaneck. Innovation: Africa
supplies countries in Africa with this technol-
ogy because they have the same water issues.
Now they dont have to rely on food aid from
the West.
Lila Wiener of Teaneck said the students
showed parents a video illustrating how iA
solar installations are lighting up schools
and charging mobile phones. Many chil-
dren werent going to school because
they had to spend daylight hours fetching
water, she said. Parents at Frisch were
blindfolded and then asked to do such
chores as setting a table or taking medi-
cine, giving them a better understanding
of how the lack of electric light affects so
many aspects of daily living.
For the night of the March 23 fashion show,
an all-female endeavor, students created a
mural depicting four Jewish women two
from ancient history and two from modern
times whom they chose as inspirations
for environmental justice. The two modern
women are Yvonne Marzouk, founder of the
Torah-based environmental movement Can-
fei Nesharim, and iAs founder and president
Sivan Yaari. The two women representing
the ancient period are the biblical personali-
ties Miriam and Chava (Eve).
Sivan has a masters degree in energy
management, and that introduces kids to
unusual STEM [science, technology, engi-
neering, and math] professions they might
pursue while helping the world, Tikvah Wie-
ner said. The organization is such a win-win
on so many levels.
At the student-produced fashion show,
models wore eco-friendly clothes eight
outfits per grade inspired by the envi-
ronmental themes of water, fire, desert,
and jungle that each grade had used to
create a terrarium representing a specific
biome. (The terrariums and Fair Trade
wares were sold at the event to benefit iA
along with proceeds from ticket sales.)
Melissa Maza, an Englewood senior,
said that she and the other designers
scoured their closets and went to Marcias
Attic in Englewood to find relevant repre-
sentations of each biome. (Marcias Attic
loaned the clothing; Glam Salon in Engle-
wood did the models makeup and hair,
and Home Depot in Paramus donated the
runway.) I learned that I can connect a
lot of my interests and create a really suc-
cessful event from fashion and science,
Ms. Maza said.
Maddie Rosen, a Teaneck junior, raised
money for iA last year by running a coffee
shop in school, and this year she modeled
the junior theme desert. I wore colors
youd find in the desert: a brown cheetah-
print skirt and brown top, jacket and nude
heels, she said.
Ms. Wiener said that each grade was asked
to contribute $500 toward iA, and some took
the challenge personally. Two Teaneck boys,
Jonah Waldman and Sam Feinberg, shoveled
driveways and made $200 and donated all of
it, she said.
Weve now worked with Innovation:
Africa for three years, and I think the kids
really see they can be proud of Israel for
helping the world. It speaks to the mission of
school, educating responsible Jews.
The Frisch Schools Africa-themed fashion show raised funds for solar panels and other needs.
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Playing drama card, Shomrei Torah packed them in on Purim
LARRY YUDELSON
P
urim is supposed to be a holiday
of celebration and rejoicing,
but faces were grim on Purim
night a year ago at Congrega-
tion Shomrei Torah in Wayne.
Barely more than a minyan had gath-
ered after Shabbat to hear the megillah
reading.
The truth of the matter is that in our
community, child-centered celebrations
like Purim and Simchat Torah do better
during the week than on a Saturday night,
Rabbi Randall Mark said.
Beth Julie, one of the shul regulars who
did show up, didnt want to accept the
demographic decree.
Its crazy, she said. We have to do
something about it.
So, taking a page from Mickey ORourke
and Judy Garland, Ms. Julie decided to
put on a show. A Purim shpiel with the
high ambition to actually try to make it as
close to an off-Broadway production as we
could, she said.
She set to work immediately creating a
musical revue, which retold the story of
Purim through rewritten popular songs.
Before last Passover, she already had her
first numbers, and was able to bring the
synagogues leaders on board.
By January, she had 17 songs finished
and began casting, rehearsing, and hir-
ing professional musicians and sound
and light men.
When Purim rolled around this year, she
was expecting maybe 100 people to show
up the cast of nearly 30, their families,
and maybe a few more.
Instead, more than 200 people filled the
sanctuary.
It was far beyond anything we had
anticipated, Ms. Julie said. I never in a
million years expected this.
Ms. Julie has no professional back-
ground in musical theater. She holds
masters degrees in genetics and biosta-
tistics and she works in her husbands
medical practice. But she loves to sing
and to write. Shomrei Torah got a taste
of her talent a couple of years ago. When
she was asked to emcee a tribute to a fel-
low congregant, she wrote a tribute and
set it to the melodies of haftarah trope.
She wrote the Purim show called
Hang On, Haman as a musical revue
rather than a straight drama meaning
that many congregants could take a turn
singing in the voices of Mordecai, Ahasu-
erus, Esther, or Vashti.
As the excited anticipation grew last win-
ter, the congregation decided to decorate the
social hall as a middle Eastern shuk, and offer
post-megillah desserts and wine tasting, and
offer Pesach wine for sale, even as the actors
transformed the sanctuary into a stage.
It was a huge amount of work, but it
was worth it, she said.
We did one song to Dancing in the
Streets and we got people up dancing
with us. We had teenagers who loved it.
It was more people than anything
weve seen since Yom Kippur, said Rabbi
Mark, who, as one of the King Ahasu-
eruses, sang a duet with a Queen Esther to
the tune of Hey Jude.
Ms. Julie already has begun work on
next years production, which she prom-
ises will be all new.
People are coming out of the wood-
work now, telling me they want to be in
the play next year, she said. Ive had five
men come to me and say they want to sing
next year.
If its what they want, Im going to give
it to them. Anything that can connect the
community to our religion, to the holiday,
to God, Ill do it. Ill do it as many times as
it can happen.
To do it at this level is a huge amount of
work, but it was great, and it was worth it.
Meanwhile, for other synagogues look-
ing to engage their members on Purim,
Ms. Julie is selling the script, with the pro-
ceeds to benefit her congregation.
If we could engage our congregation,
this could work for everybody, she said.
Shomrei Torahs Purim shpiel brought
an off-Broadway avor to Wayne.
ERIC WEIS PHOTO Vashtis Song
Vashtis Song (to the tune of I Will Survive)
by Beth Julie
(Refrain)
At first I was afraid I was petrified
Appear stark naked at the feast by
Achashveroshs side
Drinking wine for days and days,
Living in a drunken haze
He was high my king
My Achashverosh guy
(Chorus)
He was a mess, a drunken lout
For my appearance in his court he
couldnt help but shout
He flailed his arms jumped up and down,
wanted me with just my crown
I want to cry, to leave this place
before I die
I must survive! Can I survive?
Appear stark naked out in public, that Ill
not abide
My birthday suit is just no good, to cover
all the things it should
For Shushans queen, this type of thing is
just obscene
(Refrain)
It took all the strength I had not to
fall apart
King Achashverosh broke my pride and
shattered my poor heart
I cannot live in such a land, With such
a chauvinistic man
He makes me cry, And want to shout
until I die
(Chorus)
Reject this place, walk out the door
Keep all my clothes on and reject the
place that I adore
I should return the castle key, and grab
this moment to be free
I must survive, I will survive
I must now go, walk out the door
Not turn around now, Im not welcome
anymore
He will change the castle locks, might
send an army after me
I must leave this very moment in my
struggle to be free
I must survive, I will survive
I will leave the feast behind and hold on to
my pride
Ive got all my life to live, and have so
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Educator takes on roles of songwriter, singer, and instrumentalist
LOIS GOLDRICH
With so many good things happening
recently, its not surprising that Rabbi
David Schlusselberg of Teaneck is on a
high.
In March, he was granted semichah
Orthodox rabbinic credentials by
Yeshiva Universitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary. He also recorded
his irst CD, Mizmor LDovid, for which
he not only wrote the songs but provided
the vocals and played many of the
instruments.
Rabbi Schlusselberg, 27, is thrilled
with both accomplishments. I love
teaching at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva
High School in Livingston, he said.
An instructor of Talmud, Bible, and
Judaica electives, Rabbi Schlussel-
berg said he deinitely plans to con-
tinue at the school this despite
the fact that since the CD came out,
his 12th graders have made him feel
like Im famous.
The CD which contains songs
Rabbi Schlusselberg started writing
some nine years ago truly is a labor
of love. Im enamored of music, he
said. Its something that resonates
with me in a deep place.
He pointed out that for Jews, even
songs without words are imbued
with spirituality. With words, the
songs I write, from the siddur, cer-
tainly have a deeper meaning,
enhancing his own closeness to God.
Part of the reason I made the CD
was the hope that through it, others
could come closer to God as well,
he said.
Music plays several roles in his life.
On the simplest level, its an out-
let to escape to another world where
you dont have to worry about day
to day stresses, in a positive way,
he said. And its a calling for my
neshama his soul. I feel like Im
maximizing myself; when I play or write
Im expressing a part of my personality in
a different way. Its a deeper element of my
personality.
Rabbi Schlusselberg, who graduated
from the Frisch School in Paramus, con-
tends that he is the worst musician; I
honestly cannot read music. He started
playing the guitar in 7th grade; the piano
in 11th; the violin shortly before his 22nd
birthday; and the cello when he was 24. He
plays each of these instruments on his CD.
Initially, like any kid with an older
brother, I started playing guitar because
he did, he said. Then I started writing
music toward the end of my sophomore
year in high school. Realizing that there
was a certain beauty to songs written with
piano, he began to study the piano.
He said he started writing Jewish music
during his second year in Israel. I enjoyed
writing songs from the siddur, he noted.
It was more emotional.
While all of the songs on his CD were vir-
tually completed four years ago, I wanted
to record them but I didnt have the time
or money, he said. I kept pushing it off.
But this year with a full-time job, still sin-
gle, and with suficient funds I realized
that if I didnt do it now, I probably would
never do it.
Its been a dream of mine, he said,
acknowledging that he has been influ-
enced by both Jewish and secular musi-
cians as well as by friends active on the
music scene. I wanted to put something
out there with a different vibe, a more
acoustic type of feel folk, but with a cer-
tain sense of passion in the songs.
To set his songs apart, for example,
Rabbi Schlusselberg uses chords in a dif-
ferent way. There are a inite amount of
chords, he said. To avoid the possibility
of unintentionally plagiarizing, I deliber-
ately use different types of chords to make
my sound more unique.
Rabbi Schlusselberg said it took him
anywhere from six to 10 hours to record
each of his 11 songs, pointing out that
each part of a song whether lead vocals
or harmony, base instrument or addi-
tional instruments has to be recorded
separately.
Typical Sunday recording sessions
lasted from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with a break
for eating and davening. Occasionally he
recorded after work, spending two eve-
nings a week at the studio. While he could
have done the project in less time and for
less money, he said, he wanted to ensure
that the CD would be of high quality.
Despite the intensity of the project,
I didnt tell people, he said. I didnt
even tell my father or some of my best
friends. I did this on my own. I was
scared that I wouldnt complete it and
didnt want to hear questions about it.
But complete it he did, taking advan-
tage of snow days to put in extra time.
Rabbi Schlusselberg said hes
happy with the result and would like
the venture to be a springboard for
further CDs and perhaps local concerts.
My goal is to play concerts and speak
about Torah ideas and the siddur though
music, he said.
He credits sound engineer Jake Angelis,
whose Hillside studio he used, for putting
all the sounds together, mixing and mas-
tering the CD as well as playing the drums
on the recording.
He has an unbelievable ear for music,
Rabbi Schlusselberg said, adding that both
Mr. Angelis and his father, Mo Angelis, who
plays bass on the CD, really contributed
to the success of the project. He is grate-
ful as well to his friend Josh Weinberg, who
made the CD cover and video for him.
Rabbi Schlusselbergs CD is available at
Judaica House in Teaneck and on iTunes.
Samples of his music can also be found on
YouTube.
For more information, go to the rabbis
Facebook page, facebook.com/david-
schlusselbergmusic, or email him at dav-
eschluss@gmail.com.
Rabbi David Schlusselberg accom-
panied himself on his new CD.
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Neshama Carlebach talks about her father, her faith, her music, and kol isha
JOANNE PALMER
To say that Neshama Carlebach was born
into a family that surrounded her with
music is to understate blandly and grandly
and ludicrously.
She was born into a family that under-
stood music to be, as she puts it, the
heartbeat, the pulse, the life-saving force.
It helps connect you to the people beside
you, to yourself, and to God. It allows you
to look at yourself, and to think about why
youre here.
Music is the voice of the soul.
Her father, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach,
was a man of intense charisma, who used
the music he created and played and sang
to mesmerizing effect, at times bring-
ing people back to the Judaism they had
never known before they left it. It is not
an overstatement to say that his music has
reinvigorated religious services across the
religious spectrum; much of the joyous life
that exists in some parts of the
liberal world can be traced back
to him. His songs and niggunim
are so well known that many of
us think they must be folk melo-
dies with age-old roots, not 20th-
century composed works.
The Carlebach family was
Orthodox, part of a proud rab-
binic dynasty, and Reb Shlomo,
as he was called, studied in Lake-
wood, where he showed a great
aptitude for both learning and
leadership. But he chose a more
inclusive Orthodox life and made
a point of reaching out to all Jews;
he was not at all didactic or proscriptive.
In fact, his daughter said, He never told
anyone what to do, sometimes to his own
detriment. He would never say you must
do this. He would allow people to find
their own ways, go on their own jour-
neys, and once they got there you would
be able to find something to connect to,
something to make you cry, something to
transport you.
Neshama often would sing with him,
not only privately but also in public
performances.
That sometimes caused problems, but
she did not know how serious those prob-
lems were then.
My father was the ultimate umbrella,
she said. He was so good at being the
umbrella that I never even knew it was
raining.
That acid rain was the anger that parts
of their own community aimed at the Car-
lebachs for ignoring the dictum of kol isha.
(The phrase kol isha literally means a
womans voice; it is shorthand for the
idea that a woman must not sing if a man
is in earshot, lest he be unable to control
his base instincts.)
Reb Shlomo would deal with the prob-
lem, his daughter recalled, but warned
his audiences that it was time for them to
make a choice. My father would bring me
on stage, and say that anyone who has a
problem with kol isha should leave for five
minutes, Neshama said. He said: This is
my daughter she is my joy and she will
sing with me. Some men would leave,
she reported; theyd hang around the
door, and then come back.
His strategy worked, father and daugh-
ter continued to sing together.
And then he died, and it was a
monsoon.
In 1994, Shlomo Carlebach died, at 69.
His daughter was devastated, but she
decided, once the mourning period was
over, to go on with their shows. The sim-
mering issue of kol isha came to a boil
immediately.
I was attacked on all fronts, she said.
People told me that if I made this choice,
I would cause his soul to suffer. That he
would roll over in his grave.
I was 20 years old, in deep
pain, mourning him.
The only way I was able to
preserve myself was because I
knew what my father wanted for me, and
then I found the place inside myself to
bring myself comfort and healing.
For years, Neshama Carlebach worked
ceaselessly. She married and had two
children, who are now 7 and 3. I sang
through morning sickness, she said. I
sang through pregnancy. I was 9 months
and 2 weeks pregnant at my last show,
and then I went back to work immediately
after my son was born.
But she never took time off from work
until last year, when everything fell apart.
I went through a big life change, she
said. I got divorced I decided it, it was
my choice, but I threw a nuclear bomb on
my whole existence.
She took a full year off to rediscover her-
self. Her method was drastic she ban-
ished music. I didnt listen to any music.
I wasnt able to feel, and music brings us
to feeling and to emotion. I didnt sing. I
couldnt even remember any songs, except
one.
It made going back to music much
more powerful.
She learned many lessons from that
year. One is about gratitude. There are
days when you are with your family, and
you just love them so much, and days
when you are with them but you are not
aware of the gift, she said. I am so filled
with gratitude now, so deeply aware of the
ones I love.
Another is about honesty, about speak-
ing the truth.
Who: Neshama Carlebach and her band, joined by Josh Nelson and also by the
Rev. Milton Vann and the Glory to God Baptist Choir
What: In concert
Where: Temple Avodat Shalom, 385 Howland Avenue, River Edge
When: Sunday, April 6, at 3 p.m.
Why: To benefit Temple Israel Community Center Congregation Heichal Yisrael
How much: $50; $35 for groups of 10 and over; $25 for students and children
For information: (855) 637-4262 or www.ticcnj.org.
Above, Josh Nelson and Neshama Carlebach are joining their musical
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Seeing is believing
A Tenafly familys excellent adventure
JUNE GLAZER
H
ow a Tenafly eye doctor and
his family managed to make
it to their medical mission in
Ecuador is as much a part of
their recent unforgettable adventure as is
the trip itself.
In February, ophthalmologist and cata-
ract surgeon Dr. Corey Notis, his wife, Bon-
nie, and their teenage son, Alex, spent four
days in Guayaquil, Ecuadors commercial
center and most populated city, where Dr.
Notis volunteered his services at a medical
clinic for impoverished patients. However,
a confluence of last-minute obstacles nearly
derailed the trip before it began, and it was
only through grit, good fortune, and a nail-
biting mad dash that the family arrived in
Guayaquil to undertake their sight-saving
efforts.
The Notises tell their story: As a family,
we try to be philanthropic to causes that
are important to us, said Dr. Notis, who
has practices in Springfield and Union, and
performs surgery at St. Barnabas Hospital
in Livingston. A medical mission is some-
thing I always wanted to do because its a
unique and substantive way for me to give
back. It fills a niche that writing out a check
cant fill.
Bonnie Notis, too, likes to give back
through her profession. She is an interior
designer who has donated her services to
organizations including Brandeis House,
the New York City alumni club of Brandeis
University, from where her husband and
older son, Max, graduated; the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades, where she chairs the
development committee and lends her
expertise to enhancing and refurbishing
public space; and Temple Emanu-El of Clo-
ster, where the Notises are congregants and
where she oversees the design phase of a
project to install 32 hand-painted stained
glass windows in the daily chapel.
I had never done a medical mission
and was looking into how I might do one
in Israel, said Dr. Notis, who has family in
Israel and whose mother was born there.
But an Israel mission wasnt working out,
and I was growing frustrated.
About that time, an ophthalmic surgi-
cal nurse named Steve Velazquez, who
works with Dr. Notis at St. Barnabas, told
him about a medical mission he went on
to Ghana last year under the auspices of
Surgical Eye Expedition International, a
nonprofit humanitarian organization that
works with disadvantaged people world-
wide to restore sight and prevent blindness.
The mission piqued Dr. Notiss interest, but
he couldnt leave work for the two weeks a
mission to Ghana requires.
A doctor Steve knows at St. Barnabas had
worked at La Fundacion Cristiana Para La
SaludFuncrisa, an eye clinic in Guayaquil
under the auspices of SEE, and the idea res-
onated with him, Dr. Notis said. After he
talked with me about it I said, Sign me up.
According to SEE Internationals website,
at the invitation of eye surgeons in develop-
ing countries, and with the approval of local
health and civic authorities, the organiza-
tion recruits and deploys many small surgi-
cal teams, links volunteer ophthalmologists
to host clinics in need of help, organizes the
clinics, and provides most of the equipment
and supplies they need. Volunteer eye sur-
geons donate their time and pay for all their
own travel expenses.
Ms. Notis picks up the narrative from
here: We wanted to make the mission a
family trip. But Max had started a new job
and couldnt miss work, and our daughter
Melissa couldnt take off from her pre-med
studies at Emory University. Alex is a sopho-
more at Tenafly High School and had four
days off during Presidents Week, so we
decided to go from Thursday, February 13,
through Tuesday the 18th.
Funcrisa was a good choice for us
because Guayaquil is in the Central Time
Zone so we wouldnt be affected by jet lag,
the flight was relatively short at less than
seven hours, and Corey and Alex both
speak a good Spanish, she continued. We
bought plane tickets for us and for Steve
and were very excited to go.
In preparation for the mission, the fam-
ily began collecting supplies to bring with
them. SEE International asked them to take
several cartons of ocular lenses and other
vital supplies and equipment donated by
Alcon Labs. Alex mounted a campaign
through the Spanish Club at Tenafly High
School and collected school supplies for
children served by a supplementary school
held at Funcrisa in the afternoons, and his
parents bought and donated additional
school supplies as well as some two dozen
hospital scrubs the clinic needed.
This is the part where the story starts to
sound like a Hollywood thriller.
On Tuesday, two days before we were
supposed to leave, Steve received devastat-
ing news that his son had leukemia, and told
us he would not be going on the mission,
Ms. Notis said. A surgical nurse is an impor-
tant part of an ophthalmic mission team,
and Velazquezs participation was even
more crucial because he is a native Spanish
speaker and Dr. Notis was relying on him
to translate when necessary. We feared
the clinic would not be able to provide us
with a surgical nurse and a translator, and
that wed have to cancel the trip, Ms. Notis
continued. But on Tuesday night, the clinic
confirmed that it would provide both.
On Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Notis
drove to Tenafly High School, picked up the
supplies Alex had collected, and brought
them home, noticing on the way that the
sky was growing ominous and aware that
an enormous snow storm was forecast. At
home, she continued to pack and to box up
all the supplies.
At around 5 p.m., Dr. Notis called. Stop
packing, he said. Their Thursday night
flight from JFK was cancelled because of the
coming storm. And since the next flight out
wasnt scheduled until Sunday, and Coreys
time slot at the clinic was scheduled to end
on Monday, it didnt make sense to go. We
were heartbroken, Ms. Notis said.
She stopped packing and began prepar-
ing dinner. But at 6:45 her husband called
again, this time to say their travel agent was
able to book them on a flight at 10:30 that
very night. Could they make it?
It meant I had to quickly clean up the
kitchen, finish packing, and Corey had to
get home right away, she said. Also, traffic
to JFK would be terrible. We didnt know if
we could make it. But Alex said wed come
this far, how could we not at least try? So
I stashed our uneaten dinner in the refrig-
erator, Alex and I loaded the car as best we
could some cartons didnt make it in and
had to be shipped later and when Corey
arrived we left.
We got to the airport with a half hour to
spare.
But they couldnt breathe easy yet.
They were now booked on Tame Airlines,
Ecuadors flag carrier. But by the time they
got through security the Tame ticket coun-
ter was closed and they couldnt pay the air-
line by credit card for the extra items they
were bringing with them. Dr. Notis had to
run to find an ATM machine in order to pay
with cash.
Then, when they got on board, the flight
attendant led them to the very last row, to
seats that did not recline. Dr. Notis, at 63,
and his son, at 6, despaired, fearing that
they were in for a long, cramped, sleepless
night, until Ms. Notis explained to the atten-
dants that they were on a medical mission
and her husband had to be fresh for surgery.
They were so nice, she said. They let us
move up to business class. As the only non-
Ecuadorians on the flight, they felt like fish
out of water, she added.
In the meantime, nobody knew they
indeed had left for Ecuador, and as they
boarded even as the plane backed away
from the terminal Dr. and Ms. Notis fran-
tically made calls to let people know where
they were. One call was to their travel agent
to arrange for a hotel room and a truck to
transport the cartons. (Dr. Icaza, at whose
home the Notises would be staying, wasnt
aware they were coming a day early. He
wasnt expecting them yet.)
Their plane landed at Jos Joaquin de
Olmedo International Airport at 4:30
Thursday morning. We couldnt believe
we made it, Ms. Notis remembers.
With Dr. Notis not scheduled to begin
work until Friday, the family had all day
to rest and walk around Guayaquil, which
they discovered to be largely impoverished.
It also is dangerous. Later, they learned
from Dr. Icaza that they should not have
gone out alone. Kidnappings there are so
common that theyre almost considered a
rite of passage for newcomers, who are held
up at gunpoint, taken to the nearest ATM
to withdraw money, and left abandoned
on the street, Ms. Notis said. They call
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Dr. Eddie Icaza (in surgical scrubs) and Funcrisa staff members accept school
supplies from Bonnie, Corey, and Alex Notis. The material was donated by stu-
dents and teachers at Tenafly High School.
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Sandel to speak on economic inequality
Pol i t i cal phi l osopher Dr.
Michael Sandel, host of the PBS
program Justice, discusses
Economic Inequality: Whats
the Right Thing to Do? at the
Center for Jewish History, 15
West 16th St., between 5th and
6th avenues, on Monday, April
7, at 7:30 p.m. Justice is the
first Harvard course to be made
freely available online and on public
television. The lecture is part of Yeshiva
Universitys Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf
scholar-in-residence program.
Since 1980, Dr. Sandel has
taught political philosophy at
Harvard. He is the author of the
New York Times bestseller Jus-
tice: Whats the Right Thing to
Do?
Admission is free and open
to the public with valid photo
ID and ticket, which can be
reserved only at Smarttix.com. A book sign-
ing will immediately follow the lecture.
For information, call (212) 868-4444.
Local
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Seeking photos of Shoah
victims who had local ties
As an enhancement to its unique annual
Holocaust commemoration, the Teaneck
Holocaust Commemoration Committee
is looking for photographs of relatives of
local residents who died during the Holo-
caust. They will be projected as the names
of Those We Have Lost are read.
Teanecks annual Holocaust commem-
oration at Teaneck High School draws
more than 1,000 people; it is the largest
single Jewish communal assembly in the
county. This years event is on April 28 at
7:30 p.m. The names of relatives of local
residents who died during the Holocaust
will be read out loud while six survivors
and their families light candles.
This year, the committee would like to
add a visual dimension by projecting pho-
tographs of victims. Photographs should be
scanned at 300 dpi resolution and cropped
to include only the photo, with no border.
They can be emailed to foxmarketing@aol.
com no later than April 10; put the words
Commemoration Photo in the subject line.
For information about the commemora-
tion, go to www.teaneckyomhashoa.org
Steve and Chary Fox of Teaneck contributed this photo of their relatives, the
Fuks family, who lived in Warsaw. COURTESY TEANECK HOLOCAUST COMMITTEE
Funeral director to be honored
Barry Wien, a director and part-
ner at Eden Memorial Chapels of
Fort Lee, will be honored at the
20th annual Jewish Home Foun-
dations annual Golf, Tennis, and
Card Outing. It is set for Monday,
May 19, at the Edgewood Coun-
try Club in River Vale. Mr. Wien
has served on the board of direc-
tors at the Jewish Home at Rock-
leigh for many years and on JHFs annual
Golf, Tennis, and Card Outing Committee.
Attendees can play golf, tennis, mah
jongg, and ACBL sanctioned
bridge. The day includes brunch,
a cocktail reception, dinner, and
an auction. Howard Chernin,
Warren Feldman, and Frank
Patti are the outings co-chairs,
Howard Blatt is the golf co-chair,
and David Edelberg, Howard
Lippman, and Susan Penn are
the tennis co-chairs.
Sponsorship opportunities are available.
Call Molly Shulman at (201) 784-1414 or email
her at mshulman@jewishhomeftdn.org.
Barry Wien
Two bar mitzvah boys
help feed Israels needy
Sam Goldberg and Joshua Levine, sev-
enth graders at the Moriah School in
Englewood, created a music album,
Tikun Olam, to benefit Leket Israel
The National Food Bank (www.leket.org).
Those who contribute to Leket Israel in
honor of Sam and Josh will gain access to
download the Tikun Olam playlist.
This album, Tikun Olam, comes
straight from our hearts and souls as we
celebrate our bar mitzvahs, Sam and
Josh said. With the spotlight on feeding
Israels hungry, we recognize that there
are many ways to fix the world.
We are thrilled that Sam and Josh
chose to mark this important milestone
in their lives by recording this album to
benefit Leket, said Joseph Gitler, Leket
Israels founder and chairman. Its a
truly unique initiative, and one that I
hope will inspire others.
The boys goal is to raise $45,000 to
help Leket Israel lease a 15-ton refrig-
erated truck for a year. To donate and
download their music album, go to
bsimchas.leket.org/en/page/samand-
josh.aspx
Sam Goldberg, left, and Josh Levine.
Michael Sandel
Lander College for Women - The Anna Ruth & Mark Hasten School
227 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023
For more information or to RSVP:
Call: 212-463-0400, ext. 5203
Email: community@touro.edu
The lecture is free and
open to the public.
MONDAY,April28,2014 | 7:00pM
DANIELJONAH
GOLDHAGEN
TOURO COLLEGE &
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
THE HOLOCAUST, ANTISEMITISM
AND THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH
RESPONSE TO GENOCIDE
Hosted by Dr. Alan Kadish, President and CEO of the Touro College & University System, the
Presidential Scholars Lecture Series features distinguished scholars who address a wide range of
national and global issues. The series is a forum for public discourse as part of Touros commitment
to intellectual inquiry and scholarship.
PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES
Touro is an Equal Opportunity Institution
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Ph.D., is author of The Devil that
Never Dies : The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism;
Hitlers Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the
Holocaust; and Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism,
and the Ongoing Assault On Humanity.
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She is no longer willing to be quiet about
kol isha.
I think its bogus, she said. It is irrel-
evant, it is archaic, it is a control tactic. It
is cruel.
It is abuse.
Until now, I have been trying to sugar-
coat what I think about it. She is longer
willing to do that. Now she feels compelled
to speak her truth.
She knows, she said, that there are
some women who dont mind not sing-
ing. There are Orthodox women who have
careers, who dont sing and are happy, but
there are too many women who feel that
they have no voice.
The whole idea is that men cant hear
women sing because it might drive them
to do something bad I am fed up with
that. It is not on me not to sing, it is on
you to grow up and take responsibility for
yourself.
In January, Neshama Carlebach wrote a
blog post describing how comfortable she
now feels with Reform Judaism. I have
been inspired by its love and inclusivity,
she said. I am very moved to know that
it exists in a Jewish framework, and to see
that there is a Jewish world like that.
The response from the Orthodox world
was swift and sharp. There are a lot of
angry people, she said; she pointed out,
too, that although she gets many letters
from people announcing that they will
not listen to her music, she has sold more
than a million copies of her CDs, so cer-
tainly someone is buying them. When
you are in the public eye, people tend to
offer you more opinions than they need
to, she said.
Why are they so angry? she asked. I
think that maybe it is time for them to be
a little introspective. Could it be that I am
speaking the truth, and they are not ready
to hear it?
I am not trying to argue. My statement
came from love and faith and inspiration.
It is coming from a very positive place.
She is not yet sure where she will land
religiously much as she loves the Reform
movement, its services do not open
her heart because we need an open
and strong relationship to God, and that
includes ritual, she said. Ritual is the way
that you get there.
Newly back at work, newly re-engaged
with music, Neshama Carlebach said that
my music is different now.
Its more vulnerable and more real. Im
not singing what people want to hear, but
what I want to express. And my voice is dif-
ferent, too. I think Im singing better and
more truthfully, and that my new record is
the best thing I ever did. (Thats the newly
released Soul Daughter, based on the
Broadway musical about her father, Soul
Doctor, which she co-wrote.)
She now works with a new band, and
with Josh Nelson, the well-known Jewish
musician who has championed the work
of Debbie Friedman. Ms. Friedman died
last year, leaving her mother, who is over
90, and her sister, in her 70s and ailing.
She had supported them; Ms. Carlebach
and Mr. Nelson hope to fill some of the
financial void left by her death through the
proceeds of their work.
Their collaboration, though, has an even
deeper meaning.
In many ways, Josh Nelson is Debbie
Friedmans heir, and certainly Neshama
Carlebach is her fathers. It is clear,
Neshama said, that her father was influ-
enced by Debbie Friedman, and that Deb-
bie Friedman similarly took much from
her father. So when their inheritors join
forces, it is a reunification of the Jewish
people, she said.
We are all trying to give something
powerful to the world, she said. We all
have our own voice to give.
Carlebach
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them express kidnappings. Dr. Icaza,
they learned, drives an armored car with
bulletproof tires.
On Friday, the Notises moved to Dr. Ica-
zas home and went to Funcrisa for the
first time. Some 200 patients were waiting
for him when they arrived all of them
cataract cases, most of them complicated
because they let the cataracts go for too
long, he recalled.
That first day, Bonnie and Alex Notis,
both gowned, stayed with Dr. Notis in the
operating room, watching him work. But
beginning on Saturday, Ms. Notis helped
with administrative duties and their son,
whom his mother proudly says acquit-
ted himself well in Ecuador with his high
school Spanish, to the point of filling in
for a staff member who was absent one
day, learned to autorefract patients to pre-
screen them for optical defects. But she said
that ultimately their role was to support Dr.
Notis, who worked all day Friday, Satur-
day, and Monday, and nearly or completely
restored full eyesight to 30 patients.
After their surgeries, I would hear my
husband telling them that their case went
beautifully perfecto. The patients would
grab his hands, thank him, and start to cry.
Alex would tell me, Do you know what they
just said about Dad? That hes the best sur-
geon theyve ever seen, Ms. Notis said.
Perhaps the most poignant moment of the
mission came near its end, when Funcrisas
staff gathered to present the Notis family
with a thank-you letter from Dr. Icaza. In it,
he wrote about how we left our family, our
work, and the safety of our nation to come
on this mission, Ms. Notis said. The safety
of our nation that really choked us up.
We left Ecuador feeling good that we had
done this, but we were very grateful it was
the United States we were coming home to.
Believing
FROM PAGE 16
More seders
Many seders were listed on page 22 of last weeks Jewish Standard. After we had
gone to press, we learned about more of them. Here are the additions to the list as
of press time.
Monday April 14
Clifton
Daughters of Miriam Center/
The Gallen Institute
Esther and Sam Schwartz Building
(Miriam Apts. II) Mary and Charles
Goodman Dining Hall, 4:30 p.m.
and 8:15 p.m., and also in the
Marcus Auditorium in the skilled
nursing facility, 6 p.m. $36, adult
guests; children under 12, $18.
155 Hazel St. (973) 253-5281 or
www.daughtersofmiriam.org.
Bergeneld
Congregation Beth Abraham
7:15 p.m. $45 per person
Reservations by April 8. 396 New
Bridge Road. Rabbi David Pietruszka,
(201) 966-4498, rabbip@jle.org, or
www.jle.org.
Tuesday April 15
Clifton
Daughters of Miriam Center/
The Gallen Institute
Esther and Sam Schwartz Building
(Miriam Apts. II) Mary and Charles
Goodman Dining Hall, 4:30 p.m. and
8:15 p.m. $36, adult guests; children
under 12, $18. 155 Hazel St. (973) 253-
5281 or www.daughtersofmiriam.org.
Jersey City
Temple Beth-El
5:45 p.m. Led by Rabbi Debra Hachen
and student cantor Elaya Jenkins-
Adelberg. Reservations by April 6.
Adults $75; children ages 7-12, $10;
2-6, $5; free under 2. Vegetarian
options. 2419 Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229.
Maywood
Reconstructionist
Temple Beth Israel
6 p.m. Led by student rabbi Ellen
Jaffe-Gill. $45 adults; $15 for
children 12 and under; under 5,
free. Reservations by April 9. 34 W.
Magnolia Ave. (201) 845-7550, ext. 1.
Wyckoff
Temple Beth Rishon
6 p.m. Led by Rabbi Ken Emert
and Cantor Ilan Mamber. $55,
adults 18+, $20 for children, 10-17;
$10 for children, 5-9; free under 5.
585 Russell Ave. (201) 891-4466
or www.bethrishon.org.
Bayonne
Temple Beth Am
6:30 p.m. Led by Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin.
$58, adults; $23, children 5-13; free,
under 5. Reservations by April 4.
111 Avenue B. (201) 858-2020
Hoboken
United Synagogue of Hoboken
7 p.m. $45, adults; $12 for children; $2
credit card fee. Reservations required.
115 Park Ave. (201) 659-4000 or
www.hobokensynagogue.org.
OU Kosher extends Passover hotline hours
OU Kosher has special extended hours for
its Kosher Hotline (212) 613-8241 for
advice on preparing for Passover. It is open
from 10 a.m. to noon on April 13 and from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 14, the night of the
first seder.
Last year, we received 150 calls on erev
Pesach alone, when the OU Kosher Hotline
was open for three hours, Rabbi Eli Eleff,
OU Kosher rabbinic coordinator and con-
sumer relations administrator said. Rabbi
Moshe Elefant, OU Koshers COO, added,
Our extended hotline hours are another
service OU Kosher provides to make us the
worlds most recognized kosher symbol
and the top destination for kosher infor-
mation year-round, particularly regarding
the challenging preparations for Passover.
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n 1 Eight faith-based communities
Bahai, Catholic, Hindu, Islam, Jain, Jew-
ish, Protestant, and Sikh broke bread
together last month at the 28th annual
get-together of the Interfaith Brother-
hood/Sisterhood of Bergen County.
Here are the communities representa-
tives at the breakfast, this year hosted by
the Bahai community. COURTESY JFNNJ
n 2 Rabbi Moshe Grossbaum of Living
Legacy, a project of Friends of Lubavitch
of Bergen County, led the matzah factory
project with Hillel members at Ramapo
College, including, from left, Kandace
Kaplan, Yadin Kadosh, and Ocean Kaspi.
Rabbi Ely Allen is the director of Hillel of
Northern New Jersey. COURTESY HILLEL
n 3 Members of the Monday Lunch Op-
era Club, one of the most popular groups
at Yavneh Academy, went to the final
dress rehearsal of La Sonnambula at
the Metropolitan Opera. The student-
run club, operating under the direc-
tion of Yavnehs music director, Marsha
Greenberg Motzen, meets over lunch in
the music room, where students watch
and discuss opera. COURTESY YAVNEH
n 4 Ben Porat Yosef kindergarteners put on
goggles to grate fresh horseradish roots.
They are making maror (bitter herbs) for
the seder plate. It represents the bitter-
ness of being slaves in Egypt. COURTESY BPY
n 5 Last month, State Senator Bob Gordon
discussed leadership with students at the
Academies at GBDS. LEEOR WIESELBERG
n 6 Volunteers Jules Lefkowitz, Zoe Pil-
lar, and Ally Greenberg, and their friend,
Ariel Bagner, all of Woodcliff Lake, along
with Valley Chabad Friendship Circle di-
rector Rabbi Yosef Orenstein; Woodcliff
Lake Police Officer James Foley, and
Woodcliff Lake Council President Donna
Abene gather for the end-of-season
Friendship Circle Sports Award ceremony.
The event honors the FC league play-
ers with special needs. COURTESY CHABAD
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
The Israel Debate
at Columbia
On Monday night, 31 March, our organization, This World:
The Values Network, launched its promised national Israel
debate series on Americas most troublesome campuses,
beginning with Columbia University, where Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was hosted in 2007. The participants were
me and my friend, Pulitzer-Prize Winner Bret Stephens of
the Wall Street Journal, on one side, against Peter Beinart,
who as a Rhodes scholar often attended my events at the
University of Oxford, and Hussein Ibish of the American
Task Force on Palestine on the other.
After Peter made his initial presentation, arguing that
Israel is occupying the West Bank and imposing a double
standard of law for Palestinians and Israelis which is
why he calls for a boycott of all products stemming from
the West Bank I began my defense.
Peter, do you use an IPhone? Because China has occu-
pied Tibet since 1951 and Apple products are assembled
in China. The audience, even those hostile to Israel it
seemed, roared with approval.
The issue with Peter, I
said, is that he has a dis-
torted sense of morality. In
his book The Crisis of Zion-
ism, in which he excori-
ates Israel as a country that
discriminates against Arabs
even within the green line,
he writes of Judaisms most
festive holiday. The Purim
story ends with the king
giving Persias Jews license to
do to Hamans people what
Haman wanted to do with
them and the Jews slaugh-
tering seventy-five thousand souls, he wrote. Of course,
he curiously omits that the Jews only did so in self-defense
after Hamans genocidal decree and the Persian peoples
attempt to destroy, slay, and to cause to perish their
little ones and women.
Indeed, Peter is uncomfortable with the very notion
of Israel needing to defend itself: We are not historys
permanent victims. In a dizzying shift of fortune, many
of our greatest challenges today stem not from weakness
but from power.
This is an astonishing statement that trivializes the
nuclear threat posed by Iran and its Supreme Leader
Rabbi Shmuley Boteachs new book, Kosher Lust,
will be out next month. The video of the debate soon
will be posted on www.shmuley.com and on Twitter @
RabbiShmuley.
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Call it what you want its still an occupation
S
o Governor Chris Christie
made the national news again.
This time it wasnt for
Bridgegate.
Instead, his use of the word occupa-
tion apparently troubled Republican
Jewish Coalition members who heard
him speak last Saturday.
Talking about his familys 2012
Israel trip, Mr. Christie said, I took
a helicopter ride from the occupied
territories across and just felt per-
sonally how extraordinary that was
to understand, the military risk that
Israel faces every day.
The O word resulted in the governor
being called on Sheldon Adelsons car-
pet to apologize for the gaffe. Mr. Adel-
son owns the casino hosting the RJC
meeting. He is also a major contributor
to Republican political candidates and
to right-leaning organizations that sup-
port Israel.
Indeed, it was variously reported that
the crowd broke into a murmur or a
gasp at hearing Mr. Christie use the
words occupied territories.
Why did the governor have to apolo-
gize? After all, its no secret that Israel
has occupied west bank territories since
the 1967 Six-Day War.
Its also no secret that Israel not only
has occupied those territories but also
has constructed settlements, and that
issue alone has made it difficult for
the United States to broker any peace
agreement toward a two-state solution.
Some have said that the continuing
occupation will lead to Israels eventual
demise. Others feel just as strongly that
Israel has to hold and even grow its West
Bank position for security purposes.
But wherever someone stands when
it comes to the triggering words West
Bank, that doesnt change the mere
fact that it is an occupation.
Whether we support the occupa-
tion or loathe it, it exists.
Political hopefuls should not have
to be so cautious about this issue.
Perhaps if the occupation would
come to a fair resolution for both
sides, then maybe we wouldnt have
to worry about using that word.
Truth is, it cant be the unsaid
occupation or the veiled occupation.
We cant tiptoe around it.
How can Israel ever have an honest
dialogue with the Palestinians about
a lasting peace if its supporters cant
have an honest conversation among
themselves?
Mr. Christie did not have to apolo-
gize this time. Just because someone
calls Israels West Bank position an
occupation does not mean he or
she doesnt support the Jewish state.
- PJ
In it together
I
s there anything more Jewish
than helping Jews overseas?
Its refreshing to see that sen-
timent alive and well in Israel,
where Foreign Minister Avidgor Lieber-
man recently proposed that Israel
spend a million dollars a day $365 mil-
lion a year on behalf of Jewish educa-
tion in the diaspora.
That is less than one half of one per-
cent of Israels $110 billion annual gov-
ernment budget (and comparable to
the approximately one percent of the
federal budget the U.S. spends on for-
eign aid).
It is just a matter of prioritizing Jew-
ish education above all other issues, he
told visiting leaders of American Jewish
organizations.
Its good to see Jewish education
placed at the top of Jewish communal
priorities. That isnt always the case
when it comes to Jewish charitable con-
tributions. As the Forward reported,
less than 20 percent of traceable Jewish
philanthropy (a category that excludes
donations to synagogues and seminar-
ies and some yeshivot, which as reli-
gious institutions do not have to file
financial information with the IRS) goes
to Jewish education; the vast majority,
nearly 40 percent, goes to fund Israel
institutions.
If Israelis shared American priorities,
they would no doubt prioritize using
their tax dollars to support universities,
symphonies, parks, and recreational
facilities for citizens at home, rather
than helping Jews overseas.
If American Jews shared Mr. Lieber-
mans priorities, local day schools
would have much broader and deeper
philanthropic support but perhaps at
a price of the connection between Israel
and the diaspora generated by interna-
tional philanthropy.
How effective a Jewish education
program headquartered in Jerusalem
actually can be is an open question.
Birthright, with its mixture of Israeli
and diaspora funding and its pluralis-
tic implementation through compet-
ing contractors, provides one model
of partnership that works. The Israeli
emissaries sent through the World
Zionist Organization provide another
example, though there the dollars that
pay the teachers salaries are, appropri-
ately, American.
And this is not to say that Mr. Lieber-
man might not benefit from some
American-style Jewish education of his
own. His notion of an ethnically pure
Jewish state could stand to be tempered
by our experience living as a minority
in an ethnically diverse country; the
values of Israels Declaration of Inde-
pendence demand no less.
But all those are details details not
to be sneered at, but whose hashing
out will itself prove a profitable meet-
ing of Israeli and diaspora minds. In the
meantime, for sparking a discussion
about priorities and partnership, Mr.
Lieberman has earned our praise. -LY
Rabbi
Shmuley
Boteach
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
The Israel Debate
at Columbia
On Monday night, 31 March, our organization, This World:
The Values Network, launched its promised national Israel
debate series on Americas most troublesome campuses,
beginning with Columbia University, where Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was hosted in 2007. The participants were
me and my friend, Pulitzer-Prize Winner Bret Stephens of
the Wall Street Journal, on one side, against Peter Beinart,
who as a Rhodes scholar often attended my events at the
University of Oxford, and Hussein Ibish of the American
Task Force on Palestine on the other.
After Peter made his initial presentation, arguing that
Israel is occupying the West Bank and imposing a double
standard of law for Palestinians and Israelis which is
why he calls for a boycott of all products stemming from
the West Bank I began my defense.
Peter, do you use an IPhone? Because China has occu-
pied Tibet since 1951 and Apple products are assembled
in China. The audience, even those hostile to Israel it
seemed, roared with approval.
The issue with Peter, I
said, is that he has a dis-
torted sense of morality. In
his book The Crisis of Zion-
ism, in which he excori-
ates Israel as a country that
discriminates against Arabs
even within the green line,
he writes of Judaisms most
festive holiday. The Purim
story ends with the king
giving Persias Jews license to
do to Hamans people what
Haman wanted to do with
them and the Jews slaugh-
tering seventy-five thousand souls, he wrote. Of course,
he curiously omits that the Jews only did so in self-defense
after Hamans genocidal decree and the Persian peoples
attempt to destroy, slay, and to cause to perish their
little ones and women.
Indeed, Peter is uncomfortable with the very notion
of Israel needing to defend itself: We are not historys
permanent victims. In a dizzying shift of fortune, many
of our greatest challenges today stem not from weakness
but from power.
This is an astonishing statement that trivializes the
nuclear threat posed by Iran and its Supreme Leader
Op-Ed
Khameinis repeated promises to wipe those loathsome Zion-
ist dogs off the earth, the Hezbollah murderers to the north who
control all of Southern Lebanon, Syrias chemical weapons off in the
northeast, which already have been used in killing some 150,000
Arabs, and the Palestinian Authority to the east, which, according
to last Sundays New York Times, gives $50k to each terrorist hero
murderer who is released from Israeli prisons after killing a Jew.
Oh yes, Peter is aware that Hamas charter calls for the genocide
of Jews wherever they may be found, including outside Israel. The
Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the
Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say,
O Muslims there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. But dont
take that too seriously, because Hamas has in recent years issued
several new documents, which are more compatible with a two-state
solution. This while they continue to fire thousands of deadly rock-
ets at Israeli towns, schools, hospitals, and buses.
Peter is uncomfortable with Israels response: Israeli jets never
bombed Auschwitz and never will. What they have bombed, in recent
years, is the Gaza Strip, a fenced-in, hideously overcrowded, desper-
ately poor slum from which terrorist groups sometimes shell Israel.
Sometimes. Hmmm. But he does not ask himself how a population
in Gaza which, according to the New York Times, already [is] the
worlds largest per capita recipient of international aid the United
States alone has committed over $4 billion in bilateral assistance to
the Palestinians comes to be so destitute. Had he researched it he
would have seen that its because Hamas leaders have spent money
designated for hospitals, schools, and roads on bombs, bullets, and
rockets to kill Israelis, not to mention lining their own pockets.
Arafat died with assets estimated at $1.3 billion, and now even
Mahmoud Abbas, who has not even visited Gaza since Hamas came
to power in 2006 he is afraid that hell never make it out alive is
being accused by Muhammad Rasheed, Arafats chief financial advi-
sor, of having stolen $100 million and given his sons Tarik and Yas-
ser monopoly control of all cigarette trade and construction in the
Palestinian Authority.
In Peters eyes there is little that racist Israel can do right (the same
applies to the American Jewish establishment, who feel forever
persecuted and licensed by their fears to worry only about them-
selves). Israel, it turns out, even is responsible for emerging Islamist
dictators like Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey only began shunning
the Jewish state after Israels 2009 war in Gaza, and after Israeli
troops killed eight Turkish militants who tried to break Israels block-
ade of the strip in 2010. Tell that to the suffering people of Turkey,
who have watched Erdogan brutally crush their peaceful protests in
Istanbul, engage in the most insidious corruption, shut off Facebook
and Twitter, and slowly dismantle their democracy.
Oh, it also turns out that the widespread anger were witness-
ing in Arab countries like Egypt is due not to the brutal suppres-
sion of their rights by Mubarak, Morsi, or any other Arab dictator
but because it has been more than 30 years after the Camp David
Accords, which called for Israel to grant Palestinians full autonomy
in the west bank and Gaza Strip.
In his naive effort to have the Palestinians look more enlightened
than Israel, Peter is not beyond flat-out invention. Concerning the
creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, he writes, Palestin-
ian leaders have repeatedly said they would allow Jews to live there.
Apparently Mahmoud Abbas, who said in July 2013 that no Israeli set-
tlers could remain in a future Palestinian state, didnt get the memo.
Finally, Peter believes that a Palestinian state would be demili-
tarized and Israel would enjoy the benefit of an international
peacekeeping force in the Jordan Valley.
Interesting proposition. An international peace-keeping force
for protection. Tell that to the 150,000 innocent Arabs who have
been slaughtered by Bashar Assad, as the Security Council passed
not a single resolution of condemnation. Tell that to Rwanda, at the
20th anniversary of the genocide occasioned by the UN pulling its
peace-keeping troops out against the strenuous objections of its com-
mander, Gen. Romeo Dallaire. Tell that to the 10,000 men and boys
of Srebrenica, who were massacred in 1995 in the now infamous UN-
declared safe zone. Most of all, tell it to the Jews of the Holocaust. An
international force is coming to protect them. Indeed, one finally did
just five years and six million Jews too late.
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Tefillin and the rational man
I
ts 2003, and I am in a Judaica shop in Jerusa-
lems Mea Shearim neighborhood with
my best friend in Israel.
The shopkeeper has arrayed a
number of sets of tefillin on the counter.
My friend Ill call him Lev holds his
cell phone to his ear while with the other
hand he hefts the tefillin one by one.
No? he says into the phone.
He puts down the tefillin and
picks up another set. How about
these?
The shopkeeper is starting to look
annoyed.
I was in Israel for a conference of what is now
known as the Jewish Federations of North America.
My oldest son would become a bar mitzvah the fol-
lowing May, and I decided to buy him his first set of
tefillin in the holy city. Although I am a regular at Con-
gregation Beth Sholom, I am at heart a rationalist. I
suspect that a set of leather boxes and slips of paper
with Hebrew text are basically the same whether
they are sold on Mea Shearim Street. in Jerusalem or
Cedar Lane in Teaneck. But I was in Israel, and I am
always happy to do my part to help Israels economy.
Lev, however, attached
deeper meaning to my
purchase. Although we
have been friends for
decades, we couldnt
be farther apart in our
approach t o myst i -
cism. Essentially, he
approaches it I run
away as if from a bad
smell. He is deeply spiri-
tual and believes there
are forces at work in the
universe that we cant
perceive with our five senses. I have strong doubts
about higher powers, and essentially hold with the
great theologian Lisa Simpson: Look, you can either
accept science and face reality or you can believe in
angels and live in a childish dream world. Like the
old joke, Lev goes to synagogue to talk to God I go
to synagogue to talk to Lev.
Yet Lev is not about to give up on me. He wanted
to make sure that my sons first tefillin not only were
kosher, but had the blessing of his spiritual adviser.
Yes, Lev has a spiritual adviser known in Hebrew
as a mekubal whom he consults on life decisions
large and small.
I asked if the mekubal would meet us at the shop;
Lev said that wouldnt be necessary. Instead, we
chatted up the shopkeeper, who explained the dif-
ferent types of tefillin some tooled from the finest
grade leather, others (these he called cheapskin)
made with lesser hides and cheap glues. I narrowed
it down to my price range not the cheapskins, but
still several hundred dollars and the shopkeeper
set out samples on the counter.
Thats when Lev dialed his mekubal. Apparently,
the mystic could read the tefillins vibes over the
phone. Not good? Lev would ask, and reach for
another.
The shopkeeper, sensing a challenge to his integ-
rity, started to boil. Lev explained that he meant no
disrespect, but that the mekubal had special insights.
The shopkeeper, who wore the large velvet kippa and
Andrew
Silow-Carroll
dangling tzitzit of a fervently Orthodox Jew, softened
only when my friend mentioned his unusual last
name. Xs cousin? the shopkeeper asked. Tension
broken; Jewish geography wins again.
But then the shopkeeper shared some Torah.
Do you remember what Yitro told Moshe Rab-
beinu? In Exodus 18, Yitro ( Jethro) sees that his
son-in-law Moses is overworked, and advises him
to appoint a team of assistants to judge disputes
among his people. You shall also seek out from
among all the people capable men who fear God,
trustworthy men who spurn ill-gotten gain, Yitro
says.
So Moshe does what his father-in-law suggested
but with a difference, said the shopkeeper. A
few verses later, we learn that Moses heeded his
father-in-law and did just as he had said: Moses
chose capable men out of all Israel. What hap-
pened to men who fear God? Not there. So what
do we learn from this? That you can tell if someone
is capable and trustworthy, but no one not even
Moshe can see into the hearts of men.
So if someone tells you he has special powers,
can see things others dont, remind them of the
story of Yitro and Moshe. And remember Ramban:
And from His prophets alone should we inquire
and never from the charlatans.
Now, which one are you buying?
Eventually, the mekubal did okay one of the sets,
and I handed over my credit card. Back on the
street, crowded with charedi Jews in black coats
and tourists in mufti, I felt whiplashed between
my friends intense kabbalism and the shopkeep-
ers Torah-based rationalism. At the same time, I
couldnt ignore that all three of us pray wearing the
magic black boxes I now carried in my hand.
I think about the shopkeepers lesson when-
ever someone says religion is fundamentally at
odds with a rational scientific worldview. I also
remember that day when someone claims to know
another persons heart or to speak directly for God
like the odious Fred Phelps, the hate-filled pastor
who died last month.
I also remember how eager Lev was to share his
mekubals gift with a friend who didnt even believe
in it. I may not share my friends mystical bent, but
I know hes on the side of the angels.
Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is editor of the New
Jersey Jewish News, where this column first appeared.
Op-Ed
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Visiting Ramallah
R
ecently a group of
Harvard students,
funded by the
Combined Jewish
Philanthropies of Boston, were
criticized all over social media
for visiting the grave of Yasser
Arafat, and for seeming, at least
to some onlookers, to have
turned the visit into a photo
opportunity.
So I flash back to 2004,
when my daughter DeDe was a student intern
for something called the Sulha Festival. (The
word sulha is the Arab equivalent of the
Hebrew slicha, forgiveness.)
DeDe worked with Israeli Jews, Israeli
Arabs, Palestinians, and Christians on the fes-
tival, which that year was held not far from
Tel Aviv. The festival combined art, song,
drama, and music, and most of all peaceful
discussion among people of different back-
grounds. Primarily it was people talking,
focusing on peace and justice.
I remember being proud of DeDe for the
work she was doing, and I also remember
being able to view the festival streaming on
the Internet.
A day or two after the festival concluded,
my wife and I were on vacation at the ocean
when my cellphone started ringing at about
6 a.m.
I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was
DeDes phone number in Israel. Before I said
hello, I asked, Why are you
calling so early?
DeDe answered: Youll
never believe where Im sit-
ting. I told her to tell me, and
after telling me not to worry,
she said that she was in Ramal-
lah, having tea in a cafe.
Where? I wanted to make
sure I was hearing this right.
Ramallah, dad, she said.
Im sitting in a caf directly
across the street form Yasser Arafats
compound.
I could feel my blood pressure rise a bit. I
still have images of brutal killings of IDF sol-
diers who strayed into Ramallah in my head.
DeDe was with the Sulha organizers. It was
past lunchtime, and they were hungry. Yes,
they went through a checkpoint, and DeDe
and another intern, a woman of Arabic back-
ground, stuck together like glue, following
their older colleagues into Ramallah.
While they were in the caf, everyone
stood up and applauded, DeDe told me.
Why? At the entrance of a small group
of people who had met with Arafat the day
before and openly criticized him for trying
to put all the blame on Israel for the average
Palestinians economic misery. The corrupt
Palestinian government was more to blame,
they said.
So lets get something clear about the Har-
vard students. They were not in Ramallah to
pay homage to Arafat. They
were there because at least
some Jewish organizations
take groups on trips through
Israel and the West Bank;
the trips unofficial name is
Israel, warts and all.
It takes information-gath-
ering to gain a perspective
on what is happening in
Israel, from the settlements
being built in occupied ter-
ritories to the struggles
undertaken by those Israe-
lis and Palestinians who do
want peace and a two-state
solution.
As Jews and Zionists,
sometimes were loathe to see and admit
that there are difficult stories connected with
checkpoints and the wall separating Israel
from the West Bank.
Those who criticize the Combined Jew-
ish Philanthropies should do their home-
work on this organization. It does not
need to defend its track record of support
for Israel to anyone. Whatever they call
the mission, Birthright or a student trek,
CJP cannot be criticized if it offers students
different ways to study an issue important
to Israel.
Maybe it was unwise for the Harvard stu-
dents to have their photograph taken in
Ramallah. But theres a heck of a lot worse
going in this world than a bunch of Jew-
ish students in a group picture at Arafats
burial place.
Getting back to my daughter DeDe Im
proud of her for opening up avenues of
dialogue with people who didnt grow up
as she did or believe as she does.
The young Muslim woman who was
working with DeDe is named Habiba. My
daughters Hebrew name is Chaviva. In
Arabic and in Hebrew, the name means
beloved.
They were two young women with the
same name and with the same purpose.
Peace between their people, in Jerusa-
lem, Tel Aviv, or even Ramallah.
Phil Jacobs
Ten years ago, Habiba and Chaviva stood together
in Israel. PHIL JACOBS
Beating back the assault on Israels legitimacy
L
eaders of the boy-
cott, divestment
and s anc t i ons
movement say they
are protesting Israels policies
in the West Bank. They are
doing far more than that.
BDS advocates routinely
oppose a two-state solution
and seek to delegitimize the
sovereign, Jewish state of
Israel. In some cases, BDS
becomes the latest form of
anti-Semitism.
The BDS movement aims to
isolate and punish Israel, using
the same techniques applied
to apartheid South Africa. Not
hesitating to misrepresent facts
and ignore context, these Israel
bashers take advantage of igno-
rance and navet within civil
society circles, mostly in West-
ern Europe, to advance their
anti-Israel agenda.
BDS advocates view the situation in the
West Bank through a one-way lens, see-
ing only a single perspective. They cite, for
example, the security checkpoints that make
life difficult for Palestinians but conveniently
overlook the reasons for those
checkpoints. They ignore the
fact that hurting Israels econ-
omy also would hurt Palestin-
ians who earn their livelihoods
from Israeli-owned businesses.
BDS backers dont bother
to protest the many countries
that have horrific human rights
records, instead singling out
the worlds only Jewish state,
often based on false or misrep-
resented information.
A tipping point for the Jewish
communitys response to BDS
came in 2009, when a number
of anti-Israel groups called for
a boycott of the Toronto Inter-
national Film Festival because
one of its themes was Tel
Avivs 100th anniversary. The
Toronto and Los Angeles Jew-
ish federations joined forces;
with the involvement of major
figures in the entertainment industry, they
fashioned an effective response.
With calls for BDS escalating in the main-
line Protestant churches, on college cam-
puses, and elsewhere, Jewish community
leaders realize that the situation calls for
more than an ad hoc approach: Local com-
munities need a strategic approach with
national support and coordination.
In 2010, the Jewish Federations of North
America, representing more than 150 local
federations, allocated significant resources
so that the Israel Action Network could serve
this purpose. The Jewish Council for Public
Affairs with its 16 national member orga-
nizations, including all four of the religious
movements, and 125 Jewish community rela-
tions councils, which work with non-Jewish
coalition partners on a range of international
and domestic concerns was the JFNAs obvi-
ous partner.
One principle that guides this work is that
we should understand our audiences. And
when we speak with others, we should do
so with a respect for the sensitivities of that
constituency. When we do so, our impor-
tant messages can be heard authentically.
Whether on a campus, in a church, or speak-
ing with an LGBT group, we should always be
clear that we stand as partners, sharing the
goal of a future with peace and security not
one of conflict and BDS.
Experience and research demonstrate
that what works best with these audiences
made up mostly of political and religious
progressives is not an all-good-vs.-all-bad
characterization of Israelis and Palestinians.
Instead, a more nuanced narrative is the one
that is likely to defeat the one-sided and hos-
tile stance of those seeking to delegitimize
Israel.
This means honestly conveying the situ-
ations complexity, without implying moral
equivalency expressing empathy for suffer-
ing on both sides, and offering a constructive
pathway to helping the parties move toward
peace and reconciliation based on two states
for two peoples.
Whether we are dealing with the boycott of
Israeli academic institutions adopted by the
American Studies Association or an attempt
to remove Israeli products from a Brooklyn
food co-op, the most effective opponents of
these initiatives are the people who travel in
those circles.
While we in the organized Jewish commu-
nity should not remain silent in the face of
Israels delegitimization, we should strongly
support and accentuate the efforts of these
third-party validators who share our values
and viewpoints. The 247 (and counting) uni-
versities and colleges that have denounced
academic boycotts generally and aca-
demic boycotts of Israel specifically are
just such validators.
Rabbi Steve
Gutow
Jerry
Silverman
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Letters
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Rethinking Heine
In From Rasha, with love (March 28), Rabbi Joseph H.
Prouser quotes the poet Heinrich Heine and calls him, in
passing, a Jewish apostate.
But Heine was more complicated than that. He called
himself merely baptized, not converted, and wrote to a
friend: From my way of thinking you can well imagine
that baptism is an indifferent affair. I do not regard it as
important even symbolically, and I shall devote myself all
the more to the emancipation of the unhappy members
of our race. Still I hold it as a disgrace and a stain upon
my honor that in order to obtain an office in Prussia in
beloved Prussia I should allow myself to be baptized.
Later, he wrote, I regret very deeply that I had myself
baptized.
And still later: [I]f every kind of pride of birth were not
a foolish contradiction in a champion of revolution and
democratic principles, the writer of these pages might be
proud that his ancestors belonged to the noble House of
Israel, that he is a descendant of those martyrs who have
given to the world one God and a moral law, and have
fought and suffered in all the battle-fields of thought.
This long-neglected Jewish apostate poet is worthy of
contemporary study.
Rebecca Boroson
Jewish Standard editor emerita, Woodstock, N.Y.
Finding pharaoh
The connection between Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BCE)
and the Passover seder (Pharaonic Foursome, March 28)
may be far more significant than people realize.
The commonly held view is that Rameses II (1279-1213
BCE) was the pharaoh of the Exodus. But observations in a
recent biography of Amenhotep III, and the possible con-
nection between that pharaohs favorite deity, Sekhmet,
and the 10 plagues narrative in the Book of Exodus, point
to the possibility that he was the Exodus pharaoh.
According to Egyptologist Arielle Kozloff, Amenhotep III
was obsessed with memorializing his life in great detail. Yet
there is a surprising eight-year gap in the documentation of
his reign. Dr. Kozloffs theory is that Egypt must have been
in the throes of a major national trauma. She cites reasons
to believe that one or more plagues, possibly including
bubonic plague, struck Egypt at that time. Although she
shares the view that the Exodus occurred around the time
of Rameses II, Dr. Kozloff acknowledges that her theory
about this eight-year period bears a striking similarity to
the Exodus story that we retell at every seder.
Amenhotep III is known to have ordered as many as
700 statues of Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war,
plague and pestilence, to be made and prayed to twice
daily. His motive remains obscure, but scholars note that
Sekhmet was also looked to for protection and healing,
and for revenge on the Egyptians enemies.
The Book of Exodus hints in several places at a link
between Sekhmet worship and the 10 plagues, particu-
larly in the narrative of the first and tenth plagues. The
first plague, the blood-filled Nile, echoes a foundational
Egyptian myth in which Sekhmet slaughters humans at
the command of her father, the sun god Ra. Before the last
plague, the death of the Egyptian firstborn, God says He
will not allow the Destroyer to smite the houses of Isra-
elites who comply with His directive to smear the blood of
the Paschal lamb on their doorposts (Exodus 12:23). The
ancient Egyptians referred to Sekhmet as the Destroyer.
So, perhaps God used Sekhmet worship as the focal point
for executing judgment on the Egyptian deities (Exodus
12:12) when He demonstrated that the Egyptians gods
could neither protect them from the plagues nor wreak
vengeance on the Jews.
The identity of the Exodus pharaoh may continue to
elude clear proof. But if there is a connection between
Amenhotep III and the Exodus story, the pharaoh whose four
colossal statues are found in Luxor may well have been the Exo-
dus pharaoh himself. This would give fresh reason to believe
that the event we celebrate on Passover as a cornerstone of our
faith did, in fact, occur.
Ira Friedman, Teaneck
Misunderstanding Noah
In regard to the Noah movie (Noah and the Jews, March
28), issue of the Jewish Standard) I can see that adults may
see the subtleties in a midrashic interpretation of this movie.
Children, however, will learn that Noah was a homicidal
maniac who wants to kill his daughters-in-law so that they
wont bear female offspring, not the righteous man, per-
fect in his generation, who walked with God, as the Bible
tells us. They will learn from this film that only animals are
fit to exist on the earth, as man is corrupted and should not
have any more children. In the Bible, Noahs three sons and
their wives enter the ark to preserve mankind. I am sorry
to say that a whole generation of children will now grow up
with the wrong story.
Rosalie Greenberg, Teaneck
Cover Story
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JOANNE PALMER
T
he three children grew up in the
middle of the woods.
There were acres of land all
around the house; waterfalls
tumbled from the rocky hills and splashed
down in their rush toward the mighty
color-shifting river far below. There were
trees to climb, trails to blaze, rocks to
scale. For half of the year, glorious cano-
pies of trees shaded their view; when the
leaves fell, the children could see the river,
and the ships that steamed silently upriver
to unload and then headed back south
again, out to sea.
It was a perfect pastoral scene, the back-
drop for a bucolic 19th-century childhood.
Then pull the camera back a bit. Youll
see that the river is the Hudson, the time
the second half of the 20th century, and
the town is Fort Lee.
The house, built in the 1920s, still stands
still hidden, still improbable, still offer-
ing views of jaw-dropping beauty. The chil-
drens mother, formally Mildred Docktor
but more often Mitzie, 93, lives there still.
Her husband, the Docktor family patri-
arch, Irving (and it was still a time and a
place and a family where it was both fair
and accurate to call him that), who died
in 2008, was a painter and illustrator who
created, among many other works, the
iconic cover art for the paperback versions
of The Brothers Karamazov and War
and Peace.
The family did not come to that extraor-
dinary place accidentally.
Both Mitzie Himmelstein, as she was
then, and Irv Doktor, who was born in
1918, grew up in Philadelphia. Her fam-
ily owned a restaurant in Center City, five
The little house
in the big woods
Artists family remembers
growing up in Fort Lee
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The little house
in the big woods
Artists family remembers
growing up in Fort Lee
blocks from Independence Hall, logically
enough called Himmelsteins. There were
three Jewish restaurants on the block, she
said. The one across the street claimed
to be kosher. We never made any claims.
But we served Jewish food meatballs,
kishkes, brains, and gefilte fish on Fri-
days. The restaurant seated 150 people on
its ground floor, and reserved the second
floor, the banquet hall, for weddings, bar
mitzvahs, and other parties. The family
lived on the third floor.
Her father, Sam, also ran the restaurant
at the Cosmopolitan Club in Atlantic City,
and she occasionally would work there.
A large sugar bowl, substantial, old, heav-
ily engraved, reminds her of it. The res-
taurant was on the ground floor, but the
kitchen was in the basement, she remem-
bered ruefully. There was a dumbwaiter,
but still
Irvs family owned a pet shop a few
blocks away from Himmelsteins. That
venture grew out of his own entrepreneur-
ial fathers work selling animal food. He
used to go around with a wheelbarrow to
deliver it, Mitzie said. Finally, he opened
the store.
Irv and Mitzie did not know each other,
although they lived close to each other.
He went to Central High School, an aca-
demic boys school; she went to its mirror,
the Philadelphia High School for Girls. He
went on to the Philadelphia Museum Col-
lege of Art, and she crossed the Delaware
River to go to Rutgers in Camden.
Irv Docktor went off to war he was in
the Philippines, doing aerial photography
when his father died. His mother, Ber-
tha, continued to run the store, and she
regularly stopped off at Himmelsteins for
supper. Mitzie, meanwhile, had become
an optometrist, and she managed an
optometry store.
The mothers got together, and soon
Irv was writing to Mitzie regularly. (But
not until he had requested and she had
sent him a photograph of herself, and he
decided that she was up to his standards,
she recalled.) Finally he came home, the
two met, there was a long, romantic trol-
ley ride and a few months later they
were married.
Mitzie does not know if Irv was the
same kind of unstoppable artist during his
childhood that he was throughout their
Mitzie and Irving Docktor in 2007. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS BY B. DOCKTOR
The view from the house; above, as painted by Irv Docktor in the late 1950s and at left, as seen by his daughter, photographer B. Docktor, this week.
Cover Story
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life together, but both she and her chil-
dren knew him as someone who drew as
naturally and constantly as he breathed
someone whose pens and crayons and
brushes seemed as integral a part of his
fingers as skin and nail and bone; someone
who saw no opportunity as too insignifi-
cant or sight too minor to be worth captur-
ing. He drew everything. All the time.
That is a roundabout way of saying that
the pet food packaging in his family store
did not escape his attention. He rede-
signed it.
In that expansive postwar world, pet
ownership was growing, and so too did
the store. Soon, the family moved into the
wholesale pet business. Irv, Mitzie, and
their oldest child, Mark, had been com-
fortably ensconced in the familys above-
the-restaurant Philadelphia home, but
they went off to New York to grow their
business.
The Docktors found themselves in
Flushing, just a few doors down from his
younger brother, with a pet store in Hemp-
stead and another in Levittown, both on
Long Island. As is often the case, though,
there were family problems. The brother
basically absconded. We were left with
certain bills and responsibilities that we
shared with him, but he wasnt there,
Mitzie said delicately. We had a problem.
I was worried about losing my house.
As the pet business went south, Irv
relied more on his art. He freelanced,
showing his art to publishers, getting com-
missions, producing book covers. He got
work through Grosset and Dunlop, and
then from Harpers from a vanished
world of once-independent publishers
but he did not take a full-time job. He
never liked having anyone over him,
Mitzie said.
His book-cover work, done mainly in
the 1950s and 60s, included genre fic-
tion thrillers by Patricia Highsmith,
The top-floor studio holds Irv Docktors work; some pieces are out, while the drawers in the old wooden cabinets hold
hudnreds more.
Irv Docktor painted his daughter, B., cycling in Ireland.
Irv drew constantly; even his hand-
writing was art, as this postcard to his
grandchildren shows.
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mysteries by Christiana Brand and John
Dickson Carr, science fiction by Robert A.
Heinlein and James Blish, childrens books
by Christine Noble Govan and Emmy West
as well as American classics by Edgar
Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Erskine
Caldwell. His covers have the periods
characteristic dark look, with faces and
figures that demand that you, the viewer,
compose your own stories about them
even before you read theirs. Much of his
work, starting then and continuing for the
rest of his life, is both psychologically and
visually complex.
Irv began to teach art at night at the
Newark School of Fine Arts. He loved the
work, but it was a nasty trip from Flushing.
So, in the mid-50s, he began searching for
a house that met his specifications.
It had to have a water view, Mitzie
said. We looked in Glen Cove, on Long
Island Sound, and in Yonkers, on the
Hudson in Westchester; they looked at just
about everywhere in between, too. Noth-
ing was right and then he found this
house, Mitzie said.
The only problem was that there already
were people living there, and they had not
been thinking of moving.
But Irv was a charismatic man, and he
wanted the house. So he introduced him-
self, charmed, schmoozed, and waited.
Soon, it turned out that its owners were
nearing retirement age, the husband
hunted and fished, and Florida beckoned.
Not long after that, they were on their
way south, and the Docktors Irv, Mitzie,
Mark, then 10, Paul, 7, and Barbara, 3
moved to New Jersey.
Fort Lee was very different then, Mark
Docktor said. It was a quaint little town.
None of the high rises had been built yet
the tallest building, which still stands but
now is dwarfed by its neighbors boasted
six stories. The site where one of the high
rises now stands was a pig farm when the
Docktors moved to town. The Fort Lee
Jewish Center already had opened the
boys became bar mitzvah there but Jews
were not as large a presence there then as
they are now.
Soon after the family moved to Fort
Lee, Mitzie became certified as a teacher;
she taught middle-schoolers math in Fair
Lawn for 29 years. (She earned $4,300 in
1962, her first year as a teacher, she said;
she was very proud of it, and continues
to be proud of the pension her teaching
earned her.)
Irv continued to make both more and
less commercial pieces. He did the artwork
for The Illustrated Book of American
Folklore, using his children and their dog
as models. (Mark takes great pleasure now
in leafing through the book, showing his
face and body morphed into a surprising
range of legendary American heroes and
ragamuffins.) He designed a pamphlet for
Bergdorf Goodman with a drawing that per-
fectly encapsulated understated New York
postwar glamor. He worked on his Heritage
series, which showcased legendary Eastern
European heroes, without as much empha-
sis on ragamuffins. His continuous fascina-
tion with faces, and whatever it is that lies
behind them, always is evident.
He also taught high school students. For
15 years, he taught at the High School of
Art and Design in Manhattan his only
real full-time job, his widow said getting
to school at least an hour before it opened
and staying after it closed, working with
the students whose energy and love revi-
talized him. Many of them figure in his
work from that period.
In 1980, the Docktors added a studio
to the house. Now it has three levels.
The bottom-most is at street grade, with
what anyone else would think is a spec-
tacular view. The second has a deck that
provides an even better, wider, clearer
view of river and sky. Our father would
have an art class here on the patio, Mark
said. When he would have a nude model,
when we were young kids, my brother
and I would play stickball, and then sneak
back through the woods where we could
see the class
The third level, though, is the astonish-
ment. From up there, the view is unbeat-
able; close enough to be able to under-
stand the vastness of the ships and the
river itself, far enough away to overlook
miles of it. And the light pours into it
through windows and skylights as if it were
a tangible substance, like gold.
There are lovely old wooden cabinets
Irv drew constantly; even his hand-
writing was art, as this postcard to his
grandchildren shows.
Irv Docktors artistic versatility is evident in these four book jackets. The model for
the boy in Brave Jimmy Stone was Paul Docktor.
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along some of the walls. Each cabinet drawer holds
troves of sketches and prints and pastels and paintings
and playbills.
Playbills?
Irv and Mitzie loved the opera; they went to listen
to music almost every week. At each performance,
Irv would draw on his playbill, using one of the many
pens he always had in his breast pocket. Wherever
we were, at the opera, at a concert, at the theater, at
the ballet, he would be busy sketching, Mitzie said.
At the ballet, Id poke him, she added. I told him
that he really should have been paying attention and
watching.
Some of the drawers hold a small representation
of the thousands of those playbills. Others hold still-
undiscovered treasures.
Mark, the oldest of the three Docktor children, is a
dentist. (Reader, now is the time for the obligatory Dr.
Docktor jokes. In fact, even more hilarity might ensue
when you learn that Paul Docktor is an orthopedic sur-
geon. Another Dr. Docktor. Out of your system? Good.
Lets move on.)
Mark remembers his childhood and adolescence in
Fort Lee with great nostalgia. By the time he started
high school, he began to contribute to the familys
budget. I had just about every job you could think
of, and I knew everyone, he said. One summer he
worked for the town, renewing the yellow marks on
curbs. He also delivered pizza and worked at the local
root beer stand, and then at the pet shop.
Mark put himself through college and dental school
by working at a pet store in the Willowbrook Mall
family connections can be helpful, he said. It was a
different time, he added, and regulations were very
different. Pet stores in malls sold animals that no one
now would think of seeing locally outside a zoo.
I sold anteaters and chimps and a white-cheeked
gibbon that I used to bring home at night, Mark said.
Its name was Jasper Jasper and I really clicked.
Remember that a gibbon is an ape, not a monkey,
he added; in evolutionary terms, it is closer to us.
On Sundays, when the store wasnt crowded, Id
spin Jasper around, holding him by the arms and
whirling, as a parent might do with a small child.
Sometimes a kid would walk by with an ice
cream cone, and Jasper would he made a noise,
and mimed the cone being gone and the childs
astonishment.
Once I got to the front desk at the clinic at NYU,
where he was in dental school, and the front desk
said You need to call the store in Willowbrook Mall.
I did, and they said You need to get here right away.
Jasper got free, and he is swinging from the chandelier
in Marcus Jewelers.
So I ran to the mall from the clinic, and I got him
down.
What happened to Jasper? Eventually someone
bought him.
Another time, he said, he went to a store in the
Bronx, called Bronsons, that imported exotic wildlife.
They let me go out there and pick things up. I
picked up a chimpanzee, and he was banging the cage
in the car, so I let him out. He sat on my lap, but then
he grabbed the directional signal and bent it.
So I said, Bad boy! and put him back in the cage,
and then luckily I was able to bend the directional sig-
nal back.
Perhaps because the house in which he grew up set
the bar very high, the house in which Mark and Mag-
gie Docktor now live, and where their three daughters
grew up, is unusual, too. Its core was built in 1804;
the Docktors are just the seventh owners, and he has
The Heritage series drew on Irvs images of old-country life.
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collected a copy of most of the deeds
that transferred the house from one
family to the next, along with maps that
show Tenaflys changes over the last two
centuries. The house is full of his fathers
art hanging on the walls, piled in fold-
ers, put neatly away in drawers.
Irv and Mitzies Docktors daughter,
who now is called B. and lives in Ancram
in upstate New York, is a professional
photographer; like her father, in much
of her work she concentrates on faces,
finding truth and beauty in the absolute
individuality of each of her subjects.
Growing up in that Fort Lee house
was phenomenal, B. said. We had so
much privacy and freedom. To both be
in the woods and have that view of the
city it was the house that everybody
wanted to be in.
It was a magical place.
Fort Lee has undergone a huge trans-
formation and not one Im happy
with, she added. It kind of breaks my
heart. Really, they paved Paradise, and
put in a parking lot.
Although much of the magic was
inherent in the house, another part
came from her family. Everyone loves
her mother, she said; as for her father,
he was a creative force. His output was
phenomenal. He was just so stimulated
by everything visual. He couldnt ever
get enough of looking at things.
He was insatiable visually.
Although she chose a different
medium than her father did, she thinks
it is no accident that she followed him
into the visual arts. When we would go
places, the thing to do with my father
was go to museums, she said. He could
never get enough.
He would stand in front of something
for a really long time, and he would have
you look at it, and really explore it.
He taught her how to really look, how
to go down through layer after layer to
see the underlying structure, and not
to forget the surface either. I remem-
ber a lot of time his saying, Do you see
this? Or this? Or this? A lot of the time I
couldnt see it at first, but then I could
see it, and then Id see more and more.
He taught her to appreciate shapes,
too.
A lot of his work has complex, inter-
woven figures, she said. Youre not
exactly sure where one starts and the
other leaves off.
Like her fathers, many of B.s images
are of faces. (Some of them are posted
on her website, www.bdocktorpho-
tography.com.) She has taken many
pictures of farm animals, and they are
entrancing. They seem to know things.
(Its odd, she mused, that the most pop-
ular of her photos are her farm animals.
Those are the images that people are
most likely to buy and hang on their
walls. They will buy photos of their own
dogs, not of anyone elses, she said, but
they are entirely comfortable with ran-
dom farm animals.)
My imagery is very simple and
graphic compared to his, but I learned
about composition from him, B. said.
There is something about the way I see
and compose an image that is a direct
result of my fathers influence on me.
And she still is diving through the lay-
ers of the visible, to keep on learning.
I have one piece of his where I can
still see more and more, she said.
Every time I look at it, I see more.
Exploring in Fort Lee Mark is on the far right, and Paul is the next boy over.
The others are friends.
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The Bedoon
of Kuwait
The stateless people
youve never heard of
H
eres the setting: a Middle Eastern state
filled with skyscrapers and luxury hotels,
and blessed with a booming business
environment and the close friendship of
the United States.
Heres the problem: a substantial segment of its
population lives with the constant threat of deporta-
tion hanging over it.
Members of that group cannot obtain birth or mar-
riage certificates, identity cards, or drivers licenses.
They are banned from access to public health and
education services. Their
second-class status means
they have no access to the
law courts to pursue their
well-documented claims
of discrimination. And on
those rare occasions that
they summon the will to
protest publicly as they
did in 2011, when demon-
strators held signs bear-
ing slogans like I Have
a Dream the security
forces respond with extraordinary brutality, using
such weapons as water cannons, concussion grenades,
and tear gas with reckless abandon.
All this is depressing enough, but what really sad-
dens me is that many people reading this quickly will
conclude that I am talking about the Palestinians. After
all, doesnt what Ive outlined here sound suspiciously
like the apartheid system that Israels enemies insist
has been imposed upon both Arab citizens of Israel
and Palestinians in the West Bank? Isnt this further
evidence of the righteousness of the campaign to boy-
cott, divest from, and sanction Israel?
The truth is that the Palestinians do not have to
endure this kind of raw discrimination. The situation
Im describing is in Kuwait, and the people in question
are known as Bedoon jinsiya (also spelled Bidoon
or Bidun) around 120,000 human beings who live
without nationality and with none of the rights that
flow from citizenship.
Like the other Arab governments, Kuwaiti officials
are a harsh, unsentimental bunch. Ironically, the Pal-
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led coalition liberated oil-rich Kuwait from Iraqi occu-
pation, the entire Palestinian population there was
accused of having collaborated with Saddam Hussein.
The fact that some did and many others did not didnt
matter. Over a six-month period, around 200,000
Palestinians were booted out of the emirate in a cam-
paign of violence and terror. PLO leader Yasser Arafat,
in a rare moment of candor, asserted that Kuwaits
ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was worse than
what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the
occupied territories.
The Bedoon have faced a similar but more gradual
onslaught, albeit without the extensive media cover-
age that the Palestinians receive. Human rights organi-
zations arent in the habit of paying attention to them:
a recent article in the Arab newspaper Al Akhbar cited
a Human Rights Watch report on the Bedoon from
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2011, adding that such documentation
is rare. As a result, not only do most
of us not know who the Bedoon are, but
its probably also safe to say that the vast
majority of westerners never even have
heard of them.
Ethnically Arab, the Bedoon are
drawn from three main sources. Firstly,
those who failed to apply for nationality
or lacked the right documentation when
Kuwait attained independence in 1961.
Secondly, those who were recruited to
work in the Kuwaiti security forces dur-
ing the 1960s, many of whom arrived in
the emirate with their families. Thirdly,
the children of Kuwaiti mothers and
stateless or foreign fathers.
As Human Rights Watch noted,
regional political instability during the
1980s led to the removal of the meager
benefits which did not include the
right to vote that the Bedoon had
enjoyed until then. They became ille-
gal residents and so were completely
excluded from the social services avail-
able to Kuwaiti citizens. Those who
slander Israels Law of Return as racist
should know that Kuwait operates one
of the most restrictive nationality laws
in the region, amended many times
since it was first passed in order to make
the requirements for citizenship more
stringent. It has now gotten to the point
where Kuwaiti women cannot pass on
their nationality to their children, even
when those children are not eligible for
their fathers nationality.
Kuwaits official position is that there
is no problem of statelessness in the
emirate. Half-hearted attempts by the
government to address the situation
of the Bedoon have come to nothing,
and over the last month many Bedoon
have begun protesting again. When one
Bedoon leader, Abdullah Atallah, bravely
declared that Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah
al-Ahmed al-Sabah was to blame for
the plight of his people, he was promptly
arrested for this insult and now faces
a five-year prison sentence. Meanwhile,
the Kuwaiti authorities have threatened
that further protests will result in the
deportation of those involved.
Its high time that Kuwait be held
accountable for enforcing a system that
looks like, well, apartheid. But no one
is doing so. I havent seen, for exam-
ple, students at the elite Dartmouth
College protesting against their univer-
sitys American University of Kuwait
program. Im not aware of any cam-
puses hosting Kuwaiti Apartheid Week
events. Theres a whole Division of Pales-
tinian Rights at the U.N., but that organi-
zation is silent on the Bedoon of Kuwait.
We can whine about the double stan-
dards. Or we can press our own Jewish
leaders to raise cases like the Bedoon
with their government interlocutors, in
the name of both universal human rights
and protecting Israels democratic repu-
tation. It is time to go on the offensive.
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The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has pit-
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other, touching off a discordant exchange between
prominent rabbis on opposite sides of the border.
The discord had been brewing since the onset of
the protests in Ukraine in November, but it turned
public last month, after Russia deployed its military
in Crimea in response to what President Vladimir
Putin claimed was a rampage by anti-Semitic and
nationalist groups.
Mr. Putins claim sparked angry reactions from
Ukrainian Jewish leaders, many of whom said it was
a false justification for aggressive Russian actions
that were more dangerous to Jews than any home-
grown nationalism.
On Monday, one of Russias chief rabbis, Berel
Lazar, hit back, urging Ukrainian Jews to stay silent
on matters of geopolitics and reiterating concerns
about anti-Semitism in the post-revolutionary gov-
ernment concerns that he further suggested Ukrai-
nian Jews were too afraid to voice for themselves.
The Jewish community should not be the one
sending messages to President Barack Obama about
his policy or to President Putin or to any other leader.
I think its the wrong attitude, Rabbi Lazar said.
The revolution in Ukraine, a country with bit-
ter memories of Soviet domination but also a large
population of Russian speakers, erupted last fall,
after then-President Viktor Yanukovych declined to
sign an association agreement with the European
Union. Svoboda, an ultranationalist political party
that Ukrainian Jewish leaders consider both anti-
Semitic and dangerous, played a prominent role in
the uprising that eventually ousted Mr. Yanukovych
from office last month.
Amid the revolutionary turmoil, several anti-
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of a religious Jew in Kiev; several street beatings of
Jews; the attempted torching of a synagogue and, at
another synagogue, the spray-painting of swastikas
and the words Death to the Jews.
At a March 4 news conference in Moscow, Mr.
Putin said Russias biggest concern was the ram-
page of reactionary forces, nationalist and anti-
Semitic forces going on in certain parts of Ukraine,
warning that Russia would make further incursions
if minorities were endangered.
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Ukraine, or Vaad, and 20 other
leaders of the Ukrainian Jewish
community sent Mr. Putin an
open letter in which they dis-
puted the existence of unusual
levels of anti-Semitism in post-
revolutionary Ukraine and
accused Russia of threatening
the security of Ukrainians.
Your policy of inciting sep-
aratism and crude pressure
placed on Ukraine threatens us
and all Ukrainian people, the
letter said.
Last week, Vaad placed the
letter as a full-page ad in the
New York Times and several
other newspapers.
To Rabbi Lazar, a senior
Chabad rabbi who spoke to JTA
this week at the biannual con-
ference of the Rabbinical Centre
of Europe in Budapest, the Vaad letter was a case of
Jewish leaders involving themselves in issues that dont
directly concern the Jewish community.
It was a sharper version of previous calls for Jew-
ish silence on the Ukraine crisis, including a March 17
statement co-signed by Rabbi Lazar and 47 other Rus-
sian and Ukrainian rabbis, many of them affiliated with
Chabad.
Religious and community leaders should stay out
of the political sphere, the letter said. Do not forget:
Any thoughtless word can lead to dangerous conse-
quences for many.
But several Ukrainian Jewish leaders said that by
using anti-Semitism to justify his actions, Mr. Putin had
left them no choice but to speak out.
We were not the ones who brought the Jews into
the debate to make it a Jewish question, said Yaakov
Dov Bleich, one of Ukraines chief rabbis. Putin did it
by his cynical abuse of anti-Semitism as a justification
for his actions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with the chief rabbi of Rus-
sia, Berel Lazar, in March 2005. KREMLIN

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Meylakh Sheykhet, Ukraine director for the Ameri-

can Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet
Union, said, Jewish principles of justice and truth
compelled Jewish Ukrainians to fight lies, falsifi-
cations, radical pro-Russian propaganda orches-
trated by Putin. Had Ukrainian Jews said nothing,
Mr. Sheykhet said, It would resonate as supporting
Putin, and Jews would be seen as a fifth column in
Ukraine.
Ukraines interim government has a Jewish vice
prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, but it also
includes three Svoboda ministers. In an interview
last year, one of them, Environment Minister Andriy
Mokhnyk, accused Jews of destroying Ukrainian
independence. Mokhnyk also defended party mem-
bers insistence on using the word zhyd as the
standard Ukrainian-language designation for Jews,
despite complaints by Ukrainian Jewish leaders who
say that the term is derogatory.
This party, Svoboda, they are part of the govern-
ment, Rabbi Lazar said. So you have ministers who
are open anti-Semites, which are part of this interim
government. This is a concern.
Vyacheslav Likhachev, a Vaad spokesman and the
organizations researcher on anti-Semitism, said
ultranationalists have little power in the interim gov-
ernment. The revolution has not resulted in a sub-
stantial increase in anti-Semitic attacks, he added.
Like other Jewish leaders in Ukraine, Mr. Likhachev
also suggested that some of the attacks may have
been pro-Russian provocations. Rabbi Lazar brushed
that suggestion aside.
No one knows for sure, Rabbi Lazar said. But
in the last 15 years, Ive never seen in Russia any-
thing similar. And sadly, in Ukraine, and in certain
parts of Ukraine especially, there is a history of
anti-Semitism.
Rabbi Lazar is considered very close to Mr.,
Putin; he led the Russian president on a tour of the
Western Wall in 2012 and has attended receptions
at the Kremlin, including an event on March 18 at
which the formal process of annexing Crimea was
begun. Several Ukrainian Jewish leaders dismissed
Rabbi Lazars statements as coming from a Kremlin
mouthpiece.
When Lazar speaks, it is as a person holding an
official position, that of a religious leader in contem-
porary Russia, Mr. Likhachev said. And as such, it
is impossible for him or any other person in his posi-
tion to express views that do not align with the Krem-
lins official line and propaganda.
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, one of the main Ukrai-
nian figures in Rabbi Lazars own Chabad movement,
declined to sign the March 17 letter. He suggested
that the difference between the Ukrainian and Rus-
sian leadership owes something to the varying goals
of those countries respective Jewish communities.
Rabbi Lazar takes very good care of Russian
Jews, Rabbi Kamenetsky said. What he says corre-
sponds with their goals. His excellent ties with the
government are very beneficial to Russian Jewry and
to Jews in remote places who, thanks to those ties,
are protected.
But Ukrainian Jews want something different, he
continued. We want a free, united and European
Ukraine.
Boruch Gorin, a spokesman for Rabbi Lazar, said
that Rabbi Lazars attendance at the March 18 event
was ceremonial and did not imply he had any posi-
tion on Russia-Ukraine relations.
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community carries on
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R
ussias annexa-
tion of Crimea,
the strategically
critical peninsula
that dangles from Ukraine
into the Black Sea, has drawn
international condemnation.
But for the leader of the
All-Ukrainian Organization of
Crimean Karaites a group
with an unusual heritage that
draws from Jewish traditions
joining Russia is a welcome
development.
In Crimea, the majority of Karaites sup-
port annexation to Russia, and voted for
it, Vladimir Ormeli, the groups head,
said. Culture and people connect us with
Russia, more than Ukraine. But this is a
complicated conversation.
Complicated conversations are typi-
cal for the Crimean Karaites, a small
group whose ethnic heritage and reli-
gious categorization has been disputed
for hundreds of years. Their long history
in Crimea, a region they consider their
homeland, is not in dispute, however.
Karaites, whose name comes from the
Hebrew word kara to read are mem-
bers of a sect that adheres to the Torah
but not the oral laws that mark rabbinic
or talmudic Judaism.
For centuries, Karaites have lived along-
side mainstream Jewish communities in
various countries. Some 30,000 Karaites
live in Israel, and there are much smaller
communities in the United States and
Eastern Europe.
In Crimea, about 800 Karaites remain,
and their houses of worship are distinc-
tive architectural monuments in several
cities. Unlike other Karaite groups, the
Crimean Karaites (or Karaylar, as they
call themselves), do not identify as Jews.
Yet they consider the Torah their holy
text and keep a religious calendar that
includes Rosh Hashanah, Passover, and
Shavuot.
The oldest evidence of Karaite pres-
ence in Crimea dates back to 1278, and
Karaite gravestones are scattered around
Ukraine, in Crimea in particular. A pas-
try pioneered by the Karaites, the meat-
stuffed kybyn, with its characteristic
braided twist, is sold all over Ukraine.
Often it is called Karaite dumplings.
Mr. Ormelis enthusiasm for Russian
annexation of Crimea stems from memo-
ries of a previous era of Karaite prosperity.
Russia annexed Crimea in the 1700s,
Mr. Ormeli said, referring to Catherine
IIs initial conquest of the peninsula in
1783. Then a Crimean Karaite intelligen-
tsia appeared. There were rich Crimean
Karaites, who lived in Moscow and St.
Petersburg and worked in the tobacco
industry. This all happened while Crimea
was Russian.
Such nostalgia for the Russian empire
may have something to do with the way
Crimean Karaite self-conception changed
under imperial rule.
In 19th-century Crimea, Karaites began
to distinguish themselves from Jewish
groups, sending envoys to the czars to
plead for exemptions from harsh anti-
Jewish legislation. These entreaties were
successful, in large part due to the czars
wariness of the Talmud, and in 1863 Kara-
ites were granted the same rights as their
Christian and Tatar neighbors. Exempted
from the Pale of Settlement, which lim-
ited the mobility of their Jewish counter-
parts, Karaite communities sprang up in
Russian cities and gave rise to a substan-
tial body of unique scholarship.
The same tactic of distancing them-
selves from their Jewish roots and instead
emphasizing their purported Turkic ori-
gins also gave the Karaites of Crimea an
advantage during the Holocaust. While
other Jewish communities in Crimea
including the Turkic-speaking Krymchak
Jews were nearly wiped out, the Kara-
ites survived largely unscathed, consid-
ered non-Jews by the Nazis.
Asked about the current political situ-
ation, Mr. Ormeli described fear of the
lawlessness that descended on Kiev
during the clashes between protesters
and Viktor Yanukovychs now-toppled
government.
We were afraid of these wild events,
he said. We were afraid that these would
happen in Crimea.
As Russian forces consolidate their
control over Crimea, the regions future
remains in question.
But Viktor Zakharovich, a proprietor
of the Karaite house of worship and
museum in Yevpatoria, Crimea, sounded
a note of confidence.
Our community has lived under five or
seven different governments in Crimea,
he said. But here, we are always in our
land. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Who lives in Tel Aviv?
Meet Putins high school German teacher
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV When Mina Yuditskaya
describes Vladimir Putin, circa 1969, and
Vladmir Putin, circa 2005, its as if shes
talking about two different people.
One is a quiet, studious boy, clearly
smart and diligent, but not loud or remark-
able in any way.
The other is the charismatic leader of
Russia, a man able to invite her for tea
and cakes during a ceremony at the King
David Hotel in Jerusalem, then to buy her
an apartment in central Tel Aviv.
Ms. Yuditskaya, 93, has been thrust into
the spotlight in Israel as her former pupil
has annexed Crimea in one of Europes
tensest conflicts since the Cold War. Sit-
ting in the living room of the apartment
Mr. Putin gave her, a 10-minute walk from
the beach, she stops our conversation as a
segment featuring her, filmed that morn-
ing, airs on Israels Russian TV channel.
Ms. Yuditskaya taught Mr. Putin Ger-
man when he was a 17-year-old student in
a St. Petersburg high school. She moved to
Israel several years later, and now hes one
of the worlds most powerful men.
The teenage Putin skipped home-
work assignments to attend judo prac-
tice, she remembers, though she knows
he liked her class: She once caught him
writing German sentences in his chemis-
try notebook.
He was like everyone else, she said.
He was serious. He wouldnt mess
around. He would do what I said. He was
quiet a lot and thought a lot. He did every-
thing well.
Ms. Yuditskaya was much more eager to
discuss their meeting nine years ago, when
Mr. Putin visited Jerusalem to mark the
60th anniversary of the end of World War
II. Russian government officials knew that
Ms. Yuditskaya lived in Tel Aviv, and Mr.
Putin invited her to meet him at the King
David. What followed, she recalls, was a
warm and lighthearted conversation.
He said, Israel is very good but very
hot, she recounted. I said, How do you
remember me? I thought hed say I was
When Vladimir Putin was in Israel, he
met with President Shimon Perez. JTA
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beautiful, but he said I was serious.
She noticed that despite the ascent to power, there
was one thing that hadnt changed about Mr. Putin: he
remained a good listener. During most of the conversa-
tion, she talked about ideas, philosophy, and history,
while he sat, nodded, and asked questions. As they
parted, Mr. Putin gave her a watch commemorating
the wars 60th anniversary.
The meeting was pleasant, Ms. Yuditskaya said, but
it also left her feeling sad, realizing how much time
had passed, even though the intervening years had
been good to Mr. Putin.
Time does bad things, she said. He was a kid.
Now hes big. I was a young teacher. Now I am old.
I didnt think I was seeing a president. I thought, its
tough to see a kid who now is an old man, and bald.
Ms. Yuditskaya wouldnt comment on Mr. Putins
politics, either in Crimea or elsewhere. She seemed
more interested in the man than the politician, and
looking back on the day they met in Jerusalem, Ms.
Yuditskaya thinks of Mr. Putin as the student of whom
shes most proud.
Why is he important to me? she asked.
He remembers me. JTA WIRE SERVICE
BRIEFS
Palestinian Authority
textbooks rife
with anti-Israel incitement
A study that translated 150 new Palestinian Author-
ity textbooks used by a U.N. educational body reveals
widespread delegitimization of Israel and continued
calls to use violence against Israeli Jews, Israel Hayom
reported.
According to the study, conducted by the Near East
Policy Research Center, the textbooks say Jews have
no rights to Israel, including to Jewish holy sites, and
are not considered legitimate residents of the coun-
try. The name Israel appears less than a handful of
times on the textbooks maps and is usually replaced
with Palestine, and areas inside pre-1967 Israel are
described exclusively as Palestinian.
The Near East Policy Research Center sent a letter
to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which
runs 250 schools in Gaza and 100 in the West Bank,
asking it to correct the deficiencies in the textbooks.
JNS.ORG
Austria accepts joint
responsibility for
Holocaust atrocities
Israeli President Shimon Peres attended a Holocaust
memorial ceremony with Austrian President Heinz
Fischer in Viennas Judenplatz town square on Sunday.
Today, Austria accepts its joint responsibility with
the Nazi criminals, Fischer said, adding that Austria
only relatively recently began the difficult-but-impor-
tant process of acknowledging its role in the Holocaust
and commemorating the countrys Jewish victims.
I begin my visit to this country by bowing my head
before this memorial, paying respect to the thousands
of Austrian Jews sent to death camps from Vienna,
Peres said at the ceremony, Israel Hayom reported.
JNS.ORG
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The verdict on Ehud Olmert
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TEL AVIV Now we know one thing for sure: Ehud
Olmert will never again be prime minister of Israel.
Mr. Olmert, who led Israels government from 2006 to
2009, was convicted Monday morning of taking bribes
in the Holyland affair, a scandal involving the illegal con-
struction of high-rise apartments in Jerusalem when he
was the citys mayor, more than a decade ago.
Mr. Olmert was convicted of receiving about $150,000
in bribes through his brother, Yossi. Nine other former
senior Olmert associates and businessmen also were
found guilty on various charges, including former
Olmert bureau chief Shula Zaken, who agreed last week
to testify against Olmert in exchange for a plea bargain;
former Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski, and former
chairman of Israels Bank Hapoalim, Danny Dankner.
It was a soap opera of a case, but what matters now
is the bottom line: Mr. Olmert, 68, faces significant jail
time not to mention a ban from politics.
Mr. Olmert resigned his premiership upon facing a
corruption indictment. As recently as last year, though,
pundits and advisers floated his name as Israels next
great centrist hope. He was the man who could lead
an assertive government into a peace deal with the
Palestinians, they said, as long as his corruption charges
went away.
But they didnt go away.
If todays judgment has demolished Mr. Olmerts
personal reputation, his political legacy already was in
tatters. His once-mighty centrist Kadima party has hit
its nadir. Hes going to prison, and the party he once led
has two seats in the Knesset, likely its last hurrah.
Kadima was founded by Ariel Sharon, the general-
turned-politician, and the partys appeal was in the
premise that Israel could take full control of its destiny,
independent of its adversaries. The state could set its
borders unilaterally, move its population, and bomb its
enemies as it saw fit, rewriting the rules to secure Israels
strategic needs.
That was the defining motif of Mr. Sharons career,
from the Sinai to Lebanon to the Gaza disengagement.
And its the approach Mr. Olmert adopted when he took
the reins of Kadima Hebrew for onward after Mr.
Sharons stroke in 2006.
But the approach has yielded mixed results: Wars in
Lebanon and Gaza left Israel with inconclusive victories
and fallout abroad. Olmerts consolidation plan, a uni-
lateral withdrawal from parts of the West Bank, never
got off the ground. And Israels next government was led
not by Kadima but by the Likud of Benjamin Netanyahu.
With Holyland, it seems, Mr. Olmert tried to rewrite
the rulebook to suit his personal needs, disregarding
building regulations in Jerusalem for the right price. But
that didnt work out very well for him. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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was in the courtroom of the District Court in Tel
Aviv, where he was convicted of taking bribes when
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TEL AVIV What happens when one man controls three
major Israeli news outlets?
Thats the question Israeli media experts are asking just
days after Sheldon Adelson, the American casino magnate
and Republican mega-donor, bought the respected con-
servative weekly Makor Rishon for nearly $5 million.
On Sunday, a Jerusalem court approved Mr. Adelsons
purchase, which had acquired the now-defunct Maariv
newspaper and its website, NRG.co.il, in 2012. Mr. Adel-
son already owned Israel Hayom, a free daily tabloid he
founded in 2007; it is now Israels most widely distributed
paper.
With the new purchase, Mr. Adelson now has control of
Israels major right-wing media outlets, as well as two of
the countrys four major newspapers.
Adelsons purchase of Makor Rishon is sad, said
Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, head of the Israel Democracy
Institutes Media Reform Project. It consolidates the
media market, which is bad for content, but we shouldnt
mourn it. There are opportunities we havent seen yet.
Mr. Adelsons increasing hold on Israeli media has
prompted concerns about increasing ideological con-
formity and less government criticism. A staunch sup-
porter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he
is widely seen as having used Israel Hayom to increase
popular support for the Israeli leader. Israeli Economy
Minister Naftali Bennett, the chairman of the pro-settler
Jewish Home party, likened Israel Hayom to Pravda, the
former Soviet Unions state newspaper.
The paper is the trumpet of one man, the prime min-
ister, Mr. Bennett told Galei Tzahal, the Israel Defense
Forces radio station. At every intersection, every point
of friction between the national interest and the prime
ministers interest, it chooses the prime ministers side.
I very much hope that Makor Rishon will maintain an
independent nationalist position.
The CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., with a net
worth of more than $28 billion the 11th richest Ameri-
can, according to Forbes magazine Mr. Adelson never
has been shy about using his wealth to advance his polit-
ical interests.
In 2012, he was a generous supporter of Newt Gin-
grichs failed presidential campaign. When Mr. Gingrich
dropped out, Mr. Adelson threw his support behind Mitt
Romney, the Republican nominee, donating $20 million
to a Romney-supporting Super PAC.
Last week, a number of Republican presidential hope-
fuls gathered at Mr. Adelsons Venetian hotel and casino
in Las Vegas for what some were calling the Sheldon
primary in recognition of the casino magnates power
as a Republican kingmaker.
In Israel, there is little expectation that Adelsons lat-
est deal will augur the death of Israels free press. Isra-
els other dailies the centrist Yediot Acharonot and the
left-wing Haaretz both are critical of Mr. Netanyahu
and remain widely read. Maariv, once Israels most pop-
ular paper, fell on hard times in recent years and ceased
publication in March.
Still, some worry that Mr. Adelsons purchase may nar-
row the parameters of public discussion. Last month, in
an effort to maintain competition in Israels media mar-
ket, Knesset members from seven parties including
the right-wing Jewish Home proposed a law that would
require readers to pay for Israel Hayom.
There can be two right-wing papers that think
differently, said Tamir Sheafer, a professor of commu-
nications and journalism at Hebrew University. There
can be a right-wing paper that criticizes the prime min-
ister from the right. But if Sheldon Adelson has a favor-
able attitude toward Netanyahu, will Makor Rishon criti-
cize Netanyahu from the right?
A Makor Rishon reporter who wished to remain anon-
ymous acknowledged that political correspondents are
a little worried, but said the Adelson deal will allow
the staff to continue its in-depth reporting and analysis
from a right-wing perspective.
For us as journalists, it was very reassuring to know
people like the paper and want to buy it, the reporter
said. They see the importance of holding on to this
type of paper. I would always joke that if I wrote the
same article for Maariv and Makor Rishon, I would
dumb it down for Maariv and keep it intellectual for
Makor Rishon.
The closing of Maariv, along with recent financial
struggles at Haaretz and across Israels print media land-
scape, raise the question of whether a country of 8 mil-
lion people can sustain four daily papers in the Internet
age.
The market in Israel is very small, Dr. Altshuler said.
Its ability to sustain three papers or three TV stations,
thats something people dont pay attention to. It was
clear that one of them needed to close.
Dr. Altshuler sees a potential boon for Israeli media
in the growth of online journalism. But Tal Schneider,
who writes the Plog, a well-respected Israeli political
blog, says her work cannot replace the staff of a large
newspaper.
On my blog, we are not 100 reporters we are a
two-person business, Ms. Schneider said. We cannot
provide the [same] extent of coverage. I cannot replace
Maariv or Makor Rishon.
Despite the worry, few see Mr. Adelsons growing con-
trol of Israeli publications as an immediate threat to the
countrys free press. But should the rise of digital media
continue to erode the financial viability of traditional
publications, that could change.
I dont think this specific deal will create irreparable
damage, Dr. Sheafer said. But we need to make sure
it doesnt expand such that every media that gets into
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COLLEGE PARK, MD. Dribbling blurs across four parallel
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The mens title game, in fact, featured two athletes
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Maryland would win not just the mens crown but
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Arriving at Ritchie Coliseum for the championship
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Armory across the street Mr. Susskind hobbled in, a
function of fatigue from the nonstop hoops.
The Terrapins played in the National Invitational
Tournament last spring, so he could not compete in
the 2013 national Hillel tourney. He said he was glad
he came this time.
Its to help spread the word about Jewish people
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together with the same religious belief, and to do
something everyone likes to do, which is play basket-
ball, is a plus. On Sunday afternoon his team, one of
seven Maryland mens and womens clubs at the tour-
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Mr. Susskind, who attended the Golda Och Acad-
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uniform No. 10.
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you. It was cool to see him, Mr. Susskind said. The
two had played each other seven years ago at a Jewish
day school tournament in Baltimore.
The Kansas player, Cory Gutovitz, said he had
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Nachum Shapiro, at the same Baltimore tournament,
and stayed at Mr. Shapiros home.
I was always active in Hillel, and I love basketball,
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people.
It was Jewish March Madness. Ive gone to Jewish
tournaments in high school and had the same mind-
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I learned my lesson: Its good, competitive basketball.
Its also a schmooze fest. Mr. Gutovitz and four other
Kansans stayed at the campus apartment of Tara Feld,
Mr. Shapiros girlfriend. Chatting in the buildings cor-
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student who had attended the wedding of his basket-
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He also ran into two Maryland players who he had
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gabbing, with breaks for kiddush, havdalah and Shab-
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Its like the Maccabiah Games but everyone
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WASHINGTON For 20 or so minutes last
week, the issue of religious freedom was cast
as a struggle between working women and
Muslim and Jewish butchers.
The pointed questions posed March 25
to the Obama administrations chief lawyer
by three U.S. Supreme Court justices got to
the heart of whether businesses have the
same constitutional religious protections as
individuals.
National Jewish groups, united 20 years
ago in passing the law that consolidated the
religious freedom protections, are on oppo-
site sides in the current battle at the Supreme
Court, which is considering two federal court
decisions concerning President Obamas sig-
nature legislation, the 2010 Affordable Care
Act.
Seven Orthodox groups in an amicus brief
said rights established under the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 should
extend to companies that do not wish to pro-
vide certain kinds of contraceptive coverage
to their employees. In two separate briefs,
nine Jewish advocacy groups said the rights
of women seeking such coverage should be
preeminent.
Under the Affordable Care Act, commonly
referred to as Obamacare, companies must
make the full range of mandated coverage,
including contraceptive services, available to
their employees through their health insur-
ance policies. There is an exemption for reli-
gious institutions and a work-around for their
affiliated nonprofits.
Two for-profit companies, Hobby Lobby,
a crafts chain, and Conestoga Wood Special-
ties, a cabinet maker, both privately owned
by devout Christians, objected to the contra-
ceptive mandate. Hobby Lobby won in court,
Conestoga lost, and the Supreme Court now
is settling the case.
While the case is about contraceptives,
the issue of kosher slaughter ended up being
a big part of the back-and-forth during oral
arguments.
Citing recent Danish legislation, Justice
Samuel Alito, an appointee of President
George W. Bush, asked Solicitor General
Donald Verrilli what rights would be avail-
able, given the administrations arguments
on behalf of the contraceptive mandate, to
kosher and halal butchers should Congress
ban their ritual slaughter methods as cruel.
What would a corporation that is a kosher
or halal slaughterhouse do? Mr. Alito asked.
They would simply have no recourse what-
soever. They couldnt even get a day in court.
Mr. Verrilli responded that such a law
would be unconstitutional because it would
target specific faiths. Justice Anthony Ken-
nedy, an appointee of the first President Bush,
interjected, then expanded the hypothetical
to suggest the law would be framed not as
targeting a religion but as advancing animal
rights.
They say no animal may be slaughtered
unless its stunned first, unless the animal
is rendered unconscious before it is slaugh-
tered, Mr. Kennedy said, describing his
Kosher butchers and Hobby Lobby
Supreme Court considers religious freedom and contraception
hypothetical law as having no animus to
religion at all.
Mr. Verrilli replied that customers could
then bring suit as third parties harmed by
the law.
Justice Stephen Breyer, who is Jewish,
was not satisfied with the answer.
The point that Justice Alito was mak-
ing is that take five Jewish or Muslim
butchers and what youre saying to them
is if they choose to work under the cor-
porate form, which is viewed universally,
you have to give up on that form the Free-
dom of Exercise Clause that youd other-
wise have, said Mr. Breyer, an appointee
of President Clinton. Now, looked at that
way, I dont think it matters whether they
call themselves a corporation or whether
they call themselves individuals. I mean,
I think thats the question youre being
asked, and I need to know what your
response is to it.
Mr. Verrilli, citing precedent, said that
when you incorporate as a for-profit
corporation, you are making a choice to
live by the rules that govern you and your
competitors in the commercial sphere.
Justices questions in oral arguments
are not always a predictor of their rulings,
but Orthodox groups took heart in the
citation of the rights of Muslim and Jew-
ish butchers, and in the tough questions,
particularly from Mr. Breyer, a usually
reliable church-state separationist.
I thought that it was a great argu-
ment, said Nathan Diament, the Ortho-
dox Unions Washington director, refer-
ring to the exchange.
Nathan Lewin, the lawyer who helped
write the amicus brief for the Orthodox
groups, which also included Agudath
Israel of America and the National Council
of Young Israel, among others, said that
Mr. Verrillis response was disappointing.
Justices William Brennan and Potter
Stewart did not agree with that proposi-
tion when, more than 50 years ago, they
voted to uphold the constitutional right
of Orthodox Jewish store owners to keep
their stores open on Sunday because their
faith forced them to be closed on Satur-
days, Mr. Lewin said.
Mr. Brennan and Mr. Stewart were
the liberal dissenters in the 1961 Crown
Kosher case who supported the right of
a Massachusetts kosher market to remain
open on Sundays when the state banned
Sunday business. In the case, the court
ruled that the market had to obey the
states closure laws.
Defenders of Hobby Lobby and Cones-
toga have been at pains to emphasize that
their corporations are privately owned, a
bid to deflect criticism that extending reli-
gious protections to corporations would
be a recipe for chaos, leading to questions
of whose rights needed protecting the
CEO, the board, the shareholders.
Paul Clement, the lawyer for the two
companies, cited the Crown Kosher case
to make the distinction, suggesting that
the cases outcome eventually helped
bring about Congress 1993 Religious Free-
dom Restoration Act.
What they understood, he said, refer-
ring to lawmakers in Congress, is that we
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were probably talking about in the real world a rela-
tively small set of corporations like an incorporated
kosher market or kosher deli of the kind that this
court had before it in the Crown Kosher case.
And so I think its you know, we can talk about
the extent and how youd apply these principles to
Exxon, but I think thats just something thats not
going to happen in the real world, Mr. Clement said.
He was replying to a question from Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, who is Jewish and a Clinton appointee,
about why religious protections apply to for-profit
companies.
It is no accident that the claims that you have
before you in these cases are brought by small, closely
held corporations that have firmly held religious
beliefs, he added.
Sammie Moshenberg, the Washington director
for the National Council of Jewish Women, ridiculed
Clements description of Hobby Lobby as small, not-
ing that it had 18,000 employees in 450 outlets.
If you accord corporations and bosses the ability
to impose a particular religious belief on their employ-
ees, what you do is youre restricting the religious
liberty of those employees, Ms. Moshenberg said.
Hers was one of eight Jewish groups that joined an
amicus brief led by Americans United for Separation
of Church and State.
Its a slippery slope; people think abortion and
birth control are big issues, she said. But so is blood
transfusion. There are people who have deeply held
religious beliefs about LGBT rights, children born out of wed-
lock, vaccines, medical interventions.
Mr. Diament said the slope slipped both ways, noting that
the restrictions imposed on Hobby Lobby could apply to a
small kosher butcher.
The slippery slope on the other direction, that was high-
lighted by Alitos question on kosher slaughter which the gov-
ernment did not have a good answer for, he said.
Rabbi David Saperstein, who directs the Reform move-
ments Religious Action Center, said the analogy with kosher
butchers was flawed because businesses like those go to the
very core of a communitys religious beliefs, while Hobby
Lobbys business was not an expression of its owners faiths.
Marc Stern, the associate general counsel for the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, said his group decided not to join the
Americans United brief because it disagreed with the argu-
ment that for-profit businesses lacked protections.
What some have done cavalierly is say we dont care about
the religious beliefs of the employer, he said.
Instead, AJC filed its own amicus brief, which argued
against Hobby Lobby more in terms of the relative burdens of
the employer and the employee.
Noting the small proportion of businesses health payments
that would actually go for birth control, Mr. Stern said the
costs of covering contraceptives was negligible for employ-
ers, compared to the cost to women of not being able to afford
such coverage on their own.
The ability of women to function as full members of the
economy is dependent on their ability to regulate their fertil-
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U.S. military chief Dempsey
made three-day visit to Israel
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin
Dempsey arrived in Israel on Sunday for a three-day visit.
Dempsey held meetings in Jerusalem with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.
Netanyahu thanked Dempsey for additional American
assistance for Israeli anti-missile systems.
For us, the United States is a strategic ally and our great-
est friend. Our relations with the United States are a corner-
stone of Israels national security, Yaalon said.
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U.N. Human Rights Council
blasted for singling out Israel
The United Nations Human Rights Council was blasted for
its consistent singling out of Israel for criticism.
On Friday, the U.S. was the only country to vote against
five anti-Israel U.N. resolutions. Four of the resolutions
were directed against Israels treatment of the Palestinians,
with one calling on companies to boycott Israel. The fifth
was directed at Israels treatment of residents in the Golan
Heights.
Paula Schriefer, head of the U.S. delegation to the UNHRC,
said the U.S. is deeply troubled by the councils standalone
agenda item directed against Israel and by the many repeti-
tive and one-sided resolutions under this agenda item. She
was referring to Agenda Item 7, which mandates that Israel
be discussed at every UNHRC meeting.
Only Israel, a vibrant and open democracy, received
such treatment, Schriefer said.
World Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer said it is
shameful that an important U.N. body should join the hyp-
ocritical international campaign against Israel. JNS.ORG
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63 percent of Israelis
oppose terrorist prisoner
release, poll says
About 63 percent of Jewish Israelis oppose going ahead
with the fourth stage of the Palestinian terrorist prisoner
release in exchange for an agreement by Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to extend the cur-
rent peace negotiations, a new Israel Hayom-New Wave
Research poll found.
Slightly more than 15 percent support the release
as long as it does not include Israeli Arabs, while 13.2
percent said they have no opinion. Only 8.3 percent
expressed support for the release.
During a meeting with Likud party ministers on Sun-
day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
that there would be no deal to free prisoners without a
clear benefit [for Israel] in return. JNS.ORG
IDF thwarts infiltration
attempt at Israel-Syria
border fence
Israeli troops on the Israel-Syria border thwarted an
infiltration attempt over the weekend, killing two gun-
men believed to be trying to sabotage the border fence.
Soldiers at an observation post on the Syrian border
spotted two people whom they suspected of attempting
to either sabotage the fence or place explosives in the
area where a roadside bomb recently injured four Israel
Defense Forces soldiers.
After being alerted by the observation post, soldiers
on the ground engaged the two men, who turned out to
be armed and were killed in the ensuing clash.
Commenting on the border incident during his
cabinet meeting Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said, We will continue to respond to any
attempt to harm Israel, and we will, as best we can,
apply a proactive policy to stopping these attacks
before they take place. JNS.ORG
Jewish groups renew
dialogue with mainline
Protestant leaders
The heads of several Jewish and Christian organiza-
tions and denominations met in New York City on
Thursday in the first such gathering since October
2012, when the Jewish and Christian groups severed
ties over mainline Protestant groups calling on Con-
gress to investigate alleged Israeli human rights abuses
and end U.S. aid to Israel.
After the Thursday summit, participants issued a
statement reaffirming their commitment to establish a
national dialogue of Christian and Jewish leaders.
We will aspire to genuine and ongoing dialogue
related to Israeli-Palestinian issues, seeking to identify
and discuss, in respect and humility, areas of real or
potential disagreement and of real and potential coop-
eration, they said.
The Jewish leadersfrom the Jewish Council for Pub-
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Committee, Bnai Brith International, Union of Reform
Judaism, Rabbinical Assembly, United Synagogue of
Conservative Judaism, and Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaismmet with the heads of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church, United Church of Christ, United Meth-
odist Church, and Presbyterian Church USA.
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Not extinct yet
Greeces Romaniote Jews remember catastrophe
GAVIN RABINOWITZ
IOANNINA, GREECE When the Jews of
Ioannina gathered in their whitewashed-
stone synagogue over the weekend, it was
to commemorate 70 years since the Nazis
destroyed their community.
But the March 30 gathering also
served to highlight a source of pres-
ent-day sadness: the withering of the
unique 2,300-year-old Romaniote Jewish
tradition.
Ioannina, a postcard-pretty town in
northwestern Greece that includes a medi-
eval fortress perched by a bright blue lake
and surrounded by snow-capped moun-
tains, once was the center of Romaniote
Jewish life. Today, however, the commu-
nity in Ioannina numbers fewer than 50
members, most of them elderly. The last
time the community celebrated a bar mitz-
vah was in 2000.
The communitys leaders fear for its
future.
It is very difficult, said Moses Elisaf,
the communitys president. We try to
do our best to keep the traditions, but the
numbers are very hard.
I dont like to think about the future.
It is very hard to be optimistic, he said,
standing on the peaceful lakefront Mavili
Square, where the Nazis loaded the
towns Jews onto trucks to be shipped to
Auschwitz.
The Romaniote Jews, who are
neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardic,
emerged from the first Jewish
communities of Europe. Records
indicate the first Jewish presence
in Greece dates back to 300 BCE.
A ruined second-century BCE
synagogue on the Aegean island
of Delos is believed to be the old-
est discovered in the diaspora.
These Jews became known as
the Romaniotes, speaking their
own language, Yevanic, or Judeo-
Greek, a version of Greek infused
with Hebrew and written in
Hebrew script.
Romaniote synagogues had a
unique layout. They had their
own religious traditions and
prayer book, the Mahzor Roma-
nia. Much of the worship was in
Yevanic, and the tunes, including
those used for reading the Torah, were
influenced heavily by Byzantine music.
The Romaniote tradition is hugely
important. It is a pre-Diasporic tradi-
tion based on the Talmud Yerushalmi,
said Zanet Battinou, the director of the
Jewish Museum of Greece and herself a
Romaniote who grew up in Ioannina.
But it is a community and a tradition
that long has been in decline.
Following the expulsion of the Jews of
Spain in 1492, many Sephardic Jews found
refuge in the Ottoman Empire, which then
ruled Greece. Soon major Sephardic com-
munities sprang up, most notably in Thes-
saloniki, known as the Jerusalem of the
Balkans.
The preexisting Romaniote communities
often were absorbed into the
larger, wealthier Sephardic
Ladino-speaking ones, which
eventually became largely syn-
onymous with Greek Jewry.
People dont know about
the Romaniote ancient Jewish
community, Ms. Battinou said.
Thessaloniki was so massive
and successful, it overshadowed
everything.
It was only on isolated islands
and in the rugged mountains
of western Greece that the
Romaniotes remained the
dominant tradition, and Ioan-
nina was the largest of these
communities.
By the start of the 20th cen-
tury, some 4,000 Romaniote
Jews lived in Ioannina. But amid
the economic hardship and the
turmoil that accompanied the breakup of
the Ottoman Empire, many joined their
Greek compatriots and emigrated.
Most went to the United States and Pal-
estine, setting up Romaniote synagogues
in Manhattan and Jerusalem. Later, a
third was established in Tel Aviv. At the
start of World War II, about 2,000 Jews
remained in Ioannina.
On March 25, 1944, the German Nazi
occupiers rounded up the Jews of Ioan-
nina. As snow fell, they were put into
open trucks and taken to a nearby city.
From there, a nine-day rail journey took
them to Auschwitz.
The names of the towns 1,832 Jews
who were murdered are carved on mar-
ble tablets on the walls of the synagogue.
Among the dead were more than 500
children under the age of 13.
Only 112 Ioannina Jews survived the
death camps. Another 69 escaped the
roundup, hiding with Christian families
or fleeing into the mountains, where
some fought with the Greek resistance.
When they returned to Ioannina, many
found their properties looted and their
homes occupied.
But it was not just the people who were
wiped out. Centuries of tradition disap-
peared, too.
Oral tradition is very dependent on
the third generation all the grandfathers
and grandmothers disappeared, were
murdered, all at once, Ms. Battinou said.
Among the few survivors was her grand-
mother Zanet, after whom she is named.
The youth who survived only per-
petuated what parts they remembered,
she said.
Auschwitz survivor Zanet Nahmia-Sevi, center, lights
a candle in memory of the residents of Ioannina who
were killed in the Holocaust.
Youth from Ioanninas Greek community, in traditional dress, hold candles to be lit in memory of the more than 500
children who were deported to Auschwitz. PHOTOS BY GAVIN RABINOWITZ
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Meanwhile, the Romaniote Jews who moved to the
United States and Israel have intermingled with the
larger Jewish communities.
Several Israeli Romaniotes attended the anniver-
sary commemorations, drawn by family ties.
Yosef Baruch came with his brother and his uncle,
at the behest of his 90-year-old grandmother, who
survived the Nazis and moved to Israel after the
war. Mr. Baruch said that he has never prayed at the
Romaniote synagogue in Jerusalem.
Its a tradition that was destroyed in the Holo-
caust, he said.
None of the American Romaniotes attended the
memorial ceremony.
In Greece, with the Jewish community so devas-
tated after the war, there was no place for separate
communities. Most religious services are now held
according to the Sephardic ritual.
Today, only Cantor Haim Ischakis, who led the
memorial prayer service, knows how to chant the
Torah in the Romaniote tradition. He learned it from
his father, also a cantor, who survived the camps.
I am the only one left, Cantor Ischakis said. He
is teaching his two sons, but if they dont take up his
profession, the only examples left will be recordings
on YouTube.
In fact, the Internet is emerging as the most likely
tool for preserving Romaniote tradition. And the
impetus for this online push has come from an
unlikely source.
The Canadian ambassador to Greece, Robert
Peck, who was instrumental in helping organize the
commemorations, with Canada heading the Inter-
national Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, noted
the lack of information available about the Jews of
Ioannina.
At his behest, the New Media Lab at Vancouvers
Simon Fraser University designed a website detailing
Ioanninas Jewish history, and a soon-to-be-launched
app will let people explore Jewish sites in the town
and listen to survivors testimonies.
I came to Ioannina and visited the synagogue,
and I felt it was very important to carry beyond the
borders of Greece what Ioannina represents, the leg-
acy of the Jewish community here, Mr. Peck said.
Still, the Romaniote Jews hope that through their
efforts and dedication, something of their legacy,
their community, will survive in the real world.
It is very precious to me, and I try to pass it on
to my children and hope they appreciate that from
their mothers side, they inherit such a unique tra-
dition, Ms. Battinou said. It is still alive. It is not
extinct yet. JTA WIRE SERVICE
One of the marble tablets on the walls of the
synagogue engraved with the names of the 1,832
Jews of Ioannina who died in the Holocaust.
GAVIN RABINOWITZ
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JAY BUCHSBAUM
Pesach is the story of our exodus, when we
left Egypt and were freed from slavery. Id like
to take the theme of exodus and encourage
you to consider freeing yourselves from the
same old wine and try something new this
holiday season.
The myriad of pre-Pesach wine tasting
events is an excellent opportunity to expand
your horizons and check out the new wines
that have hit the market. It is understandable
that once you have found a favorite you want
to stick with it; the risk involved when buying
a new wine could mean less enjoyment than
your favorite would have provided much
like the Jews who wanted to stop wander-
ing through the desert and go back to Egypt.
But keep in mind the potential pleasure
and growth that can be derived from a new
experience. (Okay, comparing drinking your
favorite wine to wanting to remain slaves in
Egypt is pushing it, but play along with me).
For those who like to keep things safe and
stick to regions like Israel and California
you are in luck. Recent arrivals from Israel
include the wines of Tabor, Or HaGanuz,
and new boutique winery Montefiore. Some
favorites there include the Mount Tabor Shi-
raz, Or Haganuz single vineyard series, and
the award winning Petite Sirah from Monte-
fiore winery.
If you prefer California you can check out
the Alicante Bouchet or Cabernet Franc from
Weinstock, the new single vineyard Basin
Cabernet Sauvignon from Herzog, or even
the new The Tribe wines from Covenant
Winery.
Not your Bubbys macaroons!
After years of complaints and comments
about Passover desserts from family
and friends, Blythe and Mark Roth and
their oldest daughter, Tova, have created
Tovas All Natural Bakery. The family
used its nearly two decades of high-end
restaurant and hotel experience to cre-
ate the company.
The gourmet Passover bakery uses all
natural ingredients without preserva-
tives to create delicious Pesach treats.
All the desserts are also pareve, non-
gebrucks, gluten- and dairy free, and cer-
tified kosher for Passover by the RCBC
(Rabbinical Council of Bergen County).
No matzah meal here! Blythe Roth
said. Tovas All Natural is committed
to utilizing only the finest, all natural,
kosher-for-Passover ingredients avail-
able, without any preservatives. All
ingredients can be counted on one hand
and pronounced by a 3-year-old. We
even produce our own organic vegeta-
ble dyes for coloring and all desserts are
baked fresh, the week before Pesach.
Tovas All Natural cakes and cookies
are available online at www.TovasAllNat-
ural.com and at select local retailers. The
website will accept orders until Sunday,
April 13, for deliveries the following day.
Contact Tovas All Natural if you are
celebrating an event, birthday, or syn-
agogue function during the Passover
holiday. Call (855) 236-4383 or email
TovasAllNatural@gmail.com.
For those really adventurous spirits,
there may be a whole world of unknown
wines out there for you. Italy, Spain, and
France, all countries with rich winemak-
ing histories, are seeing a bit of a reemer-
gence in wine. Whereas kosher wines
from these regions have been an after-
thought the past five to 10 years, today
we are seeing wines from these regions
that compete in price and quality but also
inject a bit of unique character. (Many of
the Israeli and California wines are simi-
lar to one another.)
From Italys only exclusively kosher
winery, Terra di Seta, come two new
wines: a Chianti Classico and Chianti Clas-
sico Reserva, expressions made predomi-
nantly from the Sangiovese grape. These
wines provide a healthy dose of fruit and
oak, yet they tend to possess a unique
spice character. They usually are lighter
bodied and are great complements to
food.
The Cohen family of Spain offers many
unique wines worth checking out in their
Elvi brand of wines. Spains Rioja wines
are made predominantly from the Tem-
pranillo grape. Starkly different from
Israeli and California wines, the great
Spanish Riojas, such as those produced
by Elvi, have intense fruit, vanilla from
the American oak barrels, and rich tan-
nins that will pair well with any richly fla-
vored meat.
While many a wine lover has eschewed
French wines in recent years high-
priced, unapproachable, and obscure
wines have led kosher consumers to
Israeli and California wines they mak-
ing a comeback. An obvious place to look
is Bordeaux. Bordeaux wines generally
are dominated by the Merlot or Cabernet
Sauvignon grapes. Whereas these wines
once needed many years before they
could be enjoyed, modern styles are fruit-
ier and much more approachable in their
youth, although consumers who had
patience and proper storage facilities can
still put these wines away for 10 or more
years and be rewarded with wines that
have softened and matured. Some Bor-
deaux to consider include Chateau Tour
Seran, Chateau Rollan de By, Chateau
Moulin Riche and Chateau Haut Condis-
sas. I love these wines for their unique
earthiness but dont let that scare you.
Each still is a full-bodied fruit-driven
wine. And white wine lovers should not
feel excluded from the new and unique
wine party. Chateau de Valmer Vouvrey,
a lovely Chenin Blanc, is back on the mar-
ket. It is deliciously different from the
more common Chardonnay or Sauvignon
Blanc found today.
A final grape to keep in mind this
Pesach is Pinot Noir. I know many people
have previously not loved the Pinots they
have tried, but now is a great time to try
again. Oregons Pacifica Winery makes a
Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. New Zea-
lands Goose Bay makes a Reserve Pinot
Noir. The best Pinot I have ever tasted
from Israel, the Tzuba Winery Pinot Noir,
is available now. And a new Reserve Pinot
from Chiles Alfasi brand of wines is both
very affordable and quite lovely. Not only
are these Pinots great wines, but Pinot
Noirs typically light body makes any of
them great options for the four cups at
the seder.
Freedom from sweet wines
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A Taste of Pesach Trusted Favorites/
Simple Preparation/Magnificent Results
(ArtScroll/Shaar Press) was published last
month. Its goal is to put ease and confi-
dence back into Passover cooking.
Six years ago, a group of women gath-
ered to brainstorm fundraising ideas for
Yeshiva Meon HaTorah, a Jewish high
school in Monsey, N.Y., formerly in Roos-
evelt. The result was A Taste of Pesach,
a recipe pamphlet series. Since the initial
mailing and at the urgent request of loyal
fans, the best of this popular series and
many brand-new recipes have been com-
piled into the beautiful book.
Recipes range from elegant starters like
chicken-wrapped asparagus spears to kid-
friendly favorites such as chicken nuggets.
Traditional recipes include gefilte fish and
matzah balls, and there are modern dishes
such as seared tuna and molten chocolate
cake.
There is a recipe to fit every cooks
needs and make Passover cooking easier
and more delicious than ever.
Manischewitz matzah
production
Back in February, the Manischewitz plant in
Newark was busy making matzah. Here, Rabbi
Yaakov Horowitz, right, Manischewitzs company
rabbi and its director of kosher development
operations, also representing the OU, explains
the matzah flour to the Jewish Standards Robert
Chananie during a plant tour.
Tamar Ansh, a mother, author, editor, rec-
ipe developer, lecturer, and food colum-
nist, has written Let My Children Cook!
The Passover Cookbook for Kids. It is
billed as the perfect Passover cookbook
for ages 8-108.
The soft-covered, illustrated colorful
book has 80 recipes with easy step-by-step
directions. There are also safety and cook-
ing guidelines, dietary laws for Passover,
and even craft ideas.
Ms. Ansh, the daughter-in-law of long-
time Jewish Center of Teaneck members
Jay and Gloria Ansh, also has written A
Taste of Challah, Pesach Anythings
Possible, and A Taste of Tradition.
Zucchini kugel
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3 big zucchini
1 potato
3 eggs
2 tablespoons onion soup mix
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons potato starch
or matzah meal
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Peel
the zucchinis and potatoes and cut
into large chunks. Add the zucchini
and potatoes to a large pot and cover
with water. Boil for 40 minutes until
they are soft. Drain and mash the veg-
etables, then drain slightly again. Add
the rest of the ingredients and mix
well. Pour the mixture into a lined 8 x
8 inch pan and bake until firm in the
center, about 45 minutes. The top of
the kugel should be browned when it
is done. Serve hot.
This slices best cold; to do this, cov-
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refrigerate until it is cold, and then
slice. Re-warm for 10 minutes before
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A Taste of Pesach Trusted Favorites/
Simple Preparation/Magnificent Results
(ArtScroll/Shaar Press) was published last
month. Its goal is to put ease and confi-
dence back into Passover cooking.
Six years ago, a group of women gath-
ered to brainstorm fundraising ideas for
Yeshiva Meon HaTorah, a Jewish high
school in Monsey, N.Y., formerly in Roos-
evelt. The result was A Taste of Pesach,
a recipe pamphlet series. Since the initial
mailing and at the urgent request of loyal
fans, the best of this popular series and
many brand-new recipes have been com-
piled into the beautiful book.
Recipes range from elegant starters like
chicken-wrapped asparagus spears to kid-
friendly favorites such as chicken nuggets.
Traditional recipes include gefilte fish and
matzah balls, and there are modern dishes
such as seared tuna and molten chocolate
cake.
There is a recipe to fit every cooks
needs and make Passover cooking easier
and more delicious than ever.
Sweet potato
crisps salad
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1/2 cup oil for frying
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1/2 red pepper, sliced into strips
1/2 yellow pepper, sliced into strips
1 8-ounce can hearts of palm, drained
1 small red onion, diced
Dressing:
1/2 cup olive oil
1/3 cup vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon imitation mustard
Prepare sweet potato crisps: Peel sweet
potato. Using a vegetable peeler, con-
tinue to peel wide paper-thin strips of
sweet potato. Heat oil in a deep skil-
let. When oil is hot, add sweet potato
strips a few at a time. When golden
and crispy, about 5-7 minutes, remove
with a slotted spoon. Can be made a
few days in advance; store in an airtight
container at room temperature.
Prepare the dressing: Place dressing
ingredients in a small container. Shake
to combine.
Assemble salad: Combine salad
ingredients in a large bowl. Toss with
dressing. Place sweet potatoes on top
right before serving.
Osem has new matzah packaging
Osems matzah, as well as other Osem
kosher-for-Passover products, got a make-
over for Passover. The brand new packages
are decorated with pictures and facts about
Israel, to help instill a deep connection with
Israel during a familys Passover seder. The
new design was influenced by the results of
a customer survey conducted last spring.
Images featured on Osems new pack-
ages include the Dead Sea, ruins at Cae-
sarea, the Tower of David, Negev palm
trees, and the Western Wall. Osem also cre-
ated some educational games parents can
use to make Passover more fun and mean-
ingful. The games are available on Face-
book at facebook.com/OsemUSAinc.
Find Osem matzah at major grocery
store chains and specialty kosher super-
markets across the country. Osem mat-
zah is kosher for Passover under super-
vision of the Orthodox Union and the
Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem.
In celebration of the new packaging,
every five-pound box of Osem matzah con-
tains $30 in coupons for kosher-for-Pass-
over products and Osem products sold
throughout the year.
From the farm to the home:
How leading dairy
products prepare
for Passover
For food manufacturers, the science of
Passover preparation means logistical
work. At Tnuva, the worlds largest kosher
food manufacturer, the ancient and com-
plex laws of kashrut meet the most mod-
ernized food production techniques.
The company delivers top-notch dairy
products in Israel and North America,
meeting a high standard of quality and
freshness.
The whole process starts immediately
after Passover, for the next Passover, said
Rabbi Yaakov Borow, manager of Tnuvas
ingredient kashrut approval department.
For every Tnuva product, there is a Pass-
over version.
Four cups for four types
This Passover, the Golan Heights Winery presents fun recommendations for wines to
fit different personalities.
Type 1: The
Firecracker the
Evil Son
This personality is not
always the evil son.
Instead, it is the family
member who enjoys being
the antagonist, often leav-
ing us in fits of laughter.
A sparkling wine such as
the Gilgal Brut is a good
suggestion.
Type 2: The
Favorite the
Wise Son
The wise son may be too
smart for his own good at
times and that is usually
a treat for the rest of the
family. With this in mind,
the Yarden 2T, a Portu-
guese-style dry red wine,
is recommended.
Type 3: The Quiet
One the Simple
Son
Though his observations may
seem obvious, you can try to
boost his IQ by giving him
a wine that is anything but
simple: the Galil Mountain
Meron.
Type 4: The
Youngsters the
Ones Who Do Not
Know How to Ask
For the one who does not
know how to ask, choose
the Yarden Heights, a des-
sert wine.
To celebrate Next year,
in Jerusalem! and bring
a close to the seder, use
Yarden Cabernet Sauvignon for toasting.
New cookbook for Passover Prime Caterers and Prime to Go
opening in Englewood
David Attias, owner of Prime Caterers and
Prime to Go, will open a new store on 176
Van Brunt Street in Englewood on Wednes-
day April 9, beginning at 2 p.m. He will offer
samples of everything on the Pesach menu.
The company is under RCBC supervision.
Prime Caterers has been catering parties
and simchas for years. The new Prime to
Go offers a full selection of prepared food
to take home.
Mr. Attias says that his wares are tasty
but not showy. Everything is made from
scratch.
The Englewood store is newly renovated.
It has a bakery corner with pareve desserts,
carving stations for freshly sliced meats,
and sells food ready to be cooked at home.
Prime Caterers plans events of all sizes
from small house parties to dinners for
2,000. It also can provide music and dec-
orations, including candles and flowers.
Prime Caterers provides a chef to cook
and a staff to serve and clean up. For
information, call (201) 871-0201, email
info@primecaterers.com, or go to www.
PrimeCaterers.com.
Visit the Cooking with Beth blog at
www.jstandard.com for another book recipe next week.
RECIPE FROM A TASTE OF PESACH
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS: ARTSCROLL/MESORAH PUBLICATIONS.
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Crossword BY DAVID BENKOF
Across
1. ___ Shaalti (Shlomo Carlebach song)
6. Four are the ___, and three are the papas...
(Who Knows One? lyric)
11. Frequent Nichols partner
14. The Erfurt Treasure, e.g.
15. Methuselahs father
16. Eshet Chayil (A Woman of Valor), essen-
tially
17. Comic with the debut album Theyre All
Gonna Laugh at You!
19. New Malaysian 10-___ coin with a six-pointed
star
20. Israeli air force show of strength
21. British actress once married to the Beastie
Boys Horovitz
22. Bob Dylans As ___ out One Morning
24. Lead character in the 1938 Yiddish film The
Singing Blacksmith, e.g.
26. Common Catskills game
28. The Book of Numbers discusses the red
heifers
31. Some Yiddish nouns
33. Word that rhymes with an adjective for
Chabad
35. Arthur Millers ___ My Sons
36. Traditionally, on Shabbat it must be liquid
39. Nat. where Jacques Derrida was born
40. Jon who played a lawyer in 2013s The Wolf
of Wall Street
43. JDL arch-enemy
44. Other versions of Oy!
46. Springtime for Hitler wasnt supposed to
be one in The Producers
47. J ___ (AIPAC alternative since 2008)
49. 1978 film Spielberg called the best of the
Jaws ripoffs
52. Torn ___ (diplomat Richard Holbrookes
cause of death)
53. One literal translation of sheigetz
55. Abstract painter Marcelle
57. Like Mel Blancs Daffy Duck or Sylvester the
Cat
58. Na ___ (joyous subgroup of Breslover
Hasidim)
60. Nazi-appointed Croatian ruler Pavelic
64. Scandalous actress Bette will play in an
upcoming HBO film
65. Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee head
68. Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, for short
69. Part of the High Priests garb in Temple
times
70. Chagall tool
71. A shikker
72. It ___ All Velvet (Mel Torm autobiogra-
phy)
73. Talmudist Steinsaltz and diplomat Talbar
Down
1. With 3-Down, name of an arty street in the
heart of Tel Aviv
2. William Friedman broke a major Japanese
one before World War II
3. See 1-Down
4. The Rakiya is this kind of IDF vehicle
5. Howard Cosell announced them for ABC
6. 2012 Tony Winner for Original Score
(Newsies)
7. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Golden Globe winner
Samberg
8. Hebrew University scientists discovered one
that looks like a Jewish star
9. One of Genes co-musicians in KISS
10. ___ of the Book (Dead Sea Scrolls location)
11. Punster on the Talmudic saying Anything
new is forbidden by the Torah
12. What Republicans keep trying to make in
American Jewish liberalism
13. Rent-a-___ (Seattle housecleaning service
whose motto is So Call Already!)
18. ___ Moses (Chabad-run Web site)
23. ___ of the Jews (Josephus work)
25. Alicia Silverstone Clueless catchphrase
27. Ayn Rand title strongman
28. Battery in Richard Feynmans calculator,
perhaps
29. Civil Rights grp. closely advised by Stanley
Levison
30. Title held by Aaron, Eleazar, and Zadok
32. Carl Sagan called it a pale blue dot
34. Jewish Daily Forward founder Abraham
37. Act as a lookout for Meyer Lansky, e.g.
38. It can be used to scoop hummus
41. Rashi and others
42. Home state of Roseanne Barr
45. African-American Jew and Israeli basketball
player Willie
48. Pilot who went missing after he was cap-
tured over Lebanon
50. Kind of snowboard Seth Hill might use
51. Notable Henry Kissinger feature
53. Theda Bara and Carmel Myers
54. Texas battle in which four Jews died
56. Religious Zionist party (my brother)
merged with Likud in 2009
59. Estee Lauder competitor
61. He worked alongside the av beit din in the
Sanhedrin
62. Member of NCSY or NFTY
63. Biblical measures roughly the size of a cubit
66. Airport for Malcolm Glazers NFL
Buccaneers
67. Swimming in the ___ of Talmud (1997
Jewish Publication Society book)
The solution for last weeks puzzle
is on page 67.
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Dear Rabbi
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Your Talmudic Advice Column
Dear Rabbi,
My friend complains all the time about
anti-Semitism on TV and in other media.
Most recently she objected to an episode of
Family Guy that depicted Jews as money
grubbers running after pennies and showed
other negative behaviors as stereotypically
Jewish. She says that the shows creator is
an anti-Semite and the show is pernicious.
I disagree and think the show is funny. Who
is right?
Laughing Jew in Lodi
Dear Laughing,
It is true that anti-Semitism should be an
urgent concern to all Jews. Soon we shall
recall, as we are told prominently in the
Passover Haggadah, In every generation
they rise up against us to destroy us. And
the holy one blessed be he saves us from
them.
You should carefully parse that short
prayer for thanksgiving for Gods protec-
tion. It conveys a valuable understanding
of what constitutes essential anti-Semi-
tism, and what does not.
It is anti-Semitism when others rise up
to destroy us as a people with actions that
target our well-being. Real anti-Semitism
is where someone hates all Jews as part of
his systematic world view or discriminates
against Jews by policies or laws.
In his show Family Guy, Seth Mac-
Farlane does not do that when he makes
jokes about Jews loving money, or shows
other truly tasteless and yet, as he sees it,
humorous portrayals of Jews. MacFarlane
surely does not want to destroy the Jewish
people. He just wants to make a living pro-
ducing cartoons. Such entertainment on
TV will not annihilate us, no matter what
its content.
The context of the content does matter.
Family Guy is a satirical TV cartoon. It
is a brilliantly funny show. It mocks just
about everything in our culture, from
family values, to relationships, to reli-
gions in general and in specific all reli-
gions, values, and relationships without
prejudice for one over another. Of course,
stereotyping in jokes is a low
form of humor. Its usually
cheap and crass and obnox-
ious, its bigoted, but its not
anti-Semitic, in my view, to
make a joke about Jews loving
money.
Some folks are more vigilant
and have a lower threshold for
applying this label. They may
say its anti-Semitism every
time someone anywhere says
dirty Jew or He Jewed me
down out loud
Especially during our holidays, we are
reminded to think clearly about our his-
tory and destiny as a people. We need to
reflect on the real dangers that we face as a
nation. And we need to be properly on our
guard, and always to be thankful that God
continues to save us from the hands of our
true enemies.
Dear Rabbi,
I recently faced a dilemma. An appliance
company I contacted sent a repairman to my
house to repair one of my major appliances.
After diagnosing the problem, the repair-
man told me that the repair work would
cost $1,000. But, he said, Listen I do this
work on the side myself. I can do it for you
privately for $500. I decided to have him do
the work on the side. Now I wonder if I did
the right thing, if I acted ethically. I realize
there is no Jewish content to my question,
but I need advice because a situation like this
may come up again in the future.
Needs Repair in Teaneck
Dear Needs,
A situation where there appears to be
a contradiction among value systems can
be clarified when it is approached talmudi-
cally. Lets look at what we have here.
First, Ill say a bit glibly that the issue is
Jewish. The idea of tikkun olam repair of
the world is a prominent Jewish concept
in kabbalah and in Jewish ethical thinking.
And isnt it a stereotypical Jewish value
to save 50 percent on an
expenditure?
Now seriously, some
additional background to
your inquiry would help
me give you better advice.
For instance Id like to know
more about which big com-
pany would profit from the
repair, and how long the
product lasted before need-
ing that repair. Id caution
you that there is a risk in
taking what you seem to consider to be the
low road. If the repair does not last, you
have less chance of getting an independent
repair person back to remedy it. You have
a better chance of getting satisfaction from
a big company.
Certainly there are other issues to con-
sider. But Im willing to speculate that
most people nowadays will go with the low
bid and let the repairman live with his con-
science and the consequences that he may
face if his employer discovers his sideline.
When you think about this in the future,
you are right to consider that we all should
aspire to high ethical standards. In your
view, it is wrong to deceive a corporation.
But that makes me ask you to consider
the equity of such thinking. By and large,
and for good reasons, corporations do not
place high value on ethical principles. A
company is responsible to make a profit.
Bottom-line thinking dominates in the cor-
porate world over all other values.
Realizing that, you need to be even-
handed. Perhaps you ought to conceive of
your family unit as if it were a corporation
too. A decision that will cost or save your
family $500 effects your bottom line. You
will have less or more cash available for
maintaining your household.
If you accept that a family is a corporate
unit, the preponderance of the weight
then would be to take the cheaper alterna-
tive, regardless of other issues.
If you maintain that this situation is
an ethical quandary facing you as an
individual, then you may allow concerns
such as these to enter your thinking: (1)
the repairman is being unethical he is
detracting from the profits of his own com-
pany; (2) by extension, I would be taking
away profits from his company by agreeing
to use his services on the side; (3) Id be
wary of doing business with a person who
is showing me upfront how devious he is,
and (4) Id be better served to find a third
party to do the work.
If you are completely analytical, you
might add one more thing to consider.
The repairmans estimate for the work to
be done through the company was $1000.
His price was $500. It could be argued that
$1000 was an artificially inflated number,
and $500 is a reasonable market price for
such a repair.
We are confronted often with repair
issues and decisions for appliances,
automobiles, and you even could include
such health repairs as new hips and
knees, dental crowns and fillings. The list
is extensive.
The decisions you make in all instances
are increasingly difficult in our world.
They are not black and white. I hope
some of this Talmudic advice helps you
to develop principles and clear think-
ing so you can patch up your ship when
needed and continue to navigate through
the choppy waters of our complex society.
Rabbi Dr. Tzvee Zahavy was ordained at
Yeshiva University and earned his Ph.D. in
religious studies at Brown University.
Rabbi Tzvee
Zahavy
The Dear Rabbi column offers
timely advice based on timeless
Talmudic wisdom. It aspires to be
equally respectful and meaning-
ful to all varieties and denomina-
tions of Judaism. You can find
it here on the first Friday of the
month. Send your questions to
DearRabbi@jewishmediagroup.
com.
BRIEFS
Belgian lawmakers visit West Bank
A delegation of Belgian parliamentar-
ians visited the West Bank on Thurs-
day as guests of the Shomron Regional
Council. The visit was coordinated
by the councils foreign relations
committee.
During the visit, delegation head Sen-
ator Anke Vandermeersch noted that
she was surprised to see how different
the reality here is compared to what
we are shown by the European media,
Israel Hayom reported.
Vandermeersch, a 1992 Miss Universe
finalist, agreed to head pro-Israel
public diplomacy efforts in Belgium
and in the European Parliament, in
an effort to counter anti-Israel boycott
campaigns. JNS.ORG
French immigration to Israel rises sharply
French-Jewish aliyah rose sharply in the
first few months of 2014, according to
figures released by the Jewish Agency for
Israel.
JAFI said 854 new immigrants arrived
in Israel from France in January and Feb-
ruary 2014, up from 274 during the same
time period last year. JAFI attributed the
312-percent increase to its increased efforts
to strengthen relations with the French-
Jewish community, and to growing anti-
Semitism in France as well as a worsening
domestic economic situation.
Forecasted out, JAFI expects 2014 as a
whole to continue the upward trend in
French-Jewish aliyah. In 2013, 3,280 new
French immigrants arrived in Israel, a 70
percent increase from 1,917 in 2012. JNS.ORG
Dvar Torah
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PASSOVER ESSENTIALS BY
RABBI JONATHAN SACKS
KOREN PUBLISHERS JERUSALEM
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that will transform your holiday experience
Available online and at your local Jewish bookstore
W
e have just entered the Hebrew month
of Nissan. The holiday of Pesach is less
than two weeks away.
The theme the Rabbinic sages chose
to emphasize for the festival of Pesach is zman cheru-
teinu the time of our freedom. We use this expression
in the holidays Amidah and in its Kiddush. Obviously, the
attention and focus of Pesach is to be centered on free-
dom, and what it means to us as Jews.
We should know. Our freedoms have often been cur-
tailed. But while most are familiar with that memorable
battle cry Let my people go, used to protest the Soviet
Unions unfair treatment of
Jews, not too many can finish
the sentence. It was first used
by Moses who challenged
Pharaoh to let the people go.
But the message did not stop
with those words.
The complete statement
goes like this: Let my peo-
ple go, so that they can serve
me (God) in the desert. The
people were to swap the
ruthless and merciless slav-
ery of Egypt with divine wor-
ship. While Egyptian bondage carried no reward, only
suffering, divine servitude would bring benefit and gain.
By establishing a relationship with God at Mount Sinai,
the people would be able to lead a life of blessing and
accomplishment.
This was highlighted by the famous tablets of stone
upon which were etched the Ten Commandments. The
Hebrew word for engraving is spelled the same way as
the word for freedom. The engraved writing was a refer-
ence to the freedom that is accomplished by keeping and
observing the commandments.
Jewish freedom is thus defined as, first, freedom from
physical slavery, but also, using that freedom to become
subservient to a higher supreme being God.
In truth, most people dont see it that way. Religion is
viewed by many as the greatest burden of all. Religious
commitment is seen as being far removed from being free.
Perhaps the following story will help to clarify why this
approach is misguided.
A man was seen struggling with a heavy sack slung over
his shoulder. The weather was hot and humid, making his
task arduous and tiring. To compound his misery, the road
began to slope upwards. A passer-by, clearly intrigued by
this individual, asked him what was in the sack. The man
replied that he was carrying rocks and stones.
He persisted to inquire as to the weight of the sack. The
reply was not long in coming; it was quite heavy and labo-
rious, he said with a long sigh. To his exasperation and
annoyance, the man then asked him if he would be inter-
ested in having some more stones added to the load. The
reaction to this ridiculous suggestion is totally predictable
and understandable!
Now lets imagine the same man walking along, in the
same heat and in identical conditions. But this time, in
response to the question about the contents of the sack,
he replies that he is carrying diamonds, rubies, and other
precious stones. When asked if the sack is heavy, again the
reply is in the affirmative. But when asked if he would like
to have more added, how do you think he would react? Of
course, it would be an emphatic yes!
The different reactions in the two stories are reasonable
and logical. Although the man was carrying a substantial
load on a very warm day, and up a hill, the contents of
Pesach: Free to serve
Rabbi Moshe
Schapiro
Chabad of Hoboken
the sack were highly influential to his condition and well-being.
When it was mere rocks, it was a real effort, but the knowledge
that a great fortune was in the bag helped to lighten that burden.
In the same way, the reaction we have towards our responsi-
bilities, particularly to the mitzvot that we are directed to per-
form, depends entirely on our approach to them. They could be
burdensome like rocks or treasured like precious and expensive
diamonds.
Indeed, we are encouraged to view mitzvot as just that; pre-
cious and special. Yes, it is not always easy to observe Shabbat,
to eat kosher, to pray, or to study Torah. But the knowledge that
we are accumulating precious cargo is surely the best stimulus
to overcome any and all doubts.
Yes, Judaism makes one free. But first one must liberate the
mind and realise just how valuable its opportunities are. It is
why freedom was chosen as Pesachs symbol.
Arts & Culture
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The Rise of Abraham Cahan
A combative former Forward editor looks back at its greatest figure
JONATHAN E. LAZARUS
I
t was 1898, and Abraham Cahan had
been in America for 16 years after
fleeing Russia for anti-czarist, pro-
socialist activities.
Ever since arriving, he had worked
ceaselessly to shed the trappings of a
greenhorn, learning idiomatic English
to the point of overmastering it, gaining
citizenship, becoming a fiery socialist ora-
tor, a published writer, and an aggressive
newspaper reporter and editor.
No less exalted a figure than William
Dean Howells took an interest in Cahan.
The arbiter of American literature reacted
positively to his dramatizations of immi-
grant life, infused with both the harsh
realities and soaring dreams of the Eastern
European Jews who had arrived in droves
following the latest Russian pograms and
the czars repressive ukases.
So great was the immigration of these
Ashkenzim that from 1880 onward they
displaced by sheer numbers the earlier-
arriving German Jews, who in 1840 had
overwhelmed their Sephardic predeces-
sors. With Irish and Italian immigrants
factored in, in just 50 years New York City
became the heartbeat of both the melting
pot and of Abraham Cahans world.
Another notable literary figure who val-
ued Cahan was Lincoln Steffens. The soon-
to-be-celebrated muckraker had been
named chief of the venerable New York
Commercial Advertiser. Steffens hired
Cahan as a reporter, just after he had quit
as a founding editor of the Jewish Daily
Forward the Yiddish-language Forverts
as a result of ideological and power-shar-
ing clashes at the socialist start-up.
On this day in 1898, the Commercial
Advertisers new man at police headquar-
ters was in somewhat of a bind. A story
about the police board had just broken,
and there was no way Cahan could make
it to his newsroom before deadline.
Phone it in, advised his seasoned col-
league, Jacob Riis, who would go on to
considerable fame as a chronicler of New
York slum life. Cahan froze. It wasnt the
deadline or the writing that fazed him,
it was the telephone. In 16 years, he had
never placed a call. Slightly mortified, he
raced to a nearby drugstore and had the
heavily accented Italian owner phone it in
for him.
The incident yielded a valuable lesson.
Cahan realized that ideological purity
would not make the new world under-
standable to Jewish immigrants. Beyond
the dialectics and agitprop, they needed to
grasp the subtleties, obligations, and free-
doms of their environment, from minutiae
to monumental like just using the tele-
phone. And they needed it explained in
colloquial, even folksy language.
After his Commercial Advertiser stint,
Cahan was lured back to the ailing For-
ward and given new editorial powers. He
did a brilliant rescue, left again briefly,
and returned with the resolve to make the
paper his transformative laboratory. For
the next 48 years, until his death in 1951,
he galvanized and flogged it into becom-
ing the pre-eminent organ of the Yiddish
press, only to live long enough to see its
circulation and influence eroded by the
loss of a Holocaust generation, restrictive
immigration, and postwar linguistic and
cultural shifts.
Colorful editors and storied newspapers
are spun gold for writers, especially for-
mer journalists. The effect of Cahans trail-
blazing career and the powerful hold the
Forward exerted on its readership com-
bine to infuse Seth Lipskys modest but
spunky biography with enough momen-
tum and historical sweep to appeal to both
the general interest reader and those with
roots in the petri dish of radicalism known
as the Lower East Side.
Lipskys reputation as a political conser-
vative and idiosyncratic news figure adds
to the delicious irony of a neo-con explicat-
ing the life of a pillar of the left and for
the most part doing it well. He is obviously
buoyed by Cahan as a journalist and novel-
ist and respectful of the institutional aura
of the Forward. But his practiced news-
room eye also casts a critical gaze over
the editors vulnerabilities and the papers
shortcomings.
And his interest in both is more than
casual. After leaving the Wall Street Jour-
nal in 1990, Lipsky established the Eng-
lish-language version of the Forward and
stayed there until 2000, when he report-
edly was forced out for going too far star-
board. He then went on to establish the
combative but short-lived New York Sun.
Although positing a few outsized and
inflated claims about the Cold War and
the fall of communism, Lipsky manages
to control his revisionist impulses and
leavens them with sensible and insightful
material. In essence, he credits Cahan with
a series of political, artistic, and religious
recalibrations during his lifetime as abun-
dant proof of the public man as a work in
progress. (Rightward progress, of course.)
Among the most notable include his
coming late editorially to the Allies side in
World War I (anything bad for the czar was
good generally) but very early on sensing
the cruelties of Stalin and the obscenities
SEE CAHAN PAGE 70
Abraham Cahan practiced hard-edged journalism with a Jewish flavor.
Jonathan E. Lazarus is a former news
editor of the Star-Ledger.
The Rise of Abraham Cahan by
Seth Lipsky
Nextbook/Schocken, 2013
240 pages, $26
Calendar
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Friday
APRIL 4
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
lead informal tot Shabbat
about Passover with
songs, stories, and crafts,
5:15 p.m., followed by an
optional Chinese dinner
at 5:45, and family-
friendly service at 6:45.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in River Edge:
Temple Avodat Shalom
offers tot Shabbat at
6 p.m., Shabbat dinner at
6:30, and family services
and an alternative
service, both at 7:30. 385
Howland Ave. (201) 489-
2463, ext. 202.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
holds a service for young
families, 6:45 p.m. 87
Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801.
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel & Jewish
Community Center holds
a participatory family
service with singing and
stories led by Cantor
Caitlin Bromberg and
the shuls associate rabbi
and educational director,
Rabbi Sharon Litwin,
7 p.m. Oneg Shabbat.
475 Grove St. (201) 444-
9320.
Shabbat in Closter: Dr.
Jack Wertheimer, the
scholar-in-residence
at Temple Emanu-El,
discusses issues facing
the Jewish community
and religious education
post-World War II. He will
speak at services tonight
at 7 and during Shabbat
morning services at 9. He
is the Joseph and Martha
Mendelson Professor of
American Jewish history
at the Jewish Theological
Seminary. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997 or
www.templeemanu-el.
com.
Shabbat in Tenafly: Josh
Nelson joins the Temple
Sinai Rock Band with
his musical style of rock,
jazz, and world music
during services, 7:30 p.m.
1 Engle St. (201) 568-
3035.
Saturday
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Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
Passover Family Fun for
2- to 5-year-olds and
parents/grandparents,
with music, stories,
dance, and crafts,
9:30 a.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201)833-8466.
Israeli film festival: The
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
continues its Israel Film
and Cultural Festival
at Barnert Temple in
Franklin Lakes with a
screening of Under the
Same Sun, 8:15 p.m.,
followed by a discussion
with Susan Koscis,
director of special
projects for Search for
Common Ground. 747
Route 208 South. (201)
820-3909 or www.jfnnj.
org/filmfestival.
Sunday
APRIL 6
War veterans meet
in Hackensack: The
Teaneck/New Milford
Post #498 Jewish War
Veterans meets for
breakfast at the Coach
House Diner, 9 a.m.
Prospective members
welcome. Route 4 East.
Past Commander Stan
Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.
Toddler program
in Tenafly: As part
of the shuls Holiday
Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers music,
stories, crafts, and snacks
about Passover for
pre-k students and their
parents, 9:30 a.m. 1 Engle
St. (201) 568-6867.
Childrens program:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah continues
a program for
kindergartners to
second graders with
Fun with Matzohs,
9:30 a.m. Program
includes creating
sculptures and preparing
items for the seder table.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7733.
Haggadah refresher in
Emerson: Congregation
Bnai Israel offers a
Hebrew reading review
course in anticipation
of Passover, 9:45 a.m.
Participants are asked
to bring non-perishable
items for the shuls
ongoing food drive. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Spring boutique in
Tenafly: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
offers a vendor boutique
with jewelry, womens
fashions, stationery,
sunglasses, childrens
clothing, and accessories,
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on
Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Proceeds benefit the early
childhood department.
411 E. Clinton Ave. (201)
408-1435.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten
in September 2014,
10:15 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801,
ext. 12.
Passover workshops
in Woodcliff Lake:
The shul offers two
workshops for adults.
At 10:15 a.m., Rabbi
Benjamin Shull leads
Passover: This Time Its
Personal, about how
to incorporate personal
family stories into your
seder, 10:15 a.m. At 11, Dr.
Murray Spiegel offers
Super Charge your
Seder: 300 Ways to
Create an Unforgettable
Seder. 87 Overlook
Drive.(201) 391-0801.
Daniel Pipes
Lecture in Monsey:
Daniel Pipes, a foremost
Middle East authority
on Muslim history, is the
featured speaker at the
annual Israel and Pearl
Stern Memorial lecture
at the Community
Synagogue of Monsey,
10:15 a.m. 89 W. Maple
Ave. (201) 337-0742.
Chocolate seders in
Emerson: Congregation
Bnai Israel celebrates
Passover with two
chocolate seders.
Kindergartners to
seventh graders at
10:30 a.m., and at
2:30 p.m. for high
schoolers. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272.
Safam
Concert in Fair Lawn:
Safam performs in a
concert at Temple Beth
Sholom, 1:30 p.m. The
North Jersey Jewish
community event
includes a performance
by the award-winning
childrens chorus of
Congregation Beth
Sholom in Teaneck,
Tzipporei Shalom (Birds
of Peace), led by their
choir masters, Cantor
Ronit Wolff Hanan and
Adina Avery-Grossman.
Tickets sold by TBS, Glen
Rock Jewish Center,
and JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah. 40-25 Fair Lawn
Ave. (201) 797-9321.
Bike lessons/safety
in West Nyack: The
Rockland Jewish
Academy hosts a
childrens event, Ride
Your Bike! with bike
trainer Professor Pedals,
in the back parking lot
at the JCC Rockland,
2-4 p.m. 450 West Nyack
Road. Judy Klein, kleinj@
rocklandjewishacademy.
org.
Musical extravaganza
in Franklin Lakes: The
Renaissance Group
at Barnert Temple
celebrates the 25th
anniversary of the New
Jersey Renaissance
Coalition with a
music program with
participants including
the Thurnauer School of
Musics Jazz Ensemble,
Vlad Lapin, Janet
Montroy, Amy Herbitter,
and Barbara Hassenfeld,
3 p.m., followed by wine,
and refreshments. 747
848-1800.
Neshama Carlebach
Concert in River Edge:
Neshama Carlebach and
her band will be joined
in a Bergen County
concert by the Rev.
Roger Hambrick and the
Green Pastures Baptist
Church Choir, with a
special appearance by
Josh Nelson, at Temple
Avodat Shalom, 3 p.m.
Proceeds benefit Temple
Israel Community Center
Congregation Heichal
Yisrael. 385 Howland Ave.
(855) 637-4262 or www.
ticcnj.org/org.
Passover for moms and
daughters: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly hosts Miriams
Cup for moms and
their 8- to 18-year-old
daughters, to learn about
the role of women in
Jewish history, 4 p.m.
Participants will create
ceramic Miriams cups.
(201) 569-7900.
Model matzah bakery in
Passaic: The Friendship
Circle of Passaic County
holds a model matzah
bakery at the Chai Tots
Preschool for children
with special needs, 4 p.m.
Pizza dinner. $5 per
family. 482 Brook Ave.
Siblings welcome. www.
fcpassaiccounty.com.
The second annual Israel Night, an
alumni-led concert at the Solomon
Schechter Day School of Bergen County
in New Milford benefiting the Stephanie
Prezant zl Israel Endowment Fund, is set for Sunday
at 7 p.m. Stephanie graduated from Schechter in 2004,
and the concert honors and celebrates her love of
Israel and Schechter through song. Sponsorships are
available. Complimentary dinner reception for alumni 21
and older at 6. Bus transportation from NYC provided.
275 McKinley Ave. (201) 262-9898, ext. 277, AGlazer@
ssdsbergen.org, or www.ssdsbergen.org/israel-night/.
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Israeli film festival in
Paramus: The Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey continues its
Israel Film and Cultural
Festival at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah with a
screening of Hunting
Elephants, 7 p.m.,
followed by a discussion
with the Jewish Weeks
film critic, George
Robinson. E. 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 820-3909.
Monday
APRIL 7
Childrens Passover
story: Rabbi
Debra Orenstein of
Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson reads
a Passover story to
children 4 and under and
their moms/caregivers
at Barnes & Noble in
Paramus, 10 a.m. 765
265-2272.
Computer open house
in Tenafly: The EGL
Foundation Computer
Center for adults 40+
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades offers an
open house/orientation,
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.,
with a class, Most
Interesting Websites,
a chance to win a free
computer course.
Refreshments. 411 E.
Clinton Ave. Rachel, (201)
569-7900, ext. 309.
Book discussion: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
holds its Book of the
Lunch program with a
discussion by Dr. Ellen
Schiff on Ben Urwands
book The Collaboration:
Hollywoods Pact with
Hitler, noon. Lunch
served. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Feature film: The
Treasure Hunting in Film
series at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly continues
Top Films You May
Have Missed (Or Want
To See Again) with
Au Revoir les Enfants,
7:30 p.m. Harold Chapler
introduces the film and
leads the discussion
afterward. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
Tuesday
APRIL 8
Knitting in River Vale:
The Knitting Circle, a
partnership between the
Jewish Home Assisted
Living, Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
Community of Caring,
Pascack Valley Hadassah,
Northern New Jerseys
Womens Philanthropy,
and the Bergen County
YJCC, meets at JHAL,
10:30 a.m. All skill levels
welcome. Also April 8.
685 Westwood Ave.
Susan, (201) 666-6696.
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel, 11 a.m. Gale S.
Bindelglass, Cantor
Ilan Mamber, and Jane
Koch of the Rishon
Trio will perform. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111.
ORT anniversary in Fort
Lee: The Englewood
and Cliffs chapter of
ORT America celebrates
its 55th anniversary at
the JCC of Fort Lee/
Cong. Gesher Shalom,
12:30 p.m. Charter
members/past presidents
honored. Entertainment
by Fran and Emilie
Roberts. Desserts. 1449
Anderson Ave. (201) 947-
1735.
Hadassah meets:
Tri Boro Hadassah
meets at the JCC of
Beth Tikvah to hear a
speaker from Bergen
County Senior Services
discussing Talking With
Your Doctor, 1:30 p.m.
Refreshments. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 384-
8005.
Speaker in Teaneck:
Rabbi Baruch Simon,
rosh yeshiva at RIETS,
gives a special pre-
Pesach shiur, The
Mitzvah of Matzoh on
Leil Pesach: Halachah
and Aggadah, at
Congregation Beth
Aaron, 8:15 p.m. 950
Queen Anne Road. (201)
836-6210.
Wednesday
APRIL 9
Play group in Oakland:
Shalom Baby of Jewish
New Jersey offers
parents of newborns
through 3-year-olds a
Passover celebration,
with stories, songs, crafts,
and snacks, to connect
with each other and
the Jewish community,
at Gerrard Berman
Solomon Schechter of
North Jersey, 9:30 a.m.
Administered by JFNNJs
Synagogue Leadership
Initiative, funded by the
Henry and Marilyn Taub
Foundation. 45 Spruce
St. (201) 820-3917.
Colored pencil art:
The Bergen County
YJCC begins a class,
Drawing and Painting
with Colored Pencils,
led by Paulette Cochet
of Cochet Art Studio,
6:45 p.m., through June
11. 605 Pascack Road,
Washington Township.
(201) 666-6610.
Teen volunteer event:
The Chabad Center
of Passaic Countys
Friendship Circle Action
Teen program meets to
pack Passover boxes
for community seniors,
7 p.m. 194 Ratzer Road.
(973) 694-6274.
Thursday
APRIL 10
Play group in New
Milford: Shalom Baby
of Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jersey offers parents
of newborns through
3-year-olds a Passover
celebration, with stories,
songs, crafts, and snacks,
to connect with each
other and the Jewish
community, at Solomon
Schechter Day School of
Bergen County, 9:30 a.m.
Initiative, funded by
the Henry and Marilyn
Taub Foundation. 295
McKinley Ave. (201) 820-
3917, or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.
Israeli cultural festival
in Closter: The Jewish
New Jersey continues its
Israel Film and Cultural
Festival at the Belskie
Museum of Art & Science
with the traveling
art exhibit, Water:
the Essence of Life,
6 p.m. Part of JFNNJs
Partnership2Gether
Community Task Force.
Kosher wine and cheese.
280 High St. (201) 820-
3909.
Friday
APRIL 11
Play group in Paramus:
Shalom Baby of Jewish
New Jersey offers
parents of newborns
through 3-year-olds a
Passover celebration,
with stories, songs,
crafts, and snacks, to
connect with each
other and the Jewish
community, at the JCC of
Beth Tikvah, 9:30 a.m.
Initiative, funded by the
Henry and Marilyn Taub
Foundation. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 820-
3917.
Play group in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley offers
a Passover play group
for babies up to one year
and moms/caregivers,
10 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-8329 or
lisa@tepv.org.
Saturday
APRIL 12
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
marks Shabbat HaGadol
with a drasha by Rabbi
Lawrence S. Zierler,
Back-Benching in
Halakhic Observance vs.
the Hands-On Experience
The Role of Shelichut
or Agency in Halakhic
Observance, following
services that begin at
9 a.m. 70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515, ext. 200.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
tot Shabbat, 9:30 a.m.,
followed by bagels. 1666
Windsor Road. (201) 833-
1322 or www.emeth.org.
In New York
Sunday
APRIL 6
Passover musical: The
Kaufman Music Center
presents Shlemiel
Crooks The Musical
at Merkin Concert
Hall, 11 a.m. Based on
the childrens books
Shlemiel Crooks and
Chicken Bone Man by
Anna Olswanger of Fair
Lawn. 129 W. 67th St.
(212) 501-3330.
Elizabeth Mitchell
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Family concert: Two-
time Grammy Award-
nominee Elizabeth
Mitchell and You Are
My Flower perform a
folk rock concert at
the Jewish Museum,
11:30 a.m. 1109 Fifth
Avenue at 92nd Street.
(212) 423-3337.
Jews and baseball:
Former sportswriters
and a major league
player discuss Jews and
Baseball at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 2:30 p.m.
Participants include
author Larry Ruttman,
longtime New York
Times baseball writer
Murray Chass, retired
Major League pitcher
Bob Tufts, and Donald
Fehr, former executive
secretary of the Major
League Baseball Players
Association. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202.
Singles
Sunday
APRIL 6
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meet for a social
event with music of
the 1940s/1950s led by
Jeff Scherer, at the JCC
Rockland, 10:30 a.m. 450
West Nyack Road. $5.
(845) 356-5525.
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ hosts
a lunch and mingle and
a concert by guitarist
Barry Ottenstein at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 12: 45 p.m. $10. 20
Academy Road. (973)
226-3600, ext. 145.
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Museum explores Jewish giant
Masterpieces & Curiosities: Diane Arbuss
Jewish Giant continues a new series of
exhibitions focused on individual works in
the Jewish Museums collection. On view
from April 11 to August 3, this exhibition
focuses on photographer Diane Arbuss
A Jewish giant at home with his parents, in
the Bronx, N.Y., 1970, using ephemera,
sound recordings, and family photos to
provide an intimate look into one of Ms.
Arbuss most recognized yet least under-
stood subjects.
In 1959 while visiting Huberts Dime
Museum and Flea Circus in Times Square,
Ms. Arbus saw one of the main attractions,
Eddie Carmel, a man who was reported as
standing over nine feet tall and was billed
as The Worlds Tallest Man. In April 1970,
a year before her death, Ms. Arbus visited
him at the home he shared with his par-
ents, and shot her iconic portrait.
Mr. Carmel was the son of immigrants
from Tel Aviv. He lived a normal life in mid-
century New York until he was 15 years old.
That is when he began to suffer from acro-
megaly, a hormonal condition that causes
extreme growth. He soon needed custom-
made clothing and was unable to finish
college or pursue a typical career. Feeling
like a social outcast, he embraced a life in
show business, celebrating and even exag-
gerating the feature that made him unique.
A Jewish giant at home with his parents, in
the Bronx, N.Y., 1970 shows an ailing Eddie,
34, struggling to stand upright just two
years before his death.
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artists works
on display
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Nachts reycyled artist book,
books104WaterTao, will be
part of Water: the Essence of
our Lives, an exhibition at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly and the Belskie
Museum in Closter through
May.
Her reycyled artist book, pic-
tured right, is part of Water:
the Essence of our Lives, an
international exhibition spon-
sored by the Jewish Federation
of North Jersey. It will run at
the JCC until April 7 and will
travel to Closter from April 10
until May 4. Images of the works will continue to an exhibit in Nahariya, Israel.
There will be an opening reception on Thursday, April 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the
Belskie Museum, 280 High St., in Closter. For information, call (201) 820-3908 or
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Born in 1911 in Bialystock, Poland to Miriam
Meadow and Aaron Lew, Natalie (Necha) Lew
was the second of three daughters born to
the couple. Natalie remembered growing up
in a small apartment, at 16 Lipova Street, that
was part of a converted house with a beautiful
courtyard and cobblestones. In Bialystock,
Natalie was part of a strong Jewish network
and community, something that would become
an important theme throughout her entire life.
Natalies mother, Miriam, was from a large
family of eight children. Sensing the upcoming turmoil that
would ultimately become the Bialystock pogrom against
the Jews and the Bolshevik Revolution, the Meadow family
left Europe and headed to America. Arriving at Ellis Island
in the early 1900s they ultimately settled in Paterson, New
Jersey and overtime established themselves as hardworking
business leaders. Natalies mother, Miriam, was not ready to
leave Europe and she and her husband, a shop owner in a
nearby town, remained in Bialystock until Natalies father was
consistently chased through the streets on his way home
from his store for being a capitalist. The stories go that he
had to run on the rooftops at night to get home safely from
the roaming bands of Bolsheviks that would form outside his
and other small and large businesses.
In 1922, Miriam was still unwilling to leave Bialystock.
Deciding that there was no other way to protect his family
from the rising violence and changing times, Aaron Lew
committed suicide, forcing his wife to nally leave Europe
and join her family in the United States. This rarely spoken-
about moment in the familys history left an indelible mark
on each of the three daughters. Natalie at around 10 years
of age remembers being half asleep and seeing her father
standing on a chair in the middle of the night. Noticing that
she had awoken, he gave her the message to take care of the
family. Whether accurate or part of a childs dream, one has to
imagine that the hardworking woman who seemed to manage
any responsibility was partially born out of that moment.
Miriams siblings arranged the necessary legal docu-
mentation for the familys entry into the United States and
then sent one of the brothers, Morris Meadow, then 30
years old, across the ocean to escort his older sister and
her three young daughters to America. Natalie remembered
the trip to Antwerp, Belgium where the large ship, named
the Kroonland carrying more than 1,500 passengers to New
York, disembarked. She recalled staying in her rst hotel the
night before departure and hearing out the window street
musicians playing for money. Until late in life, she could hum
the tune of the melody she heard that night before the family
set sail to America and to a new life of opportunity.
Arriving at Ellis Island on September 17, 1922 her name
Necha was ofcially changed to Natalie and the young family
moved temporarily into a large white house on East 29th
Street in Paterson, NJ that Natalies grandparents lived in.
The house had a large front porch with red brick steps and
they were there until they settled into a small apartment in
another section of Paterson. Natalie soon started taking small
sewing jobs, shortening hems and sleeves to assist with the
familys expenses. Eventually needing to help support her
family more, Natalie, with only three years of high school
education, started working full time. She was sad to leave
her formal education before graduating as she had become
fairly procient with her new English language and had a real
knack for mathematics. However, practicality won out and
through her work she was able to help support her family.
Though she quickly established excellent work habits and
excelled at her various jobs, she always felt that not having a
formal education was a minus and became a stalwart believer
in higher education, continued reading and learning. Even at
101 she would sit and read for hours and if you interrupted
to ask her a question, she might respond, Cant you see that
Im reading?
Natalie described herself as a very shy child and teenager,
something that most people nd hard to believe given her
adult personality. She often talked about how she was
someone who never spoke up in a group environment and
that at one of her early jobs as a bookkeeper,
at around the age of 16, she hardly said a word
to anyone day in and day out. She decided that
this personality was not one that was suited for
success in the world and that it was imperative
to be a vibrant member of ones community.
Thus, she made a conscious decision to
overcome her shyness. When asked to recall
this story the week before her passing and
how she managed to overcome such a trait,
she responded, I just unshyed myself. With
concerted effort to speak with people, ignoring her intense
discomfort and fear that would have her breaking out in a
sweat, she eventually became the story telling, gregarious
woman who never saw a stage that she wasnt made for that
her family and friends loved.
She met her future husband, David Minoff, on a hay ride
organized by a local Jewish organization. Natalie described
David as good looking, polite and agreeable and had a soft
spot for him right away. The following year at a dance,
organized by the same Jewish group, they met again and hit
it off. Both David and Natalie had fathers and grandfathers
who were well respected Zionists and thus, had a common
bond from the beginning. They quickly became inseparable
and on August 24, 1940 married in Demarest, NJ. They had
two daughters, Deborah and Ann and by that time had a well
established antique business called Skyland Antiques. The
shop was located in a converted barn that was part of their
home in Paterson, NJ. Natalie and David had the perfect
working relationship. Natalie was the buyer, heading into
New York City weekly to all the auction houses to nd what
would ultimately end up in their shop. David was a great
salesman who would weave an enthralling story about each
piece he sold. Natalie often recalled, It was the perfect
business partnership. David was a horrible buyer and I was
a terrible seller. They each found their natural skill set and
trusted the other completely.
Natalies holiday and Shabbat tables were legendary. Every
type of Jewish dish one could think of would be simmering
and overowing. She left many loosened pant waists and
food induced sleeps in her wake. She was generous and
lled with laughter and good cheer. Coming to Natalie and
Davids home for a holiday dinner wasnt just about the good
tasting food, it was about a love for life and celebration of
community and coming together.
In the 1960s, realizing that the family needed some well
deserved down time, Natalie and David would close their
shop for six weeks each summer to travel throughout the
country visiting the many national parks and forests. Their
beloved German Shepard Shomar was a constant companion
and their children and eventually their eldest grandchild,
Aaron, often joined them on their summer adventures.
Aaron recalls exploring the country with his grandparents;
be it picking wild blueberries they came across or jumping
into discovered ponds, every day was like an adventure.
Their younger daughter Ann recalls the typical situation in
the camper. Natalie intensely studying a map, calling out
the needed directions, Dave, its a right, a right turn! while
David often decided that the best way to get to any place
was to take an unmarked road and often going left when
Natalie called right. Natalie was pragmatic, wanting to follow
the map while David was the adventurer ready to explore
unchartered territory.
There was a deep and profound love and respect between
Natalie and David. David saw in Natalie someone capable
of anything. He encouraged her even where she felt unsure
of herself. Natalie found in David someone who loved her
unconditionally. They were each others great love. When
David was sick with cancer and complications from diabetes,
Natalie kept him out of the hospital and for months cared for
him at their home day and night while he was bed ridden.
When he was ready to pass, he asked her to promise that she
would remarry; that she would nd someone else. He thought
only of her future happiness even in his last moments. Natalie
at out refused to promise that she would remarry explaining
that he was the love of her life and she knew that kind of love
and blessing was not something that came around twice.
After David passed away in 1979, Natalie closed up their
antique business and settled into a 1 bedroom apartment in
Fort Lee, New Jersey. She quickly became a stalwart part of
the northern New Jersey Jewish community devoting all her
time and creative spirit to various Jewish organizations. A
gifted bookkeeper and organizer, she always pulled people
together toward a common goal. Over many years she
organized successful jewelry bazaars to help raise money
for her local synagogue and other Jewish organizations. Her
youngest granddaughter, Beth, recalls sitting at Natalies
dining room table surrounded by every color and type of bead
and semi precious stone imaginable and being taught how to
string necklaces, price items to sell and simply laughing a lot.
Natalie loved making something out of nothing and gained
enormous satisfaction from taking scraps and leftover pieces
and turning them into items people were happy to purchase.
For nearly two decades Natalie taught weekly Yiddish classes
at the local synagogue where her endless supply of Yiddish
jokes and phrases were put to good use.
As a valuable member of Hadassah and the Jewish
Community Center shed put together paid programs around
Jewish topics as fundraisers to support different projects.
She often was the star of the show adapting well known
stories into Jewish ones, such as her retelling of Snow White
as Schnei Veiss. She made her own costumes, would write
her own material and perform, like any great vaudeville act,
with joy and a lot of schtick. She was honored with numerous
awards throughout her life from the various organizations
she contributed to. She often said about keeping ones mind
and life busy, If you dont use it, you lose it.
Natalie had a loving and supportive relationship with her
children. After Deborah moved to Fort Lee, NJ she and Natalie
did most everything together sharing in movies and many
phone conversations. They were very close. When Natalies
younger daughter Ann moved to Edgewater, NJ Natalie
enjoyed visiting her apartment and sitting on the balcony in
the sun, watching the boats on the Hudson River as well as
attending Anns weekly kabbalah lectures.
Natalies sense of humor and vitality for life could crack a
smile out of anyone. In 2006 at a family event, the story of her
familys arrival at Ellis Island was retold, someone asked, How
long was the journey across the Atlantic? At age 95, Natalies
response was, Who remembers? It was a long schlep.
Natalies joy for life, family and community was celebrated
at her 100th Birthday Weekend in Hoboken, New Jersey
where family from across the country came to honor and
celebrate with her. A testament to how she always brought
people together, nearly the complete family from both her
side (Meadow side) and her husbands family (Minoff side)
joined together in a memorable and joyous celebration.
Natalie can be remembered singing with her daughters and
her younger sister Doris Sacks the Yiddish song, Bei Mir
Bist Du Scheyn and soliciting phone numbers for possible
boyfriends, as long as theyre younger than me.
A week before her passing, Natalie was delighted by her
sister Doriss 100th birthday and in her usual way embraced
the opportunity for laughter by acknowledging that at 102,
she was certainly quite an old bag.
Natalie will be lovingly remembered by her daughters
Deborah Kaufman and Ann Minoff, her grandchildren Aaron
Merkatz, Rachel Samoles and Beth Kronfeld, her seven
great grand children, Dillon, Amanda, Annabelle and Shelby
Merkatz, Daniel and Jennifer Samoles, Cassidy Kilpatrick and
her great great grandson Cole Merkatz.
Thank you Natalie for a life well lived, for your great heart,
spirit and inspiration. We love you and are forever grateful for
your contribution to each and every one of us.
Donations in Natalies honor can be made to organizations
she spent much time supporting over the last 30 years and
that gave her much care and love as she got older. The
organizations are: The New Synagogue of Fort Lee, 1585
Center Avenue, Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024; The JCC on
the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Avenue, Tenay, New Jersey
07670 specically their Senior Activity Center or their Adult
Reach Center (ARC).
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Gloria Mittman
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Douglas of Wellington, Fla.; a
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troops in North Africa, Europe,
Australia, and India. He attended
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of Edinburgh.
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( Jonathan) of Scarsdale, N.Y.,
Joan Wiener (Stanley Schapiro) of
Northampton, Mass., and David
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therapy curriculum accredited
The Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency Pro-
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(APTA), ending a year-long process. APTA credentials
attest to the quality of the education in physical therapy
residency and fellowship programs.
Touros program is outstanding and programs like
this are viewed as the future of physical therapy educa-
tion, said Dr. Louis Primavera, dean of the School of
Health Sciences.
We are proud to be one of the programs creden-
tialed by the American Board of Physical Therapy Resi-
dency and Fellowship Education, as it testifies to the
excellence of our program, said Dr. Frances Corio,
director of Touros OPTR program.
Touros orthopedic physical therapy residency pro-
gram is one of 75 such programs across the country
and one of four in the New York area. The program is
unique in approach and design and as a part-time pro-
gram, allows participants to continue working while
they learn.
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wish to pursue a post-graduate specialization in ortho-
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Shelter Our Sisters
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In a landmark year for the agency, Shelter Our Sisters
(SOS), a domestic violence resource center in Bergen
County, is moving its non-emergency programs and
services to a central location, a newly purchased and
renovated building at 12 Overlook Avenue in Rochelle
Park. The emergency shelter and transitional housing
locations will remain the same.
This centralized facility will help us do a more effec-
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violence including many who do not require emer-
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on the most significant journey of growth since SOS was
founded 38 years ago.
The program provides emergency and transitional
housing, emotional support, and services including
legal advocacy, crisis counseling, educational assis-
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awareness of domestic violence in the community, Mey-
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free from violence and the fear of violence, she said.
One in four women in this country will experience
domestic violence from a partner during their lifetime.
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of Hitler; resisting Zionism in its formative
years but embracing its thrust as time went
on; staunchly supporting labor but fighting
communist infiltration of unions; initially
supporting socialist Eugene V. Debs for pres-
ident and winding up in Franklin Roosevelts
corner, and coming to terms with secular-
ism, socialism, and the particularity of Jew-
ish identity and religious practice.
The impact of the Forward in its hey-
day was such that while the mantra might
be Workers of the World Unite, its true
mission was more closely aligned with the
advertising slogan Cahan coined: Jewish
in Word American in Thought. Its wildly
popular Bintel Brief column (literally the
bundle of letters) advised readers on sub-
jects ranging from affairs of the heart to the
permissibility of a young man playing base-
ball. (He could, if his Hebrew studies stayed
up.)
Introduced by Cahan in 1906, the feature
coincided with the second great surge in
Jewish arrivals, spurred by the Russo-Japa-
nese War and the resulting pogroms. Cahan
reached out and caught the new wave of
immigration. He was well positioned to
ride it and uniquely prepared to exploit it.
Now entire families were landing intact at
Ellis Island, and the paper would meet their
needs holistically.
The Forward trumpeted unionism and
leftist ideology (Cahan actually trimmed
the length of the screeds), covered the arts
and Yiddish theater in depth, and provided
Jewish literary lights such as Isaac Bashe-
vis Singer with space and grace. However,
Cahan was not above firing the celebrated
Sholem Asch or heavily editing others if they
strayed too far from his beliefs du jour. But
Lipsky is quick to note that the chief also tol-
erated a healthy amount of in-house dissent
and often opened the Forwards columns to
allow rebuttals.
And foreign news was hardly scanted.
The papers stringers and correspondents
roamed the Continent, covering the major
upheavals and leftist congresses of the day.
After his initial trips to socialist summits in
the 1890s, Cahan made several additional
visits abroad, interviewing, among others,
Dreyfus, Lenin, and Engels (who advised
Jews to drink more and so become greater
as a people), and eventually visited Palestine
in 1926 to witness the Zionist experiment
unfolding.
Lipsky stresses that Cahan also toned
down the religious hostility of the paper,
added rotogravure and other technologi-
cal bells and whistles, introduced regional
national editions, sponsored contests and
early versions of reader interactivity, and
was not above wading into an issue or crime
yarn with the full trappings of yellow jour-
nalism. In sum, he created a highly sought-
after product.
At its peak, the Forward boasted a circula-
tion of more than 250,000 (use a multiplier
of three readers per paper) and occupied a
dominating Beaux Arts building on Lower
Broadway with busts of Karl Marx, Engels,
Friedrich Adler, and Ferdinand Lassalle dec-
orating the faade. Its impact in the Jewish
community gave Cahan a cachet approach-
ing Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph
Hearst, and Adolph Ochs in their ambits.
For Cahan, t he paper became
Cahan
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all-consuming. Aside from his beloved
bird watching (developed during self-
imposed periods of exile at the Jersey
shore) the Forward was his onward and
upward. Lipsky observes that he used it
as a substitute for the novels and liter-
ary pursuits that now took a back seat
to the exigencies of daily journalism. In
this, Cahan disappointed both his wife,
Anna Bronstein, a translator of formida-
ble talent, and Howells, who had hoped
to influence him into a career of fiction.
In 1917, Cahan did publish a novel his
masterwork, The Rise of David Levin-
sky, a bruising rags-to-riches immigrant
tale with metaphorical thrusts of emo-
tional emptiness. Perhaps it mirrored
Cahans personal and often melancholy
odyssey, one of a childless and mostly
flat-lined marriage that Lipsky can only
hint at, just as he does at Cahans curi-
ously estranged relationship toward his
parents and family.
The Rise of Abraham Cahan recap-
tures the vibrancy and ferment of an
era thats not so long vanished. What
would Cahan think of the Forward
today, reduced to a weekly edition in
English, a biweekly Yiddish version,
and an Internet presence? He would
probably still want to cast its mission in
expansive terms, fighting for a world in
which the worker prevailed over current
wage inequality and social injustices, a
world in which the secular and spiritual
meshed with the ideological.
My grandfather, who arrived at Ellis
Island in 1904 from Ukraine and went on
to considerable success in New Jersey,
was a faithful reader of the liberal Day,
rather than the more hard-edged For-
ward. He would admonish me repeat-
edly to get the Forverts only if they had
sold out of the Day. Then he would faith-
fully peruse every story in Cahans paper
and tell me what a great country this is.
It is not enough only to expose the
true goals of the boycotters and their
allies. Israels supporters must also go
on the offensive and drain the swamps
of ignorance that allow the poisonous
ideas of the Jewish states opponents to
incubate. Thus, we are taking the initia-
tive to inoculate vulnerable politically
progressive sectors, presenting a more
factual perspective on Israel, and taking
prominent leaders to the region to see
the real situation firsthand.
The Israel Action Network, of course,
does not work alone in this arena. On a
daily basis, many organizations stand up
for Israel. Through the IAN, JFNA, and JCPA
are working together to convene around a
common strategic planning table not only
our affiliates but also a range of other North
American, Israeli and European groups in
order to share best practices and coordi-
nate our collective resources in confront-
ing this global danger.
There is no imminent threat to the criti-
cal and broad North American support for
Israel but American support for Israel is
not something to be taken for granted in
light of the organized campaign we now
face. While we should not panic, we can-
not be complacent either.
We pledge to continue to work hard to
prevent any erosion of that support. JTA
WIRE SERVICE
Rabbi Steve Gutow is president and CEO of
the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and
Jerry Silverman is president and CEO of the
Jewish Federations of North America.
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Englewood medical center recognized
for ambulance services
The Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Department of Englewood Hospital and
Medical Center (EHMC) has received
accreditation from the Commission on
Accreditation of Ambulance Services
(CAAS) for its compliance with national
standards.
EHMCs EMS department is one of four
ambulance services in New Jersey and 159
in the United States to receive the desig-
nation. The voluntary process included a
comprehensive assessment and indepen-
dent, on-site review by national experts
in EMS. The CAAS commissioners com-
mended EHMC EMS for an outstanding
achievement for a first-time applicant.
We are thrilled to have met the gold
standard of accreditation for pre-hospi-
tal care set by CAAS, said Harvey Weber,
director of emergency medical services at
EHMC. Every member of our healthcare
team played a critical role in our ability
to achieve this accreditation, which aligns
with our mission to deliver safe, high
quality care to the community we serve.
We look forward to continuing to provide
this essential service to area residents.
CAAS is a non-profit organization
established to promote quality care in
Americas medical transportation sys-
tem. CAAS primary focus is clinical qual-
ity, which is established through national
standards that include the delivery of
patient care, the ambulance services
total operation and its relationship with
other agencies, the public and medical
community.
EHMC provides ambulance services
to Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Leo-
nia, Palisades Park, and provides back-
up EMS coverage throughout Bergen
County. Supplemental ambulance ser-
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volunteer services continue to decline.
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